"Everything's Wrong", the new video from ALL THAT REMAINS, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's latest album, "Victim Of The New Disease", which was released last November.

Singer Phil Labonte said: "We're super excited to share this video with everyone. Everyone in ATR really feels like the video captured the song perfectly. We're also excited that Enzo Amore could be a part of it — he really did a great job in the lead role.

"[Guitarist] Mike Martin is a big wrestling fan and Enzo was a pro in the WWE for a while. He's great on the mic and we think he did a great job capturing the feeling we were looking for. So please give it a look, and don't forget to smash that 'like' button."


Labonte shared some further insight into the clip, telling Revolver: "The video really captures the song's meaning about how when something slips away, it can seem like the whole world has crashed down around you. Things that used to make sense no longer do. When something goes bad in your life, the ripple effect can really touch everything else — things you used to do, places you used to go, even people who you used to be friends with."

ALL THAT REMAINS suffered a tragic and incredibly painful loss last fall ahead of the album's release when their highly respected and immeasurably talented lead guitarist and founding member Oli Herbert, who played on all nine albums in the band's discography, unexpectedly passed away. Guitarist Jason Richardson has since joined the band.

SLIPKNOT DJ Sid Wilson is wrapping up the recording sessions for the band's new album.

Wilson checked in via Instagram yesterday, saying that he was "lounging out" in the SLIPKNOT studios "laying the last" of his parts down. "So, it's getting closer, y'all," he added.

Due on August 9, SLIPKNOT's upcoming disc will include the song "All Out Life", which was released last October. The track's accompanying video was directed by the band's own M. Shawn Crahan.

SLIPKNOT's sixth album is once again being recorded at a Los Angeles studio with producer Greg Fidelman, who engineered and mixed SLIPKNOT's 2004 album "Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)" and helmed 2014's ".5: The Gray Chapter".

Singer Corey Taylor recently said that "All Out Life" is not representative of the type of music fans can expect to hear on SLIPKNOT's long-awaited new LP. "Honestly, it's probably, to me, the lightest tune on the album," he told 95.5 KLOS's Full Metal Jackie. "I mean, it's a great tune, it's a heavy tune, but it's not a good representation of the darkness that is involved with the music. We are taking some really cool risks musically. We're dipping into some evil we haven't played with in a long time, let's put it that way. It's got little hints of everything we've ever done, but it's got some of the heaviest stuff we've ever done as well."

Taylor told the Des Moines Register that he wrote "All Out Life" in part because he didn't see others using music as a force to "take a hard look at what you believe."

He explained: "People are way too pissed about the wrong things and not pissed enough about the right things. "[The song sets] the tone for getting people to stand up and go, 'We're not gonna allow this. We're not gonna allow people to run us down for religious beliefs, for the color we are, for what we stand for. For who we chose to love.' All of these things. There's nobody doing it, man. Everybody's too worried about their pockets. Everybody's too worried about their paychecks.

"That was me, basically, drawing a line in the sand and going, 'Guess what? You don't get to do this anymore,'" he added.

Some of SLIPKNOT's new album will also deal with Taylor's depression that led to a divorce and forced him to "figure out who I was" without relapsing into substance abuse.

"All I was doing was giving and I found myself absolutely, completely tapped," he told the Des Moines Register. "You could see it in my skin. You could see it in my eyes. That's basically the journey I'm going to take people on this album … show them what happens to depression when you have no chemicals to fall back on."

SLIPKNOT's "Knotfest Roadshow" headline tour will take place in North America this summer. VOLBEAT, GOJIRA and BEHEMOTH will join as special guests on all dates.

Produced by Live Nation, the 29-city outing will kick off July 26 in Mountain View, California at Shoreline Amphitheater and continue through September 8 where it will conclude with a performance at Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion in The Woodlands, Texas.

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In this new video from Sweetwater, Dream Theater guitarist John Petrucci shares five tips and techniques that have helped him along his musical journey.

Ernie Ball and John Petrucci have once again pushed the envelope with the latest Ernie Ball Music Man John Petrucci Majesty guitar. The sleek body style utilizes a neck-through design to give you huge sustain and killer tone. Couple that with premium tonewoods, DiMarzio pickups with onboard piezo option, a tremolo bridge, and custom switching, and you have a guitar that's ready to rock any stage.

Check out this overview video:

Petrucci shares how his new signature Majesty guitar helped shape the sound of Dream Theater’s innovative new album, Distance Over Time.

"The sounds on this new record are a result of that further pursuit of trying to make the perfect instrument even better. The Majesty is the perfect guitar. It has been crafted and created in such a way, as far as the design, the shape, the dimensions, the feel, the look, everything about it pushes the boundaries even further."

The 2019 Majesty guitar features a constructed through-neck design of mahogany and flame maple shield with black or chrome hardware (depending on the finish) and white pearl shield position markers. A polyester gloss finish is also applied to the complete instrument. The Majesty features a Music Man piezo floating tremolo bridge and Schaller locking tuners with new custom designed signature DiMarzio Dreamcatcher and Rainmaker pickups, with a push/push volume for over 20dB gain boost. Offered in a 6 and 7 string.

Available this month for North America and worldwide in May.




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Guitarist Kane Roberts (ex-Alice Cooper) has released a lyric video for the song "Wonderful", featured on his new album, The New Normal, out now via Frontiers Music Srl. Order the album here, and watch the clip below.

Tracklisting:

"King Of The World" (Feat. Nita Strauss)
"Wonderful"
"Beginning Of The End" (Feat. Alice Cooper, Alissa White-Gluz, Aoyama Hideki, Kip Winger)
"Who We Are" (Feat. Katt Franich)
"Forever Out Of Place" (Feat. Kip Winger)
"Leave This World Behind"
"The Lion’s Share" (Feat. Kip Winger)
"Leave Me In The Dark"
"Above And Beyond" (Feat. Kip Winger)
"Wrong"

"Wonderful" lyric video:

"Beginning Of The End" (featuring Alice Cooper and Alissa White-Gluz) video:

"King Of The World"  (featuring Nita Strauss):

"Forever Out Of Place" (featuring Kip Winger):

(Photo - Mike Goedecke)




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Def Leppard were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York on March 29th. The event will be broadcast on US TV on HBO on Saturday, April 27, at 8 PM, EST.

In the video below, Def Leppard takes you behind the scenes for their induction:

Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke sat down with the members of Def Leppard to discuss their legendary career, their music and their thoughts on getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame. Below, the band discuss staying relevant through the 90s:

In another clip, the band discuss their most favourite and least favourite music videos:

The Sin City Residency: Def Leppard Hits Vegas is on sale now. Get tickets here. 2019 Europe & Canada dates on sale now, here.




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Legendary singer Lance King, original voice behind Pyramaze, Avian, Balance Of Power and Gemini, has released a new video, "Reaction Formation", from his second solo album, ReProgram, released last week via his own Nightmare Records.

