Today's Day in Rock Stories

Original Alice Cooper Band Reuniting For Tour

During the band's concert in Tilburg, Holland on Monday night (June 12) Moody reportedly missed the first songs of the performance and then later told the audience, "This is my last show with Five Finger Death Punch."

The band also released an album trailer, which was directed by Liam Lynch, to reveal the album's title and a snippet of the record's first single, "Feet Don't Fail Me."

The track is the first new music from the band since their 2012 album Battle Born (not counting their 2016 Christmas album Don't Waste Your Wishes). Hopefully, this signals a fifth studio effort is imminent.

In theaters June 16 and starring Naomi Watts, Jaeden Lieberher, Jacob Tremblay and Sarah Silverman, the drama centers of the life of a suburban mother and her sons, Henry and Peter. Henry documents his crush on his classmate and next door neighbour's daughter in a book while devising a plan to rescue her from an abusive stepfather.

Campbell, who rose to fame as the lead guitarist for the original Dio band, made the comments while speaking with the White Line Fever. He told the program, "I think when Def Leppard started, you know, the first record, 'On Through The Night', it was a very, very interesting debut. But it was the second record that really started to bring notoriety to the band. That was 'High 'N' Dry' and it was very in the mold of AC/DC, who the band had toured with at the time.

"I think a lot of hardcore, longtime Def Leppard fans long for that sort of thing again but I've got to tell you, that's never gonna happen. We're never going to make an album that's solely like that. There's too much diversity within Def Leppard now, there's too many miles under the wheels, too many different genres have been sampled.

The album will be released in February and will feature some previously unreleased tracks as well as newly remastered classics. An exact release dates is still to be announced.

Brown was interviewed by Sticks For Stones about the new record and he told them, "there's not one track on here that sounds like f***ing Pantera - not one - and I made that intentional. I've already done that, man. Why go and beat a dead horse? Pantera has been over for a long time. Fifteen years. There'll never be another one.

The veteran band has decided to retire after 26 years and will be closing out their career with the final trek that will be kicking off on October 24th in Phoenix, AZ at The Van Buren and finishing on November 17th in New York city at the Hammerstein Ballroom.

The band filmed the new clip with director Corey Adam in Los Angeles and vocalist/drummer Sebastien Grainger shared the following comments, "When Corey Adams started talking to us about making this video he said he wanted it to be about how body builders would spend their last day on earth before the nuclear apocalypse.

Mille Petrozza had the following comments about the new clip, "This video is a tribute to eighties slasher movie culture. We have kept this very simple and the idea is, to take you back on a trip to the eighties to celebrate the re-release of our first four albums. Enjoy!"

The band revealed that the new album will be entitled "Outside" and is scheduled to hit stores on September 8th via Nuclear Blast (via New Damage Records in Canada).

The preview clip can be streamed here and frontman Jim Grey offered up some details for the new concept album: "We decided to create a concept album, but one that came from a more personal place: one that would facilitate our creative needs wherever the journey took us.

The third single from the group's fourth album, "�And Justice For All", also has the distinction of being the first music video issued by the band while delivering their first Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance in 1990. The US Top 40 hit helped push the album to No. 6 on the Billboard 200 and US sales of more than 8 million copies.

Part of Metallica's North American tour in support of "Hardwired�To Self Destruct", the Iowa Speedway event was a benefit concert for The Native Fund, the charity founded by actor Ashton Kutcher and NFL star Dallas Clark in 2008 as a way to give back to the local residents of the state they both grew up in.

"They are committed to raising funds and organizing resources that can be used to assist the people of Iowa in their times of need," explains Metallica, "including relief through its financial and programmatic resources to Iowans suffering from a natural disaster, to post-9/11 veterans who are in need medical or other assistance, and to children afflicted with life-threatening illness or disease.

The tour leg will be kicking off on July 13th in Abilene, TX at the Amnesia and is scheduled to conclude on July 30th with a show at the Lincoln Theater in Lincoln, NE.

Townsend received the 2017 honor at the ceremony in London earlier this week. Previous recipients of the award include Megadeth's Dave Mustaine, Queen's Brian May and Motorhead's Phil Campbell

Devin had this to say about the award and the new video clip, "Hey all! Well heck, I guess I won an award for being a guitar guy...sweet! All those years of social ineptitude has manifested in an ability to play 32nd notes. Take that, dad! ...to celebrate, we are doing a 'lyric video' for a track I had been encouraged to release when the album first came out, but decided to go with another one instead.