Today's Day in Rock Stories

Metallica Release 'Moth Into Flame' Video

The police force, which attended the event along with members of the California Highway Patrol and a K-9 unit, says: "During this operational period there were approximately 3400 campers and approximately 37,000 attendees for the music festival.

The tune features guitar work by leader Dave Mustaine and new addition Kiko Loureiro, formerly of Brazilian band Angra, who replaced outgoing member Chris Broderick after he left the group in 2014.

"I first met Kiko around 8 years ago for a cover shoot for Burrn! Magazine," explains Mustaine. "I had no idea who he was, other than the fact he was tremendously talented and that the staff from Burrn! held him in high regard. Since then I've come to see what a guitar virtuoso he is, and I'm deeply encouraged by his depth and talent.

"Very few Megadeth alumni have had the same feel and ability as Kiko. As Frank Sinatra says, 'the best is yet to come!'"

"It's in the can right now. I just need to polish it up a bit more," Perry revealed in an interview with The Musician's Ear. "I'm looking to release some of it in the new year."

In April, Perry premiered the single, "I'll Do Happiness", featuring UK vocalist Terry Reid, and confirmed the addition of Iggy Pop, David Johansen and Zak Starkey to the project.

The band have announced they'll split once their world tour in support of Dissociation comes to an end. On the album, guitarist Ben Weinman says: "Dissociation represents the splitting of a molecule into smaller molecules, atoms, or ions, breaking bonds to release energy.

Dreyer replaces longtime guitarist Troy Seele who announced his departure from the group last month so that he could focus on his family responsibilities. The new member is set to play his first show with band at Hammerfest in November.

Band leader Jon Schaffer made the following announcement about their new recruit, "Please join us in welcoming Jake Dreyer, our new lead guitar player, to the Iced Earth family. We're excited for Jake to be a part of the team as he has the talent, drive, and the personality we were looking for.

David Bowie and I first met in the summer of 1974 at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in a room full of guys and girls that included Keith Moon, Ronnie Wood, Harry Nilsson, Iggy Pop and Alice Cooper. I wasn't going completely off the rails� but I was about to. In walked Angie Bowie and said that her husband had seen me at the California Jam on the TV and wanted to meet me.

I was led upstairs into this dark room, everybody left and he asked me how I'd got into Purple when I was a soul guy. He was fascinated by that. We spoke for three or four hours about music, R&B� everything. The following day I worked at the studio [where Purple were making Stormbringer] and attended one of the several nights David was playing at the Universal Ampitheatre. The day after that he came to the studio and watched me sing the track Hold On. For the rest of that summer we were inseparable.

He asked to stay for a while at my place in Beverly Hills. I was in Germany but he came anyway - by train, alone� which was incredible for one of the world's biggest stars. I arrived home five days later. At the time David was preparing himself for the role of The Man Who Fell To Earth. For a while nobody knew he was in LA except me and Phil Daoussis, the guy who looked after me back then - not even David's manager Tony Defries, or the members of his band. I was sworn to secrecy.

His comments come as Slipknot bandmate Shawn 'Clown' Crahan confirms the release of his Officer Downe movie. Taylor tells 2 Hours With Matt Pinfield: "The first time I heard Master Of Puppets it honestly changed my life. But I can say that about all four of those bands.

"Master Of Puppets, to me, is the greatest modern heavy metal album ever made. Pound for pound, songwise, musically, sonically, production - it's just fantastic. I know dudes who will fight me over that stuff because we're so nerdy on it. But to me, that is the template for every great heavy metal album."

He identifies Slayer's Reign In Blood as worthy of praise but adds: "As much as I love Reign In Blood, South Of Heaven really set the tone for me. That album is just so tight. It's got everything."

Describing Kiss as one of the pioneers of "theatrical rock," he says Rock And Roll All Night was the first record he bought. He adds: "We don't look like Kiss and we don't look like Twisted Sister, but the expression is very similar.

Kennedy tells My Global Mind: "I don't consider musicians or songwriters heroes. That's a term for someone more special. As far as trying to be a positive role model or hopefully inspiring people in some way, I don't take that lightly and try to do the best I can. You can never phone it in because you've been given a gift and an opportunity - not only create music but perform it all over the world.

The vocalist says the relentless communication from fans on social media would have been difficult to cope with when he was in his 20s. Blythe, 45, tells Northern Star: "I don't have a Facebook account, and as you get bigger and bigger and more and more people start coming to see your band, there is always the ego monster that can creep in if you don't watch it.

"I think, fortuitously for myself and my band, we were all already in our 30s when we really started gaining some traction as a band. I think we would not have handled it as well had we been younger in our 20s. But we were already firmly grounded as who we were as people.

