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Aerosmith and Judas Priest Stars Joining Thin Lizzy For Tour

The preview mixes footage of the live event alongside animation and comments by Slash, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready and Motley Crue bassist Nikki Sixx, among others.

The Seattle appearance was part of a promotional tour by McKagan in support of his 2012 memoir, "It's So Easy (And Other Lies)", which debuted on the New York Times' Hardcover Nonfiction Best Sellers list at No. 17.

The band first announced the change via a statement that the "parting ways was agreed by all members" but Kristine posted her own message online, saying in part, "I was told a bit longer than a week ago that I am not preferred as the band's singer for further tours and recordings anymore.

"I asked for the situation concerning Indonesia and the soon-to-happen up-coming shows. The answer was 'no'. I asked if there's a replacement and I got no clear answer. I can't believe this process happened behind my back, parallel to a huge disappointment in my private life. A few days later there certainly was a replacement. I must say - that was 'quick'!"

The band fired back on Tuesday by posting photos of the protocol documents for the separation and saying, "Since we are fed up with the lies on social media, and as we promised yesterday, here is the proof that we tell you the truth about what is going on.

"Here you can read the signed protocol documents (English and German) - certified by lawyer Frank Dehn - which proves that the news about the protocol from the mediator of our crucial band meeting is accurate and correct in every way.

Zorn played guitar, mandolin, saxophone and flute, among other instruments. He began working with Thompson in the 1980s, while other activities included stints with the Albion Band, Gerry Rafferty and more.

He joined Steeleye Span in 2009 as temporary replacement for Rick Kemp, but remained when the bassist returned, and eventually spent six years with them.

His family said in a brief statement last night: "We are devastated to have to share this, but Dad passed away in his sleep in the early hours of this morning. We are heartbroken."

Drummer Dale Crover says: "Two of our songs are going to be included in a cartoon show - a kids cartoon show. Nobody knows that yet. I don't know if I can say what they are but it's pretty cool.

Taylor had the following to say about the gig: "Everyone's been asking me when I was going to come back to the UK and do some acoustic stuff - honestly, it's not because I didn't want to. So since I'm going to be there doing some stuff in May, I decided we'd make one happen, and I cannot wait."

A group of Austrian, Czech and Swedish researchers conducted a study to analyze the legendary singer's voice. While they couldn't substantiate claims that Mercury had a four-octave vocal range, they discovered some interesting findings about the voice once described as "a force of nature with the velocity of a hurricane."

Through examining archive recordings, and filming the larynx of a rock singer imitating Mercury's singing with a high-speed camera running at over 4000 frames per second, the researchers found a physical phenomenon called 'subharmonics'. This is an intentional voicebox distortion using both vocal folds and ventricular folds to produce an extreme 'growling' sound which is traditionally used by Tuvan throat singers in Mongolia.

They revealed that the vocalist will undergo stem cell treatment in the summer to fight the multiple myeloma, while he has already started a course of chemotherapy.

The band shared the photos from recording sessions with the caption, "Making metal on ‪#‎metalmonday‬!! @robhalfordlegacy @falconfaulkner ‪#‎glenntipton‬ ‪#‎judaspriest‬‪ #‎priestfamily‬."

Frontman Rob Halford recently said the band aimed to release their 18th album in 2017, adding: "I can't wait to get into the writing zone again - that's one of the most thrilling moments for me in Priest.

"You go into a room with some amps, 'Hey, guys, have a cup of tea,' turn the amps on, start riffing, and boom - you could have another amazing Priest song by the end of the day.

The band say in a statement: "It's been seven years since our last record and our batteries are fully recharged. The O.G. line-up is back and the new sh*t hits hard.

"You'll hear sounds of our older slammin' death metal days blended with the speed and technicality of our latest records. Cheers to everyone that has stood by us after all these years. Can't wait to unleash the Beast."

Raised in Dallas, Texas, befriended as a child prodigy by Les Paul and T-Bone Walker, and after college at the University of Wisconsin, Steve Miller got an intense "musical graduate school" at nearby Chicago's South Side with blues masters Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Willie Dixon, Buddy Guy & Junior Wells, and Jimmy Reed. Steve Miller and schoolboy chum Boz Scaggs took their blues internship westward to the vibrant San Francisco musical scene in 1967, where the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape were landing major record label deals. Steve would land the most lucrative deal of them all and proceeded to record four critically acclaimed records by 1973.

