Lorraine Lewis's long-running band FEMME FATALE has just released a new single, "Bad Love", via Cleopatra Records. The song's accompanying music video, directed by Vicente Cordero and shot by David Hernandez, can be seen below.

FEMME FATALE's first single after years out of the spotlight, "Living Like There's No Tomorrow", made a monster splash earlier this year, and now they're back with "Bad Love", a dynamite stomper that's accompanied by one of the most incendiary videos of the year. The clip is a visual extravaganza that hits as hard as the song itself. "And yes," Lorraine confirms. "That's real fire. We also brought in some incredible fire performers and even a real firefighter from the adult industry named Eva Angelina. Without giving too much away, let's just say the video is HOTTT!"

Written by Lorraine, TRIXTER guitarist/producer Steve Brown and guitarist David Julian, "Bad Love", she says, "is about that magnetic kind of connection you know isn't good for you, but you keep going back anyway. It's messy, it's addictive and it's real. I wanted to capture that push-and-pull between desire and self-preservation. We've all been there. We see the red flag and still jump in headfirst... but if that red flag's on fire? Baby, that's your cue to run.

"I'm lucky to work with Steve," she continues. "He is always magic. Steve and David really helped bring 'Bad Love' to life sonically."

But Steve also brought in some heavy hitters for the track — the killer rhythm section of Joey Cassata on drums and Sean McNabb on bass. Plus, what Lorraine so accurately describes as "a slaying guitar solo" from former GUNS N' ROSES guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal. The result is a truly pyro-powered feast for all the senses, with Lorraine looking and sounding as mesmeric as ever, and the band (with drummer Nick Mason dipping for Cassata) as electrifyingly assaultive as the song demands.

But how could they be anything else? As Lorraine says, "There's no faking that heat."

In a recent interview with Rev. Tom Brice of Sportzwire Radio, Lorraine stated about "Bad Love": "Steve Brown plays guitar, and David Julian plays rhythm guitar on the track. And we also are featuring Bumblefoot… That's a really big deal. And I'm super honored and grateful that he's on the track. And his solo is sick — it's so sick. It's gorgeous. It's layered and just juicy and delicious. So I can't wait for people to hear the track."

Regarding her collaboration with Brown, Lewis told Sportzwire Radio: "A lot of people are working with Steve, because Steve is an amazing producer. It was last year that Steve reached out to me. He was just coming off the success of [Ace Frehley's] '10,000 Volts' album. [The '10,000 Volts' title track is a] great, great song. That and 'Cherry Medicine' I loved off the album. Classic Ace but in 2024. It was great."

She continued: "I'm just so lucky that Steve reached out to me. Steve and I were labelmates back in the day on MCA. We've also done the cruises together. We've known each other a long time. And so he reached out to me and said, 'Hey, let's do an album.' And I said, 'Let's go.' So the first song was 'Living Like There's No Tomorrow'. He had the chorus ready to go. I immediately was, like, 'Oh, this is such a great anthem.' And it just spoke to me then with everything that had gone on in the previous months before we started working together."

"Living Like There's No Tomorrow" was written by Lewis and Brown, who also produced the song at his Mojo Vegas 6160 studio in New Jersey. The track was engineered by Brown and Scott Gutierezz and was mixed by Bruno Ravel.

"Living Like There's No Tomorrow" features Brown and David Julian on guitars, with the guitar solo played by R.J. Ronquillo, and drums played by Kent Slucher.

FEMME FATALE released a self-titled MCA album in 1988 which produced two big rock singles and MTV videos: "Waiting For The Big One" and "Falling In And Out of Love".

The 67-year-old Lewis reactivated FEMME FATALE after a nearly six-year run as the lead vocalist of VIXEN, whom she was invited to join in 2019. Lorraine has also been recording with Lou Gramm, the original FOREIGNER lead singer and Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer. They have recorded an interpretation of David Bowie's "Heroes".

Lewis was fired from VIXEN in May 2024 and was replaced by Rosa Laricchiuta.

In January 2019, VIXEN recruited Lewis as its new lead singer following the departure of Janet Gardner.

Lewis had already performed with VIXEN in March 2018 in Durant, Oklahoma while Gardner was recovering from surgery.

A collection of demos for what was supposed to be FEMME FATALE's second album, "One More For The Road", was released in 2016 via FnA Records. The demos were recorded back in 1989/1990 with the original bandmembers and had never seen the light of day until more than a quarter century later.

"One More For The Road" contained 14 tracks, including a version of Janis Joplin's "Piece Of My Heart".

FEMME FATALE released a live album in April 2024, "Demos + Live", that also included five demo tracks and a cover of AC/DC's "It's A Long Way To The Top".

