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Guns N’ Roses will embark on a European and Middle East Tour in May. The 24-date run includes stadium concerts and festivals with special guests Public Enemy, Rival Sons and Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter on select dates. Guns N’ Roses Tour Dates: Ticket Information May 23 – Riyadh Kingdom Arena, Saudi ArabiaMay 27 – Abu Dhabi Etihad Arena, UAEMay 30…
Within Temptation keyboardist Martijn Spierenburg has announced his departure from the Symphonic Metal band. Spierenburg released a statement via social media: “After 24 incredible years, I have made the bittersweet decision to part ways with Within Temptation.” “Together with my fellow band members, I’ve been able to achieve everything — and even more — than I could…
On this day… The owners of The Station, Jeffrey and Michael Derderian, and Great White tour manager Dan Biechele are each charged with involuntary manslaughter. One hundred people were killed the previous February in a fire at the West Warwick, Rhode Island club after Biechele lit the pyrotechnics that sparked the blaze during a Great…
Following the retirement of long-time member Nicko McBrain, Iron Maiden has announced that Simon Dawson is their touring drummer. Sawson is a former session musician and member of British Lion with Maiden bassist Steve Harris. “A native of Suffolk, England, Simon first teamed up with Steve Harris back in 2012,” Iron Maiden noted in a statement. “He debuted on three…
Iron Maiden’s Nicko McBrain has announced his retirement from touring. The 72-year-old musician, a member of Maiden for more than four decades, concludes his run with a (12/7) concert in Sao Paulo, Brazil. “It is with both sorrow and joy, I announce my decision to take a step back from the grind of the extensive touring lifestyle,” stated…
All That Remains have set “Antifragile,” their tenth studio album, for release on January 31st. It’s the follow-up to 2018’s “Victim Of The New Disease” and will include the four singles that band has already released: “Divine,” “Let You Go,” “No Tomorrow” and “Forever Cold.” “It’s been six years for All That Remain to complete a new album. “It has been a long time coming…
Former Guns N’ Roses guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal will release the 14-track instrumental album, “Bumblefoot …Returns!,” on January 24th, nearly thirty years after his debut solo instrumental album, “The Adventures Of Bumblefoot.” The lead single is “Simon In Space.” “From an early age, my passions were guitar and astrophysics, cosmology — the song ‘Simon In Space’ merges the two. Simon is my cat, haha;…
Queensyche guitarist Michael Wilton has released his solo album, “Volume 1,“ via Rat Pak Records. “I’m always writing songs,” noted Wilton. “And some of the songs, just depending on my mood and whatever, they don’t fit Queensryche. And I just decided to kind of work on ’em and get ’em together. And I found some guys that fit with…
After Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and especially Alice Cooper, it seemed as though Rock had gone as far as it could. Wrong! Heavy Metal went further, faster and harder, often with violent or satanic imagery. Beginning in ’73 Judas Priest featured the twin guitar attack of Glenn Tipton and K.K. Downing and along the way…
Breaking Benjamin has shared the official lyric video for its latest single, “Awaken.” “Working on this song has been something new and exciting for all of us, I believe,” offered guitarist Jasen Rauch. “We’ve been able to explore more of who we are traditionally while at the same time push boundaries and try things we haven’t done…