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Taylor tells XFM: "That's the burden of being the frontman. [But] I'm not the boss. Trust me. 'm not the boss in either band. It's very much a committee. I help make decisions, but I don't make decisions. But that's the perception.

"I'm a big boy. I can take it. I have a Hello Kitty pillow that I cry into every night. But that's not the point. It keeps me humble. It keeps me where I need to be. You just kind of have to take it and roll with it. People dog me now, but they'll love me later, and it's just the way it's always been."

But there's no word on when the project will be released - or when he'll have time to finish it. Moody tells The Jasta Show: "I'm working with people like Boecklin and Logan Mader, who's just an amazing guitar player.

"It's not done yet - I'm taking my time on it. My plate's full. 5FDP is my meat and potatoes, and our fan base, and if I take away from that right now, it'd be bad timing. So I'm just taking it stride by stride. When it comes out, it'll come out."

The lineup is completed by frontman Andrew Freeman, who's been with them since they started the project in 2012 and previously worked with Lynch Mob, the Offspring and Hurricane. Earlier this year they released a sneak preview of their track Devil In Me.

Now they've confirmed their album will appear via Frontiers Records early in 2015. Guitarist Campbell, now with Def Leppard, recently admitted the band had never planned to write together. He told TicketsThere: "It just seemed the next logical step after we'd done some shows. It seemed right to try to create a sound that's ours, not just trying to recreate the Dio sound."

Brewer, who joined the group in the spring of 2011, had the following to say about his decision to leave the group, "After almost four years of good times with The Faceless I've decided to leave the band. I just feel that it's time for me to make this move because I want to make new music, do more teaching, and to also have availability for any musical opportunities that may arise.

"The Faceless is a full time band and they need members who can commit to that schedule. I would like to thank the fans of the band for embracing me and encourage them to continue their support of The Faceless."

Rudinger, who officially replaced Lyle Cooper early last year, posted the following statement on his Facebook page on Monday, "After much thought I've decided that it is time for me to leave The Faceless to pursue other projects and seek out other opportunities. I will be looking for work; I love touring, writing, and recording and plan on doing all of these things for a long time to come. I would like to thank the band, as well as every person that attended a show in the last two years. I saw a lot of places and made some great friends along the way; it was a great experience.

"I'd also like to apologize to any fans that were planning on coming out to see me with the band next week at Knotfest, as well as Europe next month. I'm sure I will see you all again at some point in the future! I wish the band the best of luck, I have no doubts they will continue onward. Thanks."

The respected session musician also appeared on Robert Plant's debut solo album Pictures At Eleven, Pink Floyd's The Final Cut, and Mike Oldfield's Islands and Earth Moving. He also wrote books on sax technique.

Baker Street, from Rafferty's second solo album City to City, won an Ivor Novello Award for Best Song Musically And Lyrically in 1978. In 2010 it was recognized for having been played over 5,000,000 times.

The bassist has told Rolling Stone that the band is nearly finished writing and the new music is "super danceable, funky s**t and some real introspective, pretty stuff."

According to Flea, the band has written nearly 30 songs - far more material than they intend lay down on the album, but that's the norm for the Los Angeles foursome.

In honor of the episode, Grohl and the rest of the Foos played a special show at the club. Now, the band has announced they will be making the walk across the street to play a substantially larger venue: Wrigley Field.

The Foo Fighters will take the stage at the iconic baseball field where the Chicago Cubs play on Aug. 29. They even announced it by posting a photo of the band creating their own baseball card.

"BlizzCon is on!," posted Metallica. "The annual gathering of those around the globe who are part of the gaming communities surrounding Blizzard Entertainment's huge games Warcraft, Diablo, and StarCraft is taking place in Anaheim, CA and lucky for us, they have invited us to their party."

BlizzCon fetaures developer panels, exclusive interviews, intense eSports tournaments, the legendary Friday night contests, and now Metallica. "We're thrilled to have Metallica blowing out our speakers at BlizzCon this year," said Mike Morhaime, CEO and cofounder of Blizzard Entertainment. "After two full days of epic gaming and intense eSports action, an earth-shaking concert is the perfect sendoff for everyone at the show and watching from home."

He says he tends to wrote "moody" songs and wants to move away from that mould on his next record. Gabriel tells Rolling Stone: "I'm trying to do some happy stuff. Even now. Because it's very easy for me to fall into some moody stuff.

"I wanna do something that's more dance-y, and more like an organic dance record. I've got a couple of songs I've been working on the last two weeks that I think are beginning to go in that direction.

"I'm a self-conscious dancer publicly. But privately I really enjoy it. You know I was a drummer originally and I love grooves, I love rhythm. My kids would tell me I'm not quite good, but I am enthusiastic."

