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The legendary band filmed the video with director David Mallet in Los Angeles last month right after they were the opening performer at this year's Grammy Awards. Watch the new video here.
As previously reported, the band will be launching a North American stadium tour in support of "Rock or Bust" this summer. Next month they will be headlining the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival on April 10th and 17th and kicking off their world tour in Europe in May.
The North American summer tour will be kicking off on August 22nd at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, MA and finishing the trek on September 28th at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.
The tour will feature stops in major cities across the United States and Canada and is their first major tour since their award winning 2008-2010 Black Ice World Tour.
See the North American dates here.
Director Brett Morgen revealed the news via Twitter, writing, "Listening to a mind blowing 12 minute acoustic Cobain unheard track that will be heard on the montage of heck soundtrack." A release date for the soundtrack has yet to be announced.
The film - which debuted at the Sundance Film Festival in January will premiere on HBO on May 4 - is billed as a raw and visceral journey through the singer's life, providing no-holds-barred access to his archives, including never-before-seen home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, journals, demos, personal archives, family archives and songbooks. Read more
here.
27 year-old camera assistant Sarah Jones was killed and six crew members were injured on February 20, 2014 when a freight train crashed into the crew as they were filming a scene on a historic train trestle in Doctortown, Georgia. Jones was struck by the train and debris from a bed that had been placed on the track for a dream sequence involving actor William Hurt.
Miller made a plea deal where he will spend two years in the county jail, followed by eight years of probation, and pay a $20,000 fine. The charges against his wife and business partner Jody Savin were dropped as part of the deal, according to CBS News. Read more
here.
Maysles filmed the Stones' US tour of 1969, which culminated in the murder of 18-year-old Meredith Hunter by Hell's Angels security men at the Altamont Free Concert. The deadly attack was captured on camera.
The director's family said: "Albert created groundbreaking films, inspired filmmakers and touched all those with his humanity, presence and his belief in the power of love." Read more
here.
The shows will be the band's first live performances since their 2012 farewell tour, although it has not yet been confirmed whether the reunion is permanent.
Alexisonfire announced the shows in a simple picture message on their social media platforms, with no captions attached or any promises of additional dates. Read more
here.
The tour will be kicking off on July 17th in Pala, Ca at the Starlight Theatre and will be concluding with an appearance at the Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA on August 16th.
The presales begin today and the band will be making a donation from those sales to a memorial fund. The band explains, "Thanks to the great people at WMRQ in Hartford, CT, we became close with a young man named Stefan Dayne-Ankle, who sadly last week lost a courageous battle with Leukemia.
"To honor Stefan and help give him the memorial he deserves, we're donating $2 from every ticket pre-sold on this tour." Read more and see the tour dates
here.
He and Dave Mustaine are currently at work on Megadeth's 15th album, but it's not yet known who'll join them on the record following the departures of Chris Broderick and Shawn Drover last year.
Ellefson tells Full Throttle Rock: "There are some developments. We've spent the last several months sorting things out. What I've come to is that we need to make a great record. The songs have always determined who's going to be in the band, and nothing should change with that.
"To go back and chase some glory day is like chasing fool's gold. The songs and the album are going to determine what the lineup is, and I think that's the proper order." Read more
here.
In the late '80s and early '90s, Slash was one of the hottest guitarists in the land; besides being a member of Guns N Roses, he also popped up on tracks by legends including Alice Cooper, Iggy Pop, Bob Dylan and Michael Jackson, among others.
During that same time period, Lenny Kravitz was making a name for himself also. His debut album, 1989's Let Love Rule, yielded a hippie-ish anthem with the title track. On his follow-up, he was clearly looking to go a bit edgier, so it was fortunate that he ran into Slash at "Some awards function," as the guitarist recalls. Kravitz invited Slash to the studio to work on his second album. While they were cutting a song called "Fields of Joy," Slash was playing around with a riff he had been working on. It was a bit too funky for Guns N Roses, but Kravitz wanted to use it on his album.
