According to Soundsblog.it, Lemmy suffered an unspecified hematoma. The news comes after the revelation in Classic Rock magazine that Lemmy recently had a defibrillator fitted to help his heart to beat normally, after experiencing heart problems in recent times.

Motorhead's new album, Aftershock, is due around September. It was recorded at Maple Sound Studios in Santa Ana, California with producer Cameron Webb (Pennywise, Megadeth, Zebrahead) and will feature 13 songs including Dust And Glass, Knife, Going To Mexico, Lost Woman Blues, Death Machine and Heartbreaker.

His bandmates Matthew Price and Chase Manhattan broke the sad news to fans with the following, "We are deeply saddened to report the loss of our band member, friend and brother Kevin McDade in a car accident early Friday evening.

Speaking to CNN, Osbourne Ozzy said, "I have never ever ever been able to attach myself to the word 'heavy metal' � it has no musical connotations. If it was heavy rock, I could get that, but the '70s was kind of like a bluesy thing, the '80s was kind of bubblegum-frosted hair, multicolored clothes and the '90s was kind of grungy."

Ozzy went on to say that he would often hear from bands that Black Sabbath was a huge influence on them, and "I could go, 'Oh, yeah, I can see that,' but other bands... what part of that is inspired by us? Some of it is just angry people screaming down a microphone!"

The commercial features Mustaine narrating the story of a young metal fan named Keith preparing for a job interview; in need of something to psyche him up for the session, he heads to Megadeth Wearhouse to pick up the band's new album, "Super Collider."

"A few days before Christmas I purchased a gift certificate from the Men's Warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah as a gift for our awesome tour manager Jim Carroccio," wrote Mustaine on December 29. "You know the Men's Warehouse�the old geezer with the voice that sound like he has chain-smoked since he was a fetus; the one that espouses, "I absolutely guarantee you're gonna like the way you look," or some manure like that, right?

"Well, I was talking to Jim today and wondering why he didn't say anything (I think we all wonder sometimes when our loved ones or friends get gifts if they actually like them) and it turns out that they decided to hold my order, otherwise called by them as "pending," and told no one. For almost 9 days now I have been waiting for delivery of this gift certificate, and I wouldn't say anything because it IS the holidays, but these salesmen promised that they would GUARANTEE a two-day delivery of the certificate to Jim (it seems they throw this word GUARANTEE around quite a lot).

He tells Rolling Stone: "We've never had a recording session during a tour in our lives. We did a couple of things that I wanted to put down, so that was very exciting."

Springsteen hasn't yet completed writing duties. "I have stuff I'm working on that I'm very happy about," he reports. "I have a lot of material � I still feel like I'm in the middle of the well."

Speaking on Saturday night, when he and guitarist Joe Perry were inducted into the Hollywood Bowl Hall Of Fame, Tyler told Rolling Stone: "Joe has done, like, four solo albums. I've got this itch in me to do a solo record.

"I've got an itch to do something that's different than Aerosmith. My heart is in stuff like that weirder, off-the-cuff stuff that I'm not sure Aerosmith would like. I'm into electronica."

The debut album from the project was produced by Rhys Fulber (Fear Factory, Rob Zombie, Mindless Self Indulgence) at Sound Farm Studios in Des Moines, IA.

The labels says that the recording sessions saw Jordison behind the drum kit, while also playing bass on all songs, and rhythm guitar on all but two songs. The album was written by Jordison and lead vocalist Henry Derek, and joining them in the studio were keyboardist Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails), as well as guitarists Jed Simon (Strapping Young Lad) and Kris Norris (Darkest Hour) who collectively handled all lead guitars on the album.

The price of rooms is one reason the band moved this year's festival to a new city. Hetfield said: "I thought Atlantic City was going to be a lot better than it was. There was some gouging going on in hotels, ripping people off, crap like that."

Marsden says the style of the album will call back to the Whitesnake Ready An' Willing era: "Kind of gone retro, but with a 2012/2013 sound, if you know what I mean," he says. "A young guy's producing it, and I'm very pleased for them to do it, because they bring a lot to the table. I just write the songs and play guitar, which is nice."

Marsden joined Whitesnake on stage in May to play Fool For Your Loving and Here I Go Again in Manchester, England. And his legendary '59 Les Paul Standard, nicknamed 'The Beast,' was the subject of Gibson Custom Collector's Choice #8 . In March Marsden told us the Beast came into his life in 1974 after spending time in the hands of Andy Fraser and Paul Kossoff of Free and, before that, Eric Clapton.

Zombie is asking fans to submit footage of themselves rocking out to his version of the song, which is featured on his latest album, "Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor."

