Today's Day in Rock Stories

Metallica Plans Stadium Tour With Avenged Sevenfold?

The group will be launching the tour on March 22nd at the Austin 360 Amphitheater and will finish the outing on May 9th in New Orleans at the UNO Lakefront Arena.

The former Pantera singer made the comments when he was asked about biased media during an interview with Matal Wani late last month. He said, "I can't even go to my local newspaper [website] without seeing some [bs] divisive [bs] - I say again - article written with the blurring of linear time. And it's, like, man, no, I'm not buying into this. 'Cause, really, I just clicked on to this page to find out what the f***ing New Orleans Saints [were doing]. It's, like, f***! I don't need to read all this f***ing s---, man. Just tell me who the f***ing Saints are gonna sign.

"It's not that I'm against social media, but it's, like� There are imperfections, like with anything. Life is one giant imperfection, but still we deal and we cope. And I deal and cope with social f***ing media, which is truly antisocial media.

The tour is scheduled to span from mid-May until mid-September with things set to begin on May 20th in West Palm Beach, FL at the Perfect Vodka Amphitheatre.

The guitarist was interviewed by Loudwire at the recent Hall of Heavy Metal History induction ceremony where he inducted Blade Records founder Brian Slagel into the recently recreated metal hall.

The reported dates begin on June 22nd in Mountain View, Ca at the Shoreline Amphitheatre and conclude on August 1st in Cincinnati at the Riverbend Music Theatre, according to Radio.com.

He's helped make every Rolling Stones album since 1994's Voodoo Lounge, and says of the ongoing sessions for a new album of Stones originals: "The energy is -ing great.

The bands will be hitting the road together beginning on June 9th in Chicago at the Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island and wrapping things up on July 9th in Phoenix at the Ak-Chin Pavilion.

The Beach Boys 11th album would go on to become Brian Wilson's modern pop masterpiece and one of the most influential albums of the 20th century, even spurring The Beatles on to make what would eventually become Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

Now, a year after Pet Sounds 50th anniversary, Showtime has announced the upcoming release of an extensive documentary that will chronicle "the story of the creation of the record that cemented The Beach Boys reputation as a leading force to rival The Beatles."

It's unlikely to be a detached view, though. Ono herself is producing the movie. She is working with Michael De Luca (The Social Network), Josh Bratman, and Anthony McCarten, who will also write the movie script. McCarten was Oscar-nominated for his work on The Theory of Everything, about the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking.

Due March 10, the UK group's seventh record - and follow-up to 2014's "Man On The Run" - was written, recorded and produced by frontman Gavin Rossdale.

In sync with the project's release, Bush will deliver the live television premiere performance of "Mad Love" on the U.K. version of "The Voice" next month, where Rossdale currently serves as a coach along with will.i.am, Tom Jones and Jennifer Hudson.

Zanuck had these comments in a chat with Variety, "Clapton's music is the foundation of our film. His commitment to the blues, its traditions and originators, is absolute from his earliest days.

Halford's band came up in the same industrial area of England, just a few years behind the Sabs: Black Sabbath's self-titled debut was released in 1970, while Priest's Rocka Rolla came out in 1974. Halford is also friends with the guys in the band; in fact, at Ozzy Osbourne's first "final" show -- he first "retired" back in November of 1992 -- he invited Black Sabbath to open for him for two farewell shows. They agreed to play, but their then-singer, Ronnie James Dio, bowed out. So Rob Halford got the awesome gig and filled in for two shows. Over a decade later, in 2004, the reunited Black Sabbath and Judas Priest toured together on Ozzfest, and at one of the dates, Ozzy was under the weather and Halford once again fronted the band, the ultimate gig for the massive Sabbath fan.

"Like every Sabbath fan, I have listened to all the music they have made," Halford says. "Each album does something for me, but here, I'm going to stick to the albums that Ozzy did. I've been asked to put these in an order of my favorites, which is hard. Like most Sabbath fans, my choices change. Anyway, here they are!"

"We've been in the studio working on a new album," revealed the group Monday on Twitter. "Hope to have completed by Spring and released at the beginning of Summer 2017."

One day after the 40th anniversary of Fleetwood Mac's classic Rumours, the new trailer uses one of the album's biggest hits "The Chain."
Gunn shared an extended version of the film's Super Bowl spot on his Facebook page; soon after that, he shared a new poster for the film, that will resonate with anyone who used to make mixtapes during the '70s and '80s glory era of cassettes.

The trek will begin in Woodinville, WA on June 23, with concerts currently scheduled to September 11 in Anaheim, CA; more dates will be announced soon

The band was scheduled to kick off the 16-show tour on March 7th in Stockholm but said they have decided to postpone the run until November and December "due to circumstances beyond the band's control relating to the commercial release of new music."

Bobby Blitz had these comments: "We hooked up again with Kevin Custer, the director behind the videos, 'Armorist', 'Bitter Pill', 'Rattlesnake', and 'Bring Me The Night'. It was an 'all-day' event in the great state of New Jersey and Kevin shot two vids for us on that cold January day, 'Goddamn Trouble' & 'Shine On'. A long day but well worth it as he captured the metal-chaos and energy. So hit "Play" and get some 'Trouble'."