In a recent interview with Jeff Gaudiosi of MisplacedStraws.com, Lewis stated about the current FEMME FATALE lineup: "Well, it's all guys, for one thing. I've had a wonderful time being with the ladies of rock and roll — do not get me wrong — I've had a major blast. But FEMME FATALE originally was myself and four rocking guys, and we're getting back to the roots of that.

"Look, we can't go back to the '80s — I don't wanna do that — but I do want to be the front person, the leader of the pack that has these great rocking guys in back of me," she explained. "And so we're getting back to that look, getting back to that sound."

In a new interview with Jorge Botas of Portugal's Metal Global, LACUNA COIL vocalist Andrea Ferro spoke about the financial and emotional challenges facing musicians today, particularly as it relates to touring in a post-pandemic world. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):  "We still love the lifestyle, because if you don't love the lifestyle, you can't do this job. Because this is the level we play. We make a good living with our music, but we're not becoming rich; we're not millionaires or anything like that. It's not the '80s anymore. And so if you do wanna do this, you really need to love what you do. Otherwise you would do another job. It is not possible to do this job if you don't really love the lifestyle, the traveling, the meeting people every night and playing for them. So me, Marco [Coti Zelati, bass] and Cristina [Scabbia, vocals], we still have this passion, just like it was 20 or 25 years ago, and we still love to do this. Obviously we're not getting any younger, so we kind of try to have a schedule which is doable, like three shows, a day off, three shows, a day off, so we can enjoy and we don't have to overstress our bodies and getting tired. Although, for example, the first tour we've done for [the latest LACUNA COIL] album [2025's 'Sleepless Empire'], we've done 85 days with, like, 16 flights in South America, and then two months in North America on the bus with MACHINE HEAD and IN FLAMES, and then another week of headlining shows. So it's been intense anyway, but sometimes you can do nothing about it. But in general, we try to have a more comfortable approach so that we don't get too tired or burned out. But overall, we love the lifestyle. We love writing music, we love exchanging experiences with the people, staying on the road with our crew. It's still a big thing for us, it's still something that we love to do, and I don't see us stopping anytime soon. We're not a band that thinks about 20 years from now but I'm sure we are gonna keep going for a while, [for as long as] we can physically [do it]."

Ferro also discussed LACUNA COIL's musical evolution over the years and the importance of incorporating new sounds and influences on every album. He said: "I think it just depends from band to band. There's some bands, like AC/DC, which don't need to change — they're doing what they do and they have done it for the entire career and it works great for them and that's what people expect from them — and there's other bands that are more developing their style, and we are one of those bands that we always kind of shift a little bit. Not massively, obviously — I think you can recognize the band — but we like to get different influences and to bring our music somewhere else. And I think people recognize this, recognize the fact that we're not settling down and saying, 'Okay, we've got some fans and we can keep doing the same record over and over.' It's not what we are as people. We're people that are constantly growing and incorporating different influences, and we are the same as musicians. And if we release an album in 2025, I wanted it to make sense in 2025. And it doesn't have to be modern at every cost, but it has to be contemporary, it has to have a feel that is not something that you could have done in the '70s. And I feel like we want our band to be meaningful also now, not just 'cause we've done a good record 20 years ago and we still live out of the popularity of that record. And we have a lot of fans that discovered the band recently, on 'Delirium' [2016]. Obviously, the biggest growing for the band has been with 'Comalies' [2002] and 'Karmacode' [2006], but then every album we've brought in some new fans as well from different generations. And when we go to our shows, we see people our age, people much younger than us, people older than us. There's quite a variety of male, female, older, younger, and it's great. We love the fact that we are a band that can [appeal] to a lot of different people."

"Sleepless Empire" came out in February 2025 via Century Media Records. Inspiration to create the LP came during the sessions for "Comalies XX" (2022),the acclaimed remake of LACUNA COIL's breakthrough third record "Comalies". Writing and recording took place in northern Italy between Milano (the band's hometown) and Como, where SPVN Studios are located. As with their previous albums, production was done in house with Marco "Maki" Coti Zelati at the helm, and artwork was hand curated by the talented Italian artist Roberto Toderico. Two other very special talents enrich the album, namely the guest vocalists: LAMB OF GOD's Randy Blythe on the song "Hosting The Shadow" and NEW YEARS DAY's Ash Costello on "In The Mean Time".

In October 2024, Italian guitarist/producer Daniele Salomone confirmed that he had joined LACUNA COIL as the replacement for the band's longtime guitarist Diego Cavallotti.

