PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS (formerly PHIL CAMPBELL'S ALL STARR BAND), the band featuring MOTÖRHEAD guitarist Phil Campbell alongside his sons Todd, Dane and Tyla, plus vocalist Neil Starr, has announced the details of its upcoming debut album.

Titled "The Age Of Absurdity", the disc was recorded at Rockfield Studios and Longwave Studios in Wales and produced, engineered, and mixed by Romesh Dodangoda. The record was then passed over to the acclaimed Abbey Road Studios in London for mastering.

The album will feature eleven songs and one bonus track and will be released on January 26, 2018 via Nuclear Blast. The album will be available in various formats, with pre-orders launching soon.

Commented Phil Campbell: "I am really excited for the fans to hear our debut record. Every part of the process was done in Wales, from the writing, to the recording and even the artwork!

"The album title, 'The Age Of Absurdity', was inspired by the crazy world we live in today. The world to me seems to be a bit of a theater show, so the album artwork idea just seemed to fit so well with the whole concept and album title."

Added Starr: "Writing and recording this album was a lot of fun. We got to record at Rockfield Studios where so many great artists had been over the years — it really was inspirational. Hearing the blistering riffs that the Campbell family seem to churn out effortlessly made me ensure I pushed myself to the limits when writing the melodies and lyrics. It's an album that I, and the rest of the band, are very proud of and can't wait to share it with the world!"

"The Age Of Absurdity" track listing:

01. Ringleader02. Freak Show03. Skin And Bones04. Gypsy Kiss05. Welcome To Hell06. Dark Days07. Dropping The Needle08. Step Into The Fire09. Get On Your Knees10. High Rule11. Into The Dark12. Silver Machine (HAWKWIND cover feat. Dave Brock of HAWKWIND)*

* only to be included in the first pressing of the CD version of the album

The cover art was created by Matt Riste and can be seen below.

PHIL CAMPBELL AND THE BASTARD SONS' last release was a digital-only live EP, "Live At Solothurn", which came out in June.

The song "Wonder Who You Are" from the female-fronted melodic metal band ANGEL NATION can be streamed below. The track is taken from the group's new album, "Aeon", which will be released on October 27 in Europe and North America via Inner Wound Recordings.

ANGEL NATION is a melodic metal band founded by the classically trained Finnish singer Elina Siirala who moved to London in 2008 and fell in love with the power of rock and metal.

Their debut album — released in 2014 under the name ENKELINATION — "Tears of Lust", was received with glowing reviews all over the world. Shows at Bloodstock Open Air and Finland followed before Elina joined LEAVES' EYES in 2016 as that band's new vocalist.

"Aeon" continues the musical diversity that Elina likes to express in her songwriting. The unique blend of retro and modern sounds is developed even further with this album. The power of metal and rock combined with Elina's ethereal-yet-strong-and-emotional vocals create the perfect platform for stories of both earthly and otherworldly she likes to create with her lyrics.

The album features a guest appearance by Jukka Pelkonen (OMNIUM GATHERUM) on vocals and the artwork was created by Darkgrove Design (APOCALYPTICA, DELAIN, LEAH).

"Aeon" track listing

01. Burn The Witch 02. Blood Is On Your Hands 03. Breathe Again 04. Wonder Who You Are 05. Farewell06. Free07. Enough Is Enough 08. Music Plays 09. Fireflies 10. Destination

POWERMAN 5000's new album, "New Wave", can be streamed in its entirety using the SoundCloud widget below. The disc will be released on October 27 via Pavement Entertainment.

"New Wave" is POWERMAN 5000's eleventh official release since forming in 1992 and continues the strides and success, from their platinum-selling album "Tonight The Stars Revolt!" to their most recent chart-topping single in 2014, "How To Be A Human".

Regarding the overall sound of the follow-up to 2014's "Builders Of The Future", vocalist Spider One said: "We went a bit dirtier on this one. Ripped it up more than the last couple of records. One of the goals was to recreate the noise of the live show. Keep in the chaos."

On the topic of the new album title, Spider said: "New Wave? Are we a new wave band? Well, I would say that we have always had more in common with DEVO than DIO."

POWERMAN 5000's legacy continues to push the boundaries of rock, metal, industrial, rap and punk to create innovative and groundbreaking releases time and time again. With songs like "David F**king Bowie", "Cult Leader" and "Sid Vicious In A Dress", the new album is sure to please longtime fans, as well as turn the heads of many more to come.

Spider One told Rock Revolt Magazine about "Sid Vicious In A Dress": "It's funny. We made the record. We had the record done. You always get to that point of making an album, you go, 'Okay, it's done now. We can put this out. I feel good about it. Let's write one more song just for fun.' That's what this song was. I was like, by the time you make a whole album, you end up with ten or eleven songs, but you've probably exhausted forty or fifty ideas, so by the time you get to that point, you're a little bit burnt. It's like, 'What else do I have? What other ideas do I have?' I went back to my notes in my folder and I had this song title 'Sid Vicious In A Dress' written down. I always felt, 'Maybe if I ever write a song for someone else, that would be a good song to use.' It's not a POWERMAN song, but it kept coming back and so I said 'Fuck it! That's a POWERMAN song now.' We tracked and wrote that song in an afternoon and it was no pressure kind of thing and it ended up being the first single, which is pretty crazy. Yeah, sonically, it's a pretty straight-ahead POWERMAN song, but lyrically, it's a little different. It's a little tongue-in-cheek and maybe a simpler of a concept. I tend to sometimes be my own worst enemy lyrically and write these things and people are, like, 'What the fuck does that mean?' This one, there's no mistaking what it's about, although I must say, there is confusion. This, I never thought in a million years this would be confusing, but welcome to the Internet. In my mind, I thought, 'Everybody knows who Sid Vicious is. He was the bass player for the SEX PISTOLS.' Apparently, there was a WWE wrestler named Sid Vicious so people were going, 'Why would they want to put the wrestler in a dress? I don't get it.' People were just all confused. So I was going 'Oh, fuck.' You think things couldn't be any more confusing, but I was like 'Okay.'"

"New Wave" track listing:

01. Footsteps And Voices02. Hostage03. Sid Vicious In A Dress04. David F**king Bowie05. Cult Leader06. No White Flags07. Thank God08. Die On Your Feet09. Get A Life10. Run For Your Life

"Spectral War", a brand new song from CAVALERA CONSPIRACY, the band led by brothers and founding SEPULTURA members Max (also of SOULFLY) and Igor Cavalera, can be streamed below. The track is taken from CAVALERA CONSPIRACY's fourth album, "Psychosis", which will be released on November 17 via Napalm Records. The disc, which was produced by longtime friend Arthur Rizk, was recorded primarily at a studio in Phoenix, Arizona.

The cover artwork for "Psychosis" can be seen below.

