Today's Day in Rock Stories

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Frontman Jonathan Davis recently discussed the work with Metal Hammer, saying: "I think it's returning to our roots - but it's new and it doesn't sound like any of the other albums. It's f***ing heavy, man!"

He added of his lyrics: "We summed it up with the title of the record. I choose to write about the dark things in life. 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.

The updated version was premiered Thursday by BBC Radio 2 host Ken Bruce and will be available to stream and download on Friday.

Alongside "I Gotta Go", it's one of two tracks from the late Louisiana musician featured on the Stones first studio album in more than decade.

Due December 2, "Blue & Lonesome" was recorded over three days in December last year at British Grove Studios in West London and was produced by Don Was, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.

The group played live in the studio without overdubs and were joined on two tunes by Eric Clapton, who happened to be in the next studio making his own record.

In the last months of his life, David Bowie wrote an off-Broadway musical called Lazarus. A sequel to the 1976 film The Man Who Fell to Earth, which starred Bowie, Lazarus opened to rave reviews at the New York Theatre Workshop in December. It was then commissioned for a London run.

Now, the soundtrack for the musical is available for streaming. In addition to featuring 19 songs written by Bowie and sung by cast members including Michael C. Hall, the album includes the last three songs Bowie recorded before he died.

The band, which also features Rob "Blasko" Nicholson (Ozzy Osbourne, Rob Zombie) and Joey Castillo (Danzig, Queens Of The Stone Age), will be playing a sold-out show at the Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn that night. It will stream for free via ZakkSabbath.live.

"Things are going good and when we have something we think is excellent we will unleash it on the world," he said, reports Rolling Stone. Reznor added that he's enjoying writing for a band again after having spent much of the last year creating music for soundtracks.

It features live cuts of I'm Eighteen and Is It My Body, with the tracks recorded last October when Cooper reunited with his original bandmates Dennis Dunaway, Michael Bruce and Neal Smith at Dallas music store Good Records.

He wrote the title track as a tribute to Wayne Ford, who died last year, aged 33, after a five-year battle against leukaemia. The pair had known each other since 2012.

This week Blythe told how he'd asked Ford for a message he wanted to live on after him - and although he didn't receive a reply, the lyrics for The Duke were inspired by their other interactions.

"We told you how excited we are to hit the ground running in 2017 with tour dates in Asia and we're back today with a Metallica first - a show in Hong Kong!," says the band. "Thirty-five years and still beyond psyched to go to new frontiers, so this promises to be a very special night as we hit the stage at the AsiaWorld-Expo on January 20, 2017."

Tickets will go on sale October 27 at 10:00am local time through HK Ticketing (HKTicketing.com and hotline 31 288 288), K11 Select and Tom Lee Music Store.

The feat marks the first time the band have been in the US Top 10 since their debut, "One Day Remains", debuted and peaked at No. 5 on the charts in 2004.

Alter Bridge's previous three records made the US Top 20, with "Blackbird" reaching No. 13 in 2007), "AB III" peaking at No. 17 in 2010, and "Fortress" hitting No. 12 in 2013.

Lambesis was jailed in 2014, leading Hipa to split with the band and form Wovenwar with Shane Blay, Josh Gilbert, Jordan Mancino and Phil Sgrosso - the latter leaving the band earlier this year.

Lambesis recently filed a $35 million lawsuit against a medical team he alleges denied him medication after he was caged - a move which Hipa says proves the singer hasn't changed.

Hipa tells Billboard: "It's sad to see somebody that we spent so much of our lives with end up in such a place. He could have made such a great impact on this world, but he just gave in to the worst parts of himself.

Looking back on a number of smaller shows they've played in recent weeks, guitarist Weinman says not having those to look forward to scares him - even though they often lead to nasty injuries.

He tells Fret 12: "The last couple of weeks we've done intentionally small shows. My eye like exploded so bad. I had to play all the shows and I couldn't see, I had stitches.

"That's not a big deal, it's what happens when you're in such close proximity and trying to have the free expression. I love the small shows, but there are some shows we played in the last few weeks that were straight up stupid.

Fozzy's last album was 2014's Do You Wanna Start a War and Jericho previously said they hoped to continue their blueprint of ignoring the temptation to stick too rigidly to any genre when it came time to record their seventh album.

The WWE superstar told TeamRock: "We will continue with this very open mentally and not worry if it's too heavy, too fast, too poppy, too dancy or whatever. Just look at Queen. There's a reggae song, a rockabilly song, a metal song, a disco song - and they're all great because Queen are doing it.

Alongside the No. 1 hit "More Than Words" and Top 5 follow-up "Hole Hearted", the second single from 1990's "Extreme II: Pornograffitti (A Funked Up Fairy Tale)" helped propel the project to sales of more than 2 million copies in the States.

Extreme marked the 25th anniversary of the record by performing it in its entirety on the road last year, including the Boston group's appearance at the Metal Meltdown event at The Joint at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV.

Headlined by Twisted Sister - who issued the first DVD set in the Metal Meltdown series earlier this year - the show also saw sets by Great White and Skid Row.

"Over 25 years after this iconic album was released, we captured the band at their very best," says producer Barry Summers. "Watching Nuno Bettencourt's off-the-charts guitar solos is simply mind-blowing, as confirmed by Queen's Brian May and Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, whom we filmed paying homage to the Guitar God himself in the RockShow documentary.