POISON frontman Bret Michaels has recorded and produced a contemporary version of the timeless holiday classic "Jingle Bells". This is the legendary frontman's first time releasing a holiday song.

Fans can expect the track to be packed with high energy, great grooves, and the ever-present spirit of a good time evident in all of Michaels's music.

Michaels, an iconic musician and frontman mixed modern recording techniques and contemporary grooves with traditional orchestration and feel to create a completely fresh new version of one of the most recognizable holiday songs of all time, while staying true to the original spirit of such a recognizable body of music.

Michaels says: "It was such an awesome experience that I plan to have a full-length release of holiday music next year."

"Jingle Bells" will be available to fans on Friday, November 17 via all major digital music retailers and streaming outlets, with other related and exclusive content available only at www.bretmichaels.com.

Also known as an avid philanthropist, Michaels will donate a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the song to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital. Michaels's Life Rocks Foundation will also be holding its annual fundraising drive. The Life Rocks Foundation makes donations to such causes as Hurricane Harvey Relief, The American Red Cross, military charities and JDRF among others.

Michaels, whose career has spanned over 30 years in the entertainment business and weathered the ever-changing tide of the industry, has created an unprecedented fanbase that embraces three generations. Michaels is part rock star, part reality star and part philanthropist, having incredible success in every avenue. Selling over 40 million records worldwide, Bret is the face of an entire genre. With the astonishing success of his hit reality show "Rock Of Love" that spanned three seasons and remains in syndication worldwide, Michaels became a "cultural touchdown," as described by former head of Viacom, Judy McGrath. From there, Bret went on to star in and produce several other TV shows, including VH1's smash hit "Life As I Know It" and he won season three of "The Celebrity Apprentice". To this day, the reality star is considered the fan favorite from all seasons of NBC's number one show.

Being a lifelong diabetic and brain hemorrhage survivor, Michaels has always embraced the need to help and "give back" to those in need and has been active in raising money for the cure for diabetes his entire life. In recent years, the avid philanthropist took it even further with the creation of his unique Life Rocks foundation. With Bret's foundation, you find him stepping out from his own needs as a diabetic and giving to veterans, women's shelters, animal shelters and many other causes. Bret has raised and continues to raise money and donate in hopes of making the world a better place.

Professionally-filmed footage of Metallica performing the Hardwired... To Self-Destruct album track “Moth Into Flame” on November 1st at Sportpaleis in Antwerp, Belgium can be seen below:

“Join us as we take the stage for a 75-minute set rounding out a night featuring G-Eazy, Rancid, Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds, Dead & Company, and Raphael Saadiq for the Band Together Bay Area benefit concert this Thursday, November 9th starting at 5:45 PM, PST,” says Metallica. “100% of the ticket price will benefit Northern California fire relief and good seats are still available at Ticketmaster.com!

“We’ll also be live streaming the show which you can catch on Metallica.com, our YouTube channel, or our Facebook page. The show will be available to Twitter's logged-in and logged-out audience in the US via @tippingpoint and at this location as well. And let’s not forget why we’re taking the stage! Contribute to fire relief during the live stream by clicking the “donate” button on the stream or texting “TOGETHER” to 20222.

“We are so proud to be a part of Band Together Bay Area and we hope you can join us this Thursday in assisting our friends and neighbours who have lost so much. All funds from ticket sales will benefit Tipping Point Community, who have set up an Emergency Relief Fund for low-income, vulnerable communities impacted by the crisis, including vineyard workers, immigrants, displaced young people, and students.

“If you cannot attend the show and would still like to contribute, you may donate directly to Tipping Point. You may also donate to the Metallica All Within My Hands Foundation through the Foundation's Facebook page. All Within My Hands will be making a donation to Tipping Point Community, and 100% of your contribution will be included.”

For more information on the event, visit bandtogetherbayarea.org.

Originally released in 1990 and out-of-print for almost two decades, the now legendary debut album from doom godfathers The Obsessed will once again see the light of day in multiple deluxe formats. Now completely remastered with previously unreleased bonus tracks, including the highly sought-after Concrete Cancer demo, expanded artwork, never-before-seen photos, and extended liner notes from frontman Scott "Wino" Weinrich, this is the definitive edition of The Obsessed's self-titled debut, a true piece of doom history!

Weinrich comments: "This record defines the passion, the pureness, and vibrancy of youth, and the fierce love, loyalty, and dedication to this music. I am happy and proud it lives once again! Thanks to all who believe!”

"Tombstone Highway" is streaming below.

The Obsessed's self-titled reissue is due out November 17th on 2CD, LP, 2LP, and digital formats via Relapse Records. Physical bundles and digital preorders are available via Relapse Records here and streaming services at this location.

Tracklisting:

“Tombstone Highway”
“The Way She Fly”
“Forever Midnight”
“Ground Out”
“Fear Child”
“Freedom”
“Red Disaster”
“Inner Turmoil”
“River Of Soul”
“Concrete Cancer” (1984 unreleased Concrete Cancer demo cassette)
“Feelingz” (1984 unreleased Concrete Cancer demo cassette)
“Mental Kingdom” (1984 unreleased Concrete Cancer demo cassette)
“Hiding Masque” (1984 unreleased Concrete Cancer demo cassette)
“Ground Out – Feelingz” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Concrete Cancer” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“No Blame” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Mental Kingdom” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Tombstone Highway” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Iron And Stone” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Rivers Of Soul” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Sittin On A Grave” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Freedom” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)
“Indestroy - Kill Ugly Naked” (live at The Bayou 4-15-1985)

Concrete Cancer Demo:
“Concrete Cancer”
“Feelingz”
“Mental Kingdom”
“Hiding Masque”

"Tombstone Highway":

“Mental Kingdom”:

“The Way She Fly”:

Austrian post-black metal band Harakiri For The Sky will make their return in 2018 with the release of their 4th studio album, Arson, which will debut on February, 16th via AOP Records with distribution from Plastichead Distribution (Europe/North America/World) and Edel (Germany/Austria/Switzerland). Today, the band has shared the record’s first new single, “Tomb Omnia”.

“This song is about one of the darkest and mournful chapters in my family’s history and the impact it had on its members, especially the one it had on myself. Sadly there are happenings and experiences far formative as its protagonist was aware of while acting. But these happenings and actions are so intangible disturbing and unsettling they wander on and keep up destroying lifes relentless in their future. Cause some things that can never be forgotten…” - J.J. (vocals)
 
Harakiri For The Sky’s initial song, “Tomb Omnia,” is an 8+ minute, crushing tale of anguish and pain that’s set to the band’s signature sound of lush, enthralling riffs that blur the line between black metal and atmospheric post-rock.
 
Founded in 2011 in Vienna, Austria, Harakiri For The Sky has created a unique mixture of melancholy and aggression, madness and meaning, and wrapped in alternately manic/mellow songs. The band was initially begun as a studio project by Bifröst member M. S. and vocalist/lyricist J. J., and has recently been expanded to a live lineup, which has gone on to perform with the likes of A Forest of Stars, Ellende, Fäulnis, Der Weg Einer Freiheit, and Agrypnie among others, encompassing over 20 countries to date.
 
The forthcoming record, Arson, was recorded, mixed and mastered by Daniel Fellner and follows the band’s critically celebrated 2016 album III: Trauma, which was featured on many critics’ “Best Of 2016” lists and received a nomination for the “Amadeus Austrian Music Award.”
 
Harakiri For The Sky will perform one exclusive album release show on February 10th, 2018 at Szene in Vienna, Austria. Additional tour dates are expected to be announced soon.

