Today's Day in Rock Stories

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Carlile underwent life-changing heart surgery following complications from the genetic disorder, Marfans last year. But he'll now undergo further tests after reporting that it was "unsafe for me to continue on in this state of health" while on the road.

Carlile says: "As most of you know, I battle daily with a rare fibrostic connective tissue disorder called Marfan syndrome. Due to recent issues arising from this, we have cancelled the remainder of our European tour.

"It breaks my heart but the band and myself have decided it was unsafe for me to continue on in this state of health. I'm being admitted to Stanford University hospital where my specialists have been informed and are prepared to figure out what exactly is wrong.

Clearly unhappy at having to stop what he was saying, Mustaine tells the audience: "Okay, everybody, I'm gonna wait until this a**hole is done talking."

Addressing the man directly, Mustaine continues: "No, go ahead. Whatever you've gotta say is more important than what I've gotta say. Go ahead. No, don't act like a kiss-ass now. Talk or shut the f*** up."

The Great Southern Trendkill is a two-disc reissue collection which includes a remastered version of the 1996 record, alongside a disc of unreleased tracks, instrumental recordings and rough mixes.

The set also contains three live tracks War Nerve, Suicide Note Pt II and Sandblasted Skin, which were recorded at the Dynamo festival in Holland in 1998.

He tells Soundwave Brigade: "We're always working on new music. We've been writing even before Silence came out - ideas are always popping up. By the time we get done touring, we've already got the jist of what we're going to go into the studio with. We have a lot of material. There's no shortage of that.

He tells One On One with Mitch Lafon: "It's all of us in the Alice band minus Alice. We've been chipping away at this. It's not quite done, but it's getting there.

"I think the most cool, amazing thing about this is that it will demonstrate how you can make a record on basically almost no budget. We've used Pro Tools, we've been recording guitars, vocals in hotel rooms.

"I spent just one day in a real studio knocking out drums in Los Angeles. People don't have to spend crazy amounts of money on making records these days - that's so old-school."

"I've been extremely blessed and fortunate to meet so many great musicians and beautiful people throughout my career, and to have the opportunity to collaborate and record with some of them is really icing on the cake," says LaBrie, who also handles vocals on the tune "End Of The Line." "What a thrill it was to record with Rik, who is such an incredible musician and overall down-to-earth cool guy."

Korn feature in the upcoming issue of Metal Hammer magazine, which hits the streets on October 14 (Friday) and is available to TeamRock+ members now. In the interview, frontman Jonathan Davis says he focused on "the dark things in life" when penning lyrics for The Serenity Of Suffering.

He says: "I'm happy, I've got a family I love, and I love touring. But when I'm in those dark places and I suffer from depression, it seems like suffering is the place that's home for me.

"It's my familiar old friend, and when I'm happy it's kind of foreign for me. I'm a 45-year-old, and I'm not 16 anymore, but I'm not singing about high school.

Frontman Chuck Billy recently gave further details on the follow-up to 2012's Dark Roots Of Earth, saying it was inspired by alien sightings and a shady secret society.

Billy said: "This is a total different flavour conceptually to the last album. Some of our earlier pieces have been more personal stuff and in this we have a story and we have developed our imagery around it.

"So Brotherhood Of The Snake came about as I was fascinated with alien sightings from around the world over thousands of years and it makes you think if there is something out there, it opens your mind.

"That kind of opened up an initial door and then there was an article online that I read about the Brotherhood Of The Snake. This was a secret society that wanted to take down all religion.

They were due to wrap up their current run of shows with their annual performance at Washington's 9:30 on December 27. But they'll now play extra dates in Bethlehem and Toronto, before a performance in Cleveland on New Year's Eve.

The box features the Motorhead logo with a Jack Daniel's motif on the side, while the figure shows Lemmy wearing his trademark hat and boots, an Ace Of Spades t-shirt and holding a bass.

The tour is scheduled to run until November 21st where it wraps up in Raleigh, NC at the City Limits Saloon and will be the last chance for fans to see them before they go on indefinite hiatus.

Frontman Michael Sweet shared his excitement about the trek so far, "We're only eight shows in and it's incredible. The fan response has been overwhelming. It's amazing that thirty years later, we're still here. And it's even more amazing that the fans are still here. We're totally humbled by it."

It'll be their first studio release since 2014's The World Is My Enemy Now, which caused a stir when to promote the record, the band reported that vocalist Danny Leal had been kidnapped. The "publicity stunt" enraged label boss Ash Avildsen.

