Today's Day in Rock Stories

Mott The Hoople's Pete Overend Watts Dead At 69

Taylor spoke with Rock Cellar Magazine and revealed that the new album will be entitled "Hydrograd" and had this to say, "I can tell you that you should be very, very, very, very excited for what is in store."

"I'm not at liberty to say who I am or what I am doing here," says a masked, anonymous member of the group in the first of three clips. "This is a room. I'm pretty sure it's inside of a city or a town or a village. I'm in a recording studio. We're recording something. I don't know. I can't talk about it."

"Some would say I prepare for a record similar to a Navy Seal, a Marine," explains bassist/vocalist Troy Sanders in a second video. "I feel the need to get into the paint, take on the role of 'Hey, I've got a huge task in front of me.' I set my goals, I focus. I let nothing bother me. Horse shades, straight ahead."

In a third preview, vocalist/guitarist Brent Hinds discusses how he spent a month inside the moon recording his guitar parts for the follow-up to 2014's "Once More 'Round The Sun."

Wandtke, who joined Trivium in late 2015, revealed to fans last week that he had left the group and is now focusing his energy on his long in the making new project called Bedlem.

Trivium bassist Paolo Gregoletto took to Twitter (via Lambgoat to confirm the lineup change. He tweeted: "Was a pleasure playing with Paul the last year, but we felt it wasn't the right fit long term, we let him know a week after Orlando show [in late October]."

Stinson was in the band between 1998 and 2014 but now he says that while he remains good friends with all involved he is glad to have moved on. Speaking to Observer he said: "I'll be honest with you, I am stoked about the Guns N' Roses reunion. All those guys are my buddies, except I don't really know Slash. I don't think I've ever met him. But all those guys are my friends and I'm glad they're out doing it but I'd be lying if I said I missed that gig."

He continued: "I miss the people a whole lot and obviously you miss the fans and stuff like that. But where I'm at in life right now, that's just a whole thing that� I'm not saying I'd never do it again but I'm kind of glad I moved on from that. It really was a lot, and it really required, sadly, because of my circumstances with my ex-wife, to have to put a whole lot of crazy sh*t into play just to be able to do those tours towards the end, because I had this young daughter."

The tour will be kicking off April 9 in Mexico City at the Pepsi Center and is scheduled to wrap up with an appearance at this year's Bunbury Music Festival on June 2nd-4th in Cincinnati, OH.

The group will be playing the full album during the outing which is scheduled to begin on August 9th in Prague at the Lucerna Music Bar and conclude on September 9th in Madrid.

Mikael �kerfeldt had this to say about the Markus Hofko directed clip, "I have to say our involvement in the making of the 'Era' video was so minimal we can't take credit either for or against its brilliance. We did 3D scans of our bodies (clothed) in Munich during the last European tour. I remember everyone's extremely tired and probably slightly hungover. The director just placed us in a ice-cold room and then scanned us with something that looked like a flashing hairdryer. Done! We've done our part for the video. Next!

The select dates will include shows at New York City's Terminal 5, Los Angeles' Hollywood Palladium, Denver's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, Berkeley's Greek Theatre and the Edgefield in their hometown of Portland, OR.

We were sent these details about the new clip, "The performance-based video which features the band tearing through the track while encased in a glass box suspended from the ceiling of an abandoned warehouse as a ferocious quantity of fireworks explodes around them in dangerously close proximity."

The 2D version of the video can be streamed here. A "unique 3D virtual reality experience" version will be coming soon, according to the announcement.

Due April 21, the project is an autobiographical work based around Davies' 2013 memoir, "Americana: The Kinks, the Riff, the Road: The Story", which chronicles his experiences in America - from touring the country with The Kinks and subsequent blacklisting by the American Musicians Union to his years playing stadiums and eventually staying in New York and New Orleans for a time.

Emily Lazar, a.k.a. September Mourning had this to say, "20 Below is about ending the cycle of abuse within our own lives, whether it's self inflicted or from an outside source. We've all had those relationships where someone has gotten close to us, abuses us in some way� knocks us down so hard it diminishes our self esteem.

Perry, whose rock and roll career spans almost five decades, joins a stellar list of previous winners that include Slash, Pete Townshend, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen and many more.

In an interview with The Orange County Register before the awards event, Perry talked about the first time he fell in love with the Les Paul. "I had seen pictures of Jimmy Page and Clapton playing them, and then I saw Jeff Beck playing one live, and I sat in front of him in this small place in Boston and watched him play it," Perry said.

In addition to supporting U2 for their The Joshua Tree 30th Birthday Celebrations and performing at Hangout Festival and Boston Calling Music Festival, Mumford & Sons will be playing three individual shows.

Due February 17, the package will feature the 2016 record alongside the track "Vice Of The People" - previously only available in Japan - as well as a bonus disc of demo versions of several of the album's songs.

"We've included some of the demos from 'For All Kings' in this package," says drummer Charlie Benante. "We wanted to show the evolution of the songs. The idea of a song can start from a guitar riff or a thought in your head. It then takes shape and goes from my music to Scott's lyrics to Frank and Joey's ideas and melodies to Jon's lead guitar. This is our way of making Anthrax music - enjoy!"

In a recent episode of Marc Maron's WTF podcast, Metallica frontman James Hetfield reveals that Skrillex--back when he was an 11 year old kid who still went by the name Sonny Moore-- is visible on the DVD of Metallica's S&M, an album that they recorded in San Francisco in 1999 accompanied by a symphony orchestra (the album's titled stands for "symphony and Metallica").

Hetfield says, "The artist Skrillex, who is somewhat popular, he was in the audience. He's in the video!" But don't look for someone who resembles the oft-photographed EDM star. "He's got blonde hair [in the video], and he's the kid that's trying to stage dive at the symphony!"

But the videos aren't the first Milana's of fame. She was a top 20 finalist in the 'Hit Like A Girl' global drum contest for the past 3 years and the 2016 DownBeat Award Winner for best blues/pop/rock Junior High band, "Jukebox Antihero" (her current band).

A fan of many genres of music and a lucky one at that, she's jammed with Stewart Copeland of The Police and performed on stage with Sheila E. Milana has also played with Branden Campbell of Neon Trees, Ndugu Chancler known for his work with Michael Jackson, Rashawn Ross of the Dave Mathews Band and more--an impressive resume for someone who's age is still in the single digits.

Animals is the album where bass player and vocalist Roger Waters began his domination of Pink Floyd; he wrote four of the five songs on the album; "Dogs" was co-written with guitarist-singer David Gilmour (Gilmour claimed to have written "90%" of the song, which is essentially all of side 1). It was the first album where keyboardist Rick Wright didn't have any writing or co-writing credits.

Musically, it seemed at least partially inspired by the punk rock movement; they'd dropped the saxophone solos and the lush backing vocals. Animals is essentially the stripped down Floyd � guitars, bass, keyboards, drums, vocals and some effects. Indeed, later that year, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason produced British goth-punkers the Damned's second album, Music for Pleasure. While Floyd may have been seen as prog-rock dinosaurs, they still were in tune with the zeitgeist, and it showed.