The track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. Insane02. Terror Tactics03. Impalement Execution04. Spectral War05. Crom06. Hellfire07. Judas Pariah08. Psychosis09. Excruciating

Speaking to Metal Wani's Jake Patton, Max stated about the follow-up to 2014's "Pandemonium": "The album right now is finished. It was produced by Arthur Rizk, our friend and a great producer — an upcoming, underground producer. And he did a great job. I love the record. There are nine songs. We've got one song with Justin [Broadrick] from GODFLESH — just a great NAILBOMB, GODFLESH, CAVALERA kind of song. The rest is all pure thrash madness. And we had it mastered a couple of days ago by Joel Grind from TOXIC HOLOCAUST; he mastered the album. And it's great, man. It's a beast of an album. I think a lot of people are are gonna be surprised when they hear it. It's, for me, the best of all the CAVALERA albums, my favorite one. And it's got the same intensity and energy of the old stuff like [SEPULTURA's] 'Beneath The Remains' and 'Arise'. So a lot of people are gonna be happy to hear that."

Max also talked in more detail about the lyrical themes covered on the new CAVALERA CONSPIRACY disc. He said: "It's a bit… kind of like a mix. There's some stuff about what's going on right now, so there's some terrorist stuff in songs like 'Impalement Execution' and 'Terror Tactics' and 'Excruciating'. And there's some kind of fantasy stuff, like 'Crom', which is the father of Conan. That was a really fun song to make. We have a song called 'Insane' — it's about the state of the world, with Donald Trump and the bombings in England and France. And then, of course, there's an instrumental called 'Psychosis', which is the name of the album, which I think is cool, because I think it also reflects the state of mankind right now, the state of the world right now. It's pretty much psycho — we're living in a psycho age, with madness everywhere we go. The GODFLESH song is called 'Hellfire' — it's about drones. It was inspired by a movie called 'Eye In The Sky' and a movie called 'Good Kill', which is about drones and how people just sit in an air-conditioned office in Nevada and bomb people in Afghanistan and Pakistan with those crazy drones. It was a really cool song built around that, and I really love Justin from GODFLESH's vocals. He sings more in the line of the 'Streetcleaner' vocals from the early GODFLESH, so that came out really nice."

Asked if Max and Igor's recent tour on which they celebrated the twentieth anniversary of SEPULTURA's classic album "Roots" by performing the LP in its entirety influenced the musical content of the new CAVALERA CONSPIRACY material, Max said: "The 'Psychosis' song is very tribal. Some of the recordings were done with Igor in Uganda, in Africa. Igor went there for a thing he did with his wife, like helping people from Uganda, a humanitarian kind of thing. And he recorded a bunch of cool sounds when he was in Africa. So we created this kind of… almost like a voodoo, ambient kind of real tribal… It could have been on [SEPULTURA's] 'Roots'; this song could be on the 'Roots' album. It's got a really great buildup with the drums, and then it has real cool melodic guitars on it — almost like prog rock a little bit. It's kind of like the one 'off' song of the album that really is not like the rest of the record. But it's very cool, it's very tribal and definitely influenced by 'Roots'."

Igor told HeavyMetal.dk that it was "good" for him and Max to have Rizk involved with the new CAVALERA CONSPIRACY album because Arthur "is super passionate about music, the same way we are. So to have someone like him coming in and helping us with ideas and things like that, I think it's gonna surprise a lot of people, 'cause he understands a lot about what's going on today in music, and that's pretty cool — that exchange with us, with the old-school ideas with also someone that understands music right now. I'm far more excited than I've been in many years to put out a record like this. So I have to say I'm quite into it, what we're doing right now."

Max concurred, telling HeavyMetal.dk: "[Arthur] captured the classic Max and Igor in a way that's never really quite been captured before. It was always his objective from the beginning — he wanted to capture the soul of the brothers, and I think he did. I think it's quite amazing, looking back, that somebody can get that out of you after twenty-five years, man. That's awesome. But, like Igor said, there's a lot of noise also — between songs we're gonna hear all this kind of crazy just pure noise and heaviness, which is unheard of. So I'm very excited."

"Pandemonium" sold around 2,600 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 177 on The Billboard 200 chart.

CAVALERA CONSPIRACY's previous CD, 2011's "Blunt Force Trauma" opened with around 5,000 units to land at No. 122.

The band's first CD, 2008's "Inflikted", registered a first-week tally of 9,000 copies to enter the chart at No. 72.

"Pandemonium" was produced by John Gray, who has previously worked with SOULFLY.

Swedish death metal band Throne Of Heresy are streaming their new video for "Liber Secretorum", which can be seen below. It was filmed on location at the Alvastra Abbey ruins in Östergötland, Sweden.The track is taken from the band's forthcoming concept album Decameron, scheduled for release November 3rd. 

The band commented "'Liber Secretorum' takes it's name from the book Liber Secretorum Eventuum by John de Rupescissa who foretold the coming of the Antichrist in the 14th century. He was jailed for heresy but managed to survive the Black Death and finished writing the Liber while imprisoned. 

This is one of the most atmospheric tracks on the album. The churning mid-pace of the track conveys a sense of oncoming doom that is resolved in the final part, which is probably the heaviest riff on the entire album.

Our video producer Guilherme Henriques did a great job in capturing the bleak morbidity of the track and creating a perfect visual companion for it."

Check out the Decameron cover art and tracklisting: 

"The Shores Of Issyk-Kul"
"Pax Mongolica"
"Siege Of Caffa"
"The Plague Ships"
"Decameron"
"Liber Secretorum"
"Järtecken"
"A Silent Vigil"
"Alvastra"
"The Pale Burden"

Pre-orders can be placed at this location.

 

Season Of Mist has announced the signing of the Norwegian black metal band Vreid (Norwegian for Wrath). The veteran quartet will release their highly anticipated new album in early 2018 through Season Of Mist worldwide.

Regarding their signing Vreid comment: "We are extremely pleased to get signed by Season Of Mist. Like us, they have been around for years, and we have a strong relationship to their people and admiration for their work. We are well on our way with our new album, and are very proud to have Season Of Mist as a partner when we will launch the upcoming beast. Our march continues."

Vreid were formed in 2004. The Norwegian band was established as the spiritual successor of the highly influential, pioneering folk / black metal band Windir. Not content with simply replicating their past, Vreid have carved out a space within their native Norwegian scene as of the leading purveyors of Black N' Roll.

Throughout the course of their career, Vreid has been a band that has constantly evolved their sound. To date, the band's discography, seven well-received full-lengths, have all showcased the band's ability to combine the strongest elements of black metal - visceral riffs, melodic compositions, and crushing aggression alongside lyrics ranging from extreme emotional themes to historical matters in their native country.

Currently, the veterans are working on new material and are looking to record their eighth album this fall. Vrreid composer and mastermind, Hváll comments, "It will be one hell of an album. After more than 20 years of playing together our spirit is stronger than ever and we can hardly wait to get in studio again to give birth to our new creations".

Vreid recently announced a headlining tour across Japan. The tour begins in November, and sees support from Keep Of Kalessin and Solefald. A full list of confirmed dates can be found below.

November
13 - Tokyo - Chelsea Hotel
14 - Nagoya - Apollo Base
15 - Osaka - Live House Soma
16 - Tokyo - Club Seata

 

Australia’s Ne Obliviscaris will release their new album, Urn, on October 27th via Season Of Mist. An advanced album stream is available below.