Salomone made his live debut with LACUNA COIL on August 4, 2024 at the Rockstadt Extreme Fest in Râșnov, Romania.

In June 2024, LACUNA COIL announced Cavallotti's departure. Diego, who joined LACUNA COIL in 2016, initially as a fill-in guitarist following the exit of Marco "Maus" Biazzi, later said in a social media post that "this decision is not the result of my dissatisfaction or desire to explore new opportunities."

Cavallotti and Salomone played together in the Italian metal band INVERNO, which released its debut album, "Stasis", in December 2023.

Greek power metallers, The Silent Rage, has issued the following statement via their official webpage:

“Legionnaires,

Silence will now be broken. Few months ago, we decided to re-record one of the very first songs the band ever wrote, tracing back to the demo years. This song will be ‘Wings Of Tragedy MMXXV’, a re-worked version of the track in the way The Silent Rage sound nowadays.

Therefore, we decided to revive The Legionnaires Choir Ensemble featuring the members of the band Nikos Siglidis, Nikos Sarbanis, George Haniotakis & Stamatis Katsafados with very special guest Steve Venardo, singer of The Deadliest Scourge album plus Dionisis Kontis, singer of Harvester Of Souls EP. The result turned out to be superb!

Guitars, bass & gang vocals for ‘Wings Of Tragedy MMXXV’ were recorded at Symbolic P Studios, Athens, Greece while lead vocals were recorded at Michalis’ Rinakakis home studio in Falkenberg, Sweden. Drums were programmed by Nikos Siglidis & Stamatis Katsafados at the Nomad home studio, in Athens, Greece. The production, mixing & mastering were made by Epameinondas Oikonomou (Kawir, Enthroned Serpent, Karma Violens).

The cover art was once again made by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Design (Kamelot, Evergrey, Oceans Of Slumber) and the lyric video for the track will also once again be made by Stefano Mastronicola (Trick Or Treat, Kaledon, Disarmonia Mundi).”The band continues: “The single will be released on 28/10/2025 by Scarlet Records. Stay tuned!

PS. We are looking forward to see you in our upcoming shows in Thessaloniki (November 28th) at Eightball Club & in Athens (November 30th) at An Club, where we are opening for the mighty Helstar alongside with Desert Near The End.

Members of Finland’s legendary Children Of Bodom will hold A Celebration Of Music on February 26, 2026 at Tavastia in Helsinki. Tickets for the evening go on sale on October 29 at 9:00am at Tiketti.fi.

The evening will feature original Children Of Bodom members Janne Warman (keyboards), Henkka Blacksmith (bass), Jaska Raatikainen (drums) and Alexander Kuoppala (guitars), and vocalist Samy Elbanna, a familiar and long-time friend of the band from Lost Society.

The band has issued the following statement:

“We want to celebrate the life work of our band and at the same time the musical legacy of our friend and bandmate, Alexi. The gig will be played for Children Of Bodom at an important Tavastia-club – and at the same time they will answer the fans’ long-standing wish.”

Children of Bodom, founded in Espoo in the early 1990s, rose to international popularity with the albums Something Wild, Hatebreeder and Follow The Reaper, and was known for its technical playing, energetic live gigs and Alexi Laiho’s virtuoso guitar playing.

Laiho passed away on December 29, 2020 due to health issues.

Currently on the road in Europe supporting Helloween on their Giants & Monsters tour, Beast In Black have checked in with the following update:

“With heavy hearts, we announce that Kasperi Heikkinen is parting ways with Beast In Black after ten incredible years together. As we’re currently in the midst of a massive tour with Helloween, we’ll continue performing as a four-piece for a few shows until we find the right guitarist to join our ranks.

We want to express our deepest gratitude to Kasperi for a decade filled with Heavy Metal and unforgettable memories. Since we’re in the middle of a tour, we won’t be commenting further at this time – but we’re looking forward to rocking out with all of you, our Beasts, louder than ever!”

Colombian death metal outfit Vein return with their second full-length, Reveal, landing November 14, 2025 on HateWorks.

Produced by Yisux Friden and mastered by Jacob Hansen (Arch Enemy, The Back Dahlia Murder, Heaven Shall Burn), Reveal features ten tracks recorded at Friden Studios in Bogotá. The album brings together strong groove rhythms, heavy riffs and precise vocals, reflecting the evolving sound of the band. Listeners can expect a visceral collection, crafted for maximum impact with masterful execution throughout.



