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The 24-song set on the Rock Or Bust world tour mirrored the band's August 27 US tour opener in Greensboro, NC, with fans in Florida witnessing the second performance of the 1975 classic, "Live Wire," in 34 years.

The BB&T Center appearance marked the second concert of a 10-date series of shows that were rescheduled after singer Brian Johnson was sidelined in March due to hearing loss issues.

Drummer John Dolmayan posted a photo jamming with bassist Shavo Odadjian and guitarist Daron Malakian with the exciting caption, "1..2..3..4..#systemofadown #letdothis."

Not to be outdone, Odadjian also posted a photo of Dolmayan playing the drums, but he reversed his friend's initial caption, writing instead, "4.3.2.1�...#systemofadown #letsdothis."

His band included his teenage son Nick on drums, plus a guest appearance from actor and singer Leslie Odom Jr. During the 12-minute performance Collins said: "It's a great pleasure to be here. I can now tell people I've played at the US Open. That's an English joke - you'll laugh on the way home."

Frontman David Draiman this week spoke about fans' reaction to their return, saying: "It's been amazing - the fire has been stoked. We're performing at a level that I personally believe is unprecedented in our careers.

Speaking exclusively to TeamRock about the project, Schiff says: "I spent many years attending metal shows and horror conventions. One convention/metal show I worked for was Kirk Hammett's Fear FestEvil.

"I thought more about how the two genres always seem to go hand-in-hand. As it turned out that no one had ever made a documentary that explained why that is. I wanted to get into the history of both genres and allow the horror personalities and musicians to share their views on the topic and a lot of other fun stuff."

Haake says: "On this album and on previous albums, inspiration for lyrics has been current events and also a mix of things. Sometimes its purely fiction - something that you can be inspired and influenced by, something you've read in a book or seen in a movie or another song you hear.

"Sometimes it's just a line that someone says to you and gets you going - your brain starts spinning and you take it from there. A lot of times what you see going on around you in the world is the easiest kind of inspiration.

"If you don't even look at the lyrics, the music is hard and aggressive. In that sense, it's very natural to want the lyrics to reflect the aggression of the music. It's very hard to write about flowers and nice things and vacation time on the beach."

He continues: "We tend to write about darker things, whether they're actually things going on around you, close to you or on a personal level, or whether they're purely fiction.

The record features never-before released demos recorded by Warren Haynes, Allen Woody and Matt Abts in June 1994 at Tel-Star Studios in Bradenton, Florida.

The collection of songs were intended to make up the trio's debut album - but those plans were scrapped, with their self-titled first record eventually being released in 1995.

Speaking about an album of all-new material, Haynes said earlier this year: "I have a couple of songs written that are very much departures from anything we've ever done.

The lead single from 1983's "Frontiers" peaked at No. 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 and helped the project hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 on its way to sales of more than 6 million copies in the States alone.

The tune follows "Don't Stop Believin'" as the latest preview to the updated package that presents Journey's concert at the SM Mall Of Asia in Manila, Philippines on March 14th, 2009.

The event marked the homecoming of the band's then-newly arrived singer and frontman Arnel Pineda, who was discovered by founder and guitarist Neal Schon singing Journey covers on YouTube with Filipino band The Zoo.

The singer and guitarist opened up for The Dead Deads who were throwing a party in celebration of the release of their new studio album "For Your Obliteration."

The thrash icons will release long-awaited 10th album Hardwired� To Self Destruct on November 18, to be followed by extensive touring in 2017. Ulrich tells Rolling Stone: "The only unknown is the physical element of it. If the arms and legs and knees and shoulders and throats, the backs, the necks - if all that stays intact, there's no reason we shouldn't be able to do this for a significant amount of time longer."

Comparing his hopes of longevity with the Rolling Stones' career, he says: "I love the Stones more than anybody else on this planet. What we do, I'd like to argue, is slightly more physically demanding in terms of the energy that goes into it.

While Ten didn't top the charts when it first came out, by the summer of 1992, as grunge went more mainstream, the album climbed to No. 2 on the Billboard 200. Since then, 13 million copies of Ten have been sold in the U.S.

"Tush" was captured live in Chicago, IL for inclusion on the group's first official live album after 45 years that also sees guest appearances by Jeff Beck on their 1985 single, "Rough Boy", and on a performance of the 1947 Merle Travis classic, "Sixteen Tons."

