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The pair answered a variety of questions submitted by fans, including some looking for an update on the Toronto band's plans following what may have been the group's final tour.

"Are we going to tour again?" asked Lee. "That's the question that I'd like to know myself. I can't answer the question because I have no idea myself but it doesn't look good at this point.

"Not all of us agree on whether they want to tour again. It's difficult because we all have a sort of different idea about touring and, at this moment, we are not all on the same page."

During the 40th anniversary tour, the bassist discussed Rush's plans to scale back the length of touring as band members approach their mid-60s in the next few years, with drummer Neil Peart wishing to spend more time at home with his family in California.

STP branded him a "toxic" influence after his departure for the second time. They later brought in Chester Bennington as his replacement - but the Linkin Park frontman confirmed last week that he was no longer working with them.

Asked about his firing, Weiland tells 93.1 The Fox Rocks: "Part of it was the recording process. Don Was was there producing the album, and Robert and Dean wanted to produce the album with just the band.

"I didn't think that was a good idea. I kind of thought it was too many cooks in the kitchen. It was a difference of vision and it kind of started things off on the wrong foot. Then it spilt over into the touring."

Blackmore is teaming up with the Lords Of Black vocalist, Stratovarius keyboardist Jens Johansson, Blackmore's Night drummer David Keith and bassist Bob Nouveau for three concerts in June.

"I don't know from how long they had me on their list," Romero tells Rafabasa.com, "but they contacted me some months ago, at the beginning of summer, to tell me about a chance for an audition. I deeply remember that 'first day' and that first 'hello', doing your daily activities and receiving an email from Ritchie Blackmore himself is quite hard to assimilate, after a few days days, even weeks."

Prior to revealing the Rainbow 2016 lineup, Blackmore described Romero as "a cross between Ronnie James Dio meets Freddie Mercury." "I just think about how lucky I feel, not just to get the gig, but how the hell they found me!," says Romero. "Having so many good singers worldwide. From the first contact I just tried to give my best to get it, I always believed in myself and with the support of my family and close friends, even more.

"About his words I just can be thankful, he put the bar quite high with his description. But I'm also glad with his confidence on me to this huge task."

The nearly 6-hour event began with a silent auction followed by various performers before a 30 minute set from Aoki and full performance from Linkin Park.

The Californian hardcore punks will launch the trek in Hannover, Germany, on February 4. They play two shows at London's Underworld later that month.

At the first show on February 17, they will be performing their 2012 album Diamond in full and the following night they play this year's Disobedient in its entirety.

McMahon tells Digital Tour Bus: "Lately, Andy has been f***ing with Sworn In. They have these three ignorant ego-risers made from steel with four legs. Andy has been stealing a leg a day and hiding it so that they don't have their ego risers to stand up and look all big and strong.

"They were looking for the sh*t for ages. At the time I didn't even know what was going on. Andy kept it to himself, he can be super sadistic sometimes. He really f***ed them over. The whole time the legs were under this table. They were coming on here and smoking up all of our weed because they don't have any of their own.

Singer Patty Walters says: "Speak Soft is about always falling short for someone you love and seeing only the damage you're causing. We loved the idea of Speak Soft being track one on the album, opening with raw acapella vocals and unapologetically honest lyrics.

"It's been a truly dizzying and overwhelming year for us. To think this album only came out six months ago truly blows me away. I'm so excited to write our next album and see where it takes us."

The performance shots in the video - directed by Chris Porter - were filmed on a recent tour of Australia. Guitarist Benn Biss adds: "This is the first video we've done that's a little more serious. We couldn't be happier with the way this video, and more importantly this year, turned out for us.

"Thank God For Girls" along with the band's most recently released track "Do You Wanna Get High?" are the first new music to be released since 2014's album Everything Will Be Alright In The End.

Buckley tells Kerrang: "Right before recording the last record From Parts Unknown, I was feeling really exhausted with the way things were going, so I started getting into meditation and some spiritual type things, which are completely not typical of my character.

"If anyone had told me that would appeal to me five years ago I never would have believed them. I took this weird little detour outside of the way my life was going and had these new experiences, which really made me start looking at things differently."