Urn is bound to be a career defining moment for the band. The Australian extreme prog stars have honed and re-balanced the key elements of their unique sound to a razor sharp musical edge. Fierce growls intertwine with emotive vocals, while devastating, intricate guitar riffs and thundering drums play against an unleashed violin and gorgeous string arrangements. Ne Obliviscaris innovate the epic, progressive and intense extreme metal forms of expression once again, marking a new peak in the steep rise of the band.

Urn is now available for pre-order across various CD and LP formats at the Season Of Mist e-shop.

Tracklisting:

“Libera (Part I) - Saturnine Spheres”
“Libera (Part II) - Ascent of Burning Moths”
“Intra Venus”
“Eyrie”
“Urn (Part I) - And Within The Void We Are Breathless”
“Urn (Part II) - As Embers Dance In Our Eyes”

Album stream:

“Intra Venus” video:

"Intra Venus" drum playthrough video:

Ne Obliviscaris have announced a headlining North American tour. The Urn North American Tour 2017 begins on November 1st in San Francisco, and sees the band traveling across the country, making stops in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Montreal, New York, Austin, and more, before concluding on December 4th. Support comes from Allegaeon. A full list of confirmed tour dates can be found below.

Regarding the tour, the band comments: "We will be landing for this tour only a few days after Urn is released and couldn't be more excited to present to you the first tour of our Urn album cycle. You can expect a full 90 min. show featuring songs from all three albums!"

Tour dates:

November
1 - San Francisco, CA - Bottom of The Hill
2 - Los Angeles, CA - Whisky A Go Go
3 - Las Vegas, NV - Beauty Bar
4 - Salt Lake City, UT - Loading Dock
5 - Denver, CO - Globe Hall
7 - Seattle, WA - Studio Seven
8 - Portland, OR - Dantes
9 - Vancouver, BC - Rickshaw Theater
11 - Calgary, AB - Dickens
13 - Winnipeg, MB - Park Theatre
14 - St Paul, MN - Amsterdam
16 - Chicago, IL - Reggie's
17 - Cleveland, OH - Foundry
18 - Ottawa, ON - Mavericks
19 - Montreal, QC - Les Foufounes Electriques
20 - Boston, MA - Sonia
22 - New York, NY - Le Poisson Rouge
24 - Greensboro, NC - Blind Tiger
25 - Atlanta, GA - Masquerade
26 - Orlando, FL - Haven
28 - New Orleans, LA - Gasa Gasa
29 - Ft. Worth, TX - Rail Club
30 - Houston, TX - Acadia Live

December
1 - Austin, TX - Come & Take It Live
3 - Phoenix, AZ - Club Red
4 - Santa Ana, CA - Constellation Room

Bloody Disgusting are exclusively reporting that Rob Zombie is directing a follow-up to The Devil’s Rejects, released in 2005 as a spinoff of his directorial debut, House Of 1,000 Corpses (2003).

Says Bloody Disgusting: “The Devil’s Rejects, arguably Rob Zombie‘s best film, ended in a hail of bullets that gave homage to Bonnie and Clyde. In the scene, Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig), Otis (Bill Moseley), and Baby (Sheri Moon Zombie) drive directly into a shootout that ends all of their lives. Yet, Zombie plans to resurrect them.”

Read more at Bloody Disgusting.

Finnish cinematic metal band, Dark Sarah, is preparing their third album, The Golden Moth, which is scheduled to be released next year, and have opened a crowdfunding campaign and pre-sale of the album.

Dark Sarah have also released the music video for "Trespasser” with JP Leppäluoto, the first single from the upcoming album. Watch the clip here.

The third Dark Sarah album, The Golden Moth, is the last part of the first trilogy (The Chronicles). The trilogy tells about Dark Sarah's travel through three worlds: The Middle World (Behind The Black Veil album), The Underworld (The Puzzle album) and The Upper World (The Golden Moth album).

On The Golden Moth album, Dark Sarah has to face the final test and find her way to the gods in the Upper World. After she had solved the puzzle in The Underworld and found the three keys, the Iron birds came there for her and took her to the Upper World, a deserted waste land where the gods rule. But also a trespasser, The Dragon, came with her. In the heat of the desert they meet again and there is something The Dragon wants from her..

JP Leppäluoto (Charon) has joined the official lineup as The Dragon for the upcoming album. Also in the roles of The Gods you will hear featuring artists as Zuberoa Aznarez (Diabulus In Musica) and a yet unnamed guest.

Dark Sarah official lineup:

Heidi Parviainen (as Dark Sarah) - vocals
JP Leppäluoto (as Dragon) - vocals
Erkka Korhonen - guitar
Sami Salonen - guitar
Rude Rothstén - bass
Thomas Tunkkari - drums

Crowdfunding campaign video:

IQ reports that Metallica last night made history by playing to a record-breaking 22,211 people at The O2 in London, England, smashing the previous record of 21,000 set by Muse in 2016. Watch the band perform "Spit Out The Bone" at The O2:

The ‘in-the-round’ format allowed for an extended seating capacity for the US rockers’ two O2 shows, part of the UK leg of their WorldWide tour, which now heads to the SSE Hydro in Glasgow. To mark the occasion, Metallica were presented with a specially commissioned illustration by The O2’s head of programming, Christian D’Acuna.“Earlier this month Northern California, the community that we have called home for over 34 years, suffered devastating wildfires that have destroyed homes and displaced over 100,000 of our neighbours in Napa, Sonoma, Mendocino, Lake and other counties in the North Bay,” says Metallica.

“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 and want to jump in and help in the way we know how to - through music!

“With that said, we are proud to be a part of Band Together, a benefit concert at AT&T Park in San Francisco on Thursday, November 9th, 2017 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. Joining us will be Dave Matthews Band, G-Eazy and more friends to be announced soon.

“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. 100% of the ticket price will be donated to this fund and you can learn more about them at TippingPoint.org.

“Fifth Members may purchase tickets during a pre-sale on Thursday, October 26th beginning at 10 AM, PDT through 10 PM, PDT. The public on sale is Friday, October 27th at 10 AM, PDT, both through Ticketmaster.com. Fifth Members can find their personal pre-sale code displayed on their Metallica.com profile.

“We hope you’ll join us on November 9th in assisting our friends and neighbors who have lost so much, but 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.

 

Minneapolis bred sludge-metal band, Boson, will release their debut, full-length album, Domain Of Ember, on November 3rd via Anxious & Angry Records. The album’s opening track, “Shadowlands”, is available for streaming below.

Guitarist/Vocalist, Jim Adolphson talks about the new song: “‘Shadowlands’ is a really good example of a lot of elements we like to us as a band. Trying to combine melody and dense harmony with aggression can be a really challenging thing and I'm really happy with how that turned out on this particular track. It's also one of my favorites to play live, especially with the big build from the quiet section in the middle.”

With Domain Of Ember, Boson has made their entry into the metal scene armed with massive, sludging-riffs and  searing, intense vocals. Melding elements of atmospheric post-metal, doom-metal and hardcore, the band wields a monstrous sound that finds a unique balance between melody and cacophony.

