Led Zeppelin Deny 'Stairway To Heaven' Theft Allegations

"Her doctors report that she is suffering from 'extreme exhaustion' and assessed that she most likely returned to work too soon after being hospitalized recently for pneumonia," a representative for Osbourne said.

Thal previously suggested the group could tour with another vocalist, but he now appears to be clinging on to hope that Weiland could still return to the fold - despite the singer describing it as a "scam".

Thal tells Revolver: "Art Of Anarchy hasn't received any official written communication that Weiland is no longer the lead singer of Art Of Anarchy. There are certain legal steps you'd need to take in order to officially leave a band. We've been offered great touring opportunities with Scott on board even before the record's been released.

The Tribune reports that Kirchhoff was with two friends at the Aragon Ballroom's second-floor balcony when they wandered through a door and found their way to a catwalk where they were able to watch the show.

After a while, his friends noticed Kirchhoff wasn't with them and they found his body below. He had fallen around eight feet onto two metal rods which wounded his chest.

The show was stopped and he was taken to Weiss Memorial Hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10.54pm. On their Facebook page, Chevelle say: "To our fans, as you may or may not have heard, an extremely unfortunate event occurred at our show in Chicago Friday night.

It's their first record since Hanneman's death in 2013, with Exodus' Gary Holt in his place. It's also the first since splitting with drummer Dave Lombardo earlier that year, and bringing back Paul Bostaph.

Kerry King spoke about the album with Metal Hammer for their cover interview of their current issue (no 270). "There's a couple of songs that are going to be on it that the fans might know," he said. "'Atrocity Vendor' was released in the States on the B-side of some single, so now it's 'Atrocity Vendor 2015'. It's completely re-recorded. It's got new leads, new vocals, Paul playing drums ... it's pretty cool. There's a brand new version of 'Implode' on there. The version of 'When The Stillness Comes' is brand new compared to the single [that's already] out."

He continued: "The first song is called 'Repentless' and that one's pretty much... I call it the Hannemanthem! I wrote that for Jeff. Oh, dude, it's fast as f***. You don't know what the f***'s coming! A song called 'Vices' is on there somewhere. It's super heavy. It'll pummel you in the face. 'Take Control''s another fast one. 'Cast The First Stone''s another heavy one."

King added: "There's 12 songs on it, one being the intro, one being 'Implode', one being 'Atrocity Vendor' and one being 'When The Stillness Comes', but every version of those songs you may have heard before is different, so I think that's cool, but I also wanted them to be part of a collection. I like the finality of songs belonging on a record. It's probably about 40 or 45 minutes, maybe less. We did 'God Hates Us All' and we put every song we had at the time on the record because that was the trendy thing to do, but as soon as we did that, I vowed never to do it again. I grew up with 10-song albums."

The band kicked off their set with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (see a video clip here) and the show included lead vocals from guitarist Keith Richards on "Slipping Away" and "Before They Make Me Run", according to the tracklisting on their official website.

Poole apparently had links to Led Zep in their early days, but did not join when offered the chance. He also played in a band called Magill, along with Hawkwind's Huw Lloyd-Langton. He passed away on Thursday,

Davis was on bass duties at last night's show in Sterling Heights, Michigan, and will also be on board for the show in Columbus, Ohio. Clutch are due to fly to Europe for a string of dates, starting with an appearance at Rock Im Park in Nuremberg, Germany, on June 5.

Months after Osbourne's wife and manager Sharon Osbourne said the band would play their "farewell show" at Ozzfest Japan in November, that appearance was then cancelled and Ozzy suggested a final tour and album would be coming in 2016.

However, Butler is not entirely convinced. Saying he has "no idea" if it will happen, he tells the NME: "I'd love to keep going, I'd desperately want to keep going before I kick the bucket."

The Jane's Addiction frontman tells Rolling Stone: "I was very angry the first time they played Lollapalooza," he admits. "I helped create the genre alternative, and alternative was against hair metal, teased-out hair, spandex, bullsh*t rock music.

"Metallica, in my estimation at that time, wasn't my thing. I was into alternative and punk and underground. My friends were Henry Rollins and Gibby Haynes and Ice-T."

Thunder, lightning and heavy rain at the site in Pryor, Oklahoma, left organisers with no choice but to evacuate the area and call off Saturday night's planned sets.

The singer was joined by guitarist Scott Sharrard, bassist Ron Johnson, keyboardist Ben Stivers, drummer Steve Potts, Allman Brothers veteran Marc Quinones on percussion, saxophonists Jay Collins and Art Edmaiston and Dennis Marion on trumpet.

The band was also joined by special guest and Gregg's son, Devon Allman. "Macon has a very special place in my heart," says Gregg. "To go back there and play this show was heavy, and to be on stage there with Devon, made it even heavier. The whole thing made me very proud."

Asked what advice he would give to young musicians, Frehley tells Music Business Facts: "Practice, practice and more practice. And never give up - persevere. I always believed that even if I wouldn't have joined KISS, I would have joined another supergroup and made it."

He tells Totally Driven Radio: "When Guns N' Roses flew apart and they were about to start Velvet Revolver, I was sent a song. I wrote a verse and a chorus and sent it back for that gig but the truth of the matter is that these guys have a kind of Hollywood, rock 'n' roll thing and I'm the milk and cookies of the whole era. It really didn't fit but the music was really interesting and that would have been a really cool thing if it would have flown."

Discussing the 30th anniversary of classic Priest album Defenders Of The Faith, Halford tells Goldmine: "I've always felt that it is my role in Priest to have a message, whether it be of any great value, or if it is just entertaining.

"Because I am an avid book reader and I love movies, I just love every aspect of the arts. Visually, I find them very stimulating as a lyricist. I had a blast on that record writing about vampires and sentinels and then jawbreakers.

"This guy I met earlier asked us to try 'In God's Country,'" he said. "Let's try a little of it." As The Edge worked out the chords of a tune he hadn't played in 14 years, Bono looked around the floor for the fan. "Are you the dude? "Do you know the chords?"

The band drew inspiration from people and ideas close to their hearts. Robert Mercurio says: "We look for uniqueness and a quality that makes the people we collaborate with distinctively who they are."

The singer began recording the project in mid-January before heading to Australia with Soundgarden in February to perform as part of the Soundwave Festival series; he completed the record upon his return to Seattle in March.

Neville tells the Laughlin Entertainer: "Actually, it's not much different because the Neville Brothers made a whole lot of different styles of music in one show.

The film covers Jenkins' leftfield take on the blues, his bone-dry sense of humour - and his other life as a conductor of humanist funerals. Jenkins explains: "As the music industry as we knew it is dying, I thought I'd go out and do some funerals."

He joined in 1996 after Rob Halford had quit in 1992, but had to bow out when the original frontman returned in 2003. And he describes the way he landed the position as "a bit of luck."

Owens tells Akron Buzz: "I don't think they had a singer for about four years, then they finally looked for a singer. I was really the only singer who auditioned - I went in there and sang one line of a song, and made the band."

They'd already seen a video of his final performance with a tribute band, and that led to an invitation to make contact with Priest's management. Owens recalls: "I get a call saying, 'You have to call this number - it's Judas Priest. It's a lady named Jayne Andrews. I ran and got a Priest album and started looking for her name, and it was there.

The song drew strong opposing reactions from fans when mastermind Kevin Parker released it in April. Some enjoyed the change of approach, while others demanded to know why he'd moved away from psychedelia.

But Parker said earlier this month: "I wouldn't say making psychedelic music is my focus. That's not the modus operandi for Tame Impala - it's about making music that moves people."

Laiho says: "We have been recording for the last two months and we're finally almost done. We're doing the gang shouts right now and I think the album's going to kick f***ing ass."

Featuring fellow Michigan native Trick Trick, Revenge is a mix of King's haunting, evil heavy metal and Trick Trick's straight-up hip-hop and is taken from their upcoming Midwest Monsters 2 mixtape..

Speaking about the video, Mikee says: "This March I was in Tokyo, and we shot this music video from midnight and 7am! We got the dancers, actors and everyone through contacts out there.

Bands already announced include Green Day, Black Veil Brides and Fall Out Boy. The game's creators have added another 10 acts to the list. Along with BMTH, Deftones and Marilyn Manson, two-piece Royal Blood, metal outfit Trivium and Mastodon have also been confirmed. Marmozets, Killswitch Engage, Of Mice And Men and Vista Chino make up the latest additions.

BMTH will release their highly-anticipated live package BMTH: Live At Wembley Arena on May 29. Along with Marilyn Manson and Black Veil Brides, they are also appearing at next month's Download festival.

Vennart says: "Don't Forget The Joker is pretty much the centre piece of the album, certainly from a lyrical standpoint. It's different to the rest of the material in that it sounds drunk, half-played and slurred, which is kinda what the words are about."

It was to be released in November, until Haggerty, keyboardist Graham Holley and drummer/guitarist David MacDonald were all hit with career issues and other unspecified "life-changing events."

Haggerty says: "Ironically the two-track EP's subject matter is the uncertainties of life and facing up to mortality. A premonition, perhaps - or have we temped fate?

The album will be released on July 10 via Out On A Limb Records and it's mixed by Jamie King - known for his work with Between The Buried And Me and Scale The Summit.

Drummer Ben Wanders says: "Myself, and out guitarist Ciaran Culhane often used the space for recordings that we did for other bands so we were quite familiar with the space prior to doing our own album there.

"There was a rehearsal facility attached to the building for a while which we used frequently as well so we were there quite a bit. The room is massive and sounds great. Add in the beautiful setting, which makes for a pretty intense place to record in.

The track is said to have "a much darker meaning to its lyrics, being critical of warrantless government surveillance and of what the US has become since 9/11."

The LA-based band last year released a behind-the-scenes clip of their recording sessions for the album. Guitarist Johannes Luley said: "We're breaking down traditional song structure. I think our music has a pop sensibility because Ryan Hurtgen writes beautiful melodies - strangely pop. It's not your typical pop music, of course, but it's accessible and you can relate."

It'll be released on June 23 via Laser's Edge and follows last year's live release of King Crimson covers with John Wetton titled One More Red Night. The band's last studio album was 2012's Trouble With Machines.

"American Nitro" is a rock anthem with the key lyrics, "I'm Psycho! I'm American Nitro!" These words are meant to be a battle cry for anyone that pushes the envelope in life. The gearheads who live for going faster than hell. The quiet inventors who change our lives with tech miracles. The artists who walk away from the norm and create works that move us. All these types of people, and so many more, choose to live life to the fullest every day. They don't take sh*t from anyone or listen to anything but their inner voice. That...is "American Nitro."

The song's lyrics are on the surface just clever word play with pop culture references to actors and directors, but the deeper meaning is there as well. I chose to reference Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Francis Ford Coppola and Marlon Brando, because they were these kinds of people when they made their classic '70s movies. They were "American Nitro."

Musically, the track is an unofficial follow-up for all the fans of "Gasoline," which is also the theme song to the hit car makeover TV show, "Overhaulin'" "American Nitro" has a similar AC/DC meets STP feel that our fans seem to like. Big riffs are always fun and a staple of Kicking Harold's sound. I like to imagine a fan in his bad ass muscle car with this track turned up loud as the tires smoke down the road.

The new music video for "America Nitro" is made up of over 100 individually created graphic cards with the song's lyrics on them created by KH alumni, Brian Anderson and edited by Michael Keeley.