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Richard had previously expressed his interested in the Stones making a new album and it now appears he will get his wish. He tells the Quietus, "I was at a meeting with the lads three or four days ago where everybody said, 'Yes! We must go in the studio!'"

The band has not yet set a timetable to work on the album, Richards reveals. They have a South American tour scheduled for early next year. He had the following to say in the interview about the timing, "Where or when I can't yet say, but in the near future.

"At last, I've got the boys wanting to get into the studio. They all have to want to do it at the same time. That's the thing with guys: You can't drag 'em in at gunpoint. But I've got the message that they want to. I'm hopeful, y'know?"

He then added in a follow-up interview, "I would say off the top of my head after the South American tour in February. But you never know. We might try to get into the studio before Christmas. I think that's sort of doubtful, with Christmas being Christmas, all that buildup. But at the same time, it's definitely in the works."

Grohl said in Portland, Oregon, this week: "I have a note from my doctor - although I'm really into the idea of a conspiracy theory. What if I didn't break my f***ing leg? What if I jumped off stage, fell on the ground and made it all look like it was a f***ing emergency?

"They dragged me off to the side, the band keeps playing, then 10 minutes later I magically reappear. Then I get somebody else's X-ray of a broken leg, make it into a T-shirt and we make millions of f***ing dollars.

Up to 50 people are expected to attend the Ozzy Zig, The Witch + The Warpig event at Birmingham's Newtown Community Centre on September 20 (Sunday) where 1970 albums Black Sabbath and Paranoid will be played and a range of Sabbath-related items will be on display in celebration of the 45th anniversary of the band's debut.

The RIAA announced this week that the band has now earned a total of 30 gold albums, which includes 26 studio albums from the band as well as their 1978 solo albums.

The band has also earned 14 platinum album awards for one million in sales in the U.S. of each title and three multi-platinum awards. The Gold Album certification is awarded for 500,000 copies of an album sold in the U.S.

The band released the following statement about the cancelation, "It is with heavy hearts that we have to announce the cancellation of all remaining shows of our North American tour.

"A couple of days ago, Simone had to fly back to the Netherlands to be with her family due to an emergency. Sadly, there has been no major improvement in that situation so it is impossible for Simone to return to the tour at this moment.

"Therefore, we have no other option than to cancel the remaining dates. However, the Revolver tour will carry on as scheduled with Eluveitie, The Agonist and Martina Edoff.

"We will again be rescheduling the North American tour in support of The Quantum Enigma for the beginning of next year. If you wish to refund your tickets you can do this through the venue. VIP tickets purchased through Sound Rink will be refunded automatically. Tickets for this tour will not be valid for the rescheduled dates.

Gibbons and his solo band The BFG's will be kicking off the tour on November 11th in Atlanta, GA at the Variety Playhouse and concluding the trek on December 13th in Seattle, WA at the Neptune Theatre.

Following the North American trek, Gibbons will head to Cuba to perform at this year's Havana Jazz Festival. The BFG's will include Martine "G.G." GuiGui, Mike Flanigin and Alx "Guitarzza" Garza.

The Fanpack is available to pre-order here. Orders placed before 12pm (GMT) on Thursday October 1 will receive an exclusive window sticker featuring the Def Leppard album artwork, and be entered into a draw to win one of three pairs of VIP tickets aboard Def Leppard's Hysteria On The High Seas cruise, which departs from Miami in January next year. Pre-sale gifts and offers are only open to residents of US and UK.

Tompkins had this to say about the ablum: "Do you know that feeling you get as you're stood in line for a roller-coaster? That's the exact feeling we have about releasing Polaris.

The album will be released on Deutsche Grammophon on November 13, along with a specially-designed iPad app aimed at children (age 5-8). It has been created by New York-based production company Giants Are Small, acclaimed for their signature fusion of theatre, live filmmaking, puppetry, and music. It is co-directed by live animation masters Doug Fitch and Edouard Getaz. The music is performed by the National Youth Orchestra of Germany, conducted by Alexander Shelley.

Peter and the Wolf in Hollywood tells the familiar tale of the resourceful Russian boy, but with a thrilling prequel set in modern-day Los Angeles, set off by the wolf's escape from the local zoo! Alice Cooper voices all of the characters (from the chirpy bird to the menacing wolf) as Peter embarks on a journey of robot building, a helicopter chase, and some melancholic introspection, all before he enters the forbidden meadow where he finally captures the wolf. The prequel includes a selection of works by great classical composers - introducing children to music by Mahler, Wagner, Elgar, Puccini, Grieg and many more.

Cooper is delighted with the story's modern-day twist. "I love the fact that it's moved on, and that Peter has come to Los Angeles to meet his grandfather, who turns out to be an old hippie! That gives the story a fresh dynamic. And I like that he's not in the least bit terrified by the wolf, when everybody else is freaking out."

The short film, based on 19th-century stereoscopic techniques, is inspired by 1860s picture story Les Diableries, adapted by May into his 2013 book Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell.

His London Stereoscopic Company produced the feature along with Unanico Group, while the Czech National Symphony Orchestra collaborated on the soundtrack - which includes Queen classic We Will Rock You merged with Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture.

Alex Varkatzas says of the title track: "It's basically about our recommitment to music, our brotherhood and getting the band re-energised. On a broader spectrum it's about a commitment and passion for something that drives you."

He posted a photo of himself with an acoustic guitar with a caption that reads: "I'm working on demos for my first solo record. More info to come."

He had this to say about "If Eternity Should Fall": "the first song on the album, the one that opens the album, was actually written for a solo album and was demoed with Roy Z [who produces many of Dickinson's solo records] out in L.A. And the demo that we did is effectively almost identical to the Maiden version. Maiden just effectively copied what we'd done, a few minor alterations.

"So that wasn't intentional; I didn't even know I was writing for Maiden at that point. I was just writing an opening title track for what was probably going to be a solo album and which was actually probably going to be a concept album. And the spoken word that's at the end of that track is actually the beginning of the story. So it introduces this character, 'Hello, I'm Doctor Necropolis, and I'm formed of the dead. My own two sons, I gave them birth, and I filled them, their living corpses with my bile.'

"So yeah, you think, 'Ah, that's cool. What's this about then?' And you never find out because it goes off into 'Speed of Light,' and you think, 'Well, that was weird. What was all that about?'

"And I did say to Steve [Harris], I said, 'Look, what do you want to do about this spoken word thing, because it fits with the rest of my solo thing, but I'm not sure it makes any sense. It's kind of a non-sequitur; it doesn't go anywhere for a Maiden album.'

"'Ah,' he said, 'but it's got a lot of soul. It mentions a lot of stuff about souls in there, doesn't it?' 'Yes, it does, yes, it does.' He goes, 'Oh, it's all good then.' So okay, great.

"Another thing about that track is it is actually in drop D guitar tuning. It's the first time we've ever done it in Maiden. So there was much furrowed brows and consternation about that."

He had the following to say about "Empire of the Clouds," which is the longest song Iron Maiden has ever recorded at eighteen minutes: "You write the melody in little bits. And originally I had no idea I was gonna write this song about the airship, the R101 disaster and the story of it and all that and what the song is actually about. All I had was two or three little pieces written for separate things, actually, and one of them had a line, 'Mist is in the trees, stone sweats with the dew/The morning sunrise, red before the blue,' and it was, basically it was setting a scene: this is dawn, something is gonna happen. And the idea was, yup, it's gonna be World War I fighter airplanes take off, and they'll die horrible deaths and a song about that.

"Well, that song ended up as 'Death or Glory.' So I was still left with this little intro. So okay, something's gonna happen here; what happens? And I thought, well, maybe I can write some more stuff. And I'm sitting at home, and I've got artifacts from airships sitting around. I went to some auctions and bought some stuff; I've got the pocket watch from one of the survivors from the R101, I've got a tankard from the R101, I've got various bits and bobs of other airships. I went, 'Why don't I tell the story?'

"I just finished reading a big, sort of encyclopedic crash report of it, 600 pages on it. I decided that I wanted to tell this story. This is a fantastic story. So I thought, well, what am I gonna call it? So the book that I just finished reading was called To Ride the Storm, because it was the storm that finally finished it off, really, then caused the crash in the end.

"So I put the little pieces together, and when I got enough verses and pieces, then I started putting them in order, and one of the last things I put together was the actual intro, the little [hums tune]. That came almost towards the end.

"And I suddenly realized that that then enabled me to do like a little overture piece at the beginning, which I would state most of the little melodies that were going to come later and put them as one separate little piece on its own, and then we put some cellos and some bits over it and some other little counter-melodies.

"And I'm thinking, 'This is getting quite sort of classical.' I don't know s- about classical music. Anyway, it's a piece, and it's definitely an overture. Opening, setting the scene instrumentally. And then we just tell the story through the various transitions that dramatize it, that build up the ash of leaves, the masks, the people are clapping and cheering, we've got that scene in there. It's very cinematic.

"When I write, all the words that I write come from the scene that is playing in front of my head. And even when I sing other people's lyrics I have to create the scene in my head before I can probably sing the song. Even if it's maybe not the same scene they were thinking of when they wrote it, I have to do it for myself in order to animate the words right. But that's the way we create the song.

"'Empire' was not written with guitars in mind; it was all written on piano. I knew obviously the band are gonna play it, and it's gonna get heavy towards the end. But at no stage when I was writing it did I write it with guitars in mind. There was horns, there was cello, there were fiddles, there was all kinds of different percussion and things like that. And that thinking through those instruments gave me the melodies, 'cause certain instruments suggest certain melodies.

Due November 6, the Scorpions will reissue "Taken By Force" (1977), "Tokyo Tapes" (1978), "Lovedrive" (1979), "Animal Magnetism" (1980), "Blackout" (1982), "Love At First Sting" (1984) and "Savage Amusement" (1988) - and 1985's "World Wide Live."

In addition to dozens of unheard studio tracks and live recordings, all CD releases are equipped with extended booklets featuring rare photos and, single covers, backstage passes and additional liner notes, while five of the eight albums include a DVD with live concert footage, TV performances and interviews from the period.

The German metal outfit's 2010 set at New York City's Madison Square Garden is also included - they have previously issued Rammlied and Ich Tu Dir Weh from that show as teasers. A 20-minute film on the making of 2009 album Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da is also part of the package.

In the documentary trailer, frontman Till Lindemann explains the band's trepidation when they first arrived in the US in the 1990s. He tells how they were pulled over by traffic cops and a breakdown in communication got things off to a bad start.

Per the band's website, "The Volcom store will be the only location where you can purchase the full NYC PJ merchandise line that week." Tuesday through Saturday, the store will release four different poster designs at random plus an array of other specialty merchandise.

After Joplin bought the pearly white whip in 1968, she used the car as a canvas, having an attention-grabbing mural painted over the original color. Joplin died of a drug overdose two years later.

The thrash icons endured a challenging time while the record was in production, after falling out with Bush in the aftermath of a failed reunion with Joey Belladonna.

They hired Dan Nelson as new frontman and he completed work on his version of Worship Music - but he was dismissed before its release, leading to Bush's temporary return.

Now he's offered another reason for his second departure in 2010, which paved the way for Belladonna's return and the release of the album with his vocals the following year.

Bush tells Mitch Lafon: "I didn't participate in anything, and I always had on previous records. It was just the mindset of, 'Nah, no.' I even said, 'Okay, if you pay me this amount of money, I'll do it.' Because I wasn't doing it out of the love of my soul - I was doing it for another reason.

Vocalist and guitarist Kier Kemp says: "Bruises comes from the heart. It's allowed us to explore a whole new side of the band commenting on the darker side of human nature.

Gaskill says the album has been a long time in the making, during which he suffered two heart attacks and lost all of his possessions in 2012's Hurricane Sandy. He says: "I've had some heavy obstacles to deal with, but the record is finally ready and I couldn't be more proud of what we've accomplished.

"The lyrical content of this album is simply about everyday life the way I see it and I hope that people will be able to relate to it on some kind of personal level."

The Blu-ray edition will be presented in 96/24 PCM, DTS 5.1 Surround Sound Master Audio and features a selection of instrumental mixes, along with a flat transfer of the original mix.

Frontman Bjorn 'Speed' Strid said of the track: "It's a very melodic and atmospheric beast. This was one of the first songs I wrote for the new album and it holds a lot of surprises.

Oldfield was brought in by producer Tony Palmer after NASA made him an offer he couldn't refuse. Palmer recalls: "In 1978 I was shown the mountain of film collected from John Glenn, the first astronaut to orbit the Earth, until Apollo 17. Use whatever I wanted, I was told. From the beginning, I wanted Mike to write the music. The soundtrack that emerged is an inspiring match for the images."

Frontman Adam 'Nergal' Darski says of the film: "Behemoth has always been about breaking boundaries, taboos, leaving its comfort zone and thinking out of the box.

"It's situated in modern Warsaw in the present times - it's where the carnal world meets the unknown." Earlier this year, Nergal said the follow-up to their 10th album would mark a new chapter in the band's development. He also made his memoirs available in English for the first time in March.

Speaking to Metal Hammer about the new album, frontman Winston McCall says: "We had a band meeting, and it turned out all of us were thinking the same thing: none of us would get creative fulfillment out of writing another Parkway metalcore album.

Kisser, who's also a member of supergroup Metal Allegiance, believes he's the only Brazilian artist to be named on the Cavern Club's wall of fame in Liverpool.

Kisser says in the video: "The band play the Beatles in very different ways - they respect the arrangements and stuff. They invite different musicians, and one year they invited me.

Mono guitarist Takaakira 'Taka' Goto says their contribution entitled Death In Reverse will serve as a preview for their ninth album which is expected to be released in early 2016.

He adds: "The theme of this track is life and death and regeneration. Even when our bodies decay and decompose, our souls will prevail unchanged. Our bodies will act as seeds for the next generation, while our souls will journey together into our new eternal life.

King was simply the most influential electric guitarist. With various iterations of his femme fatale six-string Lucille slung over this shoulder, he was a stinging stylist with unmistakable vibrato and tone who had a profound impact on a plurality of players, including fellow Gibson legends Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, George Harrison, Joe Perry and Joe Bonamassa. His ringing vibrato, elegant tone and singing single-note melodies, and his soulful voice, helped King become a beacon for the best qualities of the blues - it's beauty, depth of feeling, storytelling, originality, character and musical excellence and evolution.

In addition to the indelible memories left by his performances, King gave us all the gift of roughly 75 authorized studio and live albums and compilations in a discography that spans from 1949 to 2012.

In recent decades King's albums have been starry affairs like the platinum-selling, Grammy winning collaboration with Eric ClaptonRiding With the King, 2005's birthday blues party with Billy Gibbons, Clapton, Bobby Bland, John Mayer, Roger Daltrey and Gloria Estefan called B.B King and Friends: 80, and the deeply rooted One Kind Favor, made with celebrity producer T-Bone Burnett.

Most listeners associate King with his 1970 break-though hit "The Thrill Is Gone," but King actually developed most of his repertoire, vocal phrasing and licks in the first 15 years of his career.

The Swedish rockers played three tunes from the new release, including "Majesty", "Absolution" and the new single, "From The Pinnacle To The Pit", alongside "Year Zero" from 2013's "Infestissumam" and a cover of Roky Erickson's "If You Have Ghosts" from their 2013 Dave Grohl-produced EP of the same name.

Geir Anfinn Halland Johansen: When I wrote the single Sl�tt Fra R�stad I really just wanted to make some energetic music I would enjoy to both play and listen to. This song, and all the others on the album, is a mix of traditional Norwegian folk drumming (yes, that's a thing!) mixed with Finsaas' fast, thunderous and untraditional guitar playing. I was, and still am, into metal music, but not as much the modern generic metal sound. Why do all the modern and new metal bands often sound so similar? Why not record an metal album the same way as the old, good sounding rock bands did? Lots of room mics, live one-take takes without much editing, lots of bleeds from every instrument and things in the room. That's the sound I like!
Sl�tt Fra R�stad and the whole Anfinnsaas album was therefore recorded live with the help of Rhys Marsh at Autumnsongs Recording Studio, which is an old school studio with old school mics and old school recording technics. What you get as a listener is a really good and different sounding metal album. What would Slayer or Meshuggah sound like if they recorded their albums in 1969? Take a listen to Anfinnsaas - Sl�tt Fra R�stad and you might get the idea!

Knut Finsaas: Sl�tt fra R�stad was made through jamming at rehearsals and experimenting in the studio. It starts out with a drum beat, and me adding a guitar riff basically. It evolved over time, and after being edited, twisted and turned, it sounded like it does on the recording.

On this recording, as a guitarist, I primarily focused on rhythm and sound. Melodies/harmonies aren't that important as there are none. What I basically do is I hit more or less all the strings while pressing a variety of fuzz boxes, in different rhythmic patterns.

It's all about making a lot of noise.