According to Variety, Netflix is nearing deal for U.S. rights and some international territories for the thriller "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile", in which METALLICA frontman James Hetfield makes his dramatic acting debut. The deal cost about $8 million.

"Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile" follows the relationship between notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, played by Zac Efron, and his longtime girlfriend, played by Lily Collins, who at the time had no knowledge of the crimes.

The official trailer for "Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile" can be seen below.


The Grammy and multi-platinum- and gold-award-winning artist plays officer Bob Hayward, a no-nonsense Utah highway patrol veteran who was the first law enforcement officer to arrest Bundy in 1975 after pulling the killer over and discovering burglary tools in his car but wisely suspecting much worse. While Hetfield has played himself in other films and television productions, this is his first dramatic role taking on a different character.


Academy Award nominee Joe Berlinger ("Paradise Lost") directed. Hetfield and Berlinger have crossed paths before when the latter directed and produced the seminal rock-doc "Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster" along with the late Bruce Sinofsky. Berlinger also penned a book about his experiences with the band, "Metallica: This Monster Lives".


"Having spent hundreds of hours behind the scenes with James and the rest of METALLICA, I have experienced his charisma and powerful presence close up," says Berlinger. "It seemed only natural that he would bring that same power and magnetism to a dramatic role, so when he agreed to my pitch that he be in the movie, I was thrilled."


The original screenplay, written by Michael Werwie, won the Nicholl Fellowship first prize and was featured on the Black List.


Golden Globe and multiple Emmy Award winner Jim Parsons and Academy Award nominees Haley Joel Osment and John Malkovich are also part of the cast along with Kaya Scodelario, Angela Sarafyan, Jeffrey Donovan, Terry Kinney and Dylan Baker.


Efron appeared in James Franco's critically acclaimed comedy "The Disaster Artist" as well as "The Greatest Showman", "Baywatch", "Neighbors" and "Neighbors 2".

"It's very interesting. I think the movie itself is really deep," said Efron to ET last March. "It doesn't really glorify Ted Bundy. He wasn't a person to be glorified. It simply tells a story and sort of how the world was able to be charmed over by this guy who was notoriously evil and the vexing position that so many people were put in, the world was put in."

He added: "It was fun to go and experiment in that realm of reality. I didn't go full method and I didn't have to like do any weird stuff to anybody to get into character."


Collins starred in the critically acclaimed dramas "To The Bone" and "Okja", the latter of which was nominated for the Palme d'Or at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival. Collins was also nominated for a Golden Globe for Best Actress (Comedy) for her starring role in "Rules Don't Apply". She appears in the mini-series "Les Miserables".


The project was announced by Voltage Pictures at Cannes 2017.



A #special #day on #set of our little #bundy #movie starring @zacefron and @lilyjcollins ... @metallica is in the house as @james.hetfield @papa_het_ plays Officer Bob Hayward in the #metal #god 's #first #dramatic #role #cleancut Having one of my #musical #heroes in our #film is #pretty #damn #awesome Photo by @brian_douglas_stills A post shared by Joe Berlinger (@joeberlingerfilms) on Feb 13, 2018 at 8:26am PST

On March 22, MEGADETH will celebrate its 35th anniversary with the release of "Warheads On Foreheads", a 35-track career retrospective. The anthology spans the band's entire studio recording career, from its first album "Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good" to its 2016 Grammy Award-winning release "Dystopia", and will be available as a 3-CD set, a 4-LP set and a digital edition via UMe Recordings. A limited-edition, four-LP set pressed on silver colored vinyl will be available exclusively through the band's online store, with deluxe bundles to be announced. Visit this location for details.

A 15-second trailer for "Warheads On Foreheads" can be seen below.


"Thirty-five years ago, I chose the name MEGADETH for my band and I see these songs as the most efficient weapons in the band's arsenal," says Dave Mustaine. "'Warheads On Foreheads' is a U.S. military term for targeting efficiency. It's all about using the right tool for the job and these tracks were created for maximum destruction (or stopping power, or something else!)."


In 1984, Mustaine was determined to start a new band that would be heavier and faster than his peers. Mustaine's songwriting was rapidly maturing, and he set about combining the attitude and energy of punk, with the power and intricate riffing of metal, along with direct, sociopolitical lyrical content. With David Ellefson on bass and Gar Samuelson on drums, the band recorded its infamous three-song demo which quickly circulated through the underground tape-trading circuit and became an underground hit leading to a deal with Combat Records.


"Warheads On Foreheads" starts at that beginning with the early thrashers "Rattlehead" and "Mechanix" from the band's 1985 debut, "Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good", an album that would lay down the blueprint and establish MEGADETH as forerunners of what would later be called thrash metal (and recently hailed by VH1 as the greatest thrash metal debut of all time).


MEGADETH was quickly signed by Capitol Records and released its 1986 major label debut "Peace Sells…But Who's Buying?", which became the band's first certified gold record and would go on to become MEGADETH's first platinum-selling release. Featured on "Warheads On Foreheads" are "The Conjuring" and the track "Good Mourning/Black Friday", which Pitchfork describes as "everything great about hardcore, plus a dose of the kind of show-off skill that makes lesser musicians' fingers bleed." Other songs included are "In My Darkest Hour" from its platinum-selling "So Far, So Good, So What!" (1988), "Hangar 18" and "Holy Wars…The Punishment Due" from its Grammy-nominated platinum album "Rust In Peace" (1990), and "Symphony Of Destruction" and "Sweating Bullets" from 1992's Grammy-nominated double-platinum release "Countdown To Extinction". Also featured are "A Tout Le Monde" and "Reckoning Day" from 1994's platinum-selling release "Youthanasia", "Kingmaker" from 2013's Top Ten release "Super Collider", which hit No. 3 on both the Hard Rock Albums and Top Rock Albums charts, "She-Wolf" from the Grammy-nominated Top Ten release "Cryptic Writings" (1997) and the title track from the band's most recent album "Dystopia".


Upon its release in 2016, "Dystopia" reasserted MEGADETH's place at the top of the metal world, equaling the chart impact of their early-nineties output, earning the band its first Grammy, as well as rave reviews (The Guardian gave it five out of five stars and stated "'Dystopia' is an absolutely blistering return to the state-of-the-art bombast and refined technicality.")


MEGADETH burst onto the scene thirty-five years ago, virtually inventing a genre and selling more than 38 million albums worldwide, earning numerous accolades including a 2017 Grammy Award for "Best Metal Performance" for the title track "Dystopia", 12 Grammy nominations, and scoring five consecutive platinum albums. With sheer determination and a relentless recording and touring schedule, MEGADETH worked its way up from headlining clubs to headlining arenas, festival and stadiums, cementing a legacy that continues to grow and spread throughout the world.


