Today's Day in Rock Stories

Black Sabbath Not Really Over Despite Farewell Tour?

Mustaine made the revelations during an interview with WRIF. "Believe it or not, we've got some cool things going on for the States," he told the radio host. "We've got two really great things we're gonna be doing. We'll be heading out some part of the spring or summer and then we just were told about an opportunity at the end of the year that really, really excited me."

He then added, "It's somebody I've never played with before that we're actually gonna be supporting. They were so cool that we would step down from being a headliner to support this group."

While neither artist has formally announced the news at press time, various media outlets - including Rolling Stone and music industry publication Billboard - have confirmed the pairing based on a tweet from a Gaga fan on Monday that shared a video clip of a TV commercial for the event that stated "Lady Gaga duets with Metallica."

The supergroup of Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani, Michael Anthony and Chad Smith debuted the tune last spring during the band's two reunion shows at Harrah's Lake Tahoe.

The two-disc "Best + Live" package presents tracks from the band's two studio albums alongside audio from a 2009 concert in Phoenix, AZ originally only available as video on the 2010 DVD/Blu-ray "Get Your Buzz On."

The mini-tour will launch a year after the untimely death of the music legend. The first show will take place on April 21st at the Metro in Chicago and includes stops in Washington D.C., New York City and Philadelphia.

The No Plan is currently only available digitally and features material from Blackstar and Lazarus-era sessions like "No Plan," "Killing a Little Time" and "When I Met You."

The tour was originally scheduled to begin with a two night stand at The Pearl in Las Vegas but the kick off will now include three nights at the venue beginning on April 6th.

The band have added second nights at the TD Garden in Boston, MA on July 21 following a concert there on July 20, and at the Wells Fargo Arena in Philadelphia, PA on July 29 where they'll also appear on July 1.

New stops include an August 17 event at Rogers Arena in Vancouver, BC, and an August 19 date at Safeco Field in Seattle, WA with The Lumineers opening

After decades of success filling arenas/stadiums around the world and selling tens of millions of albums, Def Leppard had a wish in their latest creative endeavor to capture the present and future, while paying homage to the past.

And Their Will Be A Next Time...Live from Detroit is a new concert DVD and double CD that captures Def Leppard at their best, live in front of an adoring audience. But dig a little deeper and you get a sense of what really is at work.

Singer, songwriter Joe Elliott speaks to In The Studio host Redbeard about what the band hoped to accomplish with this new live concert package celebrating who they are now and where they came from.

Elliott says, "Guys, I said, I think we really owe it to ourselves to kind of document ourselves the way we are now. Vivian (Campbell, one of two lead guitarists) has been in the band nearly a quarter of a century, and it's kind of mad that the last (full concert) thing that we put out was on VHS tape!"

Worsnop had this to say about the new album when he announced it last fall, "It has been an emotional roller-coaster creating these songs, but the end result has left me humbled, proud, and more excited about a project than I ever have been in my life.

"Writing as deep and personal as I have on this record brought up a lot inside me from my years, allowing me to grow and move on from demons I didn't even acknowledge having.

The tour is set to get underway on April 7th at the Eagles Ballroom in Milwaukee and will visit various cities across the U.S. (and one in Canada) before concluding on May 5th in Nashville at the War Memorial Auditorium

The band will be taking the Ellen stage to perform their song "Death Of A Bachelor". The song is the title track to their latest album which has been nominated for this year's Best Rock Album Grammy award.

The annual festival will be taking place in Austin, TX next month with the "Conversation with Mick Fleetwood" event happening on March 15 and Hagar's the next day.

It marks the band's most personal visual to date, and focuses on lead singer Adam Lazzara after a bloody car accident. As he runs�and sometimes crawls�down the street looking for help, he encounters several people who keep on walking. But one old man, Lazzara's father in real life, offers him assistance and helps him wash away his wounds. What begins as a bath turns into a baptism, and Lazzara emerges from a body of water to be reunited with his family.

The band revealed last month that their new record is going up against albums from Dark Tranquillity and Ghost for the Hard Rock/Metal Album Of The Year award at the Swedish Grammis on February 28th.

The news was announced on Tuesday (Feb. 7), at Stockholm City Hall by Alfons Karabuda, chairman of the Prize committee. Both Sting and Shorter will accept their awards from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden at a gala ceremony at the Stockholm Concert Hall on June 15.

"Volume 1 of Gods Man & War" will be released on March 7th (it can be preordered here) Sekret Machines: GODS compiles information from engineers, intelligence officers and scientists to unearth the ongoing UFO phenomenon and will include a foreword by renowned scientist and author Dr. Jacques Vallee. DeLonge co-wrote the book with author Peter Levenda.

"Peter Levenda is more than an academic and researcher, he's a gifted communicator," DeLonge said in a statement. "People will never know how much his early thoughts mattered in the Sekret Machines adventure. It was his ability to frame an esoteric thesis that gave me the ammunition to speak clearly on the subject matter, and that got me in the door."

Says Hansford, "'Decadence' is the title tune on the new Gong Expresso album. Here the word means 'falling away.' I hope this tune and all the music on the album somehow addresses this in an unadorned, direct way. When I play with these 3 musicians I am convinced there is something special happening. Benoit Moerlen (vibes, marimba) and Francois Causse (drums, perc) and I began playing together in early 1977 in PM's Gong and our rapport is of the kind only long term relationships can provide.