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Wackerman surprised fans with his recent departure from Bad Religion but the reason for the slit was explained when he along with Shadows appeared on the Talk Is Jericho podcast hosted by Chris Jericho this week.

Shadows explained that the band has considered bringing in Wackerman since the tragic death of Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan. He told the podcast (via Loudwire), "To be honest, Brooks' name has always been in the mix. It was one of the names we were throwing around when Jimmy passed away in terms of who was going to step up for Nightmare.

"We felt Mike [Portnoy] was the right choice and we still feel that way. Mike just destroyed on the record. He was perfect. But at the time, our tour manager brought up Brooks' name as well. But at the time he was also busy with Bad Religion and it was also � people were going to look at it differently because he was a punk drummer at this point."

The frontman also explained why the band decided to part ways with drummer Arin Ilejay. "It just became increasingly difficult to be on the same page, not only touring, but with writing and just where we want to take things.

"We're just a bunch of guys who are all over the place and we have a bunch of different influences and we need somebody who can instantly � who can sit there and say, 'Yeah, I've got that influence too or I understand why we're gonna go here. I understand why we're going to do that.'"

He goes on to explain, "It just got to the point where after Mayhem Festival last year, we had just decided to fire on all cylinders the way we want to, we needed to make a change. And we all had our little talk. We said, 'Listen, we can ride this thing out the way it is right now and we'll be fine or we can shake the nest a little bit and we want to fire on all cylinders again. We want to be the baddest band on the planet. We want to just dominate onstage. And I came up with the idea that I really want to talk to Brooks and see if there's any chance and see where he's at in his life right now."

Five Finger Death Punch shared their excitement with the following Facebook post, "Honored to announce that we'll be joining Black Sabbath for the [Australia] dates on ?#‎TheEndTour. You're not going to want to miss this."

Frontman Joe Elliott kicks off the video with, "We haven't made an album in seven or eight years. When you have five heads full of songs, you've gotta get 'em out... We kind of had the itch to write, we wanted to do new music..."

Bass player Rick Savage reveals how the sessions came together, "we set aside a month to actually get together in the studio and develop all these demos, song ideas, riffs, whatever you want to call them."

Elliott explains that the band had no intention of making a new album. He says, "We didn't get together to make an album, we got together to a couple of songs. Let's just write some songs and see where we go."

Phil Collen says, "We started writing songs. We didn't think it was worth doing an album in this day and age.... We got 12 songs like immediately" and Joe concludes "we got an album right here."

Collen then explains that the band wasn't motivated to make the new album by the normal circumstances, "The motivation behind it wasn't the normal one in the last twenty odd years where it has been a record company or an executive. It wasn't that at all, it was for the art part of it. For the love of making music."

Rockin1000 organizer Fabio Zaffagnini spent a year planning the massive outdoor event to create a video as a plea to the Foo Fighters to come to Cesena. The clip quickly went viral, racking up more than 18 million views in just 5 days; it's now been seen more than 26 million times.

"Tonight," Dave Grohl told the crowd at Carisport, "we're here for a very, very special reason. So, let me tell you - this has never happened before. This is like a revolution."

"To see you people, singing our song for the whole f***ing world, to me, it's the greatest moment of my life," he continued. "Of course we couldn't say no, we had to come. You trapped us, we had to come here."

The new video clip is for the song "Who Did You Run To," which is one of the tracks that appears on the band's forthcoming self-titled debut album. The album is set to be released by Frontiers on January 29th but fans can get an early taste via the new video here.

The Cro-Mags singer revealed that he visited Miller in the hospital and reports that the guitarist is improving and appreciates the outpouring of support from fans.

Joseph writes on Facebook, "I have not responded to people asking of Bad Brains guitarist Dr. Know's (Gary's) condition because it's not my place. The family needs to make those calls of who should be informed.

"That being said after seeing Doc in the hospital today I will say this.... he's improving and he feels all the love, prayers and PMA you've been sending worldwide and so does his family who are all very grateful.

The clip is only available to fan club members - but membership is now free. It starts with a welcome from drummer Lars Ulrich, who then leads the camera from a back lot area into the band's studio, where Hetfield, producer Greg Fidelman and others are working.

Ulrich then says: "There's a recording in progress so we'll just say hello real quick. This is James� What are you doing?" Hetfield replies: "Playing drums."