"Warheads On Foreheads" track listing:

Disc 1

01. Rattlehead

02. Mechanix

03. Killing Is My Business…And Business Is Good!

04. The Conjuring

05. Wake Up Dead

06. Devils Island

07. Good Mourning / Black Friday

08. Set The World Afire

09. In My Darkest Hour

10. Holy Wars…The Punishment Due


Disc 2

01. Hangar 18

02. Tornado Of Souls

03. Rust In Peace…Polaris

04. Five Magics

05. Take No Prisoners

06. Skin O' My Teeth

07. Angry Again

08. Symphony Of Destruction

09. Sweating Bullets

10. A Tout Le Monde

11. Train Of Consequences

12. Reckoning Day


Disc 3

01. Trust

02. She-Wolf

03. Wanderlust

04. Dread and the Fugitive Mind

05. Blackmail The Universe

06. Washington Is Next!

07. Head Crusher

08. Public Enemy No. 1

09. Kingmaker

10. The Threat Is Real

11. Poisonous Shadows

12. Death From Within

13. Dystopia

From the ashes of Swedish melodic death metal band ARMAGEDDON — which featured in its ranks former ARCH ENEMY guitarist Christopher Amott — DAUGHTER CHAOS was born.

DAUGHTER CHAOS is a five-piece ensemble churning out ripping melodic death metal with a high-energy live show, virtuosic guitar shred, and a heaping dose of raw power. This is pure heaviness with a rock and roll edge.

As various combinations of this incarnation, and under the moniker ARMAGEDDON, the band has played such legendary venues as Loud Park festival in Japan and the Palacio de Los Desportes in Mexico City. They are no stranger to small clubs, as well as large venues, and they are prepared to take it to the top.

As you will see in their members list, they have all cut our teeth in the industry, playing with legendary bands, and now are ready to make their impact as a whole new animal, with fresh energy for the metal music world.

DAUGHTER CHAOS has inked a deal with Seeing Red Records and will release its debut EP this spring/summer.

The EP's single, "Intergalactic", can be streamed below.

DAUGHTER CHAOS is:

* Antony Hämäläinen (ARMAGEDDON, NORDJÄRVI, NIGHTRAGE) - Vocals

* Joey Concepcion (ARMAGEDDON, ARCH ENEMY, JASTA, THE ABSENCE) - Guitar

* Sara Claudius (ARMAGEDDON, THE OBSESSED) - Bass

* Andrew Pevny (ARMAGEDDON, FRAMEWORK) - Guitar

* Yanni Sofianos (OBSESSION) - Drums

Tim "Ripper" Owens says that he "doesn't understand" Andrew Freeman's recent comment that "a couple of guys" in the DIO DISCIPLES camp are "dicks."

DIO DISCIPLES is made up of former members of DIO, along with a rotating lineup of singers, including Owens.

Freeman, who formed LAST IN LINE in 2012 with original DIO members Vivian Campbell (guitar), Vinny Appice (drums) and Jimmy Bain (bass), told the "Music Mania" podcast in an interview that while he is on friendly terms with several members of DIO DISCIPLES, "there's a couple of guys in that camp that are dicks — to put it bluntly. And personally, I've been affected by it, because I've been told, 'We can't use you [for shows] because you're playing with Vivian,'" he said. "But that doesn't come from the band guys — that comes from other places… They told me I wasn't gonna be able to do a gig because I played with Vivian. I was just, like, 'Okay.'"

Owens was asked to "provide some clarity" on Freeman's inflammatory comments during a recent interview with ListenIowa.

"I don't understand it," the former JUDAS PRIEST singer said. "I'm actually friends with him and Vinny. I don't know. I didn't listen to the interview, but I guess he said a couple of guys are dicks. All I did then was make a joke out of it on Twitter and said that I'm a dick.

"I've got nothing but good things to say about those guys," he continued. "I think it's fantastic. We're all celebrating Ronnie.

"If anybody has talked bad about each other in the past, I mean, that's a long time ago," Owens added. "Let's all just do it for the ride and not say, 'My band's the official one because we were there first.' Really? Okay. Good. 'And you were fuckin' fired.' You know what I mean? Yeah, those guys were there first, and [the early DIO albums] are some of my favorite records of all time. I would love to watch them play when they're in town and hang out with them. If they came to our show, I'd love to have them come up onstage and play a song."

In a 2016 interview, Vivian slammed DIO DISCIPLES, saying that the band has "zero credibility" as a Ronnie James Dio tribute project despite the fact that it is fully supported by the late singer's wife and manager, Wendy.

"I don't think [LAST IN LINE is] even in the same league as the DIO DISCIPLES," Campbell said. "None of those guys were original members of the band DIO. We're the original band. We're the guys who formed the band with Ronnie. Not only were in the band, but we wrote all the songs with Ronnie. If you look at the writing credits on the first three records, it was very, very much a collaborative creative venture. That's what made the early DIO records so strong."

In December 2017, DIO DISCIPLES guitarist Craig Goldy said in a Facebook post that "certain members" of the original DIO band became motivated by "money" because they "didn't have the same heart for the fans" as Ronnie James Dio did.

STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis cut his country solo concert short Saturday night (February 2) at the Pharr Events Center in Pharr, Texas after he unsuccessfully attempted to quiet the crowd.

Videos posted online show Lewis asking the audience members to lower their chatter before a song.

"I'm gonna try to do something different and special, but you're not gonna hear it if you're not quiet," he added. "No, you don't understand — like fucking church! Quiet.

"I'm only gonna wait for so long, and then I'm just gonna say 'good night.'"

After waiting a few more seconds for the crowd to respond, Lewis continued: "I don't understand what you're not getting. I know I have a microphone, so you can hear me. You're not gonna hear the song unless it's this quiet."

"Tell them in Spanish," one woman suggested before another man shouted, "In español."

Aaron responded: "I'm sorry. I don't know how to speak Spanish. I'm American."

Lewis then made a keep-quiet gesture, putting his finger on his mouth, before strumming a few chords on his guitar. When the crowd refused to stop talking, the visibly agitated singer abruptly stopped, checked his watch and returned to the mic.

"Thank you very much. Have a great night," he said before walking off stage to boos.

According to Data USA, Pharr is roughly 94% Hispanic and 6% white.

This was not the first time Lewis's clash with an audience member has been gone viral.

Two months ago, a video surfaced of Lewis cursing at an Indianapolis concert-goer for calling out song titles while he was singing. "See that bald motherfucker right there," Aaron told the Indianapolis crowd. Make sure his walk out to his fucking car this evening is not that enjoyable."

