Rock produced the album and has completed recording. The first single "Let's Ride" will be at radio imminently.

Aside from a few summer tour dates, Avenged Sevenfold took a well-deserved breather for much of 2012. After all, the band had a pretty rough couple of years following the 2009 death of drummer Jimmy "The Rev" Sullivan. In addition to dealing with the unbearable loss, the band took on a pretty hefty workload by releasing and touring extensively behind 'Nightmare.'

Over the weekend Tommy posted on Facebook [edited for clarity]: "Wow! How time flies! Last night of the U.S. part of the tour. One show in Mexico in a few days but it's a rap for 2012, kids! A little break 'til January 2013 then off to Australia with KISS and Motley. Been going like [expletive] since February in Vegas! Nine months! [Expletive] Whooped�"

"It was the biggest show on TV," explained Tyler. "And every night millions of people got to see that big-lipped, singer guy from Aerosmith sing up there, you know, being what he is. And it didn't hurt Aerosmith. They were a little jealous in the beginning that I took it. I didn't tell them I did."

He was set to perform under the moniker of JDevil, and the official Facebook for JDevil, broke the news to fans with the following:

The band will play a series of US shows starting October 5 in Napa Valley, CA; concerts are currently scheduled to November 20 in Milwaukee.

Vedder jumped up on stage at DeLuna Fest in Pensacola, Florida and footage from the jam has been posted online.

The footage for the new release was captured during intimate concerts in support of McCartney's "Kisses On The Bottom" album.

The is set to kick off on November 15 in Austin, TX and will run through December 22 in San Francisco, CA.

Crenshaw will be launching his new EP subscription vinyl/download series on November 23rd with the release of the first EP of the series, I Don't See You Laughing Now.

The box set will feature all 12 studio albums plus Magical Mystery Tour and Past Masters which were sourced from the original master tapes and cut at Abbey Road Studios.

In part one of a new series of sessions with Metal Hammer magazine, Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson speaks about the band's illustrious history at the event, as well as what's in store for the 2013 show.

Hammett is doing a series of book-signing events to promote the new project, including a newly-announced stop in San Francisco.

The reunion includes Matt Kramer, Phil Varone (ex-Skid Row), Jason Bieler, Tom Defile and Chris McLernon. The band's high point was 1992's The Lizard, which went gold with more than 500,000 copies sold. Their biggest single was "Love Is On The Way" from the same album: it peaked at #12 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Crimson Glory frontman was confirmed as Tate's replacement earlier this year in a messy split which has resulted in legal action and the sacked singer forming his own version of Queensryche.

The tour is set to kick off at the London o2 Shepherd's Bush Empire on Wednesday 3rd April.

BBC reports Sham Masterman, who admitted not being a big fan of the band, bought the Highgate house and the one next door for �1.2m each. The properties were made available via a Savills auction last Thursday.

We started writing this backstage at The Belfast Empire in Northern Ireland while we were waiting to go onstage. The rest of the topline and lyrics were written fairly quickly during the rest of the tour however it ended up taking a long time to finalise the track from a production point of view as we wanted as many melodic riffs in the instrumentation as possible. It ended up being a labour of love for our producer Jon�.but hopefully it was the worth the blood sweat and tears!!

The inspiration behind the lyrics comes from a doomed relationship � where one side is desperate to end it, but when their lover pleads for forgiveness they are unable to resist temptation and end up being manipulated back into the destructive trap they've been trying to escape from. They will continue to yo-yo until this person finds the strength to let go and move on�..and by the end of the song they realise which path they're going to take�..

We recorded this track in a studio called Karma Sound in Thailand � a once in a lifetime opportunity which came about in 2010. Despite the dark feeling behind the lyrics, our surroundings definitely had an impact on us and so the track has a very light, summery feel-good vibe to it. Originally we had the solo on guitar�but after a trip to Nashville we felt inspired by the Nashville sound and decided to replace it with the mandolin.

Recording Process: This was one of the first songs that we recorded for the new album, and as soon as we started it we knew where it would end up from a production point of view. We started recording after a nice Thai dinner and a few JD's at Karma Sound Studios in Bang Saray, Thailand and we recorded a couple of takes with the whole band playing live. A few more JD's into the early hours and the backbone of the song was done, the guitarists had found some late night inspiration for some of the riffs, we'd recorded backing vocals with everyone who was in the room at the time (even Jason's wife made it onto the final mix), and the lead vocal was done in about half an hour. It all came together so fast.

On returning to England with the track, Jon (producer) called on long-time collaborator James Sanger who had programmed and played keys for Dido's first album 'No Angel' and also Keane's 'Hopes & Fears'. The uber eccentric programmer quickly added some quirky keys & effects to the track, most of which made the final cut. Dave Bronze (bass player for Eric Clapton, Tom Jones) was also drafted in to replace the guide bass, and finally we replaced the acoustic guitar intro and solo with a mandolin, and called on Ilya Toshinskiy (Carrie Underwood, Taylor Swift) to perform this duty. We had met Ilya whilst writing and recording in Nashville, he's a fantastic Russian guitarist with a deep South / Russian accent�has to be heard to be believed!

The mix of the track also turned into a labour of love, we ended up having 5 different mixes done by as many different mix engineers. The final mix itself was put together using elements of the different mixes, the vocals from one, drums/bass/guitars from another, and additional production/mandolin from another�! I think we got it right in the end! All in all, the track took about 5 hours to record the guts and 5 weeks to flesh it out how we all wanted it. Hopefully the listener enjoys the end experience.

"Celebration Day" captures the band's December 2007 reunion at London's 02 Arena, which saw the three founding members joined by Jason Bonham, the son of their late drummer John Bonham, headline a tribute concert for dear friend and Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun.

On the first of the two-night event, the band played on a bill with No Doubt, Usher, Rihanna and more.

About 30 minutes into their set, producers notified Green Day � via teleprompter � that they had one minute left on stage, causing the group to abruptly stop playing while frontman Billie Joe Armstrong addressed the situation by calling out the show's producers, flipping them a middle finger and smashing his guitar before storming off stage.

It was a little more than a year ago - September 13, 2011 - that Worship Music was released, and all of us in Anthrax can't believe how much has happened since then.