Adolphson adds:  “We started Boson so we could play loud, heavy music and have fun doing it. We wanted to find ways to come up with music that made you want to get stoned and bang your head a little bit without trying too hard to be difficult and cerebral.”

Tracklisting:

“Shadowlands”
“Mass Of The Phoenix”
“Echo Of The Mute Stars”
“Heaven's Black Corners”
“Eye Of The Augur”
“Prayer of Ash”

“Shadowlands”:

“Mass Of The Phoenix”:

Pre-order Domain Of Ember at anxiousandangry.com, or Bandcamp.

Babylon A.D. are one of the few hard rock bands from the late '80s/early '90s that are still operating with all of their original members: Derek Davis, vocalist/songwriter, guitarists and songwriters, John Matthews and Ron Freschi, drummer Jamey Pacheco and bassist Robb Reid. The band formed in 1987 and to celebrate their 30th anniversary, will release their new album, Revelation Highway, on November 10th. A music video for the album track “I’m No Good For You” is available for streaming below.

Vocalist Derek Davis on the new album: "This record kicks ass, from the opening track 'Crash And Burn' to the last track 'Saturday Night'. The band had a blast making the album and a lot had to do with original founding member lead-guitarist John Matthews rejoining the band. He really lit the fire that got the bands blood pumping to make a new record. For me it was awesome to produce and mix such a cool record. It's very hard hitting yet melodic, with some great lyrical story telling and great stand out tracks like, 'One Million Miles', 'Tears', 'Rags To Riches, and 'She Likes To Give It'. The songs are so catchy and memorable on the first listen I know our fans are gonna love it! And of course there are some burning guitar leads to keep the metal heads happy. The band is very grateful that Frontiers Music Srl listened to the tracks and felt the same way about them as we do and offered us the opportunity to get this record out. We can't wait to hit the road and play the material live."

Featuring 10 tracks of the energetic classic hard rock the band is known for, Revelation Highway is sure to please fans of the band's classic early material. The band will play shows in the UK and Germany this August/September to kick off promotion for the album with more touring planned both in the US and UK/Europe.

Tracklisting:

“Crash And Burn”
“Fool On Fire”
“One Million Miles”
“Tears”
“She Likes To Give It”
“Rags To Riches”
“Last Time For Love”
“I'm No Good For You”
“Saturday Night”
“Don't Tell Me Tonight”

“I’m No Good For You” video:

“Rags To Riches”:

“Crash And Burn” video:

Babylon A.D. lineup:

Derek Davis - Lead Vocals, Keyboards, Acoustic Guitar
Ron Freschi - Guitars & Vocals
John Mathews - Guitars & Keyboards
Robb Reid - Bass & Vocals
James Pacheco - Drums & Percussion

Swedish metallers, The Poodles, are back with "It’s No Good", the second single from the upcoming album Prisma, in virtual and physical stores early 2018.

"We took on the challenge to do our version of an iconic song from a different genre", says lead singer Jakob Samuel. “Depeche Mode is such an influential band and their darker 90s stuff is really cool!” he continues.

The choice to do a heavy rock version of "It’s No Good" stems from the simple fact that everyone liked the song”, guitarist Henrik adds. "It is a dark, epic song about broken relationships, which is always and interesting theme to explore.”

"We wanted to add an explosive element that would catch the listener’s ear and develop the hypnotic groove of the song into something more modern sounding, says Kicken, drummer of the band. “People are going to be surprised when they hear it!”

Listen here.

In a new interview with Metal Discovery, Michael Schenker reveals that Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett will appear on the upcoming Michael Schenker Fest album.

“We have Kirk Hammett doing a guitar part with me,” says Schenker. “Kirk, you know, he’s a Michael Schenker fan all the way, and he has become a friend, and he plays in the biggest band on this planet. So, I asked him if he wanted to do this and he was more than happy. And so, Michael Voss flew over there and recorded him.”

Michael Schenker is one of the most significant rock guitarists in the history of music. He has mesmerized the rock community since the 70's with his characteristic guitar play and contributed not only to Scorpions classics such as "Lovedrive", "Coast To Coast" and "Holiday", but also constructed himself a monument during his time in UFO by writing hits like "Doctor Doctor" and "Rock Bottom" among others. His playing has influenced several generations of guitar players enormously.

Back in 1979, the "German Wunderkind" decided to be his own boss. He founded the Michael Schenker Group aka M.S.G. and released the masterpieces Assault Attack and Built To Destroy, the live legacy One Night At Budokan as well as the McAuley Schenker Group pearls Perfect Timing and Save Yourself. Around that time, outstanding musicians such as Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big), Don Airey (Deep Purple), Cozy Powell (ex-Gary Moore), Chris Slade (AC/DC), Pete Way (UFO) and Neil Murray (ex-Whitesnake) were all invited by Schenker to play with him. M.S.G. also became home of great vocalists, most notably Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet and Robin McAuley. Those guys were also a part of the comprehensive Michael Schenker Fest, whose celebrated Tokyo show was released as live CD, DVD and Blu-ray this March recently passed.

Now the time has come for Michael Schenker to move another step forward: He fulfills the long-awaited dream of all hard rock fans by entering the studio as Michael Schenker Fest. The band are recording a brand-new studio album with producer Michael Voss. Its release is set for spring 2018 through Nuclear Blast, the band's new record label.

Comments Schenker, "I am very happy to have signed with Nuclear Blast Records and I am looking forward to releasing a killer Michael Schenker Fest studio album in the spring of 2018. The album will feature three original M.S.G. singers - Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet & Robin McAuley - plus Doogie White (Michael Schenker’s Temple Of Rock). Keep on rockin'!"

Michael Schenker Fest tour dates:

October (featuring original M.S.G singers Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley)
27 - Santander, Spain - Escenario Santander
28 - Pamplona, Spain - Auditorio de Burlada
29 - Barcelona, Spain - Razzmatazz
31 - Zoetermeer, Netherlands - De Boerderij

November (featuring original M.S.G singers Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley)
2 - London, UK - O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire
3 - Sheffield, UK - O2 Academy
4 - Manchester, UK - O2 Ritz
5 - Hull, UK - City Hall

March (featuring original M.S.G singers Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley, plus Doogie White)
6 - The Fillmore - Silver Springs, MD
7 - Carnegie Music Hall - Pittsburgh, PA
9 - Berklee Performance Center - Boston, MA
10 - Irving Plaza - New York, NY
11 - Theatre of Living Arts - Philadelphia, PA
12 - Club Soda - Montreal, QC
14 - Royal Oak Music Theatre - Detroit, MI
16 - Agora Theatre - Cleveland, OH
17 - Concord Music Hall - Chicago, IL
18 - Pabst Theater - Milwaukee, WI
19 - Cabooze - Minneapolis, MN
22 - Neptune Theatre - Seattle, WA
24 - Events Center - San Jose, CA
25 - The Grove - Anaheim, CA
26 - Marquee Theatre - Phoenix, AZ
27 - House of Blues - Las Vegas, NV
29 - Cervantes Ballroom - Denver, CO
31 - Vibes Event Center - San Antonio, TX

April (featuring original M.S.G singers Gary Barden, Graham Bonnet, Robin McAuley, plus Doogie White)
1 - Bomb Factory - Dallas, TX
4 - The Ritz - Tampa, FL

German rockers Guano Apes are celebrating their 20th Anniversary with a re-recorded / updated version of their 1997 debut album Proud Like A God. It features a cover of the Eminem classic "Lose Yourself" and Canadian rocker Danko Jones guesting on a new version of the band's first hit, "Open Your Eyes".

