Metallica Releasing Earliest Recordings For RSD

There is an old joke about celebrities believing their own press clippings and during the interview Del implied that people are wrong to believe the negative press about Axl.

He said, "I've been down with him [Axl Rose] since 1985. If the guy was as difficult as people say he is, no one could have stuck it out that long. There's no amount of money worth that big of a headache. And the reality, the truth of the matter is whenever my kids needed something and I couldn't, you know, afford it, whatever it was, a medical bill or whatever, he was the first one like 'yeah, I got it and don't worry about it."

"He's the guy who you call if you make a mistake and need to be bailed out at 4:00 in the morning and he makes sure you're taken care of and he looks after his [friends, etc] better than anyone else I can think of."

DeLonge posted a video on his new website featuring snippets of several of the new songs, a few of which sound as if they may have been originally written for Blink-182, while others have the massive production synonymous with Angels & Airwaves.

Amazon and iTunes are offering an instant download of the songs "Panama" and "Runnin' With The Devil" to fans that preorder the digital version of the album. Check out the Amazon preorder here.

The album will feature 23 songs that were recorded at band's concert at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on June 21, 2013. It will be released on March 31st on various formats including double CD, digital download, and 4-LP 180-gram vinyl.

Entitled "Meanwhile In Burbank...", the EP will feature the band's take on Alice in Chain's "We Die Young," Judas Priest's "Heading Out To The Highway," KISS's "Love Gun," Metallica's "Creeping Death," and Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave."

The EP was recorded live in Burbank, Ca at Room 237 and guitarist Josh Rand explains how it came about, "Back in February of 2014 while Stone Sour was touring, Corey approached me about Stone Sour doing a cover of the Metal Church song 'The Dark' for the movie Fear Clinic.

"I thought it would be cool not only to record 'The Dark,' but the five cover songs that we had played on that tour." He adds, "The idea was not to shy away from a song because it was popular or pick a band that most people might not have heard, but to pick ones that truly meant something to one of us at some point in our life."

Originally planned for last fall, the group were aiming to follow-up their "VIVA! Hysteria" residency in the spring of 2013 with a "VIVA! Pyromania" series.

"Pyromania", the 1983 release certified 10 times US platinum in 2004, was the Sheffield, England hard rock band's breakthrough album, predating "Hysteria" by four years.

"We are planning on going back," Collen tells WRFX Charlotte, NC. "It keeps getting put off, though. First, it was supposed to be the middle of last year, then it was the end of last year. We keep missing the deadline, because we have stuff, you know, on all the time.

He'd stopped playing live with them in 2010 but argued he was "a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects." He said he'd been shocked when they recorded a track without him in 2012.

The first-ever tribute to the pioneering musician is the brainchild of Iommi supporters and Facebook communities Tony Iommi The Man The Master The Legend and Global Black Sabbath Convention.

The set includes participation from former Sabbath and Heaven And Hell drummer Vinny Appice, former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin, Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau, Hugh McDonald (David Bromberg, Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Lita Ford), Mark Boals (Savoy Brown, Malmsteen, Dio Disciples, Dokken) and many others.

The festival will be taking place in Oshkosh, Wis. on July 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th. Alice Cooper will be headlining on Wednesday, the first night of the festival which will also feature performances from Queensryche, Warrant, Vixen, and Wayland.

The second night of the festival will feature a headline performance from Judas Priest and will also have sets from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Whitesnake, Dokken, and Road Trip.

Friday night will be headlined by Avenged Sevenfold and will also include performances from Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, Pop Evil, and Death Glare.

The 10" EP will be available as limited edition run of 10,000 copies and feature three performances from his recent world tour in support his 10th solo album, "lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar."

Following their previously confirmed May 16 appearance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, OH, the band will perform shows in Cincinnati, OH (May 17), St. Charles, MO (May 19), Council Bluffs, IA (May 20) and Rosemont, IL (May 21).

Drummer Jimmy Keegan says: "There was a kind of joke within the band, about having a band named after Spock in the Star Trek episode Mirror Mirror, where the character has a beard and an entirely different persona.