He tells The Metal Voice: "We are going to have a little break after this tour, and after that break we are going to start writing music for the next album. We have some riffs but once we start getting into the process it's going to be lots of brainstorming. It's going to be somewhere around February."

Manson was scheduled to play at Le Zenith in the French capital Monday (November 16), but the show has been pulled following Friday's terror attacks in the city which saw 89 people killed at an Eagles Of Death Metal show. In total, 129 people lost their lives in a series of coordinated attacks around Paris and 352 more were hurt.

A statement on Manson's Facebook page reads: "Due to the recent events in Paris, Marilyn Manson's show scheduled for Nov 16 at Le Zenith in Paris has been cancelled. Marilyn Manson will resume the tour in Brussels on Nov 18."

Motorhead, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, Twenty One Pilots, U2, Deftones and the Foo Fighters have all cancelled shows in France in the wake of the attacks, with some pulling the plug on their entire European touring schedule.

In August, Foreigner recorded their forthcoming album, "The Hits Unplugged and Live", at a private event benefitting JDRF (formally known as Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) at The Ford Motor Company Conference and Event Center in Dearborn, Michigan.

The performance at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ is considered legendary in Springsteen circles as the New Jersey rocker and his band were on the road in support of their first double album.

Due December 4, "The Ties That Bind: The River Collection" presents the live show from Arizona alongside the 1980 album and its scrapped 1979 draft "The Ties That Bind", plus 22 outtakes from the studio sessions and an hour-long documentary/interview with Springsteen.

Biersack tells AP: "With the Black Veil record, we really wanted to take time with it and we're still in the early stages of writing. We didn't want to start getting into the studio before it was ready and so I've been working on the Andy Black record.

The double CD includes their 2014 record along with new tracks, cover versions and alternative takes on their own material. Signed copies of the CD are available to pre-order via Easy Life Records.

Lower Than Atlantis head out on a UK tour next month with Moose Blood, As It Is, Brawlers and Black Foxxes. Frontman Mike Duce said: "We can't wait to play our biggest tour ever.

It's possible the solo album will arrived before Opeth's 12th title - although work has begun on that too. Akerfeldt tells FaceCulture: "I'm thinking of a project that I want to do with a couple of friends. I can probably with confidence say that it will happen.

"I've been thinking about it a lot. I can't get it out of my head, so it means something." He adds: "It will be in Swedish. I asked Dan if he wants to play drums. Another friend is a classically-trained piano player, but he plays bass and has a really cool vintage studio, so I'm thinking of doing something like that.

Having just wrapped up a support tour with Skindred, the Japanese rockers have confirmed a headline trek across the UK that will be kicking off in Southend on March 16th.

The 3-disc edition includes 28-minute piece The 1984 Suite, based on tracks from Discovery and The Killing Fields, a new version of Poison Arrows - renamed Zombies - a 5.1 mix and three promo videos.

With our album, we tried to put together a message about bringing communities together and creating a vibe of togetherness for people. "Life is Easy" tells mini stories in each verse to touch on various ways someone could ultimately interpret the phrase. It started with the chorus melody in Larry's (Ford - vocalist and lead singer in Arcadia) head leading him to support that feeling lyrically in the verses. The music flowed from there with the rest of the band.

Writing the song came pretty naturally. Then, we knew it was a matter of capturing that vision in the studio which can be tough. Our producer, Nolan Rossi, did a fantastic job capturing our vision and bringing it to life. Although we recorded the entire album with live tracking. It still helps so much to have a producer who can tweak tones and cadences to make a song what it is.

The chorus outro was an in-studio idea that we came up with as we were brainstorming. We brought in a couple of friends to sing in one mic while Larry played the acoustic live too - it created the sound of a small group grooving. Nolan and the owner of the studio Scott also joined in on the singing. When people listen to that song, since it's the first song on the album, we hope that it engages them and sets the tone for the rest of the record.

He split with the band in February to concentrate on We Are Harlot, and he's also working on a solo album that's expected to feature elements of country music.

Worsnop said at the time: "We reached a point, musically, where we wanted different things." But guitarist Ben Bruce later said there was more to it, reporting: "He didn't like screaming, he didn't like heavy music."

Dani Filth and co appear at the North Wales event on Friday, March 11, and have confirmed shows in Chester, Dublin and Belfast. They appear at the Live Rooms in Chester on March 12, the Dublin Academy on March 13 and Belfast's Limelight 1 on March 14.

