Slipknot Streaming New Album In Full

And now he says Slipknot and Stone Sour singer Corey Taylor was closer than anyone else to landing the role when they held auditions. Slash tells Rolling Stone Australia: "Probably the closest would have to be Corey, because everybody was rallying for him.

"And I love Corey to death, but something about it was just a little bit too - what's the word for it? You know how Corey sings. It's a very macho kind of thing. But it didn't have certain elements I thought it needed. So we just didn't go down that path. And that was the closest so far."

Last month, the band challenged jurisdiction in the case, writing "The individual defendants are British citizens residing in England, own no property in Pennsylvania and have no contacts with Pennsylvania, let alone ties sufficient to render them essentially at home here."

According to The Hollywood Reporter, in response, the plaintiff amended the lawsuit with some emphasis on why a Pennsylvania judge should oversee the case: "Defendants are subject to specific jurisdiction in this district because they make millions of dollars from the Eastern District of Pennsylvania by directly targeting this district for the exploitation of 'Stairway to Heaven' through CD sales, digital downloading, radio and television play, advertising, marketing, concert performances, other performances, licensing, and otherwise targeting resident individuals and businesses to profit off the exploitation of 'Stairway to Heaven.'"

Unavailable for the sessions because she was in Nashville recording her collection of lost tracks, 24 Karat Gold: Songs From the Vault, Nicks returned in time for the group's autumn North American tour, which has just been extended to next March.

Todd La Torre says via Facebook: "As many of you have become aware, my father is no longer with us. Although this is a very difficult time, this post is only to confirm that we will not be cancelling any shows.

"I have responsibilities to uphold, and will do whatever I can to perform to the best of my abilities considering the circumstances. Thank you for your support."

Known for his saxophone and flute playing, Beer-Jones was a founding member of Black Widow. In later years, he worked with a number of prog rock acts.

Clive's civil partner, Kelvin Beer-Jones, says the couple were due to be married on December 10.

They will be randomly distributed with the regular chocolate versions, and like the golden ticket in the Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory film, those who find them will be given a reward. In this case, free Primus tickets for life.

Primus have released a new video teasing the release. A homage to the opening credits of the film, the video shows the records begin pressed and packaged in a factory.

Claypool tells Rolling Stone: "We need to make sure that kids in the future watch the original Willy Wonka and not the horrendous, horrible remake that came along and left the taste of feceas in our mouths."

Now, Stanley admits mistakes were made in the past but that KISS will move forward with the band's original characters. "I think where we went astray is when we first replaced Peter and we decided we needed a new character," Stanley tells Joe Rogan of The Joe Rogan Experience. "And the problem with that kind of stuff is that it started to become - interestingly, I think - disingenuous. It took an air of 'fake' in the sense that it became a menagerie. I mean, we had a Fox [Eric Carr] and an Egyptian Warrior [Vinnie Vincent]. Next we would have the Turtle Boy and The Frog Man."

"So I think once we brought Ace and Peter back for the reunion tour," he continued, "which I hoped would go on forever� In other words, I hoped that everybody would get back together, everybody would see the error in their ways and we would move forward and stay together forever."

"But when that wasn't to be, I thought, you know, we really built these four images. And, arguably, you can go anywhere in the world and people know who KISS is, regardless of whether they know who those people are. So to give up that because we found that those guys were no longer either capable or wanted to give it a hundred percent, well, then who loses out? The fans. So, no. Those images are the images that will continue when I'm not here either."

In a new interview with Eddie Trunk, Kramer was asked what symptoms he experienced that made him consider medical attention during their summer Let Rock Rule tour with Slash.

"I thought that I had what they call acid reflux, and I kept getting this burning sensation in my chest, and that's what I thought it was," he explains. "So I kept taking antacids. And, finally, my GP [general practitioner] said to me, 'Just to make sure and rule out that it's anything cardiac related, go and take a stress test.'"