The cash will be handed over to the Unison Benevolent Fund, a non-profit charity that takes care of music industry professionals who run into hardship.

Memphis Music Foundation's Pat Mitchell Worley broke the news on Memphis station WREG, writing, "It is a great loss for the blues and for Memphis Music. He was a trail blazer and his music will be missed." Bland's son Rodd Bland said "He's always been the type of guy that if he could help you in any way, form or fashion, he would."

Bland was born Robert Calvin "Bobby" Bland in Rosemark, Tennessee in 1930. He began singing in local gospel groups in Memphis before becoming part of the Beale Street scene alongside the likes of Johnny Ace, Junior Parker and B.B. King.

The concert was just the fourth time of the 18-date trek this spring without an outside guest performer, excluding former Stone Mick Taylor, who joined the band for his usual spotlight on "Midnight Rambler," played "Can't You Hear Me Knocking," and returned for the encore of "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."

The bassist was unable to attend the event, so he recorded his acceptance speech while on tour in South Africa and is now sharing the video with fans.

A high school drop-out, McKagan enrolled in a basic finance course at Santa Monica Community College in 1994 after reviewing the financial records from his Guns N' Roses days and coming to the conclusion that he didn't understand enough about the system.

Recorded at Headley Grange with Ronnie Lane's Mobile Studio in November 1973, "Bad Company" featured instant rock classics like "Can't Get Enough," "Movin' On," "Rock Steady" and the signature title track.

The Melbourne stop was the third date of Soundwave, which hit five (5) cities in the country over a two-week period. The band has offered up video from the tuning room, as well as "My Friend Of Misery" from the show. Watch it here

"The reality of what I got myself into is starting to sink in," joked Reznor during an interview this morning (June 24) with Kevin & Bean of L.A. alternative station KROQ (a Radio.com station).

The project began when Reznor, still owing his former label (Interscope Records) a greatest hits album, started writing tracks thinking they would find their way onto that record. But then when "a couple songs led to a couple more songs," he made the realization that an entire album was taking shape�although he wasn't sure if he'd even want to release it when he was finished. He was merely "seizing the moment of inspiration."

He eventually did choose to release it. The album's first single "Came Back Haunted" leaked online June 5, a day ahead of schedule. It premiered that same day.

Reznor divulged that the David Lynch-directed music video will likely be released the end of this week. And despite his description of "weird" and "bizarre," Reznor couldn't be more proud of the clip. When asked what other songs from the album that might be made into videos, Reznor explained, in short, that he's leaving that up to his new record label, Columbia.

"You know this time around, I'm doing something a bit different," he says. Having had an "excellent experience" with Columbia Records, which released his How To Destroy Angels project, he believed continuing with Columbia was a good move for Nine Inch Nails as well. The label, he said, was willing to take the weight off his shoulders and allow him to focus on music, and not the business of music.

Shortly after the tour was announced, King Crimson's Adrian Belew made headlines when he gracefully bowed out of the touring band. Admitting that shifting players had been "disruptive," Reznor explained, "you can spend a lot of time hypothesizing , imagining and projecting what it's gonna be with this chemistry and this recipe of people in a room playing music, and in reality it rarely is that."

"I was in Chicago. I can't remember what I was doing," Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz struggled to recall. "I was probably getting yelled at by my dad."

In contrast, frontman Patrick Stump remembered the sensation of hearing the band's current comeback hit single, "My Songs Know What You Did In the Dark (Light 'Em Up)" spun for the very first time.

"Oddly enough, we were in Chicago. The four of us were all sitting around in a hotel room," Stump explained. "It was a totally different feeling because after coming back from such a long break it was like this new, exciting thing. I think when you're first starting out, you're either oblivious or insane, and you take stuff for granted. But this was like, 'Whoa, we're on the radio!'"

Standing on the precipice. The forest is shifting. Your senses are heightened and everything is active and alive. You are moving into another dimension, unknown but existing on previously unvisited planes. New realms of kaleidoscopic awareness. Breathe. The silent call beckons you closer. A figure glowing comes to you surrounded by a thousand stars. Harmony. Music.

Upon closer introspection, you see that frilly wood-sprites inhabit the trees and branches. They sparkle and glisten in the periphery of beams of sunlight. They flit and sputter, and some are even one with the trees, as though suspended in hammocked cocoons of leaf and fiber. Never immediately engaging you, they nonetheless usher forth your journey almost as goodwill ambassadors to your very own mind.

