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"For us, every show is a new kind of challenge," says Young. "You're trying to communicate to the whole building. You're hoping that that sound gets to the very back of the hall, so that they're getting the same feeling as the people who are close.

"When everything's happening and it's all cooking and everything gels, it just seems like it's one thing and it all moves together. The ultimate feeling is when you've got the audiences joining in; you have a magic atmosphere and they just wanna rock along with you - they wanna ride that wave with you."

Currently playing the final US dates of the band's Rock Or Bust world tour wuth guest vocalist Axl Rose, the guitarist says it all starts with the songs.

"The music has a lot of power; that's also part of it too," explains Young. "It's simple, but it's also kind of complex. Ozzy Osbourne calls us 'meat and potatoes' - it's as good a description as any."

The 61-year-old rocker is in the spotlight leading AC/DC through every show with a seemingly endless supply of energy�and possibly more than players half his age.

"Over the years, you can pace yourself," Angus says. "Maybe I'm lucky - I always kind of get a second and third wind. Sometimes I do not know where it comes from. Sometimes I look and I feel tired, and then, out of the blue, I play a bit of music and then I go, 'Oooh. What am I doing?' And I've moved from one end of the stage to the other.

It comes just weeks ahead of the release of the band's upcoming sixth album Head Carrier, due out on September 30. Pixies have a European tour booked for November and December and they say they intend to honour those dates.

Pixies say: "We need to confirm that Joey Santiago has checked into a rehabilitation centre for at least 30 days to treat his alcohol and drug issues.

The CD includes a string of top metal bands covering other metal artists to help Metal Hammer celebrate its 30th anniversary. On choosing the Slipknot classic for their cover, Asking Alexandria guitarist Ben Bruce says: "Duality was actually quite a difficult choice.

"We love the song but Slipknot have been one of our favorite bands since we were kids, and there are so many songs that we wanted to do. It was a huge amount of fun to record Duality and we really hope we did Slipknot and their fans around the world proud.

"From Willowdale to the world, the Key to the City of #Toronto is theirs," Tory tweeted. "Congrats RUSH!" Lee and Lifeson were on hand for the presentation, which also included an acoustic performance of the 1982 Rush classic, "Subdivisions", by Hamilton, ON musician Jacob Moon.

The Lee Lifeson Art Park in the North York neighborhood of Willowdale features new trees, grass, benches and unique music-themed art installations. "Our friendship started very close to here and our musical life together began very close to here," said Lee during an interview with former CBC host George Stroumboulopoulos. "We're obviously thrilled and amazed that someone would want to do something like this and put our names on it, and we're really happy for the community that there's some investment arts and leisure for this neighborhood."

While they said they wouldn't ever replace Kearns, it wasn't clear from the statement whether that meant Bolt Thrower would disband. Now Willetts says: "Yes, I can confirm that Bolt Thrower are definitely over for good. There will be no reunion tours etc...no compromise."

The band also played "Breathing Lightning", the second single from their current release, "For All Kings" and video from the program has been posted online.

Former Genesis man Gabriel said of the track: "As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.

It's taken from debut album Broken Lines, which is to be released on September 23. The lineup includes William DuVall of Alice In Chains, Brent Hinds of Mastodon and Ben Weinman of The Dillinger Escape Plan, along with Dethklok's Pete Griffin and former The Mars Volta man Thomas Prigden. John Theodore of Queens Of The Stone Age appears on two tracks.

But frontman Gerry Nestler says that's not the case, and they've lined up a gig at the Ultimate Jam Night at Hollywood's Whisky A Go Go on September 20 - and recorded an album.

Nestler says in a statement: "What can I say - the reports of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. I think the quote from Dave in January was, 'I did not exit Philm, I ended Philm.'

"Well, Pancho Tomaselliand I decided to carry on without him - just like the original Philm carried on without Dave and released an album in 2002, albeit under a different name, Kkleq Muzzil.