Avildsen said at the time: "As a child, we all learn the story The Boy Who Cried Wolf and it sticks within our consciousness for a reason. I do not condone this type of publicity stunt. This was done behind my back and I am not OK with it. In my eyes, there's never a time to use the possibility of real-life abduction, injury or murder of someone you care about to promote anything, especially an album.

That led Carpenter to call Zombie a "piece of sh*t" during an interview with film students. But last month, Carpenter reported the pair had buried the hatchet - a move Zombie has also now confirmed.

The singer tells Indie Wire: "It ended so quickly. Basically, I saw something online, and he was obviously upset about something I said. But I wasn't sure what it was, because I love John. I've got nothing bad to say about him.

It's been remastered at Abbey Road Studios by Andrew Walter and will be released on November 11 via UMC on 2CD. The second disc will feature live material recorded at Wakeman's show at the Hammersmith Odeon, London, in 1976 which was originally captured by the BBC.

No Earthly Connection will also feature a booklet with extensive liner notes, including an interview with Wakeman conducted by Prog editor Jerry Ewing.

A statement reads: "With the confidence of youth, Woody always thought he'd be in a famous band but the 19-year-old rocker from Hull never expected to be thrust into London's burgeoning glam rock scene, and also into a bottle-green velvet suit and girl's shoes.

"Playing with Bowie took him on an eye-opening and transformative journey. In Spider From Mars he writes candidly about the characters who surrounded Bowie, recalling the album sessions as well as behind-the-scenes moments with one of the world's most iconic singers.

The appearance to promote the group's upcoming album, "Hardwired�To Self Destruct", saw Metallica deliver a 15-song for Fifth Members that included the live debut of their latest single, "Moth Into Flame."

The Webster Hall event was part of a busy week in New York for Metallica, as they played the Global Citizen Festival in Central Park on September 24, and performed on both The Howard Stern Show and The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

Beach Slang say: "Beach Slang has always been and will always be a safe place for everyone. It was built to be welcoming. It was built to be soft. If we are going to continue to exist, we have to exist in this way.

"There have been allegations involving sexual assault and our guitarist, Ruben. Although this occurred four years ago and prior to him joining Beach Slang, we cannot in good conscience continue with him.

"We believe survivors and we want to believe Ruben, but until we learn more information, we don't feel it's appropriate for him to be a part of Beach Slang."

The shows have been lined up in support of the band's comeback album 13 Voices which was released earlier this month. It's their first album 2011's Screaming Bloody Murder and comes on the back of Whibley's recovery from a near fatal alcohol addiction.

He said: "I am really excited to be releasing an album after everything I've been through recently. This new music represents the journey I've been on throughout the process of making this record.

"I had to fall in order to rise, and nothing feels better than to have something you love that you had to really fight for. I can honestly say that 13 Voices saved my life and I cannot wait to share it with all of you."

Akerfeldt tells Revolver (via The PRP): "I haven't spoken about this a lot in interviews, but I have done demos with a rap band I had with Jonas, the singer from Katatonia. We were poor, we had no money, we had sh*tloads of spare time because our bands weren't going anywhere - so we made these demos, and one of them was a rap group we had. So I have done some rap - in Swedish."

When asked whether they would release the tapes, he replies: "Well, they're sh*t. They're absolute sh*t! We can't have been too old, doing something like that.

Muncie Girls recently released their Five Miles demo collection to raise money for The Cavern venue in their hometown of Exeter. The Cavern was ravaged by fire last month and needs extensive work carried out if it is to reopen.

Vocalist and bassist Lande Hekt says: "Like so many other weird kids, we've been going there since we were 16 and we played our first shows there.

Ivan: "Hiroshima" was initially a rock-ballad solo record with Russian lyrics from 2012. It is the last song I wrote in Russian so it's all about closure and farewell. I tried to put some David Sylvian influence into the arrangement. One close friend told me that the chord progression in the refrain sounds impossible, but I just hear this way. I recorded this song and kind of forgot about it for a while. But after we started Gainsay, one day Vova sent me his translation of the "Hiroshima" lyrics. That was really a huge surprise, so I reworked the whole arrangement to fit Vova's voice. Now it sounds minimalistic, and more focused. You know� I've fallen in love with this song all over again.

Vova: I had listened to Ivan's version of "Hiroshima" for a while, and I found that it's a perfectly soothing song; almost the lullaby type. I used to listen to a lot of music before I fall asleep, and it often gets to the point when you want to listen to something that doesn't give you a headache but still captivates your thoughts. "Hiroshima" worked that way.

I wanted to keep the speed, the dynamics and emphasize the newly found determination by the character in the choruses, and also give it a little bit more desire to persevere. To summarize I guess there's not a whole lot of observational narrative in this song. Nothing really happens outside of the character himself, but it's important that he finds peace within.