With "Reaction Formation", Lance King has delivered a visually-immersive video that perfectly complements his powerful progressive metal style and thought-provoking lyrics.

King says of the song's video and message: "It's an animated visual upload, representing the idea that people often do the opposite of what they truly want because of their fear of others' reactions, which is a learned coping mechanism that many don't realize they have. It generally manifests from very judgmental elders growing up, programming a person's desire for others constant approval. Wearing this mask. does not allow a person to be authentic, even to themselves. It puts them on a repetitious cycle that will sabotage their dreams and relationships and ultimately their joys in life, resulting many times in depression and a fatalistic perception of the world. The single most powerful thing you can do is unlearn the limiting beliefs you have accepted as truths in your youth. This frees you from the chains that bind, the chains of the subconscious mind."

ReProgram was co-produced by Lance King and renowned producer/guitarist Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Evergrey, Epica, Amaranthe). The album features an array of established co-writers and talented featured performers, including Kim Olesen (Anubis Gate), Markus Sigfridsson (Darkwater/Harmony), Matt Hodsdon (Chaos Frame), Rich Hinks (Annihilator/Aeon Zen), Morten Gade Sørensen (Pyramaze/Anubis Gate), Fred Columbo (Spheric Universe Experience), Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen), and Jakob Riis (L Wood Joy).

Lyrically, the album explores themes including societal ills and the subjective nature of truth. Lance dives further into the human psyche than any rock performer in recent memory and this intellectual but soul-centered approach sets Lance King apart from his peers in the global metal community. There is a constant dissonance in our lives, and ReProgram looks to find harmony in the dissonant world that we have created.

Tracklisting:

"ReProgram"
"Pointing Fingers"
"Stand Your Ground"
"Technology"
"Reaction Formation"
"Limitless"
"Wide Open"
"Chaotica"
"Spell Of Domestication"
"Perfect World"
"A Mind At War"

"Pointing Fingers" video:

"Limitless" lyric video:

Teasers:




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DEF LEPPARD frontman Joe Elliott has defended GRETA VAN FLEET over accusations that the Michigan rockers have ripped off LED ZEPPELIN.

Despite the fact that GRETA VAN FLEET has managed to sell out shows all over the world, the four-piece has been criticized for channeling a sound uncannily similar to LED ZEPPELIN, with some music fans slamming singer Josh Kiszka for allegedly copy-and-pasting Robert Plant's vocal style.

During last week's interview with ET Canada, Elliott was asked if there are any new bands out there that he is listening to now. "Not much. I'll be honest," he said (see video below). "But the two obvious ones — there's GRETA VAN FLEET, which is the big thing at the moment. Or GRETA VAN ZEPPELIN, as somebody's called them. [Laughs] But, yeah, they sound like LED ZEPPELIN. So what? When we started out, we sounded like QUEEN and AC/DC. So, everybody's gotta start somewhere. It's okay to wear your influences on your sleeve these days, I believe. My favorite new band, though, are THE STRUTS. I say 'new' — they've been around for five years. Five years in THE BEATLES' career is more than half their career. But things have changed a lot. I'm a big fan of [THE STRUTS]. I think Luke [Spiller], the singer, is an absolute star. He deserves to be on the stadium stages. Hopefully one day he will be.

"But that's pretty much it," he continued. "I don't go searching for it anymore. When I was 16, every band was my band. And now, it's, like, unless somebody just plunks it in front of me and goes, 'You've gotta listen to this,' then I will. But I haven't got the time. When you start making your own music, you start to drop that 'fanboy' thing. You're always a fan — I mean, I'm always a fan — but, seriously, my record collection, if I never heard anything from 1979 onwards for the rest of my life, I'd be a happy boy, and that's coincidentally when we started out. 'Cause that's when I started concentrating more on what I do rather than what I listen to."

GRETA VAN FLEET's debut album, "Anthem Of The Peaceful Army", landed at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart in July despite earning a lukewarm 53/100 score on review curation site Metacritic.

In December, GRETA VAN FLEET scored four Grammy Award nominations, one for each major rock category — "Best Rock Album", "Best Rock Song", "Best Rock Performance" — and a "Best New Artist" nod. They went on to win for "Best Rock Album" for their sophomore EP, "From The Fires".

DEF LEPPARD was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Friday night (March 29) — 14 years after the British rockers first became eligible.

The 34th annual ceremony took place at Brooklyn, New York's Barclays Center and saw DEF LEPPARD inducted by QUEEN's Brian May.

HBO will broadcast a truncated version of the ceremony on Saturday, April 27 at 8 p.m. EST.

Rotting Christ released their new album, The Heretics, back in February via Season Of Mist. The band have released this official animated video for the album opener, "In The Name Of God":

The Heretics was recorded by Rotting Christ guitarist George Emmanuel at his studio Pentagram and mixed by Jens Borgen (Amon Amarth, At The Gates, Arch Enemy).

Tracklisting:

"In The Name Of God"
"Vetry Zlye"
"Heaven And Hell And Fire"
"Hallowed Be Thy Name"
"Dies Irae"
"I Believe"
"Fire, God And Fear"
"The Voice Of The Universe"
"The New Messiah"
"The Raven"
"The Sons Of Hell" (bonus track)

"I Believe" lyric video:

"The Voice Of The Universe" featuring Ashmedi:

"Dies Irae" lyric video:

"The Sons Of Hell" lyric video:

"Heaven And Hell And Fire" lyric video:

"Fire, God And Fear" lyric video:

Deluxe CD box unboxing:

Rotting Christ 2019 tour dates:

April
6 - Lord Of The Land Festival - Glasgow, Scotland
13 - Stage - Larissa, Greece
27 - Stockholm Slaughter - Stockholm, Sweden

May
11 - Vienna Metal Meeting - Vienna, Austria

June
21 - Road Patrol Bikers Festival - Timisoara, Romania
23 - Kilkim Zaibu - Varniai, Lithuania

July
6 - Chania Rock Fest - Chania, Greece
27 - Uwolnic Muzyke Festival - Sroda Slaska, Poland

August
8 - Bloodstock Open Air - Derbyshire, UK
10 - Brutal Assault Festival - Jaromer, Czech Republic
11 - Alcatraz Metal Fest - Kortrijk, Belgium

(Photo - Ester Segarra)




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Brazil-based animator Val Andrade has released his new Iron Maiden cartoon clip, based on “Different World”, featured on Maiden’s 2006 album, A Matter Of Life And Death. Watch below:

Andrade's previously released cartoons can be seen below:




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Gary Hoey is streaming each song from his new album, Neon Highway Blues, released back in March. Listen below, and order the album here.

The album’s eleven tracks display Hoey’s confidence and assuredness alongside the freshness of someone who's still in the process of discovery and refinement. Hoey self-produced the album at his New Hampshire based home studio, while also enlisting friends Eric Gales, Lance Lopez. Josh Smith and his 17-year-old son Ian for guest appearances.