Sweet revealed the news from his home studio where he's recording vocals after the group completed tracks at SpiritHouse Recording Studios in Northampton, Massachusetts earlier this month.

The singer confirmed the title of the follow-up to 2013's No More Hell To Pay while sharing an audio sample of a track he wrote with Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and the corporation's on-demand TV service, the recording will be launched in 2CD, 2CD/DVD, vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray formats. Video editions carry additional behind-the-scenes material.

Shaddix tells Metal Forces: "Writing songs for this new record was very challenging for me in the beginning. I went in this time with nothing... well, not nothing - I had one chorus written for a song called Broken As Me. Once we got through that first track, the floodgate just opened.

Guitarist Phil Campbell broke the news on Twitter, saying: "Our longtime engineer Dave Hilsden aka Hobbsy has sadly passed away. He gave 30 years of his life to Motorhead. He was a good guy. RIP."

Reed Watson has previously fronted Rage Of Angels, Electric Messiah and DNA - and he's vowed to "usher in a new sound" for the follow-up to last year's The Eyes Of Medusa.

He says: "I have joined forces with Kill Ritual out of the San Francisco Bay Area. I'll be helping to usher in a new sound and style for the band as they progress with some of their heaviest and most melodic material on their soon-to-be-released third untitled CD."

He believes the band avoided becoming a "thing of the past" with 2013 album The Paradigm Shift, their first since the return of Brian 'Head' Welch after an eight-year absence. And he wants Korn to remain ahead of the pack.

The album is called Teide 2390 and it's launched on April 13 via Kscope. The label say: "Performed and recorded at Starmus, in front of an invited audience at an altitude of 2390m, the band played songs from their 2005 debut Sol29, 2008's Lightdark, 2009's A Sense Of Loss and their most recent album Afterthoughts."

Frontman Gary Stringer tells The Fix: "We've wanted to create again with Reef, probably for the last 18 months we've been talking about it. We got guitarist Jesse Wood involved in the spring of last year, six months after that we've started writing again, so probably by September 2014.

"We've recorded eight songs but our remit is to make a wicked rock record. You're going to press play, you just got to be smiling from ear to ear and happy with what we're doing. We just want to make sure every song is killer."

The original members of Black Sabbath-Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward-came of age during the "Age of Aquarius." You don't hear a lot of Summer of Love as an influence on their music because they didn't experience it in their hometown of Birmingham, England, which was a hard, bleak and industrial city. The music that they were playing, even in the early days when they were known as Earth, was considerably darker than most of the "peace and love" sentiment prevalent during the era.

As such, it should be no surprise that the band found their name during a rehearsal held near a theater showing a horror film. Osbourne recalled, "One day, Tony says, 'Don't you think it's strange that people pay money to go and get scared to death at horror movies?'"

It was a question that resonated with them and so band decided to bring horror to their music. "In our original format, we were a jazz/blues band," Osbourne said, referring to an early incarnation of the group called the Polka Tulk Blues Band. When they took that music and made it a bit more demonic, as Osbourne says, "It just clicked."

Indeed, some might argue that the music we now know as "heavy metal" was born, or spawned, in that rehearsal space with a little thanks to the influence of 1970s horror flicks.

Due in May, the record sees the singer - who announced the project on his 52nd birthday in January - team up with Swedish producer Peter Tagtgren, who also fronts death metal outfit Hypocrisy and his own project, Pain.

One of the few people to have heard Lindemann's music up to this point is Raubtier singer Par Hulkoff. He says on Facebook: "The small parts I heard really blew my mind! Keep your eyes open. This will echo in eternity."

Filmed in old-school black and white noir style, the clip was directed by Nash Edgerton, who also directed a rather violent video for "Duquesne Whistle" from Dylan's last album, 2012's Tempest.

But where in "Duquesne Whistle" Bob was not actually part of the violence, in "The Night We Called It A Day," he's the mastermind, even occasionally pulling the trigger.

