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BLACKTOP MOJO Presents The Matt And Catt New Year's Spectacular
 is of Blacktop Mojo have shared the following video of their new acoustic jam, "The Matt And Catt New Year's Spectacular":
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JOE LYNN TURNER And Russia's КНЯZZ Perform "Stalker" Single In Moscow; Multi-Cam Video Posted
 Joe Lynn Turner recently collaborated with Russian punk rocker Andrey Knyazev and his band, КняZz, on the new single, "Stalker". Stream/download the single here, and watch the official music video for the single below.
Joe Lynn Turner joined КняZz for a performance of "Stalker" on November 23 at VK Stadium in Moscow, Russia. Multi-cam video can be viewed below:
Joe Lynn Turner and Andrey Knyazev met in 2021 and instantly found common ground, discovering in each other similar personal ideology and unified rock’n’roll spirit. They both developed a mutual desire for a collaboration on a song that would be a perfect fit.
In August 2023, КняZz released their recent album, from which Joe Lynn Turner truly connected with the song "Stalker". In this particular song they were able to combine their similar world views, current problems and struggles of humanity and agree on the fact that the destruction of the planet’s future is being eradicated by their own hand.
Joe Lynn Turner wrote verse and chorus in English, preserving the meaning and message of the original lyric written by Andrey. This version of the song "Stalker" exemplifies an international unity of not only different generations of rock musicians, but also voices in two different languages the warning of the inevitable apocalypse by the fault of mankind.
Joe Lynn Turner has joined forces with Bulgaria’s top female singer Maria Ilieva for the new single, "Forever", a powerful ballad with remarkable vocals produced by Swedes Thomas Thornholm and Magnus Nordquist. It tells the story of the true love that lasts forever – over time and space.
The song had a recent exclusive premiere for the Bulgarian market and received an outpour of positive comments and reactions from fans and critics and hundreds of thousands of views on
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30 дек 2024
MÖTLEY CRÜE's NIKKI SIXX Says He Has Been Undergoing EMDR Therapy
 MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx has revealed that he has been undergoing Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, a treatment for symptoms of trauma.
On Sunday (December 29),Sixx took to his social media to write: "A lot of us talk about New Year's resolution's. I like the idea of resetting myself a few times a year. I spend alot of time up in the National Park in Wyoming. That's a solid restart for me. Another around my birthday and then Dec 31- Jan 6th.
"I am personally on a deep reflective journey right now and as usual it will turn into something. A lyric, a book , a song. Also I've been doing EMDR therapy. That's a golden ticket if you're up for change. I live for change. At least evolution.
"Do you have any new goals or resolutions you wanna share with the rest the class? By the way Happy New Year."
According to the Cleveland Clinic, when you undergo EMDR, you access memories of a trauma event in very specific ways. Combined with eye movements and guided instructions, accessing those memories helps you reprocess what you remember from the negative event. That reprocessing helps "repair" the mental injury from that memory. Remembering what happened to you will no longer feel like reliving it, and the related feelings will be much more manageable.
In a 2019 interview, Sixx opened up about his traumatic childhood, which included his father abandoning the family when Nikki — whose birth name is Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna, Jr. — was three years old. Sixx said: "I had a shitty upbringing, and I'm dealing with that every day. I spent more money on therapy than most rock stars spent on cars.
"My most heartbreaking memory was when my mom called my grandparents and said, 'Come pick him up,'" he told The Guardian. "I was six and she said, 'I'm going to lock the door and I'll just leave you in the porch. She couldn't wait until my grandparents got there. She left with this guy in a truck. That broke me.
"In my deepest, deepest core, the thing that's haunted me the most and still haunts me is the feeling of abandonment — my dad leaving when I was young and my mom leaving, one at three, one at six. I never quite got over that, it's a horrible feeling," Sixx said in an interview with Neon Sunsets. "It always comes back to these childhood issues; you still carry them with you, they're, like, in your DNA."
