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"The boys are out on tour - happily doing well, I hope," Hagar said during his new weekly radio countdown show, "but they're not playing any Van Hagar songs. My buddy Diamond said it was something about a quality issue.

"I laughed. I'm cracking up. You know, sometimes the guy says the wackiest things. But there's a lot of truth in that. A quality issue - you think about that. Think about them with Diamond, singing this next song, it would definitely be a quality issue, OK? [Chuckles.] It would definitely be a quality issue."

Hagar then played a live version of Van Halen's 1992 hit, "Right Now", as performed by his latest supergroup The Circle. Following Van Halen's appearance at the recent 2015 Billboard Music Awards in Las Vegas, Roth was asked if the group would be performing any Hagar-era material, to which he replied, "Well, there's a credibility issue there. Good, bad or in the middle, you know Roth means it; the other guy doesn't. And that's why it sold half as well. Literally, Midas Bible half. Never did better than half.

According to Bryson, those claims are "baseless and unfounded and are unsupported in reality." The attorney defended Toney in a press statement: "Unfortunately even musical icons die. Ms. Toney did everything she could to carry out the wishes of Mr. King while he was alive, and continues to carry out Mr. King's wishes after his death. I hope over these next few days we can focus on Mr. King's musical gifts to the world and not fictional statements made by those seeking attention at the expense of Mr. King."

That doesn't change the fact though that Nevada homicide detectives are looking into the case and have conducted an autopsy. Still, Toney, who's serving as the appointed executor of King's estate, has provided three doctors' statements stating that King "was monitored on a 24-hour basis by Certified Nursing Assistants" and that "no action [was] taken to hasten the demise of Mr. King," who died "peacefully in his sleep."

After White did a Q&A on the label's fan forum that covered topics ranging from touring to his relationship with Meg White, some things got lost in translation. Now, Third Man is setting all the "friends, family, journalists, naysayers, believers, tweeter & 'grammers" straight. And they're certainly not happy about it: "fear not because you are in the age of instantaneous negative internet gratification."

In the post, Third Man shoots off a list of headlines that hit websites after his Q&A including that he is retiring, will never play festivals again and that Meg White isn't taking his calls.

So, no, White is not retiring and that comment he made about 'I don't belong here" wasn't about earth, he just meant the fan forum. He is taking a break from touring, but not forever. He is not quitting music, but is getting ready to head into the studio with Dead Weather and is "involved in several projects we're not even gonna tell you about right now cause we don't want to ruin the surprise."

As for Meg, Third Man says, she doesn't have to answer her phone and Jack isn't complaining about it "nor is it depressing" him in anyway. "The White Stripes is over and it's been said a hundred times, and maybe that's just the quickest way for him to answer that question he gets asked a dozen times a day. Jack loves Meg, and she's an incredible drummer - nobody can do what she does and did with the White Stripes- but those days are unfortunately gone. Let's move on, Jack and Meg have. And in the meantime we're still selling their records (WINK!)"

Third Man also has a little advice for all the bloggers out there: "No offense to any journalists that are 'just doing their job' in this current 1 hour news cycle environment, pull quote, tabloid atmosphere but this is what happens when you isolate aspects of a conversation between a musician and his fans in a private forum and put it out into the blogosphere in a sensational way. It completely changes the context and intent of those statements, and the conversation."

Adding, "Anyway, let's move on. We need to get back to inventing a turntable that runs purely on tweet retractions and apologies."

The metal outfit announced Wednesday morning that the former Make Me Famous singer was their new vocalist, replacing Worsnop who quit in January to focus on We Are Harlot.

But they've since revealed Shaforostov has been unable to secure a visa in time for the gigs at Manchester Academy on May 31 (Sunday) and London Underworld on June 1 (Monday).

Guitarist Ben Bruce says: "It is with a heavy heart and a great deal of frustration that I must regrettably inform you that our two UK shows have been cancelled due to visa problems.

And Tom Araya says that, despite the perception that the band made the split, it was the producer who cut the connection with his label American Records.

Slayer previously said the switch took place because the band wanted to foster a more direct connection with fans. But King tells The Metal Hammer Magazine Show's Alexander Milas: "Solidarity is far stronger than jumping ship and going somewhere else. I thought we'd still be on American - but when we got the offer from American, I was insulted.

The pair have been friends since their university days, and Donwood has designed all Radiohead's album covers and posters since their full-length debut The Bends in 1994.

You don't have to guess as YouTuber data_dreams 2000 (we're guessing the 2000th member of the data_dreams family) has replaced every snare hit on Metallica's Master Of Puppets with the snare sound on St Anger.

The group's previous outing Vessel reached number 58 on the chart, although the chart firm says its sales have remained consistent since its 2013 launch.

