Today's Day in Rock Stories

The Rolling Stones 'Hit A Wall' Recording New Album

The much-maligned Canadian rock band have long been the butt of many jokes - they were even the subject of a one-man crowdfunding campaign launched in 2014 in a bid to block them from playing all London music venues.

But Nickelback have previously insisted that no amount of internet hate can match the harshness of the jokes they make about themselves - and this time, they gave as good as they got.

Following the televised debate between Trump and Clinton on Sunday night, British two-piece Royal Blood say on Twitter: "Donald Trump + Hilary Clinton = Nickelback."

Paul tells WRIF (via Blabbermouth): "It was huge, man. Before Pantera got a record deal, that album came out, and we covered just about every song on that record and it was before that band blew up.

"We were such fans of the music. And it took that record about a year before it caught on, and then it caught on. Man, it's one of my all-time favourite records. To this day, Welcome To The Jungle, you hear it in front of every football game, in front of every hockey game, it won't go away.

And while former Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera admits Korn had an impact on Roots' sound, he insists it was far from the only thing they were listening to at the time.

Asked if Korn influenced Roots, Cavalera tells Do You Know Jack?: "I think they did. Not only them, but them with Deftones at the time, they had a particular sound that was quite interesting for us.

"And that's also one of the reasons that Ross Robinson came into the picture, because he could capture that raw sound at that time, and that was really cool.

In the book, Keenan shares how his mother suffered from sexual abuse as a child, a trauma which impacted her throughout motherhood. Where his father was incredibly active, Keenan describes his mother as being incapacitated by her past. Growing up in that atmosphere, he channeled his family's shadows into Tool's lyrics. In the interview, he doesn't go into what songs resulted, but he did detail how songwriting helped him.

"I think like most things - the rich girl in Beverly Hills who breaks a nail, and her entire universe it coming apart because of it - it's all a matter of perspective," Keenan said. "Those kind of tragedies, you know, everybody has them.

And while the October 11th release of his book is first on The Beach Boys legend's agenda, he also promises that fans could hear new music before the end of the year.

Frontman M Shadows issued a brief teaser clip of as demo track in April this year. And while they haven't released a studio album since 2013's Hail To The King, speculation is mounting that something is brewing because of the appearance of their iconic logo.

Frontman Mike Hranica recently opened up about his anxiety - which often flares up while the band are on the road. He said: "Prada's been an incredible vehicle for me to see some of the places I've been privileged to see, but it does take a toll and I do have a hard time keeping up my body physically.

"And there's the mental aspect - panic attacks, which are not so much fuelled by being on tour, but a lot of times it's that the excitement is a subconscious trigger.

They previously released a 360� lyric video for Nostrum along with a lyric video for Born In Dissonance.

Speaking to TeamRock, Meshuggah drummer and lyricist Tomas Haake said of Clockworks: "It's one of the songs on the album that isn't about current events, although it kind of ties in with a lot of that stuff.

"Tricky one to play, not just for the drums but the guitars as well. It's one of the most challenging things we've written in some time.

"Lyrically it's about looking into yourself, as if your mind was a clock of sorts, and you want to change the way you think and act and react to the things going on around you.

Portnoy says: "Great video recap of The Winery Dogs in Mexico! The upcoming live Blu-ray/DVD from Santiago should be out early 2017."

Reflecting on what makes The Winery Dogs tick in the clip, Kotzen says: "It's an interesting combination. Billy has a way of playing the bass that's very unique - he incorporates the kind of lines on the instrument that a bass normally wouldn't do.

"Because I sing, every move that I make when I write is, 'How can I sing over that? What's the melody?' I look at it from that angle so it kind of keeps things in a more basic format.

Let Me Feel Your Power features material recorded in Munich and Brighton, along with bonus material taken from a Chicago show from September 2015. It'll be the NWOBHM veterans' 10th live album. They previously issued a clip of Wheels Of Steel.

Let Me Feel Your Power is available in several formats, including DVD/2CD, Blu-Ray/2CD, digital download and a deluxe vinyl version which also includes the Blu-ray and 2CD, and is limited to 1500 copies.

The second single from "Slowhand" peaked at No. 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100 while the album reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 on its way to sales of more than 3 million in the States.

"Live In San Diego" captures Clapton in a 2007 concert as part of a tour in support of his and Cale's 2006 album, "The Road To Escondido." Cale sits in on five tracks, including three from "Escondido" and two made famous by Clapton: "After Midnight" and "Cocaine."

And in a new video with Filth and keyboardist and singer Lauren Francis, he reveals more information on the follow-up to Devilment's 2014 debut album The Great And Secret Show.

He says: "The album title actually came about from the artwork - we had the artwork for the album cover before we had the album title.

"In the end, it was an amalgamation of the fact I really like Danzig and he named his albums I, II, III etc, but Danzig II was a particular favourite, so I thought Devilment II was quite cool.

The videos shared a concept, with the new clip revealing how director Patric Ullaeus put the pieces in place for the finished promos. Vocalist and lyricist Anders Friden recently revealed the meaning behind the album title, saying it was inspired by emotional conflicts.

He said: "All titles for every album come really late in the process. I write the lyrics and then I gather all the lyrics after we're done and I look at the album as a whole, then try to figure out what the theme is.

"With Battles, we all have our inner struggles from the day we are really young up until the day we die, so this album is about that and something everyone can relate to.

Reflecting on the 30th anniversary of Cliff's death, Ray says the family still receive regular royalty payments and that his son was sure he'd be able to provide for his parents down the line.

Ray Burton tells The Metalsucks Podcast: "The royalties have been coming my way for quite some time. He could see things coming along, he felt that they were doing well.

"He told his mom and me, 'I'm gonna buy you two a house when this thing gets going better.' So he had an idea that the band was going to be a success. And boy, was it ever."

On Cliff's faith in his own ability, Ray adds: "Cliff knew he had talent, but he wasn't cocky about it. But he felt the music that he was getting and playing with James and Kirk and Lars was pretty good, and he was quite satisfied with it.

"He said that he felt that if he couldn't make a living with Metallica, he had enough talent to be a studio musician. So that's a lot of confidence in your own ability. But at the same time, I heard him say several times, 'There are a hundred kids out there in garages that play the guitar as well as I can.'

The album draws from the work of 19th century American scholar Francis James Child and his collection of English and Scottish Ballads. The album is appropriately titled, containing stories of murder, religion, incest, skulls, honour killings and tormented spirits - the perfect subject material for Steeleye Span's dark take on the music of the British Isles.

The venue say in a statement: "Making a mockery of genre boundaries and consistently confounding expectations, Hammill's work spans numerous styles and approaches while always maintaining his own unique sound.

Akerfeldt tells Metal Hammer: "I love to have people over, and so we've started a gentleman's club. It's me, Fredrik, Nico from Entombed AD and JB from Grand Magus.

"We go out to have a drink, or we come to my place and we listen to music. We have a group email thing where we discuss the topics we're going to talk about at the next dinner. Like, if you had a teddy bear when you were a kid, what was it called? Things like that.

They completed the track between summer festival performances. Frontman Rou Reynolds had the following to say about the reasoning for releasing a stand-alone track:

It's the brainchild of Summer's End festival co-organiser Stephen Lambe and will also feature sets from Rob Cottingham's new band Cairo, Midnight Sun, which features Summer's End co-organiser Huw Lloyd-Jones on lead vocals and Elaine Samuels And Kindred Spirit.

City of Sixes was among a group of songs written for February Album Writer's Month in 2013. There was perhaps a song assignment of some sort to write about a city or locale, and the title "City of Sixes" had been in floating about. It's intended to be an ode to the Capital of the World; New York City.

Of course the lyrics are an allusion to the Big Apple being a place of sin and excess, using metal's favorite triangular-number in repetition and all that, but it's also a play on words. Sometimes sick, other times six. (Sic).

The song was originally intended to sound closer to Ministry, or Rob Zombie, but what emerged from the studio was a bit more melodic. What we perform live is somewhere in between, and progressively changing.

But NYC is the Mecca of Sin and Excess, and we wouldn't have it any other way. City of Sixes hopefully correctly expresses that sentiment.