The visit was scheduled to promote the upcoming Las Vegas residency by GNR, who will launch their "Appetite For Democracy" show at The Joint inside Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. The running theme of Axl's visit was about punctuality, with jokes and comments riffing off the fact that the singer has built a reputation for setting his own schedule for starting concerts.

Kimmel went for the subject right out of the gate. "You're right on time. It's unbelievable," said the host. "You're very punctual."

"It's a miracle," laughed Rose.

"We just filmed a 3D movie up in Vancouver. That's been at the forefront of our attention right now," Hammett told Loudwire. "�Once that particular project kind of dies down and we complete what we need to do with that, then we're going to start writing songs. We're going to meet up and start throwing ideas together. That should be really, really interesting. I'm really looking forward to that."

Rush sound engineer Richard Chycki confirmed the news Wednesday via Twitter, writing, "Yep, words out. I've been working on the surround remix of #Rush #2112 for months. Queue rear waterfall. #holygrail"

Ozzy is up for an award at the first annual 2012 Fright Night Awards, sponsored by Cancer Bites, a national blood cancer education and awareness campaign that is kicking off on Halloween. The inaugural Fright Night Awards ask fans to pick their favorite "frights" in 21 different areas, including music, movies and TV.

Converge frontman Jacob Bannon provided these details to fans: After driving all day/evening, we hit a patch of black ice in the mountains of Oregon. We were forced to turn into a highway divider at 40mph in order to avoid sliding under a slew of 18 wheelers.

The first tour dates were, unfortunately for American fans, were all European cities. In addition to the dates, Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andrew Fletcher described the new ablum, with Gore likened it to a cross between Violator and Songs of Faith and Devotion. "Between us, we probably have 20 songs that we recorded," said Gahan.

Jagger joins top film/TV producer Brian Grazer, who's currently wrapping a documentary on Jay-Z's Made in America fest, as a producer of the long-in-the-works film, Deadline reports.

The awards are set to be held at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles on Sunday, November 18, and will be broadcast live on ABC TV.

The collection features nine #1 hits that have been remixed and re-mastered, alongside three new songs. The full track-listing includes "Kryptonite," "When I'm Gone," "Here Without You," "It's Not My Time," "Let Me Go," "Be Like That," "Loser," "Away From The Sun," "Duck and Run," "One Light," "There's A Life," and "Goodbyes."

"Joe put the lead lick down. It was, 'Oh my God, we're back,'" Tyler tells Rolling Stone. "It was so incredibly true at that moment to me that the band was back in the severest of ways. I was overjoyed."

When the band got a call to submit a song for the soundtrack to the upcoming action film G.I. Joe: Retaliation, starring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and Bruce Willis, they submitted the instrumental version as Tyler had yet to complete lyrics and add his vocals.

The weeklong trek will feature support acts Loincloth and Dead In The Dirt, and will kick off in Portland on December 14th.

Entitled "The Language Of Video," Roth speaks about the processes of creating films and music videos, including Van Halen's "Jump" as well as his version of "California Girls."

Now, the Seattle rockers are sharing a preview of the new track, "Bones By Birds." "[The song] is a little dark," says Chris Cornell.

The band are playing New Year's Eve at the Metro in Chicago, IL, and will follow that show with a show at New York City's Webster Hall on January 15.

"We are extremely excited about the release of our first EP. We feel we have condensed our influences and come out with something that pays homage to our hero's while still leaving room for us to break new musical ground. We welcome news from the world and their thoughts and comments on our take on the genre..."classic thrash with progressive tendencies"... much love folks." comments vocalist/ guitarist Chris Friesen.

The EP features seven tracks produced by Darius Szcespaniak whom has engineered on albums by Sacrifice, Sum 41, Black Crowes to a name a few.

CBS executives purchased a pilot script for a sitcom tentatively titled Smells Like Teen Spirit.

The album artwork was completed by the world-renowned concept artist Dylan Cole, best known for his Directors Guild of America Award-winning art for the 2009 blockbuster Avatar. Cole has also worked on the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Daredevil, Tron: Legacy, Transformers: Dark of the Moon and more. Holy Grail lead guitarist Eli Santana speaks about the artwork here

It often baffles me how some people can stab another behind the back and, at a quick glance, seem to be rewarded for their behavior. I felt like I was experiencing just that when I sat down to write "Souls". I felt as though someone I knew was sabotaging a musical relationship just to reap the benefits of all of the hard work I had put into the project. Rather than pulling myself down to their level and resorting to their antics, I poured the experience into songwriting. Most of the songs I write are the culmination of many different sittings with chords, riffs, lyrics and ideas twisted and turned into different shapes until they come together into a fine-tuned object. Other times, they pour out faster than you can put them on paper. "Souls" is one of those cases. Fueled by the emotions I was experiencing, I picked up my acoustic and in a stream-of-consciousness fashion, the song leapt into life! I took great satisfaction as a self-appointed karma gestapo singing almost directly to the culprit and calling them out on their ill intentions.

In the process of writing these verses, it dawned on me that we all have demons we must wrestle. No one is perfect and I began to think about faults of my own that made me feel the hypocrite as this song came to be. It was the coming to terms with this philosophy that brought on the chorus: "Never tell a soul what you become... truth hurts those we love" I really like the balance in the song between finger-pointing and the questioning of one's self. The bridge was another fun bit as well, as I was envisioning a large, crescendoing buildup and wanted to come up with a run-on sentence that would carry through the entire bridge in one l-o-o-o-n-g line: "Wading through the lies you feed the mouths of babes who nest in wombs of fabricated tales of souls who led the lives we could not lead ourselves." Ha - that's a true mouth full of venom!

It's interesting how time plays tricks on your songwriting though. It happens to me all of the time and this song is certainly no exception! It was written very specifically with someone in mind and served its purpose well at the time. Moving forward, you wind up in completely new situations in life and, all of the sudden, your own lyrics are haunting you as they mysteriously point directly to an entirely new situation and you wonder what dark alleyway you picked up the skill of clairvoyance from along the way!

Rushing Through The World" comes off of the band's recently released record, Hiding In Plain Sight. You can watch the video here.

Their sophomore album, Timing of the Void, will be released next Tuesday, October 30 and was recorded at Folkvang Studios and produced by Bryan Richie of fellow ATX metalheads The Sword. Watch the video here.

A few months ago, Coverdale revealed that Whitesnake are working on some projects that will see the light of day next year.