Tracklisting:

“Fire, Walk With Me”
“The Graves We’ve Dug”
“You Are The Scars”
“Heroin Waltz”
“Tomb Omnia”
“Stillborn”
“Voidgazer”
“Manifesto” (Graveyard Lovers cover)

“Tomb Omnia”:

New York City rockers, Station, have premiered their latest single, "Never Enough”, along with an accompanying music video, which can be seen below.

"I'm really proud of this song," says guitarist Chris Lane about the new single. "We've played it live a handful of times, but it really took shape in the studio. I think the process for recording this song really showed us what we can do in the studio and new ways we can create."

Adds singer Pat Kearney, "The response for the video has been amazing. Within a day, our video was shared and posted on rock blogs all around the world. Within hours of releasing the video, we were seeing new fans engage us in places like South America and Europe. It was surreal."

In addition to the video premiere, the band have announced several live dates for December.

December
1 - Philadelphia, PA - Connie's Ric Rac
2 - Cincinnati, OH - MVP's Bar and Grill
8 - New York, NY - Arlene's Grocery
15 - Long Branch, NJ - Brighton Bar

The band’s new album is tentatively scheduled for an early 2018 release.

(Photo - Steven Lane)

Iron Maiden have uploaded the video below with the tagline: “The job requirements to be a Killer Krew member stretches further than you may think…”

Warner Music will release Iron Maiden’s The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter on November 17th worldwide (through BMG in the US). This live recording comprises 15 songs captured during The Book Of Souls World Tour, which covered 39 countries across six continents during 2016 and 2017, and was seen by over two million fans. In the new video below, frontman Bruce Dickinson discusses what he’ll miss about being on the road:

The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter will be released physically in CD, deluxe CD & vinyl audio formats, with the concert film available to stream free online or as a digital download - full details below.

Produced by Tony Newton and Iron Maiden founder member and bass player Steve Harris, the album is based on this year’s set list and is a faithful record of the epic show, including six songs from The Book Of Souls, the band's most recent studio album, along with many other classics and fan favourites.

Steve comments, "We spent a huge amount of time working on this as I wanted to get it as close to the Maiden live experience as I possibly could and to represent our fans from different parts of the world. This meant listening to literally hours upon hours of tapes from every show, to select material and construct a sound that would run consistently across the whole album and capture the excitement of a new country like El Salvador alongside such regular favourites as Donington or Wacken.”

Maiden manager Rod Smallwood adds, "The Book Of Souls World Tour was a huge undertaking, not least for Bruce who started the tour singing in public for the very first time since recovering from throat cancer. He also piloted Ed-Force One, upgraded last year from a Boeing 757 to a 747 so we could go further and faster to visit some fantastic cities and fans all round the world. This year continued that excitement bringing us our most successful North American and UK tours ever. It was a very special tour in a great many ways so we felt we wanted to document it for both ourselves and for our fans. Steve has done an incredible job putting together this set from cities around the world and we’ve made sure the deluxe CD will be available in a matching book format to ‘The Book of Souls’ release.

"On top of all that the release will be celebrated by an event that is a Maiden first: a free live streaming premiere of the concert film, as a thank you to our loyal fans around the world. We hope that the global Maiden community will all enjoy coming together to watch this special event online. Many of you will be in it as there is footage from a whole host of the places we played on this momentous tour. ”

The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter will premiere on YouTube on November 11th - as a thank you to all their loyal fans around the world they’re streaming the entire concert film for free.

Says the band: “Grab some beers, hook up your best speakers and enjoy The Book Of Souls tour from the comfort of your own sofa.”

The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter tracklisting:

Disc 1:
“If Eternity Should Fail” - Qudos Bank Arena, Sydney, Australia, 6/5/16
“Speed Of Light” - Grand Arena, Grandwest, Cape Town, South Africa, 18/5/16
“Wrathchild” - 3Arena, Dublin, Ireland, 6/5/17
“Children Of The Damned” - Bell Centre, Montreal, Canada, 1/4/16
“Death Or Glory” - Wroclaw Stadium, Wroclaw, Poland, 3/7/16
“The Red And The Black” - Ryogoku Kokugikan, Tokyo, Japan, 21/4/16
“The Trooper” - Estadio Jorge Magico Gonzalez, San Salvador, El Salvador, 6/3/16
“Powerslave” - Piazza Dell’unita D’italia, Trieste, Italy, 26/7/16

Disc 2:
“The Great Unknown” - Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle, UK, 14/5/17
“The Book Of Souls”- Download Festival, Donington, UK, 12/6/16
“Fear Of The Dark” - Arena Castelao, Fortaleza, Brazil, 24/3/16
“Iron Maiden” - Estadio Velez Sarsfield, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 15/3/16
“The Number Of The Beast” - Wacken Open Air, Wacken, Germany, 4/8/16
“Blood Brothers” - Download Festival, Donington, UK, 12/6/16
“Wasted Years” - HSBC Arena, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, 17/3/16

The album will replicate The Book Of Souls original formats and be issued as a limited edition deluxe 2 CD hardcase Book, a regular 2CD album, a triple black vinyl LP, and digital download in high resolution audio (48khz/24 bit) including Mastered for iTunes (MFiT) version. A digital download of the concert film will also be available to purchase following its free online premiere.

Pre-orders are available here. Below you can watch “Speed Of Light” (Live), filmed in Cape Town, South Africa and available on The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter:

Dirty Thrills recently stopped by YouTube Space London to play a couple of songs live and YouTube captured the footage. Check out a live performance of "Law Man”, lifted from their new album Heavy Living, below:

Dirty Thrills are a young, exciting and charismatic London-based hard rock quartet who play bluesy rock 'n' roll with an appealing filthy edge, churning out endless crowd pleasers that make guitar music sound sexy again. With lung-busting, powerful vocals from front man Louis James, killer guitar riffs from Jack Fawdry and solid low-end grooves from the rhythm section of Aaron Plows and Steve Corrigan, each member's wide-ranging influences also combine to produce a pool of sound similar to current rock icons such as Queens Of The Stone Age, The Black Keys and Rival Sons.

Heavy Living tracklisting:

“I'll Be With You”
“Go Slow”
“Law Man”
“Hanging Around”
“Lonely Soul”
“No Resolve”
“Interlude”
“The Brave”
“Rabbit Hole”
“Drunk Words”
“Get Loose”

“Rabbit Hole” video:

“I'll Be With You” video:

“Law Man” video:

Dirty Thrills lineup:

Louis James - Lead Vocals, Harmonica
Jack Fawdry - Guitar, Backing Vocals
Steve Corrigan - Drums
Aaron Plows - Bass

Legendary rockers Rose Tattoo will release their Tatts: Live In Brunswick 1982 album on November 24th via Golden Robot Records. The album features 14 tracks recorded at Melbourne’s Bombay Bicycle Club in Brunswick in 1982 and mastered for loyal fans in 2017.

Here’s an album that takes you back 35 years; the Australian pub rock scene was at its peak, live music was everywhere, and so was Rose Tattoo, becoming one of Australia’s most revered rock bands of all time, known for their peerless, raw, heavy blues rock, hot mix of slide guitars, and the unmistakable voice of Angry Anderson.

Featuring classics like “Assault And Battery”, “Scarred For Life” and “Rock And Roll Outlaw”, Tatts: Live in Brunswick was recorded when rock was king and Rose Tattoo - Angry Anderson, Pete Wells, Rob Riley, Geordie Leach and Dallas ‘Digger’ Royall - was at its most formidable.

Tracklisting:

“Out Of This Place”
“Bad Boy For Love”
“Assault And Battery”
“Tramp”
“We Can't Be Beaten”
“Butcher And Fast Eddy”
“Rock And Roll Is King”
“Texas”
“One Of The Boys”
“Branded”
“Revenge”
“Juice On The Loose”
“Rock And Roll Outlaw”
“Scarred For Life”

What lies ahead in 2018? Rose Tattoo will be releasing a brand new album and will be touring worldwide, with their their new lineup featuring a certain Mark Evans on bass.