Tracklisting:

"Under The Rug" (feat. Eric Gales)
"Mercy Of Love" (feat. Josh Smith)
"Your Kind Of Love"
"Don't Come Crying" (feat. Ian Hoey)
"Still Believe In Love"
"Almost Heaven"
"I Felt Alive"
"Waiting On The Sun"
"Damned If I Do" (feat. Lance Lopez)
"Living The Highlife"
"Neon Highway Blues"

"Under The Rug" lyric video:

"Mercy Of Love":

"Your Kind Of Love" lyric video:

"Don't Come Crying" lyric video:

"Still Believe In Love":

"Almost Heaven":

"I Felt Alive":

"Waiting On The Sun":

"Damned If I Do":

"Living The Highlife":

"Neon Highway Blues":

(Photo - David Brow)




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Frontiers Music Srl will release the new album from Chaos Magic, entitled FuryBorn, on June 14.

Chaos Magic is centered around Chilean vocalist Caterina Nix who, for this sophomore release from the band, worked in close collaboration with fellow Chilean producer, singer, and musician Nasson. Together, they have created an absolute gem of a metal album, the splendidness of which is on full display in the album's first single and music video, "Like Never Before". Watch it below.

Pre-order the album and stream the single here.

"I’ve been writing songs for many years, however, on the previous Chaos Magic album I had no intention of interfering with Timo's creative process,” tells Caterina, referencing ex-Stratovarius guitarist Timo Tolkki's involvement on the first Chaos Magic album. "But in the case of FuryBorn, I had the freedom to design a musical vision of my own. I wanted the album to have both a modern sound and nostalgic feel to it. The process of writing for me is very organic, I just start singing a melody and build the songs from there. I seek the chords, write the lyrics, and work them through. I have several streams of influence, so I definitely wanted a rich mixture of intensities, rhythms, and styles. Of course, I can’t leave out the fact that I worked with two brilliant musicians to give shape to the album, Franco Lama and Nasson, who also produced the album and was a key element in the development of the sound."

And what exactly is the "sound" on the new Chaos Magic album? "I wanted to mix different styles and also seek a sound of my own and I think that is well achieved in FuryBorn. It’s a mixture of heavy, melodic, symphonic, and alternative metal, with traces of modern progressive and electronic elements, unique arrangements and a bit of a nostalgic feel associated to certain sounds from the '90s and early '00s. It has moments of rage, power, and sick darkness, but also vulnerable, sensual, and sometimes playful points. FuryBorn is harder to label compared to the previous Chaos Magic album since on the new album the guitars are a more prominent ingredient that gives tremendous richness to the sound. In summary, FuryBorn is a rollercoaster ride that flows through assorted intense styles with uncommon arrangements but with very catchy melodies,” concludes Caterina and rest assured she’s really not exaggerating in the descriptions.

Nix also pulled in some talented singers for a few duets on the album: Tom Englund (Evergrey) on the title track, Ailyn (ex-Sirenia) on “Bravely Beautiful”, and Ronnie Romero (Rainbow and CoreLeoni singer, ex-Lords of Black) on "Path Of The Brave". Producer Nasson also duets with Caterina on “Falling Again”, while Mistheria (Bruce Dickinson, Rob Rock) appears on keyboards on “Beware of Silent Waters”.

"These are incredible voices and all the guest singers gave the album the textures I desired to each of the songs they participated in,” says Caterina.

Also of note, the album was mixed to perfection by none other than Danish studio master Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Pretty Maids, The Dark Element).

Caterina Nix is a superb young vocalist from Chile, who was found by chance by former Stratovarius composer and guitarist Timo Tolkki during one of his tours of South America. Timo was supremely impressed and confident in Caterina’s singing abilities and he wrote and produced the first Chaos Magic album, in addition to having her perform on the second Avalon rock opera album Angels Of The Apocalypse.

While these two things brought Caterina to the forefront more on the International stage, she had already started her career in the band Aghonya, who released their first and only album Oxygen in 2008, in which she wrote all the lyrics and vocal lines. Released independently, the band and Caterina received rave reviews, which gave them the opportunity to open shows in Chile for bands like After Forever, Edguy, and Within Temptation.

Tracklisting:

"You Will Breathe Again"
"Furyborn" (Feat. Tom Englund)
"Like Never Before"
"Beware Of Silent Waters" (Feat Mistheria)
"Falling Again" (Feat. Nasson)
"Bravely Beautiful" (Feat. Ailyn)
"Throw Me To The Wolves"
"I’d Give It All"
"Path Of The Brave" (Feat. Ronnie Romero)
"My Affliction"
"I’m Your Cancer"

"Like Never Before" video:

Lineup:

Caterina Nix - Vocals
Nasson - Guitars, vocals, piano, programming, acoustic guitars & additional bass.
Franco Lama - Programming
Carlos Hernandez - Drums
Hermaunt Folatre - Bass




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Guitar legend Yngwie Malmsteen has released his new album, Blue Lightning, via Mascot Records/Mascot Label Group. All songs from the album are available for streaming below. The album is available on CD, Lightning Blue Marble 2LP (webshop exclusive) and Ltd Edition CD Box Set. Order here.

Blue Lightning tracklisting:

"Blue Lightning"
"Foxey Lady" (Jimi Hendrix)
"Demon’s Eye" (Deep Purple)
"1911 Strut"
"Blue Jean Blues" (ZZ Top)
"Purple Haze" (Jimi Hendrix)
"While My Guitar Gently Weeps" (The Beatles)
"Sun’s Up Top’s Down"
"Peace, Please"
"Paint It Black" (Rolling Stones)
"Smoke On The Water" (Deep Purple)
"Forever Man" (Eric Clapton)

"Blue Lightning" lyric video:

"Foxey Lady":

"Demon's Eye":

"1911 Strut":

"Blue Jean Blues:

"Purple Haze":

"While My Guitar Gently Weeps":

"Sun’s Up Top’s Down" lyric video:

"Peace, Peace":

"Paint It Black":

"Smoke On The Water:

"Forever Man":




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Australian death thrashers Truth Corroded released their new album, Bloodlands, worldwide on March 22nd. Check out the new video for "Open Eyes And Willing Hands" below.

Bloodlands was mixed by Chris ‘Zeuss’ Harris (Hatebreed, Soulfly, Overkill) and features guest appearances by artists such as Stephen Carpenter of Deftones, Terrance Hobbs of Suffocation, Mark Kloeppel of Misery Index and Ryan Knight (ex-The Black Dahlia Murder).

Order the album at this location.

Album stream:

“Victims Left Lepers” video:

“To The Carnal Earth” lyric video:




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After The Burial are streaming the new song, "Exit, Exist", featured on the band's upcoming Evergreen album, out on April 19th via Sumerian Records. Pre-order the album here, and listen to the track below.