A few months later they met up in Hoboken, New Jersey, to record the song that would become "Always On The Run." The only problem? It was a Sunday. Which is a problem if you're looking to buy booze in Hoboken, New Jersey, where you can't buy booze on a Sunday. So, Slash and Lenny had to go find some before starting the session. Luckily, they were successful, and one of Kravitz's greatest hits was the happy result.
Watch the video
here.
"I'm a little bit distracted," says Roth, "because what you are about to see is going to blow your mind - mind roasting! Your IQ is going to go down 14 points� excuse me, my knuckles are dragging."
Paytas delivers a video for the track as featured on her new four-song EP, "Fat Chick." Directed by Kale Flowers, the clip was filmed at John Marshall High School in Los Feliz, California - the same school featured in Van Halen's original video. Watch the new clip
here.
The band recorded the new album, their first in over a decade, with producer Mark Lewis at Audiohammer Studio in Florida and last week their premiered the first single from the album, "I.O.U. Nothing". Listen here.
Now the band have released an online stream of the title track here. Fans can currently catch them live on the road on their North American Headline Tour that features support from Filter.
See the tour dates here.
Both albums have been remastered using the original tapes, with each set including the original album alongside with a number of rare and unreleased recordings.
The CD versions of these new releases include all the newly discovered bonus tracks, while the vinyl versions include a selection of the previously unreleased material. Last week, the band released a demo version of "Feel Like Makin' Love."
Check out the song
here.
The group which also features vocalist Keith St John of Montrose and Quiet Riot fame, and drummer Shane Fitzgibbon played a low-key debut show in California last month and perform again on Costa Mesa on March 14.
Their set consists of classic rock including work by Dio, Montrose and Randy Rhoads. St John says: "We are here to celebrate some of our favorite music with some of our favorite musicians." Read more
here.
"Once again, it's time for a new album!," says Monroe. "We are happy to have recently renewed our deal with Universal Music/Spinefarm and have written a bunch of new songs for the album over the past couple of months.
"The album is being produced by Swedish producer Chips Kiesbye (Hellacopters, Sator, Nomads) and we started recording it at the end of February in Gothenburg, Sweden. We're all really excited about the new project." Read more
here.
Joe played to over 9,000 people at Colorado's legendary Red Rocks Amphitheatre over the Labor Day weekend in 2014. The audience was treated to two and a half hours of electrifying musicianship in honor of the two blues icons. The concert is being released as Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks on March 24.
The Blu-ray and DVD versions contain over 1.5 hours of bonus features including historic footage of Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf and a featurette on Bonamassa and producer Kevin Shirley's visit to the crossroads. Yes, that crossroads. And the DVD features a collectible booklet featuring Joe's gear.
Check out the video
here.
Castronovo tells One On One with Mitch Lafon: "I've been sitting behind some of the greatest frontmen of my time - especially Arnel. If you look at Arnel, he's the most amazing frontman ever."
And that's given him the motivation he needs. "I've always been challenged as a drummer," he continues. "With every artist I've worked with, they've always challenged me as a player to bring out the best in me." Read more
here.
Cooper tells The Front Row Report: "With Rise, I didn't know we were doing a concept record until we were actually recording. It just kind of hit me. So, never say never, but that's not the plan at the moment."
He adds: "We're about halfway done with the writing process now. I'm writing and demoing today, then I go back and finish singing one of my songs and put it in."
The singer last month admitted he hadn't enjoyed writing so much in years, describing the current work as a "joyous" experience. Stream the full interview
here.
The 1986 single - taken from the album of the same name - reached number one in 25 countries and is still a live staple to this day. Haugland tells One On One With Mitch Lafon: "We will always be connected to The Final Countdown, absolutely. We will never have a hit as big as that. You can look at that in different manners.
"I see it as a big advantage because The Final Countdown gives us the opportunity to create new music. If it wasn't for The Final Countdown we wouldn't be here today. It's more of a blessing than a curse.
"People often ask me if we get tired of playing it, because we've played it a million times. But I always say no, because every time it's like the first time." Read more
here.