The official animated music video for the song "Six Days" from CELLAR DARLING, the band featuring former ELUVEITIE members Anna Murphy (vocals, hurdy-gurdy), Merlin Sutter (drums) and Ivo Henzi (guitars, bass), can be seen below. The song is taken from CELLAR DARLING's debut album, "This Is The Sound", which was released on June 30 via Nuclear Blast. The disc was recorded at New Sound Studio with producer Tommy Vetterli (CORONER, ELUVEITIE).

Commented CELLAR DARLING: "It's the sixth of November. A good day to present you the video to our song 'Six Days', a dark and abstract story about the last man left on earth. We‘ve always wanted this special song to have a visual representation and we knew immediately that if we ever could realize this project, the man for it would be our favorite artist Costin Chioreanu. Without any guidelines, he has managed to capture the atmosphere perfectly. The video really shows what was inside Anna's head when she wrote the lyrics and recorded the first demo in the middle of the night. When we further worked on this song, we realized once more that we are not really bound to one style of music and that we have the freedom to expand our horizon even more — that's why this song will always have a special meaning to us. We hope you love it as much as we do!"

CELLAR DARLING just returned from its mostly sold-out tour with DELAIN and is preparing to embark on another extensive tour with LACUNA COIL.

When asked about the biggest challenges facing CELLAR DARLING since the band's conception, Anna told AAA Backstage: "There haven't really been many, as everything kind of fell into place and happened naturally. For us, writing the album was actually quite an easy task because we had so many ideas and so much output. But, of course, there were struggles within the realm of real life. Financially, we obviously weren't having a great time since we lost our main job in ELUVEITIE and thus didn't have any money. We're trying to get our real lives back on track, but creative things are so great and that's more important so I would say we're facing the challenges we have very well."

Murphy went on to say that "some" of these struggles are reflected in the lyrics of CELLAR DARLING's debut album. "Everyone's always subconsciously inspired by what they’re going through, but with CELLAR DARLING, I don't really want to convey what I am currently feeling or currently experiencing," she said. "I want to take those feelings and make stories out of them — completely new stories and abstract poems, so I think it would be pretty hard to tell what is going on in our lives.

"A lot of our songs deal with the end of something, like an apocalypse or a death," she continued. "It kind of represents what is going on with us because something very important ended and something very new started. You can definitely interpret some of that in our lyrics.

"When I write lyrics, it's similar to when I'm writing melodies and songs — it all just comes to me. I don't sit there and have something in mind. It's really interesting because looking at the album and listening to the songs, it's only after we realized what was going on in our lives that we started to interpret out own songs." "This Is The Sound" track listing:

01. Avalanche02. Black Moon03. Challenge04. Hullaballoo05. Six Days06. The Hermit07. Water08. Fire, Wind & Earth09. Rebels10. Under The Oak Tree…11. …High Above These Crowns12. Starcrusher13. Hedonia14. Redemption

Bonus tracks, available exclusively on the digibook:

15. The Cold Song16. Mad World17. The Prophet's Song After their split with ELUVEITIE, Murphy, Henzi and Sutter quickly realised their musical journey was far from over. What quickly developed was a unique and fresh combination of grand and heavy riffs, powerful drumming and a unique voice along with the signature folky, earthy tones of the hurdy gurdy. This, combined with classical elements as well as inherited folk influences, led to the creation of something entirely new, setting CELLAR DARLING on the path of musical innovation.

As its 2017 U.S. leg resumes with tonight's sold out show in Madison, Wisconsin, FOO FIGHTERS' "Concrete And Gold" tour is fast approaching 750,000 tickets sold in North America alone.

Since kicking off October 7 with the band's triumphant headline set before some 30,000-plus true rock believers at its own CalJam 17 festival, the domestic leg of the tour supporting the international No. 1 "Concrete And Gold" (Roswell/RCA) has played to capacity crowds in Washington, D.C.; Richmond, Virginia; Greensboro, North Carolina; Cincinnati, Ohio, and more. Among the 2017-2018 dates that have sold out well in advance are Houston, Dallas, Tampa, Philadelphia, the 45,500-capacity Rogers Centre in Toronto, and three nights in the New York area: two at Madison Square Garden and one at the Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater.

The 2017 "Concrete And Gold" tour winds down with a recently announced New Year's Eve Show at The Chelsea at The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas. The tour's North American run resumes April 18 in Austin, Texas and will continue through the band's July 29 return to Chicago's Wrigley Field, a July 21-22 encore doubleheader at Boston's Fenway Park, and more. Tickets for all shows are on sale now, with the exception of Chicago, which goes on sale to the general public Friday, November 10.

FOO FIGHTERS kicked off the first U.S. leg of the "Concrete And Gold" tour October 12 with an intimate show by FF standards — the grand opening of The Anthem in Washington, D.C. — a performance that USA Today noted "transformed the venue into a raucous rock cathedral." In the days since, FOO FIGHTERS have continued to storm through sold-out arenas. The first FOO FIGHTERS global trek since the 20th-anniversary tour, which placed #5 in 2015's top grossing world tours, the "Concrete And Gold" tour has seen the FOO FIGHTERS reaching new peaks of their estimable powers.

"FOO FIGHTERS keep going and going and going in epic Greensboro show," wrote the Charlotte Observer, "If there's one thing you can count on lately when you walk into a FOO FIGHTERS concert, it's that you probably won't get home until tomorrow." The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported, "Having played and sung all night with a seemingly endless store of energy, Grohl noted as midnight approached, 'I'm going to feel like I was run over by a truck tomorrow.'" And the Washington Post called the Anthem opener "a rock-and-roll clinic from FOO FIGHTERS," adding "when it was time to officially open the venue... the Anthem called in the only band with the local roots and international fame that could pull it off: FOO FIGHTERS… That's exactly what Grohl and friends did, treating the Anthem like a new leather jacket: turning something that glimmers with newness and making it feel as cozy as a childhood home."

FOO FIGHTERS are Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee.

Kirk Hammett says that he has already accumulated more than five hundred ideas for METALLICA's next album.

The METALLICA guitarist famously lost his iPhone containing hundreds of riffs in 2014. About six months later, he told "The Jasta Show" podcast that he "was crushed" when it happened, but still expressed hope that it "might turn up."

In an interview with British GQ magazine conducted before METALLICA's October 24 concert in London, Hammett said he has learned from the experience. "I went through this whole thing a couple of years ago of losing my iPhone with five hundred ideas, and I still haven't fully recovered from that," he said (see video below). "And my way of recovering from that is overcompensating… On that phone was five hundred ideas, and I have about five hundred ideas now at this point, plus. I'm sitting on a lot of really… what I feel is really, really great music that is just waiting to be developed. Every day, I'm just picking up my guitar and then thinking about those lost ideas and then thinking, 'I've gotta generate more ideas,' in the hopes that maybe one or two of those old five hundred ideas that I lost might trickle through… Maybe it'll find its way through, and I'll go, 'Oh, yeah! Eureka!' It hasn't happened yet. It hasn't happened, though."

Hammett is not credited on any of the songs on METALLICA's last album, 2016's "Hardwired…To Self-Destruct".