Tracklisting:

Redemption
Bitches From Hell
Master
Self Defeated
The Fallen
Reveal
Nailed
Dark Shine
The Ritual
Denial

In a new interview with Tom Robbins of And Now The Band, drummer Gene Hoglan of California thrash metal pioneers DARK ANGEL once again spoke about why he and his bandmates chose to keep their first new album in 34 years, "Extinction Level Event", off streaming services like Spotify. Gene said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I remember back in the day, with the hair metal bands, the cock rock bands, whatever, spending a quarter of a million, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars on a music video, that was par for the course. Hopefully your music video got picked up by your MTV. That's nothing I was ever into, but maybe you got picked up by MTV and then that cost of that was well worth it. But the band doesn't see dime one until all those things are taken care of, back to the record label. And when you're recouping pennies on an album, it's an endless cycle. And so the Spotifys and Apple Musics and all that of this world, they know they've got bands by the the short hairs because there are no other alternatives until the bands say, 'Hey, you know what? We have our own imprint. We have our own .com. We're gonna put our music on our .com, and the fans, it's there for the fans.' If you're somebody who is not a fan of the band, you don't care. I get that; that's fine. But for those who are fans that are, like, 'Okay, well, this is how I can keep my band, my band. And this band has turned their business over to where I have access to what I want from this band and I wanna support this band, I'm gonna get behind this band.' Then we, DARK ANGEL, with ReversedRecords.com, that is a way to get the one-on-one going from us right to our fans. And anybody who has a comment about it, any trolls or haters, it doesn't bother me. It doesn't affect me. It's never gonna make me change my mode of thought on things."

Gene continued: "25 years ago, when the spotlight was put on streaming and all these folks learned, by some of the things that were coming out in the press about… We all know who spoke up against streaming," referencing METALLICA's Lars Ulrich and Napster, "that's when that happened. And a lot of us who were in the underground, but we were just starting to kind of eke out a living. A lot of us were kind of, like, 'Brother, yes, that probably affects fans like you to a large degree, but for the most part, people don't even know about this. And now you're taking this big giant spotlight and putting it right on this.' And everybody's, like, 'Wait a minute, I can get music for free. And I've been a chump all these years, buying CDs for that one song and nine songs suck. But I got that. Now I can just go get that one song online.' It was, like, 'Brother, God, you're gonna ruin it for all of us.' And that's kind of where that started."

After Robbins noted that a lot of artists now look back and feel that Ulrich was "right" in his early criticism of Napster, Hoglan said: "Well, he was always right. And you knew he was right. But, however, it was just, like, 'Man, there's a lot of people that don't know about it right now that aren't going to even know about it for another six or seven years.' But all the people that have streamed music and whatever you wanna call it, stolen music, whatever it is, you might spend your — whatever Spotify costs, 20 bucks a month or 10 bucks a month or whatever, you can put that directly towards your band. If a million bands banded together and said, 'You know what? We are just gonna make it so this is how you get our music just by through the band directly,' you're gonna get the music the way the band intends you to hear it, because that is one thing that DARK ANGEL offers, is we are offering the high-quality stuff, the Waveforms [WAV], the lossless, all that stuff, how you wanna hear your music. And, of course, we have all the vinyl packages and the CD packages as well together. And you're gonna hear it the way the band wants you to hear it. And that's one thing that everybody's always said — MP3s are terrible. That's why so many cats are still into vinyl, because they're, like, 'I can't stand MP3s.' And the ease of listening to music, I totally understand. You wanna check out what a band sounds like? Okay. You go to Spotify and check it out. 'Okay, I heard that band. I know what they sound like now. I've seen their name around for a while. Now I know what SLEEP TOKEN sounds like,' or a cool band like MIDNIGHT or whoever. You go check 'em out wherever and hear them. Or YouTube is another thing — that's why we have placed our stuff on YouTube, just so people can hear it. Because that is one thing that I've been saying from months is, like, whether you buy our record or like it or don't like it, I just want people to be able to hear it. And so at least we have some viable avenues with which you can check out 'Extinction Level Event'."

Hoglan went on to say that he is "proud" of "Extinction Level Event". "I've gotten a number of folks that are telling me that [it's a great album], and I appreciate that, 'cause we put a lot of effort into this," he explained. "And that's all I want people to do, is just know that it's out, be able to check it out, listen for yourself. You decide. I think it's a strong record. I love it, but I'm not gonna tell anybody else, 'You have to love this record. It's our best album.' That's not for me to say. That's for anybody else to go, 'Hey, this is what I feel about that new DARK ANGEL record' — good, bad, whatever. I leave the judgment up to everybody else. Totally."

"Extinction Level Event" was made available digitally on September 5 via Reversed Records.

