Today's Day in Rock Stories

Linkin Park Stream New Song 'Heavy' And Announce Album

Details are still being worked out, but Osbourne is set to headline Day Four of Moonstock, a music festival being staged at Walker's Bluff in Carterville, Illinois, to coincide with the ultra-rare phenomenon. At precisely 1:20 pm, on Aug. 21, Osbourne will commemorate the event by performing his classic song.

The annual tour, which will be marking its 16th anniversary, is scheduled to kick off on July 7th in Kansas City, MO at the Sprint Center and will finish on September 12th in The Woodlands, TX at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion.

Mustaine did a lengthy interview with Radio.com covering a number of topics from their recent Grammy win to the upcoming Megadeth boot camp and towards the end he was asked if he has begun thinking about the next album.

He said, "Yes, we have. Usually, when I finish a record I put the guitar down and don't pay attention to it for a while. It'll start to call to me, and fortunately recently it's been calling to me a little bit. It's just kind of hard because I don't want to get engrossed in something and then realize that it's going to be another year before I get into the studio."

"I'm just excited about the fact that it's still possible to go out and play stadiums 36 years into a career and that people give a s---" Lars Ulrich says in an interview. "It's going to be awesome."

The new tour will be hitting 30-cities and is set to kick off on July 6th in West Palm Beach, FL at Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre and will wrap up on October 3rd in Denver, CO at the famed Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

The tour is scheduled to kick off on June 20th in Ridgefield, WA at the Sunlight Supply Amphitheatre and will run until August 22nd where is will conclude in Holmdel, NJ at the PNC Bank Arts Center.

The song is the first track revealed from the band's forthcoming album "Makes Me Sick," which is set to be released on April 28th. The band recruited Max Moore to direct the new clip, which was filmed in Nashville.

Chad Gilbert had this to say about the new visual, "NFG has always done a lot of pop culture movie references throughout our career, from cover songs to t-shirt spoofs. So with our album being called 'Makes Me Sick,' it seemed like the perfect opportunity to take that iconic scene and give it our own spin.

The group played fan favorites like "Footsteps," and "Take It All" and they have released videos and the following comments. Frontman Leigh Kakaty says, "Playing for the children of St. Jude Children's Research Hospital was a career highlight.

"Whenever you can help bring inspiration and positivity to children in need it makes it all worthwhile. Being able to bring smiles to both the kids and their families was humbling and something we hope we can do more of in the future."

The trek will be hitting 14 cities and is set to kick off on March 9th at The Waiting Room Lounge in Omaha and will be concluding on March 26th at the Englert Theatre in Iowa City.

The new album will be available as a special edition digipak CD (including 3 bonus tracks), gatefold 2LP + CD & digital download and the effort will continue the theme of the "Please Come Home' where the main character The Astronaut emerging from a long period in stasis.

How did Pink Floyd evolve from the sublime cynicism of Dark Side of the Moon to the madness and despair of The Wall six years later? Hear first-hand the vital importance of this transitional Pink Floyd album Animals and the tipping point on the final stadium concert of that tour which sparked the eventual building of The Wall.

Roger Waters, "At the end of this Montreal show there was some kid trying to climb up the chain link fencing. I got so angry with this kid who was screaming all through "Mother" or one of the quieter songs, anyway, I finally got so angry I spat at this child. He was 14 or 15, I suppose. And when I came off stage afterwards I thought, 'What have I been reduced to, here?... What has happened to the relationship between the band and the audience?' So, the wall was something that I had experienced very powerfully through most of that tour, but specifically on that day."

David Gilmour, "We've never had any sacred idea about what we think we ought to be or what we ought to sound like."

Frontman Frankie Palmeri had this to say about the new clip, "I was very happy with the video we did with Aaron Marsh. He came to me with a vision based off his interpretation of the song, and he brought it completely to life. He wanted to give me an audience that becomes ultra violent or possessed by the lyrics of the song.

The new EP will be entitled "Destroy and Rebuild" and is set to hit stores on April 21st via the band's newly signed deal with Facedown Records. Check out the video here.

Ryan Leitru had this to say, "In the current state of a lot of heavy music circles, there is a lot of music that is made by bands (or their producers) just to cater to a specific audience.

Based on a 2013 book titled "The Beatle Who Vanished," the film, if made, will examine the life of Nicol before, during and after the 13-day period in which he sat in for Starr, who at the time was in the hospital recovering from tonsillitis and pharyngitis.

As reported by Billboard, Nicol performed as a "substitute" Beatle for 10 concerts at five venues. His tenure also included one TV show and several press conferences appearances.

They will be kicking things off with a couple of headline dates in New Orleans on May 2nd and Birmingham, Al the following night that will feature support from Kyng.