Recorded at the London venue on May 13 of this year, the set sees Pop joined by Queens Of The Stone Age mainman Josh Homme and Arctic Monkeys drummer Matt Helders - as well as QOTSA members Dean Fertita and Troy Van Leeuwen and producer Mike Sweeney.

Breakin' Outta Hell is released on September 23 via Spinefarm Records. Created by the Dark Fable Media company, the video for Rivalry shows the band performing live in the UK and Ireland and the track is inspired by sporting clashes and the "corporate forces" that have led to a number of small live music venues closing.

Frontman Joel O'Keeffe says: "The lyric probably came from us watching Football Factory or The Firm, one of those kind of films and I think at the time there was a big grand prix race on, lots of intense rivalries being reported in the media.

And he's added that the work has a violent edge to it. Manson revealed in July that his 10th record would arrive in February next year, although he declined to offer any more information.

Now he tells Rolling Stone: "It's not very much in any way like The Pale Emperor. The people who have heard the new songs said it reminded them of Antichrist Superstar and Mechanical Animals - but with a new, different approach."

And he reveals that the less frantic South Park outro tune is what the band actually had in mind for the main theme. Claypool tells the Hollywood Reporter: "If you listen to the outro, that's actually the original song. And they came back to us and said, 'Comedy Central thinks the theme song is too slow and not peppy enough.'

"At that point, we were like, 'You know, we did this for you guys, we're out on the road, we're too busy to do this right now. We can't just go into a studio and rerecord this.'

"So they just sped it up and I redid my vocals. I believe I was playing Red Rocks in Colorado and they sent one of their old high school chums up with a handheld tape recorder, and I just did my vocals into that."

The follow-up to 2012's Koloss was produced by the band and engineered by Tue Madsen at Puk Studios in Kaerby, Denmark. Keerych Luminokaya produced the cover art, having worked with the band on Koloss and The Ophidian Trek.

Meshuggah previously issued an album teaser and a lyric video for Born In Dissonance. In the review of The Violent Sleep Of Reason, TeamRock called Meshuggah "light years ahead of virtually everyone else" and added: "What continues to be genuinely startling about Meshuggah is how their meticulous devotion to moving forward has enabled them to keep their distance from any aspiring contemporaries and seem, like precious few other modern bands, entirely separate from the sonic status quo.

And Araya reports that it was McDonnell's enthusiasm that got him excited about filming three different videos which shared a common thread.

Araya says: "Meeting him, he was excited. He really liked the fact he was working with the band - he's a fan. His excitement rubbed off and made me excited."

Repentless was the first video, filmed amid scorching temperatures in and around the Sybil Brand Institute - a former county jail in Los Angeles. The second was for You Against You which had the band playing in an aircraft graveyard - but it was the third and final promo for Pride In Prejudice which stood out for guitarist Kerry King.

He says: When you see the third one - which is my favourite, it brings the whole story together. Doing that video in the snow, I felt my feet were going to break off because they were frozen, but it was BJ's vision - and it was a good vision because you got three incredibly different looks telling the same story.

"Visually, I love that video. When other people were doing their takes, I'd watch what BJ looks at on his screen and I was like, 'Man, this looks like a movie.'

In an interview with Cherry Red Records boss Mike Powell, premiering exclusively with TeamRock, Hammill says the veteran prog heroes put extra pressure on themselves when writing and recording their 13th album as they may not make a follow-up.

In a 30-minute video interview Hammill says: "We do have the realisation that, okay we are all healthy at the moment, but we are all rising 70 now. And maybe this is the last record that we'll make.

Speaking about the collaborative project, Anderson says: "Music is always the driving force in my life. Working with such a wonderful musician as Roine Stolt made the creation of this album very unique."

Stolt insisted the pair weren't "aiming at being new Yes" but wanted to encapsulate the spirit of progressive music, adding: "We've been inventing as we go along - Jon is an endless source of new ideas.