Today's Day in Rock Stories

Metallica Announce Another Rare Club Show

The organization's inaugural event takes place at the Anaheim Expo Center in Anaheim, California, on January 18 and will be hosted by Eddie Trunk. Proceeds from ticket sales will be donated to the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up And Shout Cancer Fund.

The other six artists to be inducted are Rudy Sarzo, Frankie Benali, Ross 'The Boss' Friedman, Vinny Appice, Don Airey and President of Sabian Cymbals Andy Zildjian.

The day after the Late Night appearance, Megadeth leader Dave Mustaine will perform a special acoustic concert at the Hard Rock Cafe in Boston, MA in support of the charity Music Drives Us.

During the Red Hot Chili Peppers' recent show in Turin, Italy, Klinghoffer took his phone out of his pocket and filmed the crowd rather than play the guitar solo for the band's hit song Californication.

Besides the birthday concert scheduled for London, Terminal 5 in New York announced a show to be held on January 10th, the one-year anniversary of Bowie's death. It's appropriately titled "Celebrating David Bowie: A Very Special David Bowie Concert With Bowie People Playing Bowie Music Bowie Style."

Following a successful run in 2015, Journey will return to The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Las Vegas for a second, nine-show residency entitled "Journey Las Vegas."

The band will be launching the trek in support of their latest album "Caught Up In The Gears Of Application" and will kick things off in Austin on January 12th and wrap up the tour on January 28th in Sauget, IL.

The band say: "We are sad to announce that Ryan will not be performing on any further shows on the This Could Be Heartbreak UK and European headline tour.

"Ryan has recently been battling some ongoing mental demons, and as a group of friends who have had to deal with mental health issues in one way or another, all four of us knew that the best course of action was for him to take the time to go home and get some professional support.

The company have launched 70 exclusives so far, six of which have topped the US Billboard charts. Apple Music boss Eddie Cue says they'll continue their strategy in order to grow their customer base.

The band were performing at PPC Club in Graz on December 4 (Sunday) and when they returned to their tour bus later, they discovered thieves had broken in and taken items including a laptop and cash.

The band and crew's passports were also missing, but were thankfully discovered in a discarded bag near the venue. Webbe tells TeamRock: "What a great Sunday night show we had, the crowd were super the energy and love in the room was amazing! Thanks to all who came and showed us nothing but rocking.

"During our set between the hours of 10pm and 11pm, some people managed to break open the door of our tour bus. They got on and ransacked our bus, went through our bunks stealing our band and crew's property - a laptop, a tablet and personal bags, a wallet and cash were stolen from us.

Now they've announced eight farewell UK shows for April and May of next year. Mainman Pete 'Spider' Spiby tells TeamRock: "The moons aligned with the seas, hoofs are being shoed, capes dry cleaned and alehouse doors are open, so we thought we'd pay our last respects to those who kept us going, just one more time. With feeling. To quote the great man himself, 'Another town I've left behind, another drink, completely blind, another hotel I can't find.'"

The film explores humanity's relationship with nuclear weapons and consists of archive footage from events such as the Cold War, Chernobyl and Fukushima.

They played shows across Europe in support of the album earlier this year- now Mogwai will play the 10-track record in full accompanied by a screening of the documentary in the background on 11 dates in January.

Mogwai's Barry Burns previously said the band didn't expect their latest album to be released when they started writing material for it. He said: "It's weird because this one turned out like a proper album. We didn't expect it to even be released - but once we realized that these were proper songs that sounded like us and didn't just sound like a soundtrack, we thought we may as well release it."

The announcement comes after the newly released edition of Primus' eighth album Primus & The Chocolate Factory was recently nominated in the Grammy's Best Surround Sound Album category.

The metal icons have also announced a North American tour, which will get underway in January, with the dates coming before they head out on a European tour across March and April - shows that'll again see them play De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas in its entirety.

Singer Attila Csihar said: "Time passed and the whole band got stronger and more experienced. So now suddenly we felt it was the time to play that whole record finally, to release that beast after more than two decades.

The band features Mastodon singer and bassist Troy Sanders, At The Drive-In drummer Tony Hajjar, Queens Of The Stone Age guitarist Troy Van Leeuwen and guitarist and keyboardist Mike Zarin.

Despite being labeled a supergroup, Sanders said he doesn't agree with the tag - but understands why some would see the project that way. He told TeamRock: "I understand that if you have four marginally famous people, and you put them together, it's a given that you're already going to receive a certain level of attention, or perhaps a margin of success without even doing any of the work.

"But I also recognize that this band was formed because of the friendships that we've all created over years of touring. When you share stages and festival backstage areas, and you cross paths over and over, you befriend one another. Those friendships sometimes last a long, long time.

The track is from Graffin's forthcoming solo album set for release in 2017. Set against a potent montage of historical photos and footage depicting years of racial conflict, Graffin and a renowned band consisting of Social Distortion members Jonny 'Two Bags' Wickersham, Brent Harding and David Hidalgo amplify the track in a deliberate sonic homage to Neil Young's Crazy Horse produced by Bad Religion co-founder Brett Gurewitz. Graffin calls the song 'a sorrowful piece of Americana" that "still finds itself deeply significant today."

And looking back, Heafy says Trivium's Ember To Inferno was "cursed" and as a result, never got the recognition it deserved upon its initial release. He tells Music Feeds: "With the record, ever since it came out it's been cursed. When we first signed to Life Force records we were incredibly excited.

"I remember when release day hit, we all went to our local record store to buy the CD, and, lo and behold, it wasn't available anywhere. Not because it sold out, but because the distribution deal Life Force had wasn't really together yet.

"We were very let down when we couldn't find the record. In our mind, the best thing that happened with Ember To Inferno is that it got us signed to Roadrunner then everything was set up correctly.

He says in a video filmed by their label Nuclear Blast: "They go down really well. It's one of the first times I can remember that people on this tour are yelling out for songs the new record. Normally when you play live, they're yelling out for songs you did 15 years ago. It's nice. They've actually listened to the record and liked it."

Guitarist Fredrik Akesson credits the fact the label issued lyric videos for Will O' The Wisp and The Wilde Flowers before they hit the road with their rise in popularity.

The album is due on March 24. The band promise fans an "immersive and theatrical stage show." Vocalist Will Gould says: "These shows are a significant moment in the history of Creeper.

Crystals is described by the band as, "A psychedelic flying carpet ride taking you across a diverse musical landscape. Let the Shaman Spell fly you through waterfalls of melting melodies and fields of mastodontic riffs - open your third eye and prepare for the crystallized illusions."