Journey's Deen Castronovo Threatened Suicide

"We have such an incredible reaction to Redeemer Of Souls that that really motivated us to crack the whip and get on with making the next record pretty quickly," Halford tells Sixx Sense With Nikki Sixx co-host Jenn Marino.

"The clock is ticking, you know. We can't afford to wait three years, or five years now, to make the record. And especially while we're having this great, kind of vibe with the fans and just this massive Priest family love fest type of deal."

As CoS reports, NYCTaper has put up the July 3 performance from the Dead, shifting away from the site's usual local coverage and covering one of the most anticipated bootlegs in recent times.

The band released the following, "We are deeply saddened to report that the brothers Joe and Mario Duplantier's mother, passed away last night. As a result, Gojira will be postponing their upcoming performances this week in Luxembourg July 6th, Martigny July 7th, and Prattein July 8th.

The video begins with a lone microphone shown in an empty arena adorned with several of Tyler's iconic scarves. These scarves are the focal point of the video as a backstage door opens to reveal a bohemian woman holding onto them as she journeys to make it to his backwoods concert.

Directed by Trey Fanjoy and shot outside of Nashville, "Love Is Your Name" shows Tyler standing outside a worn down front porch in the countryside before being joined by friends for an impromptu concert around a bonfire. There's a chandelier hanging from a tree, some dream catchers and a friendly raccoon that looks on as Tyler sits between the trees.

Tyler hasn't completely left his rock status behind, as his scarves are brought back to him by the video's end, but that's OK. Country music is just as much about today as it is yesterday.

'I can't hide my voice, everybody knows that," he recently told CBS Radio's Minneapolis' Buz'n 102.9. 'I want my harmonies to be heard good and loud."

During the interview Jones spoke about his past struggles with anxiety and depression and discussed his suicide attempt. Jones tells Jasta (via Lambgoat), "I've had anxiety and depression since I was a young teenager. Being a singer and doing what I do, did not help. And then actually having the blessing of luck to get known and actually have success doing it, I'll always be grateful for it. But it became just an absolute burden for me.

"Look, I remember being like a teenager and I would be walking down the street and there would be people walking towards me and I would walk across the street just to avoid them-as a teenager I did that. And so, you can imagine how it became once there's people yelling my name and everything� I couldn't go to grocery stores, I couldn't go to the mall, I would get stared at in movie theaters."

He then recalled his suicide attempt, "It went from being an underground thing, it was a small community, it was the thing that we shared together. It went to like this big public thing. Then after awhile it just got to the point it's like 'man, I can't handle this.' And so just alone, your mind just goes crazy. At least it did for me and there's some people who handle it a lot better than I did, but me, I did not handle it well. I remember still living at my old, old apartment and-I don't even know if I've ever really talked about this-Yeah, it's just someone knew what I was doing and called the police cause I almost blew my head off. I pulled out my .44, I loaded it, I was done. If they hadn't knocked on the door, I was gone.

Now, the Dead Weather's third album Dodge & Burn has been announced, comprised both of the singles that have emerged over the last two years and a handful of never-before-heard songs.

The new North American tour is scheduled to kick off on November 2nd in Sacramento, CA at the Ace of Spades and will criss-cross North American before concluding on December 19th in San Jose, CA at the Rockbar Theater.

The band had this to say about the tour, "Head Cases of North America! Machine Head is f***ing stoked to announce a 2nd North American leg of our 'An Evening With...' Tour!!! 2+ hours of mayhem, crushing riffs and metal anthems are coming back this November and December!"

Machine Head are playing in Thailand and Twaiwan this week and on August 29th will play in Belarus before playing to shows in Russia. That will be followed by shows in Eastern Europe including stops in Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and more.

The former Guns N' Roses bassist makes the comments while answering the renowned Proust Questionnaire, designed to reveal personality traits. Asked about his darkest moment, McKagan says: "It was really being stuck in addiction and not being able to get out of it and thinking that this would be the end of me soon."

He reveals his idea of earthly happiness is self-confidence, adding: "Finally being truthful with yourself, just for one day, can have really great follow-up."

