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The band provided the following details about the late night TV plans, "We're excited to celebrate Craig Ferguson's final season on CBS as he has personally invited us to join him for an entire week of performances starting Monday, November 17th. We'll be playing every night that week and on the first night (Monday) we'll sit down with Craig to chat about all things 'Tallica.

"Met Club members should log in for information about how they can be a guest in the studio audience during the filming of the show in Los Angeles, CA. Tune in to the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on weeknights at 12:37 AM EST."

The band also announced on Wednesday that they are seeking audio recordings, videos, ticket stubs, snapshots and anything else from fans from their Kill 'Em All and Ride The Lightning eras for use in upcoming deluxe reissues of their first two studio albums.

Here is what the band had to say, "A little over two months ago we reached out to you for your assistance with the definitive Master of Puppets book that author Matt Taylor is assembling and you came through in a very big way - thank you!! We're back again hoping you can dip into your personal archives and find some gems from the Kill 'Em All and Ride The Lightning eras as we prep deluxe remastered versions of those two albums coming in 2015.

"We want it all! Did you manage to sneak a video camera into a show long before they fit in your pocket? Maybe your old instamatic camera for some snap shots? A cassette Walkman with a microphone? We're looking for anything and everything... audio, video, photos, fliers, ticket stubs, the set list you picked up off the floor, and in general any mementos you may have from that around that time.

The Official Charts Company reports the expanded version of 1971's "Led Zeppelin IV" landed at No. 4 in the midweek ranking, while 1973's "Houses Of The Holy" enters at No. 7. The full weekly chart will be published on Sunday.

Released in November 1971, the album - which is officially untitled but is generally referred to as "Led Zeppelin IV" - featured anthems such as "Stairway To Heaven", "Rock And Roll", "Black Dog" and "When The Levee Breaks". The album was inducted into the Grammy Hall Of Fame in 1999 and has been certified 23x platinum by the RIAA.

This is what happened to Roger Waters, the famed former Pink Floyd member (though he is not a part of their new album), who attended the honoring at the Long Island Music Hall of Fame of Live Nation's Ron Delsener with a black eye and stitches (Via Page Six).

The short, set to premiere in the UK on Sky 3D and Sky Arts on Halloween night, is based upon May's personal collection of Diableries, a set of stereoscopic cards published in France from the early 1860s which feature visions of the underworld. Together with historians Paula Fleming and Denis Pellerin, May published a book titled Diableries: Stereoscopic Adventures in Hell in 2013, and One Night in Hell represents the guitarist's newest attempt to bring the devils, skeletons and demons depicted in the cards to life.

As BVB confirmed they will play a one-off gig at The Garage in London on Friday, March 13 next year, the singer reveals they were moved by the loss of a friend as well as the suicide of actor and comedian Robin Williams when writing the track Drag Me To The Grave.

Biersack tells Loudwire: "Lyrically it came from a morbid subject. During the making of the record we experienced - people we know and famous people like Robin Williams - a lot of suicide going on. One of the people who worked near us during the studio time in Vancouver unfortunately took her own life and that was incredibly difficult.

Ozzy Osbourne will receive the annual Global Icon Award at the city's SSE Hydro on Sunday, November 9, following appearances by Royal Blood, Calvin Harris, Nicki Minaj and others.

Slash says of the intimate Friday show, to be filmed for later broadcast across the globe: "I can't wait to bring the rock back to MTV and the world stage from Glasgow."

"People have been asking what exactly I'm doing at the moment, we'll I'm getting back in the studio having tried to make myself rest after the tours," Iommi explains. "I'm writing, mostly just putting ideas down rather than complete songs. I like to create all sorts of moods with my music and then decide later how they might be used."

"One specific piece though is for the CSI TV series that will be aired in the US on November 9th," he continued. "I was asked if I'd be interested, so I had a look at the footage and came up with an idea they seemed to like. It's not very long but it was different working with images rather than just music, I'd certainly be up for doing more."

The Aerosmith star's autobiography debuted last week at No. 8 on the "Hardcover Nonfiction" chart, and currently sits at No. 10 in its second week.

In "Rocks", Perry opens up for the first time about the wild, inside story of his life in the legendary band he co-founded in 1970. The guitarist just completed a 2-week nationwide book signing tour to launch the memoir.

He met Vaughan when he was just seven years old, and he's remained influenced for his entire career. But Shepherd tells the Coventry Telegraph: "Some people have said, 'He's trying to fill his shoes.' It was never my intention. There will only be one Stevie Ray Vaughan."

That's why he considered avoiding playing any of his hero's songs on last year's album Goin' Home. "My drummer, Chris Layton, used to play with Stevie. He looked at me and said, 'How can you make an album of your biggest influences and not have him?' He's probably the best authority - so I thought, 'If he says it's okay, then it's okay,'"

Cash recorded Hurt for 2002 album American IV: The Man Comes Around, produced by Rick Rubin. NIN mainman Trent Reznor admitted in 2008 that he'd had reservations over allowing his "most personal song" to be remade.