This past June, DARK ANGEL released "Circular Firing Squad", the second single from "Extinction Level Event". The LP's first single, the "Extinction Level Event" title track, was written by DARK ANGEL guitarist Jim Durkin a decade ago, long before he suffered from severe liver disease, and, to the surprise of everyone, passed away in 2023. It was recorded and mixed at the Armoury Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, executive produced by DARK ANGEL drummer Gene Hoglan, produced and engineered by Rob Shallcross and mixed by Mike Fraser.

Durkin died on March 8, 2023 at the age of 58. An original member of DARK ANGEL, Durkin played on the band's first three albums — 1985's "We Have Arrived", "Darkness Descends" and 1989's "Leave Scars" — before departing the group in 1989. He was part of DARK ANGEL's lineup when the band reformed in 2013, and had been playing with them, on and off, ever since.

Prior to his death, Durkin had been sitting out some of DARK ANGEL's gigs. He was replaced at the shows by Hoglan's wife Laura Christine, who has since joined DARK ANGEL as a permanent member.

The "Extinction Level Event" artwork and layout was designed by Cain Gillis, with concepts by Hoglan.

"Musically, lyrically, and vocally, I'm so stoked about this album," Hoglan previously said. "I'm really excited about DARK ANGEL right now, and everyone who's heard the new album is losing their minds. Every time I'd finish a song and send it over to the guys, everybody was, 'Gene, this is my favorite song!' 'No, this is my favorite song!!' 'Dude, this is totally my favorite song!!!' That's never a bad sign."

Hoglan and Christine wrote everything except for the title track on "Extinction Level Event". Other songs appearing on the effort include "Atavistic", which is described as "a full-on three-minute thrash metal barrage", "Woke Up To Blood", the title of which stemmed from a dog attack, and "Terror Construct", which Gene wrote about the way the media and corporations team up to spread fear among the masses so they can continue to fill their pockets.

The seeds of "Extinction Level Event" were planted in late 2013 between the time when TESTAMENT stopped touring to work on their new record and Hoglan was scheduled to work on his next major project. After the first batch of writing sessions for "Extinction Level Event", Hoglan had to put writing for DARK ANGEL on hold until late 2022. With other obligations behind him, Gene laser-focused on DARK ANGEL, listening back to the jams he and Durkin made earlier, and writing more than 10 new songs over the next three months. With a full album of pummeling new songs, Hoglan flew to Vancouver to track the album at the Armory. There, he and his bandmates worked with Rob Shallcross and Mike Fraser, and over a few sessions, DARK ANGEL had recorded everything but the vocals.

Having passed away two years ago, Durkin's sudden death is still traumatic for DARK ANGEL and especially Hoglan. At the same time, he takes bittersweet pride in knowing that Jim's playing and performances live on through him and DARK ANGEL, not only when the band plays his old riffs, but also in the continued influence Durkin has on the band's new songs.

"One of the last things I told him was, 'Jim, dude, you're my original guitar hero," Hoglan recalled. "'My entire guitar style is based on your style because you are who I really learned how to play guitar from.' So, my guitar approach with DARK ANGEL is Jim Durkin's approach. When I write for the band, I'm thinking, 'What would Jim do here?' That's why his presence is massively all over this new record. Every single song. I wanted to make it to where people are like, 'Yeah, Jim wrote that riff. Oh, there's another Jim riff' because Jim wrote all the best riffs in the band, forever."

DARK ANGEL released two albums with Don Doty on vocals — the aforementioned "We Have Arrived" and "Darkness Descends" — before he exited the group and was replaced by Ron Rinehart (after a brief stint with Jim Drabos in 1987). The band issued two more studio LPs — "Leave Scars" and "Time Does Not Heal" — before calling it quits in 1992. DARK ANGEL reunited in 2013 and slowly started playing sporadic shows and eventually also began working on new material.

In a new interview with Recitales Argentina, LINKIN PARK's Mike Shinoda spoke about what it has been like for him and his bandmates to be back on the road as part of their "From Zero" world tour. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "It's been awesome. We've had a really busy year, so many of the biggest shows we've ever played. I think everybody is still very excited about touring and very excited about the shows. We've got shows lined up until the middle of next year, so it's a very aggressive and long tour for us — I think more shows than like any tour we've done for well over 10 years. Yeah, the new music, new album and everything, the reception from the fans has been better than we could have ever imagined. And we're so excited to play these shows every night."

Released last November, "From Zero" marks LINKIN PARK's first full-length effort since 2017's "One More Light", which was the last LINKIN PARK album before the death of lead vocalist Chester Bennington. "From Zero" features LINKIN PARK's new singer Emily Armstrong and drummer Colin Brittain, who have joined returning members co-vocalist and main producer Shinoda, guitarist Brad Delson, bassist Dave "Phoenix" Farrell and DJ/visual director Joe Hahn in the band's new lineup. Guitarist Alex Feder is filling in for Delson at all LINKIN PARK concerts for the foreseeable future.

