Ace Frehley Recruits Paul Stanley, Slash For New Album

The rescheduled dates will be taking place on March 2nd in Edmonton, AB at Rexall Place, March 4th in Calgary, AB at the Scotiabank Saddledome and March 7th in Vancouver, BC at the Pepsi Live at Rogers Arena.

The New Jersey rocker has been privately writing his story over the past seven years, starting in 2009 after performing with the E Street Band at the Super Bowl's halftime show.

Springsteen describes growing up in Freehold, NJ, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. "Writing about yourself is a funny business," explains Springsteen in the book. "But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this."

Originally broadcast live on BBC Two's Old Grey Whistle Test, the show features early hits like "Killer Queen", "Liar" and "Keep Yourself Alive", as well as the first ever live recording of "Bohemian Rhapsody."

"This concert was very special because it was the first time we ever played a whole show completely live on TV� the Christmas Show," says guitarist Brian May. "The quality, after great rescue work and transfer into the digital domain, is amazing. And the energy we had comes across very forcefully."

"The band were in party mood at the Hammersmith Odeon that night and no wonder," explains Old Grey Whistle Test host Bob Harris. "They had already spent the best part of a month at the top of the UK singles chart with the sensational 'Bohemian Rhapsody,' the video for which had instantly redefined the presentation of music on TV.

The half-speed mastering process is said to bring "a superior listening experience with a new level of depth and clarity."Miles Showell, one of the world's leading exponents of half-speed cutting, was in charge of the process at Abbey Road. He says: "Anything recorded in a professional studio that still sounds good, is going to benefit from being half-speed mastered. That's the beauty of it.

"You don't need the world's greatest turntables, and with a moderately reasonable hi-fi deck, something you order for about �200 or up from there, you'd easily hear the difference between a normal cut and a half-speed cut.

Alongside the booze, the band have launched a Let There Be Rock Fund competition to help fledgling Australian music artists. The initiative will launch next month and invites music talent from across Australia to cover an AC/DC song in a style of genre or their choice.

Frontman Richard Patrick had this to say about the deeply personal new single, "I was looking into the eyes of my father when he was passing away, and I held his hand".

On the track, the band say: "A Greater Call is the link between the city and the void above. Imagine walking up to your vessel. How the excitement grabs hold of you. The feeling of uncertainty.

"Are you even going to be able to push through the atmosphere in one piece? A last breath before blast off and then we leave. The song is about how humanity is cutting its losses and leave. Its only hope lies above. Although it might not be representative of the album as a whole and Julie's involvement, it is where the journey starts."

He's been brought in to replace Chance Garnette who was fired from the band mid-tour in 2014 due to his alleged behavior towards his bandmates offstage. Clemans says: "I've been a fan of Skeletonwitch for a long time and those guys are really cool so it was a no brainer for me.

"They sent me a couple of songs, we demoed them and I ended up going to Ohio to hang out. Guitarist Nate Garnette wanted to make sure I could drink beer and not be a crazy person, which I don't know if I achieved fully! It's awesome. It's going well so far."

Beck says: "Sharing the stage and this moment with Buddy is a dream for me. His live concerts are legendary and the music world would be a very boring place without his influence."

The band had the following to say about the campaign to fan fund their ninth studio album: "With your support we've been able to release: 1 demo, 2 EP's, 8 full-length albums, have our music appear in video games, major motion pictures, participate in countless tours and perform all over world - spanning 6 continents. The most incredible part of this journey has been the ability to connect with so many people on an individual level.

"It's in keeping with this spirit that we are proud to announce our plan to independently release Darkest Hour's 9th studio album. We started this band releasing our own music. Therefore, to do so now with modern tools and on our own terms is as much of a nod to the past as it is a look into the future.

"Your pre-order will go directly towards the creation, production and distribution of the album itself. Those who contribute will receive continued updates via email and video web-i-sodes (remember those?!).

The group had the following to say about the new effort, "So here it is the 'End Of Days'... 15 brand-new tracks. The first day we entered the studio we kept hearing all over the media that there was a blood moon that night, and certain religious groups were reporting that it was the 'End Of Days'.

Originally issued in 2008 as the first piece in the company's Icon Figure Series, the 6-inch tall Lemmy comes complete with strap accessories, a microphone and stand, a figural base, a Motorhead logo plate, and 1 of 4 different Rickenbacker replica bass guitar variations featuring real strings.

Walls Of Jericho's last release was The American Dream in 2008. Vocalist Candace Kucsulain says: "My inspiration for the new record came from a lot of ups and downs. I had a family member pass away.

"We've been trying to make this record for the past couple of years and we didn't have much for lyrics. We started pre-production in March and it just started coming out. I was inspired by everything that had been happening.

The Scott Rosenbaum-directed film features interviews with the trio, along with their final live performance together before their deaths in 2011 - including footage of Perkins and Smith's Grammy win for Best Traditional Blues Album in February the same year.

