AC/DC Frontman Had Doubts About New Album

Last night he posted a picture of his mic and lyric sheet in the band's studio, explaining: "Tracking vocals for a last-minute 'secret' track. Adam D at the controls - gunna be a long night!"

The book's synopsis reads: "The music business is filled with lots of contradictions - lots of highs and lots of lows. I've been down every road imaginable on my journey through it and lived to tell it all.

"My two sons, Vinnie Paul "the Brick Wall" and "Dimebag Darrell" were the founding members of two of the world's greatest rock groups, Pantera and Damageplan. I mentored them from day one and the story of their success is relayed in this book."

The band sent members of the fan club a Christmas card that shows their mascot Eddie emerging from a snow covered recording studio (with Ninjas lurking in the background) and to the side was a sign that said 'UROTON 51′, which could be an anagram for "On Tour 15".

A Facebook page devoted to the Iron Maiden Collector Community shared a photo of the card with the message said, "Eddie's got a little Christmas gift for everyone who's been REALLY BAD! Must not be opened until 2015... Merry Christmas from Iron Maiden."

"Radio Dreams" stars Iranian musician Mohsen Namjoo alongside Kabul Dreams, Mohammad Talani, Bella Warda, Mansour Taeed, Mahmood Schricker, Boshra Dastournezhad Haghighi, Babak Mortazavi, Ali Tahbaz, Boshra, Larry Laverty and Kari Wishingrad.

According to the film's synopsis, "Radio Dreams is a humorous, quirky feature film that follows a brilliant, misunderstood Iranian writer (Hamid) through his travails at a San Francisco-based Iranian satellite radio station.

Erna was first "bitten by the acting bug" in 2003 when he worked with The Rock and Kelly Hu on the video for Godsmack's hit I Stand Alone.

He tells The Rock Revival: "I remember thinking I was gonna be really nervous and uncomfortable, and I surprisingly found myself very comfortable working out these scenes with these people that I thought would be a little bit more intimidating.

"And from that point on I started just exploring the acting world and I started doing classes with a lady named Susan Batson, who's a really top-notch acting coach - she does Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.

He tells Hysteria: "I think that getting back into the mindset of this particular band is very different. Everyone's lives have drastically changed for the better over the last four years.

But he plans to use some downtime in 2015 to work on a second Phil Anselmo And The Illegals album, and he has a lot of tracks to choose from.

Anselmo tells Yahoo Music: "It's going to be very different. I feel like every solo effort should be different. That's a rule in my house under this particular roof. I don't want to regurgitate a damn thing I've done in the past.

"Maybe I might touch on certain things, and in a lot of ways there's no getting around the voice because my voice is my voice. But you can express different musical influences from generations of music. I can do anything I want with The Illegals. It's my band.

He continues: "I think U2 are a fantastic band - just like any big group that goes out and takes chances. Years ago, everybody wanted to hate on Metallica and Lars Ulrich because he fought Napster. Well, he was right. It's easy to hate the 800-pound gorilla because everybody sees them as entitled and privileged and they get to do what the rest of us can't.

"But you know what? They work their asses off for it - they're a phenomenally great band. Whether you like their recent songs or not, whether you like some of the publicity moves they make or their business acumen, I have nothing but tremendous respect for that band."

Apart from Bachman, the group also features Anna Ruddick on bass and Dale Anne Brendan on drums and their debut album was produced by Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden, Rush, Led Zeppelin).

The collection will feature the band's original studio album's Lynyrd Skynyrd aka Pronounced 'Lĕh-'n�rd 'Skin-'n�rd (1973), Second Helping (1974), Nuthin' Fancy (1975), Gimme Back My Bullets (1976) and Street Survivors (1977) and the classic live album One More From The Road (1976).

Pearcy and his band the Rat Bastards wrote 25 songs before choosing which ones to track. He recently said: "Until I have the best to pick from I won't put the record out. The songs we have are so good we had no choice but to record as many as possible."