Tracklisting:

"Behold The Crown"
"Exit, Exist"
"11/26"
"In Flux"
"Respire"
"Quicksand"
"The Great Repeat"
"To Challenge Existence"
"A Pulse Exchanged"

"Exit, Exist":

"Behold The Crown" video:

The group kicks off a massive US tour alongside Killswitch Engage and Parkway Drive on April 18th (see all dates below), with Vein in the opening slot.

Trent Hafdahl (guitars) states: "The songwriting process is almost always the same, but the influence and motivation behind the music is always different. This time around we wrote an album that is wholeheartedly ATB. If you listen back through our catalog you can hear us experimenting with different sounds, soundscapes, playing techniques etc. Some of those have stood the test of time and are still used in our music today, and some were left behind because they didn't really fit us. I feel very strongly that this album is OUR sound. Our fans could hear this anywhere, without any reference, and say 'that sounds like an After The Burial riff.' I guess you could say it's a more mature release this time around because we weren't stretching to experiment with stuff that we didn't know would work. It's heavy, it's melodic, it's slow at times and fast at others. It's intense and free-flowing all in the same instance.

"On the KSE/PWD run, just like any tour, we're striving to leave a mark on every person there that has never heard of us. I've always said we've gained more fans by people seeing us live than from them hearing us on record. There are tons of people that can probably attest to this, but my absolute favorite thing to hear from somebody after a show is 'that was my first time seeing you guys!' It's like, fuck yeah! We did it!! Haha. For the folks that already know who we are, it's going to be a party, just like every other time they've seen us. They already know that. No compromise, as we're there to crush! We pride ourselves on being one of the tightest live bands in the game, but not at the cost of being entertaining. Give us a half hour of your evening and we'll show you a good fucking time!"

Tour dates:

April
18 - San Francisco, CA - Warfield Theatre
19 - Los Angeles, CA - Hollywood Palladium
20 - Las Vegas, NV - BBB *ATB ONLY
21 - Grand Junction, CO - Mesa Theater *ATB ONLY
22 - Colorado Springs, CO - City Auditorium
23 - Wichita, KS - The Cotillion
24 - Oklahoma City, OK - Diamond Ballroom
26 - Dallas, TX - South Side Ballroom
27 - Austin, TX - Stubb's
28 - Houston, TX - So What? Festival
30 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater

May
1 - Indianapolis, IN - Egyptian Room at Old National Center
2 - Huntington, WV - V Club *ATB ONLY
3 - Greensboro, NC - Blind Tiger *ATB ONLY
4 - Atlanta, GA - Tabernacle
5 - Nashville, TN - War Memorial Auditorium
7 - Niagara Falls, NY - The Rapids Theatre
9 - New York, NY - Terminal 5
10 - New Haven, CT - College Street Music Hall
11 - Philadelphia, PA - Franklin Music Hall
14 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore Silver Spring
15 - Detroit, MI - Fillmore Detroit
16 - Milwaukee, WI - Eagles Club




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Richmond’s Inter Arma, reigning masters of the slow build, have shared the “Howling Lands” video less than two weeks before the official release of Sulphur English. Watch the full music video, directed by Marcos Morales (Dirt City Studio) below.

Additionally, Inter Arma have announced US headline tour dates throughout May and June with Thantifaxath, and will see additional support by Ken Mode and Wayfarer on select dates. Inter Arma is slated to perform two exclusive shows in April. These include Decibel’s Metal & Beer Fest Pre-Fest and Saint Vitus Bar’s 8th Anniversary concert. A full list of confirmed tour dates are available below.

Tour dates:

April
12 - Philadelphia, PA - Decibel Metal & Beer Fest
13 - Brooklyn, NY - Saint Vitus - 8th Anniversary

May (with Thantifaxath)
14 - Asheville, NC - Mothlight
15 - Nashville, TN - Drkmttr
16 - Memphis, TN  - Hi Tone
17 - Little Rock, AR - Vino's
18 - St Louis, MO - Fubar
21 - Kansas City, MO - Riot Room
22 - Denver, CO - Hi Dive
23 - Albuquerque, NM - Sister Bar
24 - Flagstaff, AZ - Green Room
25 - Phoenix, AZ - Yucca Tap Room
26 - San Diego, CA - Space Bar
28 - Oakland, CA - Oakland Metro #
29 - Eugene, OR - Old Nick's #
30 - Portland, OR - High Water Mark #
31 - Seattle, WA - Northwest Terror Fest

June (with Thantifaxath)
1 - Boise, ID - Bump HQ * + #
2 - Salt Lake City, UT - Kilby Court * + #
4 - Omaha, NE - Slowdown
5 - Minneapolis, MN - 7th Street Entry
6 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's
7 - Lexington, KY - Cosmic Charlie's

* with Ken Mode
# with Wayfarer

Sulphur English is due out April 12th on CD/2xLP/Digital. Physical packages are available for preorder via Relapse.com. Digital Downloads / Streaming Services are available here.

Tracklisting:

“Bumgardner”
“A Waxen Sea”
“Citadel”
“Howling Lands”
“Stillness”
“Observances Of The Path”
“The Atavist’s Meridian”
“Blood On The Lupines”
“Sulphur English”

"Howling Lands" video:

“The Atavist’s Meridian”:

“Citadel”:

(Photo - Joey Wharton)




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California rockers BLACK VEIL BRIDES will celebrate the tenth anniversary of their debut album, "We Stitch These Wounds", next year by releasing a re-recorded version of the LP, along with some new songs.

"We Stitch These Wounds" was issued in July 2010 via StandBy Records and was BLACK VEIL BRIDES' only studio album to feature drummer Sandra Alvarenga before she left the band and joined MODERN DAY ESCAPE.

BLACK VEIL BRIDES singer Andy Biersack revealed the group's plans to revisit its debut disc during a recent interview with Rock Sound.

Speaking about BLACK VEIL BRIDES' activities in the coming months, Biersack said (see video below): "It'll be 10 years since the first record next summer, so we plan to do kind of a reimagining of that record and re-recording some of the stuff, and probably some new songs added to it, and maybe some covers that we wanna do. So that'll come out, and that'll be really fun. I don't know what the plans are outside of that, as far as how we're gonna present that. But that's the plan right now."

As for a possible new album from BLACK VEIL BRIDES, Andy said: "What's great about [2018's] 'Vale' being what it was is that it was kind of the end to a chapter and that style and feeling of the band from the 'Wretched And Divine' era and everything. I think we all kind of feel like whatever is next, it's gonna be something that's totally fresh and new."

"Vale" came out in January 2018 via Lava/Universal Republic. The follow-up to BLACK VEIL BRIDES' 2014 self-titled effort was produced by John Feldmann at his Southern California studio.

Biersack (a.k.a. Andy Black) will release his sophomore album, "The Ghost Of Ohio", on April 12 via Lava/Republic.