Sixx later revealed that his name change was inspired largely by his father's decision to abandon his son. "I changed my name because of a long road battling a guy who walked away from me named Frank Serafino — who was my father — and me saying, 'Fuck you, I'm gonna reinvent myself, you weren't there for me, and I am gonna become a man called Nikki, create my own family and fuck you,'" he explained.
MÖTLEY CRÜE will return to Las Vegas for a series of live appearances this spring. "The Las Vegas Residency" will find them playing an exclusive limited run of 11 shows at Dolby Live at Park MGM from March 28 through April 19, 2025.
The CRÜE's third Vegas residency is being billed as a "tell-all show [that] will immerse the audience in the band’s history, leading all the say through their record-breaking Stadium Tour." They previously set up shop in Vegas in 2012 for "Mötley Crüe Takes On Sin City" and 2013 for "Evening In Hell".
This past October, MÖTLEY CRÜE released a new EP, "Cancelled", featuring the previously released singles "Dogs Of War", the title track and a cover of THE BEASTIE BOYS' "Fight For Your Right". To celebrate the EP's release, the CRÜE played a series of club shows in Los Angeles, including a gig at the Troubadour, the Roxy and Whisky A Go Go.
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30 дек 2024
NEVERMORE's Founding Bassist JIM SHEPPARD Blasts JEFF LOOMIS's And VAN WILLIAMS's 'Completely Disrespectful' Use Of Band Name
 NEVERMORE's founding bassist Jim Sheppard has blasted guitarist Jeff Loomis and drummer Van Williams's apparent decision to resurrect the band without "consulting" him, calling their plans "completely disrespectful".
On Friday (December 27),Loomis and Williams both shared a one-minute video teaser containing various NEVERMORE-related imagery and what appear to be the silhouettes of Loomis and Williams along with the text "Resurrecting The Dream". The teaser ends with the NEVERMORE logo along with the line "A New Chapter Rises" and the year "2025".
Two days later, Jim's wife Priscila Sheppard posted the following statement on her Facebook page: "Since I have been receiving a few messages from James fans regarding a post Van Williams made on social media, I feel I need to respond to you with an update.
"James has never been contacted about Van's plans with Jeff using the NEVERMORE name. I am sorry you think James is involved. We do not know about their plans, and it is completely disrespectful of them to use the name NEVERMORE without consulting Jim Sheppard, as he is one of the founders of the band.
"We are waiting for clarification on this alleged project and will proceed from there, whether or not clarification comes from them. No further comment for now. Thank you."
NEVERMORE effectively split up in 2011 when Loomis and Williams announced their departure from the band due to personal differences with singer Warrel Dane and Sheppard. Warrel later described NEVERMORE in an interview as "the greatest band that alcohol ever ruined."
Dane died in December 2017 in São Paulo, Brazil at the age of 56 while recording his posthumously released solo studio album, "Shadow Work". The musician reportedly had a heart attack during the night and could not be revived.
According to guitarist Johnny Moraes, who played in Warrel's solo band, Dane had a history of addiction and other health issues. "His health was already very weak because of his diabetes and his problems with alcoholism," he said.
The instrumental parts for Dane's follow-up to 2008's "Praises To The War Machine" solo album were almost completed and he had begun laying down his vocals shortly before his death.
In a 2019 interview with Metal Master Kingdom, Loomis was asked if there were any plans to resurrect NEVERMORE without Dane. Jeff responded: "It's one of those things where I think NEVERMORE had such a special sound and it was simply because of all the musicians that were in that at the time. Van, me, Warrel, Jim. We had numerous different guitarists in the band throughout the years. We had Chris Broderick, we had Tim Calvert, who sadly passed away. A lot of good players. Steve Smyth, Curran Murphy. All these guys were a part of NEVERMORE in the past. Honestly, in my vision, it's important that you move on in your life. I really would like to remember the spirit and the attitude that we had as a band with the music and just move on from there. Because without Warrel, it's just not feasible, in my mind. [He is] sadly missed. He was one of my best friends. Things like that happen and it's a very sad situation. It really was. But we have the music to remember it all by."
