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SCORPIONS reveal track listing and cover art for ‘Born To Touch Your Feelings – Best Of Rock Ballads’

SCORPIONS reveal track listing and cover art for ‘Born To Touch Your Feelings – Best Of Rock Ballads’

SCORPIONS are set to release a new compilation album, “Born To Touch Your Feelings – Best Of Rock Ballads”, on November 24. The album will include fourteen of the band’s most famous ballads plus three new songs which were recorded this past summer. Says the band: “We have put our most beautiful and legendary ballads on a brand new album and are topping it off with three brand new songs: ‘Follow Your Heart’, ‘Always Be With You’ and ‘Melrose Avenue’. The album also includes a new acoustic recording of ‘Send Me An Angel’. Additionally, we’re going back to our roots...

Stream the new CANNIBAL CORPSE track ‘Red Before Black’

Stream the new CANNIBAL CORPSE track ‘Red Before Black’

You can now stream the latest CANNIBAL CORPSE song “Red Before Black” below.  The song is the title track from the new album which is set to drop on November 3 via Metal Blade Records.  The album was recorded at Mana Recording Studios in Saint Petersburg, Florida with producer/engineer Erik Rutan (SOILENT GREEN, BELPHEGOR, HATE ETERNAL), who previously worked with CANNIBAL CORPSE on 2006’s “Kill”, 2009’s “Evisceration Plague” and 2012’s “Torture”. “We always try to make our music aggressive, but where an album like ‘A Skeletal Domain’ [2014] was definitely aggressive, it has a targeted refinement that the new album...

EVANESCENCE have released the official music video for the song “Imperfection” from the band’s upcoming album, “Synthesis”, which is set to arrive on November 10. “Synthesis” will feature two new EVANESCENCE songs in addition to fan favorites re-recorded with a live orchestra and electronica. The album includes guest performance by famed violinist Lindsey Stirling on “Hi-Lo”, the other new song on the album. EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee described the inspiration behind “Imperfection”: “For me, this is the most important song on the album. I struggled with the lyrics for a long time because there was a lifetime of work to...

The new SONS OF APOLLO video “Lost In Oblivion” has been released and can be seen above. The song is taken from the band’s debut album, “Psychotic Symphony”, which dropped on  October 20 via InsideOut Music. The album was produced by Mike Portnoy and Sherinian Sherinian, both formerly of DREAM THEATER. SONS OF APOLLO is the “supergroup” featuring Portnoy and Sherinian alongside Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal (ex-GUNS N’ ROSES), Billy Sheehan (THE WINERY DOGS, MR. BIG, DAVID LEE ROTH) and Jeff Scott Soto (ex-JOURNEY, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN’S RISING FORCE). Says Portnoy: “I can’t believe it’s finally here!!! The SONS OF APOLLO debut...

STEEL PANTHER felt ‘unwelcome’ by MÖTLEY CRÜE during 2011 tour

STEEL PANTHER felt ‘unwelcome’ by MÖTLEY CRÜE during 2011 tour

STEEL PANTHER drummer recently Stixx Zadinia recently told Music Life Magazine that his band “really felt unwelcome” during their tour with MÖTLEY CRÜE back in 2011. Zadinia said: “[MÖTLEY CRÜE members] Tommy Lee and Nikki Sixx did not like it when we went on tour with them in 2011. And that was the only time that we really felt unwelcome. The thing with those guys is I think they thought we were actually making fun of them directly. And I just gotta chalk that up to their egos being too big, because nothing that we do has anything to do...

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ARCH ENEMY debut new video for ‘The Race’

Having just completed a successful run of dates across Eastern Europe on the “Will To Power International Tour”, extreme metal giants ARCH ENEMY are back with another ripping single from their recently released album, “Will To Power”, with the music video single for “The Race”. Founding member Michael Amott commented: “This was actually the last song written for the ‘Will To Power’ album. Listening through all the material we had up to that point we agreed that the album needed one more song that would be a relentless and fast paced counterpoint to some of the more epic compositions we...

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY have released the new video for the song “Room Of Nightmares”, which is taken from the band’s upcoming tenth full-length album, “Grimmest Hits”, which will be released January 19, 2018 via Entertainment One (eOne). The “Room Of Nightmares” video was directed by BLACK LABEL SOCIETY’s longtime collaborator Justin Reich. The song is available on all digital service providers and streaming services. It is also an iTunes instant-gratification track, meaning fans who pre order the album on iTunes will receive “Room Of Nightmares” as an instant download. “Grimmest Hits” track listing: 01. Trampled Down Below 02. Seasons Of...

DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno talks about plans for the follow-up to ‘Gore’

DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno talks about plans for the follow-up to ‘Gore’

DEFTONES singer Chino Moreno tells Revolver in a new interview that the band is thinking of starting to write music for their ninth studio album, saying: “We might start writing music. I’m thinking of going in the next couple months and staying with Stephen [Carpenter, guitarist] for a few days… Trying to think of different ways of writing music from scratch.” Moreno continued: “On our last record, [Carpenter] didn’t have as much to do with the writing process as I would have liked for him to have. The idea this time is to just go hang out with him for...

GHOST singer Papa Emeritus III has his reign come to an end

GHOST singer Papa Emeritus III has his reign come to an end

GHOST recently wrapped up their tour cycle for 2015’s “Meliora” album and last year’s “Popestar” EP with a concert Saturday night (September 30) in Gothenburg that ended with singer Papa Emeritus III getting forcibly removed from the stage. A short time later, an elderly person wearing Papa-like attire of a robe and a tall pointed miter headdress, his face covered in black-and-white corpse paint, took the stage and addressed the crowd in Italian. He reportedly said (see video below): “I am Papa Emeritus Zero. The party is over and now a new era begins. The Middle Ages begin now.” Papa...

MARILYN MANSON injured during live performance

MARILYN MANSON injured during live performance

Marilyn Manson was injured in New York City Saturday night when a stage prop fell on him during a live performance. The incident happened during Manson’s set at the Hammerstein Ballroom as he was performing a the song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” . Fan-filmed video from the concert shows Manson climbing a massive prop before it gave way and fell on him. The stage crew and his band members immediately rushed to lift the prop off of him. After a brief delay, the house lights came up and an announcer said that the show was being canceled “due...

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