Inez tells Lucas H Gordon: "The difference between the LA scene - I was born and raised here - and the Seattle scene is, Soundgarden was a band for 10 years before they got signed to a major label. So they had a lot of time to get together and gel as a band.

"Even all the bands like Nirvana and Alice In Chains in their early days and Pearl Jam, Mother Love Bone - they had a lot of time to jam together before they released their music to the world. So I think that was very important.

"Where here in Los Angeles, they were just trying to mix and match bands by 'Oh, we need a bass player with long, blonde hair,' or 'We need a singer with curly hair.' They were just trying to do that.

The song features lyrics by Gilmour's wife, author Polly Samson. "She's describing the slightly dysfunctional human relationships that we have within Pink Floyd," the guitarist tells Absolute Radio, "and how a lot of the time we don't communicate that well�we're not that good at talking to each other. When we play our instruments there's a communication that speaks louder than words."

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

The release coincides with the band's 25th anniversary and features guests Victor Arduini and Mark Zonder of Fates Warning, classical guitarist Christopher Ladd and cellist Mark Shuping.

Nuclear Blast say: "Suspended At Aphelion is easily the pinnacle of While Heaven Wept's recorded output so far, combining the sweeping melodies, dense orchestration, glorious bombast, and heartfelt sincerity they've always been known for.

The full list of songs recorded is The Bars by Black Flag, Banned In DC by Bad Brains, Kids Of The Black Hole by Adolescents, Vision Thing by The Sisters Of Mercy, Seeing Red by Killing Joke, Everything Falls Apart by Husker Du and Cortez The Killer by Neil Young.

He says: "I lay it all out there. I talked to my wife about the song, and told her I was going to talk about the darkness of our marriage. This is a tool of strength, to show how we made it through those trials and tribulations, and how we've grown into stronger, better people who still know how to love each other. She loves the song."

Tichy left David Coverdale's outfit in 2013, saying he wanted to focus on his band Something Unto Nothing with Sass Jordan. He's since confirmed his membership of Sweet Lynch alongside Michael Sweet of Stryper, George Lynch of Lynch Mob and James Lomenzo, formerly of Megadeth.

Caffery reports: "Brian is currently sending me drum tracks for five songs that I will release on my next solo record in 2015. I won't be able to finish until after the Trans-Siberian Orchestra tour is finished, but I'm hoping to do some tracking on the days off. Lots of great musicians will be around me too, so perhaps I will steal some of them for appearances on these tunes!"

hAND explain: "We managed to stay quite true to the concept - we set about building the album as we would like it, completely finishing it before working through the second time.

"It was quite liberating to take the more traditional, dynamic approach. As well as revealing more detail and giving instruments more space to breathe, nuances and expression are surprisingly forthcoming."

They'd originally revealed plans for the title in 2013 - before the launch of their self-titled first album in February this year. Issues say: "We had a lot of fun making this record, being able to reimagine songs and show that we aren't just metalcore kids, or whatever you want to call us.

It includes 10 previously unreleased tracks alongside material from throughout the Genesis co-founder's career from 1969 until the present. It's described as "a definitive overview of Ant's career as a recording artist."

This Is Rock 'N' Roll II will be released on Thursday, October 23, in digital and physical formats. The band have also re-recorded the album's lead single This Is Rock 'N' Roll and made it available as a free download.

Originally released in 2001, This Is Rock 'N' Roll was The Quireboys' comeback following a 1993 split. The re-release includes four bonus tracks recorded this year.

This time when we spoke to Page, the subjects were 1971's untitled fourth album (known as Led Zeppelin IV) and 1973's Houses of the Holy. Zeppelin IV was where they combined their acoustic and electric sides to great effect. It's the third-best selling album in U.S. history and houses, not coincidentally, "Stairway to Heaven," the song which has probably been played on classic rock radio more than any other. But beyond that, rock fans have memorized most of the LP, which also includes "Rock and Roll," "Black Dog" and "Going to California."

On the follow-up, Houses of the Holy, all bets were off, with the band incorporating funk and reggae and also expanding on the epic feel of "Stairway" on songs like "No Quarter" and "The Rain Song."

As always, Page speaks of Zeppelin's output with absolute confidence, saying of their songs "They're all pretty special," referring to "Stairway to Heaven" as "groundbreaking," but is happy to heap praise on his onetime bandmate Robert Plant's vocals on "The Crunge," and give props to James Brown for inspiring the song.

While remaining as mysterious as you'd expect him to, he also addressed what his next move may be. And soon after that, our all-too-short phone conversation came to and end.