In 2018 interview with France's Loud TV, Loomis stated about Dane's passing: "It's a sad situation with one of my best friends that I grew up being in a band with. [He was] one of the best lyricists in metal, I believe, that was ever out there — a fabulous person. He was a troubled person too at the same time; he had some issues. We had many great times together in the past, and we had many bad times, but I would say that the good times outweighed the bad. And in the end, we were talking still as friends, and we talked in the end before he passed away. We were on good terms. It's a very sad loss to the music community and he'll be well remembered as one of the great vocalists of a metal era."
Loomis added that Warrel had been "struggling with drinking and things like this" for years before he died. "I'm not getting into too much detail there," he said. "He had some troubles. I'm gonna miss him a lot. He was a great friend of mine and he was a wonderful human being."
Asked if there was any talk of a NEVERMORE reunion before Warrel passed away, Jeff said: "I think that once you do something for such a long time and you make your mark in the music world, sometimes things do have to come to an end. And, unfortunately, with my situation with NEVERMORE, after 18 years of being in the band, it marked kind of an end of an area. And for me personally, it was kind of moving on to another chapter in my life. There was talks, like maybe [in late 2016] about maybe doing a reunion show, but it never happened, of course. Obviously, now it's not going to happen."
Loomis "amicably" left ARCH ENEMY in December 2023 and was replaced by Joey Concepcion.
Jeff, who was the main songwriter in NEVERMORE, joined ARCH ENEMY in late 2014, but was not involved in the writing for the latter act's last two albums, 2017's "Will To Power" and 2022's "Deceivers".
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Watch: HALESTORM's LZZY HALE And JOE HOTTINGER Cover SKID ROW, FLEETWOOD MAC During Surprise Acoustic Gig
 Lzzy Hale and Joe Hottinger of Grammy-winning hard rock band HALESTORM played a surprise acoustic set on December 27 at The Underdog in Nashville, Tennessee as the support act for THE DEAD DEADS. Video of the performance can be seen below.
Lzzy and Joe's setlist was as follows:
01. White Dress
02. Mz. Hyde
03. I Remember You (SKID ROW cover)
04. Familiar Taste Of Poison
05. I Like It Heavy (with "She Won't Mind")
06. Gold Dust Woman (FLEETWOOD MAC cover)
07. I Am The Fire
This past October, Lzzy and Joe announced an intimate tour featuring the two of them performing acoustic, stripped down versions of HALESTORM favorites and the music that has inspired the band. Dubbed "Halestorm's Lzzy And Joe: The Living Room Sessions", the tour consists of 12 dates in January 2025.
When the trek was first announced, Lzzy said in a statement: "With this tour, we're inviting our fans to experience what it would be like hanging with Joe and me in our living room: picking up instruments, telling stories, chatting about songs that helped shaped us as a band and brought us to where we are today."
Joe added: "Back when we decided to quit our day jobs and make music our full-time endeavor, Lzzy and I would play music wherever we could, and sometimes that meant playing acoustic covers in any bar or restaurant that would have us. That time really allowed us to develop our playing skills and dig into songwriting, and it really set the groundwork for what HALESTORM is today."
In a September 2024 interview with PK of Louisville, Kentucky's ALT 105.1 radio station, Lzzy spoke about the progress of the recording sessions for HALESTORM's follow-up to 2022's "Back From The Dead" album. Lzzy said: "We've had three separate sessions in the studio with — we're making a record with [producer] Dave Cobb. And he's actually a huge closet metal fan, and so he's really excited. And so we're making this great music, but we're constantly touring. So we've had, like, three different sessions in the studio. We're probably — what? — 70, 80, maybe, percent there. We have a studio in our house and so I'm doing a lot of the finishing touches on vocals and sewing everything up, doing solos and all that. And then we get back in in December to just say, 'Okay, this is good.' And then, yeah. And then there we are. So we're excited about it. We really are."
