Asking Alexandria Reveal New Singer, Release New Song

The band announced on Tuesday that Knotfest 2015 will once again be taking place at San Manuel Amphitheater in San Bernardino, Ca. This year it will happen on October 23rd, 24th and 25th.

More details are expected to be announced on June 29th, which is the same day that tickets will go on sale. While this year's lineup remains a mystery, last year's Knotfest featured an impressive roster including Slipknot, Anthrax, Five Finger Death Punch, Volbeat, Killswitch Engage, Black Label Society, Hatebreed, Testament, Fear Factory, Tech N9ne, Atreyu, Hellyeah, Carcass, In This Moment, The Devil Wears Prada, Danzig, Of Mice & Men, DevilDriver, Veil of Maya and more.

Sharon tells SiriusXM (via Blabbermouth): "I feel like we're their parents. We've known them from when they were so young, seeing them all grow up, have their own families.

"And since Robert joined them, we're even more connected with them. It's family. We have so much respect for Metallica - I just personally love each and every one of them."

The pair have been working on a full-length album for the last six months and Ellefson says they've recorded "some great tunes." He tells White Line Fever: "We are finalizing, probably in the next two weeks, getting the vocals and final bits done on it. I'm excited about it. There are some great tunes."

The project was devised when the pair were doing bass clinics together and rather than just play Megadeth and Anthrax material, they decided to write fresh music instead.

Ellefson continues: "This other spirit soars when the two of us get together, get in a room and start writing songs together. They just fall off our guitar necks. And it's a beautiful thing.

They used a drum machine on 2012's The Industrialist - a move that was slammed by former sticksman Raymond Herrera, who called the sound "stale."

And Cazares agrees that live drumming gives the record a more "natural feeling." He tells Horns Up Rocks: "Obviously, when you start recording, you can add and manipulate the sounds any way you want.

"It's a hybrid between organic and digital - that's what this record sounds like, and I think that's what makes it really good. Albums like Demanufacture and Obsolete were the same type of hybrid, and that was the approach we took on the drums on this record."

Asia singer has thanked doctors who led the successful surgery, and he also thanked fans for their support. His team released the following statement on his official website:

Five songs into his set, Macca debuted "Temporary Secretary," a cut from his experimental, synth-heavy second solo album, McCartney II. The premiere was even more unexpected since it came after he played more obvious tracks like the Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" and"Can't Buy Me Love," the Wings song "Listen to What the Man Said" and his solo track "Save Us."

In an online Q&A session full of deadpans and one-liners, White says: "I'd say half the shows I play I'd rather not play. Festivals for example. But I have to make the best of it and try to get inspired. It's hard when the people who organize festivals basically control my life. I have to book shows around their offer that I can't refuse."

He adds: "It's very expensive to tour - people think that's how musicians make their money these days, but it's hard to go on the road no matter what size you are"

The duo went their separate ways after the launch of 1970 album Bridge Over Troubled Water, the biggest-selling release of its time. Garfunkel tells The Telegraph the pair became friends at school because he felt sorry for the diminutive Simon. "That compensation gesture has created a monster," he says.

Talking about the split he adds: "It was very strange. I don't want to say any anti Paul Simon things, but it seems very perverse to not enjoy the glory and walk away from it instead. What I would have done is take a rest from Paul, because he was getting on my nerves. The jokes had run dry.

Frontman Buddy Nielsen told TeamRock a little bit about each song. "The Courage Of An Open Heart": "The song to me represents my wish to live with radical openness towards all experiences. It embodies my wish to live a life that is full of joy, while embracing the darker more shadow moments and not running from them. It is reflective on my meditation experience, a willingness to sit with the to so pleasant emotions.

"It also speaks about hiding the truth of my sexuality for over fifteen years and how that impacted my willingness to want to be alive, I didn't have a lot of peace and this song reflects the darkness of living a life where there is no love for your own being. It also speaks of how love pulled me up and out of the the darkness. It is one of the heaviest songs we have ever written, I love it, I hope people enjoy."

The album's Billboard 200 debut position will be officially announced on Thursday. Vocalist Mike Patton told Billboard last week that when the band initially reunited there were no plans to write new material. But eventually the rest of the band began working on new music. "Those guys were working on stuff, and if the music wasn't so great I wouldn't have been a part of it," Patton said, "But it was incredibly great."

Billed as an "uncensored, unfiltered memoir," the former frontman for Skid Row tells the story of his life and times - from joining Kid Wikked at 14 to selling more than 20 million albums with Skid Row to building a successful solo career.

He tells Rock Revolt: "It's a very biblical, very mystic, very exotic kind of album. This is a totally different vibe.There's songs like Sodomites, about the destruction of Sodom, Shamash about the Akkadian god of the sun, Ishtar, which is the Babylonian queen and Titanomachy which is about the war of the titans.

The follow-up to 2012's "Hot Cakes" was produced by guitarist Dan Hawkins and sees the debut of drummer Emily Dolan Davies, who replaced Ed Graham after a split last year.

Davies left the band last month, just weeks after she made her live debut with the group; she has since been replaced by Rufus Taylor, the son of Queen drumming legend Roger Taylor.

The 1976 single has been listed in Rolling Stone's 500 greatest songs of all time, and in Q's 100 greatest guitar tracks. But Gorham tells Classic Rock: "We were playing in some club in the US when our manager came in and said, 'Well, looks like we've got a hit.' We were like, 'Which song?' Seriously, we didn't have any idea at all which song it was that had taken off for us."

He continues: "To tell you the truth, we weren't initially going to put The Boys Are Back In Town on the Jailbreak album at all. Back then you picked 10 songs and went with those because of the time restrictions of vinyl.

"Not only are we playing a show at the X Games," says the band, "but James and Kirk will also be performing 'The Star-Spangled Banner' prior to the Moto X Speed & Style competition on Saturday, June 6."

Guitarist Michael Romeo recently said that the band wanted to ensure the follow-up to 2011's Iconoclast was a "total listening experience from start to finish."

Helyer tells Kerrang: "We have the Isle of Wight festival on June 12 and then over the summer we're going to record. We're going to jam and enjoy ourselves being musicians and find where our sound is going to take us.

"We've got ideas but we're very different people now and I think it's going to show the next progression of our band. We've done 10 years but what's going to be the next 10 years for You Me At Six and what are we going to bring?"

Transcension is the follow-up to the Aussie prog outfit's 2012 debut The Time Traveller and was recorded at Sydney's The Grove Studios with producer Dylan Mitrovich. The nine-track record promises to take listeners "from the softest of instrumental breaks to the most complex and intense heavy moments."

On the track, Town Portal say: "The recurring opening riff of this song has been around since the early stages of writing The Occident. It has consistently been referred to as the 'Golem riff', and though I don't remember the original reason for this, we still find that the reference to this mythological creature resonates well with the brute, jagged and sort of clumsy nature of the riff.

It's the US band's first performance in Europe for 10 years, and follows the launch of ninth album The Great Divide last year. ProgPower promoters say: "It's been a long-time wish to announce the addition of Enchant. With over 25 years of experience, we're looking forward to them playing. Adding them is the best way to complete 2015's lineup."

Last year guitarist Doug Ott told how "life got in the way" of the band's career, adding: "We never planned to take a break at all. People got married, people got divorced, people had children, jobs came and went.