Regarding the fan response to "From Zero", Shinoda told Recitales Argentina: "Since the beginning, everything we put out, there's always people that love it and people that don't like it. That's just part of being an artist. Since the beginning, we've realized that the most important thing, first and foremost, is just that we love it and that we're proud of what we've made and that we push ourselves to the best we can to do a great job and to make something that challenges us as writers and creators, and then do our best to communicate that in the live setting when we go on tour. So it sounds simple, but the details and the actual execution of that couldn't be more complicated or more difficult. And I have a lot of respect for all the artists that do it and do it so well. For us, coming back this past year, a few years ago, we found ourselves starting to talk again for the first time. And it was a very organic thing. It just started with getting breakfast, getting lunch, having a coffee, talking about 'what if this' or 'what if that'. And eventually we met Colin and Emily, and they just felt like one of us, they just felt like they clicked with the band."

Asked how he met Colin and Emily, Mike said: "Colin and I met in a writing session with some other people. We were sharing writing and production duties during that session. It was just for this kid, this male artist. And it was fine, but I could tell right away that Colin, I was excited to meet him. I didn't know anything about him, and when we worked together, it occurred to me that he was really smart and really talented. And so I decided to reach out to him a little more and set up some more sessions with him. And Emily, apparently somebody had reached out way back when we did the celebration of life for Chester. After Chester passed away, we did a concert and we had other people who came and sang his part on our songs, and someone had submitted her name, but they submitted it too late, and so we didn't meet her at that time because we had already filled the show; we had all the voices we needed. And then I think it was two years later, I did a session with her and I was really impressed. And that didn't go anywhere, because we didn't make anything that we wanted to put out or that I wanted to put out or she wanted to put out. It was just for fun. And then I just remembered, 'Oh, yeah, that girl was cool.' And then a few years later when we were starting to do sessions again with Dave and Joe, her name came up and we booked one session with her and they got to know her a little bit. And that led to another, and that led to another. And over a period of — I think it took many, many months to go from that to what realizing that she should be the singer. It definitely took more than months. It might've been a couple of years."

Earlier in the month, Shinoda spoke to Chile's Futuro about how fans have been reacting to Armstrong joining the band in 2024, seven years after Bennington's death. The band went on hiatus shortly after. He said: " It's just a very exciting time. It's kind of a rebirth of the band.

"We had kind of started getting back together a few years ago, and it was a very slow and organic build. When it started, we didn't say, like, 'We're going to bring the band back.' We didn't say, 'We're going to go tour.' We just kind of got together and wanted to see what it would be like to get together and write music and spend time together again. And we hoped we would end up here, but a lot of things had to go right in order for that to happen. And they did. So we're very grateful for that, the opportunity, and thrilled with the new music and the tour and the way the fans have responded to it."

LINKIN PARK introduced its new lineup during a September 2024 live performance event, with Armstrong and Brittain, a songwriter and producer for G FLIP, ILLENIUM and ONE OK ROCK, joining Shinoda, Delson, Farrell and Hahn. LINKIN PARK also released a new single, "The Emptiness Machine", and announced "From Zero" the album, which arrived via Warner.

Regarding what it has been like working with Emily and Colin, Mike told Futuro: "It's been awesome. When they were coming into this era, this chapter, they were already so prepared, they were so ready for it. They just hadn't done it. I mean, Emily has played for — I don't know how many [years], like 10 years or more with DEAD SARA. Colin was in multiple bands before he got into producing and writing with other people. And when I met Colin, I could tell that we had a lot of similar ways of looking at music and similar ways of thinking. I was just writing and producing stuff with him, and all of a sudden he got behind the drum kit and I was, like, 'Oh my God. He's an amazing drummer.' And as it turned out, Rob [Bourdon], our previous drummer, he didn't wanna keep playing. So that was almost just like good luck for us that we knew a guy already that that was so great. Emily is a total phenomenon. For us to find a once-in-a-generation voice like Chester and then to find another one like Emily is crazy. It doesn't make any sense."

Asked how he knew Emily was "the one" when it came to finding a replacement for Chester, Mike said: "Well, it's not just the singing, 'cause there's thousands and thousands of great singers out there. And when I worked with people, I've had a bunch of experiences where I worked with lots of different singers who are so talented and I've played shows with lots of singers who are so talented, but there's an an intangible thing that happens when people get in a room and they make things together, and you just feel like the vibe is so effortless and strong and easy. It's easy to hang out with each other. Even when you have differences of opinion on something that you're making or something that you're doing, it doesn't turn into arguments. Nobody's killing the energy, the vibe. And that was the experience we had with Emily and Colin. But as we were starting to make music a couple of years ago, we just found ourselves wanting to do more with them because they were so fun to hang out with and we would always make such good stuff together."