Cobb has shared in nine Grammy wins, including four for "Best Americana Album" and three for "Best Country Album". He's also been named "Producer Of The Year" by the Country Music Awards, the Americana Music Association (twice) and the Music Row Awards, and has been a Grammy nominee in the category.
HALESTORM and I PREVAIL recently embarked on summer 2024 co-headlining tour. Produced by Live Nation, the trek kicked off on July 9 in Raleigh and ran through August 17 in Las Vegas. HOLLYWOOD UNDEAD and FIT FOR A KING served as support. The tour was also the catalyst and the creative spark for HALESTORM and I PREVAIL's collaborative track "Can U See Me In The Dark?", which was released in June.
"Back From The Dead" has tallied over 100 million streams worldwide. Rolling Stone called the title track "a biting but cathartic howler about overcoming all obstacles," and that song as well as "The Steeple" marked their fifth and sixth number ones at rock radio, respectively. Associated Press said the album "will definitely be in the running for best hard rock/metal album of the year." Their previous album, "Vicious", earned the band their second Grammy nomination, for "Best Hard Rock Performance" for the song "Uncomfortable", the band's fourth #1 at rock radio, and led Loudwire to name HALESTORM "Rock Artist Of The Decade" in 2019.
Fronted by Lzzy with Arejay, Hottinger and bass player Josh Smith, HALESTORM's music has earned multiple platinum and gold certifications from the RIAA, and the band has earned a reputation as a powerful live music force, headlining sold-out shows and topping festival bills around the world, and sharing the stage with icons including HEAVEN & HELL, Alice Cooper, Joan Jett and JUDAS PRIEST. Additionally, Lzzy was named the first female brand ambassador for Gibson and served as host of AXS TV's "A Year In Music".
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JOHN CORABI Doesn't Measure Success By The Size Of His Bank Account: 'If That's How I'm Judging It, Then I've Failed Miserably'
 During a recent appearance on the Bumping Into That Sound podcast, ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE frontman John Corabi, who joined the band in 1992 as the replacement for original singer Vince Neil, was asked if there has ever been a time when he thought to himself, 'That's it. I've made it. I can take the foot off the accelerator." He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "No. Well, let me say this. It depends on how you look at life. Now, I could sit here and pull my fucking hair out because my bank account doesn't look the same as [MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist] Nikki Sixx's or [AEROSMITH singer] Steven Tyler's. If that's how I'm judging it, then I've failed miserably. But the one thing that I will say, and it doesn't make me any less hungry, but I'm hungry for different things.
"I remember having a conversation with Nikki when we were sitting back and we were listening to the MÖTLEY record that I did — the main one — and we were just all sitting there, like, 'Fuck.' All of us felt like that record, it was just strong. And I made a comment, like, 'Well, fellas, whether this thing sells five copies or five million, we did a fucking great job.' And Nikki got pissed about that comment.
"I wasn't measuring [success] by album sales; I was measuring it by the quality of what I felt we achieved musically," he continued. "And Nikki took offense to it. 'That's a lame attitude to have.' And I go, 'No, it's not. I'm just saying from a musical point of view, I think we can did a pretty good job here.' Now, again, if I sat and I looked at it from a monetary thing, do I have the success that Nikki has? No. I don't live in a 10,000-square-foot mansion. I live in a 1,500-square-foot home that I feel is very comfortable. It's me and my wife. I've been married three times, so my kids are all grown up. They don't live here. It's me and my wife and three dogs. I have a cool caravan. I have a couple of cool Harley-Davidsons. We have Jeeps, a truck, and I have a huge backyard for the three dogs that I have to just go out and play and run and throw a ball to them and do my thing.
"Hey, look, would I love to be able to walk up to a fucking Maserati dealership and buy one? Yeah, sure. I mean, who wouldn't? But I'm not gonna let the money thing get me crazy.