Lewis, who is widely considered to be one of the most politically conservative musicians in rock, was a staunch critic of President Barack Obama, telling a crowd at one of his solo concerts in 2016: "Barack Obama should have been impeached a long fucking time ago. Every fucking decision he makes is against the Constitution, it's against what's good for our fucking country, and he is truly the worst fucking president that we have ever had in the history of this fucking country."

That same year, Lewis told Billboard that he would support Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race, even though he was "disappointed" by the real estate mogul "with the bickering and the name-calling." Lewis added that he voted for Senator Ted Cruz, Trump's closest competitor in the Republican nomination race, in the Massachusetts primary.

The STAIND frontman first dipped his toes into country music with his 2011 EP, "Town Line". His second full-length album, "Sinner", arrived in the fall of 2016 and was followed by a stand-alone single, "Folded Flag".

Lewis will release his third full-length country album, "State I'm In", on April 12 via Big Machine imprint Valory Music.


Aaron Lewis in Pharr
One attendee of Saturday night's Aaron Lewis concert in Pharr provided this video, in which he can be heard saying around the 1:44 mark, "I'm sorry, I don't know how to speak Spanish. I'm American," in response to people shouting to speak to them in Spanish. Though attempting to quiet concertgoers, Lewis' remarks only provoked more crowd noise before he eventually walked off stage.

Read the story here:

https://www.themonitor.com/2019/02/03/aaron-lewis-staind-fame-walks-off-stage-pharr-concert/Posted by The Monitor on Sunday, February 3, 2019

PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS, the project led by the former PANTERA and current DOWN/SUPERJOINT frontman, played a number of PANTERA classics during its January 26 concert at Tropical Butantã in São Paulo, Brazil. Fan-filmed video footage can be seen below.

Anselmo explained his decision to perform PANTERA songs with his solo band during a recent interview with Australia's Heavy magazine.

"This past year has been pretty rough as far as the PANTERA camp goes," he said. "So, with Vinnie's [Paul, PANTERA drummer] passing, I figure, this past year, why not play some of the old songs that people wanna hear and have been asking to hear for a long time. So that's been a different spin on the set, man. And once again, I can't say enough about my guys around me… Mike DeLeon, my guitar player, is really a death metal player, and Blue [José Manuel Gonzalez], my drummer, he comes from death metal roots, and everybody expands, but to ask them to do this PANTERA stuff, it was big, man — it was really big. So, big props to them, man."

Asked if performing classic PANTERA songs brings up good memories or bad memories for him, Anselmo said: "When I'm onstage, it's all good. And I will say there have been some bizarre moments. What freaks me out is the younger audience — the kids whose parents grew up as PANTERA fans in the house. It's amazing. Seeing the youngsters come in and go bananas, man — it's inspiring, man. Yeah, you know, strange feelings here and there, but overall, the payoff's been great."

Up until his death last June, Vinnie remained on non-speaking terms with Anselmo, whom the drummer indirectly blamed for the death of Dimebag, who was his brother.

Vinnie Paul and Dimebag co-founded PANTERA. When PANTERA broke up in 2003, they formed DAMAGEPLAN. On December 8, 2004, while performing with DAMAGEPLAN at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, Dimebag was shot and killed onstage by a troubled schizophrenic who believed that the members of PANTERA were stealing his thoughts.

Last month, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS announced the addition of former CATTLE DECAPITATION bassist/current SCOUR guitarist Derek Engemann to the group's ranks. Engemann — who takes the place of bass comrade Walter Howard (GRIEVED, OPPRESSIVE FORCE, VAGINAL BEAR TRAP) — is making his live debut with THE ILLEGALS on the band's Latin American tour.


In March, PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS will make its way to Australia and New Zealand on the "Thrash Blast Grind" tour with Australian grind practitioners and Housecore Records labelmates KING PARROT. The journey marks Anselmo's first visit to Australia in over five years and includes a headlining set at Slayfest in Perth on March 23. Additional support will be provided by PALM (Japan) and POTION (Australia).

The summer months will find PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS playing a host of European festivals, including Graspop Metal Meeting in Belgium, Hellfest in France, and Metaldays in Slovenia, with more performances to be announced in the weeks to come.

PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS' sophomore album, "Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue", was released in January 2018 via Anselmo's Housecore Records in the U.S. and Season Of Mist in other parts of the world. The disc is the follow-up to PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS' debut, "Walk Through Exits Only", which came out in 2013 to mostly positive reviews.

In the two-minute video below, Ozzy Osbourne, who will headline the first-ever Download festival in Japan, talks about his memories of Japan and Japanese audiences.

Despite the fact that "No More Tours 2" is being billed as his farewell tour, Ozzy insists that he is not calling it quits. "I'm not retiring," he says. "I'm just not doing world tours anymore. [In the past, I would] leave my house [in] January and come back at the end of the year. It should be, I'm slowing it down. But I can never say when I'm going to check out. I can never tell."

Last month, Ozzy was forced to postpone the entire European leg of his "No More Tours 2" run on doctors' orders, just one day after postponing the first four dates on the U.K. stretch of the trek. Ozzy was diagnosed with a severe upper respiratory infection which his doctor feels could develop into pneumonia, given the physicality of the live performances and an extensive travel schedule throughout Europe in harsh winter conditions.

Fans who purchased tickets for the shows are advised to hold on to them, as they will be honored for the rescheduled dates. Details of those will be announced in the coming months. Refunds are also available at point of purchase.

Ozzy's final world tour of this size resumes on Sunday, March 9 in Australia. Shows will follow in New Zealand and Japan before a two-month North American leg.

The news of the tour postponement came just days after Ozzy said that he coughed so hard that he burst a blood vessel in his eye. Last October, Ozzy contracted a staph infection that required him to have surgery on his hand and resulted in him canceling several shows.

Professionally filmed video footage of METALLICA performing the song "Atlas, Rise!" on January 24 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee can be seen below.

In the song "Atlas, Rise!", METALLICA frontman James Hetfield calls out Atlas, the Greek mythological figure which was responsible for bearing the weight of the heavens on his shoulders, a burden given to him as punishment by Zeus.

Hetfield told Rolling Stone Australia that he had his METALLICA bandmate Lars Ulrich in mind when he wrote the lyrics to the track. "Lars is, 'I have to do everything, or else it's wrong,'" he explained. "He's got the weight of so much on him. And 'Atlas, Rise!' started out as a, 'Here, let me help you with that. You don't need to carry all that, brother.' And then it morphed into more — and this is not specifically him, but I'm plugging him into this — I think he likes that. There's a drama that makes him work, and we all have a bit of that. He wants the control but he doesn't really have control. The illusion of control, and then the ability to complain about how you have to do everything yourself, and then you still do it."

"Atlas, Rise!" is taken from METALLICA's latest album, "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct", which debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart, selling 291,000 copies in its first week of release.

