Metallica Release Massive 50-CD Box Set

Due August 28, the band's 22nd studio effort was completely written and recorded in the studio, marking a first in the Lemmy Kilmister/Phil Campbell/Mikkey Dee era.

The 13-track follow-up to 2013's "Aftershock" was recorded at NRG Studios in Los Angeles with long-time producer Cameron Webb and the guest appearance by Brian May on "The Devil."

Down frontman Phil Anselmo resurrected the group last year under the shortened name Superjoint for their first gig in 10 years - despite the former Pantera man stating their appearance at the Housecore Horror Film Festival was a "one off."

The band was forced to postpone some of the dates on the spring leg after frontman Roger Daltry was ordered by doctors to rest his voice. The May 9th Louisville, Kentucky concert has been rescheduled for December 4th, the St. Louis show will take place on December 6th and the Kansas City, Missouri stop is now scheduled for December 8th.

The band has also rescheduled two previously announcement shows on the upcoming leg, to allow Daltry more time to rest his voice between shows. The Toronto show will now take place on December 2nd instead of October 21st and their concert in Oakland has been moved to December 13th.

The tour leg will be kicking off on September 14th in San Diego, CA at the Valley View Casino Center and is now scheduled to conclude with the rescheduled show in Oakland at the Oracle Arena.

The Alice in Chains song Stone, Buddy Holly by Weezer and Bullet For My Valentine 's Temper Temper will appear on the game, which is due out in the autumn.

He says: "We're called Iron Maiden. We're all about a sound that's called metal, if you know what that's all about. Scrap metal, yeah. We don't have enough room to move about here, by the looks of it, so someone's going to go arse over tit, I should imagine. Here we go."

Nashville Scene reports Mayor Karl Dean attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the two newest inductees to the Walk of Fame as part of the reopening of the Walk Of Fame Park, a downtown green space overlooked by the Country Music Hall Of Fame, Bridgestone Arena and the Schermerhorn Symphony Center.

"I hope I'm too young to get something like this," joked White. "It speaks volumes about Nashville ... that you would accept, for example, what we've done with Third Man Records here in this city, and accept it so well, and nurture it, and help us make something come alive.

The set captures the guitarist and his band in concert at the famed Los Angeles venue as part of the Guitar Center's 50th anniversary celebrations and the launch of his latest album, "World On Fire."

The Roxy event was one of three dates Slash played in Hollywood's most legendary clubs to debut the record; he also rocked The Troubadour and The Whisky in the same week.

Rush are currently on the road across North American on a trip that manager Ray Danniels has said is "most likely the last of this magnitude." But Lifeson tells Guitar Center: "I could still see us going out and doing a special run - a couple of weeks here and there, those sort of things.

All formats of the download - including the high definition versions - are being offered at LiveMetallica.com for a discounted price of $5.00 each through July 15.

Hysteria On The High Seas takes place aboard the MSC Divina, leaving from Miami, Florida, on January 21 next year and stopping at Half Moon Cay and Freeport in the Bahamas.

McKagan recently released his second book, How To Be A Man (And Other Illusions), along with a companion EP called How To Be A Man. He gives his vital travel tips to Rolling Stone.

He says: "If you don't read, know something about where you're at. Barrett Martin, who was the drummer for Screaming Trees and Mad Season, he's an actual professor. So he'll know about everything we're going by, like, 'That castle there.. something something."

One particular peeve of being on tour in Germany is how many times he has to hear jokes about the German word for a motorway exit - Ausfahrt. "You can laugh at the first six or seven Ausfahrt signs, but there is going to be an Ausfahrt sign every exit. You can only do it for so long."

Queen: Play The Game features images from the band's history along with re-sampled sounds from all the hits and recordings fans may not have heard. It was developed by Birmingham-based SoshiGames.

The track starts with a quote from US President John F Kennedy: "We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice.

"It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly-knit, highly-efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations."

Hart tells Classic Rock's Dave Ling: "Happily, for the last 15 years I've been drug-free. Binge drinking still happens though. I'll go six or nine months, and despite my best intentions, I'll slip. Or at least I did."

But she feels better now than she's done in a long time. "There's a difference between surviving and living," she says. "Now I've gotten past my demons, which makes me feel blessed and grateful.