It's important to note that Fly Like An Eagle was Steve Miller's ninth studio album. Having scored his first # 1 single three years earlier with "The Joker", Steve shares with InTheStudio host Redbeard how he managed to get off the album/tour, album/tour merry-go-round long enough to get his bearings, set his own course and deliver the album that would seal a Hall of Fame career.

Steve Miller says, "We had been basically touring nonstop for eleven years... I shut everything down and went to my house. I got a tape recorder, a multi-track 8-track tape recorder set up in my living room, and started first resting, then thinking, then writing.

The 17-date trek kicks off in Lawrence's Granada Theater, Kansas, on July 17. The run includes the band's appearances at Chicago Open Air Festival and Heavy Montreal.

Carcass will be touring in support of their latest album Surgical Steel, which they re-released earlier this year. Last month Carcass apologized to fans after frontman Jeff Walker broke two bones in his foot prior to their show in Seattle.

The band had the following to say about the video: "The music and images take us on a hallucinatory voyage into the calyx of a flower on a sub microscopic level - a journey into the centre of nature and existence that delves deeper into the mysterious fractal realm, exploring the innermost reaches of the human psyche.

The song Daughter Of The Morning Star is the first in a three part story that ties in with "Before The Flames" and "After The Great Fire". "The story beings in the late 1400's with a pagan witch, or white Wiccan woman who lives alone away from a village of Christian puritans," says frontman Connor Garritty.

"They're scared of her because she's different and doesn't follow their ideals. The men from the village plan to get rid of her and hunt her down. They rape her, beat her and leave her for dead. She then transforms and summons the power of the devil and takes revenge on the men and the people of the village."

Speaking to Hammer about the video, Connor says he wanted to something different to the usual lyric videos and came up with the "old silent film style" you can see above.

The band say of the track: "During a particularly fertile period in which Bottled Out Of Eden was being constructed, The Germ Inside seemed to appear from nowhere. It just seemed to turn up at the sessions, uninvited, like a gate crasher at a party. All the other songs were asking each other if they knew it.

Hegg tells EMP Rock Invasion: "To be fair to anyone, you need to give them a real chance to grow into it - it's a rough lifestyle and it can be very aggravating. You have to make sure that you feel you get along really well, and it's the right guy. I have a good feeling about Jocke."

He adds of Gustafsson: "We asked him to help us write and record the album, because we didn't want go out and find a complete replacement, start working and then realise halfway through, 'This is not working out.'

Frontman Nathan James of the record: "For so long people have been hiding mistakes, singers using auto-tune to make them sound perfect, double tracking to make it sound bigger and using click to play in time. There is none of that on this album.

Sassi describes the album as "oriental prog metal" and it includes guest performances from former Guns N' Roses man Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal and Myrath's Zaher Zorgati.

Former Orphaned Land man Sassi previously said: "This release hopefully includes more vocally-driven songs than before, featuring some guest vocalists that you haven't seen before in my project.

The collection will launch on 2CD and limited-edition 3CD package, which includes a Live At Wacken disc. Both will include the new track. Frontman Timo Kotipelto says: "Twenty years in Stratovarius have passed at the speed of light. I still remember when I joined the band and was happy to do some power metal. And I am very happy to still be able to do it after all these years.

The tune originally appeared as the opening track on Morrison's sixth album, 1972's "Saint Dominic's Preview." The single peaked at No. 61 on the US Billboard Hot 100 while the album reached No. 15 on the Billboard 200.

Entitled "The Hendrix Mix", the singer discusses the late guitar icon while playing snippets of tracks from ZZ Top, Boz Scaggs, Lords Of Acid, Dan Hartman, Deep Purple and Wang Chung.

Against The Current said: "This album is as much yours as it is ours. We wouldn't be here doing what we love right now if it weren't for the endless support we've received from our friends and fans across the world over the last two years.

The festival will feature headline acts Steven Wilson and Opeth, along with Between The Buried And Me, Magma, The Pineapple Thief, Textures, Anneke Van Giersbergen's The Gentle Storm, Agent Fresco, Obsidian Kingdom and Exxasens.

Russian duo Gleb Kolyadin and vocalist Marjana Semkina say: "It's a great pleasure for us to join the amazing line up of Be Prog! My Friend this year - such a lovely surprise at the very last moment.