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Day in Rock Report for 03/03/2015


Metallica Releasing Earliest Recordings For RSD

(Classic Rock) Metallica has confirmed special releases for this year's Record Store Day. The annual event takes place on April 18 and aims to offer additional reasons to visit independent retail outlets on the day.

Metallica will launch a reissues series with an exact replica of demo cassette tape No Life 'Til Leather, recorded in July 1982 and featuring frontman James Hetfield and drummer Lars Ulrich along with future Megadeth mainman Dave Mustaine and bassist Ron McGovney. It carries six tracks including Hit The Lights, Seek & Destroy, Metal Militia and Phantom Lord.

Ulrich tells Rolling Stone: "It's time for us to put out some next-level reissues and do the song and dance of the catalogue that everyone else has done. Instead of starting with Kill 'Em All in 1983, we figured we'd go back another two years to when the band was formed."

The RSD special will be followed by an expanded edition in the summer. See what other bands have announced special releases here.

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Has Axl Rose Gotten A Bad Rap?

Longtime Guns N' Roses associate Del James says in a new interview that the public perception of Axl Rose is all wrong. Del was the guest on Monday night's episode of "At The Fights" with Randy "Commish" Gordon and "Gentleman" Gerry Cooney on SiriusXM Sports Zone and during the interview he discussed the misconception of Axl.

There is an old joke about celebrities believing their own press clippings and during the interview Del implied that people are wrong to believe the negative press about Axl.

He said, "I've been down with him [Axl Rose] since 1985. If the guy was as difficult as people say he is, no one could have stuck it out that long. There's no amount of money worth that big of a headache. And the reality, the truth of the matter is whenever my kids needed something and I couldn't, you know, afford it, whatever it was, a medical bill or whatever, he was the first one like 'yeah, I got it and don't worry about it."

"He's the guy who you call if you make a mistake and need to be bailed out at 4:00 in the morning and he makes sure you're taken care of and he looks after his [friends, etc] better than anyone else I can think of."

The show posted an excerpt of the interview online that you can listen to here where Del also talks about going to a boxing match with Axl. In another excerpt he makes a prediction about who he thinks will win the much buzzed about upcoming fight between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. Find out who he picked here.

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Tom DeLonge Releasing Solo Album, Preview Goes Online

(Radio.com) Tom DeLonge will release his first solo album on April 21, titled To the Stars: Demos, Odds and Ends. According to iTunes, the album's tracklist will be announced March 16 with three songs available ahead of the time for pre-order customers, the first of which is slated for March 9, followed by March 23 and April 6.

DeLonge posted a video on his new website featuring snippets of several of the new songs, a few of which sound as if they may have been originally written for Blink-182, while others have the massive production synonymous with Angels & Airwaves.

DeLonge tweeted that the album contains music from his "personal stash," including "demos, odds and ends." Numerous bundles including CDs, vinyl and t-shirts are available on his site. Check out the preview video here.

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Van Halen Reveal Live Album Details

Van Halen has revealed the details for "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert," the legendary band's very first live album release to feature original frontman David Lee Roth.

Amazon and iTunes are offering an instant download of the songs "Panama" and "Runnin' With The Devil" to fans that preorder the digital version of the album. Check out the Amazon preorder here.

The album will feature 23 songs that were recorded at band's concert at the Tokyo Dome in Tokyo, Japan on June 21, 2013. It will be released on March 31st on various formats including double CD, digital download, and 4-LP 180-gram vinyl.

Van Halen also plan to release a deluxe collection that will include "Tokyo Dome Live In Concert" and the newly remastered "Van Halen" and "1984" albums. The deluxe edition will be released in two formats; a four-CD set and a six-LP vinyl set in special packaging. See the tracklisting here.

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Stone Sour Covering Metallica, Sabbath, KISS On RSD EP

Stone Sour has announced that they have very special plans for this year's Record Store Day. The band will be releasing an exclusive limited edition EP of cover songs on vinyl.

Entitled "Meanwhile In Burbank...", the EP will feature the band's take on Alice in Chain's "We Die Young," Judas Priest's "Heading Out To The Highway," KISS's "Love Gun," Metallica's "Creeping Death," and Black Sabbath's "Children of the Grave."

The EP was recorded live in Burbank, Ca at Room 237 and guitarist Josh Rand explains how it came about, "Back in February of 2014 while Stone Sour was touring, Corey approached me about Stone Sour doing a cover of the Metal Church song 'The Dark' for the movie Fear Clinic.

"I thought it would be cool not only to record 'The Dark,' but the five cover songs that we had played on that tour." He adds, "The idea was not to shy away from a song because it was popular or pick a band that most people might not have heard, but to pick ones that truly meant something to one of us at some point in our life."

The EP will be available at select retailers for this year's Record Store Day which will be taking place on April 18th.

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Def Leppard Postpone VIVA! Pyromania

(hennemusic) Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen has revealed that the band will delay its second Las Vegas residency to 2016 due to touring and recording commitments.

Originally planned for last fall, the group were aiming to follow-up their "VIVA! Hysteria" residency in the spring of 2013 with a "VIVA! Pyromania" series.

"Pyromania", the 1983 release certified 10 times US platinum in 2004, was the Sheffield, England hard rock band's breakthrough album, predating "Hysteria" by four years.

"We are planning on going back," Collen tells WRFX Charlotte, NC. "It keeps getting put off, though. First, it was supposed to be the middle of last year, then it was the end of last year. We keep missing the deadline, because we have stuff, you know, on all the time.

"It won't be able to happen this year, because, I think, most of our tour dates are already kind of solidified; you know, all around the world. So it's probably gonna be earlier next year, hopefully." Stream the interview with Collen here.

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Cheap Trick Settle Legal Battle With Bun E Carlos

(Classic Rock) Cheap Trick have settled their differences with drummer Bun E Carlos, says frontman Robin Zander. Carlos, real name Brad Carlson, launched a lawsuit against his colleagues in 2013, claiming he'd been forced out of the band's company and they'd withheld his share of profits.

He'd stopped playing live with them in 2010 but argued he was "a full member of Cheap Trick in all respects." He said he'd been shocked when they recorded a track without him in 2012.

In October a judge refused the band's request to have the lawsuit dismissed. But Zander tells Eddie Trunk: "We've settled our differences. Bun E's a member of the band, but he's not touring and he's not recording." Read more here.

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Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi The Focus Of New Tribute Album

(hennemusic) "Great Lefty: Live Forever. Tribute To Tony Iommi Godfather Of Metal", featuring the work of the Black Sabbath guitarist, is set to be released on May 4th.

The first-ever tribute to the pioneering musician is the brainchild of Iommi supporters and Facebook communities Tony Iommi The Man The Master The Legend and Global Black Sabbath Convention.

The set includes participation from former Sabbath and Heaven And Hell drummer Vinny Appice, former Black Sabbath vocalist Tony Martin, Boston guitarist Barry Goudreau, Hugh McDonald (David Bromberg, Alice Cooper, Bon Jovi, Lita Ford), Mark Boals (Savoy Brown, Malmsteen, Dio Disciples, Dokken) and many others.

All of the songs presented on the compilation have been kindly donated for the cause as profits from the sales of "Great Lefty" will be benefit Macmillan Cancer Support in London. Read more including the track and band list here.

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Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Avenged Sevenfold, Alice Cooper To Rock USA

Judas Priest, Def Leppard, Avenged Sevenfold and Alice Cooper lead the lineup for this year's Rock USA festival with each headlining one night of the four day summer event.

The festival will be taking place in Oshkosh, Wis. on July 15th, 16th, 17th and 18th. Alice Cooper will be headlining on Wednesday, the first night of the festival which will also feature performances from Queensryche, Warrant, Vixen, and Wayland.

The second night of the festival will feature a headline performance from Judas Priest and will also have sets from Lynyrd Skynyrd, Whitesnake, Dokken, and Road Trip.

Friday night will be headlined by Avenged Sevenfold and will also include performances from Breaking Benjamin, Papa Roach, Pop Evil, and Death Glare.

Def Leppard will headline the final night of the festival. Styx, Tesla, Jackyl and Dellacoma Rio will also be taking the stage that night. Check out the official site for more info and details about the limited time $69 four day pass offer here.

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Robert Plant Plans Limited Edition Record Store Day Release

(hennemusic) Robert Plant has announced that he will be releasing a limited edition live EP entitled "More Roar" as part of this year's Record Store Day on April 18th.

The 10" EP will be available as limited edition run of 10,000 copies and feature three performances from his recent world tour in support his 10th solo album, "lullaby and... The Ceaseless Roar."

"More Roar" will include live versions of "Turn It Up", "Arbaden", "Poor Howard" and the Led Zeppelin classic, "Whole Lotta Love." Head Foo Fighter Dave Grohl was recently named 2015 Record Story Day Ambassador. Read more here.

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Judas Priest Announce U.S. Live Dates

(hennemusic) Judas Priest have announced that they will be playing a series of US concert headlining dates in the Midwest in addition to appearances at two music festivals this spring.

Following their previously confirmed May 16 appearance at the Rock On The Range festival in Columbus, OH, the band will perform shows in Cincinnati, OH (May 17), St. Charles, MO (May 19), Council Bluffs, IA (May 20) and Rosemont, IL (May 21).

In addition, the group will also play the Rock USA 2-15 festival in Oshkosh, WI on July 16, with tickets for the event on sale Monday, March 9. The group is currently playing shows in Australia as part of the Soundwave festival series. Read more including the new dates here.

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Spock's Beard Pay Tribute To Leonard Nimoy

(TeamRock Radio) Spock's Beard have paid tribute to actor Leonard Nimoy, who inspired the band's name. The Star Trek icon - who played the Vulcan character in the original series from 1966 until 2013 movie Star Trek Into Darkness - died last week aged 83 after a battle with lung disease.

Drummer Jimmy Keegan says: "There was a kind of joke within the band, about having a band named after Spock in the Star Trek episode Mirror Mirror, where the character has a beard and an entirely different persona.

"Other names were thrown around - but there was something endearing about 'Spock's Beard' and so it was kept, and so it is." He adds: "The name brings weight. Spock was a special character, and with prog being a very intellectual music style, it was a good fit and still is." Read more here.

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Stryper Reveal New Album Title and Share Song Clip

(Classic Rock) Stryper frontman Michael Sweet has revealed the band's upcoming album will be titled Fallen and is giving fans an early taste with a release of a song clip from the effort.

Sweet revealed the news from his home studio where he's recording vocals after the group completed tracks at SpiritHouse Recording Studios in Northampton, Massachusetts earlier this month.

The singer confirmed the title of the follow-up to 2013's No More Hell To Pay while sharing an audio sample of a track he wrote with Sevendust guitarist Clint Lowery.

Sweet says: "Here's a sample of a new song from Fallen. Clint Lowery sent me this opening riff idea and it's epic!" Check it out here.

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Status Quo Plan Unplugged Album and DVD

(Classic Rock) Status Quo will release their first acoustic live album, Aquostic!, on April 13 via earMusic. It was recorded at London's Roundhouse in October last year, following the launch of their Aquostic! (Stripped Bare) acoustic album, which reached number five in the UK album chart.

Originally broadcast on BBC Radio 2 and the corporation's on-demand TV service, the recording will be launched in 2CD, 2CD/DVD, vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray formats. Video editions carry additional behind-the-scenes material.

Classic Rock said of the performance by Francis Rossi, Rick Parfitt, Andrew Bown, John 'Rhino' Edwards and Leon Cave: "It works. Brilliantly. It's no gimmick." Check out the track details here.

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F.E.A.R. Inspired Papa Roach Frontman

(TeamRock Radio) Papa Roach frontman Jacoby Shaddix found recording sessions for eighth album F.E.A.R. in Las Vegas to be the "most inspired" he's ever experienced - despite fears of writer's block.

Shaddix tells Metal Forces: "Writing songs for this new record was very challenging for me in the beginning. I went in this time with nothing... well, not nothing - I had one chorus written for a song called Broken As Me. Once we got through that first track, the floodgate just opened.

"I wasn't really into the idea of going to Vegas and making a record there. I wasn't into the idea of not getting together for a month before and just jamming as a band, and coming up with ideas. But everybody else in the band was like, 'We'll just show up. We'll just throw it at a wall and see what happens.'" Read more here.

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Motorhead Pay Tribute To Dave 'Hobbsy' Hilsden

(Classic Rock) Motorhead have paid tribute to their longtime sound engineer Dave 'Hobbsy' Hilsden who has died. Hilsden had been an integral part of the group for three decades and filled in several positions with the band including accountant, tour manager and crew boss.

Guitarist Phil Campbell broke the news on Twitter, saying: "Our longtime engineer Dave Hilsden aka Hobbsy has sadly passed away. He gave 30 years of his life to Motorhead. He was a good guy. RIP."

And on their official Facebook page, the band paid tribute to Hilsden, calling him a "treasure." The statement reads: "All of us in the Motorhead family send our condolences to the Hilsden family. Hobbs was a treasure, a unique and wonderful man. He will be sorely missed." Read more here.

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Kill Ritual Announce New Singer

(TeamRock Radio) Kill Ritual have recruited vocalist David Reed Watson as they prepare to record their third album. The singer replaces Josh 'Crimson' Gibson, who quit the band due to "personal differences" last month.

Reed Watson has previously fronted Rage Of Angels, Electric Messiah and DNA - and he's vowed to "usher in a new sound" for the follow-up to last year's The Eyes Of Medusa.

He says: "I have joined forces with Kill Ritual out of the San Francisco Bay Area. I'll be helping to usher in a new sound and style for the band as they progress with some of their heaviest and most melodic material on their soon-to-be-released third untitled CD."

The band, also featuring bassist Danyael Laughing Bear and drummer Koryun Bobikyan, have released a two-minute snippet of Reed Watson in the studio. Hear it here.

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Korn Guitarist Suggests New Approach To Concerts

(TeamRock Radio) Korn guitarist Munky is considering the possibility of having the band play a set of part songs instead of full ones - as another way of doing things differently.

He believes the band avoided becoming a "thing of the past" with 2013 album The Paradigm Shift, their first since the return of Brian 'Head' Welch after an eight-year absence. And he wants Korn to remain ahead of the pack.

Munky tells Mancunion: "With such a massive library of songs to choose from, we might have to change our way of playing in the future," he says. "Perhaps we'll play songs in part, then switch it up at the bridge, the way DJs do it. That way our fans can hear more stuff." Read more here.

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Nosound Releasing Observatory Concert On CD And DVD

(TeamRock Radio) Nosound are gearing up to release a live album recorded at an astronomical observatory. It was made when the band appeared at last year's Starmus Festival at the Teide Observatory on Tenerife, alongside Rick Wakeman, Brian May, Professor Stephen Hawking and others.

The album is called Teide 2390 and it's launched on April 13 via Kscope. The label say: "Performed and recorded at Starmus, in front of an invited audience at an altitude of 2390m, the band played songs from their 2005 debut Sol29, 2008's Lightdark, 2009's A Sense Of Loss and their most recent album Afterthoughts."

Teide 2390 will be available in CD and CD/DVD formats. It's available for pre-order now. Fans can get a preview of the release with the video for the track "I Miss The Ground" here.

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Reef Recording New Album, Plan Fall Release

(Classic Rock) Reef are in the process of recording their fifth album for release in autumn, and they're set to air new material live next month. It will be the rockers' first release since 2000's Getaway.

Frontman Gary Stringer tells The Fix: "We've wanted to create again with Reef, probably for the last 18 months we've been talking about it. We got guitarist Jesse Wood involved in the spring of last year, six months after that we've started writing again, so probably by September 2014.

"We've recorded eight songs but our remit is to make a wicked rock record. You're going to press play, you just got to be smiling from ear to ear and happy with what we're doing. We just want to make sure every song is killer."

And fans can expect to hear some of the new material on the band's upcoming UK tour, which includes dates with Thunder. Read more here.

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Ozzy Osbourne Explains Black Sabbath's Origins In Animated Video

(Radio.com) In the latest Minimation, Radio.com animates an archival interview where Ozzy Osbourne explains why Black Sabbath sounded out of sync with the peace and love hippie era of the late '60s.

The original members of Black Sabbath-Ozzy Osbourne, guitarist Tony Iommi, bassist Geezer Butler and drummer Bill Ward-came of age during the "Age of Aquarius." You don't hear a lot of Summer of Love as an influence on their music because they didn't experience it in their hometown of Birmingham, England, which was a hard, bleak and industrial city. The music that they were playing, even in the early days when they were known as Earth, was considerably darker than most of the "peace and love" sentiment prevalent during the era.

As such, it should be no surprise that the band found their name during a rehearsal held near a theater showing a horror film. Osbourne recalled, "One day, Tony says, 'Don't you think it's strange that people pay money to go and get scared to death at horror movies?'"

It was a question that resonated with them and so band decided to bring horror to their music. "In our original format, we were a jazz/blues band," Osbourne said, referring to an early incarnation of the group called the Polka Tulk Blues Band. When they took that music and made it a bit more demonic, as Osbourne says, "It just clicked."

Indeed, some might argue that the music we now know as "heavy metal" was born, or spawned, in that rehearsal space with a little thanks to the influence of 1970s horror flicks.

Watch the video here.

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Rammstein Frontman Previews Lindemann Debut

(TeamRock Radio) Lindemann, the new project led by Rammstein frontman Till Lindemann, have issued the first taste of their upcoming debut album. The project leaves the status of Rammstein up in the air, with guitarist Richard Kruspe hinting that his time with the band he formed in 1994 could be over.

Due in May, the record sees the singer - who announced the project on his 52nd birthday in January - team up with Swedish producer Peter Tagtgren, who also fronts death metal outfit Hypocrisy and his own project, Pain.

One of the few people to have heard Lindemann's music up to this point is Raubtier singer Par Hulkoff. He says on Facebook: "The small parts I heard really blew my mind! Keep your eyes open. This will echo in eternity."

Check out the preview here.

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Bob Dylan Goes Gangster For 'The Night We Called It A Day' Video

(Radio.com) Bob Dylan gets a bit gangster in his new video for "The Night We Called It A Day," a song from his new album Shadows in the Night, his album of songs recorded by Frank Sinatra.

Filmed in old-school black and white noir style, the clip was directed by Nash Edgerton, who also directed a rather violent video for "Duquesne Whistle" from Dylan's last album, 2012's Tempest.

But where in "Duquesne Whistle" Bob was not actually part of the violence, in "The Night We Called It A Day," he's the mastermind, even occasionally pulling the trigger.

Watch it here.

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Bad Company Release New Version Of Classic Song

(Classic Rock) Bad Company have released a new version of "Feel Like Makin' Love." The 'Take Before' master comes from the forthcoming deluxe version of Straight Shooter, the band's second release. Alongside the band's self-titled debut album, it's being reissued on April 7.

The second disc of the Deluxe Edition of Bad Company includes eight previously unreleased recordings, including the original demo of The Way I Choose, an unreleased take of Bad Company, and an unedited version of Superstar Woman, a song that Rodgers later recorded in 1983 for his solo album Cut Loose. Also featured is the single edit of Can't Get Enough, and the single b-sides Little Miss Fortune and Easy On My Soul.

Extra material from the second album includes a stripped-down version of Shooting Star, a remix of Good Lovin' Gone Bad with alternative guitar and vocals tracks, and the previously unreleased See The Sunlight and All Night Long.

Listen to the new version of "Feel Like Makin' Love" here.

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Anthrax's Scott Ian Guest Stars On The Walking Dead

(hennemusic) Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian made a cameo appearance as a zombie on the latest episode of AMC's zombie apocalypse drama "The Walking Dead" and video of his appearance has been posted online.

Ian recently previewed his cameo with a behind the scenes look at the production of the series in an episode of his horror FX show for Nerdist, "Scott Ian's Bloodworks" (formerly "Blood & Guts").

A huge fan of the genre and the show, Ian previously appeared in a "Walking Dead" webisode in 2011. "I read the comic," says Ian. "I started reading Walking Dead when it came out and then the show came on. I'm a massive fan of the show. I just felt like, from the start, [that] it would be the coolest f***ing thing if I could ever get to be a walker.

"I got to do the webisode thing and that was awesome, and I remember [producer] Greg [Nicotero] telling me at one point that 'everyone in the business wants to come be a walker, so we kind of put the kibosh on all of that'. I figured that at least I got to the webisodes, that's cool enough. I didn't think it would ever happen."

Watch Ian's appearance here.

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The Gentle Storm Release 'Heart Of Amsterdam' Video

(TeamRock Radio) The Gentle Storm have issued a video for their track Heart Of Amsterdam, from debut album The Diary. The collaborative title by Arjen Lucassen and Anneke van Giersbergen is released on March 23 via InsideOut.

Van Giersbergen says of the track: "It's a tribute to the city of Amsterdam - the home town of the story's leading character, Susanne. Seventeenth-century Amsterdam was a centre of shipping, shipbuilding, and trade. It flourished, and a wonderful city was the result.

"We shot the video in the centre of the city. It was freezing cold and I couldn't move my fingers during the last shots - but it was all worth it." Watch the video here.

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Beth Hart Streaming New Song 'Mechanical Heart'

(Classic Rock) Beth Hart has exclusively streamed her track Mechanical Heart with TeamRock. It's taken from upcoming album Better Than Home, which is launched via Provogue Records on April 13.

Grammy-nominated Hart recently said of the follow-up to Bang Bang Boom Boom: "This record is not like that aesthetic. I bounce all over the place, man. I've got multiple personalities. A lot of them.

"Keep working on telling the truth - that's my mantra for the music. Tell the truth, work your ass off, and keep going there. I've got four things I have to do and the rest I leave to the wind - pray, work out, eat right, and keep in contact with my doctor."

Stream the song here.

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Kamelot Tease New Album 'Haven'

(TeamRock Radio) Kamelot have released a teaser previewing the title track of their upcoming album Haven. Their 11th record and follow-up to 2012's Silverthorn is released on May 8 across Europe via Napalm Records.

It was produced by Sascha Paeth and features guest appearances by Arch Enemy's Alissa White-Gluz, Nightwish's Troy Donockley and Charlotte Wessels of Delain.

Keyboardist Oliver Palotai says: "Haven has an aggressive edge to it that is the representation of the band as The Revolutionary Change in the storyline."

Vocalist Tommy Karevik adds: "The songs run the gamut from dark and melancholy to uplifting and melodic elements." Check out the video here.

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Wino & Conny Ochs Streaming New Song 'Shards'

(Classic Rock) Wino & Conny Ochs have released online stream of the song "Shards," taken from their second album Freedom Conspiracy, the follow-up to 2012's Heavy Kingdom.

"Sh*t's changin' fast," says former Obsessed and Saint Vitus guitarist Scott "Wino" Weinrich. "With war on every corner, political theatre becoming increasingly more offensive, and Big Brother and the Globalists intensifying their slow takeover, we offer sounds and vibrations of love, death, happiness and pain! With this music and verse we hope the songs will inspire and uplift, and hopefully unite our searching spirits."

"Freedom Conspiracy means companionship," adds Conny Ochs. "It means to have each other's back. This album is about losing and finding belief. And fighting for it."

Listen to the song here.

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Singled Out: Subversion's Imperfect

Today Kai Giritli, the founder of melodic tech metal band Subversion, tells us about the song "Imperfect" from their brand new album "Animi", which was released this week. Here is the story:

'Imperfect' started life as just a couple of riffs I would screw around with at practice a good few years back. I always wanted to do more with it but never quite felt I had progressed as a player enough to finally get the point across. However, with the "Animi" album, I came back to this and had a totally fresh feel for it.

I can kind of explain its sound by the subject matter within the album, and where this track fits in on this album. The story of Animi (Minds) is one of human incompatibility. We are a sort of failed experiment and have basically caused nature itself to turn on us; regretting ever having let us exist.

The earlier tracks on the album tell the birth of human kind and its unrelenting inability to control its anger and imperfections. 'Imperfect' is the 3rd track on the album and delves in to how Humanity uses aggression to get ahead in life.

People have found it is quicker and easier to achieve what they want by stepping on others, thus being selfish and impulsive. People within the lore of this album, have demons inside their heads, telling them to give into temptation in order to achieve their wants and desires. Unfortunately we have reached a point where the only way to be free of these demons is to pass away from this life.

The world begins to think about turning against us having seen that we are unable to change; Despite any progress we have made and all the advances in technology, we have brought forward our primitive way of looking at things e.g. "if you do not believe what I believe, you are wrong, and I am better than you" (Sounds like most people now days, haha).

The whole concept I guess is influenced by the same sort of ideas and mythology you would find behind films like "Princess Mononoke" or "Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind", but less magical, more spacey�but basically, the universe fights back.

By the end of this track, we are begging for a second chance.

Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself as you watch the video here and learn more about the album right here!

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