The band had the following to say about their new deal, "Discharge are very happy to say we've signed to Nuclear Blast Records, a label that knows the genre and believes in what we do. We love the family atmosphere that revolves around the label and we are proud to be on their roster of great bands, some of whom are friends of ours.

"We're excited about our new album 'End Of Days', with three quarters of the original classic line up (Bones, Rainy and Tezz), plus Dave on drums and JJ Janiak on vocals - who captures the original Discharge sound and spirit. Original drummer Tezz moves onto rhythm guitar, so this is the first time in the band's history that we've had a five-piece line-up.

Huge public protests have been staged, blaming widespread corruption for the allegedly poor safety standards at the venue and at other venues in the country. Ponta says in a statement:

He's been unable to perform on the band's European tour dates since and is undergoing tests to pinpoint the problem. The group have been performing as a three-piece in the meantime.

The 23,000 square foot establishment aims to "celebrate the entire story of the blues" with artefact exhibitions, interactive displays, a theatre, event space and classrooms.

Four of the titles have never previously been available on vinyl. In addition there's a double-LP of rarities, featuring a previously unreleased version of Los. Record label Spinefarm say: "For Rammstein - and it's the same lineup now as at the start - it's always been a case of marching to their own beat, gleefully torching the industry rule-book, and everything else.

Bassist Glover says that founding Purple member Blackmore - who last played with the group in 1993 - was someone who bands in the "second wave of rock" learned from.

The tune is one of six bonus tracks that round out the original record for its November 6 reissue, one of 8 expanded albums due the same day as part of the group's 50th Anniversary Deluxe Editions series.

The Scorpions are also previewing "Taken By Force" with part one of a documentary revisiting their fifth record and final project involving guitarist Uli Jon Roth.

Beyond "Taken By Force", the German rockers are releasing updated versions of "Tokyo Tapes" (1978), "Lovedrive" (1979), "Animal Magnetism" (1980), "Blackout" (1982), "Love At First Sting" (1984), "Savage Amusement" (1998) - and 1985's "World Wide Live."

He tells APTV: "My guess is the fall. We've gotta take time off, go away for a little bit. We never go away for long. But we're gonna take some time off and then come out swinging next year."

The Finnish outfit previously released Pray For The Winds To Come and Heartstrings Shattering from the ambitious studio outing. Guitarist Juha Raivio said:

Reddick says: "Me and my friend Rich watch a movie that is classic to us, or one of us. We drink beers and talk about the movie. That's it. We discuss the opening scene, the cast, memories the movie brings, trivia, special effects - basically everything. We aren't reviewers - just dudes that like movies."

The clip was filmed at this year's ArcTanGent festival, which took place in Bristol in August. Vennart recently revealed he was delighted to have the freedom to create the "stupidest" music of his career with his project.

He said: "I'd had a hankering to do something a little more egocentric because Oceansize was very much a collaborative, painfully f***ing democratic collective.

He plays Grinder and The Healing in the episode which was broadcast at the weekend. Clark recently said of the follow-up to 2012's Blak And Blu: "The underlying tone of the album is faith and hope - because that's what we need."

The sticksman, who became suicidal as he fought to regain his health, has never flown since. In an excerpt from his book Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death and Drums, Drums, Drums, published in the UK today, Barker says: "I am on fire.

"I am running as fast as I can, and I am on fire. The night is dark, but I can see my way, because of the light from my own burning flesh. I have never felt this much pain in my life: it feels like everything inside of my body is boiling and trying to burst through my skin. I am stripping off my clothes as I run across a grassy field, but I am still on fire.

"Behind me, I can sense death: a burning airplane that contains the bodies of two pilots and two good friends. Less than a minute from now, it will explode.

The duo have regrouped and are launching into an east coast run starting on 12/03 in Oakville, CT. Joining them on select dates will be Bad Timing Records' Romp and the melodic New Jersey punk act The Blithedale Romance.

vocalist/bassist John Trotta had the following to say about the trek, "After getting crushed by the robbery this Summer, it's going to feel great to get back on the road and play some basement shows with bands I love.

Vai tells Wikimetal: "My favorite artist right now is Tom Waits. I never go anywhere without everything he's ever recorded. There are some of his songs that I can't listen to in public because I start uncontrollably weeping.

The Scottish band say: "Delighted to announce the release of the EP. Five tracks, two of which are previously unreleased including the demo version of Kids On Drugs, which is an entirely different song."