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Turner made the comments in a new interview with the Australian outlet Illawarra Mercury. "I had worked with Ritchie's manager for over a year trying to put something together that was authentic. When I say 'authentic,' I mean authentic lineup, regardless of who was still around, who wasn't," he revealed. "We were going to have people that actually were in Rainbow... And they just pulled out at the last minute really and put this thing together."

The singer said that he was shocked by Blackmore's decision to put together the current lineup. "Why would anyone of his iconic nature want to come out and not be as good as he can be? Because, obviously, the reviews haven't been that good. And that's not for me to say - that's what people are saying. It's obvious that it's just not living up to snuff.

The veteran metal band's tenth album sold 540,000 equivalent album units, of which 487,000 were in traditional album sales. "Hardwired�" topped the list ahead of releases by Twenty One Pilots ("Blurryface"), the soundtrack to Guardians Of The Galaxy 2, and Imagine Dragons ("Evolve"), among others.

The band also debuted the opening track "Less Than" in anticipation of the impending release of their five-track EP. The video showcases a woman hypnotized by an 8-bit looking video game, which features lyrics from the new song.

An underlying electronic sound evokes this video game vibe, while frontman Trent Reznor sings, "We didn't even notice/ We awake in a place/ We can barely recognize, yeah/ Hypnosis."

Due August 4, a remastered edition of the record will be issued in various packages, including a 7-disc Super Deluxe Edition, 3CD Deluxe Version, 1CD Vanilla Version, 2-LP Black Vinyl Version and a limited edition 2-LP Colored Vinyl Version.

The reissues include B-sides and live tracks, plus the audio for "In The Round In Your Face (Live)" on CD for the first time. "It's hard to believe that it's been thirty years since the release of Hysteria," says frontman Joe Elliott. "In some respects it really does seem like only yesterday.

I had been sitting on the music and melodies for Miles Away for quite some time, but never had the right story to match up with it. The breakthrough came when a close friend had a series of events in their life that caused them to freak out and literally blow up their entire life as they knew it. They had come to believe that everything that they had been working so hard for was not compatible with what they believed that they should be doing. Their solution was to try to erase everything and start over with the hope that they could get onto the right track. The big problem with that idea was that aside from the collateral damage, what they believed that they needed to do in life didn't actually line up with what they felt and ultimately knew was right for them. Finally they came back to their senses but it was a long and hard process. The lyrics are inspired by that story of questioning what true belief really is.

By the time the lyrics came together we were well into the final stages of putting together the new record. We had a running list of 18 songs and no brain space for yet another one so it sat on the back burner like so many others in the Dishwalla song pipeline.

One night during the Joshua Tree Recording Sessions we were watching one of the last Presidential debates. Everyone started getting super depressed with the ridiculous spectacle and the mood started going downhill fast. Thankfully our drummer George looked over and said: 'Hey let's go play some music'. We bailed out and went to the patio and started jamming. After a while I remembered that song idea and we started to play though it.

Over the next hours different band members came out and started playing along as we worked though the different parts. Our producer Sylvia Massy stealthily set up mics to capture the patio jam and all the ideas that were flying around.

By the next evening we had recorded the entire song and added it to the track list. We used an Echoplex Tape Delay that belonged to our friend Eric Burdon that we had found sitting in a closet for the Rodney's electric and Scot's lap steel parts. Justin sang with a blanket over his head at one point as a quick-fire vocal booth, and did some other takes while doing pushups with the mic on the floor which gave the takes a really different feel. Later we added a string arrangement and a melody part recorded with my 8-year old son's Melodica, which is a toy harmonica with keys that can make some really lonely and haunting sounds.

Justin and I had completely different ideas of how to mix the song. He had done a really up-front and personal mix, which I couldn't really wrap my head around since I had been running the song in my head one way for so long. I then did a version that was wetter and more driving, which I really liked but didn't have the in-your face intimacy of his approach. The end product is a combination of both of our mixes that actually crossfades from one to the other seamlessly under the vocal, and creates a whole sonic journey along the way.

The deluxe box set edition of the OKNOTOK reissue contains a "C90 cassette mixtape compiled by the band, taken from OK Computer session archives and demo tapes."

When certain fans played the first track, they noticed the "beepy" startup sound for the ZX Spectrum, 1980's era, 8-bit British computer. The crazy part is, the code isn't written in the liner notes or on an external drive, but actually embedded within the audio itself.

To make the Easter egg even more fun, fans realized guitarist and keyboardist Jonny Greenwood owned a Spectrum ZX and learned to code Sinclair BASIC.

'There are some slower moments but I like to dance, man, and whether it's Eagles [Of Death Metal] or Queens or [Them Crooked] Vultures there's no reason not to conjoin rock'n'roll and dance and hallelujah and darkness and all that in one thing," Homme told NME. "In a world of desperately going for 'likes' I think Villains is more like, 'We'll take the dislikes, we'll take all the outcasts.' This album is here to do bad guy stuff."

"We've actually just finished recording a Christmas record about two months ago, which will actually make it three records in two years!," the bassist tells Orange Amps. "The Christmas record will be released around Halloween, and it came out great! We did one standard, and then all sorts of different songs on there, it's really cool.

"We've got a few originals," he adds, "and we covered songs from artists that we really like which have done Christmas songs we think are really cool, you know, Roy Wood and that sort of thing.

In a recent email to fans, the band described the track as "either a gorgeous celebration of longing or a swirling aural hangover cure. If you, the journalist, need something specific to say about it, try something like, 'It's the sound of Arcade Fire at the dawn of something new, gorgeously unsure if they're ready for morning to come.'"

In the video, Regine Chassagne walks through dirty, chaotic streets of New Orleans at night, while the rest of the band act as street cleaners.

"(W)hen I do the show, I feel like I'm kind of talking to someone like me in the audience," he told Rolling Stone. "So I'm relating to the people. And when I'm playing, I'm imagining it's me listening to this band, this guy."

The trek is set to kick off on August 18th in Dayton, Oh and runs through September 23rd in Providence, RI and will include support from Righteous Vendetta and Dark Sky Choir.

Guitarist Chris Howorth spoke with Metal Wani about the new album and revealed how the collaboration came about, "Maria was doing the lyrics - and it's almost like a duet, but she's singing to herself with the mother and the priest and we're like, 'Rob Halford IS the priest! He would be the coolest dude ever to have on this song.'

Filmed by 6 cameras at the UK venue The Robin 2 by Skooch Media headed by Leigh Tarrant and Chris Grout-Smith, audio recorded by Damon Sawyer of Platform Studios, and edited/mastered by Ed Truckell, LIVE @ The Robin 2 also includes a back stage interview and the pre-release trailer.