Rock News Review: August 2024

Rock News Review: August 2024

8/1 Metallica Partner Again with Wolverine Boots & Apparel  The band’s’ All Within My Hands and the apparel company create a unique, high-quality boot to benefit the Metallica Scholars Initiative which supports the enhancement of community colleges’ career and technical education programs.  8/1 Megadeth Offers Megadeth VMK25 Headphones The limited-edition headphones are manufactured in collaboration with Valco…

Rock News Review: July 2024

Rock News Review: July 2024

7/2 Heart postpones its “Royal Flush” tour so that singer Ann Wilson can undergo cancer treatment. She had undergone an operation to remove “something that, as it turns out, was cancerous.” 7/4 System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian continues his criticism of Imagine Dragons for playing a show in Baku, Azerbaijan because it helped “whitewash the dictatorial regime’s image.”…

Motörhead’s Lemmy Immortalized In London

Motörhead’s Lemmy Immortalized In London

Motörhead frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister has been enshrined at one of his favorite haunts to relax and socialize — Stringfellows gentlemen’s club in London. A miniature replica of Lemmy’s custom urn containing a portion of his ashes was installed at the club (on 12/18), ensuring Lemmy can permanently hold court at one of his beloved places. Motörhead guitarist Phil Campbell…

Upcoming Tours: Fozzy, Static-X & Hollywood Undead/Tech N9ne

Upcoming Tours: Fozzy, Static-X & Hollywood Undead/Tech N9ne

Fozzy Fozzy, with Chris Jericho, has announced its “2025th Anniversary Tour.” The trek will kick off in Springfield, MO on April 17th and conclude in Wyandotte, MI on May 12th. Tickets go on sale on Thursday, December 19th at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets/Tour Information Static-X Static-X’s original “Wisconsin Death Trip” lineup of Tony Campos (bass), Koichi Fukuda (guitar) and Ken Jay (drums) along with…

King Diamond’s New Single: Spider Lilly

King Diamond’s New Single: Spider Lilly

“Spider Lilly” is the first single/video from King Diamond’s forthcoming horror trilogy. Part one is titled “Saint Lucifer’s Hospital 1920.“ The “Spider Lilly” video was filmed at the very haunted Pennhurst Asylum outside of Philadelphia. The filming occurred two days before Halloween. But only King Diamond (the person) and actress Jodi Cachia could participate on that specific day. On the song, King…

Rock Oldies Prevail On Year-End Billboard Chart

Rock Oldies Prevail On Year-End Billboard Chart

Fleetwood Mac’s classic 1977 album, “Rumours.” is the best-selling Rock album on Billboard’s 2024 year-end chart, landing at #34… one spot ahead of Elton John’s 2017 “Diamonds” collection. Only 23 albums on the 200 were by Rock artists and only one, Linkin Park’s “Papercuts,” was released this year. Only 6 albums were not a compilation – Fleetwood Mac,…