Radio.com: You've spent a lot of time working on Led Zeppelin projects in the past few years. Do you have a favorite Zeppelin album? Jimmy Page: I guess I've got to say the first album is the favorite, isn't it? Because without the first album, all the others wouldn't have come. It's a tricky question for me, all of the songs have all got their own particular character. Which was all very intentional, that they would be different, sound different, be performed differently. Consequently, when you had an album, a collection of songs at any given point in time, they're all pretty special.

Led Zeppelin's fourth album is the third best-selling record in U.S. history, having sold over 23 million copies. Does it surprise you that that's the one that became the biggest hit? I don't really know anything about sales figures, to be honest with you. I can tell you what the work ethic was for Led Zeppelin IV. There was a remote country house, that actually had a few bands that rehearsed there, but not recorded. It was called Headley Grange. I wanted to ask the band to make a commitment to stay at this house, and not only to rehearse the album there, but also record it. We had a mobile truck to do that. I wanted everyone to commit to go to Headley Grange, eat there, sleep there, make music there and record there. It was a really concentrated effort. It was 1971, the band had been going for a few years at that point. The work ethic really shows. The fourth album encapsulated some remarkable music that was really groundbreaking. We were able to have something like "When the Levee Breaks," which, sonically, was very menacing. But then you had the flip side: something like "Going to California," which is really intimate. And all of this was able to be achieved at this remote house.

Did it surprise you that "Stairway to Heaven" became the song that got the most radio play? Well at the time, I knew that that was really groundbreaking. It was groundbreaking as far as starting off with this really fragile guitar, then there's this area where it really starts to unravel, and then as it continues, there's more that gets exposed, and more layers, more textures and more colors. The intensity of the song kept building, into this momentum. By the time the song finishes, it's at a totally different tempo than how it opened. It was tricky to do. I knew it was really good, but I wasn't sure� I didn't expect it to be the real standout track from the first four albums. I wouldn't have thought that was going to happen.

The fourth album and Houses of the Holy have had a lot of riffs that have been sampled often. When the Beastie Boys put out Licensed to Ill, it referenced those two albums a lot. What did you think of it when you first heard artists sampling your music? Well, I guess I felt it was a compliment. Without being specific. I know the Beastie Boys used quite a bit of our stuff, really, didn't they? I can tell you one thing, to go back to "Whole Lotta Love." I've seen the riff of that song show up in mashups on YouTube, that riff got people to the point where they were inspired to do their own thing, that's really cool. I'm not going to complain about that. But the Beastie Boys, that was almost as long ago as Led Zeppelin!

The former Van Halen and current Chickenfoot bassist sang lead vocals with Snake 40 years ago and provided backing vocals to VH frontmen Dave Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar. But handling the main role would be too much for him, even though he believes he has the voice for the job.

Anthony tells 107.7 The Bone: "I don't need that kind of pressure on me. Lead singers, they're their own breed. It wasn't until the fourth or fifth Van Halen record that people would go, 'Wow! You're singing backgrounds on those records. That's not David Lee Roth.' And I go, 'Hell, no! That's not David Lee Roth.'

Frontman Tyler Connelly was present when Cooper recorded his spoken-word passage. Connelly tells Loudwire: "I flew out to where he lives. He's got a studio at his house, he has a radio show there, and it was really straightforward."

"They had the stuff at his house, but Howard Benson, the producer, was back in LA - he couldn't go. So we just had a Skype call. Howard could hear everything that was going on and tell Alice what to do.

The clip finds the five-piece band - and some of the actors featured - struggling against their perceived difficulties, in this case some fairly ghoulish figures just in time for Halloween.

By the midway point of the video, after some fairly ominous imagery, drummer Matt Nicholls suddenly becomes some sort of werewolf and requires an exorcism mid-video.

Afterward, all hell breaks loose on set, with the band really getting into the moment performing the song - but before then, there's more of a classic, perhaps '50s or '60s vibe going on, with the band performing the track rather rigidly, a far cry from their energetic live shows.

The band played "Volcano" before Bono and The Edge teamed up with a string section for "Every Breaking Wave." "Songs Of Innocence" was recorded in Dublin, London, New York and Los Angeles and produced by Danger Mouse, Paul Epworth, Ryan Tedder, Declan Gaffney and Flood.

Following last month's free release of the album via iTunes, U2 recently issued a CD version of the project - complete with a 24-page booklet. A deluxe, gatefold double album, contains an acoustic session of songs from the album and four additional tracks.

While many bands bemoan the effect digital downloading and filesharing has had on business, the hardcore icons just keep on doing what they've always done best - entertaining audiences from the sage.

Setari tells SROMaginc: "Once the whole digital download thing happened, it kind of killed record sales quite a bit. But we've been fortunate, because we were always a band that was primarily a live band.

"Our real proving ground and our main thing was touring and performing, so it hasn't had a terrible effect on us, although it has affected us somewhat. It's about going on the road and playing and playing and playing. The records, all they do is give you an outlet to get new music out so you can go back on the road.

