Today's Day in Rock Stories

Megadeth Cut Concert Short After Woman Almost Killed

Hitting the stage half an hour later than scheduled, the group delivered a 26-song set that included the second tour appearance of two rarities: "Used To Love Her" from 1988's "G N' R Lies" and "There Was A Time" from 2008's "Chinese Democracy."

The trek has seen the reunited trio of Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan perform material from the band's legendary albums, including 1987's smash "Appetite For Destruction" - the biggest selling debut album of all time with more than 30 million copies sold worldwide.

The band's live lineup is rounded out by guitarist Richard Fortus, drummer Frank Ferrer, and keyboardists Dizzy Reed and Melissa Reese. Guns N' Roses will next launch a series of South American shows in Lima, Peru on October 27 and they have just announced a pair of dates in New Zealand in early 2017.

The trek will be kicking off in Dallas, TX on October 28th at the South Side Ballroom and will conclude on November 23rd in Huntington, NY at The Paramount.

He was traced after a victim bought four tickets for Black Sabbath's show in Bristow, Virginia, on August 21, via Craigslists. The buyer was later told by Ticketmaster that they weren't genuine.

The song appears on "Book Of Shadows II," the Black Label Society mainman's first solo album in 20 years, which was launched in April. View it below.

Taylor's vocals weren't featured on the original radio release of the track, also below, even though he'd already recorded them. He told WRIF (via Blabbermouth): "They wanted to go with it as a single, and my record label was worried because the didn't want it to clash with one of my songs.

The short clip shows the titles of each of the band's previous six albums before stating: "7 is coming." The video then closes with the guys in the studio smiling while working on what appears to be their seventh album.

Watson 385 is used to identify pills containing a mix of acetaminophen and hydrocodone. About 12 tablets were found in a dressing room at Prince's Paisley Park, with others found in bottles of Vitamin C and aspirin inside a suitcase and bags.

But he says that's one of the advantages of having their own record label, rather than following orders issued by an outside corporate body. The band's 10th record will be released on November 18 via their Blackened Records firm.

Hetfield tells TwinCities.com: "We've been working on this record, realistically, for eight years. But it's been two years starting to put songs together.

Stanley tells Cleveland Scene: "Records at this point are really something that, if we do, we do it for us more than anybody else. There really is no music industry. It's a guy who ran Tropicana last year that may run a record company this year. It's not a bunch of people who love music - it's a commodity at this point."

The tribute came as the Canadian group performed a farewell concert that was broadcast nationwide from their hometown of Kingston, ON as the last show of a tour following news in May that Downie had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.

"There's something going on up north of the border tonight, and it involves somebody that we can say is a family member," Vedder told the crowd. "He's part of the group of touring musicians we've met over the years. There's a guy who's got a band called Tragically Hip, and lucky for some of us, he did some recording with a guy we recorded with all the time with in Seattle."

"And I got to spend a few days with him," continued the singer, "and we were all informed of some sad news that he had a really tough form of brain cancer called Glioblastoma, which some of us know a lot about and it's a tough one, if not one the toughest forms. And he was very courageous and decided to take his group out on one last tour and tonight's the last night of that run.

Singer Jimmy Adkins, who embarked on a solo tour and released a string of singles last September, hints that the band's year out helped their studio sessions become more organic.

He tells Radio 1: "We started recording in LA last November. Most of this was put together in a more spontaneous, breathing environment. It felt like it was a long time coming, because we didn't do anything with the band for a solid year."

Adkins continues: "I think it helped us get in touch with things as people. By that I mean, I think I'm in a place where I'm willing to throw away default responses to problems in life.

Seele says: "Some of you know, but many do not, that I have a child with autism. In the past I had a great support system that has allowed me to pursue a career in music.

Frontman Jeremy McKinnon said of the follow-up to 2013's Common Courtesy: "The record is called Bad Vibrations because that's what I was feeling at the time, stuck in this weird, high-stress mindset every day.

"We completely changed the way we wrote, recorded and mixed this album. It was one of the most unique recording experiences we've ever had. We rented a cabin in the mountains and just wrote together in a room, which was the polar opposite of the last three albums we've made. This is the first record since For Those Who Have Heart that we've created as a full band - no digital bullsh*t."

Slapp Happy will appear alongside acts including The Julie Ruin, Babyfather, Die Zimmermanner and Surface To Air Massive at the music event.

The Color Before The Sun (Deconstructed) is available now and features 30-tracks, including the full album along with demos and other extras.

