As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis took to social media for the first time since the rest of the members of the band left the group and addressed the shakeup in the lineup and vowed to rebuild the band.
He told fans, "Hi everyone, I needed some time to process all that has happened recently with AILD. As I reflect, I certainly agree that there was an unhealthy environment that made leaving for a new tour with the previous lineup unrealistic. It had become difficult to figure out even the smallest details, and I admit I can stick strong to my vision for the future of AILD even when others think it should go another direction. (continue)
Metal legends and Rock and Roll Hall Of Famers Judas Priest have announced that they will be launching their Shield Of Pain Tour 2025 across Europe next summer.
The tour is set to kick off on June 14th in Hamar, Norway at the Tjuvholmen Arena and will wrap up on July 20th in Oberhausen, Germany at the Rudolf-Weber-Arena. (continue)
Slipknot have announced that they will be heading across the pond next June for a European Tour that will include appearances at a number of leading music festivals.
The masked rockers will be making appearances at the Sweden Rock, Rock Im Park, Rock Am Ring, Heavy Weekend, Novarock, Ferrara Summer Festival, Rock Fest Barcelona Greenfield, Copenhell. and Resurrectionfest. (continue)
Canadian heavy metal stalwarts 3 Inches of Blood are set to ignite the West Coast as they kick off 2025 with the California Conquest, storming into Los Angeles on January 24 and San Francisco on January 25, 2025.
"After our return to the stage in 2024 and an incredible handful of shows in Canada and the US, we are not stopping there. We are kicking off 2025 with the California Conquest in Los Angeles and San Francisco, January 24 and 25, 2025," the band proclaims. (continue)
Yusuf / Cat Stevens' little known 1974 concert album, Saturnight: Live from Tokyo, is scheduled for release in the U.S. for the first time ever, 50 years after it was released only in Japan, due to contractual restrictions. Remastered from the original production master for the first time since its original release, the record will go on sale exclusively as part of Record Store Day's Black Friday annual event on November 29th. It will be available as an "RSD First" release on 180-gram Orange Splatter color vinyl. The LP has been cut at the world-famous Abbey Road Studios and will be packaged for the first time in a gatefold sleeve that includes lyrics and new liner notes from the band's 1974 tour manager, Carl Miller, and bassist Bruce Lynch.
Saturnight was recorded on June 22nd, 1974, at Sun Plaza Hall in Nakano, Tokyo, Japan on the Japanese leg of Cat's 1974 "Bamboozle World Tour." The tour comprised 50 shows across North America, Europe, Australia and Japan to support the release of Buddha and the Chocolate Box. Cat had long felt an affinity with the aesthetic elegance and spiritual depth of Japanese culture, especially the principles of meditation and reflection upon which their traditions of poetry, design and craftsmanship are founded. (continue)
Extreme continue to highlight the many sides of SIX, their first album for earMUSIC released in June of 2023, with a new video for the charmingly gentle and lyrical track "Small Town Beautiful."
SIX was conceived as an album-length journey. With the 10th video to be released from that album (a run that began with "RISE" amassing millions of views followed by "#REBEL" through "Thicker Than Blood" up to "Beautiful Girls" and "Save Me," garnering millions more) the story and the journey continue as Nuno Bettencourt, Gary Cherone, Pat Badger, and Kevin Figueiredo explore the beauty in the small things of the places we call "home." (continue)
The 40th anniversary of Bryan Adams' "Reckless" album is being celebrated by the syndicated radio show In The Studio With Redbeard: The Stories Behind History's Greatest Rock Bands.
Redbeard shared this synopsis for the episode: In November 1984 Bryan Adams' fourth album, Reckless , had only just begun spinning off what eventually would be a total of six Top 15 hits, including "Run to You", "One Night Love Affair", "Somebody", "Summer of '69", "It's Only Love" with superstar Tina Turner, and the #1 single, " Heaven". At the time only Michael Jackson's Thriller was the equal of Reckless for sheer mass appeal sales. Ponder that for a moment. (read more)
The 2x Juno Award winning multiplatinum band Walk Off the Earth are part of the new "Growin' Up Holiday" compilation from Apple Music's Platoon and to celebrate we asked them to tell us about their song "Santa Pick Up The Phone". Here is the story:
Christmas is hands-down our favorite holiday, so anytime we get the chance to release new holiday music, we jump on it! "Santa Pick Up The Phone" is all about capturing the magic, chaos, and humor that comes with the season. We all know that feeling of wishing for a little Christmas miracle when things don't go quite as planned, and this song taps into that in a fun, light-hearted way. (continue)
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