"We spend the biggest stretch of every year out on the road, whippin' wire, poundin' skin, and rockin' it way up," says Billy F. Gibbons. "This is the true document of life de la ZZ. In an abstract surrealism style, this collection is a definitive chronicle of the band hangin' together for four plus deluxe decades, getting down to do what we get to do. Enjoy and listen to loudness!"

Other winners included Big Big Train, who picked up Band Of The Year and Event Of The Year - for their critically acclaimed three-night residency at Kings Place in London. The Album Of The Year award went to themorningband's Lighthouse, while the winner of the Chris Squire Virtuoso award went to King Crimson's Jakko Jakszyk, and Van der Graaf Generator picked up the Lifetime Achievement Award. The full list of winners can be found below.

The album was recorded in Munich in November 2015 and Brighton in January of this year, with bonus material taken from a Chicago show from September last year.

The plaque was unveiled by Brian May and the late Queen icon's sister, Kashmira Cooke, in a ceremony held by English Heritage - days before what would have been the late Queen icon's 70th birthday.

Last month, guitarist and vocalist John Baizley, who also designs the band's album covers, revealed that drawing helped him recuperate following the tour bus crash which left him with an arm injury so severe that doctors considered amputation.

He told TeamRock: "I could create and think quietly about what I'd been through and it wasn't as bleak or dark as it would be otherwise. I realized that it had probably always helped me. All the demons I have are most easily put at bay through the creation of songs and art.

The opening night is on September 8 at 7pm, with the exhibition running until October 13. Meat Loaf says: "This man is one of the greatest photographers of all time. If you miss it, you are wrong."

Hval's longtime collaborator Zia Anger directed the video and says it's "a conceptual menage a trois between Jenny, myself, and cheap tricks." Anger adds: "It is a literal burial of the effigies we have created in our video and performance collaborations over the past three years."

As for the ideas behind the shoot, Anger explains: "When I was a tiny child I saw my mother do a performance piece where she wore a skin suit just like the ones in the video. It really disturbed me, to have others see my mother 'naked.'

Munky tells Jake Serd (via Blabbermouth): "It was a method that our producer Nick decided. We were trying to make this record in between doing the 20th anniversary shows last year. So every time we came home from the road, we would jump in the studio and try to get some writing done, get some recording done.

Among the outtakes is a version of "Been Caught Stealing", a hit single from 1990 that topped the US Modern Rock chart for four weeks after its original release.

Cornell's South American solo tour kicks off Nov. 28 in Santiago, Chile, and will wrap up Dec. 14 at a gig in Buenos Aires, Argentina. As for material, Cornell will keep in line with his typical Higher Truth shows and throw in solo tracks, plus material from his bands Soundgarden, Audioslave and Temple of the Dog.

We've never put out an album before, and this whole band didn't even start with the idea of putting out an album, touring or becoming a band. It started as a fun way to spend a Saturday with a friend from out of town who was visiting so we could see a Bruce Springsteen and the E Street band concert while he was in town.

"Should've Been Me" was written the evening of Monday April 23rd, 2012 - I know specifically as Sasha Smith& Jamison Hollister (co-writers) had come to my house that night so we could try and write something together. I shared a little section of a piece my friend Matt Kap (co-writer) and I had started on a couple days earlier and it just flowed from there. Sasha is a great rag-time/blues pianist, Jamison comes from a country and bluegrass background and I love varying influences, it was an easy song to write.

I remember when Jamison, Sasha and I finished writing the song; we recorded an acoustic version to my phone. I then asked them if they'd be interested in coming to the studio on Saturday to record some songs in the studio. They both agreed.

I know these dates specifically because on Friday April 27th 2012 my friend Jimm Olson (drummer in The Walcotts) was coming to visit me in LA to see the Springsteen show and hang out for the weekend. We had planned a day in the recording studio on April 28th, because, what better way to celebrate after a Springsteen show than to create some Rock'n'Roll yourself!

Those were the first of The Walcotts' sessions�we didn't have a name�just a few songs to record for the fun of it.

The story inside of "Should've Been Me" isn't a true story or anything, so interpretation is wide open. To me it is just a moment in time, a character with a unique perspective of entitlement�or at least that is where we started off from, but songs are funny things, when you write one and share it with the world you'd think you might own it and the perspective, but you really don't. They have a life of their own. You feel they have a specific meaning or your remember what you were thinking when you wrote it, but then you find out someone else interprets it totally different and has an entirely different meaning to them, and that's great (Helter Skelter aside!)