"So I went and took the stress test," Kramer continued. "I got through the echogram [echocardiogram] with flying colors. He said that my cardiovascular system looked like that of a 48- or a 50-year-old, and I'm 64. And then I got on the treadmill, and when I got on the treadmill, it started to bother me a little bit. And so he said he wanted me to go do what they call 'imaging,' and that's what showed the blockage. And then I had an angioplasty done, and they put two stents in my heart. And now I feel better than ever."

"And so, thanks to modern science, I'm back," he adds. "My 'recupe' time was, like, five days, and I took seven, and I was back on stage. And now it's better than ever. I feel great and the playing is great. And that's the story."

"He is an integral part of the flavor of pretty much everything we've ever put out," Gilmour tells Absolute Radio, "and sometimes in all the noise that [former bandmate] Roger [Waters] and I tend to make - verbally, in the press, on the records - he tends to get slightly overlooked but his part has always been there on everything you hear. It's him, it's idiosyncratic, it's different to any other player and has that indefinable something that great players have."

Due November 10 (Nov 11 in North America), "The Endless River" serves as the band's tribute to Wright, who died from cancer in 2008 at the age of 65.

"'Memoirs Of A Madman' was, because I've been not doing my solo stuff for quite awhile now, I've been touring with Black Sabbath, I just wanted to let everybody know I haven't stopped doing my solo stuff," Ozzy tells GMI Rock .

"It's like a bridge thing... So I'm gonna do one more Black Sabbath tour, one more album with Black Sabbath, and I'm in the process, as we go along, [of] collecting stuff that I'm writing. I've co-written about three songs so far for my own solo thing."

"It'll take about two or three years before I release solo stuff again," adds Ozzy, "so 'Memoirs Of The Madman' is just to say to the fans that I haven't stopped, y'know?"

Belladonna said earlier this year he wished the band would communicate more and added that they hardly ever hung out together. But Ian says Belladonna's comments were misconstrued.

He tells Mitch Lafon: "I texted him after my mother told me on the phone she just saw something online that, 'Joey Belladonna says you guys aren't friends.'

The package features the original album, which has been remastered by Ray Staff, along with a live recording from the band's appearance at London's Hammersmith Odeon in March 1975. This disc has been mixed from the master tapes by original on-the-night engineer Ken Scott.

The album will be available on CD, 2CD, 180g vinyl, Blu-ray, digital formats and as a vinyl box set. The double CD package comes with a 24-page booklet featuring photos and interviews, while the vinyl box set includes an eight-page album-sized booklet, download code and two 10 x 8 prints.

And while his departure was put down to a breakdown in the working relationship with his bandmates, Downing now recalls not feeling "the spark" towards the end of his tenure.

He tells ArtistDirect: "We first met them in 2007. Metallica hadn't been in Denmark for a long time and they were about to play a show in front of 40,000 people. They were looking for support bands and drummer Lars Ulrich was calling friends and media asking them, 'What's the big buzz right now?' Everybody was talking about Volbeat.

"We had our second album out and he liked what he heard. We got the support slot that day and Metallica frontman James Hetfield became a Volbeat fan."

The Spanish band's debut is a concept album featuring a single song divided into 14 tracks. They are currently working on the follow-up and will play London's Tufnell Park Dome on October 31 and at Damnation festival, Leeds on November 1.

The band say: "It's a huge honour and means a lot for Obsidian Kingdom to present Mantiis and its international release to the world with the support of the legendary Prog Magazine, home to many of the bands that have inspired our work.

"We feel there could be no better way to introduce our debut album to a wider audience for it to enjoy and judge; a post-modern rock opera where girls and insects dance to the sound of an eerie tune that will delight progressive music lovers from all over the world. Feast your ears and remember not to take candy from strangers."

He tells BraveWords: As I've got older, I have more ideas of what I want to do. It just so happened that as Cradle was going on, and I'm accumulating all these ideas, it wasn't going anywhere. Towards the end, I felt I had taken the band as far as I could - it wasn't right for me. That's the reason I started doing White Empress full-time."

They roped in three drummers to help with the record - Vinny Sabatino, Dean McCormick and Jose Duque. And the duo have given an exclusive track-by-track breakdown of the record to Prog to go along with our exclusive stream of the 12 songs.

Read Jon Durant's comments about each track beginning with Chromatique: The cloud guitar that begins the piece was done in the first round of stuff last August when I was alone in Portland. I did a ton of cloud guitar scapes that began the process. As it happens, Colin couldn't figure out what to do with the weird descending chromatic melody, so he left it alone. A few months later, I was going back through things, and it resonated with me, and it very quickly kicked in for me. Put the piece together very quickly, Colin dug it, and built the end section. This was also the first track for Vinny, who totally nailed it.

Dissemble: The second of two pieces utilising a cloud scape that I thought was too 'nice'. Colin ran them through his slicer to create rhythm patterns. The first rhythmic thing, a pulsing chord, is the cloud in question. In this case he then had this tabla figure, but the slice was in the wrong key for the tablas. So I suggested he pitch shift it to get it in line, from which he built the bass line. His first harmonic slide gave me the idea for the melody, and away we went.

Precis: This piece is a short summary of Burnt Belief. Colin had a couple ideas with the bass and programming, and no idea what to do with it. I re-arranged, moved, created chordal ideas and built the piece from there. He then re-did his bass parts and I constructed the final guitar, cloud and synth trumpet parts. Vinny came in and brought so much life to it. The moment when we come out of the bass harmonics and into the octave bass is one of the absolute highlights for me.

He called out the trio for their lack of hunger and revealed he needed to be surrounded by like-minded musicians to make the band work. He then recruited bassist Dean Markham and guitarists Gav Owen and Andy Kopczyk to take their place, with drummer Rich Smith completing the new-look band.

They say in a statement: "The band have now solidified the lineup with a cracking bunch of top class musicians who have gelled incredibly well and are all ready to roll out the storming new era for I Am I."

Nordstrom produced Hammerfall's debut Glory To The Brave in 1997 and Dronjak says his involvement on (r)Evolution gave them "energy and hunger" in the studio.

Dronjak tells The Classic Metal Show: "I think the artwork and the fact we're working with producer Fredrik Nordstrom again helps to influence people before they even heard a note from the album.

"The album does have some kind of energy and hunger and attitude that we had on the first album that maybe we haven't been able to recreate since then."

"It literally was written about 10 minutes�.it was finished right before we walked out here," explained the singer. "But now we've played all those songs and I've had just a little bit of wine - just a litte bit - so just give me one second to learn it and I'll be right with you."

The group played "Sexy Little Thing" from their 2009 debut and "Big Foot" from 2011's "Chickenfoot III" before being joined by Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger for Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" - featuring Jason Bonham on drums and Chad Smith on guitar.

The evening wrapped with a version of Zeppelin's "Rock And Roll." This summer, guitarist Joe Satriani shared an update on the status of Chickenfoot, saying that a third album by the band will happen.

"It is in the pipeline," said Satriani. "Everyone's got demos, everyone's excited. I don't know about the schedule though. That is still - as usual - in the chaotic Chickenfoot state."

Shot by Saturday Night and Sunday Morning director Karel Reisz to promote the band's 1975 album Venus and Mars, the TV ad consists of a smoky pool game where McCartney and co. sport some very timely fashions.

In his cross-tie and white shirt, the former Beatle looks like he could have emerged from the runway of Saint Laurent's spring 2013 show - for which, now judging from this, he could have been in part the inspiration.

As the album's lead single "Listen to What the Man Says" plays, McCartney dances around the pool table and the group start playing a game of snooker. Other songs from the album - "You Gave Me the Answer," "Treat Her Gently" and the title track - also soundtrack the one-minute ad.

Due October 21 in North America, (Oct 17 in Germany and October 20 in UK), the set features the rock legend recorded in concert at Wacken Open Air, an annual summer open air heavy metal festival that takes place in the small village of Wacken in Schleswig-Holstein in northern Germany.

Recorded live on August 3, 2013, "Raise The Dead" will be available as DVD + CD digipack. The DVD contains 22 songs plus an interview with Alice, while the double CD contains the complete concert.

With "Raise The Dead - Live From Wacken", the German label UDR is starting a new live series of legendary Wacken performances. When Alice learned about the purpose behind it, he was very happy to be one of the first to participate and support the Wacken Foundation.

The song originally appeared on Mott The Hoople's fifth studio album, 1972's "All The Young Dudes." The tune was also featured as the b-side to the title track when it was released as a single.

Down N Outz recently announced the addition of bassist Share Ross to the band. Ross was previously a member of Vixen and the short-lived supergroup Contraband.

The bassist will be on hand for Down N Outz' fall UK tour, which opens December 5 in Bristol. Down N Outz - who play only Mott-releated tunes (including songs by Mott, Ian Hunter and British Lions) - were formed specifically to open a series of 2009 reunion shows for Mott The Hoople at London's Hammersmith Odeon.

"When I'm writing about a certain subject or something I've personally gone through, it's over when the song is done. The meaning of the song evolves over time. Maybe I'm going through something completely different and all of a sudden that song means something different to me while I'm singing on stage."

The US rockers recently played the Shindig Festival in Baltimore - taking a break from their studio sessions where they're recording the follow-up to 2012's The Strange Case Of�.

Guitarist Sel Balamir says of the song: "This song is proving to be a live favorite already. It's heavy and groovy - that's what Amplifier are all about."

It's the second album track to be released, following the launch of Open Up in August. The band are currently on tour across Europe and will stop off for two UK dates in November. They'll play Manchester's Ritz on November 15 and London's Forum on November 16.

And the singer is so excited about the upcoming gigs he's made a brief clip for fans. He says: "Only a couple of weeks left until our UK tour with Haken and Maschine and we can't wait.

"We have the pleasure to visit several cities we've never visited before to do a full, extended UK tour and the pleasure to share the stage with two such amazing bands."

Drummer Hena Habegger previously said the album stood up against anything they've done before - and revealed its musical style was similar to 2005 release Lipservice.

He said: "You can't really compare different albums, but if one record comes closest in sound, it is probably Lipservice, except there's more of a playful feel to Bang! The arrangements spring one or two surprises."

I started writing Foolish Things over a year prior to releasing it on "Trade Winds". I wrote, and recorded a soft demo version of the song and put it up on SoundCloud. I asked followers and listeners to comment on thoughts and suggestions for the song as it was. After a week or so, I collected all the input and went back into the studio and recorded the official track. There were a couple of suggestions that I used, and in-lieu of receiving a cabasa as a gift, I added that in small portions, re-recorded vocals and re-mixed the string and piano parts. I tried not to listen to the song for a week or so, so I could come back to the song with a refreshed perspective. I re-mixed once again and then mastered it and that's the way it is today.

Lyrics were formed from a relationship I was in for a while and after enough time I started asking myself why I was spending time with this person. Spending money on dinners, trips, gifts etc... and thinking about all of the time that I spent with this girl that I would never get back. Foolish things in my mind. It was my own fault that it dragged out as long as it did, and my own fault that I didn't get out of the situation earlier, but it ended up being great material for a song. Generally I don't write personal songs, but I figured this would be a great opportunity.

I recorded the acoustic parts with a D-15 Martin acoustic. The string and piano parts were grabbed from a KORG, while using Neumann and Electro Voice microphones to record the vocals. I use Pro Tools software with a smaller 003 Digidesign interface, all within a home-made studio in Loveland, Colorado. Thanks for listening to my story!