METALLICA kicked off the 2018/2019 U.S. leg of the "WorldWired" arena tour in September at the Kohl Center in Madison, Wisconsin.

On the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's death comes a new perspective on one of the most compelling icons of our time. With candor, honesty and empathy, Danny Goldberg, one of NIRVANA's managers from 1990 to 1994, shares his memories of his brief but momentous time with Kurt and the band in "Serving The Servant: Remembering Kurt Cobain", due on April 2 via HarperCollins's Ecco Press imprint. The result is a fresh and frank portrait of an icon unlike any that has come before.

When Goldberg agreed to take on NIRVANA, he had no idea that Cobain would become a pop-culture icon with a legacy arguably at the level of that of John Lennon, Michael Jackson or Elvis Presley. Goldberg worked with Kurt from 1990 to 1994, the most impactful period of Kurt's life.

This key time saw the stratospheric success of "Nevermind", which turned NIRVANA into the most successful rock band in the world and made punk and grunge household terms; Kurt's meeting and marriage to the brilliant but mercurial Courtney Love and their relationship that became a lightning rod for critics; the birth of their daughter, Frances Bean; and, finally, Kurt's public struggles with addiction, which ended in a devastating suicide that would alter the course of rock history. Throughout, Goldberg stood by Kurt's side as manager and close friend.

Drawing on Goldberg's own memories of Kurt, files that previously have not been made public, and interviews with, among others, Kurt's close family (including Courtney Love), friends, and former bandmates (including Krist Novoselic), "Serving The Servant" sheds an entirely new light on these critical years. Casting aside the common obsession with the angst and depression that seemingly drove Kurt, "Serving The Servant" is an exploration of his brilliance in every aspect of rock and roll, his compassion, his ambition, and the legacy he wrought-one that has lasted decades longer than his career did. Goldberg also explores what it is about Kurt Cobain that still resonates today, even with a generation who wasn't alive until after Kurt's death.

Thurston Moore (SONIC YOUTH): "Insightful, passionate and clear-eyed, Danny Goldberg's account of his personal and professional relationship with Kurt Cobain is required reading for not only NIRVANA enthusiasts, but anyone interested in how the corporate music industry engaged with the punk rock underground of the early 1990s. While providing an intimate view of the support system the band had from a world their scene was historically at odds with, Goldberg shares what is essentially the story of two men, a generation apart, who became unexpected friends through a mutual appreciation of feminism, LGBT rights, and a dedication to the activist power of music. It is a contemplative requiem to losing someone you love who immeasurably touched the entire planet with a singular magic."

Joan Jett: "As soon as I started reading, I got sucked in and I couldn't put it down. As a huge NIRVANA fan, it is petrifying to even attempt a description or enlightened comment about Kurt. I just want to say, any music fan should want this book. Any NIRVANA fan must have this book."

Cameron Crowe: "There have been many portraits of Kurt Cobain, but none as warm and clear-eyed as this one. Danny Goldberg has always been one of my favorite observer/journalist/architects of popular culture. It's no surprise that his deeply personal memoir does what Cobain's best work does. It burrows in deep, and sticks around. Add this to the rich sonic legacy of NIRVANA — Goldberg's soulful account of Cobain as a close friend, gone way too soon, yet vividly alive on every page of this remarkable book. Bravo, Danny."

The official lyric video for the song "Subhuman" from FLAT EARTH, the new band featuring former HIM members Mikko "Linde" Lindström (guitar) and Mika "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen (drums) alongside ex-AMORPHIS bassist Niclas Etelävuori and POLANSKI singer Anttoni "Anthony" Pikkarainen, can be seen below. The track is taken from FLAT EARTH's debut album, "None For One", which was released in November via Drakkar Entertainment in Europe excluding Finland (where the effort was made available through the band's own label Suur Etikett). The disc was recorded at Finnvox in Helsinki with producer Hiili Hiilesmaa, who has previously worked with HIM, AMORPHIS, THE 69 EYES and APOCALYPTICA, among others.

According to a press release, "None For One" contains eleven tracks that "deliver a magnetically melodic sound and are thoroughly permeated by vocalist Anthony's passionately melancholic overtones. FLAT EARTH delivers in the same parcel both the beauty and the beast."

The cover artwork for "None For One" was created by Minna Niskanen and can be seen below.

Track listing:

01. Subhuman

02. Blame

03. Given Time

04. Cyanide

05. None For One

06. The Glow

07. Noble Swine

08. Limelight

09. Freedoom

10. Blunt

11. Kill My God

FLAT EARTH was formed after Etelavuori fell out with the manager of AMORPHIS and exited the latter band. Suddenly, Niclas was left stranded. He decided to show the world that he still had a lot to give, so he started looking for possible bandmates.

Niclas explains: "After over two decades playing with bands, I was at a point thinking that maybe I start doing something else. But then I knew I had these songs on my hard drive still, and nothing was done with them. And I just wanted to get rid of them and see what happens. But then it kind of took over and I started to focus more on that."

Linde first sprang to mind, even though he still had his hands full with HIM at that time. Nevertheless, the two of them kept meeting regularly, and started working on ideas for new songs. Getting Anthony on board provided additional inspiration. And when their old bandmate Karppinen finally joined on drums, the group's lineup was completed.

While Linde was busy playing the States and Europe on HIM's farewell tour, the remaining trio spent their time recording drums to seven pilot demos that had previously been taped in Niclas's basement studio. Gas brought along two of his own songs, and Anthony composed a new track for the band. Linde found an old song of his he had first fleshed out when he was only 13. The rest of the tracks were Niclas's ideas mainly, treated to the band's arrangements, with Anthony providing both the vocal melodies, as well as the lyrics. The basic structure for the first album was ready.

Linde remembers: "Our common friend, who's been helping us get this band off the ground, recommended a guy named Anttoni 'Anthony' Pikkarainen, who had been singing in a band named POLANSKI. The band had made a record, and after we'd listened to it, we had to set up a meeting immediately.

"I have a great feeling about our new band. Anthony had recorded with Hiili Hiilesmaa before, and the rest of us have known each other for years. It feels as if all the stars have finally aligned."

FLAT EARTH is:

Mikko "Linde" Lindström (HIM) - Guitar

Mika "Gas Lipstick" Karppinen (HIM) - Drums

‪Niclas Etelävuori (AMORPHIS) - Bass

‪Anttoni "Anthony" Pikkarainen (POLANSKI) – Vocals

Due to a bandmember injury, FOO FIGHTERS have been forced to reschedule their the two-night grand opening of The Fillmore New Orleans, the multi-million-dollar live music venue inside Harrah's New Orleans casino, on February 15-16.

The February dates have been rescheduled to May 15 and May 16.

All tickets for the original dates will be honored.