On April 19th, Reaching Fall - featuring ex-Amaranthe vocalist Andy Solveström, singer Niclas Bergstrand, and guitarist Martin Haglund (ex-Astral Doors) - will release their long-awaited new single, "Tide". The track features a guest appearance by guitar legend Andy La Rocque (King Diamond). 

Watch this space and the official Reaching Fall Facebook page here for updates.

Check out a Reaching Fall studio outtake video from 2015 and listen to some previously released material below.




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IN FLAMES guitarist Niclas Engelin will sit out the band's spring and summer European tour dates to focus on "personal matters." Filling in for him once again will be former MEGADETH and current ACT OF DEFIANCE guitarist Chris Broderick.

Broderick previously stepped in for Engelin during IN FLAMES' North American shows in February and March.

IN FLAMES singer Anders Fridén recently told Sticks For Stones that Broderick is doing a "great" job filling in for Engelin.

"We've known [Chris] for 17 years," Anders said. "He was in a band called JAG PANZER, and they opened up for us back then, so we've been friends since. And when Niclas called us, like 48 hours before we had to leave, and he went to the hospital — he had to. So we didn't wanna cancel. Our music is made for two guitars, and we didn't wanna have one guitar playing and everything else on a backing track — we wanted to have someone playing it. We happily found out that Chris was free and he came out and we had a couple of days' rehearsal in Austin before the tour started in Houston. And, yeah, it's going great. We've known him, as I said, for a long time, so we knew it would work on a social level. And [his] guitar [playing] is obviously phenomenal."

Earlier this year, IN FLAMES completed separate tours with ALL THAT REMAINS and WITHIN TEMPTATION.

The band's new album, "I, The Mask", was released on March 1 via Nuclear Blast (worldwide, excluding North America) and Eleven Seven Music (North America).


To all of the Jesterheads coming out to our upcoming European and UK dates: Niclas will be extending his hiatus though...Posted by In Flames on Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Vinny Appice has outlined the differences between DIO DISCIPLES and LAST IN LINE.

Launched in 2011, DIO DISCIPLES is made up of former members of DIO, along with a rotating lineup of vocalists, including ex-JUDAS PRIEST singer Tim "Ripper" Owens and LYNCH MOB frontman Oni Logan. LAST IN LINE, on the other hand, was formed in 2012 by Appice, guitarist Vivian Campbell and bassist Jimmy Bain, all of whom were part of DIO's first incarnation.

During a recent interview with Jacky BamBam of Philadelphia's 93.3 WMMR radio station, Appice was asked to specify the things that separate the two projects.

"Well, in a nutshell, they play all the songs, they know the songs; we know all the notes," Vinny said (hear audio below). "That's it in a nutshell. We wrote those songs with Ronnie [James Dio]. As much as Ronnie got credit on certain songs as a sole writer, he didn't write those songs by himself. And if you think about it, how does the song 'We Rock' come up? Ronnie can't play guitar like that. So it was more of a political thing with, 'Okay, I'm taking how many songs by myself, no matter who wrote 'em.' And that's the politics of the business. And when we started the band, it was just Ronnie and I. There was no guitar player; there was nobody else — we were just starting. And we were playing 'Holy Diver'; we were just playing parts of it. And some of the accents and ideas came from me too. He was on bass, I was on drums, and I said, 'Why don't we do some accents?' That song wasn't entirely Ronnie either, but that's the way it works.

"We wrote the songs, we created the [DIO] band," Vinny continued. "We wrote 'Rainbow In The Dark', we wrote all those songs together — we wrote everything… together. Then Craig [Goldy, guitar] joined Ronnie after Viv left; he's the only one that really came in early. Then later on, I left and Simon [Wright, drums] played with Ronnie. The rest of the guys, I don't think any of them really played with Ronnie except for Scott Warren, the keyboardist."

Appice went on to call DIO DISCIPLES "a tribute band. I could hear songs they play and other bands play, and it's great, but it doesn't sound like me and Viv playing it," he explained. "'Cause we're the ones that recorded it and played it and created the songs. So there's always a difference."

DIO DISCIPLES is fully supported by Dio's widow Wendy, who also manages the band. The group includes three former members of the DIO band — Wright, Goldy and Warren — along with bassist Bjorn Englen (YNGWIE MALMSTEEN), Owens and Logan.

When DIO DISCIPLES was first formed, Appice told the "All Hail Hair" show on Fightin' Words Radio that he thought it was "disgusting" that the band was going out on the road and paying tribute to Ronnie James Dio. "I mean, why are they even doing it?" he said. "Plus, [Ronnie has] not even been passed away for a year. And, you know… It's kind of… I don't know. It's kind of weird, man. It's weird."

In a 2016 interview, Vivian slammed DIO DISCIPLES, saying that the band has "zero credibility" as a Ronnie James Dio tribute project.

I AM MORBID has parted ways with guitarist Ira Black (METAL CHURCH, LIZZY BORDEN) and has replaced him with Kelly McLauchlin.

McLauchlin will make his live debut with I AM MORBID on the "Morbidfest 2019" European tour in April. Also appearing on the bill are ATROCITY, VITAL REMAINS and SADIST.

I AM MORBID is the band featuring former MORBID ANGEL members David Vincent (vocals, bass) and Tim Yeung (drums) alongside guitarist Bill Hudson (CIRCLE II CIRCLE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA).

I AM MORBID's European tour will see the group perform material from MORBID ANGEL's "Altars Of Madness" (1989), "Blessed Are The Sick" (1991), "Covenant" (1993) and "Domination" (1995) albums.

Vincent told Ghost Cult about I AM MORBID's formation: "It's been discussed off and on for a few years now, but, as they say, actions speak louder than words. While it was exciting to discuss, it was held off for a few years until I decided to go through some personal changes in my life, and really absorb the possibility of it happening. I went ahead and focused on my roots music, but this kept lingering, and now it's time for I AM MORBID to finally happen."

Regarding the I AM MORBID setlist, Vincent said: "Like everything I do, I want to make this special. This is very different from MORBID ANGEL. If you want to see a MORBID ANGEL show, you know where to go, but this isn't it. I'm only going to be performing songs that I wrote on this tour. If I didn't write it, we aren't playing it. We are going to throw in things, here or there, to make things more unique, but it's going to be one brutal show. I can promise you that."

MORBID ANGEL's controversial 2011 album, "Illud Divinum Insanus", marked the group's first CD to feature Vincent since "Domination".

Vincent left MORBID ANGEL in 2015. He has since been replaced by a returning Steve Tucker, who previously handled bass and vocals on MORBID ANGEL's "Formulas Fatal To The Flesh", "Gateways To Annihilation" and "Heretic" LPs.


Pleased to welcome guitarist, #KellyMcLauchlin (Pessimist, former Possessed), to the #Morbid family! #KeepingTheMorbidLegacyAlive #IAmMorbid Official David Vincent, Tim Yeung, Bill Hudson.Posted by I Am Morbid on Sunday, March 31, 2019

Japanese pop metal act BABYMETAL has announced that it will release a new album later this year. The band will also perform at Yokohama Arena on June 28-29 as well as at Portmesse Nagoya on July 6-7. These Japanese performances will mark the beginning of BABYMETAL's new chapter.


BABYMETAL's upcoming album will be the follow-up to 2016's "Metal Resistance". Right after the release of this second disc, they performed at London's prominent venue SSE Arena, Wembley and became the first Japanese act to have ever headlined there, breaking the all-time merchandising sales record at the venue. BABYMETAL also had successful back-to-back performances at the massive Tokyo Dome thereafter, playing to 110,000 people over two nights.


"Metal Resistance" debuted at No. 15 on the official U.K. chart, the highest rank for a Japanese artist in recorded history. The album was very well-received in all other territories as well, including another record-breaking position for a Japanese artist in the U.S. with a No. 39 position on the Billboard chart.

Last fall, BABYMETAL digitally released a new song called "Starlight". It marked the rebirth of the band in which Su-Metal and Moametal form the core.

BABYMETAL spent all of 2018 touring without Yuimetal. She later exited the band, explaining in a statement that she would go on to pursue a solo career as Mizuno Yu.

EMP Label Group has released the new Ron Keel Band album, Fight Like A Band, via their EMP Outlaw imprint. The collection features 11 brand-new songs and fresh recordings of Keel classics. Get it here.

In addition to a lyric video for the lead track “Road Ready”, released in January, the band is preparing the release of several singles to Rock radio including “Girls Like Me,” which according to Keel is the “most fun song on the record.”

Says EMP head of A&R/Operations Thom Hazaert, “Ron Keel is one of the greatest Rock vocalists of our time, and a true Heavy Metal visionary. He defines the ‘Gentleman Outlaw’ in the truest sense, and we’re so proud to have him in the EMP family.”

Tracklisting:

"Road Ready"
"Fight Like A Band"
"Rock N Roll Guitar"
"Long Way Down"
"Hearts Gone Wild"
"Good Songs Bad Times"
"Girls Like Me"
"Fire In The Rain"
"Just A Cowboy"
"Old School"
Keel Medley: "Because The Night"/"Somebody’s Waiting"
"Tears Of Fire"
"The Right To Rock"
"Hey Man"

"Road Ready" lyric video:

2019 concert highlights include KeelFest in Columbus, Ohio May 10th, featuring not only Ron Keel Band but the classic Keel lineup (Marc Ferrari, Bryan Jay, Dwain Miller) and a tribute to Steeler that includes bassist Rik Fox and guitar hero Mitch Perry; Hot Harley Nights (one of the biggest bike events in the nation) July 13th with Night Ranger, and the Fight Like A Band album release party which took place at Grand Falls Casino in Larchwood, Iowa this past February. Tour dates in nine states are confirmed with more added weekly.

Find Ron Keel's live itinerary here.




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DEVILDRIVER has completed recording its new album with producer Steve Evetts (EVERY TIME I DIE, THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN). The follow-up to 2016's "Trust No One" is tentatively due later in the year via Napalm Records.

Vocalist Dez Fafara told Metal Wani in a 2018 interview that DEVILDRIVER had written 48 songs for what was planned to be a staggered-release double album. He went on to say that the next DEVILDRIVER LP would be "the record of our career. This will be record that other artists judge us, as well as themselves, on once they hear this," he claimed.

Fafara also promised that DEVILDRIVER fans would "get a record a year" from his band. "You're gonna get a record in 2019, and you're gonna get a record in 2020," he said. "And that's the way art should be… We're not gonna rely on this three-to-four-year-plan that bands are doing. It used to be where you had to go away for a year in order to let the fans catch up to you and this and that, and it is not that way anymore — you need to get art out and you need to be out in everyone's face and you need to be touring, and we're getting ready to kick that up in a big way."

Asked if there is a lot of pressure on him and his bandmates to deliver on their self-imposed goal of releasing a new album every year, Dez said: "I don't think so. The pressure is not there. When the songs are there, when the band is firing off, and when it's just coming together, there's really no pressure. And this is why we're doing a double album with a staggered release. I've always wanted to do a double record with kind of a concept feel. And a staggered release makes sense, 'cause people, every 12 to 17 months, can get a record from you. And that's where I'm at, that's where the music business is at, that's par for the course what every other artist is doing."

DEVILDRIVER's full-length collection of outlaw country-gone-metal anthems, "Outlaws 'Til The End", was released last July via Napalm Records. The disc was described in a press release as "both a startling curveball and a ferocious statement of individuality from a band who have been a constant and effective force in the heavy metal world for the best part of two decades now."

View this post on Instagram This is what two years and hard work looks like -20 folders filled from hand written lyrics to typed then finished - @devildriver @napalmrecordsofficial #DealingWithDemons -I’m gonna jump in my pool and fucking swim wash all this aaaaaaway ! I left everything on the table if this was my last I would be proud to go out like this ! @steveevetts produced what is our finest defining moment as a band GET READY ! A post shared by dezfafara (@dezfafara) on Apr 2, 2019 at 11:57am PDT

BLACK EARTH — the project featuring former and current members of ARCH ENEMY performing material from the latter band's first three albums live on stage — has released "Path Of The Immortal", a collection of remastered tracks from those early LPs. The disc, which was made available exclusively in Japan on March 20, includes two brand new songs, "Burn On The Flame" and "Life Infernal", which were recorded at the end of 2018 at Sweden's Studio Fredman with producer Fredrik Nordström. You can now listen to both tracks below.

"Path Of The Immortal" track listing:

01. Burn On The Flame (new song)

02. The Immortal

03. Dead Inside

04. Bury Me An Angel

05. Stigmata

06. Sinister Mephisto

07. Demoniality

08. Transmigration Macabre

09. Angelclaw

10. Bridge Of Destiny

11. Life Infernal (new song)

12. Beast Of Man

13. Dark Insanity

14. Diva Satanica

15. Pilgrim

16. Black Earth

17. Silverwing

18. Time Capsule

19. Fields Of Desolation '99

Speaking to Japan's "Masa Ito's Rock TV" in February, ARCH ENEMY guitarist and main songwriter Michael Amott explained how the new music came about. "Together with Trooper Entertainment, we've put together a compilation of our favorite tracks from the first, second and third album that featured these guys — with Johan [Liiva on vocals] and Chris [Amott on guitar] and everything," he said. "And we've put together a compilation album of that '90s material. It's been remastered here in Japan. I actually attended the mastering session last week, and it sounds incredible. It really brought the old tracks… it gave them a new life. And then we actually recorded two new songs in Sweden. So we've been quite busy with that."

He continued: "It's quite complicated getting everybody together to do that. But we wrote these two new songs. I wrote one with Chris, and then I wrote one myself. They're called 'Burn On The Flame' and 'Life Infernal' — two brand new tracks that are kind of in the style of what we used to do, I think. And they turned out really amazing too. We actually went back to Fredrik Nordström's studio, Fredman, where we made the first three records. So we worked with the original producer. And he mixed it, and it sounds really powerful — very cool."

According to Michael, the BLACK EARTH recording sessions turned out to be a "very, very strange" experience, "because we just picked it up where we left off. After about an hour or so, we were doing the same kind of jokes and the same kind of chemistry," he explained. "And the sounds as well. I was thinking maybe it was gonna sound very different. Also because of us — we all progress and change over the years, and develop. And also Fredrik, of course. He had a new studio now, with some different equipment. But actually, he just managed to get that old-school sound. And it was a lot of fun. Kind of a little bit nostalgia."

ARCH ENEMY recorded three albums with Liiva: "Black Earth" (1996), "Stigmata" (1998) and "Burning Bridges" (1999).

Liiva was replaced by German singer Angela Gossow as ARCH ENEMY's lead vocalist in 2000. Gossow exited the band in 2013 and was succeeded by former THE AGONIST frontwoman Alissa White-Gluz, while remaining as the group's manager.

Christopher Amott first left ARCH ENEMY in 2005, only to return to the group two years later. His second, and apparently final, departure came in March 2012.

BLACK EARTH completed its first Japanese tour in May 2016 and will return this coming May to celebrate the 20th anniversary of "Burning Bridges".

"When we did the tour in 2016, the reaction was incredible — we had so many sold-out shows, and [we got] very, very strong feedback and a lot of love from the Japanese audience," Michael told "Masa Ito's Rock TV". "So that was really an incredible time for us and a wonderful experience — one of the highlights of my career, I think. So we decided to come back and do it again three years later. And now we're doing it in more cities. So we're looking forward to visiting these places and bringing the music to the fans that normally maybe could not travel to Tokyo or to Osaka to see a show."

BLACK EARTH is:

Michael Amott - guitar

Christopher Amott - guitar

Johan Liiva - vocals

Daniel Erlandsson - drums

Sharlee D'Angelo - bass

In a brand new interview with Edmonton, Alberta, Canada's K-97 radio station, JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner was asked what relationship — if any — the band currently has with the man he replaced, original PRIEST guitarist Kenneth "K.K." Downing. He responded (hear audio below): "I've never spoken to Ken. And I don't really know. I honestly don't know. I don't think anyone's spoken to him. I don't think he's spoken to them. I think he speaks to the management. But I've never spoken to him. Most of the stuff now is online. It seems that there's a lot online and not enough talking with each other. But who knows? But we're just forging forward and doing what we can — new record, new tour, and forging forward with that, really."

Last summer, Downing revealed that he sent two resignation letters to his bandmates when he decided to quit JUDAS PRIEST. The first was described as "a graceful exit note, implying a smooth retirement from music," while the second was "angrier, laying out all of his frustrations with specific parties."

Downing later said that he believed the second letter was "a key reason" he wasn't invited to rejoin PRIEST following Glenn Tipton's decision to retire from touring.

Downing told Landry.Audio in a recent interview that he is not sad or resentful over the fact that the band has carried on recording and touring after his exit nearly eight years ago. "It was bound to happen," he said. "It's just the way it has happened. I think it should have been different, really. I think Richie should have been allowed to be his own person. And if he likes to play Gibson Les Pauls, then he should go on stage and play those and not be encouraged to play Flying Vs and wear clothes like me and look like me and do all of that.

"When Ripper [vocalist Tim Owens] joined [JUDAS PRIEST as the replacement for Rob Halford], we gave him license to be himself — we didn't say, 'You've gotta do this like Rob or that like Rob,'" Downing continued. "So, essentially, my initial reaction was that the guys have cloned me. I thought, well, maybe they think it's a good move because the fans won't miss me and they'll kind of, in a way, from 10 rows back, think I'm still there. And the fact that my image was used in so much of the publicity for the upcoming tour. Maybe that's what went on. I think that Richie is such a good player in his own right that he should have been allowed to be himself. And, of course, when Glenn, I didn't see the same thing happening on that side of the stage."

Asked if he thinks Faulkner is an "adequate successor" to his lineage within JUDAS PRIEST, Downing said: "Well, it's absolutely seriously, seriously difficult to replace anybody that's been there for such a long time, and I understand that. It's so difficult, because it's not the same person. It doesn't matter, even if some people — and some people do think Ripper has got the edge over Rob. And I can see why — his vocals are young, they are strong. When he came into the band, he was tremendous. But the tonality and the texture, there's always gonna be little things here and there that are not gonna be the same. And people prefer to have the same. But I think that Richie is doing lots of things at the moment, really. He's not just filling in for me now — he's also playing Glenn's solos — and it all seems a bit strange to me. I don't really quite understand it."

JUDAS PRIEST will return to the United States this spring for a run with fellow classic heavy rockers URIAH HEEP. The 32-date trek will kick off on May 3 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida and wrap on June 29 at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada.

KISS has posted footage of Tommy Thayer performing the guitar solo in "Love Gun" during the recent End Of The Road tour stop in Pittsburgh, PA. Watch below:

Find the End Of The Road tour itinerary here, and see more pro-shot footage from the tour below:




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Swedish heavy metal heroes SABATON will release their ninth full-length album, "The Great War", on July 19 via Nuclear Blast Records. The band's 20th-anniversary record will be a concept effort covering stories from the First World War.


SABATON started recording "The Great War" exactly 100 years after the end of the First World War (November 11, 1918) and took three months of intensive work to complete the album with longtime producer and collaborator Jonas Kjellgren at Black Lounge studios. The disc was mastered by Maor Appelbaum and the artwork was once again created by Peter Sallaí.


"This is not the first time we sing about stories from this period in time, but now we felt the timing was right to make a full concept album about this war," the band said.

Side by side with the album, the Swedes have worked hard to make their 20th year anniversary a very exciting year, and also started the SABATON History Channel — a unique collaboration between the band and multimedia historians Indy Neidell and Timeghost, capturing the power of social media to tell stories about the wars, battles and heroes behind SABATON's songs.

"This is the biggest album we have taken on so far. There is so much depth and story around the songs that we never had before," bassist Pär Sundström states. "Expect many surprises as we have tried new things and we also went back in time to a concept we know a lot of you love. 'The Great War' has been created side by side with the SABATON History Channel to make 2019 the most exciting year in our 20-year history.”

SABATON's next disc will be the group's first with guitarist Tommy Johansson (GOLDEN RESURRECTION, REINXEED), who replaced Thobbe Englund in 2016.