Lucassen says of the track: "For me the 'gentle' version really shines in its acoustic setting. It feels like an emotional journey because of the many exotic instruments that were used."
The song is about 17th-century sailors arriving at the continent for the first time. Van Giersbergen says: "I immediately loved the mysterious and exotic melodies. It must have been overwhelming for these sailors to encounter such a different and wonderful culture. We really tried to put ourselves in their position and capture their amazement.
"There's a big difference in how we approached the vocals on both versions, because musically there is a different intensity between the 'gentle' and 'storm' interpretations. But the lyrics and emotions remain the same. It has been such a great experience working on that with Arjen."
Stream the song
here.
You Can't Shut Us Up is "a full on adrenalin pumping riffology with the defiant chant of the chorus providing the song's title," say the band. "It is inspired by the age of connectivity and its ability to allow all us little people a greater collective voice.
"The Whispering of Giants rolls relentlessly from a whispered first verse towards a chest thumping refrain," they continue. "In the relatively short history of humankind there have been many giants in whose footsteps it is a privilege to tread. The whispers of their words echo through the decades." Check out a stream
here.
"I'm so happy with the Hawkdope album and can't wait to get out on tour," says the band's Gabriele Fiori. "As you may have noticed from our past few EPs, we're moving away from the stoner sound and getting equally into the older head bands and space rock vibes of Ladbroke Grove. I think this new record will be a hit with fans of both new and old music. Fry Your Mind!"
Hawkdope is released on March 14 on Heavy Psych Sounds Records on CD and three shades of vinyl: golden, limited violet and ultra limited yellow splatter multicolor. Listen to the stream
here.
After years of operating as a solo artist, former Scorpions and UFO man Schenker says he was moved by the deaths of Gary Moore and Ronnie James Dio to go back to his rock band roots.
He tells Metalholic he got all of his experimentation out of his system in his years as a solo artist and realized he was ready to work as part of a band again. He adds: "I'm going backwards, I'm going upside down. I was focusing on becoming a great guitarist and more of a solo thing. I got all my things out of my system, all the things I wanted to do. All the musical experiments, because no touring band would have wanted to do that.
"People are passing away, like Gary Moore, Ronnie James Dio, Johnny Winter and so many people. It's gonna be just a memory, this incredible era that has lasted 50 years now.
"I just wanna put this to the foreground one more time." Read more and check out the video interview
here.
Recorded and mixed over four days by Dan Miller at London School of Sound, Paul and Aleks say the process was "an intense and inspirational experience, and with Dan we built a home in which to achieve the many ideas that frame the album, and give ourselves ample room to go hard and hammer each nail into the Gholden skull. Each song we consider within a series of movements, each sharing a vision, finishing where the next started but retaining separate identities and individual senses of momentum.
The band describe the foundations of the record as their "fragmented dreams and abstracted experience. A necessary gurgling-out of semi-autobiographical and appreciated desperation.
They conclude: "We like to venture through the trans-dimensional barriers of inner/outer destruction, paranoia, confusion and balls-out sonic experience. Our Gholem's nuts have dropped! We are rising the bloated carcass of the inverted Ouroborous all the way back up to Hell!"
Stream the album
here.
Together they recorded 19th studio album In My Soul, launched last March. A live record is planned for launch later this year, to be followed by another studio project.
Cray tells the Oakland Press: "Richard's been bringing in more material than I think he has in the past, so that's really nice. Then for the first time, Les has been writing songs and he brought in something, which is fantastic.
"It's great because it brings in a lot of different styles - rather than me having to bring in all the material." Read more
here.
G tells GuitarMania: "Character is as important, if not more important, than musical skill. Nobody wants to spend 24 hours on a bus for a year with an a**hole.
"Touring can become such a miserable place if you don't get along with someone. There's always one a**hole, but not on this tour - we're all brothers."
He last month last month confirmed a follow-up record in the works. Now he reports: "It's a continuation of the first one. It's going to be probably more modern rock stuff this time. Still in the hard rock vein." Read more and stream the full interview
here.