He recently published his memoirs, What's Exactly The Matter With Me? with S.E. Feinberg, and his latest album, My Beethoven has recently been released on Foothill Records.

A release date for the SACD was not included in the announcement but Amazon is currently taking here and they list December 11th release date. We were sent the following details:

Audio Fidelity will be releasing the final Alice Cooper group album on 4.0 Quad SACD. is the seventh studio album by Alice Cooper and it was the last album to feature the entire original band, and it was a true grand finale at that. Cooper stated in an interview at the time that the album marked a return to fundamentals. "It's not complicated in any sense...It's very basic rock & roll throughout."

The two best-known tracks are undoubtedly the Top 20 anthem "Teenage Lament '74," which features none other than Liza Minnelli, Ronnie Spector, Labelle and the Pointer Sisters on backing vocals, and the rollicking title track. But other tracks are just as good - the Led Zep-stomping opener, "Big Apple Dreamin' (Hippo)," the gentle "Hard Hearted Alice" (a precursor to Cooper's future ballad-oriented direction), the raging "Working Up a Sweat," and "Man with the Golden Gun."

The tour is scheduled to kick off on St. Patrick's Day, March 17th, in Baltimore, MD at the Baltimore Soundstage and will criss-cross the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up on April 15th in Philadelphia, PA at the Union Transfer.

Frontiers Music Srl will be releasing the "Rulebreaker" album in various formats including CD, deluxe CD/DVD (featuring two bonus tracks), and digitally. In the meantime, fans can watch the new video here.

January 28th will see a performance in Monterrey, at Cafe Iguana, with night three landing at Palacio de los Deportes' Pabellon Oeste on January 30th. The final show will boast a setlist of exclusive songs and feature very special guests, Armageddon, which features Michael Amott's brother / ex- Arch Enemy guitar player, Christopher Amott.

Arch Enemy's Michael Amott had the following to say about the upcoming dates, "Very excited to have the opportunity of returning to Mexico for three shows in January 2016! Mexico has been host to some of the craziest and most intense Arch Enemy shows - and this time will be no different I'm sure. This is War Eternal! Que viva Mexico!"

Guitarist and vocalist Ally Dickaty says - "It's one of those intense tracks from our new album. It's full of urgency and energy. Lyrically it's about the disillusionment and boredom of everyday life."

The run follows their first road trip together in 2014, and the duo are gearing up to release a live album recorded on the journey. Organisers say - "If your musical preference is a combination of rootsy blues and folk Americana, delivered with irreverent humor and nuggets of folklore, then look no further.

The band released the following statement about the cancelation, "Much has been said, as well as seen, on every media outlet about the events in Paris. Some of us were in attendance at the Le Bataclan, and the rest of our family, just blocks away on this night. We have been to Paris many, many times, and we've had some of the most amazing shows in this tremendously electric city.

"With this being said, and with our deepest condolences, love and respect to everyone affected, and to all of us who share this planet, we must return home to our loved ones. We will return when appropriate.

"For ticket holders, we will have more information soon, so please hang tight. Until then, please never forget the power of gathering, and one of the most unbelievable feelings of all: that P.M.A.

Sykes joked earlier this month that Chris Martin and co had "jacked" their idea. And in a new interview with NME, Sykes insists it couldn't have happened by accident.

He says: "They might not have known at first, but obviously if you Google 'flower of life' the first thing that comes up is 'Bring Me The Horizon - Sempiternal'. Someone's gonna have said something to them, so whether it was intentional or not, it is the same."

The new album is set to be released on December 18th. The band premiered "Shock Me" on Sunday night (November 15th) on Dan Carter's Rock Show on BBC Radio 1 and followed up with the online premiere on YouTube.

Baroness' John Baizley had the following to say about the track, "Along with the rest of Purple, 'Shock Me' represents the net result of an arduous reformation/rehabilitation process following the release of Yellow & Green and the bus accident that nearly ended us.

Director Zohan Bihac says: "I wanted to do something that nobody's expecting what there would be because the song is about fishing girls. I think it was very important that this time it has to be totally different than the last video to give the people something else, a matter of perspective of the guys or the music or this work."