RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS' eleventh studio album, "The Getaway", has topped the charts around the world. The heralded studio effort from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductees landed No. 2 on The Billboard Top 200, having shifted 118,000 equivalent album units in the week ending June 23. "The Getaway" debuted at No. 1 ...
German power metallers PRIMAL FEAR are planning to release new concert DVD and CD in 2017. The band's producer and bassist Mat Sinner told Roppongi Rocks: "We've recorded a concert for a DVD and live CD, and this will be the next project. When we stop touring, we will mix it and this ...
Dubbed "Motor City's biggest rock event so far this year," by the Detroit Free Press, the partial reunion of the classic lineup of GUNS N' ROSES kicked off its "Not In This Lifetime" tour last Thursday night, June 23 at the Ford Field in Detroit, Michigan. GUNS N' ROSES performed a high-impact, hard rock show ...
Swedish metallers SABATON will release their eighth studio album, "The Last Stand", on August 19 via Nuclear Blast. The follow-up to 2014's "Heroes" was once again produced by Peter Tägtgren (PAIN, LINDEMANN, HYPOCRISY) and it "marks a brand new chapter in SABATON history," according to a press release. The first trailer for "The Last Stand" ...
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich is the featured speaker in the latest installment of "Sommar i P1", Swedish radio channel P1's daily one-man show which has aired every summer since 1959. You can now listen to the program at SverigesRadio.com. A few excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). On the role "anger" plays in METALLICA's ...
MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars joined Kenny Olsen on stage on June 23 at Ernie Ball Music Man Pickers' Paradise party at Mercy Lounge in Nashville, Tennessee to perform a couple of rock classics, including LED ZEPPELIN's "Rock And Roll" and "Hey Joe", written by Billy Roberts but popularized by Jimi Hendrix. Video footage of ...
GUNS N' ROSES played the second show of its "Not In This Lifetime" North American stadium tour on Sunday night (June 26) at FedexField — home of the Washington Redskins — in Landover, Maryland near Washington, D.C. Prior to the concert, GN'R singer Axl Rose met Redskins owner Dan Snyder and his wife Tanya along ...
DAY OF ERRORS, the new three-piece band led by estranged BLACK SABBATH drummer Bill Ward, made its live debut last night (Saturday, June 25) at Gaslamp in Long Beach, California. Video footage of DAY OF ERRORS performing the song "Vacant Church" at the concert can be seen below. The group, which was formed by Ward ...
Don Dokken has confirmed that the classic lineup of DOKKEN will reunite for a series of concerts in Japan, with no plans to take the reunion to the rest of the world. The six shows will take place this October, and will include an appearance at the Loud Park festival, which last year celebrated its ...
ROSE TATTOO singer Angry Anderson says that he would have considered fronting AC/DC if he had been asked to step in for Brian Johnson on the Australian band's recent tour. AC/DC postponed the last ten dates of its recent North American trek after Johnson was advised to stop playing live or "risk total hearing loss." ...