A trailer clip features Summers discussing his love for photography and how he used it to "possess the tours in a new way." He says: "I began photographing everything around me. I love the feel of a camera in my hand - it's like a gun.
"It's a private world I can retreat to. Gradually, the roads, the hotels, the fans, the limos become a black-and-white tapestry. My relationship to touring shifts. Music and photography merge. The tours begin to unfold like a roll of film - a dream through the lens." Check out a preview
here.
Our latest single from our new album "Cold Was The Ground" that we just released a music video for is called "BC Trucker". The BC in the title doesn't actually stand for what you think it would, it stands for Beef Cake. So Beef Cake Trucker it is.
We came up with this ridiculous title while on tour. It was 3am and we were somewhere around Billings, Montana at a truck stop, winding down drinking cherry slurpies after a show. When in walked the biggest meanest looking truck driver you have ever seen. He let out an animal like groan and then stared us down, with a judging and demented look in his eyes, but moved on past us and proceeded into the back of the store to grab a case of beer. We continued to sip on our cherry slurpies, but kept a close eye on him the entire time, just knowing from the looks of him something was about to go down. Little did we know, we should have just left right then and there.
The trucker moved on up to the counter to pay for his beer, but the man behind the counter shook his head and told him "I'm sorry sir we cant sell beer after 2am." The trucker became infuriated and began screaming at the clerk. After a big and loud argument between the two that felt like it went on forever, the truck driver picked up his case of beer and hit the clerk across the face with it, knocking the clerk to the floor. He then jumped over the counter and began to cave the clerks face in hitting him over and over and over, with the case of beer. My band mates and I ran back behind the counter and pulled the truck driver off the clerk, hit him in the face, and tossed him back over the counter. The trucker just looked at us from the other side of the counter and then just calmly left the store and we began to help the clerk. His entire face was bleeding, several of his teeth were knocked out and it just looked like a steamroller ran over his head. We called 911 and then ran down the aisles of the store to look for towels to help stop the bleeding. Then all of a sudden a semi truck came barreling into the store, smashing through the front doors, and nearly running us over. The truck almost toppled over and the truck drivers head went smashing into the windshield splintering it open. We were so shocked by all this and not knowing what to do we picked up the clerk and moved him to the back of the store. About five minutes later the police and ambulances showed up. The paramedics took away both the trucker and the clerk to the hospital, and we were stuck there for the next five hours being questioned. After we were finally told we could leave we drove away and headed on to our next city. Not knowing if the trucker or the clerk would even survive, we sat in complete silence for most of the drive, none of us saying a word, just trying to wrap our heads around what happened. Then Brandon (our drummer) spoke up and broke the silence with these words, "that was some beef cake trucker". We all laughed hysterically, and the song title was born� Or at least I'm pretty sure that's how it happened.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself as you watch the video here and learn more about the album
right here!
The band played Zeppelin's "You Shook Me" (originally recorded by Muddy Waters) and two Beatles songs - "If I Fell" and "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" - alongside a selection of their own classics like "Hard Luck Woman", "Calling Dr. Love" and "Beth."
"Biggest KISS Meet & Greet acoustic ever!", reports the band. "Over 700 in attendance at Tokyo Dome!" The March 3 stop was the final date of a Japanese tour by the band in support of the Japanese special edition of their greatest hits collection, "KISS 40."
The package differs from the 2014 North American release with the addition of the band's collaboration with Japanese pop idols Momoiro Clover Z, "Samurai Son", plus a DVD featuring three songs filmed at the Budokan in Tokyo on October 24th, 2013.
Watch video of the full 10-song unplugged set
here.
As the video progresses, the band appears a various biker gangs, from gruff Harley riders to hipsters on scooters. And when the gangs meet, they have no choice but to have a dance-off.
It's all in good spirits, with ace choreography and costumes. And in the end, Incubus make a pretty epic exit from the video. "Absolution Calling" is the lead single from Incubus' new EP Trust Fall: Side A, due out on March 24. A second EP is expected out later in the year. Watch the video
here.
The follow-up to the group's 2013 debut, "All Hell Breaks Loose", was recorded in Nashville last year with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, The Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains, Mastodon).