The second disc of the Deluxe Edition of Bad Company includes eight previously unreleased recordings, including the original demo of The Way I Choose, an unreleased take of Bad Company, and an unedited version of Superstar Woman, a song that Rodgers later recorded in 1983 for his solo album Cut Loose. Also featured is the single edit of Can't Get Enough, and the single b-sides Little Miss Fortune and Easy On My Soul.

Extra material from the second album includes a stripped-down version of Shooting Star, a remix of Good Lovin' Gone Bad with alternative guitar and vocals tracks, and the previously unreleased See The Sunlight and All Night Long.

Ian recently previewed his cameo with a behind the scenes look at the production of the series in an episode of his horror FX show for Nerdist, "Scott Ian's Bloodworks" (formerly "Blood & Guts").

A huge fan of the genre and the show, Ian previously appeared in a "Walking Dead" webisode in 2011. "I read the comic," says Ian. "I started reading Walking Dead when it came out and then the show came on. I'm a massive fan of the show. I just felt like, from the start, [that] it would be the coolest f***ing thing if I could ever get to be a walker.

"I got to do the webisode thing and that was awesome, and I remember [producer] Greg [Nicotero] telling me at one point that 'everyone in the business wants to come be a walker, so we kind of put the kibosh on all of that'. I figured that at least I got to the webisodes, that's cool enough. I didn't think it would ever happen."

Van Giersbergen says of the track: "It's a tribute to the city of Amsterdam - the home town of the story's leading character, Susanne. Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a centre of shipping, shipbuilding, and trade. It flourished, and a wonderful city was the result.

Grammy-nominated Hart recently said of the follow-up to Bang Bang Boom Boom: "This record is not like that aesthetic. I bounce all over the place, man. I've got multiple personalities. A lot of them.

"Keep working on telling the truth - that's my mantra for the music. Tell the truth, work your ass off, and keep going there. I've got four things I have to do and the rest I leave to the wind - pray, work out, eat right, and keep in contact with my doctor."

It was produced by Sascha Paeth and features guest appearances by Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz, Nightwish's Troy Donockley and Charlotte Wessels of Delain.

Keyboardist Oliver Palotai says: "Haven has an aggressive edge to it that is the representation of the band as The Revolutionary Change in the storyline."

"Sh*t's changin' fast," says former Obsessed and Saint Vitus guitarist Scott "Wino" Weinrich. "With war on every corner, political theatre becoming increasingly more offensive, and Big Brother and the Globalists intensifying their slow takeover, we offer sounds and vibrations of love, death, happiness and pain! With this music and verse we hope the songs will inspire and uplift, and hopefully unite our searching spirits."

"Freedom Conspiracy means companionship," adds Conny Ochs. "It means to have each other's back. This album is about losing and finding belief. And fighting for it."

'Imperfect' started life as just a couple of riffs I would screw around with at practice a good few years back. I always wanted to do more with it but never quite felt I had progressed as a player enough to finally get the point across. However, with the "Animi" album, I came back to this and had a totally fresh feel for it.

I can kind of explain its sound by the subject matter within the album, and where this track fits in on this album. The story of Animi (Minds) is one of human incompatibility. We are a sort of failed experiment and have basically caused nature itself to turn on us; regretting ever having let us exist.

The earlier tracks on the album tell the birth of human kind and its unrelenting inability to control its anger and imperfections. 'Imperfect' is the 3rd track on the album and delves in to how Humanity uses aggression to get ahead in life.

People have found it is quicker and easier to achieve what they want by stepping on others, thus being selfish and impulsive. People within the lore of this album, have demons inside their heads, telling them to give into temptation in order to achieve their wants and desires. Unfortunately we have reached a point where the only way to be free of these demons is to pass away from this life.

The world begins to think about turning against us having seen that we are unable to change; Despite any progress we have made and all the advances in technology, we have brought forward our primitive way of looking at things e.g. "if you do not believe what I believe, you are wrong, and I am better than you" (Sounds like most people now days, haha).

The whole concept I guess is influenced by the same sort of ideas and mythology you would find behind films like "Princess Mononoke" or "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", but less magical, more spacey�but basically, the universe fights back.

By the end of this track, we are begging for a second chance.