Today's Day in Rock Stories

Ozzy Osbourne Wants To Do New Solo Album And Tour

Clarke - who replaced Izzy Stradlin in 1991 - says via Blabbermouth: "The reunion that happened is really just Axl, Slash and Duff. Basically Slash and Duff have joined Axl's band. So I don't know if you can really call it a reunion.

"Myself, Matt Sorum, Izzy - it didn't happen as a reunion for all of us to join. I think if the time was right and the situation was right, everybody would come back and do it."

"We did 180 shows on the Death Magnetic tour in two-week periods over three years," Ulrich tells Rolling Stone. "That's what works for us. We're going to start pretty much full-on touring in January and are looking to figure out what we're doing in North America, but there will definitely be some pretty extensive touring in America."

Metallica haven't played a proper US arena tour since 2009. "It's time to come back," adds the drummer, "and do some proper penetration of America."

He says: "She passed amongst loved ones reading poetry and singing at exactly 12pm Australian time today. She is flying to the infinite through all the bardots as we speak so all your prayers of light, love gratitude and beaming energies are a shining light for her.

"Bless her psychedelic cotton socks, she will be in our and deeply in my heart forever. One of the strongest, most loving forgiving and powerful shakti being mums I have ever known.

Stapp revealed he had joined the group in May to squash growing rumors that he was set to hook up with Stapp's former group Stone Temple Pilots. Stapp is joined in Art Of Anarchy by former Guns N' roses guitarist Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal, Disturbed bassist John Moyer and brothers Jon and Vince Votta.

The pair shared a laugh about the incident later, Taylor said, but he insists he'd do it again in a heartbeat. Taylor tells the Las Vegas Review-Journal: "You can hate me all you want. It's not going to stop me from smacking those things out of people's hands.

"You watch people walk down the street, and they can't get their beaks out of their stupid phones to cross the street. I love watching people get buried in their tiny little technological worlds, and then reality comes and smacks them in the face.

The classic lineup, also featuring Jeff Pilson, are set to pay six gigs in October, before Dokken revert to the current formation featuring Dokken, Brown, Jon Levin and Chris McCarvill.

The vocalist said earlier this month that the brief tour was "about money" and argued that the same was true of the Guns N' Roses reunion. Brown tells Focus On Metal: "Nothing's changed. George and Don, during the conversations to get this going, they're already starting up.

The shows will come after their previously announced appearance at Chicago's Douglas Park on September 16. The New Jersey outfit recently announced they'll go on indefinite hiatus following the tour cycle for the follow-up to 2013's One Of Us Is The Killer - though vocalist Greg Puciato recently referred to it as a "breakup."

He tells Metal Wani: "Well, the label just received it Friday. Scott Givens, one of the guys that's higher up at the label, I woke up to his email, which was, 'Kirk, the new album is amazing. I'm on track No.7. It's some of the best work you've ever done, my friend. I can't wait to get this out.'

"That was a great thing to wake up to, to start the day. So we're pumped up. We have a title, but I'm not allowed to say it yet. And artwork is being worked on - all that type of stuff. The record itself, the mastered and mixed copy and files and all that kind of business have been turned in to the label.

And Moore has hinted at what fans can expect to see when his work finally becomes available for the public to view - and he reveals that he and the team behind the campaign tried to find an image that typified Lemmy to base the statue on.

He tells Loudwire: "I know they were searching for that hat-coat combo. Photographer Robert John had taken so many good pictures of him and I think that was about the time that they were at the Grammys and Ace Of Spades was re-charting. There was really a resurgence for him and you can see that it was a happy time and he looks healthy and good.

Megadeth opened the set with two tracks from 1997's "Cryptic Writings" - "Trust" and "She-Wolf", followed by "A Tout Le Monde" from 1994's "Youthanasia" and the closer of their classic, "Symphony Of Destruction" from 1992's "Countdown To Extinction."

The afternoon performance was followed by a full electric arena show Tuesday night at Estadio Luna Park as part of the band's current tour of South America in support of their latest album, "Dystopia."

He says: "It was a hard one in the sense that you don't immediately have a visual to the title The Violent Sleep Of Reason - how do you portray that? So when discussing this with Keerych Luminokaya, who also did the artwork for our 25th anniversary box set along with the artwork for Koloss, we just let him loose on that idea and how to portray that.

"What you're seeing on the artwork is basically a human being that's been in stasis for a long time. The vines were the original idea - they're growing into him. But it's a body that's been asleep for so long that it's been taken over something else."

He started writing the song in the hours after the terrorist attack in San Bernardino, California, on December 2 when 14 people were killed and 22 seriously injured.

The track is the opening song on Of Mice & Men's upcoming fourth album Cold World and Pauley says the songwriting process helped him deal with the horror of the tragedy that took place so near to his home.