"We own everything that I just said," Corabi added. "So I have a very comfortable life. I have a beautiful wife. Everybody's healthy. My kids are healthy. My grandkids are healthy. Everybody's good. So it all depends on how you measure success. Now, do I feel like…? I sit down and I listen to songs like [QUEEN's] 'Bohemian Rhapsody' or I listen to [LED ZEPPELIN's] 'Stairway To Heaven' or I listen to 'Still The Same' by Bob Seger, and I just listen to these brilliant songs and I go, 'Fuck. I still haven't written that song.' So I'm my own worst enemy. I listen to guys like Bob Seger and I go, 'Fuck, that guy's a genius lyrically. He's a genius as a songwriter.' I listen to, like I said, 'Bohemian Rhapsody'. I wanna dig [late QUEEN singer] Freddie Mercury up and punch him in the face and then put him back in the ground again. So there's that part of it that I'm driven by. I need to write what I consider that song, whatever it is. And it's always gonna be there. You're always moving hopefully up and forward, instead of backwards and down. So that part of it is how I measure success.
"I feel like this last DEAD DAISIES record we did [2024's 'Light 'Em Up'] is — there's a growth there. I feel like we're growing. We keep getting better. We keep getting better and faster in the studio. We know what we want. But I'm already looking forward to the next record, like, 'Okay, how can we top what we just did?', from a statement point of view. Financially, and especially now in this day and age with streaming and people not really buying records anymore, it's, like, fuck, who knows what's gonna happen? My chances of earning that MÖTLEY money or AEROSMITH money or ROLLING STONES money is slim to none. But who knows?"
With Corabi on vocals, MÖTLEY CRÜE released one critically acclaimed full-length CD, which ended up being a commercial failure in the wake of grunge despite a Top 10 placing on the album chart. When Neil returned to the fold in 1997, Corabi was left on his own and formed the band UNION with ex-KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.
In February 2018, Corabi released a live album of his performance of MÖTLEY CRÜE's entire 1994 self-titled album, recorded on October 27, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. "Live '94: One Night In Nashville" documents the album in its entirety along with the bonus track "10,000 Miles", which was originally released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of the "Quaternary" EP.
Corabi's autobiography, "Horseshoes And Hand Grenades", was written with the help of MÖTLEY CRÜE historian/author Paul Miles, and was made available in June 2022 via Rare Bird Books.
Corabi was previously asked how he measures success in a January 2022 interview with The Rock Experience With Mike Brunn. He said at the time: "I learned a very hard, valuable lesson when I was in MÖTLEY. Obviously, everybody knows what the [1994 self-titled] record did or didn't do. The tour was a nightmare. I was the new ingredient, and then I left. And the one thing that I learned was when I left the band, my phone stopped ringing. And it was kind of a harsh reality. I was the guy that was invited to all the parties, the backstage things, 'Let's go in a limo,' 'Let's do this,' 'Let's go to the Playboy mansion,' 'Let's do that,' and then the minute they made the announcement that Vince [Neil, original MÖTLEY singer] was back, if I wanted to have a message on my answering machine, I had to call myself. And it's weird. I just sat there and I went, you know what? It's really just about waking up in the morning, the fact that you wake up and you open your eyes, it's a good day; it's a healthy day.
"I have a small group — not a large group — but I have a small group of friends and family around me that are incredibly supportive of me, but they're also honest enough with me and just straightforward and we have a great relationship to the point where they can say to me, 'You know what, Crab? You're being a fucking idiot. Back the fuck up.' And I go, 'Okay. Mental check. Head check. Boom.' So I have a beautiful family around me."
He continued: "It's funny because sometimes I do look at things and I go, 'Okay, what am I doing wrong? Why can't I sell records? Why can't I be like Nikki Sixx? Or Steven Tyler? All these guys. Why am I not driving around in a Lamborghini?'