"The Killer Instinct" debuted at No. 13 on the UK album charts as the band continues a co-headline UK tour with Europe in support of the new project. Watch the new video
here.
The Immortal was written after Brown approached Jasta to create his latest entrance music. He says: "When Matt asked, an idea instantly came to mind. I'm a big fan of his so this worked out perfectly. Matt is fighting on March 14 at UFC 185 - it's going to be a war!"
Jasta and Hatebreed are no strangers to UFC - they're longtime sponsors of fighter Chris Camozzi. They commence a run of US shows later this month that includes a series of appearances on Slipknot's Prepare For Hell Tour. Listen to the new song
here.
Kotzen says: "Something that's going to be appearing soon is a live DVD. I've got a very rough cut here - so rough that you can see the time code - but I figured, why not share a little sneak-peek of what's to come?"
The guitarist issued his 20th solo album, Cannibals, in January. The Winery Dogs - also featuring bassist Billy Sheehan and drummer Mike Portnoy - plan to record their second album in May and they're eyeing a late summer release.
Kotzen says: "In my studio and I'm holding a stack of paper. This paper contains song lyrics that will eventually become Winery Dogs songs. I've been working well - I've got almost five here." Watch the video
here.
The seven-disc box set collects the band's six studio albums and adds a bonus disc, True Blue, featuring recordings from the 2002 Black Letter Days sessions.
The tracks, which were recorded between 1998 and 2003, will be presented in alphabetical order. Black explains: "It feels like an approximation of randomness and its a way to randomise something, especially if its titles.
"We get away from the preciousness of LPs we put out and its more about the body of work, the good times that we had. It's all recorded live to 2-track, as was our rule in the band."
Stream the song
here.
Wonder Days, recorded at Rockfield Studios in Wales, last month debuted at number 9 in the UK album chart. Frontman Danny Bowes reacted by saying: "Thanks yet another million to you Thunder-loving maniacs for not only buying it, but telling others to do the same. It would appear we are very much back!"
Thunder play three UK shows this week with Reef, before returning to the Download festival on the weekend of June 12-14 and a one-off show with ZZ Top at London's SSE Arena, Wembley on June 24. See the dates and stream the song
here.
The footage was shot in March last year at the Circus Club in Helsinki, and features guest appearances by Nightwish, After Forever and Revamp singer Floor Jansen, and Sonic Syndicate's Nathan J. Biggs.
Soilwork have previously released a video for This Momentary Bliss from the live DVD, which is released on March 16 and can be ordered now. Watch the new live video
here.
In the newly released studio video clip Belladonna says: "Really not much more to it than just get in there and start hammering away at each song. Stay tuned!"
Drummer Charlie Benante recently told how he got a head-start on writing duties while he was sidelined with a hand injury, saying: "These ideas would come out of me and I don't even know where they came from. Before I knew what was going on I had huge stack of riffs. It was a great way to work." Watch the video
here.
Our Latest Single which is a hectic multi layered song is entitled Lost Tribes, it is taken from our upcoming album ENKI. The song is very personal, being Assyrian Armenian from Jerusalem I have many family in the entire region, the song has a few meanings one of which refers to the ancient tribes in the near east and the great cultural legacy they left. But another meaning is what is happening to the indigenous people there especially by ISIS.
I was writing the song when I heard my cousin was shot by ISIS and was still alive, no further news was given. He lives in Syria and he is of an Armenian Christian background. His city is taken over by the ISIS terrorists. It did hit home last time I saw him was in the mid 80s we were little kids. This gave me further motivation to adjust the lyrics and speak about the roots of the peoples in the region and how they are being lost.
Musically the song has various thrash and black metal touches with middle eastern scaling and drum beats aside from the fast paced drums as well, we were honoured to have Max Cavalera of Soulfly on guest vocals as well he offered a different vocal approach than mine.
The song itself comes in two sections that have different moods. A very intense song and deeply personal to me. The song is performed with 12 string and 6 string electric guitars and all was tuned on 432 HZ.
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the album
right here!
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