And Rosenbaum reveals the seeds for the documentary were sown while shooting his previous film The Perfect Age Of Rock 'N' Roll. The director exclusively tells TeamRock: "We had a scene where the main characters, Jason Ritter and Kevin Zegers, happened upon an old joint while on their journey along Route 66.

He tells Spark TV: "For Behemoth not so much, I'm just jamming stuff. I got this other band going now and I wanna wrap up the record in March and maybe have it out in September this year.

"It's not metal, it's blues, country and folk. It's very new for me, I'm singing also. I need to get it out of my system. It's a different approach but it's very dark."

The band have also announced a run of shows in their homeland along with a handful of summer festival appearances. More dates will be added in due course.

Mainman Mariusz Duda says: "This year we are starting with the new, remixed version of Time Travellers, and this is just the beginning of surprises we have prepared for you in 2016.

A statement on the band's website reads: "Great news - Dave has now been cleared to get back on the road for both the imminent acoustic shows and the forthcoming electric show on the Moodies Cruise, the US and the UK later in the year."

A number of acoustic dates are set for this month, with an appearance on the Moody Blues Cruise departing from Florida coming ahead of further acoustic UK dates.

This marks Rammstein's only 2016 U.S. performance and first Chicago show since 2012. Additional festival headliners will be announced on February 16.

Chicago Open Air will feature performances by over 40 bands, an outdoor Gourmet Man Food selection incorporating local and regional cuisine, a craft beer village highlighting top brews from the region, and other entertainment and fan experiences.

Aldrich reacted on Twitter by saying he was only doing his best to keep the band moving forward and lightheartedly called Snider a "jackass." Now guitarist Aldrich - who recently joined The Dead Daisies - tells One On One With Mitch Lafon: "Me and Dee resolved everything.

"We're hanging together all the time. He bought me a bunch of dinners and I said, 'Listen, you've spent a lot of money on me and it's all forgotten.' He's cool. I love his music and I have a little boy who loves Twisted Sister."

Although he's been resting his voice since, Skindred are due to support Crossfaith in Koto, Japan, on Valentine's Day - and Webbe believes he'll be more animated than ever.

He exclusively tells TeamRock: "I'm getting there. I'm on the mend. I'm going to Japan at the weekend to play a show with Crossfaith. They're brilliant people. It's our first show of the year.

The group say: "Unfortunately Rog - one half of Twice Bitten - has suffered a slipped disc in his neck, and is unable to even hold, let alone play a guitar. Twice Bitten have, therefore, had to withdraw from An Evening of Bad Elephant Music."

The album is the follow-up to their full-length 2014 debut, I Am An Island. Frontman Ross Leighton says: "I'm so chuffed with the reaction we've been getting from the Lost Little Boys video so far. The setting is absolutely gorgeous and the guy who filmed it did an amazing job.

"Also, the response to the announcement of the new album has been unbelievable. I really can't wait to start this tour tomorrow and go share some tunes from it with people."

This is an interesting one, I will give you the whole perspective on how we did it start to finish. Originally I just had the verse riff and I kind of sat on that for a few months until I came up with what is now the b-section and bridge and that was it for a while. Then one day when I was down in my studio working on some other ideas the chords to what is now the chorus came together and I thought wow this would fit really well with that other idea I was working on, which was just called guitar riff in D (lol).

Then when it came time to start looking at some ideas for the Radio Exile CD and what I wanted to send Chandler to start working on, this one was actually left out almost until the end of the writing process. I believe it was probably one of the last two ideas I sent Chandler because I was not sure how it would fit in, but he loved it and almost immediately had the title No Pity on the Highway.

To him it just had this feeling as if you were rolling down the highway so the lyrics kind of developed out of that, but kind of taking on life as being the highway that you are travelling down. So, it's about going from down-in-the-dumps and dealing with addiction, to the "High Road" and the journey in between. Sometimes it’s a long hard road to get where we need to be in life and you can't expect pity from anyone else for the choices you've made, you just have to take responsibility for anything that may have happened in the past and move forward. So Chandler and I worked on the arrangement a bit until it fit with the ideas he had for the lyrics/melodies and then we demoed it for the others.

Once we go into rehearsals for the record we firmed up the arrangement but we were not really sure how to end it. I believe it was Dave that came up with the idea to go the 4/4 section at the end, kind of like what Living Colour did on Cult of Personality. The problem was we had no idea of what kind of riff to use except we wanted something in 7/8 to go over the straight part, so Jimmy was given the assignment to come up with a f***ed up riff (he actually wrote that on his notes) by the next day when we started tracking, which he did.

I think we nailed this one in two takes. If you listen to the guitar part I believe on the left side, it is actually the reference guitar that we used from the initial tracking. When producer Steve Lunt came in to work on this song he loved the raw sound it had so we actually wound up keeping it and just added to it. This was also the first song that Steve worked on with us and we were pretty psyched to see what we would come up with in terms of the final production of it. He came up with some really great ideas that were just little changes but enough to take it to a whole new level.

I have to say this one was the biggest surprise for me overall because it went from being one I was not even sure about using to one of my favorites on the record.