"I always tell everybody, if you can draw an imaginary straight, horizontal line and say everything above it is fame and everything below it is obscurity, I've literally been scraping my back on that line my whole career.
"But the MÖTLEY thing really made me look at the importance of, you know what? You do the best you can, fight for the things that you can change, fight for the things that you can make better, and then there's just some things, man, that are out of your control. You can't change it. I can't change the fact that when I was in [the pre-MÖTLEY band] THE SCREAM, I had no idea I was gonna get a call to join MÖTLEY. I had no idea that MÖTLEY was gonna bring Vince back. And I had no idea that my first record deal — and the MÖTLEY record — would come at the height of the music industry completely changing again."
Corabi added: "Honestly, it's the hand that I was dealt. I played it. I didn't win that hand. On to the next hand. And that's what I'm doing now, man. I just tell myself every day, I sit there and I go, 'You know what? Fuck, man. I've been doing this for 30-plus years.' There's guys that go through their whole life that don't get one record deal. I had one with THE SCREAM, one with MÖTLEY, one with UNION, THE DEAD DAISIES, even the solo [stuff]. So I'm, like, fuck, I've had five record deals and I'm still going, still releasing music, and people like you still wanna talk to me. So I went, 'You know what? Life's not that bad.'"
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PESTILENCE's PATRICK MAMELI Defends Use Of Artificial Intelligence To Create Heavy Metal Album Covers
 Guitarist/vocalist Patrizio "Patrick" Mameli of long-running Dutch progressive death metallers PESTILENCE has defended the use of artificial intelligence (A.I.). to create heavy metal album covers, explaining that it provides artists with unique and eye-catching pieces that can match their music while remaining easy and affordable.
Earlier today (Sunday, December 29),Mameli took to PESTILENCE's Facebook page to write: "I have to get something of my chest. This constant BS about metal bands using A.I. album covers more and more. There are a few reasons. First, huge budgets for real paintings are a thing of the past. Secondly, the idea of having mutilated bodies, zombies and extreme gore are also a thing of the past for PESTILENCE.
"When you want to survive in the nowadays industry you have to adapt and PESTILENCE has always been known to look ahead and never fall back into the old habits not just music style wise but every other new release has had a new approach to our own musically, unlike most acts that rely on their older legacy.
When we released [re-recorded best-of album] 'Levels Of Perception' that was aimed to revisited the demo style recording, that was asked for by many fans, they didn't like the production they asked for themselves. With [the upcoming PESTILENCE album] 'Portals' we will, again, follow our own path and you could really dig it. As an example this 'drawing' was considered to be amazing on my personal FB site. This is also A.I., and is an amazing piece of art. Not the album cover by the way!!!
"And now the real question: would you not buy and album with killer production and song just because a cover is A.I.? Then you are not listening to our compositions that are fully handmade. But rather are concerned with the 40× past you have been living in.
"Start embracing the future of music that is PESTILENCE."
"Levels Of Perception" was made available in April via Agonia Records. The LP features twelve tracks from across PESTILENCE's 38-year career.
PESTILENCE was established in the Netherlands in 1986 and is considered to be a progressive death metal phenom, labeled on the same genre-defying scale as DEATH, CYNIC and ATHEIST. The group is led by founder, guitarist and mastermind Mameli, who's been the band's binding factor through two breakups and reunions. Both a reinvention and a confirmation of everything the band has been standing for since 1986, PESTILENCE is more than ever breaking new grounds and exploring the further outposts of extreme metal on "Exitivm" (2021) — the band's most recent album, which landed on several Billboard charts. In 2023, the band remastered and reissued its classic catalog, and announced "Portals" to be the title of its next studio album, which is currently in the works.