Proud Like a God went to #4 in Germany and was certified Platinum.

Proud Like A God XX features the following tracklist:

Disc 1
"Open Your Eyes" (2017 Mix)
"Maria" (2017 Mix)
"Rain" (2017 Mix)
"Lords of the Boards" (Remastered)
"Crossing The Deadline" (2017 Mix)
"We Use the Pain" (2017 Mix)
"Never Born" (2017 Mix)
"Wash It Down" (2017 Mix)
"Get Busy" (2017 Mix)
"Suzie" (2017 Mix)
"Score" (2017 Mix)

Disc 2
"Open Your Eyes" (2017 Version featuring Danko Jones)
"Lose Yourself"
"Rain" (2017 Version)
"Crossing The Deadline" (2017 Version)
"This Is Not America"
"Never Born" (2017 Version)
"Precious"
"Suzie" (2017 Version)
"Get Busy" (2017 Version)

According to The Sydney Morning Herald, AC/DC producer and The Easybeats' star George Young died at the age of 70 on October 22nd).

AC/DC said in a statement:

“It is with pain in our heart that we have to announce the passing of our beloved brother and mentor George Young. Without his help and guidance there would not have been an AC/DC.

As a musician, songwriter, producer, advisor and much, much more, you could not ask for a more dedicated and professional man.

As a brother, you could not ask for a finer brother. For all he did and gave to us throughout his life, we will always remember him with gratitude and hold him close to our hearts.”

On Monday, October 23rd, Guns N' Roses paid tribute to Young with a performance of "Whole Lotta Rosie" when they played Hartford, Connecticut. Check out the footage below. 

Whola Lotta Rosie goes out to Angus Young tonight in dedication to his brother George Young
— Guns N' Roses (@gunsnroses) 24 October 2017

George Young was the eldest brother of Australian rock legends Malcolm and Angus Young. He was born in Scotland in 1946 but emigrated to Australia with his family when he was still a child.

He co-produced AC/DC's early albums, such as Let There Be Rock, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, T.N.T., Powerage and High Voltage.

New York progressive death metal/post metal act Cryptodira have debuted a brand new music video for their track, "In Hell As On Earth." The video is the second song from their new LP the band is sharing early and the first music video.

Cryptodira will release The Devil's Despair via Good Fight Music on November 17th. All pre orders are live today, including merch bundles - links below. “Medusa Misgendered” is live on all streaming platforms and is also available as an iTunes instant gratification track. Meaning, fans who pre order the LP on iTunes will get “Medusa Misgendered” as an instant download immediately.

Drummer Matthew Taibi explains the band's thought process behind the LP title, "Much of The Devil’s Despair deals with the themes of dehumanizing social forces; forces which come from human activity and yet become confused for rigid, natural laws. In “Medusa Misgendered,” the trend being criticized specifically is the objectification of femininity under the gaze of masculinity, reversing the myth of Medusa as the title suggests. Even for the side that benefits from reification, there is still an unnecessary loss of substance and they themselves become a reflection of the very world they've frozen. This hits on the larger theme captured by the artwork, where the Devil himself becomes a victim of the demonic force of dehumanization which originally emanated from him."

Tracklisting:

“Neutralization”
“Constituted - I. Constitutum”
“Constituted - II. Constituens”
“Medusa Misgendered”
“The Gods Of Epicurus”
“Longing Belonging”
“In Hell As On Earth”
“The Fascist's Phantasy”
“Negation Consumes Affirmation”
“Negation Consumes Itself”

"In Hell As On Earth" video:

“Medusa Misgendered”:

Pre-order the album via the following links:

- Digital
- Physical

The band is hitting the road this December with The Number Twelve Looks Like You on the Nuclear Sad Nuclear 12th Anniversary Tour. Tickets are now on sale.  

December
12 - Voltage Lounge - Philadelphia, PA    
13 - Middle East     - Cambridge, MA    
14 - Ottobar - Baltimore, MD    
15 - Local 506 - Chapel Hill, NC    
16 - Backbooth - Orlando, FL    
17 - CrowBar - Tampa, FL    
18 - Gasa Casa - New Orleans, LA    
19 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA    
20 - Open Chord - Knoxville, TN    
21 - Mr. Smalls - Millvale, PA    
22 - Mohawks - Buffalo, NY    
23 - Brooklyn Bazar - Brooklyn, NY   

"Thrown Into The Fire", the new video from Florida metallers TRIVIUM, can be seen below. The track is taken from the band's latest album, "The Sin And The Sentence", which arrived on October 20 via Roadrunner Records.

TRIVIUM is set to return to the road in North America later this month, embarking on a co-headline tour with ARCH ENEMY, featuring support from WHILE SHE SLEEPS and FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY. The tour will kick off on October 27 in Orlando, Florida and make its way across the U.S. and Canada before finishing on December 6 in Houston, Texas. Recorded with producer Josh Wilbur (LAMB OF GOD, GOJIRA) at Santa Ana, California's Hybrid Studios, "The Sin And The Sentence" finds TRIVIUM — Matt Heafy (lead vocals, lead guitar), Corey Beaulieu (guitar, vocals), Paolo Gregoletto (bass) and Alex Bent (drums) — returning with its first new music since its celebrated 2015 LP "Silence In The Snow". The new LP also features the band's first recordings with new drummer Bent, who joined the band last year. Earlier this summer, TRIVIUM debuted the album's incendiary title track, "The Sin And The Sentence", the official music video for which has amassed over three million views in under three months. "The Sin And The Sentence" track listing:

01. The Sin And The Sentence02. Beyond Oblivion03. Other Worlds04. The Heart From Your Hate05. Betrayer06. The Wretchedness Inside07. Endless Night08. Sever The Hand09. Beauty In The Sorrow10. The Revanchist11. Thrown Into The Fire

Music Theories Recordings/Mascot Label Group has announced the signing of '90s progressive metal adventurers GALACTIC COWBOYS. The band's reunited original lineup — lead vocalist Ben Huggins, drummer/vocalist Alan Doss, guitarist/vocalist Dane Sonnier and vocalist/bassist Monty Colvin — will release its first album in seventeen years, "Long Way Back To The Moon", on November 17. They descended upon Doss's studio in Houston, Texas in early 2016 to write and record.

A new GALACTIC COWBOYS song "Zombies", taken from "Long Way Back To The Moon", can be streamed below.