Shinoda went on to say that he and his LINKIN PARK bandmates had no expectations that "From Zero" would turn out to be a commercial success. "When we're making things, we're not thinking about hits," he explained. "That's not part of our process at all, really. First and foremost, we wanna love what we're doing, we wanna love playing it every night, we wanna feel like it artistically represents an important chapter for the band and that we're proud of where it sits in our catalog. And that's been the way we've approached things every time since the beginning. There are, of course, moments when it's, like, 'Okay, well, the label wants to release a single,' so you have to do marketing and you have to do promotion. And I totally enjoy doing that stuff. I love making surprises and scavenger hunts. Like the timer — in the beginning of our launch [for the new era of LINKIN PARK], we did a timer [on the band's web site] that counted down to zero and then the fans expected something to happen and it didn't happen; it just bounced back up and started… It went to 3, 2, 1, 0 and then it went 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and they were, like, so mad. But they realized later, the album is called 'From Zero'. The whole point was this is an actual marking of something that's gonna start at that point and go on until whenever. It's not just a countdown to something happening and then it's over. So the process of doing these things, the creative process, making things and sharing them with people, that's an everyday thing for us. I don't get too caught up in numbers and comparisons, unless it's like just checking in to see, like, 'Oh, do people like it? How are we doing with the fans in terms of maybe the show. Are fans excited about the show?' And so far the tour has been so much fun and such an undertaking and it's a lot of joy every night, I think."

At the first first show of LINKIN PARK's "From Zero" tour in September 2024 at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Shinoda addressed the band's new chapter while reflecting on LINKIN PARK's return to the stage. "I mean, that's part of why we're back out here," he said. "We are thrilled to be back out here. It is not about erasing the past. It is about starting this new chapter into the future and coming out here for each and every one of you."

"From Zero" featured the No. 1 single "The Emptiness Machine" and propelled LINKIN PARK to be the only rock band in 2024 to exceed two billion streams. "From Zero (Deluxe Edition)" was released in May.

Delson contributed to "From Zero", but hasn't been part of LINKIN PARK's live shows in support of the LP. The live guitar position has instead been filled by Feder.

In a new interview with Jeff Gaudiosi of MisplacedStraws.com, TESLA guitarist Frank Hannon once again spoke about the possibility of him and his bandmates releasing a full-length album as a follow-up to 2019's "Shock". He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, with TESLA, I really do like the ability to create a song independently and put it out as we do it. At our point of our career that we're at now after 40 years and being older guys, it doesn't make sense to try to fabricate 10 songs, just to put all 10 songs out on one record. It makes more sense for us to work on a song and enjoy the process and let it develop, and then when it's ready, put it out one song at a time. It seems to work better for writing with TESLA. But the one thing that we are enjoying a lot is digging into our influences and songs that [TESLA vocalist] Jeff Keith can really get into singing. And we're experimenting with some old soul tunes, some old cover songs, maybe some James Brown or maybe some TEMPTATIONS, some different kind of things like that."

He continued: "We're at a point now, TESLA's at a point now where we wanna enjoy our career and have fun and create stuff and experiment with some stuff like that that's a lot of fun. The notion of trying to go in lockdown mode for a year and hammer out 10 songs that will be just fabricated, that doesn't sound like fun to us, really, I don't think."

After Gaudiosi noted that it makes sense for a band like TESLA to release standalone singles and give each new song a spot in the setlist as they come out as opposed to putting out an album of tracks that will mostly go unheard, Hannon concurred. "That's a great point," he said. "And most people don't realize the amount of work and lockdown it would take to create nine or 10 songs. Back when we were in our twenties, that was different, man, that was a different time in our lives. So, the amount of work it takes to create a full 10-song album, and then when you play your show, with a band like TESLA, who's got 40 years of songs that we've gotta play in our show in 90 minutes, we're not gonna even be allowed to play any of these new songs. So it makes much more sense to have fun and create one great new song. Like our latest one, 'All About Love' — we're so proud of it. It's really great and the fans are loving it. Before that, we did one called 'Time To Rock!', and we were really proud of that one, and it was fun. And we throw that one song in the show and then people still get to hear 'Little Suzi' and 'Signs' and 'Modern Day Cowboy' and 'Changes' and all the other ones. So that is basically it. When a band gets to this point of their career, that's usually really what works best."

