Megadeth Stream New Song 'Fatal Illusion', Reveal Album Details

The group has revealed nine U.S. dates that begin on February 24th in Ft Lauderdale, FL at the BB&T Center and conclude April 15th in Los Angeles at The Forum. The Raven Age will be the support act for the tour and Maiden also announced that they will be revealing Canadian dates soon.

The band will once again be launching the tour onboard a plane piloted by frontman Bruce Dickinson. The new 'Ed Force One' for the 2016 trek will be Boeing 747-400 jumbo jet.

Dickinson had the following to say about the new dates, "We cannot wait to get back out on tour. Maiden thrive on touring and getting out to our fans, it's also what we enjoy the most. When we play in Fort Lauderdale it will be 19 months since our last show at Sonisphere in the UK so we will be raring to go.

"On previous Ed Force One Tours we only had time to play New York, LA and Florida. For the world tour next year we've made more time in order to take Ed Force One to our fans in many more parts of the country, like Tulsa where we haven't played since 1987 on the Somewhere In Time Tour and Tacoma where we haven't played in 15 years, along with Vegas, Detroit, Chicago and Denver too this time round. We wanted to start off in Ft Lauderdale so we could first visit Nicko's 'Rock 'n Roll Ribs' nearby and have a few Trooper beers to celebrate the start of The Book of Souls World Tour! We will of course visit Canada too and those dates will be announced very soon!

Weiland tells fans in a Facebook post that they can expect to hear music from his entire career, not just from the "Blaster" album. He writes, "This tour is about making a connection.

"We'll perform the hits for the Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver fans. I made Blaster for them, but it is fresh; we've made an album that can resonate, and attract a whole new group of fans. It's a rebirth."

The tour will be kicking off on October 28th in Hermosa Beach, CA at Saint Rocke and will crisscross the country before concluding on December 19th in Napa, CA at the City Winery.

The reunion shows, featuring vocalist John Arch, will be taking place to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their "Awaken The Guardian" album. The first performance will occur at next year's Keep It True festival in Germany in late April and the second reunion show will happen at the ProgPower USA festival in Atlanta in early September of 2016.

The band also revealed that the current lineup have completed writing the music that will be featured on their next studio effort, which they expect to release next year via InsideOutMusic.

Jim Matheos had this to say "I'm happy to announce that all the music for FW12 is now written. Still some work to do on lyrics and final arrangements, but the plan is for us to start tracking in December with a release date planned for the first half of 2016."

U.S. fans can catch the band on the road this fall in support of their current album "Darkness In A Different Light", beginning next week when they launch the on October 9th in Hartford, CT at the Webster Theater.

The band released the statement in response to fans that have been posting online audition videos, hoping to score the gig with the band. They write, "While we appreciate the overwhelming interest and support we thought it would be the right thing to do to let everyone know that we already have someone.

"In fact, we have been working with this person for over a year now to make sure that it was a correct fit before making any sudden changes. When we have more to share we will be sure to do that."

One of the online audition videos came from the member of the U.S. Army. The solider, named Chris Hawkins, posted his video online last month on YouTube with the caption "My friends and family speak about me and my playing and I showcase my playing skills and tell you about my life." See it here.

The new compilation will be released on CD and vinyl by Rhino on October 30th and will feature nine-tracks from the group's albums spanning from 1990's "Cowboys From To Hell" to their 2000 release "Reinventing the Steel". You can pre-order it and see the cover art and track details here.

That same time period of the band's career will also be the focus the new box set Rhino will be releasing on December 11th. The Complete Studio Albums 1990-2000 will be available as a five-disc CD set as well as a five-disc vinyl LP collection.

The vinyl box will feature the albums ("Cowboys From Hell", "Vulgar Display Of Power," "Far Beyond Driven," "The Great Southern Trendkill," and "Reinventing The Steel") on colored vinyl, as well as a 7-inch single of the non-album songs "Piss" and "Avoid The Light".