If you recall, that was the finale where Ross marries Brit Emily Waltham. The show wanted McCartney to play Ross' father-in-law who spends his time threatening the groom with lines like "You want a piece of me, sir?" and "I could kill you with my thumb, you know." But, could you blame him really? Ross does go on to say the wrong name at the altar.

Votes can be cast daily at demand.motley.com and by using the hashtag #demandthecrue across Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, and fans can track the progress through an interactive heatmap on the website.

Motley Crue have just completed a tour of Australia and New Zealand and will perform at three European festivals in June: the Sweden Rock Festival, Austria's Nova Rock and UK's Download.

But, the next chapter in Blink-182 seems to be beginning, with a new Rolling Stone story highlighting a recent NME interview with Blink leader Mark Hoppus, in which he revealed that "we are right now going through what so far has been a friendly divorce with our former guitarist. Hopefully things clear up and it doesn't get all manager-y and lawyer-y and all that and we can move forward."

Speaking about the headline opportunity, Corey Taylor says "We are really looking forward to playing Aftershock in Sacramento! Can't wait to see everyone, from Manson to Clutch. Sacramento won't know what hit it when me and my friends are through."

They'll then embark on a run of shows across the world which will take them into 2016. And once they come off the road, they'll sit down and plan their fifth album, according to Paul.

He tells NECR: "As soon as we get back we do Mayhem all summer with Slayer and the mighty King Diamond, which is going to be an absolutely amazing tour.

"We go to Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Indonesia, and then we come back and do another run here early next year. Then we start working on a new record."

Despite their punishing schedule, Paul says they have no plans to stop. "We've worked very hard from day one," he says. "We haven't slowed down, we haven't stopped, and we don't intend on it.

Harrison wrote in the letter: "We would all like it a lot, but too many people get insane with money ideas at the mention of the word 'Beatles' and so it fell through."

Nicke Borg, Dregen, Johan Blomqvist and Peder Carlsson are back after what was expected to be a brief hiatus began in 2009 and only recently finished. Their last studio album was 2008's self-titled work, followed in 2009 with 20th anniversary compilation Them XX.

Frontman Borg says: "The break has developed us individually as songwriters and musicians, and we've come up with what we feel is our strongest material to date.

"For the first time we've had the chance to look back on our catalogue, and get a firm grip on why our audience - and ourselves, for that matter - loves Backyard Babies so f***ing much.

The project has charted in several other countries, including No. 18 in the United Kingdom, No. 9 in Finland, No. 17 in the Czech Republic, No. 11 in Switzerland, No. 34 in Norway, No. 18 in Sweden (including No. 1 on the Hard Rock Charts in Sweden), No. 13 in Germany, No. 24 in the Netherlands and No. 8 in Japan.

"The Snakes & I are thrilled with the incredibly positive response to The Purple Album," says Coverdale. "Our sincere thanks to ALL for the amazing support we're receiving for the album & The Purple Tour!!"

The Michigan-based band have also announced they'll release the track Footsteps on June 1 In the latest behind-the-scenes clip from the making of the album, guitarist Dave Grahs reports how satisfying it is when he hears how their music affects people.

He says: "We do hear some of the most moving things about how the music has moved and touched certain people in their lives. I hear stories from people like we've saved their lives.

Frontman Dave Stevens describes writing sessions with producer David Bendeth as "very intense," adding: "If a song wasn't great, it was rewritten until it was - and if it still wasn't great, it was cut.

"He comes in the studio," begins Breuer, "Dude, let me tell you something. Why this guy is a real�probably the only rock star that does this. He comes in there and goes, 'Ah, I'm ready to go.' And we go, 'Well, we're ready for you whenever you're ready. We've got this studio.' So he goes, 'F***! I ain't going in there. I wanna do it right here in the f***ing board room. That's where I record. And I don't want no headphones; that's f***ing cheatin'. I wanna stand here with a mic like I'm on stage.'

"And he recorded in the board room with no headphones - just standing there. I mean, he was sweatin', he was so into it." Known for his bang-on imitations of metal legends, Breuer described his efforts to work with producer and current Volbeat guitarist Rob Caggiano to set the song up for his AC/DC hero.

"Before he came in, I laid the vocals down to kind of give him an idea to sing along to it," explains the comedian. "That's what the producer does for me. I don't know my voice. I can imitate people. I can do Ozzy or I can do James Hetfield, or whoever, but I don't know what my real voice sounds like. So I didn't know what I was gonna sound like.

"So what the producer would do is, like, 'Breuer, you need to hit this note�' So he would go in and go, 'Sing it it the way�' and then I'd listen and copy. So that's what we did for Brian.