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ACCEPT Singer MARK TORNILLO On Turning 70: 'I Wear It Like A Badge At This Point'
 On a recent episode of the "Talk Louder" podcast, hosted by veteran music journalist "Metal Dave" Glessner and lifelong hard rock/metal vocalist Jason McMaster (DANGEROUS TOYS),ACCEPT singer Mark Tornillo was asked if he is able to maintain an exercise routine while he is on tour. "I try to," Mark responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "We try to book hotel rooms that have gyms, but otherwise I'll be down here on the floor later before I go to the gig, man, stretching and doing core."
Tornillo went on to say that he "just turned 70 in June" and added that he wears his age "like a badge at this point."
As for his vocal warm-up routing prior to performing live, Mark revealed that he sings into a rolled-up towel. He explained: "The way this started for me was way back in early '80s, I used to just scream my ass off, drink two six-packs in the dressing room before we would go on. And we were playing at a club called Soap Factory in New Jersey, and the dressing room was right next to the owner's office. And I'm in there screaming, yelling, 'Argh. Arghh,' just trying to get loosened up. The guy comes in and goes, 'You shut the hell up. I'm on the telephone. I can't even think.' I'm, like, 'Well, I've gotta warm up.' 'Well, stick something in your face. I don't know.' 'Hey, here's an idea.' I rolled up a towel and put it [over my mouth], and I've never not done it since. So I just do my warm-up — I have a proper exercise [routine] — and I just do it in the towel, though.
"When I first joined ACCEPT, I had sang hard on a consistent basis for a long time," he continued. "I was in a few cover bands in the '90s and the 2000s. But we wouldn't play all the time. So I said, 'Well, if I'm gonna do this night after night after night, I'd better go get some help, maybe, just see what I can find out.' I went to a guy who was recommended to me. His name is Mark Baxter in New York. He's worked with Steven Tyler… Well, that says it all right there. That's the only thing you need to know. And he says, 'Look, I can't teach you how to sing. You know how to sing. I can hear it. I listened to your records. I can hear you sing.' I said, 'Yeah, all right. What do you got'? And it's just a series of — it's scales, but it's all different positions of your tongue and your jaw and the vowels. Because vowels mean everything. If you change to go from an 'E' to a 'U' or something like that, it feels like you're in a different throat… And nobody knows why."
ACCEPT will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2025-2026. To mark this mammoth milestone, ACCEPT will ring in the band's golden birthday with a very unique anniversary tour at the end of 2025. An anniversary album will be released early 2026.
Over the past five decades, ACCEPT has sold millions of albums and inspired countless musicians. Their energetic live performances and iconic albums such as "Balls To The Wall", "Restless And Wild" and "Metal Heart" have left a lasting mark on the heavy metal genre. Hoffmann's guitar style and musical vision have made the band one of the most respected on the heavy metal scene.
After a hiatus in the band's career, Wolf was introduced to New Jersey singer Tornillo in 2009. The chemistry and fit between them was so remarkable, ACCEPT reformed and almost immediately rose to global success with chart-topping albums. ACCEPT continues to be celebrated for each of their new records with Mark, who is now the longest-reigning frontman of ACCEPT, placing the Hoffmann-Tornillo partnership firmly in the Metal Hall Of Fame.
For decades, ACCEPT has been recognized as a guarantee of high quality and each of their albums has reached the top of the charts, delivering energy, melodies, killer riffs and an impressively powerful stage presence for 50 years.
ACCEPT and KK'S PRIEST recently joined forces for a summer/fall 2024 North American tour. The run began on August 31 in Los Angeles, California, visiting a slew of major cities in the USA and Canada — such as Toronto, Montreal, New York and Nashville — before coming to an end in San Francisco, California on October 7.
Tornillo joined ACCEPT in 2009 as the replacement for Udo Dirkschneider, who was the band's original lead singer. Mark can be heard on ACCEPT's last six studio albums, "Blood Of The Nations" (2010),"Stalingrad" (2012),"Blind Rage" (2014),"The Rise Of Chaos" (2017),2021's "Too Mean To Die" and 2024's "Humanoid".