GALACTIC COWBOYS has always been a musical enigma. Hailing from Houston, Texas, the band combined melodic thrash, progressive metal, and BEATLES-esque harmonies into a genre of its own creation. Blending these considerable musical chops with a quirky sense of humor, the band quickly distinguished itself from anyone else in the world, garnering fans amongst some of music's biggest stars. Their first time around, though, they were the right band at exactly the wrong time. On this outing, they shoot for the moon again, and celebrate the journey back. The COWBOYS' most notable fanbase became other musicians—an exclusive club that included other 1990s musical misanthropes such as JELLYFISH, KING'S X and Kevin Gilbert. Reflecting both the musicality and diversity of the band, GALACTIC COWBOYS toured with two hard rock/metal legends, ANTHRAX and DREAM THEATER.

Said former DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy: "The GALACTIC COWBOYS were (and still are) one of my favorite bands to emerge from the '90s. Great songwriting, killer players and euphoric harmonies. They were always criminally underrated and overlooked, which led to their premature demise in 2000. My last seventeen years have had a hole in my musical palate without them and I couldn't be happier at the announcement of their return! Welcome back boys... I missed you!"

The eleven new tracks (and two bonus tracks) included on "Long Way Back To The Moon" harken back to the COWBOYS' iconic songs, but are infused with a contemporary hard rock sound. In the tradition of ALAN PARSONS PROJECT, Steven Wilson and PERIPHERY, the album is completely organic: engineered, produced, mixed, and mastered by the band — even all the artwork. One trapping of contemporary production set aside by the band was an over-reliance on studio trickery — no Pro Tools, drum triggers or even vocal tuning. Just real music by real musicians.

The album's sound is alternately heavy, whimsical, charging, and crunching, combining inescapable atmosphere with the drive of a band on a mission. Old fans will feel at home, but hard rock fans who have never heard GALACTIC COWBOYS before will also be instantly hooked. As with all GALACTIC COWBOYS albums, the songs are emotional in topic, and often including a large dose of ironic humor. Each song is performed, sung, and written with intense passion.

Said Colvin: "It was an absolute pleasure getting back together with the guys to record this album. I think we've all grown as musicians and as people since we first got together in '89, and I think our fans will really love this new stuff."

The song "Zombies" is a tongue-in-cheek study on finding love on the last day of human existence, blended with social commentary regarding modern society's obsession with its electronic screens. Timely topics continue with "Next Joke": from kids' sports in which everyone gets a trophy to Disney telling kids to wish upon a star and all their dreams will come true, our unrealistic expectations have set us all up for failure: the joke is on us. "Internal Masquerade", the album’s first single, examines the turmoil endemic to the human experience and the difficulties in keeping self-generated darkness at bay, themes revisited in darker "Blood In My Eyes".

A special treat for fans both old and new is "In The Clouds", the album’s leadoff track and also the first GALACTIC COWBOYS song ever written. Penned in 1989 by Doss and Colvin after the demise of their previous outfit, THE AWFUL TRUTH, the song explores leaving the banal confines of this world behind and ascending to a higher plane of existence. It's also the song Huggins sang to earn his spot in the band!

Said Sonnier: "We can't wait for everyone to hear this, and it's great to be back. Back from the Ranch on Mars and onward to the moon."

Emerging young Michigan rockers GRETA VAN FLEET will release "From The Fires", an eight-song double EP, on November 10 via Lava/Republic.

"From The Fires" will feature on one disc four brand new GRETA VAN FLEET recordings as well as the four critically acclaimed tracks from the band's breakout EP "Black Smoke Rising", including "Highway Tune", the band's debut single that spent five consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the Mainstream Rock Radio chart. The four new tracks were recorded last month at Rust Belt Studios in Detroit and produced by the same duo that produced "Black Smoke Rising" earlier this year, Al Sutton and Marlon Young.

According to the band's vocalist Josh Kiszka, compiling the four "Black Smoke Rising" tracks with the four new recordings made for an ideal grouping. "All eight of these songs share a theme of basic humanity," he said.

"From The Fires" will be available both digitally and as a physical disc. For those fans that have already purchased the "Black Smoke Rising" tracks via iTunes, they are invited to complete their "From The Fires" double EP at a special price. Log on to iTunes for those details.

The cover art for "From The Fires" was conceived by Josh, who said: "When we were all kids, our extended families and friends spent part of every summer together at a place called Yankee Springs. We were out in the middle of the woods, and every night, we'd sit around a campfire, play music and tell stories. I always loved that as it reminded me of ancient times when people would gather around the fires with the tribes' elders telling fables of wisdom and courage, passing down human history. That concept is where the cover art and title come from."

GRETA VAN FLEET — Kiszka, brothers Jake (guitar) and Sam (bass, keys) and family friend Danny Wagner (drums) — is currently on tour in the U.S., having sold out every one of its headline shows through to the end of the year.

Professionally filmed video footage of METALLICA performing the song "Fuel" on October 22 at The O2 Arena in London, England can be seen below.

The European leg of METALLICA's "WorldWired" tour kicked off in Copenhagen, Denmark on September 2 and will run through November. 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.

The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame band is touring in support of its tenth studio album, "Hardwired... To Self-Destruct", which came out last November.

The first ten of the shows of the North American "WorldWired" tour during May and June grossed $49.5 million in ticket sales.

METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich told Rolling Stone that the band was genuinely surprised to learn they could still play stadiums, saying, "It was like, 'Holy fuck, people really still care about this band in ways that you stopped taking for granted literally decades ago. It was very inspiring and kind of eye-opening."

He added: "Full stadium runs can sometimes be a little intimidating. There's all these things to worry about like, 'You should really try to play maybe only on the weekend,' and, 'Where do you play on Tuesday?' and some of those practicalities can get a little bewildering. We just threw caution to the wind. Doing a stadium run seemed like the perfect thing on the back of how well this record has been received and all the good will that's out there in METALLICA's world right now."

"The Voice Of Deep Purple: The Gillan Years" from Ian Gillan will be released on November 17 on 3CD digipack through Store For Music.

As DEEP PURPLE undertakes its "final" live dates around the globe on "The Long Goodbye" tour, we celebrate the "Gillan years." This set contains three albums taken from across this legendary performer's incredible and hugely varied career: "Naked Thunder" (1990), "Scarabus" (1977) and "Accidentally On Purpose" (1988).

As well as each album in full, the set includes five bonus tracks: "Smoke On The Water", "Black Night" and "Restless" from GILLAN; "Child In Time", "Woman From Tokyo" from IAN GILLAN BAND, plus an interview with Ian Gillan in Tokyo, during the GILLAN Japanese tour.

Gillan is best known of course as the lead singer and lyricist for the truly legendary DEEP PURPLE but his musical career takes in other avenues too. Upon leaving PURPLE in 1973, Gillan subsequently formed THE IAN GILLAN BAND (around late 1975/early '76) and the band simply called GILLAN in 1978. After a spell fronting BLACK SABBATH, Gillan rejoined a reunited DEEP PURPLE IN 1984. He left the band briefly in 1989 but rejoined a couple of years later and he performs with them still today across the world.

