Metallica's inaugural Orion Music + More festival happened June 23 & 24 at Bader Field in Atlantic City, New Jersey. In addition to more than 30 artists on the bill, Metallica headlined both nights.

On Saturday, they played their classic "Ride The Lightning" album in its entirety and, for the first time ever in the U.S., performed the "Black" album on Sunday.

Step forward Black Star Riders� Today sees the announcement of the new band formed by Thin Lizzy alumni Ricky Warwick (vocals), Scott Gorham (guitar), Damon Johnson (guitar), Marco Mendoza (bass) with new addition Jimmy DeGrasso on drums (Alice Cooper, Megadeth, David Lee Roth, Suicidal Tendencies). The change in personnel came about as Brian Downey didn't want to commit to the touring cycle a new album would entail and Darren Wharton wanted to concentrate on Dare and other music and film projects.

Black Star Riders are set to enter the studio in Los Angeles in January to start recording their debut album with producer Kevin Shirley (Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Aerosmith, Rush). The album will feature material the band wrote whilst touring as Thin Lizzy and the sound retains that classic feel but is very much its own as well.

The iTunes versions are a separate project from the long-term remastering plan for the Zeppelin albums revealed by guitarist Jimmy Page recently.

Here is what he had to say: The collaboration came out of the Sound CIty film that was produced and directed by Dave. He asked me if I wanted to play with him, Pat and Paul? I said YES! It was a wonderful day -- Paul came in with this cigar box guitar and started playing some mean slide on it. He said it was in a "D". Hearing that, Grunge instincts took over my left hand and I dropped the E on the bass to D. Pat and Dave got into it and the tune took shape. Paul flashed a riff and we picked it up. I busted another one out and everyone picked it up. Things started coming together.

It was so exciting to play with Paul. I became seized with thoughts, for I hadn't played like that with Pat or Dave since the last Nirvana show in 1994. Wow, it was emotionally and musically heavy! Some other things brought me back; there was a Lefty on guitar who was a heck of a songwriter. Anyway, words can't really describe it and I returned to the task at hand. A new song was born! And that's about it. That's all it is -- a new song by some players who have doing it for a while.

The Sound City film is about people coming together to make music -- and I feel that's what we did. The Sandy Benefit was a lot of fun and it felt good to participate in a good cause. Don't have any crazy backstage stories -- Pat and Dave and I had this little corner of Madison Square Garden to hang out in. Except for Paul and his band, I didn't see any of the other big acts backstage. We got there around 5:30pm and waited until after midnight to play.

The benefit is being staged to honor the memory of Suicide Silence frontman Mitch Lucker, who died in a motorcycle accident on Halloween and also raise money for an education fund for his daughter, Kenadee.

The band announced the filming plans on their Facebook and also promised that there would be "big names" attending who they are not announcing prior to the event tonight (December 21st) at the Fox Theater in Pomona, Ca.

The North American tour will also feature support form The Faceless, Decapitated and The Agonist.

The tour will be kicking off on February 22nd in New York City and will conclude on March 26th in Guelph, ON.

The trek will also feature support from Backtrack and Code Orange Kids and will kick off on February 1st in Washington, DC and will conclude on March 3rd in Richmond, VA.

The band spent a whole two years working on the new album with Chris Von Rohr. 'We didn't spend all that time on golf courses or tennis courts. No, we just wanted to make our best album yet, the magnum opus of the new Krokus era," says the producer.

Guitarist Mark Kohler has this to add: 'This is not just another Krokus album. I think we have definitely passed another rock milestone with this record.'

Live In Paris 1975 has been digitally remixed and re-mastered from the original multi-track recordings.

Recorded on April 17, 1975 at the Palais des Sports in Paris, this was the very last concert with famed guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, who was leaving Deep Purple to form Rainbow.

The clip was shot in the UK by Sitcom Soldiers (Hyro da Hero, Bury Tomorrow) during the band's recent headline tour. Watch it here.

Front man Austin Carlile says, "Happy Holidays everyone! Wanted to give our listeners a little gift in light of the season! We shot this music video for our single 'The Depths' at the end of our amazing UK/EU headlining run in October."