"I can't hide my voice, everybody knows that," he told the station. "�I want my harmonies to be heard good and loud and vocal to be out a couple DB more.

Stanley says: "I am excited to watch Epic Rights' great team of branding professionals seek out and find opportunities and outlets that will reflect a lifestyle and point of view that I am passionate about and do it imaginatively and creatively in the years to come."

Frontwoman Lzzy Hale says: "We've decided to embark on something we've never done before. We are doing A Wild Evening With Halestorm - that means no openers, just us all night long.

Plant says: "I was really moved by Lowell George's approach, his vocal performances and stuff which was great. I was such a fan of American music - I'm still searching.

Debut release Buried Alone: Tales Of Crushing Defeat was almost entirely a solo project, while the follow-up was based on the frontman's relationship with Tim Smith of Cardiacs, who suffered a heart attack and series of strokes in 2008.

Torabi tells Echoes And Dust: "I don't want to go through that again. The second album was trying, but we got it out there. This one's going to be about us."

He adds: "I write to the strength of the characters and everyone is moving in the same direction. The first album was done on my own, by and large - now, everybody gets it."

Now his 15-year-old son Max tells Metaholic Magazine: "It all kind of just came naturally for me. Growing up with dad, and always being with him when he was recording with his bands and listening to the demos, it showed me what to do in those sorts of scenarios."

Max is joined by frontman Thomas Cuce, 16, guitarist Ryland Holland, 16, and bassist Kris Rank, 15. On the album's concept and influences, Max says: "It's mix between prog and metal, and basically any genre that interests us. We've changed a lot.

Sundstrom tells FeMetal TV: "The next album's gonna come out at the end of next summer, if everything goes well. We have topics for it, we have plans for it, but we can't tell yet, because it's still a secret. And also, we don't wanna tell things which might change. Because until it's recorded, you never know if it's gonna change.

Hey. Matt Wallace here giving you the inside scoop about Faith No More's song "Superhero" which is the second single from their brand spanking new album Sol Invictus.

I'd been in contact with Bill Gould for the better part of last year in hopes that I'd be able to participate in their new album in some way. I'd offered (about a thousand times) to head on up to San Francisco and help them with the recording process, be a cheerleader, assistant� anything. However, he insisted that they were doing it on their own. So, about six months ago Bill came to me with the recordings in progress as he wanted to make sure that the sonic quality was of good quality. He copied the entire album over to my computer and we spent the better part of a day listening to all of the tracks (without vocals, as they weren't completed yet) and I was beyond thrilled to hear the band sounding confident and at the top of their game. They sounded confident, relaxed, focused and, as always, ready to go in any musical direction that their guts told them to go. After Bill left I was looking forward to pulling up the tracks and enjoying making my own mixes of their unfinished music so that I could listen to it. But, as fate would have it, Bill called me 30 minutes later and asked me to erase all of the new FNM music off my computer's hard drive. Let me tell you, nothing was more difficult to do than to erase music that I'd waited a long, long time to listen to. I was seriously looking forward to getting into every nook and cranny of what they'd created but I had to, reluctantly, erase it all from my computer. It was difficult to do but it was the right thing to do.

Fast forward six months and Bill is in my studio with me and we're mixing "Superhero". He'd sent it to me a few days prior and I'd spent the better part of two days mixing it and was very excited to see what he had to say about my mix. Well, Bill didn't like my mix. I'd gone in a different direction than what he wanted and, at that moment, I thought that I'd lost the job. So, I asked him to give me a few hours and I undid my mix and started from scratch and quickly (and somewhat stressfully) pulled together a mix that was more in keeping with what Bill wanted. Thankfully, it was much closer to what he'd intended and, together, we finished the first mix. After getting many positive comments from the rest of FNM we made the changes to the mix, it was approved, and we completed our first mix together!

Fortunately for me, Bill and FNM then hired me to do a second song and, after that went well, they invited me to do a third song and so on and so on until, voila!, I ended up co-mixing the entire album with Bill. It was an amazing experience to be allowed to participate in working together on their first album in about 18 years and, it was really lovely being reunited with the band as I'd been their friend, engineer, producer and mixer over the course of their early demos up through the album entitled "Angel Dust". I'm honored and thrilled to have been able to contribute to mixing "Superhero" and, then, co-mixing the entire "Sol Invictus" album with Bill Gould, Mike Patton, Mike Bordin, Roddy Bottum and Jon Hudson.

p.s. Some cool technical info: We used an amazing plugin from Sonarworks that flattens out the frequency response of your monitors (any make and model) which helped Bill and I better capture the essence of their music. We mastered it with Maor Appelbaum who was very dedicated and patient with both Bill and I (and he gave us sonic pointers midway through the mixing process).