The tour kicks off in Swindon on March 1 and wraps up in Nottingham on March 15. Support on all dates except Sheffield will come from Vega and tickets are available now.

Mainman Dan Reed says: "DRN is thrilled to be returning to Europe this next March and especially excited about the extensive UK tour in celebration of our album Fight Another Day and the reaction we have received from the record, and our CD Release show at the 100 Club last June in London.

"Dan Pred, Brion James, Melvin Brannon II, Rob Daiker and I are really looking forward to playing many new and unique venues throughout the UK, and rockin' up the funk hard core and meeting all those who are able to attend and bring down the house with us.

The band had this to say about Wolbers who will be taking the place of Threat Signal bassist Pat Kavanagh, who has not left the group but will not be touring with them, "We would like to officially welcome Christian Olde Wolbers (ex Fear Factory) into Threat Signal as our new bass player!

"Christian has been involved with us since the very beginning, having produced and recorded our debut album Under Reprisal. He recently preformed live with us during a short string of local dates, and we had a blast!"

Threat Signal offered these comments about the upcoming tour, "You can catch us this November touring Europe alongside Vader and Hate Eternal. We are very excited to bring our live show across the pond again! Especially playing with bands of this caliber. Can't wait!"

The current lineup of the band, featuring the only remaining original member Chip Z'nuff taking over lead vocal duties, have also lineup tour dates with Tracii Guns, Ace Frehley and will also be taking part in The Kiss Kruise: Creatures of the Deep in November.

Z'nuff revealed the following background details about the new rarities compilation album, "Donnie and I wrote the songs in the later part of 1988-89. They were recorded in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on 2" inch analog tape, during the time of our debut. The tracks were never finished, as we were very prolific and focused on laying down as many ideas as possible.

"Through the resources provided to us: recording studio, production, etc., we had a plethora of songs during that era and for one reason or another this batch slipped through the cracks.

"To restore the record we returned to the studio to record guitar, bass vocals, etc. which took us about six weeks in my studio and at CRC (Chicago Recording Company) along with Stonecutter studio in downtown Chicago.

Frontman Jake Oni offered these comments, "We are excited to announce our signing with Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records. It is an honor to be on the same roster as so many amazing bands. With the support of this legendary label at our side, the world is ours!"

Hawkins tells TeamRock: "We're about six to eight months deep into it," he says. "We have 17 full tracks, so we're at that stage where we have to start cutting one or two, or we just go for it and put 17 out there.

The band say: "We've never had so many milestone events in one year - the release of our EP Lunar Prelude, our fifth studio album Moonbathers, our upcoming 10 year anniversary celebrations. And there's still more to come.

"All of this while playing our most heavy touring year ever. We're on a roll, and Moonbathers is here to embody that. We hope you'll enjoy this new effort and join us in making 2016 the biggest year for Delain ever!"

The festival is the brainchild of Mike Morton and David Lloyd from The Gift. It's the successor to the four-day Resonance Festival, which was held at The Bedford in 2014.

This song is taken from a story in Neil Gaiman's graphic novel "The Sandman." In one of the side vignette stories, a person is having a chase dream. he is running through a desolate wasteland and mysterious creatures just out of sight are trying to get him. He sees a mountain and starts to climb. He can feel them getting closer and closer. He looks back and sees claws starting to reach over the rocks behind him. He climbs faster. As he reaches the peak he can hear them scrambling. He climbs higher, reaching the narrow spine, higher and higher as the claws scrape his feet. He looks up, sees there is nowhere to go. And then he slips and falls.

He screams in terror as he tumbles to his imminent death, falling past the creatures from an impossible height. He screams and he screams until he realizes that he wasn't falling, he was flying. Once he has this realization his perspective completely shifts and he begins to control and enjoy the flight instead of falling with no control.

I feel like a lot of people have had some element of this dream. Certainly ever dream of flight I've had has started with falling. "(Something, something, something), then I was falling, then I realized I could fly, then everything was amazing!"

For whatever reason though, this particular telling of the story made me focus on the perspective change part of it instead of just the flight part. Sometimes falling actually is flight, if we can only let ourselves see it in that light. In fact, maybe that terror, that fear and the feeling of loss and falling, are entirely necessary to reach that place of flight.

If you do not let yourself reach a place of true risk and vulnerability, how can you really reach the most soaring of heights? And if you always could have flown, and if you always could have been flying, then maybe letting goal and risking the fall is the hardest thing to do.

Also, since I haven't re-read "The Sandman" since I wrote this song, I'm not 100% sure I'm quoting this story right or not. Regardless of what the story says, this is what I got from it.