For those unable to attend the rescheduled dates, refunds will be made available at the original point of purchase. All refund requests must be received no later than end of day Monday, February 18. No additional refund requests will be processed after this date.

The band apologizes for any inconvenience caused by the rescheduling. They regret that they will no longer be able to christen The Fillmore New Orleans, but promise to bring it in May.

FOO FIGHTERS are continuing to tour in support of their 2017 album, "Concrete And Gold". Although the disc reached the top of the Billboard chart, it failed to earn gold certification in the sales department. But the band remains a touring behemoth, having played 71 shows between June 2017 and June 2018, with an average gross of more than $1 million per stop.

WARRIOR SOUL, the band fronted by legendary singer Kory Clarke, will release a new studio album, titled "Rock 'N' Roll Disease", on May 19.

For the disc, Clarke used the same writing team and musicians who played on 2017's acclaimed "Back On The Lash" LP.

Tentative songtitles set to appear on "Rock 'N' Roll Disease" include "Over The Top" and "Off My Face".

"We are going for the same feel as 'Lash' but honing it in more and picking it up a bit," says Clarke. "'Back On The Lash' was raw, fun and loose, this is too, but we are pushing it all over the top."

WARRIOR SOUL released released a trio of albums on the Geffen major label during the '90s, beginning with its classic 1990 debut, "Last Decade Dead Century".

Having initially split in 1995 following the release of "The Space Age Playboys", WARRIOR SOUL was resurrected in 2007 by Clarke, who has issued several albums since: "Destroy The War Machine" (2008), "Stiff Middle Finger" (2012) and the aforementioned "Back On The Lash".

Canadian metal upstarts ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN will release their second full-length album and Nuclear Blast debut on March 29. "Harbinger" was produced and mixed by Jason Suecof (DEVILDRIVER, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER, ALL THAT REMAINS, TRIVIUM) and mastered by Alan Douches (DARKEST HOUR, EVERY TIME I DIE, SUICIDE SILENCE).

The first single, "The Endless", can be streamed below.

"'Harbinger' is a warning for all of us to pay attention to what's going on in the world and improve what we can before it's too late," commented vocalist Jamison Friesen. "'The Endless' questions if we're disposable pawns in a game that we're born playing. Do we have the free will to escape, or is humanity doomed to be trapped in a loop?"

"Harbinger" track listing:

01. Hurricane On The Horizon

02. End Of Existence

03. Witness

04. The Horror

05. Old Bones // New Blood

06. Better Off Without

07. Symbiotic

08. An Omen Of Loss

09. The Endless

10. Apocalyptic

A demo version of the song "The Horror" can now be heard on Spotify or YouTube.

ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN started as a band with a mission to play music without compromise and carve its way through the music scene on its own terms. Coming from a small city in Northern Canada, this was a necessary strategy, since the band didn't come up in a big city scene with regular promoters, venues and attendees.

After touring in support of two self-released albums, "Endless Nights" and "Shadows", the band began plotting its next release. On a whim, they decided to send some of the new demos to one of their heroes, Jason Suecof at Audiohammer Studios, to see if he would be interested in recording them. To the band's absolute surprise, Jason liked what he heard, and found time between some of the heavy-hitters that he had been working on to record the material. This was an opportunity the band couldn't pass up, and immediately started planning the trip of flying over 3,000 miles, from one end of the continent of North America to the other, to record the best songs the band had ever written.


Fast forward to after two successful recording sessions produced by Jason Suecof and mastered by Mark Lewis, the band was able to attract the attention of A&R legend Monte Conner. Conner was impressed with what he heard and quickly struck a deal with the band. With such a rapid ascent thus far, there's no telling what great things lurk in ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN's not-too-distant future.

ARRIVAL OF AUTUMN is:

Jamison Friesen - vocals

Brendan Anderson - lead guitar

Kevin Student - bass

Ryan Sorensen - guitar

According to Billboard, British rockers BRING ME THE HORIZON scored their first No. 1 album in the U.K. with their latest effort, "Amo". The disc had combined first-week units of 27,000, with 61% of its sales on CD or vinyl.

The band's previous best album chart showing was No. 2 with 2015's "That's The Spirit".

BRING ME THE HORIZON thanked the fans for the achievement, saying; "Thank you to everyone in the U.K. for getting our new album 'Amo' to No. 1. Thanks for buying it and streaming it and showing us support — it really means a lot to us. Thank you very much, we love you."

The record failed to crack the Billboard 200 album chart's Top 10 however, settling for a No. 14 debut with sales in North America of just over 26,000 units — close to the U.K. tally. Around 16,000 of those were physical copies.

"Amo" was released on January 25 via Columbia Records. The band spent last summer writing and recording in Los Angeles, with singer Oli Sykes and keyboardist Jordan Fish handling production.

Oli told Zane Lowe about the musical direction of "Amo": "We didn't really know what we wanted, but we just knew we wanted to be different. We wanted to still be BRING ME THE HORIZON, but make people feel the things they felt with us in different ways and try to do it sonically different. And it took a while to find that sound and stuff, 'cause I think, for me, I love the fact that I can sing now and I can write these lyrics that have important messages and they can almost stick in people's heads, so that they're easier to get across. So, for us, we still wanted those huge choruses, but I feel like we had so much experimentation in us that we've been dying to do for maybe the last five years or so."

Last month, BRING ME THE HORIZON kicked off of its Live Nation-produced North American headline tour, to be followed by shows in South America, Australia and a plethora of festivals around the world.

Roskilde, Denmark-based hard rockers Junkyard Drive released their new album, Black Coffee, via Mighty Music on September 1st. The album was recorded in Medley Studios in Copenhagen with Soren Andersen (Glenn Hughes, Mike Tramp, Jesper Binzer) as producer. New video, "Sucker For Your Love", is streaming below.

Black Coffee contains 11 hard rocking tracks. Just the way it should be, with a band that has developed a lot since their formation. And you can actually hear that it in the sound.

"Sweet Little Dreamer" video:

In September and October, Junkyard Drive will head on a Danish tour and in November 2018 a tour in the southern part of Europe has been booked supporting the legendary heavy metal act Diamond Head.

Junkyard Drive lineup:

Kris - Lead Vocal
Birk - Lead Guitar/Backup Vocals
Benjamin - Rhythm Guitar/Backup Vocals
Claus - Drums/Cowbell
Tim Meldal - Bass




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Two years after their first chart entry in Germany with “War Of Dragons” and an almost completely sold out headliner tour, Bloodbound are back with their new album Rise Of The Dragon Empire. Check out new track “Slayer Of Kings” below and find preorders here.

One has to make a compliment towards the six swedes as Rise Of The Dragon Empire is full of hits, hits and again hits. The band further refined their formula and now comes up with the best material in their entire career. Even if Bloodbound add their own taste, Rise Of The Dragon Empire will not only thrill their numerous fans, but also fans of Sabaton, Powerwolf and even Nightwish.