The 13-song follow-up to 2012's Blood will be released on November 17 via Atlantic. Frontwoman Maria Brink had the following to say about of the track:

"It's about embracing these things in me that I used to keep inside - they're a little bit twisted and a little bit wrong." But it also celebrates meeting "another person who finds these things beautiful."

Mainman Kirk Windstein - who left Down to focus on Crowbar for this year's 25th anniversary - said of the follow-up to 2011's Sever The Wicked Hand: "The focus, determination and attitude in the band is at an all-time high. We are 100% ready to get this juggernaut rolling and never touch the brakes again. Crowbar is my heart and soul. This music is a part of me that I am extremely proud of."

The band recently featured in NOLA, a TV series covering the history of heavy blues. Guitarist Matt Brunson is a member of supergroup Devil's Highway, who are currently working on their debut album.

In Perry's newly released memoirs, Rocks: My Life in and Out of Aerosmith, co-written with David Ritz, Perry talks about all of the ups and downs of the band, and unsurprisingly, there's a good amount of focus on his relationship with Tyler. While Perry is quick to compliment Tyler's abilities as a singer, songwriter, musician and frontman, he pulls no punches when describing how difficult life can be with him. He was quicker to talk about his partnership with fellow Aerosmith guitarist Brad Whitford, his respect for Cheap Trick and his love of his wife, Billie. That mysterious session he recently did with Paul McCartney? He didn't have much to say about that, but we tried.

Radio.com: So, what made you decide to write the book now? Joe Perry: Aerosmith is carving out this new adventure that there's really no paradigm for. In the last few years, we hit our 40th anniversary, we were working on our last album for Sony [2012's Music From Another Dimension], which was kind of symbolic of the change in the music business. There were some personal things as well: my kids were growing up and going through college. It felt like the end of an era, but the beginning of another. It felt like the right time to write the book.

I know you're a huge fan of classic R&B. I'm guessing it was cool to have David Ritz - who co-wrote autobiographies of Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin and B.B. King - as your co-author. Without a doubt. I read a lot anyway� it's probably one of the only things I got from school. I really love to read. I read quite a few autobiographies, to see how people did it, but also to find a co-writer. I didn't want to do it on my own, I needed to work with somebody, so that it would be more like a piece of literature. David was the right guy.

As a guy who has worked with lots of iconic artists with great stories, did he push you to tell stories that you may not have wanted to talk about? A lot of that comes from the author. I read some books that David did that weren't so great, frankly. I mean, obviously the Ray Charles book was amazing. So I read a few more that were really good. And then I read a few that weren't so good. So I asked him about it. And he said, "It's really what you put into it. You are the author of the book, I'm just here to help you translate it and capture your voice." Certain people only gave him a certain amount of time. It's not unlike making a record: you get what you give. I was determined to get this right. It was a bigger job than I had expected, but it was worth it.

I enjoyed reading about your early impressions of Brad Whitford. You guys are one of the best guitar teams in rock and roll, but he doesn't get the amount of press that you do. But what is it about your relationship that makes it work? Well, when we met, we were both at a point in our journey of learning the instrument. We were both capable, we were at the level where we could play and make it sound reasonably professional, but we still had a long way to go. We got along really well, as friends and bandmates. There was just something about the way we played guitar together. He studied music at Berkley School of Music, he knew more technical things, musically, than I did. As opposed to my way: I was learning stuff from listening to records. We were coming from two different places, musically, but we didn't really have to talk about who was going to play what. People don't realize that he's as good of a guitar player as he is. It's a very non-verbal communication that we have.

Of course, there's a lot more talk about your relationship with Steven Tyler. Over the years, have you had to work to figure out how to make your relationship work, given your different personalities? That was one of the big things that allowed us to get back together again. After I left the band - for a lot of reasons that I get into in the book - after the dust settled� [I realized] It's the five guys in the band that are responsible for keeping it together. In the '70s, we never really sat down as a band at that point and dealt with that stuff, so I left. Brad left six months later. I was gone for close to five years. After that, we got together, and we learned that certain things you can't change about people and you gotta learn how to adjust your way of working together.

The project's new album Ragnarok Juletide will be released on November 11 via Spinefarm and, for the first time ever, will include English versions of the songs.

Organisers say there is nothing "jokey" about the project, insisting "the record truly and effectively captures the majesty, the wonder and the glory of the holiday season. The songs are carefully arranged and executed, with flawless musicianship and world-class vocal contributions.

The band's sixth release was produced by Nick Raskulinecz (Rush, Alice In Chains, Foo Fighters, Mastadon) at Studio 606, the Northridge, California-based studio owned by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl.