Today's Day in Rock Stories

Finch Break Up, Members' New Group Release First Song

"The music of the Beatles has withstood over a half of a century and still surpasses any followers' attempts of recreating those sounds, and especially those songs," Joe Bonamassa tells the show. He recorded a version of the album's opening track, Taxman.

"We're all obviously big Beatles fans," adds Gov't Mule's Warren Haynes. Revolver in particular was among their many milestones in the way that it represents their changing from a pop band to a rock band. Subject matters were changing with their songwriting and they were on the forefront of what was changing with, not only music, but pop culture.

The set will include the band's cover of the Black Sabbath's classic "Paranoid", as well as tracks that the band composed for two video games: "Carry On" (Call Of Duty II) and "Not Ready To Die" (Call Of The Dead).

Glover says in a video message: "I have a little bit of news for you - not a lot, but some. I know a lot of you have been waiting for this new album of ours. Well, it's nearly there.

"We recorded it in Nashville in February and we've been working on it and the mixes were finally done a couple of months ago. It'll be out sometime next year - early spring. I'm in Hamburg and it's the first playback to some of the distributors and the record label chiefs and it's very exciting."

He continues: "I know you've been very patient - and so have we. We tour a lot and it's difficult to actually get some time in the studio sometimes. But the album is finished.

He added: "I would have left Genesis to join The Who. But they've got a great drummer now in Zak Starkey, he's fantastic. Someone with the balls that Keith Moon had."

This week Collins announced a comeback tour for next year and also released his biography Not Dead Yet. And he says while writing it, he discovered much about himself.

Collins continues: "I was reminded harshly about how much I worked. Which didn't seem to be quite like that much when you were doing it, but looking back at it in a lump, yes, it was quite intimidating. You miss out on family.

Now Worsnop has released a statement about his decision to return to the band and he insists We Are Harlot - the band he formed before leaving Asking Alexandria in the first place - will continue, as will his solo career.

Worsnop says: "Two weeks ago, I was approached with a question, if I would consider touring with my former band, Asking Alexandria, for their upcoming tour 10 Years In The Black.

"Now, keep in mind that outside occasional, 'Hey, man, how've you been?' texts, Ben Bruce and I hadn't spoken since my departure - and the rest of the band, not at all.

"It was a long week pondering the decision and figuring out what the right thing to do was. After all, my solo album, The Long Road Home, is about to release, which is, of course, my primary focus.

"I'm also working on the new We Are Harlot record, and trying to book in as much acting work as possible. Eventually, the pivotal hour came about and it was time to make a decision. I took this last year off from playing and touring to find myself (pretentious) and re-evaluate my life (cliche), which I NAILED (badass).

"A Foreigner's Tale" will see Jones share rare and candid photos from the band's career alongside Foreigner artwork and memorabilia from his personal archives.

Frontman Kirk Windstein recently described the new material as "more meat and potatoes" than previous outings. He added: "I intentionally went back and listened to a lot of old Crowbar stuff, like the self-titled and Broken Glass albums, to get a feel for what my mindset was 20-plus years ago.

"I also went back and listened to the bands that influenced Crowbar in the beginning, like Trouble, Saint Vitus, Melvins, and the first Type O Negative record. So it was kinda me doing my homework.

"Having this be our 11th record, we're very fortunate because so many bands don't last this long. My whole outlook on music as a career is the Motorhead outlook, which is that slow and steady wins the race.

The 4CD version includes three bonus discs featuring b-sides and bonus songs, a new 5.1 remix of the album by Bruce Soord and a live album of Katatonia playing The Great Cold Distance in its entirety with the Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria in September 2016.

Guitarist Anders Nystrom says: "Looking back at our set lists from a historic perspective, it dawned on us that there's been no other album from which we played more songs than The Great Cold Distance, so in the light of its 10th anniversary this year, it's with much pride and joy to announce the ultimate edition featuring all the scattered bits and pieces related to this album."

John Bush took over from classic-era singer Belladonna, who returned to the band in 2010 and has since recorded two further albums with them. Ian said last year that the lineup change was a result of his own "immaturity," adding: "I never had a problem with the way Joey was singing the words I was writing. Once we got to Persistence Of Time it wasn't working for me any more."

He recently told WTF With Marc Maron: "I just truly didn't have the patience any more. I was writing the words and I couldn't deal with the fact that someone else was singing, but I couldn't sing.

And the co-creator of Megadeth's beer has explained why he insisted it should have the lowest alcohol content his brewery have ever made. The drink, called A Tout Le Monde after the band's 1994 track, was launched Friday (October 21).

Mustaine decided to release his own wine as he worked on a show with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in 2014. He tells Forbes: "You've got people wearing leather jackets who'd probably never worn leather other than belts and shoes.

With that situation apparently resolved, they'll play with Alter Bridge - a run of shows which kick off in Bilbao, Spain, on November 4. Vocalist Corey Glover says: "We're excited to be touring Europe with Alter Bridge. They remind us of the many great rock bands we came up alongside in the 80s.

The singer was in the Welsh capital to see his son Griff's band Shvpes play nearby and decided to sample the beer in the Fuel Rock Club. But rather than enjoy a drink himself, Dickinson got behind the bar and got to work serving pints of Trooper Red 'N' Black.

Fuel owner Rob Toogood tells Wales Online: "When I bumped into him backstage at a show in Barcelona he told me to let him know when I had the new beer in and he promised to pull a few pints for us.

Hammett tells Classic Rock: "I enjoy playing the solo on The Unforgiven because it's such a dynamic solo. And a lot of times live, I'll change around my guitar solo because I end up not liking what I recorded, or I get bored with what was recorded - or I just want to play something completely different.

"But with The Unforgiven, as a guitar solo it has changed very little over the years. It's probably one of the only guitar solos that I play just like the album."

The 'Forbidden Territories of the World' tour will be kicking off on March 23rd in Strasskirchen, Germany at the Plutonium and will wrap up on with an appearance at the Vienna Metal Meeting festival on April 8th.

The band had the following to say about the trek, "We're looking forward to bringing our headline show to Europe next year, with us doing at least 80 minutes a night of Flotsam classics, as well as fan favorites, off the new album.

Last month Soundgarden guitarist Kim Thayil reported that they were 12 songs into their next album - which they were juggling with Chris Cornell and drummer Matt Cameron's Temple Of The Dog reunion.

He said: "Over the past year we've had a number of songwriting and jam sessions, getting together to exchange ideas and document and record them. We have some rough demos of a dozen or so songs.

Barclay James Harvey classic albums Everyone Is Everybody Else, Octoberon, XII and Gone To Earth were all recently reissued in deluxe editions with new 5.1 surround and stereo remixes on Esoteric Recordings/Cherry Red Records.

"WARM BODIES" was born from a bass line that mimicked a tempo that was in bed with Sex Pistols' "Sub-Mission". That is good a place as any to start a song. This beginning was a little different for us; pronounced and alluring.

After hacking out a segue into the pre-chorus, the chorus practically wrote itself. That was a good sign. Songs that write themselves are normally a good omen.

Out of that vertebrae, I drew up the skeleton on soft synth tissue and virtual drums. When we can get away with it, we favor a schizophrenic beat over a straight forward one, and the bass lines were perfect for an offset rhythm.

I had no idea what the song's actual theme was leaning towards. An obvious love song would never do... But what about bodies? Dead Bodies? Cold Bodies? Sexy Bodies...? "We need warm bodies", I thought. Vampires need warm and living blood. Every living, or undead, creature needs and lusts off of a warm entity... That's when I realized we had a song.

Even with all of these veins growing, this song still needed a pulse. In the end, what really started the heartbeat was the verse segue and its child-like, cautionary tale of "don't even bother unless you see the heart beat..."

It was a satisfying moment, basking in a Frankenstein electricity that led to this hybrid of Electro, Punk, and Deathrock. It was similar to its sibling "CVLT [AS FVK]" songs, but this one had a "tender" side. The sentiment of vulnerability was predominant in its need for living, breathing, responsive coconspirators; or on the other hand, a simple vampiric supplement for vitality. Vitamin "B"... Vitamin "Bodies"... Vitamin "Blood".

As stated in the song, "nothing is good to us dead... to keep us warm".