SABATON's 2012 album, "Carolus Rex", was recently certified quadruple platinum in the band's home country of Sweden. The concept effort — which is the group's biggest success to date — charts the rise and fall of the Swedish Empire, in particular the life of Charles XII ("Carolus Rex") who ruled it for 21 years. In an amazing coincidence, the album's quadruple platinum certification came exactly 300 years after the king's death in 1718.

To celebrate the album's success, and to commemorate the Swedish king who inspired it, SABATON released a special 300th-anniversary edition of "Carolus Rex" on November 30, which is the date Carolus Rex was killed in Norway.

David Coverdale says that the current lineup of DEEP PURPLE "prevented" Ritchie Blackmore from joining his former bandmates onstage during the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony.

Blackmore is a co-founder of DEEP PURPLE and wrote many of their most memorable riffs, including "Smoke On The Water", but he has not played with the group since his 1993 departure.

Steve Morse effectively took over Blackmore's slot in 1994 and has since been in the group longer than Ritchie.

Asked by Tigman of Poughkeepsie, New York's Z93 radio station what the Rock Hall experience was like for him, Coverdale said (hear audio below): "It was a complete and utter honor. But I was only concerned about [former DEEP PURPLE bassist/vocalist] Glenn Hughes; the rest of 'em I haven't got time for. They prevented Ritchie Blackmore from coming in to be honored as a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer.

"I called Ritchie and I said, 'Come with me. Nobody's gonna do anything,'" Coverdale continued. "The first thing I said [during my acceptance speech] was, 'I'm so sorry that Ritchie Blackmore isn't here, without whom none of us would be on this stage,' which is absolutely true. So, Glenn and I just stuck to ourselves and had fun with CHICAGO, CHEAP TRICK, Steve Miller — everyone was just fabulous.

"So, ex-colleagues, I'm happy they'll remain ex-colleagues. [Laughs] They just don't figure in my life in any way, shape or form," he added. "[They have] an entirely different philosophy, idealogy and you name it — it couldn't be more different."

Coverdale was far more complimentary toward Hughes, whom he called a "beautiful" person. He added: "We call ourselves the Righteous Brothers. We've been the support system for each other for over 40 years… well, 45… coming up on 50… Jesus! Glenn Hughes and I, we're brothers. We got the job with DEEP PURPLE. He got in there before me and then welcomed me… 'Cause Glenn was a lead singer; he's a lead vocalist — he's extraordinary. And he came out of a band called TRAPEZE into DEEP PURPLE, where he was the lead singer. So the generosity that he gave me, being a complete new boy who had never played to larger crowds than a hundred people in clubs… It was an extraordinary time. Ritchie Blackmore and Jon Lord were absolute gentlemen, and for me, it was like I was at the university of DEEP PURPLE and I had the two best professors in the world with Ritchie and Jon. And [I became] friends with Glenn. Glenn and I had similar tastes in music."

Blackmore previously suggested that PURPLE's manager had blocked him from attending the Rock Hall induction ceremony, and he used that as an excuse for not attending the event.

Despite Blackmore being a no-show at Rock Hall, he was given several shoutouts during the induction speeches of the DEEP PURPLE members in attendance. In addition, METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich, who inducted DEEP PURPLE into the institution, praised "Ritchie fucking Blackmore" for one of the most memorable guitar riffs of all time on "Smoke On The Water".

DEEP PURPLE's first three lineups were inducted into the Rock Hall, including Blackmore, drummer Ian Paice, late keyboardist Jon Lord, and various singers and bassists — Rod Evans; Ian Gillan and Roger Glover; and Coverdale and Hughes.

In 2017, DEEP PURPLE singer Ian Gillan shot down the possibility of a reunion with Blackmore, saying that "the rain stopped and the sun came out" for DEEP PURPLE once the guitarist left the group. He also threw shade at Ritchie's recent RAINBOW performances, saying that Blackmore is "not playing rock and roll like he used to."

SKILLET frontman John Cooper has confirmed to Backstage Entertainment that the band's new album will arrive this summer. "Just listened to mixes today as we speak," John said in an interview that was conducted on March 27 (see video below). "Got a few more… nitpicking, I guess, with the mixes. But they're almost done. The record will be done any day now [and] released this summer. We have a single coming in May, and I hope it's good. [Laughs]"

He continued: "Sometimes, when you work on a record for a long time, you do get kind of, like, 'Okay, I thought this was good a year ago, and I hope it's still good.' But it's unnerving, especially when you wait for three years. The longer you wait, the more epic it has to be — like waiting for a sequel.

"I'm very excited about the record," he added. "Me and Korey [Cooper, rhythm guitar and keyboards] produced the bulk of it this time, which is the first SKILLET record we've produced the bulk of in a long, long time. So that's pretty exciting for us."

At some of its recent concerts, SKILLET has been performed two new songs live, apparently titled "Rise Up" and "Dead Man Walking".

Last fall, John told Consequence Of Sound that SKILLET's next album would "be a bit heavier" than 2016's "Unleashed". But, he added, "We're going to have those arena anthems and also some duets with Jen [Ledger, drummer] and me, which our fans love. I'm excited for it."

"Unleashed" was recently certified gold after accumulating half a million certified units. The distinction follows on the success of lead single "Feel Invincible", which was gold-certified in 2018. "Unleashed" is the fourth consecutive SKILLET record to receive certification of either gold, platinum or double platinum.

Unobstructed View and MVD Entertainment Group announce the release of Lords Of Chaos on Blu-ray / DVD combo and DVD on May 28 in the US and May 21 in Canada. It's a thrilling coming of age horror/drama, weaving together rock'n'roll, youth, love, and death through an incredibly dark story. Renowned Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund (Polar) brings his notorious visual aesthetic to the film, alongside ground-breaking performances from Rory Culkin (Succession, Signs, You Can Count On Me) and Emory Cohen (The Place Beyond The Pines, Brooklyn).

Inspired by a true story, Lords Of Chaos made its debut at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival before going on to impress audiences at Fantastic Fest, Beyond Fest, Fantasia Festival, and more.

Oslo, 1987: Seventeen-year-old Euronymous (Rory Culkin) is determined to escape his idyllic Scandinavian hometown and create "true Norwegian black metal" with his band, Mayhem. He's joined by equally fanatical youths - Dead (Jack Kilmer) and Varg (Emory Cohen). Believing that they're on the cusp of a musical revolution, the group gets even darker, driven by the black metal dogma to spread evil.

They begin burning down churches throughout the countryside and stealing tombstones for their record store. But when the press catches up with them and Euronymous takes more credit than he's earned for the group's violent acts, Varg, fresh out of jail, arranges a dark encounter to settle the score and ultimately determine who the darkest black metal musician is...

The Blu-ray / DVD combo contains the unrated version of the film (118 min) and bonus features (11 directors teasers and trailers). The single DVD includes the rated version (116 min) and no bonus features. Pre-order here.




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