Tracklisting:

“Rise Of The Dragon Empire”
“Slayer Of Kings”
“Skyriders And Stormbringers”
“Magical Eye”
“Blackwater Bay”
“Giants Of Heaven”
“The Warlock’s Trail”
“A Blessing In Sorcery”
“Breaking The Beast”
“Balerion”
“Reign Of Fire”

“Slayer Of Kings”:




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On January 9th, Possessed performed at the Oakland Metro Operahouse in Oakland, CA. Video of the complete show is available below courtesy of Capital Chaos TV.

The setlist on the night was as follows:

"Pentagram"
"Beyond the Gates"
"The Eyes of Horror"
"Evil Warriors"
"Tribulation"
"Seance"
"The Heretic"
"My Belief"
"Abandoned"
"Storm in My Mind"
"Burning in Hell"
"Shadowcult"
"The Exorcist"
"Swing of the Axe"
"Fallen Angel"
"Death Metal"

Encore:
"Seven Churches"
"Satan's Curse"

 




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Danish power metal veterans Iron Fire have released a lyric video for the title track from forthcoming album Beyond The Void, due out on March 8th via Crime Records.

How do you top great power metal albums like Voyage Of The Damned and Among The Dead? Well, the answer from Iron Fire is to keep the focus on songwriting straight, keep the approach real and speak straight from the beating metal heart. Beyond The Void is, therefore, nothing but an honest in your face metal album, filled with blistering power metal songs that meld traditional melodic heavy metal with hard-hitting power trash. This melting pot of heavy metal madness is mixed and mastered by legendary producer Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity, Madball etc.).

Beyond The Void is an album spanning a musical range from Testament to Judas Priest to Helloween and beyond. Fans of good heavy metal songwriting should give this new creation a spin.

The album's first single, the title track, will be available on February 1st as a digital single and lyric video.

Tracklisting:

Intro
"Beyond The Void"
"Final Warning"
"Cold Chains Of The North"
"Wrong Turn"
"Bones And Gasoline"
"Old Habits Die Hard"
"Judgement Day"
"To Hell And Back"
"One More Bullet"
"The Devils Path"
"Out Of Nowhere"

"Beyond The Void" lyric video:

Lineup:

Martin Steene - Vocals & Bass
Kirk Backarach - Guitar
Gunnar Olsen - Drums




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Hard rock four-piece Like A Storm have released their new music video for "Complicated (Stitches & Scars)" today via Century Media/RED MUSIC. The music video was shot by Ron Thunderwood and edited by Sam Shapiro. "Complicated (Stitches & Scars)" is off of the band's 2018 full-length release, Catacombs, and is climbing the US Rock Radio charts currently at #31 on the chart.

The New Zealand rockers are currently on the road headlining the 2019 Sirius XM Octane Accelerator Headline Tour. Royal Tusk and Afterlife are joining the band on the US tour, which is hitting major cities like New York, Chicago, Dallas, Baltimore, and more. For more information on the remaining tour dates and to purchase tickets, visit the band's website.

Hailing from Auckland, New Zealand, Like A Storm is the most successful New Zealand rock band in US radio history. First gaining notoriety for incorporating the Didgeridoo into their breakout track, "Love The Way You Hate Me,", the band's last 6 singles"Love the Way You Hate Me," "Wish You Hell," "Become The Enemy," "Break Free," "Pure Evil," and "The Devil Inside" have all charted at US Active Rock Top 40.

Like A Storm has toured the globe with some of the biggest names in rock - including Godsmack, Alter Bridge, Slash, Ozzy Osbourne, Shinedown, Three Days Grace, on top of headlining North America extensively. They have also been invited to perform at the world's biggest hard rock festivals including: Download (UK), Nova Rock (Europe) and Rock on the Range (U.S.). Their reputation for touring the world relentlessly led Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge/Slash to once label them, "The hardest-working band in the business." Like A Storm recently wrapped a massive U.S. run supporting Godsmack & Shinedown, where their high-energy live show garnered thousands of new fans.

Like A Storm is Chris Brooks (vocals), Matt Brooks (lead guitar), Kent Brooks (bass guitar), and Zach Wood (drums).

Sirius XM Octane Headline dates:

February 
1 - Dallas, TX - House of Blues
2 - Houston, TX - House of Blues
4 - New Orleans, LA - House of Blues
8 - Philadelphia, PA - The Foundry
9 - Baltimore, MD - Metro Gallery
10 - Asbury Park, NJ - Wonder Bar
12 - New York, NY - The Gramercy Theatre
15 - Pittsburgh, PA - Smiling Moose
16 - Cincinnati, OH - Bogart's
17 - Cleveland, OH - House of Blues
18 - Detroit, MI - The Shelter
20 - Grand Rapids, MI - The Stache
21 - Chicago, IL - Bottom Lounge
22 - St. Paul, MN - Amsterdam Bar & Hall




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Legendary singer Lance King, original voice behind Pyramaze, Avian, Balance Of Power and Gemini will release his second solo album  on March 29th on Nightmare Records. Originally due February 15th, King’s ReProgam album is now digitally available to preorder on iTunes and Amazon.

Of course, given Lance King’s pedigree, and his famous musician friends, the song also features powerful, uplifting, and catchy music - only this time King has given the music born from this unique convergence of talent and inspiration a new name: celestial metal.

“I chose the phrase ‘celestial metal’ because I see my solo material different from anything I’ve done before,” King said. “This time, I believe the music came to us from outside of ourselves. From the heavens, the universe and the energies of intent being projected from everyone around us. I believe ReProgram is for everyone who wants to rise above, to be the best version of themselves, to truly live life.

What’s bigger than celestial? And what’s more powerful than metal?

King adds, "I set out to write happy metal songs thinking the world needs more happy music, especially 'heavy' happy music! But that isn't came out of us. The lyrics are moody and deal with the common struggle of being stuck in an unhappy life by our conditioning... but this programming can be changed!   Reprogram is my story, but I believe it can become your story, too. I invite you to take this Celestial Metal journey with me…"

Musicians featured on ReProgram include:

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)
Jakob Riis (L Wood Joy)

Watch a lyric video for "Limitless" below:

Pre-order exclusive limited bundles and get access to all updates on PledgeMusic here. You can get a free song downloads here.




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Australian death thrashers Truth Corroded have unleashed the lead single and lyric video for “To The Carnal Earth” from the band's soon to be released new album Bloodlands which features a guest solo from the legendary Terrance Hobbs of Suffocation. The new album will be released on March 22nd through iconic extreme music label Unique Leader Records.

