Eddie Van Halen left behind three or four albums worth of unreleased music, his brother and Van Halen bandmate Alex revealed in a new interview to promote his memoir "Brothers".
The audio version of the book contains the final song that Alex and Eddie wrote together called "Unfinished". The drummer appeared on a new episode of Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho's podcast "Talk Is Jericho". During the chat, Alex was about the possible release of more unreleased music from his late brother. (continue)
Iconic drummer Jason Bonham shared that Sammy Hagar has decided to stick with Kenny Aronoff as part of his The Best Of All Worlds band after Kenny replaced him for the final shows of the summer tour.
Bonham made the revelation when responding to a fan's comment on a social media post of the tour poster of his upcoming Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Evening tour dates. (continue)
Sodom's cult 1992 album Tapping The Vein covered a wide range of lyrical topics amongst its eleven songs and opening track 'Body Parts' deals with the horrors of the organ trade. The lyric writing duties on the album were, for the first time shared out between all three members; Tom Angelripper, Andy Brings and Chris Witchhunter. It was Chris along with a friend of his called Bertrum, who contributed the lyrics to 'Body Parts'. It was also one of the songs where producer, Harris Johns suggested Tom lowered his voice, which worked perfectly with the bands standard tuning, while still retaining a menacing character.
The new expanded editions of Sodom's, Tapping The Vein feature the original album remastered, it also features a complete remixed version done by Andy Brings with some additional alternative takes of three album tracks, plus three live concerts: Tokyo 1992, Düsseldorf 1992 and Cologne 1992 (Chris Witchhunter´s last show with Sodom) in the super deluxe edition. (continue)
Anthony Raneri, renowned singer/songwriter of alternative outfit Bayside has debuted his latest solo EP, Everyday Royalty, via Equal Vision Records. Available now across all digital streaming platforms, this record is a departure from the sound he's been known to deliver for 25 years, lifelong Bayside fans, and new fans alike, are about to find out what happens when total freedom meets intention and experience. In addition, the EP is coupled with a performance music video for the focus track "Over Time", directed by Wombat Fire.
According to Nashville Scene "No song stands out quite like "Over Time," a shuffling, banjo-featuring story about changing seasons that offers the perfect addition to a late-autumn soundtrack." (continue)
KISS frontman Paul Stanley says in a new interview that he open to performing with the band again after the group famously played the final show of their second farewell tour, the End Of The Road tour in December of last year at Madison Square Garden.
While it has been almost a year since KISS playing the last concert of that tour, Stanley is keeping busy. This weekend he is holding two art shows in New Jersey; yesterday (November 15th in Atlantic City and today (November 16th) at the Wentworth Gallery at The Mall at Short Hills, NJ. (continue)
Linkin Park's Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong join The Zach Sang Show at Amazon to talk about the band's reunion and their new album From Zero, out today. Mike Shinoda reveals how it feels to be playing as a band again, saying "having a thing that you felt was taken away and then being able to get it back...I mean, there's nothing like it. There never will be anything like it." He shares how the band started the search for a new singer, first meeting Emily Armstrong, and how he was able to get the rest of Linkin Park on board.
Shinoda reflects back on writing lyrics with late bandmate Chester Bennington, and how that's changed with this new iteration of the band, saying "He loved for me to suggest him lyrics. A lot of that was either me drawing from my personal experience, or me knowing his experience so well that I was trying to help him tell his story." (continue)
Austrian Death Machine drummer Brandon Short shared that he has made the decision to part ways with the band for the "sake of [his] mental well-being and personal beliefs", after being inspired to make the move in the wake of As I Lay Dying's implosion that left frontman Tim Lambesis as the only remaining member.
Short shared: Short said in full: !!DEPARTURE STATEMENT!! It is with a heavy heart that I announce my decision to step away from Austrian Death Machine. For the sake of my mental well-being and personal beliefs, and in light of the recent developments surrounding the As I Lay Dying camp and Tim, this has become an inevitable step for me. Although it feels necessary, it's one I made after deep reflection as these events began to unravel. (continue)
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Veteran rockers Sister Hazel just released their new album "Sand, Sea & Crash Debris" and to celebrate we asked Andrew Copeland to tell us about the song "Live Again." Here is the story:
I wrote this song with Neal Carpenter. The two of us were discussing the peaks and valleys of relationships, and how there are times that it seems like there's no way out of the rut that the relationship has fallen into. The chorus points to the idea of looking back at the positive things that brought the relationship together from the beginning and keeping faith that you can work through the valley. (continue)
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