He said: "I'd known where I was when I wrote it. I know what I was thinking about. I know how I felt. Hearing it was like someone kissing your girlfriend. It felt invasive."

But when he saw the video, "it really, really made sense - I thought, 'What a powerful piece of art.' I never got to meet Johnny but I'm happy I contributed the way I did. It felt like a warm hug."

Mitchell suffered a heart attack on Monday, just hours after the second annual event had ended. It had included a reunion of Superjoint Ritual. Anselmo says: "Tragically, unexpectedly, and with heart-crushing reality, Corey passed away Monday, after the event ended. This is devastating on so many levels.

"I was introduced to Corey first and foremost as a bestselling crime author, and shortly after that meeting I agreed to have him as my co-writer of a novel I'd been working on. It was his idea to create a horror and film festival. He had a vision, and no one worked harder than him to see the event through."

The one-off show will take place at the O2 Arena on December 3, 2015 and tickets go on sale on this Friday (October 31). O2 priority tickets are available now.

The group have confirmed they'll release a new album in 2015. They've been in a recording studio in Portugal writing material for the record, which will be a follow-up to 2013's Now What?!

Featuring the band's covers of Motorhead's Killers and Cameo's Word Up, alongside a host of rollicking originals, God Loves Cowboys celebrates the first decade of the Berlin band's career.

He says: "As we approach the final week leading up to the release of our second album, I can safely say I'm filled with pride. We've all laughed, cried and experienced amazing things together and as one unit created something beautiful.

"We've created music, art, friendships, memories and a place for people to thrive together. This album is yours. You inspired it, you enabled its release and now you own it. So let's make this week a celebration of how far we've come and how far we all have to go."

The live dates kick off in Portsmouth on November 12 and come on the back of ADTR's summer appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals and their sold-out show at Cardiff Motorpoint Arena.

Decade's debut album Good Luck was released in January this year via Spinefarm Records, while Lower Than Atlantis released their self-titled fourth album earlier this month via Sony.

In August he said: "I've only known them for most of my life, so I'm really happy that I finally got to record with them." Now Holt tells Full Metal Jackie: "Kirk wanted to do this solo more than anybody. I think for him it's like coming home - going full circle, finally playing on an Exodus album with the guys he started with at 16 years old.

"I've spent a lot of time with Kirk over the last four years and we really reconnected. We spent a lot of time making people pee their pants, listening to Kirk and I speak of all these criminal stories of us as kids."

The event runs across multiple venues from December 4 to 7 and features an exclusive tie-in set in which Wire and Swans will unite to perform Wire's 1991 release Drill.

Recently added acts include British Sea Power with the Bournemouth Symphony Brass Quintet, Young Fathers, These New Puritans and many others. They join the previously-announced Goblin - performing their soundtrack for horror movie Suspiria - Savages, Toy, Gold Panda and more. Further bands are to be added to the bill.

The London four-piece need to raise �10,000 to pay for the project. Their campaign runs for another 22 days, and they're �8000 short - and due to the terms of their Pledge campaign, no money will be collected unless the full amount is promised by fans.

He says: "We're really excited to shoot our very first concert DVD at the legendary KOKO in London. Why did we choose this place and this country?

"For the last two years we've done so many tours around the world but toured the UK eight times. It was also the first place we toured outside of Japan. Every time, we experienced so many things and the UK became a second home."

And while he'd prefer his career to continue with the veteran metal outfit, he doesn't intend to stop playing to crowds, whatever the circumstances. Halford tells the Broward Palm Beach New Times:

"It's a wonderful life. We take our music seriously and we take our performances very seriously - but you've got to be able to lighten up every now and again or else you'll go f***ing crazy.

"I want to keep doing this for as long as I can do it. I don't know how long that's going to be. I look at all these other great artists like Leonard Cohen; he's still out there. Willie Nelson, he's still out there. Mick Jagger, he's still out there. I'm like, 'I'd love to do that.'

"Will l have the opportunity to do it in the same place I'm at now? Maybe - or maybe not. If not, then you'll find me in the Bada Bing Lounge off the strip in Las Vegas."

He'd suspended his career as a live performer in 2009 after a legal battle with a former record label spiralled out of control. But it was finally resolved in 2013 - and Fripp announced he'd formed a new Crimson lineup featuring drummers Gavin Harrison, Bill Reiflin and Pat Mastelotto alongside Levin, saxophonist Mel Collins and Jakko Jakszyk on guitar. They recently completed a US tour.

Levin tells Something Else: "I am very impressed, yet again, with Robert's musical vision. Some of his ideas for this lineup seemed like they'd be tough to translate into a successful show.