Coheed said: "It features the original album's 10 songs, both in the studio and in their early acoustic demo form, as well as two bonus acoustic demos that were never recorded in the studio.

"The demos, called Big Beige/4th St, were named after Claudio Sanchez's home The Big Beige in upstate New York and his old apartment in Brooklyn's 4th Street, since he wrote and tracked them in each residence.

His father Darrell, who was staying in the room next door, said police came to deliver the news to him the next day. He tells CNN: "I was awakened at 8:50am by some detectives beating on my door. It's always scary as a parent, they were in suits and that's when they told me.

"They asked me if Matt Roberts was my son, I said yes, and they said, 'We have bad news to tell you, Matt deceased last night.'" Darrell continues: "I know he had prescription drug addiction. He suffered greatly from anxiety.

The video for Insane is directed by Ryan Valdez and is described as "a ghastly take on post-mortem photography or 'momento mori,' the practice of preserving loved ones after death with images."

The Serenity Of Suffering includes a guest appearance from Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor on the track A Different World. Guitarist James 'Munky' Schaffer recently reported that the band had set out to "put the ship back on course" with the follow-up to 2013's The Paradigm Shift.

He said: "We compiled a lot of material and looked at it in retrospect to our previous albums - how did it play a part? Was it touching things that maybe we haven't touched on? We took a long time to do that.

"We actually started writing a lot of the material with eight-string guitars. That didn't pan out the way Head and I thought it was going to.

Directed by musician and illusionist Criss Angel in a desert outside Las Vegas, the promo was produced to help raise awareness of Angel's new cancer charity, HELP (Heal Every Life Possible). It was founded in honour of his two-year-old son, who is in remission from leukaemia.

Angel tells the Las Vegas Review Journal: "Dee and I have known each other since the 1990s and he was a strong proponent of mine for years. We are both from Long Island, or as we like to think of it, 'Strong Island', and his record publishing company gave me the rights to the song and it is our anthem for gratis.

The announcement comes after original drummer Steven Adler made this third appearance with the reunion lineup that features Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan.

Tsonev says: "After being a part of Lifesigns for three and a half years, I've made the decision to depart from the band. John, Frosty, Steve, Jon and Brett will always be like a family to me and I'm so proud with what we've achieved together - the small pub gigs, the sweaty splitter bus tours, the Cruise To The Edge shows, the UTB DVD - which will always feel like my baby after the countless hours of work put in.

She says: "Dyin' To Know is about addiction - that compulsion to repeatedly do something that has a negative impact on your life, whether that be alcohol, drugs a bad relationship.

The coffee episode includes the Van Halen singer's cover of the 1978 Gerry Rafferty hit, "Baker Street"; it was previously featured on his rare 2002 package "No Holds Bar-B-Que", which he shared with fans last month.

The "Photography" edition sees Roth exploring a historical look at the art form and some of the technical aspects of cameras through the years while linking both to today's world of pop culture.

Hey, what's with all the violence? Time to break down these walls. The opening lyric line for Devil's Eyes says it all. At the time of the song being written, our singer Franco V. Roc called us asking what the hell was going on in Chicago. Chicago at the time was dubbed "Chiraq" with its gun violence and despicable crimes making headline news. Sadly, it didn't just make local news, but international news. No longer are we known only as the Windy City. This led him to write about the crime, corruption, anger, terrorism, politics, and hidden media agendas taking place around the world. He felt it was the Devil's plan. Also, my brother and I thought it was ironic that we titled the song "Devil's Eyes" before our singer mentioned anything to us about his idea of the Devil's plan.

Each city or country around the world has similar issues taking place. The idea was that the song would describe a world where no one was in control, surrounded by imaginary borders, and controlled by world leaders. When you think about it, it sounds a lot like the world we live in. You begin to question everything. Are the choices we are making the right one? Is the choice we are making creating a larger issue? Or, is the problem that we gave too much power to our elected officials and we are now struggling to take it back and restore balance? We mention in the song "the kingdom is burning down and there is nothing you can do. As we lay face down as the world watches the brutal truth". What we are referring to is that no matter how hard we try to fix our society and our current state of affairs, everything keeps on getting worse. We never had control.

When performing the song, it is technically demanding. The guitar and drums require precision, focus, and relaxation to execute the patterns. During the recording process, we realized that if we do not follow these core ideas, the song could easy derail itself since it never slows down for a single moment. Our producer, rock legend, Carmine Appice, would always push us passed our comfort zone, but inspired us to always be creative and spontaneous in every aspect of being an artist.