The follow-up to 2011's Phoenix Among The Ashes is their first studio outing with drummer Chason Westmoreland, who replaced Jade Simonetto in 2013.

Mainman Erik Rutan recently said Westmoreland's work had a "very primal and visceral feel" and added: "He did a tremendous job on the recording. I can't wait for us to get on tour and deliver the goods."

The 4-week run with the Sensational Space Shifters started May 24 at the Sasquatch Festival in George, WA, with dates wrapping up in Philadelphia on June 17.

Plant launched "lullaby..." last fall with a 7-date North American theatre tour as the record went on to land a US Top 10 debut, entering the Billboard 200 at No. 10 with opening week sales of 29,000 copies.

She's previously guested with Papa Roach on Gravity and Five Finger Death Punch on Anywhere But Here, and she says she loves being the "go-to" female singer for those team-ups.

A conversation with the band's Tyler Joseph inspired him with three key elements that moulded the final design. Rike says in a blog entry: "Tyler explained the elements of ourselves that we hate, and the constant battle against these traits. In order to add clarity to this internal struggle, he gave a name to these negative attributes: Blurryface."

He then defined the most important things he had to achieved: "First, find a way to represent Blurryface in a obscure but potent manner. Second, create visuals that resemble the songs, as well as the mishmash of the collection as a whole.

They recently issued streams of All My Friends and Give 'Em Hell from second album Right To Rise, set for release on June 30 via Razor & Tie.Nicefield tells Metal Hammer's Merlin Alderslade: "In Detroit you do things because you have to. Like, 'This is how you're able to survive.' You were told not to go to certain places or do certain things as a kid because it was scary.

The late singer's Macclesfield home in Greater Manchester was bought by Hadar Goldman for �190,000 this year. He paid �75,000 more than the asking price to secure the deal from another buyer who was close to becoming its owner.

Since it was reported he'd bought the property - used in Anton Corbijn's 2007 Curtis biopic Control - supporters from around the world have offered to help, according to Prolific North.

Fairport Convention have revealed that they will open proceedings with a semi-acoustic set and end the event with a full-power performance featuring guest appearances.

The prog outfit will issue The Waiting Soldier in the coming months and will hit the road this month, with support from fellow Austrians Mindspeak for some dates.

The band say: "Room Within A Room is the last track on the album. It offers a good idea as to the rest of the tunes. It's a good closer - we wanted to end Living Bridges on a strong note."

The lineup is completed by bassist Lee Pomeroy and Producers' drummer Ash Sloan. Braide says: "It's a positive album, one that I'm proud of and one that I had to make."

It was the summer of 2012 in Long Beach, CA where I had been working with a manager at the time, Ron Magee, who believed in my talent and was helping me find a singer. I had many ideas, but needed a comrade to complete the quintessential rock duo I envisioned. Enter Rob Sandoval. We had an immediate connection and the ideas began pouring out. Rob, manager Ron and I collaborated in the lyric department as we listened to the riffs I had for this song. "Pain in Love and War" was the first song we wrote together and it meant so much to us that it had a hand in not only defining our sound, but our band name as well.

As I played the heavy staccato verse riff, both Rob and I worked on a melody that gave us both a feeling of being overwhelmed and out came "Drowning in my own trust you tore away from me." As we searched for what that meant to us, Rob immediately jumped to a past love relationship gone awry whereas I felt a connection to an estranged friend I used to idolize when I was on a path of addiction. The story began writing itself, from the bitter taste that remains from hurtful words to seeing the truth, that it "never meant so much" to the significant other.

When we got to the Pre-Chorus, with its pauses and openness, we both felt a sense of being drained by the verse's outpouring and we wrote "I'm tired of trying, I've tried and tried, too tired to try again." The chorus has a bit of swagger to it, so we juxtaposed a pleading "Can't take no more" with a vindictive "What goes around comes around" which seemed to sum up the turmoil that can have you feeling left out in the cold.

The second verse deals with the sickness that brews from being caught up in a world of someone else's pain. One can easily become a slave, addicted to co-dependent "twisted games." The solo section is our depiction of the second verse's last line, "You're breaking all of me, I'm tired of this insanity," which sums up the rollercoaster ride that unhealthy relationships and addictions embody. From the highs to lows, they always end up in chaos and back to drowning