METALLICA frontman James Hetfield told Metal XS last December that "Kirk's riffs weren't there" when it was time to write the music for the follow-up to 2008's "Death Magnetic" record. He later seemed to dismiss Kirk's missing-iPhone excuse, telling the WRIF radio station: "That's what he claims. I'm sure he did [lose the phone], but it doesn't make sense that he wouldn't have [the music] on his computer, either. But, whatever… Yeah, Kirk had some riffs that he… I guess submitted — ['submit' is] not a very nice word to be used if you're in a band. But you know, we all submit our tapes, and we sit there and we listen to them and we pick the best stuff. There was not much stuff from Kirk. Whether his phone was lost, or whatever…"

Hetfield told U.K. radio station Planet Rock that Kirk "was not present in the studio" while METALLICA was working on "Hardwired… To Self-Destruct". "He was dealing with life," James said. "He had a lot of life things going on for himself, which he'll choose to talk about if he wants. But, you know, [it was] Lars [Ulrich, METALLICA drummer] and I steering the ship as usual, going through the riffs, creating the songs. And I got to do a lot of guitar stuff that I was missing around 'Death Magnetic' and 'St. Anger' — some of the harmony guitar things, harmony vocals… You know, a little more layering, like the 'Black' album."

Hammett said last year that losing his phone was a "devastating" experience. In September 2016, the guitarist spoke to Seattle's KISW 99.9 radio station about how the incident affected the making of the latest record. He said: "Let's just say that I had to start at zero again while everyone else [in the band] had material for songs. By the time I got a few ideas flowing and kind of formed, most of the songs were already written. I had to think to myself, 'Okay, I have stuff, but it looks like it's gonna probably make it on to the next album.'"

Despite the setback, Hammett said that he was pleased with how "Hardwired...To Self-Destruct" turned out.

"Hardwired… To Self-Destruct" debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 album chart, selling 291,000 copies in its first week of release.

The European leg of METALLICA's "WorldWired" tour kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 2 and will run through November 3. After a break, the trek will pick up again on February 1, 2018 in Lisbon, Portugal, and continue through May, finishing up in Helsinki, Finland.




Metallica's Kirk Hammett's live with British GQ at the The O2 ahead of their concert tonight. Ask him questions!

Posted by British GQ on Tuesday, October 24, 2017

Bruce Dickinson says that Ronnie James Dio was originally supposed to take part in a proposed project called THE THREE TREMORS before he was replaced by Geoff Tate.

It was announced in 2000 that the QUEENSRŸCHE frontman would be joining Dickinson and JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford in the all-star group, which was slated to record an album's worth of material with Dickinson's solo guitarist and Roy "Z" Ramirez.

That same year, Tate and Dickinson joined Halford onstage at the latter's concert in London for a rendition of "One You Love To Hate" (see video below), a song written by Halford, Dickinson and Ramirez that was featured on Halford's "Resurrection" album.

But in a brand new interview with the "Trunk Nation" show on SiriusXM channel Volume, the IRON MAIDEN vocalist said that Dio was his original choice for the third-singer slot in the since-aborted project.

"I was, like, 'I am not gonna do this without Ronnie,'" Dickinson recalled (see video below). "And Rod [Smallwood, IRON MAIDEN's longtime manager] was, like, 'I don't wanna use Ronnie. He's too old.' I said, 'What do you mean too old? Are you kidding me?' I said, 'He's a legend.' He said, 'No. We should use Geoff Tate.' And then we had a meeting with Geoff Tate, and then I said, 'No. It's not gonna work.' And so that was that."

According to Dickinson, concert promoters showed great interest in booking THE THREE TREMORS before a single note had even been recorded. "I could see the money in their eyes, thinking, 'Oh, this would be great. We could sell this every which way all over the place as a package,'" Dickinson said. "And I went, 'Yeah, you could, but what are we actually gonna do? There's gonna be three of us on stage. What are we gonna do that's actually different that's really cool?'"

Dickinson went on to reveal that the title track of his 2005 solo album, "Tyranny Of Souls", was composed specifically for THE THREE TREMORS project. "[It] was the only song that I wrote for which was designed for three voices, and the demo of it, I actually did almost impressions of a Rob version, the Geoff Tate bit and my bit and split them up," Dickinson said. "And we'd go into the big chorus of [singing] 'Tyranny Of Souls', obviously all three of us would be singing together, like a big choir. And doing that song, I thought, 'Yeah, that would kind of work.' But I need another twelve songs like that to do a whole performance, 'cause otherwise it's just a novelty thing. You can't do things just 'cause of the novelty value. You should do things because musically they're real."

Before Dickinson's proposed collaboration with Halford and Tate was officially scrapped, the name THE THREE TREMORS was changed to TRINITY because "we figured they would sue our ass if we called it THE THREE TREMORS," Bruce explained in an interview several years ago.

Dickinson previously said that he and Roy wrote "about three songs" for THE THREE TREMORS during a session in Los Angeles before he "realized it was going to take us a lot longer than three weeks to write a project with three singers that would work."

He explained: "We wanted to make each song designed to be sung by three different characters as an integral part of the song, not something like, 'You sing the first verse, I'll sing the second verse, and he'll sing the chorus.' That would be a crap way to do it."

Dickinson added: "It's a bloody difficult thing to do, to try to make a song with three different voices to get the full benefit out of it. And it takes longer than three weeks, and we didn't have longer than that to do it, so I canned it in the end.

"It's a great idea; everybody loves the idea… We had marketing people salivating about the idea of a TRINITY project," he said. "But the bottom line is, the thing that is gonna sink it is if the music sucks. So I thought we should can the idea for now since we don't have time to do it. Rob was in the studio doing his album ['Crucible'] and Geoff was writing a new QUEENSRŸCHE album, so that was it. It is an interesting idea, and I'm sure the live show would be really interesting."

Dickinson is promoting his autobiography, "What Does This Button Do?", which was released in the U.S. on October 31 via Dey Street Books (formerly It Books), an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

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DOKKEN plans to enter the studio in early 2018 to begin recording its new album for a tentative summer release. Singer Don Dokken told "The Roman Show" at this past weekend's RockFest 80's in Pembroke Pines, Florida (see video below): "We've been on the road almost all year, so we're gonna shut down in January and February — [we'll only do] a couple of shows — to start writing. And [DOKKEN bassist] Chris [McCarvill] is just finishing up editing the DOKKEN video from Japan. [We're gonna] wrap that up, and then we're all gonna just writing songs and e-mailing riffs and ideas and get a new album out for the summer '18."

Asked about a possible musical direction for DOKKEN's follow-up to 2012's "Broken Bones" album, Don said: "No rules. Not interested in writing our quote-unquote DOKKEN sound; we're just gonna write what comes from our hearts. We're gonna write what we feel. And there are a lot of things going on in the world, with a crazy president. We're not lacking for source [material] to write."

Guitarist Ira Black (I AM MORBID, METAL CHURCH, LIZZY BORDEN, WESTFIELD MASSACRE) is playing with DOKKEN for nine U.S. tour dates in November and December.

Black made his live debut with DOKKEN in Houston on November 2 and performed with the group on November 4 at Rockfest 80's, to be followed by seven shows in December.

Black is filling in for DOKKEN's longtime guitarist Jon Levin, who has been with the group since 2003. Levin, who also works as an attorney specializing in entertainment contract law, as well as the occasional divorce case, is busy with his law practice through the end of the year and is unable to play with DOKKEN this fall.

Don told "The Roman Show" about Ira: "He's legendary. He's played with everybody. Jon Levin's been with us — he's our guitar player [for] 20 years — but he's also an attorney and he got pulled into court, so that was that."

The classic DOKKEN lineup of Don, guitarist George Lynch, bassist Jeff Pilson and drummer "Wild" Mick Brown completed a short Japanese tour in October 2016. A new DVD focusing on the reunion tour is tentatively due in early 2018. The set is expected to feature footage from two of the Japanese shows — including Tokyo — as well as the band's very first comeback gig, which was held on September 30, 2016 at Badlands Pawn Guns Gold And Rock 'N' Roll in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

"Broken Bones" sold around 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to land at position No. 173 on The Billboard 200 chart.

MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson has confirmed to "The Right To Rock" podcast that the band has begun putting together material for the follow-up to 2016's "Dystopia" album. "We're actually working on a new record," he said (hear audio below). "Working on it, meaning we're [collecting] ideas and we've been writing some lyrics — just starting to move that next process forward. And now that we're gonna come off the road — we go down to South America and play four shows [in early November] as kind of a final, last big swing down there to see our fans in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. And then we're gonna shut things down through the end of the year and into the New Year for a bit. And there's already some things that are being discussed for some performances next year, in 2018. But a big part of that is also going to be writing a new record."

MEGADETH's upcoming effort will mark the band's first release to feature drummer Dirk Verbeuren, who officially joined the group a year and a half ago.

"Dystopia" was MEGADETH's first album with guitarist Kiko Loureiro, best known for his work with ANGRA.

Ellefson told "The Right To Rock": "'Dystopia' has been out two years and we worked on it through all of 2015, and we were even writing it in 2014. So 'Dystopia', parts of this record are already four years old. So just from a creative standpoint, it's fun to be able to now start thinking about writing some music, and especially writing together with this lineup in mind. Songs aren't always written collaboratively, together, with the four of us, but when they're written, it's nice to know, like, 'Hey, we're writing it with this lineup in mind.' And what Dirk can do, what Kiko can do and what I can do, and putting it together with that in mind."

MEGADETH picked up its first-ever Grammy for "Best Metal Performance" this past February. It was the tenth time the band had been nominated in its 34-year career.

MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine told the Windsor Star in June that he was "pretty happy" with the response to "Dystopia". "When you set out to do a record, you obviously hope for the best," he said. "The peculiar thing about it is we didn't do anything different this time from the last time. It's just a matter of who you're playing with and song selection."

Interview (audio):

According to The Pulse Of Radio, more than 60 people were forcibly removed from A PERFECT CIRCLE's show on Saturday night (November 4) in Reading, Pennsylvania, according to David Farrar, the general manager of the Santander Arena & Performing Arts Center where the band performed. The concertgoers were ejected for taking pictures during the band's set in violation of A PERFECT CIRCLE's super-strict "no photos" policy.

Farrar revealed the number of ejections on Instagram when he commented on one fan claiming that he successfully snapped a few photos. Farrar remarked: "Your [sic] good. We tossed over 60 people last night for taking pics." He later added, "This was 110 percent the band's policy and has been for Tool, APC, and Puscifer... it's not a new policy."

The policy seems to have originated with singer Maynard James Keenan, who fronts all three bands and usually performs either in disguise or in a shadowy area at the rear of the stage.

Every show on A PERFECT CIRCLE's current North American arena tour reportedly has enforced a strict "no photos and videos" policy, with ejection from the venue threatened as punishment.

A show last week in Brooklyn featured printed warning signs posted around the venue, a security guard outside shouting the policy into a megaphone and a video message from the band displayed on all the venue's video screens.

The policy, while not new, still comes at a time when a number of artists, including members of DISTURBED, SLIPKNOT and RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, have spoken out against fans recording shows with their smartphones.

A PERFECT CIRCLE is next scheduled to perform Tuesday (November 7) in Camden, New Jersey. The band has been playing several new tracks on the road and recently issued a single called "The Doomed". A new studio album is expected out in early 2018.

British heavy metal legends SAXON will release their 22nd studio album, "Thunderbolt", on February 2 via Militia Guard (Silver Lining Music). The follow-up to 2015's "Battering Ram" was once again helmed by producer Andy Sneap, who has previously worked with JUDAS PRIEST, MEGADETH, ACCEPT and TESTAMENT, among others. The disc will feature original artwork by longtime SAXON collaborator Paul Raymond Gregory.

Frontman Biff Byford says: "['Thunderbolt' is] a storming, smashing, thundering collection of tracks we've been crafting with producer Andy Sneap and it's finished ready to be unleashed. Stand clear and fasten your seat belts!"

Three weeks later, the band will embark on the first leg of the "Thunderbolt" 2018 European tour. SAXON will be joined by fellow English rockers DIAMOND HEAD and metal trio ROCK GODDESS will perform on the scheduled U.K. dates, with very special guests MAGNUM on the U.K. Hull date only. However, SAXON doesn't stop there — dates for "Thunderbolt" tour part two will be announced in early 2018.

Byford adds: "This is part one of the colossal 'Thunderbolt' world tour. We're going to be touring the whole of 2018 so get your tickets and join the ride.

"It's gonna be fast and furious, dark and brooding. Monumental riffing and screaming vocals loud and proud. It's going to be a SAXON tour, unique in every way."

Presale for all shows is on November 8 at 10 a.m., with general sale on November 10 at 10 a.m.

"Thunderbolt" will feature the song "They Played Rock And Roll", written about and dedicated to MOTÖRHEAD. Byford previously said that he gave the track that title because "that's what Lemmy used to say every night [from the stage]." He added: "It's basically about early MOTÖRHEAD — '79/'80 MOTÖRHEAD, like around 'No Sleep 'Til Hammersmith', 'cause that's the tour we were on, that one. So, yeah, it's about the band, really, and their music."

According to Biff, "They Played Rock And Roll" will be musically similar to Lemmy and Co. He explained: "I asked Nibbs [Carter, SAXON bassist] to write me some music that was like MOTÖRHEAD, and he did. So it sounds very MOTÖRHEAD-ish, but not MOTÖRHEAD, if you know what I mean."

Regarding the "Thunderbolt" album title, Byford said: "'Thunderbolt' is about Greek gods, so I read up on Greek mythology. There's not really that much. Homer had some writings… I made most of it up, but it's based on Zeus and Poseidon and Hades, so it's got a bit of good and a bit of evil in it, so it's pretty cool. Obviously Zeus's sign was a thunderbolt and his sign was an eagle holding a lightning bolt."

Like "Battering Ram", SAXON's upcoming effort will feature Byford alongside Paul Quinn and Doug Scarratt on guitar, Nibbs Carter on bass and Nigel Glockler on drums.

"Thunderbolt" track listing:

01. Olympus Rising02. Thunderbolt03. The Secret Of Flight04. Nosferatu (The Vampires Waltz) 05. They Played Rock And Roll06. Predator07. Sons Of Odin08. Sniper09. A Wizard's Tale10. Speed Merchants11. Roadie's Song12. Nosferatu (Raw Version) (not available on vinyl)

Tour dates:

Feb. 23 - UK, Cardiff - UniversityFeb. 24 - UK, Cambridge - Corn Exchange Feb. 25 - UK, Hull - City HallFeb. 27 - The Netherlands, Tilburg - 013 Feb. 28 - Germany, Saarbruecken - Garage Mar. 01 - Germany, Hannover - Capitol Mar. 02 - Germany, Frankfurt - Batschkapp Mar. 03 - Germany, Dresden - Schlachthof

Veteran Japanese metallers LOUDNESS will release their new album, "Rise To Glory", on January 26, 2018 via earMUSIC (world excluding Japan). The follow-up to 2014's "The Sun Will Rise Again" is "packed with aggression, melody and positive vibes," according to a press release.

LOUDNESS vocalist Minoru Niihara says: "The album cheers you up, makes you feel fresh."

From the rock maelstrom of "Massive Tornado" to the young burning passion of "Soul On Fire", the life-glorifying "I'm Still Alive" and the declaration of metal warfare of "Rise To Glory", all the songs are fitting for the age of turmoil.

The guitar wizardry of Akira Takasaki, hailed around the world as one of the true guitar gods, is featured throughout the album. He says: "I played lots of guitars, more than any other albums this century. There was soul in the sounds." In addition to guitar solos on each song, there is amazing playing on the instrumental track, leaning towards the progressive side of the band.

Along with the hurtling speed tunes such as "Massive Tornado", "No Limit" and "Rise To Glory", the variety of songwriting takes the listener to an amazing journey. "Rain" has the melancholic mood, "Until I See The Light" focuses on the melodic side of the band, and "Let's All Rock" has a heated call-and-response with the audience to recreate their live performance.

The European and U.S. version of "Rise To Glory" is accompanied by "Samsara Flight", a collection of 13 tracks of the band's early classics re-recorded (originally released in Japan in 2016), including "Loudness" and "In The Mirror".

"Rise To Glory" track listing:

01. Soul On Fire02. I'm Still Alive 03. Go For Broke 04. Until I See The Light05. The Voice 06. Massive Tornado 07. Kama Sutra (instrumental) 08. No Limits 09. Bad Loser 10. Rise To Glory 11. Rain 12. Who And For Whom

LOUDNESS has released twenty-six studio albums, five of them in the U.S. The band's lineup has changed multiple times since 1981, with the current incarnation consisting of three original members — lead singer Minoru Niihara, guitarist Akira Takasaki and bassist Masayoshi Yamashita — along with drummer Masayuki Suzuki, who joined the group in 2009.

Original LOUDNESS drummer Munetaka Higuchi died in 2008 after a year-long battle with liver cancer.

LOUDNESS released a special thirtieth-anniversary edition of its classic "Thunder In The East" album in Japan in November 2015 in several different versions, featuring demo recordings, bonus DVDs with live footage from their 1985 U.S. tour, a documentary about the making of the LP and other things.

KnuckleBonz, creator of the Rock Iconz music collectible series, has launched a pre-order for the GHOST Rock Iconz statue. Only 1,666 statues will be available.

The GHOST Rock Iconz statue features Papa Emeritus III in this limited-edition collectible, which is currently in production slated for a February 2018 release. This is a fine-art collectible; the statue is hand-painted, numbered and comes with a certificate of authenticity on the base of the statue. The statue stands approximately 8.5 inches tall and is officially licensed.

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Legendary Canadian sci-fi progressive metallers VOIVOD entered the studio on Monday (November 6) to begin recording their new album for an early 2018 release.

VOIVOD drummer Michel "Away" Langevin told the Impact metal channel that the band's next record would be "a concept album, very intricate. It's very progressive thrash. Lots of psychedelia as well. The songs are pretty long. There is only one short rocker; all the rest is progressive music. It's a continuation of [2016's] 'Post Society' [EP]."

VOIVOD released another strictly limited seven-inch EP via Century Media Records on September 29.

Completing the vinyl release of the five songs featured on the "Post Society" mini-album, "Silver Machine" includes the HAWKWIND cover version that serves as the EP's title track as well as the song "Post Society".

The "Post Society" EP was issued in February 2016 via Century Media. It was the follow-up to 2013's "Target Earth", which marked VOIVOD's first album of new material written without original guitarist Denis "Piggy" D'Amour's leftover riffs.




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METALLICA's performance at Band Together Bay Area will be streamed live on Metallica.com, the band's YouTube channel and the group's Facebook page. The show will also be available to Twitter's logged-in and logged-out audience in the U.S. via @tippingpoint and at this location as well.

Set to take place this Thursday, November 9, Band Together Bay Area is a benefit concert at AT&T Park in San Francisco supporting recovery efforts for the recent firestorm that swept through Northern California. Also scheduled to appear are G-Eazy and DAVE MATTHEWS BAND.

Tickets, which range from $49.50 to $199.50, are available via Ticketmaster, which has pledged to donate all processing fees to the relief effort. Prime seats in the stadium will be reserved for first responders, volunteers and families who were caught in the firestorm.

METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett, who nearly lost his house in Sonoma's Mission Highlands, told the San Francisco Chronicle: "On the Cal Fire map, the fire ends right on top of my house. The reality is that it ended at my front gate. It's brutal. The mental and psychological toll is what I always think about."

The METALLICA members said in a statement that they were "proud" to take part in the event "to assist the families impacted by the fires and show our immense appreciation to the thousands of first responders who have been working tirelessly since the fires began."

They explained: "[In October] Northern California, the community that we have called home for over thirty-four years, endured devastating wildfires. We're extremely saddened by the suffering that so many are feeling in the Bay Area, but are also inspired by the enormous outpouring of love and support from all around the country."

One hundred percent of the ticket price will be donated to Tipping Point Community benefitting low-income, vulnerable communities impacted by the crisis, including vineyard workers, immigrants, displaced young people, and students.

According to the Los Angeles Times, Sammy Hagar is selling an oceanfront villa in Hawaii for $3.299 million. The former VAN HALEN frontman bought the ten-acre retreat in 1995.

Set on the edge of a cliff in Waipio Bay, the property holds a three-bedroom home, a guesthouse, a pool with a lanscaped center island and a tiki bar. The grounds also include a 1,000-square-foot garage. In addition, Hagar has installed a few outdoor projects, including a tilapia pond and a 400-foot-deep well.

"It's like island living inside the house," Hagar said. "This place is like a painting."

"The well is dug right into the middle of volcanic rock," he added. "It'll heal you. It feels that good to drink."

Check out photos of the property at LATimes.com.

Sammy last year sold one of two homes he owned on the Hawaiian island of Maui to the Montessori Hale O Keiki school.

Hagar is a Grammy-winning singer and songwriter who has sold more than 80 million albums during his four decades as a solo artist and frontman for bands including MONTROSE, VAN HALEN, CHICKENFOOT and THE CIRCLE. He was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame with VAN HALEN in 2007, is also a New York Times bestselling author, host of the TV series "Rock & Roll Road Trip With Sammy Hagar", restaurateur and spirits entrepreneur. He turned his love for Cabo San Lucas, Mexico and hand-crafted tequila into an empire with the Cabo Wabo Cantinas And Tequila and has since added nine restaurants throughout the United States, the award-winning Sammy's Beach Bar Rum, and in 2017 launched a new Santo Mezquila with Adam Levine.

Rock icon Sammy Hagar lists oceanside Hawaiian retreat for $3.3 million https://t.co/iPIl81555C

— LA Times Real Estate (@LATrealestate) November 6, 2017

CINDERELLA frontman Tom Keifer and his solo band stopped by the "Nights With Alice Cooper" video studio and performed an acoustic version of THE BEATLES' "With A Little Help From My Friends". Check out video footage below.

"With A Little Help From My Friends" is featured on "The Way Life Goes - Deluxe Edition", an expanded compilation of Keifer's solo album, "The Way Life Goes", which was released on October 20 via Cleopatra Records. The package includes the original album that has been remastered by Richard Dodd (KINGS OF LEON, JASON ALDEAN, LADY ANTEBELLUM). It also has two brand new studio tracks recorded in Nashville by three-time Grammy Award winner Vance Powell (Jack White, Chris Stapleton) with Keifer and his bandmates (Tony Higbee, Billy Mercer, Paul Simmons, Paul Taylor, Savannah Keifer and Kendra Chantelle). Fans also get to hear a powerful new take on the CINDERELLA classic "Nobody's Fool", newly recorded as a duet with Lzzy Hale of HALESTORM. "The reason that I picked up guitar, the reason that I sing the way I do was all because of that guy," said Hale of Keifer's influence on her at a young age. The two first performed "Nobody's Fool" live together in Atlantic City, New Jersey in September 2013.

"I remember the first time seeing Lzzy perform live at the House of Blues show in Atlantic City and being absolutely floored by the power of her voice and performance," Keifer says. "She's an amazing artist and has been a great inspiration to me as well." There is also a bonus DVD with music videos, tour clips, and "The Way Life's Goin'", a 30-minute documentary produced by Tammy Vega (Keifer's longtime official photographer) about the creation of the bonus tracks, exclusive interviews with the band filmed during the new recording sessions, and live footage. "The Way Life Goes - Deluxe Edition" is wrapped in an all new six-panel digipak designed by artist David Calcano (creator of the Fantoons comic strip series) with 20 pages of one-of-a-kind unique illustrations depicting each song. As Keifer explains: "Everything from the new artwork, documentary, videos and bonus tracks contained in the deluxe edition is a sum of all the amazingly talented people who came into our world as a result of the initial release. The two bonus tracks were specifically chosen and recorded as we felt them both to be special collaborations that came about while touring for 'The Way Life Goes'." New band members Jarred Pope (drums) and Kory Myers (keyboards/vocals) join Keifer's solo band in 2017. Writing has begun for a follow-up to "The Way Life Goes", with recording slated for fall 2018. Here's the complete track listing for "The Way Life Goes - Deluxe Edition": Disc 1: CD 01. Solid Ground02. A Different Light03. It's Not Enough04. Cold Day In Hell05. Thick And Thin06. Ask Me Yesterday07. Fool's Paradise08. The Flower Song09. Mood Elevator10. Welcome To My Mind11. You Showed Me12. Ain't That A Bitch13. The Way Life Goes14. Babylon Bonus Tracks

15. Nobody's Fool (feat. Lzzy Hale)16. With A Little Help From My Friends17. Nobody's Fool (Piano Version)

Disc 2: DVD Chapter 1) The Way Life's Goin' (Documentary)Chapter 2) Solid Ground (Music video)Chapter 3) The Flower Song (Music video)Chapter 4) It's Not Enough (Music video)Chapter 5) It's Not Enough (Lyric video)Chapter 6) Album PromoChapter 7) Cathouse LiveChapter 8) Count Vamp'd Las VegasChapter 9) Farm Rock Chicago

Warner Music will release IRON MAIDEN's "The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter" on November 17 worldwide (through BMG in the USA). This live recording comprises fifteen songs captured during "The Book Of Souls World Tour", which covered thirty-nine countries across six continents during 2016 and 2017, and was seen by over two million fans. "The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter" will be released physically in CD, deluxe CD and vinyl audio formats, with the concert film available to stream free online or as a digital download.

In the "The Book Of Souls: Live Chapter" promotional video below, MAIDEN frontman Bruce Dickinson discusses what he will miss about being on the road.

Produced by Tony Newton and IRON MAIDEN founder member and bass player Steve Harris, the album is based on this year's set list and is a faithful record of the epic show, including six songs from "The Book Of Souls", the band's most recent studio album, along with many other classics and fan favorites.

Steve comments: "We spent a huge amount of time working on this as I wanted to get it as close to the MAIDEN live experience as I possibly could and to represent our fans from different parts of the world. This meant listening to literally hours upon hours of tapes from every show, to select material and construct a sound that would run consistently across the whole album and capture the excitement of a new country like El Salvador alongside such regular favourites as Donington or Wacken."

MAIDEN manager Rod Smallwood adds: "'The Book Of Souls' world tour was a huge undertaking, not least for Bruce [Dickinson, vocals] who started the tour singing in public for the very first time since recovering from throat cancer. He also piloted Ed Force One, upgraded last year from a Boeing 757 to a 747 so we could go further and faster to visit some fantastic cities and fans all round the world. This year continued that excitement bringing us our most successful North American and U.K. tours ever. It was a very special tour in a great many ways so we felt we wanted to document it for both ourselves and for our fans. Steve has done an incredible job putting together this set from cities around the world and we've made sure the deluxe CD will be available in a matching book format to 'The Book of Souls' release. On top of all that, the release will be celebrated by an event that is a MAIDEN first: a free live streaming premiere of the concert film, as a thank you to our loyal fans around the world. We hope that the global MAIDEN community will all enjoy coming together to watch this special event online. Many of you will be in it as there is footage from a whole host of the places we played on this momentous tour." More details on how to take part in this one-off event will be published on IronMaiden.com shortly.

The full track listing and the cities they were recorded in is as follows:

01. If Eternity Should Fail - Sydney, Australia02. Speed Of Light - Cape Town, South Africa03. Wrathchild - Dublin, Ireland04. Children Of The Damned - Montreal, Canada05. Death Or Glory - Wroclaw, Poland06. The Red And The Black - Tokyo, Japan07. The Trooper - San Salvador, El Salvador08. Powerslave - Trieste, Italy09. The Great Unknown - Newcastle, UK10. The Book Of Souls - Donington, UK11. Fear Of The Dark - Fortaleza, Brazil12. Iron Maiden - Buenos Aires, Argentina13. Number Of The Beast - Wacken, Germany14. Blood Brothers - Donington, UK15. Wasted Years - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil The album will replicate "The Book Of Souls" original formats and be issued as a limited edition deluxe 2CD hardcase Book, a regular 2CD album, a triple black vinyl LP, and digital download in high resolution audio (48khz/24 bit) including Mastered for iTunes (MFiT) version. A digital download of the concert film will also be available to purchase following its free online premiere.

DOWN 'N' OUTZ will release a brand new live album, "The Further Live Adventures Of ...", on December 1 via Frontiers Music Srl. The disc, recorded in Sheffield Corporation in December 2014, will be available 2CD/DVD, Blu-ray, vinyl and digital. In addition, on the same day, the band will reissue its previous records "My Re-Generation" and "The Further Adventures Of ..." on CD, LP and digital.

A performance clip of the song "Storm", taken from "The Further Live Adventures Of ...", can be seen below. DOWN 'N' OUTZ is the project founded and fronted by DEF LEPPARD's Joe Elliott and backed by members of THE QUIREBOYS, WAYWARD SONS and RAW GLORY. The band pays tribute to rock legends MOTT THE HOOPLE and was established from the most unusual of circumstances. In the words of Joe Elliott: "When MOTT THE HOOPLE announced they were reforming for a week's worth of shows at the Hammersmith Odeon, I was asked that I participate in some capacity. They've always been my favourite band and it's nice to see the rest of the rock world finally catch up and give them their due.

"But, what was I to do? It was suggested to me that THE QUIREBOYS would be up for offering their services. This was perfect! A fan since their first album, I loved the idea of working with a band as enthusiastic to do this as I was. I decided that the thing to do was play some songs that like-minded people thought they would never hear live again, if ever, songs by spin offs of MOTT THE HOOPLE — songs by MOTT, Ian Hunter and BRITISH LIONS. Songs that are close to my heart, songs that I've played every week for the best part of thirty-five years on record, cassette, CD, iPod and now live."

The DOWN 'N OUTZ supported MOTT THE HOOPLE at one of their legendary 2009 reformation shows at Hammersmith Odeon. Following a rapturous reception, the one-night-project took on a life and energy of its own and an album project was born. The band then decided to record an album, "My Re-Generation", produced by Elliott and Ronan McHugh (DEF LEPPARD), which was recorded in Elliott's personal studio with basic tracking done at Moor Hall studio Bedfordshire by engineer Chris Corney. The album featured entirely covers of songs by artists related to MOTT THE HOOPLE, such as tracks by MOTT, BRITISH LIONS and Ian Hunter. The band made an appearance at the 2010 High Voltage festival in the U.K., launched their own branded beer, and also announced it would be performing with Paul Rodgers in April 2011 as the opening act on the latter's U.K. tour. On April 21, 2014, DOWN 'N' OUTZ released their second studio album, "The Further Adventures Of..." Classic Rock wrote: "'Further Adventures' raises the bar for MOTT THE HOOPLE covers while giving timeless songs a new lease of life, as classics deserving of a new audience." In addition to Elliott (vocals, guitar, keyboards), the band features THE QUIREBOYS' Paul Guerin (guitar), Guy Griffin (guitar), Keith Weir (keyboards), drummer Phil Martini (WAYWARD SONS) and bassist Share Ross (VIXEN).

"The Further Live Adventures Of..." track listing (2CD + DVD) CD1

01. Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding02. One More Chance To Run03. Rock And Roll Queen04. Drivin' Sister05. Whizz Kid06. Storm07. Overnight Angels08. One Of The Boys09. Shouting And Pointing CD2

01. Sea Diver02. The Journey03. Who Do You Love04. Crash Street Kidds05. Violence06. England Rocks07. Good Times DVD

01. Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding02. One More Chance To Run03. Rock And Roll Queen04. Drivin' Sister05. Whizz Kid06. Storm07. Overnight Angels08. One Of The Boys09. Shouting And Pointing10. Sea Diver11. The Journey12. Who Do You Love13. Crash Street Kidds14. Violence15. England Rocks16. Good Times

MARILYN MANSON has recruited Juan Alderete (THE MARS VOLTA) as the band's new bassist following the recent departure of Jeordie White (a.k.a. Twiggy Ramirez).

Alderete, who gained recognition in the '80s as a member of RACER X, made his live debut with Manson on November 5 at Ozzfest Meets Knotfest in Devore, California.

Manson fired White late last month after the musician was publicly accused of rape by his former girlfriend, Jessicka Addams of the riot grrrl band JACK OFF JILL.

White later responded to the accusations, saying that he did "not condone non-consensual sex of any kind." He added that he would be "taking some time" to spend with his family and focus on maintaining his several years of sobriety.

In her Facebook post, Addams described White's allegedly violent and jealous behavior, claiming that he would hit her and that he once slashed the tires of her car after she gave a male friend a ride home. Toward the end of her statement, Addams described an encounter in which White allegedly raped her at their former apartment while he was on a break from touring with NINE INCH NAILS.

Although she alluded to White's behavior in a 2015 interview, she said she finally opened up now in solidarity with other women who are coming forward with stories of sexual harassment and abuse in the wake of the many allegations made against film producer Harvey Weinstein.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada-based extremists KATAKLYSM have signed a new worldwide deal with Nuclear Blast. The band's new album, "Meditations", will be released in April 2018.

A trailer for the disc can be seen below.

"It's hard to believe so many years have passed," comments KATAKLYSM frontman Maurizio Iacono. "It all feels like yesterday we released our first album, 'Sorcery'. Today, we stand here as a humbled band with lots to be thankful for, one of those deserving of our gratitude is our label Nuclear Blast and the people who work there. They have always stood behind KATAKLYSM from the day they discovered us as teenagers. Fast forward 25 years to their current staff, who are just discovering us. We now re-sign with our home label for the fifth time and stand on top of our game together.

"There is no better way to celebrate this moment but by releasing a new album. We have secretly been preparing and working throughout the entire year — similar to the way we wrote our classics 'In The Arms Of Devastation', 'Shadows & Dust' and 'Serenity In Fire' — using the best technology available: a rehearsal room, garages and our basements. Just like we did when we first started, four guys with a passion for metal, instruments and no outside world to influence us — only now with way more experience. We believe we created one of our strongest and most honest album to date. You will be the judge in 2018 like it should be. Our words don't matter but know this, we are coming out guns blazing in 2018!"

Nuclear Blast owner Markus Staiger adds: "Honored that my Canadian hyper-blasters have re-signed with us after 25 years and for the fifth time! It is overwhelming to have such a long and healthy relationship with a band that has remained in top form and is in its best shape ever! So let's go for the next 25 years. Thanks my friends!"

Nuclear Blast America's general manager Gerardo Martinez comments: "I first met Maurizio and the boys back in 1995 when they were on their first North American tour with INCANTATION. I had heard the band on the '5 Years Of Nuclear Blast' compilation 25 years ago… little did I know that they were going to be one of the longest standing bands at the label. Here we are, it's been 15 years working with them and proud to have the band still flying the death metal flag. Here's to at least 15 years more!"

Formed in 1992, KATAKLYSM recently became the first Canadian metal band to ever play South Africa.

Portuguese metallers MOONSPELL celebrated the release of their new album, "1755", with a double-date hometown show in Lisbon where fans could enjoy the band's annual Halloween party as well as watch the performance.

Fan-filmed video footage of the October 31 concert at Lisboa Ao Vivo in Lisbon can be seen below.

"1755" was released on November 3 via Napalm Records. The Portuguese-language disc was written about the 1755 Lisbon earthquake, also known as the Great Lisbon earthquake, which occurred in the Kingdom of Portugal. In combination with subsequent fires and a tsunami, the earthquake almost totally destroyed Lisbon and adjoining areas.

"1755" was produced by Tue Madsen (MESHUGGAH, THE HAUNTED, DARK TRANQUILITY, DIR EN GREY, DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER) and features Paulo Bragança supplying the haunting voice of a Fado fallen angel who is a big part of the Portuguese culture. His fascinating vocals are included in the song "In Tremor Dei" (English-language translation: "Fear Of God"). The cover artwork was created by João Diogo.

MOONSPELL vocalist Fernando Ribeiro said: "I have been fascinated with Portuguese history since I can remember.

"The year of 1755 marked the birth of a new Portugal. Much more than just the greatest natural disaster ever to occur on European soil, the great Lisbon Quake, shockwaves cannot be reduced to a dramatic death toll.

"From absolute tragedy, a new city was born, giving way to a new time where Portuguese relied more on themselves than on the crown or the cross, granting us much of the city, the lay country, the free will that we enjoy today.

"This is not just another album from us. It's a musical and lyrical history document, a homage we pay to our legacy and to the amazing skills and resilience of our fellow Portuguese back then, of all mankind when brought down to the knees by the violent forces of nature and reason. Whatever is, is right... yet the earth shakes."

The new cover artwork, tracklisting and street date of the upcoming LEAVES' EYES album "Sign of the Dragonhead" are revealed.

The hearts of symphonic metal fans will beat faster: Epic metal hymns, cracking rock songs, great choirs, powerful classical music, a top notch production and magic melodies - on top of it all Elina's outstanding voice. The energy of the latest shows and tours (a.o. with Sabaton in North America) were taken directly into the music and studio recordings! The biggest Leaves' Eyes record to date. The London Voices choirs of "Lord of The Rings" and "Stars Wars" are back again, as well as the classical ensemble of Victor Smolski from Belarus and various folk, classical and percussion musicians. Once more Leaves' Eyes take the listener into the world of Norse Mythology and Viking Sagas. The dragon ship sets sail to new horizons! Full speed ahead!

Pre-order "Sign Of The Dragonhead" here:
http://bit.ly/2ysPsUl

Tracklisting:
1. SIGN OF THE DRAGONHEAD
2. ACROSS THE SEA
3. LIKE A MOUNTAIN
4. JOMSBORG
5. VÖLVA
6. RIDERS ON THE WIND
7. FAIRER THAN THE SUN
8. SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT
9. RULERS OF WIND AND WAVES
10. FIRES IN THE NORTH
11. WAVES OF EUPHORIA

Produced by Alexander Krull at Mastersound Studio. The cover artwork was done by Stefan Heilemann (Lindemann, Epica. Kamelot).
Street date: January 12th 2018 via AFM Records.