The band will play additional headline dates on May 16th in Buffalo, the 17th in Pittsburgh, and Grand Rapids on the 18th. Those shows will also feature Deafheaven and Code Orange.

Anthrax's show was filmed last night at Glasgow's historic venue Barrowland. Seventeen cameras, including five Go-Pros and a full-size camera crane, captured more than two hours of Anthrax favorites that were voted onto the evening's set list by fans and included "Madhouse," "Be All, End All," "Breathing Lightning," and "A.I.R.," followed by Anthrax's classic 1987 album Among The Living performed start to finish ("Caught In A Mosh," "I Am the Law," "Indians," "N.F.L.").

The Metal Blade Tour will also feature Whitechapel, Cattle Decapitation, Allegaeon, and Necromancing The Stone and is set to kick off on February 21st in Pittsburgh and conclude on March 15th in Dallas.

The Amon Amarth tour will follow, launching on May 1st at Vinyl in Pensacola, FL and wrapping up on May 20th at the Mercury Ballroom in Louisville, KY.

Frontwoman, Margarita Monet had the following to say about the track, "This song is extremely contagious, with the heavy hitting/ industrial beat, and a chorus that'll get your blood pumping!

Biersack had this to say about hosting the event, "I am so honored to be hosting this year's fourth annual APMAs. I've attended every APMAs, and I've been fortunate to have a favorite moment every year.

The band kicked off their full US headline tour last night in Houston, TX and will perform in Dallas today for their album release show. Support bands on the tour include Civilian and Equal Vision Records' newcomers Backwards Dancer. Eisley will also perform at SXSW 2017 on March 15.

The song is a tale of a relationship falling apart over late Saturday nights and rainy Sunday mornings. A kick out against the dreary working week and the struggles of fitting a broken relationship into the gaps, 'Blunt' is a song that anyone who has ever done the 9 to 5 can relate to.

This year's infernal ritual features legends from Canada's black metal scene with headliners Revenge (Edmonton, AB), Blasphemy (Vancouver, BC), Rites Of Thy Degringolade (Edmonton, AB) and Antichrist (Vancouver, BC).

This was the first song written for the "Leap of Love" album sessions. To be quite honest, I was nervous as hell about it. For several reasons. It was the first track to be written instrumentally without any influence from our original two guitar players. And not that I doubted our new guitar players' (Joe Laga and Pete August) ability to write, but it felt like a new band to me. Everything about "Big Seize" was aesthetically different from previous Super Snake tunes - there was nothing that stood out to me as overtly tongue in cheek (a defining Super Snake quality). It was written as a short little ripper but I knew this song was going to sound massive by the time we were done with it.

I went over to Pete August's apartment in Montclair, NJ to lay some vocals down on the original demo sometime in late 2014. It was cold out and I remember picking up a bunch of beer to stay warm and get me in the mood. It wasn't the first time Pete tracked my vocals, but it was the first time he was tracking me for the new stuff where I had decided I wanted to change things up a bit as far as vocal pentameter and style went. I was not confident in myself. All of Pete's roommates were home and walking in and out of his bedroom, seeing what's up, and here I am trying to experiment vocally but completely unsure if I sound like an a**hole or what (See: end vocals on "Big Seize"). Thank god for beer. After I had loosened up a bit, our good friend Pete Lang made his way over. Lang sang in one of August's earlier hardcore bands, Raw Law. He is great company and was also able to alleviate some of this bullsh*t anxiety I was feeling. Lang ended up adding these awesome Nosferatu backing vocals on the call and repeats during the choruses. Everyone in the band just smiled and silently, but totally, approved.

The lyrics were written in the course of three days as I tried to come up with this very specific "plague bringer" horror character. But I also wanted it to be a unrequited love song. Like a sad demon-type. I wanted to use a lot more reverb and delay on my vocals than I had on the previous EPs to give it this washed out haunted vibe. This ended up staging the vocal direction for the entire album. By the time we finished recording the demo that day, I had no idea what it was going to turn out like. I was still half-scared I blew it. Turns out everyone in the band flipped and loved the new direction. It was really inspiring the new risks paid off and allowed me to push even further with the following tracks we wrote. I refrained from using my usual growly vocals over everything and decided to go more relaxed; ironically, "Big Seize" is the growliest song on the record.

The album cut recording of it is an entirely different story. Down in northern Virginia, up in the mountains, in a haunted old cabin in the middle of nowhere, in a room filled with taxidermy turkeys and massive bear claws, the song just felt so natural and so psychedelic. I could feel colors pouring out of my mouth as I sang along to it. Kevin Antreassian (Super Snake producer and guitarist for The Dillinger Escape Plan) and I were just having so much fun and cracking each other up. It was such a smooth and confident process. Easily one of my favorite recording experiences of all time.