Commenting on the song, bassist Greg Shaw offers “‘To The Carnal Earth' is the opening song from our upcoming album, and it is an absolute privilege to feature Terrance for a guest solo. We were very fortunate to have toured alongside Suffocation in Asia and Europe and became good friends with the band. The solo is completely off the hook and is both signature of the Hobbs style and fitting to the era and influences of the song. It also sums up what you can anticipate from the new album."

Terrance stands alongside a host of impressive guest artists on the new album which include Stephen Carpenter of the Deftones, Mark Kloeppel of Misery Index, Ryan Knight formerly of The Black Dahlia Murder and ex-Suffocation drummer Kevin Talley.

Artwork for the album was created by Gary Ronaldson at Bite Radius Designs (Napalm Death, Misery Index, Benighted) and captures the dark concept underlying the album’s title.

"Both the album title and new song regard war and what compels a person to fight. The title refers to lands that have soaked up the blood of the fallen to give growth to later conflict, and the new song relates to what compels conflict and what it preys upon" adds Shaw.

Find preorders at this location.

Tracklisting:

“To The Carnal Earth”
“The Leeches Feed”
“Conquest Of Divide”
“Victims Left Lepers”
“Bloodlands”
“The Storm”
“Of Open Eyes And Willing Hands”
“The End Of He Who Reigns”
“I Once Breathed”

“To The Carnal Earth” lyric video:




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The Swedish melodic progressive metal band Darkwater just released a lyric video for "A New Beginning", the second single from their new album Human.

Human is out on March 1st in Europe and North America via Ulterium Records. The album will be available on CD, 2LP and digital.

Human won't leave fans of melodic metal or progressive metal disappointed. The songs are heavier, more melodic and atmospheric than before and the band worked really hard on tweaking the ten songs and over 76 minutes of playing time into perfection. Jacob Hansen (Evergrey, Volbeat, Amaranthe) was chosen to mix and master the album and he did a fantastic job which resulted in the best sounding Darkwater album to date.

The lyrics of the album welcomes you into a world of you and me, how we affect the world around us and the struggles we deal with as humans.

Don't miss out on Human, a perfect album for fans of melodic progressive metal and bands like Circus Maximus, Seventh Wonder and Evergrey.

Tracklisting:

“A New Beginning”
“In Front Of You”
“Alive (Part I)”
“Alive (Part II)”
“Reflection Of A Mind”
“Insomnia”
“The Journey”
“Burdens”
“Turning Pages”
“Light Of Dawn”

"A New Beginning" lyric video:

"Alive (Pt. II)" video:




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Nightrage has returned with the second single, "The Damned," from the forthcoming album Wolf To Man where the band invites us to a mesmerizing melodic musical journey, telling the truthful story that guides us all the way to the inevitable demise of mankind. The music delivers a delicate and well-balanced blend between brutality and melody, as well as an intricate mix of thrashing riffs and hook filled choruses. "The Damned" is out now on iTunes and Spotify via Despotz Records.

The band says, "Humans have given up on living for real and now just live for the next cheap thrill not giving a shit how to make it to the next day. It's more important to have many “likes” on social media than it is to take care of or interact with the ones living around you. We and our bodies are just empty shells now losing the last of our damned souls to the cheap thrill of fake life online. It's our own fault. Hate us and blame us. We are the damned!"

This relentless story of extinction is told with as much aggression as it is with intriguing and mesmerizing melodies. Memorable hooks and some of the catchiest choruses that metal has seen in decades, does nothing to compromise the brutality and honesty that Nightrage is known for.




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METALLICA played a rare acoustic show on November 3, 2018 at the Masonic in San Francisco. The evening, dubbed the "All Within My Hands Foundation Helping Hands Concert And Auction", celebrated the first full year of METALLICA's All Within My Hands non-profit foundation, which was launched in 2017 to help creating sustainable communities by tackling the issues of hunger and workforce education and encouraging volunteerism.

In addition to acoustic versions of some of METALLICA's classic songs, the band performed covers of DEEP PURPLE's "When A Blind Man Cries", NAZARETH's "Please Don't Judas Me", BLUE ÖYSTER CULT's "Veteran Of The Psychic Wars" and Bob Seger's "Turn The Page".

Bandmembers James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Robert Trujillo and Lars Ulrich were joined by a quartet of backing musicians who provided additional percussion, keyboards, strings and vocal harmony.

Profesionally filmed video footage of METALLICA performing the song "Enter Sandman" at "All Within My Hands Foundation Helping Hands Concert And Auction" can be seen below.

Says METALLICA: "The event raised $1.3 million which will be used to work with our partners at Feeding America and the American Association of Community Colleges as All Within My Hands continues to tackle the issues of hunger and workforce education and work to create sustainable communities."

The setlist for METALLICA's performance was as follows:

01. Disposable Heroes

02. When A Blind Man Cries (DEEP PURPLE cover)

03. The Unforgiven

04. Please Don't Judas Me (NAZARETH cover)

05. Turn The Page (Bob Seger cover)

06. Bleeding Me

07. Veteran Of The Psychic Wars (BLUE ÖYSTER CULT cover)

08. Nothing Else Matters

09. All Within My Hands

10. Enter Sandman

11. The Four Horsemen

12. Hardwired

Along with unplugged performances from METALLICA and CAGE THE ELEPHANT, the night offered attendees an opportunity to bid on one-of-a-kind auction items.

In its first six months of operation, the Foundation donated more than $750,000 to local food banks around the world — a practice the band and the Foundation have continued on METALLICA's current North American tour. They've donated $10,000 to local food banks in every city and met dedicated people who focus their daily lives on helping others.

Zac Brown and Tom Morello joined the FOO FIGHTERS onstage at their sold-out pre-Super Bowl concert Saturday night (February 2) in Atlanta to perform a cover of BLACK SABBATH's "War Pigs". Morello, Brown and the FOO FIGHTERS were then joined by Perry Farrell for a rendition of JANE'S ADDICTION's "Mountain Song". Other guests included QUEEN's Roger Taylor (who played drums during "Under Pressure") and saxophonist Dave Koz.

FOO FIGHTERS will play four more U.S. shows before embarking on a summer European tour.

"I don't know when y'all are gonna see us again, but you will," FOO FIGHTERS frontman Dave Grohl told the crowd at last night's concert. "Because we're too fuckin’ old to break up. It's like your grandparents getting divorced. It's not gonna fuckin' happen."

FOO FIGHTERS are continuing to tour in support of their 2017 album, "Concrete And Gold". Although the disc reached the top of the Billboard chart, it failed to earn gold certification in the sales department. But the band remains a touring behemoth, having played 71 shows between June 2017 and June 2018, with an average gross of more than $1 million per stop.

Fan-filmed video footage of Dee Snider's February 1 concert at the Manning Bar in Sydney, Australia can be seen below.