Pauley tells Metal Hammer: "I wrote Game Of War the day of the San Bernardino shooting, which is less than an hour from where we live.

He tells TeamRock: "I'm looking at something based on Victorian horror. We've already written about 50% of material, but we're collating all our ideas. We've got a big pool of riffs.

"I often wait until the others have done their parts. I've made the mistake of writing stuff which then dictates the way that the songs have to go for everybody else - or you get into the studio and we've got way too much material and we've spread ourselves too thinly.

A fellow "lodger" during his stay in then-West Germany was Iggy Pop, who Bowie complained seldom did grocery shopping. Bowie had moved to the city when drug addiction derailed his creative process in the United Kingdom, and he sought a fresh start.

Smith says: "Hugh has received a lot of support recently from cancer charity Maggie's and so we thought we would try to do something for him and for them.

And he was so impressed with the results of his album and the vibe of the city that he's moved there full time. Tyler tells Classic Rock: "I came to Nashville. I rented a house. Now I just bought a house, so I'm living here full-on. It's a musical Mecca. I co-wrote with everyone down here, and I think I've done some of my best work through this country head.

"This town still has the passion for music. It hasn't lost it through business and money, which may be big here but the music aspect still has the passion. Artists come here come from all over the world to be part of it, and there's so much music dripping out of the honeycomb of this town that I'm in it.

The follow-up to 2014's Pale Communion is set for release on September 30 via Nuclear Blast, with Opeth previously stating the album came together in a short space of time compared to their previous work.

Akerfeld says: "In the past I've waited with writing lyrics until the very last minute and then recorded vocals under insane amounts of stress, which I hate.

"I wrote mock lyrics in the past. I sung that and it sounded great - and once I replace those with the real lyrics, it doesn't sound as good, which has always been a problem for me doing it that way.

"So for this record, I just wrote the lyrics I'm going to use on the record, come up with a melody, then record it. All the vocals are basically done before we go into the studio these days."

The tour now includes a total of 12 appearances, with six of those focused on their 2005 record. BFMV's most recent release was last year's Venom, of which frontman Matt Tuck recently said: "The album is hands down the best thing we've ever done. To have that arsenal of weapons now and to be able to play these songs feels sick."

The band will be on hand from backstage at the NBC studios for a live with fans on Wednesday, August 24 starting at 2 PM ET and streamed via their official Facebook page.

"Start getting your questions ready so you can post them on Wednesday!!," says the group. Anthrax will appear on the program to perform their current single, "Monster At The End," from their latest album "For All Kings."

With this one I wanted to go really back to all the bands we love and try to combine their influences with our more "modern" progressive metal sound. I'm talking basically about all the great hard rock bands from the eighties, Van Halen, Journey, Whitesnake, Toto. We always had this background in every song in the past, even in the faster ones, and you can surely tell this listening to all the melodies and the catchy chorus we always composed!

It all started from the chorus, chords and main melody, this is the really "trademark" of this song and it sticks in your mind right after the first run. We love when people at the shows sing and shout out loud our melodies and this was perfectly create for this purpose. It has this Journey-sque vibe but of course with a modern approach and sound. I created a lot of layers with different instruments in the main refrain, so other that the main guitars/drums/bass you'll get tons of keyboards and even a clean guitar doin' a clean arpeggio, so it will be subtle, but it will really remind to the classics Journey's tunes like Be Good to Yourself, Don't Stop Believin', etc etc.

Usually our songs starts either by a chorus idea or from the main guitar riff, and this time the riff came out right after the refrain: we took from our previous album idea of the song "Trust", where we combined a typical Whitesnake-sounding riff with a more metal-ish pattern, and we developed the riff in the same approach. But this time I chose to pay debt to Van Halen, also using his typical EVH Flanger in every riff, to give this riff an even more similar sound!! Verses and pre-choruses are typical DGM stuff, but the interesting thing about the verses is that you'll have a firs half in major key and the second half in the same key but minor. This give to the listener a sort of "tension" and in my opinion prepares very well to the big opening that happens in the chorus.

Speaking about the instrumental part, here it's basically Toto taking over! I would say Toto with metal influences of course ehehhe... Lukather and Paich are mainly known for the classics songs like Africa or Rosanna, but they're all faboulus musicians and composers and they wrote really challenging stuff, from fusion influenced to more soundtrack-ish stuff... Here I tried to do this exact thing but adding some heavy touches in the guitar work, I love the "epic" interlude before the guitar solo, really reminds me of Blade Runner kinda thing...

Lyrically speaking we were really inspired by the inner animal side we all have that many times comes up in different forms, from rage to fear and so on... this led to the little story in the music video of the song, where an "ordinary" guy run away throughout the whole song duration from what it seems a predator... but only in the end he realizes that he was running away from the "evil" side of himself!