Day in Rock Part 2

Ann Wilson Streams Cover Of Jimi Hendrix's 'Manic Depression'

Speaking to the You Rock Foundation, a music charity which seeks to raise awareness about mental health issues, Root admits that he began to experience panic attacks while on tour because he spent so much time "in his own mind", adding: "I was creating things in my mind that weren't really happening."

But now the guitarist spends more of his time songwriting and learning how to use music software to distract himself - and urges other people to take control of their own mental health by doing something positive.

He says: "Getting out your head is the most important thing you can do. If something pops in your head and you're like, 'Man, I wish I could do that,' get out there and do it.

The band had this to say: "We couldn't be more proud that we're finally able to release this album. For us, it's the culmination of three years of hard work and a year of solid writing.

The program will end on September 30, when the Rosetta parent vehicle is slow-crashed on to the comet. The music was inspired after speaking to ESA astronaut Andre Kuipers, who was aboard the International Space Station at the time.

The record is described as, "Unpretentious laid-back rock, adorned with hefty jam-outs. Tao Of The Devil is more focused than its predecessor Black Power Flower and boasts a more song-oriented and groovy stoner sound, with a healthy dose of 70s style greatness."

He said that he cringes when he thinks of the electronic dance acts that appear on Perry's, the stage named after him, adding: "I hate EDM. I want to vomit it out of my nostrils. I can't stand what it did to what I love, which is house music, which was meditative, psychedelic-it took you on a journey."

Now Perry insists that he loves dance music and has long fought for the inclusion of alternative acts to Lollapalooza - though he admits that there are a number of big-time artists that, in his view, have changed the face of EDM for the worse.

He says: "My comments to the Chicago Tribune were unrestrained and straight from my heart. They were in response to questioning I was asked about EDM.

And looking back 31 years since the record's launch, Gould suggests they were fortunate to catch a break with the album, which featured frontman Chuck Mosley.

He tells the Independent: "We did a lot of things that didn't make sense to people outside of the band but I think that's ever been a problem. As long as it made sense to us, we always kind of found our way through it. We were playing this weird music and we just got lucky!

"We were recording demo tapes but they were falling flat, so my theory was if we recorded in a 24-track studio, it would sound better and people would take us more seriously.

Speaking on the set of the video shoot recently, Davis tells Rolling Stone: "It's about dealing with people and their bullsh*t -all the pain and all the things involved with that.

Psychologists Julia Kneer and Diana Rieger say that awareness of one's inevitable death, known as "mortality salience," is countered by a boost of self-esteem provided by the music.

Entitled The Memory Remains after the Metallica track from their 1997 album Reload, the report has been published by the American Psychological Association.

Researchers spoke to 30 people in the Netherlands and Germany after they'd been split into two groups. One group listened to Slayer track Angel Of Death while the other heard an audiobook.

The guitarist took the stage with others, including Metallica vocalist and guitarist James Hetfield and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine, to cover Diamond Head's Am I Evil? at Warsaw's Sonisphere Festival in Poland on their 'Big Four' tour in 2010.

Ian tells Rolling Stone: "It was really an amazing feeling to be on that stage. I can look back at pictures or watch it back on DVD and you just see that lineup - James, me and Mustaine. I'm kind of able to look at it as an outsider, from a fan's point of view, like, 'That's so cool.' The crowd went nuts when it happened.

"It was one of those moments, one of those things for me that never goes away. I could easily, at any time of the day, go back and feel that feeling, that energy. It was so powerful and so much fun to be a part of.