"But, as has happened before, I found that having faith in his vision of what King Crimson is paid off with music that's not like the last lineup and a show that's a bit radical in ways - truly 'progressive' progressive rock."

With a ten second snippet of twenty separate artists spanning various genres (and three narrators thrown in for good measure), Anthony manages to turn Michael Jackson's shining moment into the musical styles of various hard rock heroes.

As well as the tour which kicks off in Glasgow on November 30, The Who are celebrating their 50th anniversary with the 2CD set The Who Hits 50, released on November 3.

But guitarist Townshend says he isn't looking forward to the year-long jaunt, even if playing live is second nature to him. According to the Toronto Sun, Townshend tells Event magazine: "It seemed like a good idea about six months ago but I hate performing and The Who and touring. But I'm innately good at it, I don't find it hard."

Part of the Guitar Center's 50th anniversary celebrations, the 90-minute concert special sees Slash and the band perform tracks from his career, including "Paradise City", "Sweet Child O' Mine", "Slither" and "Night Train", as well as songs from his new album, "World on Fire".

The Roxy was one of three concerts Slash played in Hollywood's most legendary clubs to launch his new album; he also rocked The Troubadour and The Whisky in the same week.

"Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators Live From The Sunset Strip" will be broadcast Friday, November 7 at 9pm on DIRECTV's Audience Channel 239.

Today brings another step forward with "Buzzkill(er)." The track is a sonic continuation of "Rough Detective," the last new song heard from the supergroup back in January, and, before that, "Open Up (That's Enough)."

It's rough-edged, punk-spirited and, on it, frontwoman Alison Mosshart's vocals cutting like a razor blade. When "Rough Detective" and "Open Up" were released, Jack White's Third Man Records said of the tracks in a press release that they're "unlike anything else the band has ever done and are both ample reminders of the ferocity of this motley collection of low-lifes, grifters and ne'er-do-wells. These songs are not throw-aways. These songs are not demos. These songs are not outtakes."

And he admits there was "trepidation" about whether the band would disrupt that peace. Wentz tell the Metro: "I didn't know what to do with myself. My personal life was a hot mess. So I decided I was going to get happy on my own. I took my kid to pre-school, I went to my local coffee shop.

And apart from snippets she's heard on the radio, Tarja has heard none of the band's material since then - and says she has no desire to seek it out. She tells Metalpaths: "I haven't been listening to their albums - I haven't been interested in listening to their albums. I don't know the music. I heard some songs on the radio, but that's all I know."

Tarja's replacement Anette Olzon was herself replaced, by Floor Jansen in 2012. And in her solo career, Tarja has resisted the temptation to live off her Nightwish glory days.

She adds: "Of course, it's a part of history - it's a very important part of my musical history. It brought me where I am. I don't have any problems with that. It really showed me a totally new direction musically in my life.

The video follows a reveller attending three different parties. At the first, he fills up on a spiked punch before going on to enjoy an increasingly psychedelic night out with a spectacular climax.

"The best parties are weird parties," says Velco. "When someone takes command of the stereo, turning off the Starbucks' Acid Jazz comp and throwing on the Bootsy Collins and then some creep wearing a medallion doses the punch. People get free, people lose it. Someone conjures a demon. You have to let yourself transform for the moment but you don't need Halloween to be a freak... so give it up on Arbor Day, Grandparents' Day, Thursday�".

ZTV promotes Townsend's latest album, Z2, which continues the story of the coffee-swilling alien. It was released yesterday and contains two separate titles - Devin Townsend Project set Sky Blue plus Dark Matter, the follow-up to 2007's Ziltoid The Omniscient.

The Canadian mastermind recently said: "The album in general is about fighting through the ugly moments. Z2 was a very challenging record - but after intense personal scrutiny, I feel very proud. It's the most accurate representation of a challenging time."

Denovali Records say: "The band's three key musical influences go some way to explaining King Nine's ambitious, expansive, but always accessible scope:

"The electronica of Boards of Canada; the movie soundtracks of Ennio Morricone and John Carpenter; the melodicism and melancholia of Kid-A era Radiohead and Arcade Fire."

He tells MetalMouth: "After writing and producing numerous KingBathmat albums and more recently the acoustic solo album Unearth, I decided I wanted to create my first instrumental album. I wanted it to be set audibly and visually in a dark, bleak and apocalyptic aura of despair and anger.

"I wanted to focus on enormous riffs and sorrowful, yet powerful, musical refrains and place them within a terrain of unusual time signatures, interspersed by moments of psychedelic calm."

"It's pure adrenaline. Rise Against ensures I'll never be able to fake it. I physically could not fake that," He tells Kerrang. "The whole day I wonder myself, 'Where am I going to get the energy to do that again? How is this going to happen?' It's one of those things where I'm glad someone just kicks me out there. If they didn't, I'd just say, 'There's no way! I can't do it tonight.'