Former ICED EARTH vocalist Stu Block has announced his return to INTO ETERNITY. Block left INTO ETERNITY back in 2011 and was replaced by Amanda Kiernan, however due to recent events, the singer has returned a decade later. Block broke the news of his official reunion with INTO ETERNITY two days after he performed live with them at the Loud As Hell festival in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada (you can see video below). Yesterday (Monday, August 2), Stu took to his social media to share the following message: “What an amazing time with @into_eternity_official at the @loudashellfestival !! I had such...
METALLICA Share Previously Unreleased 1992 Live Recording Of ‘Through The Never’
METALLICA have released “Through The Never (Sacramento, CA – January 11, 1992)”, taken from the “Live At Arco Arena” 3CD included in the remastered deluxe box set of “The Black Album”, which is set to arrive on September 10 via the band’s own Blackened Recordings. The song was recorded live at Arco Arena in Sacramento, California on January 11, 1992 and can be heard below. The Black Album is one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed records of all time. Its 1991 release not only gave METALLICA its first No. 1 album in no fewer than 10 countries,...
SLIPKNOT’s COREY TAYLOR Posts Candid Photo With JOEY JORDISON And PAUL GRAY
SLIPKNOT vocalist Corey Taylor has posted a personal, grainy snapshot of himself and former bandmates Joey Jordison and Paul Gray to his Instagram page. Jordison – the former drummer for SLIPKNOT and co-founder of the group – passed away “peacefully in his sleep” on Monday (July 26) of an unspecified cause at 46 while bassist Gray died of an overdose on May 24 of 2010. SLIPKNOT released an eight-and-a-half-minute video tribute to Jordison featuring behind-the-scenes footage and performance clips shot during his time with the band. The video opens with the following words from SLIPKNOT: “Our hearts go out to...
RUDY SARZO Announces His Return To QUIET RIOT
Rudy Sarzo has announced his return to QUIET RIOT after an 18-year absence. Sarzo was one of the original members of the “Metal Health” lineup, playing bass on that album as well as it’s follow-up ‘Condition Critical’. Rudy Sarzo is easily one of metal’s most noteworthy players, having had stints with acts such as OZZY OSBOURNE, WHITESNAKE, DIO, BLUE ÖYSTER CULT, QUEENSRŸCHE and THE GUESS WHO. Rudy is looking forward to recording and touring with QUIET RIOT beginning in 2022. With the move, longtime QUIET RIOT bassist Chuck Wright is graciously stepping aside to continue his recent solo efforts while...
CRADLE OF FILTH, 3TEETH And ONCE HUMAN Announce Fall North American Tour
CRADLE OF FILTH have announced the North American ‘Lustmord And Tourgasm Tour‘. 3TEETH and ONCE HUMAN will be joining IN THE SUPPORT CAPACITY. Despite having the new album “Existence Is Futile” arriving on October 22nd, the tour will see CRADLE OF FILTH performing their 1998 album “Cruelty And The Beast” in it’s entirety. CRADLE OF FILTH vocalist Dani Filth comments: “It’s been far too long America, but soon we will return to haunt your shores again. We, as a band, are very much looking forward to coming back to the States and performing ‘Cruelty And The Beast‘ in its entirety...
DUSTY HILL Apparently Recorded Vocals For New ZZ TOP Songs Before He Died
ZZ TOP’s Billy Gibbons has revealed that Dusty Hill contributed some singing to the band’s in-progress recordings before he passed away last week. The ZZ TOP bassist died in his sleep last week at 72 years of age. The band had already been performing with fill-in musician/guitar tech Elwood Francis due to Hill’s ill health, allowing them to continue their ongoing North American tour scheduled through 2022. When it comes to new ZZ TOP music, Gibbons told Variety on July 29 that “just within the last couple of months, we were reviewing a couple of the rough tracks that were...
SAMMY HAGAR Says EDDIE VAN HALEN Wanted To Reconnect And ‘Make Some Noise’
Sammy Hagar recently spoke with Washington Post reporter Geoff Edgers in a July 30 Instagram Live chat where the “Red Rocker” spoke about how he and Eddie Van Halen mended their relationship prior to the guitarist’s death. “When I [reconnected] with Eddie four or five months before he died, we got together and we kind of made amends,” he said. “It wasn’t, like, ‘Oh, you’ve gotta apologize for this.’ When I talked to him the first time after all of ’em years, I said, ‘Hey, Eddie, I’ve been trying to get a hold of you. I called your brother.’ He...
A DAY TO REMEMBER Announce 2021 U.S. Tour Dates With ASKING ALEXANDRIA And POINT NORTH
A DAY TO REMEMBER have announced the details for “The Re-Entry Tour”, a North American headline run set to get underway this fall. Marking the platinum-selling Fueled By Ramen band’s return to the road for the first time in two years, the six-week tour produced by Live Nation kicks off in Rochester, New York at Main Street Armory on September 28 and rolls through major markets coast-to-coast before coming to a close with two dates in the group’s home state on November 5 in Hollywood, Florida at Hard Rock Live Arena and November 6 in St. Augustine, Florida at St....
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE To Headline COACHELLA 2022
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival co-founder Paul Tollett has confirmed that RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and Travis Scott will headline the 2022 edition of the festival. Coachella is now set to be held over the weekends of April 15-17 and April 22-24, 2022 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Tollett discussed the 2022 lineup in an interview with the Los Angles Times, explaining that he wanted to provide fans some reassurance after the chaos and uncertainty of the last year and a half. “Right now, it’s the Wild West,” he said. “I’m just trying to be as...
Upcoming Official LED ZEPPELIN Documentary Title Revealed
The previously announced official LED ZEPPELIN documentary will be titled “Becoming Led Zeppelin”. Directed by Bernard MacMahon, the film documents LED ZEPPELIN’s’ “meteoric rise to stardom”. The filmmaker said in a press release: “‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ is a film that no one thought could be made. The band’s meteoric rise to stardom was swift and virtually undocumented. Through an intense search across the globe and years of restoration of the visual and audio archive found, this story is finally able to be told.” “Becoming Led Zeppelin” will feature new interviews with guitarist Jimmy Page, singer Robert Plant and bassist John Paul...