"The Depths" appears on The Flood Deluxe Reissue (Rise Records), the 2012 expanded edition of their breakthrough '11 sophomore release The Flood, which features 4 brand new tracks recorded with producer Cameron Webb (Mot�rhead, Social Distortion) and mixed by Joey Sturgis.

KISS Kruise III is set for October 28 - November 1, 2013 on board The Norwegian Pearl sailing from Miami, Florida to Key West, Florida and Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas.

The tour will kick off on January 23rd in Newcastle, UK then make its way through France, Germany, Austria, Denmark, and Italy before winding up back in Blighty to wrap things up with a duo of dates in London and Leeds.

Over two years in the making, Decompositions: Volume 1 is CTTS's first new album in over eight years. You can get it here. We were sent these details about the album:

The performance is set to re-air on CBS on December 27 at 12:35am/11:35pm CT.

The original performance aired on October 1 while the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers were touring in Los Angeles in support of their latest album, Last Of A Dyin' Breed.

For the third straight year, the group recorded their holiday show, which took place on December 9th at the Hideout Inn in Chicago, and will broadcast it as an hour-long special -- The 3rd Annual Hideout Holiday Music Hour -- from their website, beginning at 4p.m. on Christmas Eve. It will run repeatedly on the site for a limited time.

At each holiday show, the band pays homage to "A Prairie Home Companion" with the evening's set and structures the broadcast program as an old tyme radio variety show, complete with a host, surprise guests and faux sponsors. Teen indie pop quartet Purple Apple joined the Married Men for a couple of songs at the Hideout and will appear on the Hideout Holiday Music Hour.

Now, fans will be able to check out a performance from frontwoman Lzzy Hale and her band mates on ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live, scheduled for Tuesday, Jan. 29.

The 55th Annual Grammy Awards will be held on Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013, at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Happy holidays my friends. I've been given the chance to talk a little bit about our new single, "Ever Enough."

Being the hopeless romantic that I am, this song has had a special place in my heart since I first heard the demo. When I listen to it now, I'm mainly taken back to the feelings I had while recording it (namely the cold winter nights driving back to our apt from the studio, reflecting on the day's work). It gives me a tremendous sense of longing, and speaks to a problem I find myself having when it comes to dealing with the fairer sex, which is wondering if what I have to give will ever be "enough."

I think as humans, we all struggle with insecurities, and the song calls attention to that, but tells us not to be ashamed of it. At the end of the day, it's a sweet little narrative about the power and possibility of love. That's something we can all identify with. I think we knew we had a special song when we watched the trailer for "The Notebook" on mute and let the song play over it in the control room of the studio. It fit perfectly, and since that was kind of the aim for this song from the start, we were all really excited.

Guns N' Roses were the runner-up for Rock News Artist, while Van Halen secured the top two Rock News stories of 2012.

Van Halen were the most read-about artist in both hennemusic categories, which are determined by music fans: numbers are based on the combined total page views of the top 50 hennemusic rock news stories of the past twelve months.

Grohl isn't the only famous musician making an appearance on the film. The release, See a Little Light: A Celebration of the Music and Legacy of Bob Mould, is also set to feature the Shins' Jessica Dobson, Spoon's Britt Daniel, Ryan Adams, the Hold Steady's Craig Finn and Tad Kubler and more. Nice!

The film chronicles a tribute concert for Mould that happened in November of 2011 at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.

The episodes feature RHCP performing "Did I Let You Know," "Goodbye Hooray," "Police Station," and "Meet Me At The Corner," among others.

Mot�rhead's Lemmy Kilmister will host an exclusive press conference to introduce the new product.

Mot�rheadph�nes has had unprecedented success throughout Europe prior to making their US debut. The new product features professional audio quality, tooled to reproduce rock music or any played music. Mot�rheadph�nes give smooth warm bass, bombastic drums and clear mid-range plus distinct high-end because of the 40mm neodymium high power speakers that takes 6-10 times more power than a standard headphone.