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SAVATAGE - "Stare Into The Sun" Demo Version Featuring Original Vocalist JON OLIVA Surfaces On YouTube
 Rock Duck Radio producer Mark Christopher Garrett has shared the Savatahe song "Stare Into The Sun" featuring Jon Oliva on vocals. Written by Oliva and the late Paul O'Neill for Savatage's 1994 album, Handful Of Rain, the song originally featured current Savatage vocalist Zak Stevens.
Handful of Rain was released in August 1994, and is the band's first record without founding guitarist Criss Oliva, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He contributed to writing the songs "Taunting Cobras" and "Nothing's Going On" before his death.
The legendary Savatage (Johnny Lee Middleton - bass, Chris Caffery - guitars, Al Pitrelli - guitars, Jeff Plate - drums, and Zak Stevens - vocals) have announced tour dates across Europe for summer 2025, with a mix of festival appearances and headline shows.
Says Zak Stevens: "As you can imagine, there are so many special things about these shows that are racing through my mind. We get to play a series of headline shows for the first time in over twenty years that will put us right back in front of all of the unbelievable fans who have given us so many unforgettable memories over the last three decades. Here’s our chance to directly give back to everyone who’s been there supporting us all these years! All the great festival shows are going to be off-the-charts amazing. It’s even hard to imagine the scale of excitement that’s going to take place with those shows."
Savatage mastermind Jon Oliva expressed his disappointment at not being able to join the band for the shows, but shared his excitement, stating: "I am very excited for the guys to be doing some shows. Unfortunately, due to health issues, I will not be able to join th | +2 | |
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MARTY FRIEDMAN Reflects On Recording CACOPHANY Albums With JASON BECKER - "We Wanted To Be Extreme, Whether People Liked It Or Not"
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DARK FUNERAL Vocalist HELJARMADR Releases Solo Single "A Poison To The Firmament"; New EP To Be Unleashed On New Year's Day
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The Kovenant / ex-Cradle Of Filth backing vocalist Sarah Jezebel Deva has checked in with the following update:
"As most are aware, I am also extremely lucky to be involved with the amazing Heljarmadr, the lead singer of Dark Funeral. Sometimes I really do forget how fortunate I am that strangers take chances on me. Heljarmadr has premiered new music.
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30 дек 2024
ROYAL REPUBLIC Shares "Battery / Ace Of Spades" Medley From Pol'And Rock 2023; Pro-Shot Video
 Swedish rockers Royal Republic have shared a pro-shot video from their Pol'And Rock 2023, featuring their encore medley of Metallica's "Battery" and Motörhead's "Ace Of Spades". Check it out below.
Motörhead legend Lemmy Kilmister has taken up full-time residence at one of his favourite places to relax and socialize – Stringfellows Gentleman’s Club in London. It is a place which holds many Lemmy memories for friends and associates, as it became one of his favourite places to go after it opened in 1980.
A celebration recently took place, and among Lemmy's friends and associates was Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell, who was on hand to say a few words and place his dear friend’s ashes behind the bar. Some video and photos from the event can be found below.
Owned by Peter Stringfellow – who in the 1960s booked some of the era’s biggest acts such as The Beatles, The Who, Jimi Hendrix, Pink Floyd, and others - Stringfellows became a hot spot for celebrities and rock stars alike. It was quickly an established fact among those who knew him that if Lemmy was in London, odds were good that you would find him at Stringfellows.
Lemmy and Peter Stringfellow subsequently developed a good friendship with both appreciating the rock’n’roll lifestyle as well as enjoying a great environment in which to relax. Even after moving to West Hollywood, every year when the band ended their European tour dates (usually in December), Lemmy would be sure to spend time at Stringfellows before flying back home.
“Stringfellows always held a special place in Lemmy’s heart. He loved the rock’n’roll spirit Peter brought to the club, he loved the relaxed environment, and he certainly loved the view. I know he’s relieved he can get back to enjoying one of his favorite places on the planet!,” said Motörhead’s manager Todd Singerman.
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