"Quickee Burgers is committed to continuing the tradition of providing the busy and on-the-go customer with much faster and more efficient counter and drive-in services," Politz stated in a recent article.

The live shows are in support of upcoming seventh studio outing Time And Trauma which launches on February 16 via their new label Spinefarm Records. It will be the follow-up to their 2012 release Collisions And Castaways.

Frontman Brock Lindow says: "We can't wait to kick off our world tour in the UK and Europe and bringing our friends All Hail The Yeti and Cytota just turns up the heat even more. Strap on your helmets and lace up your party boots - the Alaskans are coming for you."

He tells The Tennessean: "Now, with where we're at with 25 employees, trucks and buses, there's a lot riding on what comes out on our CDs. We're getting a lot of pressure to write clean stuff from people surrounding our camp, so they can make money off of what we're doing. They're like, 'Look, we need a serious record from Steel Panther.' From day one, we said, 'No. We're not doing that.'"

By the late Seventies, Pink Floyd had all the commercial success a band could imagine, but not without battle wounds. The relationships between composer/ bassist Roger Waters and the other band members, as well as between Waters and the audience, had been strained and distorted by the time of The Wall. The only thing left was the music.

In a two-part, two week special InTheStudio radio program, host Redbeard speaks with The Wall architect Roger Waters, singer/guitarist David Gilmour, and percussionist Nick Mason about building one of Rock'n'Roll's crowning recording, live production, and cinematic achievements.

Based on a music superstar's plunge into the dark side of success which eventually results in "absolute isolation, both emotionally and physically, from the audience he or she purports to attract", Roger Waters sadly recounts the autobiographical nature of The Wall and the defining moment he remembers it coming to life.

"During a show in Montreal I finally got so angry that I spat at this child, he was 14 or 15 I suppose. When I got off stage afterwards I thought, ' What have I been reduced to? And what has happened to the relationship between the band and the audience?' So, The Wall was something that I had experienced very powerfully through most of that (Animals) tour, but specifically on that day." - Roger Waters

The bourbon is available exclusively in the USA, and only to certain states. It retails at $75 a bottle and is said to "taste like no other due to its particular blend and the barrel it was aged in."

Travis tells Prog: "It is going to be an instrumental, bluesy, prog-jazz album. The line up is myself on saxophone and flutes, Nic France on drums, Mike Outram on guitars and Pete Whittaker on Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes.

"I have written most of the music, and there is an instrumental version of a track I co-wrote with Andy Tillison - the title track from the Tangent album A Place In The Queue.

She performed her Before The Dawn show 22 times at London's Hammersmith Eventim Apollo in August and September. The residency marked her first major live commitment since 1979, and led to her becoming the first female artist to have eight albums in the top 40 at the same time.

He says: "My bags are packed (I'm going to leave them packed until August) and I'm ready to go� again. Plane ticket to the UK? Check. Acoustic guitar? Check. Money for beer? Check. Visa? Double check!

"I am so sorry for this mess up. After the amazing journey with Mr Big I was riding tall in the saddle and looking forward to strum out the A chords and belt out the blues with all of you. What a letdown - please let me make it up to you."

The home's scary past inspired the lyrics for House Of Ghosts, which appears on Lordi's latest album Scare Force One which was released at Halloween.

Mr Lordi tells Sleaze Rocks: "It's my grandparents' house. It's at least 79 years old, built in 1935. No-one knew what the house was used for until recently. My grandparents bought the house when my dad was young, maybe six or seven-years-old.

"The Second World War was going on. The wallpaper has been on those walls since 1939 or 1940. When we started renovating the house, we started taking off the wallpaper because we wanted to remove the old wood. What we found under the motherf***ing wallpaper is that there are actually written messages in Russian on the walls.

Chavarri, who previously played with Soulfly, goes under the name Massacre in the outfit, while Luster who was once with Machine Head, is named Diabolus. They're joined in the band by vocalist Rott and guitarist Thrax.

Massacre says: "We are here to inflict terror and fear upon the masses. Our thirst for blood is eternal." Diabolus adds: "We are everything that you loathe and we are everything that you fear. We have come to take and devour your souls."

Queen first teamed up with Lambert in 2009 to perform the band's rock anthem "We Are the Champions" on American Idol's season's eight finale. Lambert and Queen partnered again in 2011 at the MTV European Music Awards in Belfast. In the summer of 2012 they performed their first live concerts together with three sold-out shows in the UK at London's Hammersmith Apollo as well as concert appearances in Russia, Ukraine and Poland. While 2014 saw the pairing tour the world.

"We didn't look for this guy, [but] suddenly he's there, and he can sing all of those lines," May continues. "See, they're difficult songs to sing, Queen songs. There's too much range. So many people can't sing them in the original key - even if they are good singers. Adam comes along, he can do it easy. He can do it in his sleep!"

"He can sing higher than even Freddie could in a live situation. So I think Freddie would look at this guy and think, 'Hmm� Yeah. Okay.' There would be a kind of, 'Hmm... You bastard. You can do this.' And Adam also has this presentation, I think. He is a showman. He doesn't have to try. He is a natural, in the same way that Freddie was."

"Some people walk on a stage and they're able to do this, and they're able to connect with an audience. And Freddie had it, without a doubt, and Adam has it also. So for a band this is very important. Everybody's doing their thing, but you need that connection, you need that channel, and Adam is great."

The two of them riffed for a while about the pure absurdity of a legendary musician writing music for a video game. McCartney describes how he first encountered video games--'I'd see my grandkids playing them"--and began playing, and soon enough 'I was Mr. Cool" (and not cool because, you know, he's a Beatle.

Then the two get into an extended riff on the idea that McCartney would rather be making this guest appearance on Ellen. 'No, no, I'm really happy to be here," the rocker claimed, sticking his tounge into his cheek in a gesture of disdain.

Silent Night is on sale now via Amazon, iTunes and all major digital retailers - and 25% of all profits will be donated to the War Child charity, which supports and protects children living in war zones.

Phoebe released her album Between The Shadow And The Soul in October. She said: "We've all drawn on our musical experiences ranging from North Indian classical, jazz, rock and metal, and my own more Eastern style."

The Swedish black metal outfit will release Frontschwein on January 19 via Century Media Records. And they have now released a stream of album track Wartheland.

Frontschwein will be released as standard Jewelcase CD, limited Mediabook CD with alternative artwork and bonus track, on noble gatefold LP with LP-booklet and as digital download.

He tells Hangar 19: "It's just like a marriage. We decided to take a little break from each other. I went to go jam with Helmet for a year and a half of f***ing the best fun. Page Hamilton, John Tempesta and Chris Traynor, we had a ball.

Red Fang's Aaron added: "This is a vocal bridge I wrote and recorded with Joel Grind and had Lord Dying come in and do guest songwriting, full band, and main vocals on. I think it turned out great!

"But seriously. I was honored to be asked to guest vocal on this track, and it came together very naturally. I hadn't even heard Erik's lyrics and mine fit perfectly with his. It was a match made in heck!"

The record features a guest appearance from Genesis man Steve Hackett who plays on the track Closer To Irreversible. The album also features organist Olivier Castan, keyboardist Richard Vecchi, drummer Laurent Falso and guitarists Christophe Obadia and Mathieu Spaeter. Carducci sings and plays guitar and bass on the album which was mixed and mastered by Christian Morfin.

Carducci previously issued a trailer for Torn Apart and said working with Hackett was a "dream come true." He said: "I'm thrilled that it will feature a special guest performance by Mr Steve Hackett himself. No need to mention that a collaboration with one of my all-time heroes is more than a dream come true."