Black Sabbath Add 2nd North American Leg To Farewell Tour

Clarke was brought in to replace original guitarist Izzy Stradlin who left the group in 1991. Gilby was asked by The Times of India if he would take part if his era of the band, featuring Axl Rose, Slash, Duff McKagan, Matt Sorum, wanted to reunite.

He responded, "Of course, it was a great band. If Slash and Duff came back, it would be special. I would hope I could be a part of it if that ever happened. I had a great time during those years. We were young and didn't give a sh*t what anybody thought. Most people's memories are of the drama and negative sh*t. I remember being a part of a very powerful musical unit.

The band were at the height of their fame following the release of blockbuster album Hysteria in 1987. But they decided to focus on the challenge of getting their performance right, rather than allowing themselves to indulge in distractions.

Elliott tells Maxim: "It was such an exhausting two-and-a-half hour show, we just wanted to go to bed. We knew it was going to be hard work to match an album like Hysteria live, because there were so many overdubs. It's like Queen learning to play Bohemian Rhapsody live, without using tapes in the middle bit. So we were really focused on what we did."

But Benante, who's been absent for a number of shows in recent years, has been replaced once again by Jon Dette. The band haven't given a reason for the lineup change.

"Towards the end of my mother's life, when she was suffering from dementia," Gilmour explains, "there was a brief crossover period of about 9 months, when she was alive and my daughter was newly born: this song is a musing on that time. Specifically it refers to a walk in the park where my mother was 'seeing' pictures, or 'faces of stone', hanging in the trees."

Visitor's to the band's site, www.dreamtheater.net, are currently directed to a holding page that features two bold logos, offering fans the option to sign up for The Great Northern Empire or The Ravenskill Rebel Militia.

Those that do sign up are simply greeted with another holding page and the phrase 'Thank You'. With no access to the band's main site accessible at present, rumor is rife that the band have begun the countdown to the release of the follow-up to 2013's Dream Theater album.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on February 9th at Fort Lauderdale, FL at Revolution Live and will conclude on February 21st in San Francisco, CA at The Regency Ballroom.

At The Gates' Tomas Linberg had the following to say about the tour, "We are so excited to finally come back to the states for more shows. The last tour was such a great thing for us, and the line up for this one is equally awesome. We can't wait to get out there, reaching some of the places that missed out on the action last time! See you there!"

The Haunted's Marco Aro adds, "Finally!.....we are going to the US! We've been trying to get this tour together for quite some time now, and now it's official... The Haunted is teaming up with our brothers in At The Gates, Decapitated and Harms Way. All of us are so stoked about this and we hope you are too....see you out there!!"

The R40 set includes a number of tracks that have never been played live before, or never previously filmed. It celebrates the band's career in reverse-chronological order, taking the audience backwards through time from 2012's The Anarchist to Working Man, performed as it was in 1974.

Queensryche recently landed a Top 30 debut on the US Billboard 200 with their 15th album, as "Condition Human" entered the chart at No. 27 with opening week sales of 14,000 copies.

The new tour leg is scheduled to kick off on January 13th at the Ace of Spades in Sacramento, Ca and will conclude on Valentine's Day (February 14th) in Grand Rapid, MI at the Orbit Room

The first leg of the tour will get underway next Tuesday, November 3rd in Portland, OR at the Wonder Ballroom and wrap up on November 28th at The Rapids Theatre in Niagara Falls, NY.

The band will be kicking off the 18-city tour on March 2nd in Akron, OH at The Tangier and concluding the trek on March 26th in San Francisco, CA at The Independent.

Hendrix's flat is connected to 25 Brook Street, where composer George Frederick Handel lived 240 years earlier. The result of both homes being open to visitors is described as "a genuinely unique new heritage site."

The German-language number "G-Spot Michael" is the B-side of the group's recent single "Fish On," which was taken from the duo's debut album Skills In Pills.

The Swedish band delivered an acoustic performance at KISW Radio of a cover of Roky Erickson's "If You Have Ghosts" from their 2013 Dave Grohl-produced EP of the same name.

The Seattle highlight package also includes two songs from the latest album - "Cirice" and "Mummy Dust" - from a live show at El Corazon later that night.

The new package is scheduled to be released on December 4 via Hell & Back Recordings/UDR Music. It's an expanded version of 10th album War Of Kings, which was issued earlier this year.

The band's Vincent Cavanagh says: "I'm really happy that this night in particular has been preserved. As anyone from Liverpool will tell you, to be given the chance to play the cathedral is a huge honour. The place is absolutely huge. Just look at the cover - it was like doing a gig in Erebor!"

"2009 was the last time Towers were on tour," says Tommy Brunette. "Donny, Dirk & myself had just bankrupted our second record company and were eating and spitting out new band members on a weekly basis. We never really split up just couldn't find any more reasons to keep going at that moment. It took four years and a load of sh*tty jobs to realise that being in the Towers was what the three of us did best.

The show featured a cast of 12 actors and singers, narration from Bill Courage and guest stars Jean Savole, Chris Jericho and Dominique Lenore Persi.

The Swedish death metal outfit have also recently issued a limited edition 7" single, Waiting For The Death Blow. Only 1000 copies of the single are available - 700 on black vinyl and 300 on clear vinyl. It includes cover versions of The Cure's One Hundred Years and The Offspring's Pay The Man.

The band includes Magenta mainman Reed as well as Andy Edwards from Frost*, Luke Machin of Maschine and The Tangent, and Dylan Thompson from Shadow Of The Sun.

Their debut album Sign Of IV will be released in January via Tigermoth Records - a teaser video featuring the track Cold Black Heart was premiered by Prog last week.

"Burn Another Day" came to me on the subway like most songs do. Living in NYC is difficult, especially when it comes to finding alone time to write and be creative. I find myself coming up with music, lyrics, ideas, etc., on the subway because even though you are surrounded by people, you're really in your own world.

"We live in this hell together" comes from the religious idea that we're currently in hell, doing our time, and when we die we move on to heaven. I've always thought that was a romantic notion. I expanded upon that and finished out the chorus, "if we burn we fade away, so we wear these crowns of sadness and we live to burn another day." Basically, if we succumb to the bullsh*t and metaphorically burn, we let "them" win. So we live to burn another day.

The versus are anthemic... Detailing what we have to deal with in this "hell" we live in. We wanted to write a debut single that would establish our ideals as a band and the message we wanted to put out the world. Everyone has their own stuff to deal with, but you can never let them see you "burn."

The inspiration for the bridge came from a Queen song. "Who wants to live forever?" is something I've thought about for a long time. Live hard and live well and have no regrets. Living safe and living forever seems like no fun.

When it came time to find a guest vocalist for this song, we knew we needed someone unique; someone who stood for the same things we do. Davey Suicide agreed to jump on the track and we were ecstatic. His energy lines up really well with what we were going for.

Our producer Nick Scott added the elements that make this song stand out. We couldn't have asked for a better team on this one.

The video idea came as a collaboration with our director Nathan Crooker. We knew we wanted to go dark, to go heavy, and he was right on board. There is a lot of talk about "it gets better," which is a great movement, but why not take it one step further: it needs to be better now. We need to fight back. Not necessarily with violence, because what would that solve, but in some fashion. That was the metaphor behind the video. What happens when the abused fight back?

We hope you enjoy "Burn Another Day" and keep up with us as we tour the U.S. this fall! We have some more tricks up our sleeve on the way!