On his dinner guests he reports: "Of course you'd say the Dalai Lama and Oprah. But I was thinking Hitler." He'd like to ask the Nazi leader: "'What the f*** is your deal? I've read about you, I know about you - do you realise you're insane, or do you not think you're insane?'"

The initial dates for the trek have been announced with things kicking off on November 1st in Gent, Belgium at De Vooruit and dates announced through November 29th with a stop in Barcelona, Spain at Sala Razzmatazz, according to the Napalm Death camp.

Napalm Death's Shane Embury had this to say about the tour, "It goes without saying that we are really looking forward to the upcoming "Deathcrusher Tour". The Musical history and relevance between all 4 of the bands truly speaks for itself I think - It's heartwarming to be a part of it.

"All of the bands involved in this tour have been great friends for what I guess is a lifetime now - we have played together on many separate occasions before BUT this tour! This tour is something very special, I mean come on...Voivod, Napalm Death, Obituary & Carcass are you kidding? All on the same bill night after night?? This is the A to Z of heavy, grinding, progressive, crushing riffs in one insane package!

The band will be playing the album in its entirety at each stop of the six date tour which kicks off on December 7th in Bristol at Motion and concludes on December 13th in London at The Forum

Burton C. Bell and Dino Cazares released the following joint statement about the trek, "If you had told us in 1995 that we would be touring Demanufacture for its 20th Anniversary in 2015, we would have said 'Ya Right! Get F***ed!'.

"The years have flown by in colorful and adventurous memory. 2015 has arrived, and Fear Factory WILL be performing Demanufacture in its entirety for the very first time for the UK and Ireland fans in December.

Well, these days, Falcon is now 12 and getting into music. Since his family relocated to Florida, Falcon and his brother have started a metal band, Heene Boyz.

And though you might expect the band to shy away from addressing Falcon's balloon boy past, instead the band addresses it straight away on the confusingly titled song "Balloon Boy No Hoax."

King tells tells the Phoenix New Times: "A lot of people don't know that a year before Jeff died I lost my guitar tech. He passed away too. More unexpected than Jeff was - that was difficult for me."

The tragedies went towards inspiring the track Chasing Death, which appears on upcoming Slayer album Repentless. King explains: "I'm getting to that age where you deal with more deaths then you do weddings.

"I was having conversations with Jeff about his spider bite and everything, and I told him that he had just been chasing death. I said he needed to focus on getting better and get rolling again.

"So part of that song is about addiction and part of it is about the finality of dealing with death. I don't know. I had to write it. I don't usually have to write songs - but I had to write that one."

He tells Somewhat Legendary: "They wanted something different, that's all I can tell you. They wanted something with a little bit more of a growl, a grunt - the 90s thing. And they just pushed aside whatever clean and tenor I had. It just didn't fit. Whatever, what are you gonna do?

"Sometimes maybe I was a little too clean for everybody. I mean, look at the times where Anthrax didn't feel I was right for their band, which was shocking to me, because I thought we had a cool thing. And obviously, you can see we're carrying on now. So you get confused, what I used to do and how it wasn't right, at one time, for them."

The Ghoul tells RockNLive: "This album takes place not at the same time as the last one. We wanted it to look like art deco 1920s in the US. The Ghouls should look like a gang of very rich people having a secret meeting at a hotel."

Now Kael tells LoudTV: "I certainly don't feel good about how things went down. As brothers you're going to fight behind the scenes a lot - but that one kind of spilled out on the stage. I'm a very positive person, and negative sh*t like that pisses me off."

But he adds: "I think right now we have the strongest lineup Death Punch has ever had. We all work really well together. We're adept at addressing stuff when it needs to be addressed and avoiding stuff when you can get away with it.

He believes the focus should be on live performances in a world of sliding album sales - and says that Slipknot fans' reaction to recent single Killpop shows how well the approach can work.

Taylor tells 102.5 The Bone: "It's not like they're not hearing the music. When they come and see the show, and you play a song that's new and you get that huge 'pop,' that's what it's all about.