Snider's Australian tour includes dates in Sydney and Melbourne, where the TWISTED SISTER frontman is performing two shows per city, one "spoken" and one "shouted."

Snider recently said that the decision to end TWISTED SISTER was partly motivated by his desire to go out while he can still put on a great show.

TWISTED SISTER called it quits in 2016 after completing a farewell 40th-anniversary tour. The band's last-ever concert took place in November of that year — 20 months after the passing of TWISTED's longtime drummer A.J. Pero.

Speaking to "The Animal House Radio Show" about TWISTED SISTER's retirement, Snider said: "Look, nobody beats gravity. Show me anybody in the history who's beaten gravity. Everybody gets pulled down sooner or later. What did Dirty Harry say? 'A man's gotta know his limitations.' I feel I know things are wearing out — they're wearing out. And I'm in great shape, I stay healthy, but you can't beat gravity."

He continued: "One of the things that prompted me, and this is not a slight on SLAYER or Tom Araya in any fashion, but it was very disturbing. I read a review and it said, 'And Tom talked about the fact that he can no longer headbang onstage, 'cause he's literally damaged his neck.' And he says, 'I defined myself as the guy who thrashed onstage as hard as the audience, and now all I can do is stand there and groove.' And I said, 'That's what I don't want to happen.' I wanna get off the stage while I'm still [able to do what I am known for], and I was, throwing my body on the floor, crawling around, headbanging, thrashing. I'm out there performing [and] I don't do those things anymore, because it's like an athlete — you damage your stuff. But to be up there and to feel that… I just felt his pain, saying, 'I defined myself by thrashing and I can't do it anymore. And I'm still up there.' And it hurt me to hear him say it. And I said, 'I can't have that be me."

Snider, who released an acclaimed solo album called "For The Love Of Metal" last July, went on to say that he has no desire to hit the road with the same intensity as he used to back in TWISTED SISTER's heyday. "People are asking me, 'Hey, 'For The Love Of Metal', are you gonna do a full tour? And I'm, like, 'No!'" he said. "And they're, like, 'What do you mean 'no'?' I said, 'Are you kidding me? I'm not getting back on the bus or the van.' 'Well, THE [ROLLING] STONES are doing it.' They've got private jets. They set up camp in the Alsatian mountains somewhere in France, in a big estate, and they fly out for each show in a private jet. I mean, somebody wipes their freakin' ass, for god's sake. If you're on that level, awesome. But getting back and going city to city to city to city — no! It's not happening."

Produced by HATEBREED frontman Jamey Jasta, "For The Love Of Metal" features contributions from Howard Jones (ex-KILLSWITCH ENGAGE), Mark Morton (LAMB OF GOD), Alissa White-Gluz (ARCH ENEMY), Joel Grind and Nick Bellmore (TOXIC HOLOCAUST), and Charlie Bellmore (KINGDOM OF SORROW).

ALTER BRIDGE will enter the studio next month to begin recording the follow-up to 2016's "The Last Hero" album.

Guitarist Mark Tremonti, who has spent much of the last year touring with his band TREMONTI, confirmed ALTER BRIDGE's plans for a new LP during an interview with Rockwell Anderson of The Edge aboard this year's ShipRocked cruise.

"[ALTER BRIDGE is] going into this studio after [TREMONTI's] tour with SEVENDUST," he said (see video below). "We're gonna go into studio in March and April. And then after that, I go back on tour with TREMONTI and then go back on tour with ALTER BRIDGE this winter."

Last fall, ALTER BRIDGE singer Myles Kennedy told Myglobalmind that "a whole bunch of ideas" were "being thrown around" for the band's sixth album. "It's pretty exciting stuff. There is too early to tell what the vibe is just yet or what will make the cut," he said. "Mark and I tend to come up with a lot of ideas that we throw up against the wall to see what will stick. The songs we pick will decide the mood of the record and we won't know that until April."

ALTER BRIDGE's fifth studio album, "The Last Hero", was released in October 2016 via Caroline Records in the United States/Canada and Napalm Records throughout the rest of the globe. The 13-track opus was produced by longtime friend and collaborator Michael "Elvis" Baskette (SLASH, TREMONTI, TRIVIUM) and mastered by Grammy Award winner Ted Jensen.

MEGADETH was honored with its first-ever Grammy nearly two years ago. The band received the "Best Metal Performance" award for the title track of its latest album, "Dystopia". This marked the group's twelfth Grammy nomination in this category (including nominations in the discontinued "Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance" category).

Speaking to the Recording Academy, MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson said that he and his bandmates didn't expect to finally get the trophy after so many years of going home empty-handed.

"We've never written songs to win Grammys, or any awards, quite honestly," he said (see video below). "We just write songs. And it seems like if we like 'em, our fans like 'em and it just sort of tentacles out and it grows from there.

"I think with 'Dystopia', there was this moment where it was kind of, like, 'If they don't like this, we're out of ideas,'" he continued. "Because every record you make, you're essentially creating your next future. And I don't care who you are and how great of a record you feel you've made, when you first put it on for somebody to hear it, there's always this moment of, 'Oh, God. I hope they like this.' We certainly have had that with every album, and I think with 'Dystopia', we held our heads high and went, 'I think we've got a good one here.' And it seems to have done the trick to get us to the winners' circle."

The Grammys are voted on by approximately 13,000 Recording Academy members, who are comprised of artists, songwriters, producers and engineers. More than 21,700 recordings were submitted for Grammys consideration in 2017.

MEGADETH is currently working on the follow-up to "Dystopia" for a late 2019 release.

The band will support OZZY OSBOURNE on the next North American leg of the BLACK SABBATH singer's "No More Tours 2" in May, June and July 2019.

Anthony Vincent of Ten Second Songs has released his newest video, Metallica's "Enter Sandman" in 20 Styles. His newest auditory kaleidoscope renders the metal classic in the style of such diverse bands as Owl City, John Denver and The Doors as well as exploring genres as varied as lo fi hip hop, yodeling, and synthwave.

"I want to start showcasing more metal and rock songs in non metal styles to show non metal listeners that metal and rock songs are just as good if not better than what they listen to. Or I just want to hear bad things sung in nice ways. OK, a little bit of both." - Anthony Vincent

Style Llst:

1. Metallica
2. Eurythmics
3. The Chordettes
4. Stevie Wonder
5. The Beatles
6. Haddaway
7. The Police
8. Owl City
9. The Doors
10. The Weather Girls
11. Cafe music - Jazz & Bossa nova 24/7 stream on youtube
12. lo fi hip hop beats to chill, study, relax, and sleep to
13. Hans Zimmer
14. Yodeling
15. Synthwave
16. Acapella
17. Parliament-Funkadelic
18. Lil Uzi Vert
19. David Bowie
20. John Denver




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