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"It's the end of Sabbath and people have been asking 'well I thought you were doing an album," Ozzy tells news.com.au. "But the things we've discovered are - number one: People aren't really interested in hearing new stuff and number two: If we were to do an album before the tour - it would take three or four years to complete the album. We want to end it on a high note.

"Just to be remembered is enough for me," he adds. "I thought no one would remember me when we first started playing music. I'd rather end it now though than drag it out for another five albums. I mean I'm 67 in December."

Osbourne has plans of his own once the Sabbath machine shuts down for good. "Well I did pretty well for 35 years, and I'm not retiring," Ozzy explains. "I'm going to do a solo album and a solo tour. I mean my wife's a shop-a-holic always off buying f---g shoes or something so I've got to keep the money coming somehow."

The follow-up to 2011's Neighbourhoods comes after a year in which Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus split with Tom DeLonge and started working with Alkaline Trio's Matt Skiba instead.

The band also set a record for being the first to perform on all seven continents - and all within a calendar year. In the documentary, Ulrich says: "We love to get out of the house and explore and there's no better place to do it than right here."

The 20-minute film was shot by director Adam Dubin, who also produced A Year and a Half in the Life of Metallica in 1992. Metallica say: "We found ourselves playing a gig for a couple dozen friends, fans and penguins at Carlini Base in the South Shetland Islands of Antarctica.

The Eagles are said to have made $73.5 during the past 12 months - although the figure only puts them fifth in the wider music business chart. Pop star Katy Perry took $135m, boy band One Direction generated $130m and country artist Garth Brooks cleared $90m.

And according to NME, Yorke asks Santa for several special requests. Yorke says: "Now that I'm 47, if I have any last remaining credit with you, I have just these small requests: That my kids have a beautiful Christmas with love and understanding and peace. Perhaps some heavy snow.

The package presents the original record alongside "The River: Single Album" - originally named "The Ties That Bind" - a 10-track album that Springsteen recorded in 1979 as a follow up to 1978's "Darkness On The Edge Of Town" but never released.

The 4CD/3DVD collection also includes 22 outtakes from the studio sessions alongside an hour-long documentary/interview and a legendary 1980 concert filmed at Arizona State University in Tempe, AZ.

"We made the box set and there was no plan to tour," Springsteen tells SiriusXM's E Street Radio. "Then we felt, 'Maybe we should do a show just to raise the flag and have some fun and make it a little more exciting.' I said. 'Okay, maybe we'll do a show in New York.'

"Then that went quick to, 'Maybe we should do a couple of shows.' Then it turns into, 'Maybe we should do a small series of shows, basically one-nighters, with maybe a little bit around the country."

A nine-week series of North American shows promoting the release will begin January 16 in Pittsburgh, PA and wrap up with two Los Angeles dates in mid-March. The 2016 run will see Springsteen and the E Street Band perform "The River" in its entirety.

"It's going to take a little guessing out of the evening," Springsteen admits. "You're going to know what the next song is. Maybe we'll make up for some of that in the encores.

"We plan on picking out some of the best of our outtakes for the end of the show, and there will obviously be some fan favorites. I don't know myself how it will play out. It should be interesting and a lot of fun for the fans."

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi ran the ashram but it was abandoned by him and his followers in the 1970s. It was taken over by the local forestry department in 2003 but remained a big draw for fans of the fab four.

Frontman Oli Sykes recently discussed the change in fans' behaviour at concerts, saying: "We used to judge a good show on how many people went moshing and how big the pit was. But as our music's changed, it's now how many people are jumping up and down, how many people are singing along.

Frontman Phil Labonte had the following to say about the release of the new clip: "We're excited to announce the release of our new video for Victory Lap.

Madiro held the job since May of 2014 when he stepped up from his role in the band's road crew to fill in for Nick Augusto. Trivium say: "Mat stepped up for us at a dire moment where it was either leave a tour, or carry on. With Mat, we will forever be eternally grateful of everything he helped us out with. Mat's time filling in for us was much appreciated.

"Creatively though, we felt at this time we needed to make a change. And every change, every difficult decision and every evolution that Trivium has either decided, or been forced to make has been for the necessary for us to continue on as a functioning band.

"The things that go on behind the scenes that directly involve the Trivium members aren't always apparent from an outside fan's perspective. With that said, our new drummer is Paul Wandtke from Chicago. With Paul, we took our careful time deciding exactly what had to happen and how."

The Prog stage will play host to headliners Procol Harum plus Uriah Heep, Hawkwind and Life Signs, while the Country stage will be topped by returnees Hayseed Dixie and the Blues stage will feature Walter Trout and King King.