"We just started playing Killpop and we'd put the video out a week before. With every show after that, the 'pop' got bigger and bigger, to the point where people were losing their minds. And that's a brand-new song."

He continues: "For me, the album is the calling-card. It's just the way to get people to come in. That's how you further it. Later on down the line, if you sell enough albums, so be it. But for the most part you can't worry about that.

Diamond tells Full Metal Jackie: "My home studio is ready now to go, but this tour is very important to do. We don't want to be rushed with writing a new album.

Mayall, 81, says: "Every time I make an album, I always feel I owe it to my fans to come up with fresh and varied interpretations of the blues. With this in mind, I chose an assemblage of songs that includes perhaps some slightly lesser-known bluesmen, and that all had either different beats or special instrumental treatments."

Mainman Einar Solberg says: "Slave is one of the most emotional tracks of the album. The foundation is simple - but the content is rich." He recently discussed the band's focus on retaining their creative integrity, saying: "If we'd started considering all the feedback we get from everyone we'd be completely confused. In a composition process, the most important thing is to keep your distance from all expectations."

"Gimme Back My Bullets" was the title track to Skynyrd's fourth album of the same name. Issued in 1976, the album peaked at No. 20 on the US Billboard 200 on its way to Gold status for sales of more than 500,000 copies in the States.

The "One More For The Fans" event featured performances by Lynyrd Skynyrd as well as music legends and young talent, including Trace Adkins, Alabama, Gregg Allman, Blackberry Smoke, Charlie Daniels, Peter Frampton, Gov't Mule, Warren Haynes, John Hiatt and many more.

As part of the campaign to save the Fox Theatre from demolition, Lynyrd Skynyrd recorded their 1976 live album, "One More From The Road", at the landmark theatre; the title of the tribute concert and release was inspired by that legendary album's title.

Queensryche guitarist Michael Wilton recently confirmed that the band will release a new album this fall. "The next album from Queensryche is hopefully coming out the first week of October," says Wilton. "We are doing a worldwide release, and very much expected.

"And the record label, Century Media, is the one that will be putting it out, and they have the demos right now and are very positive and happy about it. I know that a lot of people are really anticipating this, so stay tuned and you won't be disappointed."

The project marks the group's first release since a public split and two-year legal battle over the Queensryche brand with former singer Geoff Tate.

The song was started during an odd, transitional period of the band-after half of the band's members left and before we reformed again a few months later. The remaining members, Nodar, Raphael and I, began composing material without our original vocalist Benjamin, which led to the first half of the song's lyrics being written before he'd rejoin in the future.

The melody of the song started out while I was messing around with a clean line that was unlike the clean lines from songs we had previously written. It got stuck in our heads and was recorded with the purpose of being a verse segment. It was the perfect opportunity to write lyrics about something crushing, and yet for what felt like weeks, every attempt seemed forced or came out sounding impersonal. The connection just wasn't there.

Looking back I remember Nodar and I sitting on the torn out back seat of the band's van-which was always in front of Nodar's house-drinking coffee and chain smoking cigarettes trying to get a solid idea going. We were talking about the good times and the experiences we had in the band up until the split; reminiscing about it in fear that that we might not be able to get the band back on its feet again, and then it hit us� the lyrics should be about remembering the good during one's impending doom, similar to our situation at the time.

We mended our relationship with Benjamin right around the time that we finished recording these verses in the studio, which was at the same time that Slava and Eugene joined the band. When Ben returned, he continued the process of finishing the lyrics to the song, drawing from personal experiences of a recent death in his family and a friend's suicide. The song became therapeutic to him and everyone who listened to it; it was death, despair, hope, and salvation wrapped into one. In this way, the song took on two meanings: holding on to your inner experiences through life and understanding that you are, and always will be, their sole survivor; and also, paradoxically, being able to remember the people who did not survive, by spiritually taking their place.

It would be hard to say that Memories brought the band back together, but when we did finish the song it felt like we were all granted a new beginning. It would bring great pleasure to us if this song helps someone else move on to their next chapter as well, regardless of what the ending holds for them.