"The Voice Of Deep Purple: The Gillan Years" track listing:

CD 1:

01. Gut Reaction 02. Talking To You03. No Good Luck04. Nothing But The Best05. Loving On Borrowed Time06. Sweet Lolita07. Nothing To Lose08. Moonshine09. Long And Lonely Ride10. Love Gun11. No More Cane On The Brazo12. Smoke On The Water (Bonus Track)13. Black Night (Bonus Track)

CD 2:

01. Scarabus02. Exhausted03. Poor Boy Hero04. Mercury High05. Pre-Release06. Slags To Bitches07. Apathy08. Mad Elaine09. Country Lights10. Fool's Mate11. Child In Time (Bonus Track)12. Woman From Tokyo (Bonus Track)

CD 3:

01. Clouds And Rain02. Evil Eye03. She Took My Breath Away04. Dislocated05. Via Miami06. I Can't Dance To That07. Can't Believe You Wanna Leave08. Lonely Avenue09. Telephone Box10. I Thought No11. Cayman Island12. The Purple People Eater13. Chet14. Restless (Bonus Track)15. Interview - Ian Gillan - Japanese Tour (Bonus Track)

"Full Of Hate", the new video from FIRESPAWN — the Swedish death metal project featuring Lars Göran Petrov (vocals; ENTOMBED) and Victor Brandt (guitar; ENTOMBED), Alex Friberg (bass; NECROPHOBIC), Fredrik Folkare (guitar; UNLEASHED, NECROPHOBIC) and Matte Modin (drums; DARK FUNERAL, DEFLESHED) — can be seen below. The track is taken from FIRESPAWN's sophomore album, "The Reprobate", which was released on April 28 as a digipak CD, deluxe LP (with gatefold sleeve, 180-gram vinyl, poster, inlay and the entire album on CD) and as a digital download/stream via Century Media. The follow-up to 2015's "Shadow Realms" is described in a press release as "a merciless piece of evil, ferocious and blasphemous death metal."

The cover artwork for "The Reprobate" is an excerpt of a huge painted piece by Paolo Girardi, who was responsible for the artwork of FIRESPAWN's debut album as well as records by BLACK BREATH, POWER TRIP, CHTHE'ILIST, MANILLA ROAD and many more.

Friberg told Decibel magazine about "The Reprobate": "Musically, it's way different [from the debut]. 'Shadow Realms' was, in a way, a try out, to explore our sound. In the beginning, we know how we wanted it to sound, but not really how to get there. As all new bands in the beginning, I guess. Nonetheless, I think we executed 'Shadow Realms' very well. It's an open fire, in-your-face kind of album. On 'The Reprobate', we have a found our sound in a whole new level and we know each other way better musically also. There is also more thought behind 'The Reprobate'. Vibe-wise, I think that people will feel that 'The Reprobate' is more grandiose. It's a bigger, faster, more evil album. You can compare the two like this. 'Shadow Realms' is mad doctor slicing you up while 'The Reprobate' is a grand coliseum with gladiators and carnivores slicing you up. They are both spot-on, but they are creepy in different ways."

Added Brandt: "To me, it is a natural step. A progress and continuation both as a band as an album. Some parts of 'Shadow Realms' I had written about ten years earlier. I wrote the main riff in 'Necromance' in an apartment in London on a day off on a tour several years back. But some of those riffs and parts never became songs. I did not have anywhere to make use of them, really. So, in a way, 'Shadow Realms' took longer to write. 'The Reprobate' was a much faster process. We even had material ready before 'Shadow Realms' was released. And since we play live as much as we can, the live performance aspect was something we thought a lot about too. We now have a wider selection when we play live. Since we know what type of feeling or style of songs we felt we wanted to add to the live set, we made that happen with 'The Reprobate'. I feel that the new album is more direct and that we have added something new while maintaining our style." "The Reprobate" track listing:

01. Serpent Of The Ocean02. Blood Eagle03. Full Of Hate04. Damnatio Ad Bestias05. Death By Impalement06. General's Creed07. The Whitecahpel Murderer08. A Patient Wolf09. The Reprobate10. Nightwalkers

Hailing from Stockholm, FIRESPAWN is the unholy union of five death metal veterans with the aim to create blasphemous, sacrilegious and evil death metal, played by sharp minds with ancient souls. FIRESPAWN is:

Lars Göran Petrov (ENTOMBED) - VocalsVictor Brandt (ENTOMBED) - GuitarAlex Friberg (NECROPHOBIC) - BassFredrik Folkare (UNLEASHED, NECROPHOBIC) - GuitarMatte Modin (DARK FUNERAL, DEFLESHED) - Drums

FOO FIGHTERS and "Landmarks Live In Concert" are giving fans a sneak preview of their highly anticipated television event, "Foo Fighters - Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special".

Watch the clip below to experience a thrilling performance from the multi-Grammy-winning FOO FIGHTERS as they tear through their classic hit "The Pretender" live from the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. "Foo Fighters - Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special" airs nationwide November 10 on PBS (check local listings). This past July, "Landmarks Live In Concert" and FOO FIGHTERS traveled to Athens for a special performance at the famed Odeon of Herodes Atticus. That concert is the latest — and arguably most buzzed-about — episode of "Landmarks Live In Concert", the critically acclaimed PBS docu-series featuring a lineup of global superstars performing at monumental locations around the world.

In an interview with series creator, director and executive producer Dan Catullo, INC. magazine praised the series for "redefining music on TV." The show is hosted by RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS drummer Chad Smith. "We were given this extraordinary opportunity to spend a week in a city that's over 3,400 years old, the birthplace of democracy, theater and philosophy," Smith told Rolling Stone. "The significance of being allowed to stage a major rock show at one of the world's (not just Greece's) most significant landmarks was not lost on any of us. We were all humbled and honored." "I can't wait for the world to see this show," says Catullo. "Putting the pieces together was probably the toughest thing I've ever done. Transforming the historic Acropolis into a venue required constant negotiations. The politics and permit challenges were a massive undertaking. It took about a year, 180 permits, a crew of 900 people and a lot of blood, sweat and tears — but worth every drop. The FOO FIGHTERS' incredible performance and the energy of the crowd in such a historic place is something I'll never forget."

"Landmarks Live In Concert" premiered this past January with Alicia Keys at multiple locations around New York City, including the storied Apollo Theater. Subsequent episodes included Brad Paisley at West Virginia University, and most recently, Andrea Bocelli live at Florence's beautiful Palazzo Vecchio.

Fan-filmed video footage of Yngwie Malmsteen's October 22 performance at The Forum in Hazard, Kentucky can be seen below.

Malmsteen has just embarked on the second 2017 leg of his "World On Fire" U.S. headlining tour. Yngwie and his ensemble of musicians are performing pieces from the legendary neo-classical stylings of "Rising Force" (1984) as well as songs from the fierce "World On Fire", and material from everything in between.

Malmsteen's previous U.S. trek marked his first run of dates in the States since 2016 when he took part in the "Generation Axe" tour alongside Steve Vai, Zakk Wylde, Nuno Bettencourt and Tosin Abasi, playing to more than seventy thousand people over twenty-seven shows.