"To do something new or interesting with this type of music is very, very difficult," says singer and guitarist John Baizley. "You gotta have two guitars. You gotta have a bass player and a drummer. That's how you define rock music. So by default, yes, we're a rock band. But here's the thing: we've never really felt the necessity to be pigeonholed, and we've never really felt any inclination to be part of anything other than our own thing."

"It's still rock. But with a question mark behind it," he adds. "What we're trying to do is write a stunning, beautiful, powerful, emotional, artistic creative rock record."

The drummer, who replaced his late father John for Led Zeppelin's 2007 reunion show, was the only new band member when Collins staged a rehearsal run before coming out of retirement.

Bonham tells Billboard: "I had an amazing time. It was an honour to be chosen by one of my real heroes. Other than my dad I would say Phil is my guy to go to.

They've named the record Kentucky after their home state and say it will be released in the spring of 2016. Snippets of some of the tracks being recorded can be heard in the five-minute teaser, which features candid footage of the studio sessions.

Cult Of Luna say: "For a band known for looking forward, such a show may seem like a backward step. Music, however, is there to be played, to be listened to and to be experienced. Returning to play an old record is an opportunity for artists and fans to do just that.

Helder says: "2015 has been a tough year in a frightening and ever-changing world and there are just too many people out there who won't be able to share in the simple joys of Christmas because of where their lives have taken them.

"Away from their homes, away from their families, and apart from their loved ones. But this isn't a hard or cynical track, rather it's a simple little song which is honest about life, and which I hope will speak to many people."

Max Cavalera's crew hit the road in support of latest album Archangel, which was released in August via Nuclear Blast. The run starts in Nottingham on January 29 and wraps up on February 8 in Brighton.

The album was recorded at Big House in Macon, Georgia - with singer-guitarist JD Simo playing the guitar Duane Allman used on the first two Allman Brothers Band albums, and on Derek And The Dominoes' classic track Layla.

He says: "We don't edit, and if there are overdubs, they're minimal. I want it to be unaffected and pure. For me, the music that always resonates most is when a performance is captured. That's what I love, and that's what we go for."

The band consists of British guitarist Ben Harvey and Kiwi colleague Christopher Rayner, who've worked together since they were 11 and tied up with American vocalist Pia Varma in 2013.

The performance took place in Hollywood at the Roxy. "How about one more for Scott tonight?" Taylor asked the crowd, before the band launched into the song.

But yesterday (December 8) a little known singer named Mitch Malloy released a demo to YouTube that he claims features the Van Halen brothers and Michael Anthony backing him up, after they'd invited him to join the band. He's just one of a handful of singers who almost joined the band. Here's a list of some of the men and women who almost took up the mic for VH.

Patty Smyth of Scandal - The singer most famous for "Goodbye To You," "The Warrior" and the Don Henley duet "Sometimes Love Just Ain't Enough" was originally invited by Ed Van Halen to replace David Lee Roth. As she said in an interview last year, "Eddie asked me to join Van Halen. They had asked me not to talk about it in interviews at the time, because they didn't want Sammy Hagar to feel like he was the second choice. It was a long time ago; I never bring it up, but people do ask me about it and there's no reason to deny it." Part of her reasoning for not joining was because she had just gotten pregnant, she didn't want to move to California and the Van Halen guys were partying too hard for her tastes.

Sass Jordan - Blues rock singer Sass Jordan was apparently jamming with the Van Halen brothers at their studio for a while after Sammy Hagar left the band but before they hired Gary Cherone, although Ed Van Halen has denied this. In a 1998 interview with Wall of Sound (via VHLinks) she said, "I went over [to their studio], and the two of them were playing me new stuff that they were working on. We hung out for about a month. Ed would leave me in the studio and say, 'Can you just sing something over this particular piece of music? I'm going to listen to you. You sing whatever you want, and I'll be back.' And I'd say, 'I can't sing by myself!' I can't say if any of it ended up on the record because I don't remember well enough. Anyway, I didn't come up with anything brilliant, because I have to be sitting there writing with the person to do it well. A couple of weeks later I was talking to their manager Ray Danniels and I said, 'I swear to God, I think they were thinking of having a female singer in the band.' And he said, 'Of course they were! Why the hell else do you think you were up there?'"

The run of four West Coast tour dates will be kicking off in San Diego on January 7th at the Ramona Main Stage and includes stops in Las Vegas and Los Angeles before concluding in San Francisco on January 10th.

Doll Skin singer Sydney Dolezal had the following to say "Metal Allegiance is a bunch of amazing musicians in a band together, and you know how that ends.. with amazing music and a kickass show! I'm so excited to have the opportunity to be on the road with these guys!"