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...
VIDEO: POP EVIL Cover METALLICA’s ‘For Whom The Bell Tolls’ At Houston Show
POP EVIL pulled out a killer cover of the METALLICA classic “For Whom The Bell Tolls” on July 29 at their show at Warehouse Live in Houston, Texas. Joining POP EVIL on stage to handle lead vocals on the song was Justin Benlolo from supporting band BRKN LOVE. You can check out fan-filmed video footage below. POP EVIL’s touring lineup includes two session musicians, being drummer Jason Hartless (TED NUGENT) and bassist Joey “Chicago” Walser of EGYPT CENTRAL and DEVOUR THE DAY. Last month, POP EVIL’s longtime bassist Matt DiRito announced his departure from the band, saying in a statement...
The Video For METALLICA’s ‘Nothing Else Matters’ Surpasses One Billion Views On YouTube
METALLICA;s music video for the song “Nothing Else Matters” has surpassed one billion views on YouTube. The “Nothing Else Matters” video, which was uploaded to YouTube in October of 2009, was directed by Adam Dubin and edited by Sean Fullan and is made up of clips from the 1992 METALLICA documentary “A Year And A Half In The Life Of Metallica”. “Nothing Else Matters” originally appeared on METALLICA’s 1991 self-titled album — also known as “The Black Album” — which is being re-released on September 10 as a remastered deluxe box set via the band’s own Blackened Recordings. The song...
PAPA ROACH And FEVER 333’s JASON AALON BUTLER Team With Rapper SUECO For New Song ‘Swerve’
PAPA ROACH have released a new single called “Swerve”, which is a collaboration with FEVER 333 frontman Jason Aalon Butler and Los Angeles rapper Sueco. The track is expected to appear on PAPA ROACH’s upcoming eleventh studio album, due next year via the band’s own record company, New Noize Records, Inc., under exclusive license to ADA. In January, a snippet of a brand new PAPA ROACH song called “Stand Up” was included in commercial for Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) partnership with ESPN. PAPA ROACH’s second greatest-hits collection, “Greatest Hits Vol. 2: The Better Noise Years”, was released on March 19...
RATT’s STEPHEN PEARCY Opens Up About Three Year Battle With Liver Cancer
In a recent interview with Laughingmonkeymusic, RATT vocalist Stephen Pearcy opened up about his private three-year battle with liver cancer. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Everything’s kind of copacetic now. I’m on a ritual and monitoring things. And do I really wanna put myself through all this stuff, with taking care of your health and the broken bones and knees, staph infection. “I don’t know why I’m still here,” he continued. “But, look, I’m appreciating every day and minute above ground here, because all of our peers are seemingly disappearing. And it’s such a drag. But it’s under control....