And all of the sudden, you find the road. And it give you a better view of the sky. And you see her composed of millions of stars. She makes sense. She makes more sense than has ever been made. And everything you've seen fits into its place. And there is too much of everything. And it is good. She is the Space Warrior. And she is a god just like you are. You realize you must go back deep into the forest and share what you have learned.

In the flash of an eye you are summoned onto your back into a hall of ancient moss and mushrooms. Is it your eyes that are witnessing all of this or your dreaming ancestors showing you some truth? The moss envelopes you in its warmth, the moon smiling upon your shining face lets you sink deeper into her comforting bosom of infinite light. Laughing wilderness searching far and wide. The sounds of the forest transforming into a lost beacon of hope, left by the oldest shamans of the world wishing to be heard once more.

They present you a secret ritual that is just for your ears. You know more now.........so much more. Slow time down the best way we know how with closed eyes under the stars beckoning us on our journey home. Eat more shrooms and repeat!

Metallica had been on the brink of breaking through to the mainstream for a few years. They even scored a minor hit in the form of "One" from 1988's �And Justice For All. But it wasn't until the epic opening section of "Enter Sandman" crept onto radio in July 1991 that the band really exploded into the mainstream. Likewise, Nirvana had been around since 1987 and had sold 40,000 copies of their debut album Bleach in 1989, but Nevermind really busted things wide open for the band.

Like a huge rock dumped in the path of a small stream, the release of the Black Album on August 13 and Nevermind on September 24 seemed to split the direction of guitar playing - and therefore rock music in general � into two distinct paths. One side - the Nirvana-influenced side � favored rougher technique, grittier tones and relatively minimal production. The other side, championed by Metallica acolytes, preferred a heavier, more technically precise sound. The rise of grunge is well documented, and while Nirvana's success helped open the door for their contemporaries, it also opened the floodgates to a surge of imitators. Similarly, the bottom-heavy sound of the Black Album can be heard as an influence on many later recordings, from the immediate aftermath to now, twenty years later.

Black Album producer Bob Rock seemed to take some of the Metallica guitar tone with him when he produced Motley Crue's self-titled album in 1994: the single "Hooligan's Holiday" prominently displays a very Metallica-like rhythm guitar tone in its chorus. Anthrax's The Sound Of White Noise features similar high production values and song structures; and Testament's The Ritual exhibits similar structural streamlining and an increased focus on melody, as did Megadeth's Countdown To Extinction. Did these bands change their approach because that was the way metal was evolving, or were they encouraged by their labels to veer more towards the formula that worked so well for Metallica? It's impossible to say, but intriguing to ponder. It's undeniable that after Metallica led the way, metal became much more mainstream. Pantera's Far Beyond Driven debuted at #1 in 1994, while a year earlier Morbid Angel became the first death metal band to sign with a major label (Giant, a joint venture of Warner Bros. Records and Irving Azoff).

As for Nirvana, Kurt Cobain's distinctive vocal delivery and Pixies-inspired quiet verse/distorted chorus songwriting style were echoed a couple of years later by bands such as Bush and Silverchair, then on through Lifehouse in the early noughties and to modern bands like 30 Seconds To Mars. In fact 30STM vocalist Jared Leto is a declared Nirvana fanatic � he performed Nirvana's "Pennyroyal Tea" dressed as Cobain on the 17th anniversary of Cobain's death.

When you're in a band with Keith Richards, you'll always be "the other guitarist." It wasn't long ago that the other Stones referred to Wood as "the new boy" (he joined in 1975!) But "Woodie" has his own unique skills, wit, wisdom and plenty of stories�

On how he influenced Slash: Speaking on his new Absolute Classic Rock radio show in 2010, Wood said, "Slash, I remember him as a kid spying on me when I was playing guitar, and I'd teach him little licks." Wood also added he's learned licks off Slash. "It's really good. He's a great guy to play with, and he's great at interacting, a good weaver, you know. We can weave, like me and Bobby Womack do, and me and Keith Richards do."

On briefly sharing an apartment with Jimi Hendrix in 1967: "Jimi was quite a gentle flatmate," Wood told Shortlist. "He gave me a dog - a basset hound called Loopy. We were living with Pat Arnold, who was the singer in The Ikettes, but she threw me and Jimi out because the dog kept sh*tting everywhere. Jimi said, 'I'm going back on tour, Ronnie. Will you take my dog?' I had a little house in Kingston [west of London] at the time, so I took her with me. Lovely dog, I'd completely forgotten Jimi gave her to me.

"Neither of us were there long enough. But we did used to sit on the bed and exchange ideas on the guitar. Jimi could flip it over and play left or right-handed equally well."