Metallica have commemorated their first-ever U.S. Big 4 show by releasing their headline set as a downloadable album.
The show, which took place at Indio, California on April 23, featured a rare run-through of the Cliff Burton instrumental Orion, which originally featured on the band's seminal 1986 album, Master Of Puppets. It was the first time the band had ever played the song in its entirety in the U.S.
Metallica also brought out members of Slayer, Megadeth, and Anthrax to perform a cover of Diamond Head's 1980 classic Am I Evil?. Dave Mustaine, Kerry King, Scott Ian, Rob Caggiano, Chris Broderick, David Ellefson, Frank Bello, Charlie Benante, Shawn Drover, Dave Lombardo, and Joey Belladonna all took part in the all-star jam.
The headline set is now available from the band's official site. The Big Four will play Sonisphere at Knebworth on July 8.
Slash has announced details of a series of headline shows this summer. The tour, which takes place around his festival performances at T In The Park, Oxegen, and London's High Voltage, will include a homecoming show at Stoke's Victoria Hall.
Show dates (July):
20 Birmingham Academy 21 Manchester Apollo 24 Stoke Victoria Hall 25 Leeds Academy
Tickets are onsale now from Aloud. Slash will release a new single, Starlight, on July 25
Deftones vocalist Chino Moreno says the band will begin work on their follow-up to 2010's Diamond Eyes in September.
"We're going to have a month off, but in that month we're talking about starting to write again," Moreno tells U.S. magazine Billboard. "We're not that good at working on the road. We find that when we actually get together where there's no distractions, that's when we [write] songs."
The band will play the Reading and Leeds festivals in August. For tickets, visit Aloud.
Good news for all AC/DC fans. Guitarist Angus Young has dismissed rumours that the Aussie rockers' 168-date Black Ice trek was to be their last ever tour.
On May 6, the band made a personal appearance at London's Hammersmith Apollo for the world premiere of their concert film, Live At River Plate. Speaking from the red carpet, the guitarist adds that the band will also release a new album by 2013.
"We'll be touring again once we get a new album out," Young tells. "It will hopefully be within the next couple of years."
The film, which was shot in Buenos Aires during their 2009 Black Ice World Tour, will be released on DVD and Blu-ray on Monday (May 9).
Who bought the tickets for Iron Maiden show in Rio de Janeiro yesterday had to go home earlier. The show was cancelled because an estructure was broken by the crowd. The show that was supposed to happen yesterday at HSBC Arena is going to happen today at 21h.
At the first song, the iron structure began to give way and the security was there to hold it. But it didn't work, and the crowd was closer to the stage than it should. Bruce Dickinson had to cancel the show, because the crowd wasn't moving back so that the structure could be repaired.
He had to sit and explain that to people. You can check what exactly he said here.
At the end, no one got hurt seriously and everybody went home. We know that it's ok, because it's going to be a new show today, but people shouldn't have done that. We have to respect them, it's not every day Iron Maiden is here to play for us.
We hope everything happen as planned tonight, and then maybe Iron Maiden would come back to rock with us again.
Who doesn't remember how painfull was Paul Gray's death? Slipknot have been suffering since May of last year and Corey Taylor (vocalist) is feeling this lost more than everyone. He's terrified of playing live without Slipknot former bassist at the band's comeback gigs this summer in Athens (Greece).
"I'm scared to death. I'm nowhere near prepared for the emotion that's going to happen. That first show is really going to be the test. That tour for the most part is going to be a test. It's very hard, man... It's still reverberating through my life... We're coming up to the first year anniversary of his death. Every day something reminds me and I still can't fucking handle it."
Paul Gray had died of an accidental overdose of morphine and fentanyl and had also shown signs of a heart disease. We know Slipknot will never be the same without him, but we have to support them, cause we know that they are awesome, and Paul would want us to keep loving the band as much as before.
Pink Floyd was one of the most influent rock bands, they have sold over 200 million albums worldwide.And there's no way to us talk about Pink Floyd if we dont talk about The Wall. The Wall is an album from Pink Floyd, its songs've inspired a lot of rock bands.
The main song of The Wall ( and better known as well) is 'Another Brick' (It was divided by three parts). This song is an "attack" to the school system of that time, 'cuz it was too much rigid. It tells an history of a boy who lost his father and he's oppressed by his school teachers, and then he builds a wall in his consciousness to isolate him from society, and takes refuge in a fantasy world created for him.
At the first part, the song shows us the abuse from his school teachers who are like dictators, they were seem by their authoritarism. The second part's a protest and the protest is followed by the boy's rage at the third part:
PART I
"Daddy's flown across the ocean,
Leaving just a memory,
The snapshot in the family album,
Daddy what else did you leave for me?
Dad, what you leave behind for me??
All in all it was just a brick in the wall,
All in all it was all just bricks in the wall.
When we grew up and went to school
There were certain teachers who would
Hurt the children in any way they could
By pouring their derision
Upon anything we did
And exposing every weakness
However carefully hidden by the kids
But in the town it was well known
When they got home at night, their fat and
Psychopathic wives would thrash them
Within inches of their lives."
PART II
"We don't need no education
We dont need no thought control No dark sarcasm in the classroom Teachers leave them kids alone Hey! Teachers! Leave them kids alone! All in all it's just another brick in the wall. All in all you're just another brick in the wall."
PART III
"I don't need no arms around me And I don't need no drugs to calm me I have seen the writing on the wall Don't think I need anything at all
No! Don't think I'll need anything at all All in all it was all just bricks in the wall All in all you were all just bricks in the wall."
If you wanna know a little more about the classic of the protests made by the classic of the rock, watch the video above and if you've already watched, you're just another brick in the wall.
There's just two word for this video : Completely cute. (Some people just don't agree with me, but I don't know what's wrong with them. Isn't zombies really cute?)
And it really suits the song, so it's perfect. You should watch it. I know it'll be no regrets.
Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl has slammed Glee creator Ryan Murphy for assuming all rock bands are desperate to have their music appear on the hit TV show.
"You shouldn't have to do fucking Glee," Dave said to The Hollywood Reporter. "And then the guy who created Glee is so offended that we're not, like, begging to be on his fucking show. I watched 10 minutes [of the show]. It's not my thing."
"Slash was the first one [to reject the show]," he continues. "Murphy wanted to do Guns N' Roses, and Slash is like, 'I hate musicals. It's worse than Grease'. Then Murphy said, 'Well, of course he'd say that. He's a washed-up ol' rock star. That's what they fucking do'.
And then Kings of Leon said: 'No, we don't want to be on your show'. And then he's like, 'Snotty little assholes...'. And it's just like, 'Dude, maybe not everyone loves Glee. Me included'."
And now, who thinks that Ryan Murphy should shut up forever, please, raise your hand. \o/ \o/
Slash, who was on tour in Japan when the tsunami struck its Pacific coast on March 11, has spoken about his experiences.
The guitarist, who was forced to cancel several shows in the country, managed to play one of his scheduled dates in Osaka last Monday.
"It's one of the most surreal, unnerving events that has happened in recent years," he said. "It's displaced so many people, not to mention claiming so many lives, and it's really tragic."
"I honestly feel that the Japanese are so fucking resilient that they'll get through it," he adds. "But God, what a painful experience for everybody."
Isn't this really nice? He's being really supportive. We all have in mind that rock stars are so rude, and love tragedies and everything, but Slash taught us that's not true. Aren't you proud of him? Isn't this a great thing to do?