The band have set up a GoFundMe campaign to raise $7500 so they can tour the US as planned later this month. Iwrestledabearonce say: "Our bass player Ricky was moving the van and trailer from one safe storage space to another and parked the van overnight in a church parking lot - the same place used every time we have a stop in this town.

Beyond the music, the film follows Waters as he embarks on a deeply personal pilgrimage and reflects on the impact of war with his own family. Woven throughout the film, Waters travels to France to the site where his grandfather is buried, and Italy to a memorial for his father - both lost to war.

"I'm glad that we have an opportunity to share the film with people on a wider scale," says Waters. "It has had a deep effect on my life, and I'm not the only one. This release provides an opportunity to remember all of our fallen loved ones."

"Hit and Run" is a track from the group's latest album "Overboard" and the video was created by Ofir Sasson. Watch it here. The Verve Pipe's Brian Vander Ark had this to say about the clip, "Ofir was able to put a face on the villain that fit perfectly with the lyric - an everyday man, caught in the same everyday routine.

"His villain could have been your brother, uncle, friend, neighbor, co-worker...anyone. What shocked me the most, what I hadn't expected, was the ending. Was he punished by death? Suicide? Was it real or imagined? Was his punishment to relive it endlessly? He brilliantly left it up to the viewer which is something great films can do. I expect people will want to watch it again and again."

Anderson says: "A few silly, unobservant people have concluded that the show is either all pre-recorded vocals, or at best, I'm singing about 30% of the words.

"The show was constructed to allow about a third of the performance to be the domain of pre-recorded video guests. I have done a count of all lines of lyrics that I sing - both the total of the whole show, and the songs minus recitatives. With recits there are 589 lines of lyrics, and I sing in 395, or 67%. Without recits there are 500 lines and I sing 364, or 73%."

In an excerpt from a book, Mojo reports how McCartney's 1980 track Coming Up inspired Lennon to write his last album Double Fantasy. McCartney says: "I saw a John documentary and somebody was saying, 'I brought this record of Paul's to John and played it for him.' John went, 'Oh, f***ing hell, the bastard's done something good - I've gotta work!'

Drones was released in June and the band are gearing up for 2016's world tour to support it. Howard tells the South China Morning Post: "We've talked about it - but we haven't really talked about when or where.

But before he started work, he asked his Slipknot counterpart - who's written three memoirs - for pointers. Taylor tells Loudwire: "I told him, 'Just write it down. No matter what it is, just write it down.'

"If you hold yourself back because you're looking for that perfect sentence you'll be sitting there for ever. The best thing you can do is just vomit it out, then you can go back."

But Dokken tells Eddie Trunk's SiriusXM show (via Blabbermouth): "I talked to George about the Dokken reunion. It's been going on for two years - we were all up for it.

The band has reveals a wealth of dates for the trek, with more still to be announced. At this point, the tour is scheduled to kick off on January 12th in Salt Lake City, UT at The Depot.

Big Head Todd & The Monsters are launching the tour in support of their just released live album, "Live At Red Rocks June 6, 2015". Guitarist and singer Todd Park Mohr had the following to say about the release:

The video was directed Viktor Banales and "When I'm With You" follows the release of their previous single "Steady". Watch the new animated clip here.

The song was the title track to the band's breakthrough sixth album, which went on to sell more than 2 million copies worldwide. Due October 16, the project presents "Live At Metropolis" - which captures the band performing before a select audience at London's Metropolis Studios - alongside the companion career documentary, "Made In Scotland."

The feature traces Nazareth's career from their formation in 1968 to their breakthrough in the 1970s, and their ongoing career. The film contains classic footage and new interviews with past and present members of the band, including retired lead singer Dan McCafferty, who left the group in 2013 due to health issues.