This past February, TESLA bassist Brian Wheat told Ralph Rasmussen of Radio Bypass about the possibility of him and his bandmates releasing a new TESLA full-length album: "I don't think so. And the reason I say 'no' is it takes so much time. And TESLA works a certain way. TESLA works by us all being in the room together. We're scattered all over the world, for one. We do 60 to 75 shows a year. There's that. We've been doing it for 40 years. There's that. It's hard to find the time to get together and say, 'Okay, we need to dedicate…' Like 'Shock', the last record we did, that took a year of our lives. We were doing it on the road. And we also had Phil Collen [of DEF LEPPARD] kind of spearheading it and keeping it organized. We have a hard time keeping organized within ourselves, because it's a different thing. So, I don't wanna spend a year of TESLA's life with a band that's on their 40th year when TESLA could be out playing to people."

Wheat went on to say that there is a practical reason TESLA's touring days may be numbered.

"When Jeff can't sing to the level he does now, there won't be TESLA," Brian explained. "I'm not up for getting an Arnel [Pineda-style soundalike] character or you know somebody else to sing with TESLA. Jeff's voice is TESLA. I'm not diminishing Frank, I'm not diminishing myself or former TESLA drummer] Troy [Luccketta] or [former TESLA guitarist] Tommy [Skeoch] or [TESLA guitarist] Dave [Rude], but that voice is the sound of TESLA, even though some people might disagree.

"I mean, listen, [TESLA] could have another bass player tomorrow," Wheat added. "It wouldn't fucking matter. You can't have another singer — not that singer. Not at that point — not 40 years down the line, you don't bring in somebody else because [Jeff] can't sing. I think when he can't sing anymore, we owe it to ourselves and to the fans to call it a day. And then at that point, you can go into the studio, if you wanna make a record, like THE BEATLES did, where you can do things and still make a record that sounds great.

"We pride ourselves in TESLA being able to play very well live," Brian said. "When people [tell us], 'You guys sound better than your records,' we wear like a proud badge. If we can't do that, there's no point in doing it. So, that's part of the reason why TESLA won't make a brand new record. We're older, people have families, there's lots of things. And we made — what? — 14 albums? And so with that you'll see maybe two or three singles a year. And we can do that. That's doable for us. Me and Jeff were just together last week — he was here in Florida and we were working on a couple of things that are gonna be for the next TESLA project to come out. And I don't wanna talk about it 'cause I don't wanna give it away. So I'm not gonna say what it is or whatever. But there's some more new TESLA stuff coming out this year. Plus TESLA tour dates. So TESLA is still doing everything TESLA's always done, just not making a whole brand new record."

TESLA kicked off its latest Las Vegas residency on October 17 at the House Of Blues Las Vegas inside Mandalay Bay Resort And Casino. During this exclusive five-day run of shows, TESLA is touching all sides of its unique discography, including the heavier edge of electric songs like "Modern Day Cowboy", "Hang Tough" and "Edison's Medicine", as well as the band's acoustic-driven songs such as "Signs" and "Love Song" (two Top 10 Billboard-charting hits).

"Tesla: The Las Vegas Residency" will run for one more show, taking place on October 25, 2025 at 8:30 p.m.

TESLA previously held a residency at the House Of Blues in April 2024.

TESLA's latest six-song EP, "All About Love", was released last November. The EP includes four versions of "All About Love" (acoustic, electric, hybrid, live); a live version of "Walk Away", a concert favorite from "Reel To Real, Vol. 1"; and another new song, "From The Heart", an instrumental track by Hannon.

Some fans criticized TESLA for adopting a 1980s-style polished production for its latest album, 2019's "Shock". The follow-up to June 2014's "Simplicity" was helmed by DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen, whose own group is no stranger to slicked-up, glossy-sounding recordings.

In September 2023, TESLA released the official music video for its cover of AEROSMITH's "S.O.S. (Too Bad)". The song is a bonus track on TESLA's live album, "Full Throttle Live!", which arrived in May 2023. The LP included the band's "Time To Rock!" single, plus other songs, all recorded in August 2022 at Full Throttle Saloon in Sturgis, South Dakota.

In September 2021, original TESLA drummer Troy Luccketta announced that he would "take a little time from the road" to spend with family and friends. He has since been replaced at TESLA's gigs and in the recording studio by Steve Brown, the younger brother of former DOKKEN drummer Mick Brown.

TESLA's debut album, 1986's "Mechanical Resonance", went platinum on the strength of the hits "Modern Day Cowboy" and "Little Suzi". The 1989 follow-up album, "The Great Radio Controversy", produced five hits, including "Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)" and "Love Song", which hit the pop Top Ten.