Yngwie's latest album, "World On Fire", came out in June 2016 via King Records. He told Seymour Duncan about the CD: "I spent two years [working] on it, touring, recording, touring, recording. And that's much, much better, actually, in a way. Back in the day I would write the songs then rehearse them with some musicians, then go and do a backing track and we'd record it, mix it, learn the songs to go play them on tour, then do it all again. That way isn't necessarily conducive to making the best music, y'know what I mean? So in a very, very backhanded way, this weird twist of fate in the music industry has actually made it a more inspiring environment, for me at least. I can write anytime and record anytime. My recording studio is always open, twenty-four hours. I can just record when I want and it's a beautiful thing."

Asked what the new record sounds like, Malmsteen said: "It's a Malmsteen record. [Laughs] But I would say it's a little different. First of all, I do all the lead vocals on it. Any time I did lead vocals in the past, I was singing blues stuff. This time I decided to do lead vocals in my style of songwriting, so it's different in that way. It's a very hard-hitting album and some parts are very advanced, very complicated. But it's a broad record. It's definitely a must-listen-to!"

Kid Rock announced today that he will release his new album, "Sweet Southern Sugar", on November 3. He will also hit the road on his "Greatest Show On Earth Tour 2018", produced by Live Nation.

The tour kicks off on January 19 at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee and will continue with twenty-one shows from coast to coast. Fans of the rocker can expect the same high-energy experience, but with brand new tracks from his latest album.

"Sweet Southern Sugar" is Kid Rock's first album recorded in Nashville and features his spontaneous summer releases "Greatest Show On Earth" and "Po-Dunk", as well as recent single "Tennessee Mountain Top". The album ranges from country to classic rock, with a little rap sprinkled in between and highlights Kid Rock's armory of talent, which transcends a single genre.

Tickets and VIP packages for the tour will go on sale to the public the day "Sweet Southern Sugar" is released, November 3, at LiveNation.com. Fan-club members will be able to purchase tickets beginning October 31 at 10 a.m. local, and fans who pre-order the album through KidRock.com will be eligible for a special pre-sale beginning on November 1 at 10 a.m. local.

"Greatest Show On Earth Tour 2018" dates:

Jan. 19 - Nashville, TN - Bridgestone ArenaJan. 20 - Louisville, KY - KFC Yum! CenterJan. 25 - Durant, OK - Choctaw Grand TheatreJan. 26 - Durant, OK - Choctaw Grand TheatreJan. 27 - Durant, OK - Choctaw Grand TheatreFeb. 02 - Tulsa, OK - BOK CenterFeb. 03 - Houston, TX - Toyota CenterFeb. 09 - Atlanta, GA - Infinite Energy ArenaFeb. 10 - Charlotte, NC - Spectrum CenterFeb. 16 - Toronto, ON - Air Canada CentreFeb. 17 - Columbus, OH - Nationwide ArenaFeb. 23 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo CenterFeb. 24 - Cleveland, OH - Quicken Loans ArenaMar. 02 - Uncasville, CT - Mohegan Sun ArenaMar. 03 - Baltimore, MD - Royal Farms ArenaMar. 09 - Newark, NJ - Prudential CenterMar. 10 - Nassau, NY - NYCB LiveMar. 16 - Chicago, IL - United CenterMar. 17 - Omaha, NE - CenturyLink CenterMar. 20 - Denver, CO - Pepsi CenterMar. 23 - Phoenix, AZ - Talking Stick Resort ArenaMar. 24 - Las Vegas, NV - Mandalay Bay Events Center "Sweet Southern Sugar" track listing:

01. Greatest Show On Earth02. Po-Dunk03. Tennessee Mountain Top04. I Wonder05. American Rock N' Roll06. Back To The Otherside07. Raining Whiskey08. Stand The Pain09. Sugar Pie Honey Bunch10. Grandpa's Jam

"What's Killing Me", the new video from Swedish melodic metal masters NOCTURNAL RITES, can be seen below. The song is taken from the band's long-awaited comeback album, "Phoenix", whch was released on September 29 via AFM. The effort was made available as a CD, digipak, on clear/blue/black marbled vinyl (limited to 250 units) and clear orange vinyl (limited to 250 units).

"Phoenix" track listing:

01. A Heart As Black As Coal02. Before We Waste Away03. The Poisonous Seed04. Repent My Sins05. What's Killing Me06. A Song For You07. The Ghost Inside Me08. Nothing Can Break Me09. Flames10. Used To Be God *11. Welcome To The End

* bonus track on limited digipak and vinyl (digipak also comes with a NOCTURNAL RITES patch)

NOCTURNAL RITES previously announced plans to enter the studio in 2011 to record the follow-up to 2007's "The 8th Sin" album.

Guitarist Nils Norberg left NOCTURNAL RITES in June 2008 and was later replaced by Christoffer Rörland. As of 2012, Rörland became the new guitarist in SABATON, while his spot in NOCTURNAL RITES was taken over by Per Nilsson.

"The 8th Sin" in 2007 landed on the Japanese album chart at position No. 68 (No. 28 on "international" chart).

NOCTURNAL RITES 2017 is:

Jonny Lindqvist - VocalsNils Eriksson - BassPer Nilsson - Lead GuitarFredrik Mannberg - GuitarOwe Lingvall - Drums

Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE will enter the studio on November 6 to begin recording their sixth album.

The band writes on Instagram: "Final day of pre-production tomorrow before we head off to Mexico on Thursday for the final show of 2017.

"It's been an intense few months of writing, rewriting and demoing our asses off."

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE guitarist/vocalist Matt Tuck told A Music Blog, Yea in June that the group's latest song, "Don't Need You", which was released as a standalone single last November, is "pretty much" a good indication of what fans can expect to hear on the band's next album. "There's some stuff in that vein, and there's a lot of other stuff we've been working which is… kind of a… not new direction, but we wrote two or three songs which are kind of a different sound for us, but we're really happy with, so we're gonna see how that goes, really," he said.

Tuck added that BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE has attempted to change up its songwriting approach in order to produce an album that will stand on its own merits rather than follow a tried-and-tested formula.

"Stylistically, we just wanna make bigger songs — in a less more busy way, musically, and just really, really focus on the vocal tracks and the vocal melodies and stuff," he explained. "And everything else then is built around it rather than the other way around, which we've done in the past."

But this doesn't mean that BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE will completely abandon its signature balance of heavy, coupled with surging melody.

"I think this new batch of songs, we're not stepping away from it, but we definitely wanna do something which is not the same as 'Venom'," Tuck said. "So we're just trying to make this album its own body of work rather than a continuation of a sound."

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE's last album, "Venom", came out in August 2015. The CD marked BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE's first release since the departure of longtime bassist Jason James and addition of Jamie Mathias (formerly of REVOKER).

Longtime BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas has not played with the group since early last year when he stepped away to spend time with his wife as they awaited the birth of his first child. He has since been replaced on tour by Jason Bowld (PITCHSHIFTER, AXEWOUND).