The Cuban music-inspired record sees the ZZ Top guitarist joined by a handpicked group of musicians dubbed The BFG's. BFG & Co. includes Martin Guigui on piano and B3, B3 player Mike Flanigan, vocalist/bassist Alex Garza and drummer Greg Morrow, with co-producer Hardy offering additional guitar, keys, bass and vocals, and Gary Moon also supplying additional guitar.

The opening episode outlined the band's pre-production process in Frederick, MD while the second behind the scenes look saw the band document the recording process as they moved to Austin, TX to work with producer Machine at his Machine Shop studio.

The third episode sees Clutch return to Maryland to put the finishing touches on the project. he project has been launched with the release of the lead single, "X-Ray Visions."

Fans can stream the new single "Silver Hair" here. We were sent these details about the group: Boom Forest is the musical outlet for Nashville based and Baraboo, WI grown musician John Paul Roney. As part of the Boom Forest project, Roney has developed a mythology surrounding the music, and when recorded and on stage, performs as John Rayne, "a techno-evangelist bard from a post-apocalyptic American future."

The new album will be released by Dangerbird Records on October 16th. The new single "Light You Up" can be streamed here and purchased and/or streamed at the leading digital retailers and streaming services.

The band kicked off an east coast tour last night (Oct 1) in Philadelphia and the trek conclude with a special album release show at the Cactus Club in Milwaukee on October 17th.

Crispian Mills and co will hit the road in February, starting with shows in Glasgow, Manchester and London before dates across Europe before concluding on March 4th in St. Petersburg.

In June, singer Rosalie Cunningham told TeamRock Radio, "It's more ambitious and has more scope in a rock opera kind of way. I think it's more direct as well. The songwriting has developed, it's clever pop music.

Schenker tells Metal Shock Finland: "It's developing into a very stable band. We start our European tour and we're filming a DVD that will be released in early 2016.

"By around March it will be the end of our world tour - then we'll be getting down to business and recording our third album. Its release is planned for early 2017."

The band say: "Gong are pleased to announce they have signed a deal with Madfish. Friends from across the Gong Universe are being invited along for the ride."

The band say the four-track offering takes inspiration from the DC hardcore scene. Frontman Thom Weeks tells DIY: "We tend to get pretty influenced by the music we listen to in the van, so this record definitely has a DC hardcore vibe to it.

In the new scene, the band's first rehearsal is captured and sees the group decide on a suitable name. The film's synopsis reads: "Metal-thrashing Brodie is an outcast in a sea of jocks and cheerleaders until he meets a kindred spirit in fellow metalhead Zakk.

"After starting their own band, Brodie and Zakk's resentment of the suburban wasteland leads them to a mysterious piece of sheet music said to grant ultimate power to whoever plays it.

That was followed by an attack on Rickly in a Hamburg street during which he was robbed and poisoned, leading to the cancellation of a show and a night in hospital.

No Devotion were formed form the ashes of Lostprophets after that band's frontman Ian Watkins was revealed to have committed a string of horrifying sexual offences against children and was jailed for 29 years. Richardson says the abuse directed at No Devotion for their links to Shkreli pales into insignificance in comparison.

Frontman Brendan Lukens tells Fader: "The Thrash Particle came about during a spiralling case of jealousy. Too jealous to understand how dumb I was being, I did and said things to put my relationships to the test. In time, my paranoia grew and I began to hurt those I wanted to be with the most."

"There will be something cool happening," Krieger tells Billboard. "I can't say exactly what yet, but we never did get our tribute to Ray thing going, so it'll be part of that, for sure, and probably for Jim [Morrison], too." Krieger declined to be more specific, but presumably the anniversary-which occurs in 2017-will include live shows.

Hart tells the Spokesman-Review: "I'm finding that it's getting in the way of me having a connection to the real world, and that's the only place I can really write from.

Sylvan, who's currently on tour as vocalist with Steve Hackett's band, says: "This was the hardest song for me to complete. I began writing it right before my mother passed away, and it took a while to gather the strength to finish it off.