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MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil has revealed to Robin Leach of the Las Vegas Sun that the band will be co-headlining a massive U.S. tour with KISS from July through September. Expect the official announcement from Los Angeles next week.
“It’s going to be really cool because KISS is bringing their full stage show, and MÖTLEY will be bringing our full stage show, so you are going to see two huge headliners at the same time,” Vince said. “It’s going to be one of the biggest tours of the summer, if not the biggest.”
MÖTLEY CRÜE recently entered drummer Tommy Lee‘s studio called The Atrium in Calabasas, California to begin recording a new song that will be released to coincide with the band’s upcoming tour.
MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s latest studio album, “Saints of Los Angeles”, sold 99,000 copies in the United States during its first week of release. The CD was CRÜE‘s first studio album since 2000’s “New Tattoo”, which has sold over 200,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The band’s previous studio effort with all of its original members was 1997’s “Generation Swine”, which debuted and peaked at No. 4 on The Billboard 200, and has sold more than 300,000 units.
KISS has completed recording its new album, “Monster”, for a late spring release. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include “It’s A Long Way Down”, “Back To The Stone Age”, “Shout Mercy”, “Out Of This World”, “Wall Of Sound” and “Hell Or Hallelujah”.
KISS guitarist/vocalist Paul Stanley recently admitted that he’s never surprised by how deep KISS‘ fan devotion continues to run worldwide. “It really for me, resoundingly once again, I guess validates for me why this band exists,” he told The Pulse Of Radio. “It’s not a tepid recreation of the past, it’s really an ageless beast that dominates at will. It’s timeless.”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
In the latest “See the Music” segment, ARTISTdirect.com sat down with vocalist/guitarist Michael Poulsen of Danish metal rock ‘n’ rollers VOLBEAT to discuss the inside story regarding “A Warrior’s Call”. Poulsen shared that he was inspired by Danish boxing champion Mikkel Kessler. He revealed that he is fascinated by the punching machine, and that he has been a huge boxing fan for his entire life.
Watch HERE the video chat with Poulsen to learn everything you need to know about the band’s No. 1 radio hit.
Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers EPICA are offering their song
“Serenade Of Self-Destruction” “Requiem For The Indifferent”, which was released on March 9 in Europe and four days later in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Gate Studio in Wolfsburg, Germany under the watchful eye of Sascha Paeth.
Commented the band: “We’re very happy that our album, ‘Requiem For The Indifferent’, is out in the open, as a result of 2.5 years of passionate and hard work. However, as you may have noticed, ‘Serenade Of Self-Destruction’, the last song of the album, is missing some vocals. Somehow the instrumental version of the song ended up on the master of the full album and this didn’t get noticed before the actual release. Everybody involved in making and producing the album has given everything to get the best possible result, so we can’t blame anyone for this. We know that this is a mistake which wasn’t made on purpose. As we don’t want to disappoint any of our beloved fans, we are trying everything in our power to solve this issue.
“To get all the songs in their complete form and enjoy the new album fully, Nuclear Blast has released the full version of ‘Serenade Of Self-Destruction’ as a digital download. You can get the full song here.
“Seen from the bright side, everybody who gets the current CD will have a unique first pressing, which might end up being a collector’s item.”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
Fan-filmed video footage of DIMMU BORGIR‘s March 4 concert at Groove in Buenos Aires, Argentina can be seen below. Source: Blabbermouth.net
“Where Angels Fear”, the long-awaited fifth album from the Finnish female-fronted heavy rock outfit LULLACRY, will be released in North America on April 10 through End Of The Light Records distributed by DisManic via eOne Distribution.
Commented LULLACRY guitarist Sami Leppikangas: “Hell yeah, we’ve been waiting (for) this moment so long! Now it’s here, the brand new album after six years, it’s a long time! I’m so excited about it! We’ve had great moments touring in North America with NIGHTWISH and also the one-week-trip to Milwaukee Metalfest was awesome! I hope you North American fans haven’t forgotten us, because we haven’t forgotten you!”
Released on March 7 in Finland through LULLACRY‘s own label, OUTO Recordings, the CD — which marks the band’s first effort since 2005’s “Vol. 4” — was produced by Mikko Herranen (ex-vocalist for MISERY, INC.), who also sings a duet with LULLACRY vocalist Tanja Lainio in the track “Feel My Revenge”. The album was mastered by Svante Forsbäck at Chartmakers in Helsinki.
“Where Angels Fear” track listing:
01. Antidote To You
02. Still An Angel
03. Thousand Suns
04. Feel My Revenge
05. Bad Blood
06. All Behind
07. Gone Are The Days
08. I Am
09. Broken (Into Pieces)
10. Where Angels Fear
11. Stay
12. Love & War
Commented Leppikangas: “Yes, it sure has taken a lot of time and many things have happened.
“Last year has probably been the best we’ve had in LULLACRY, at least when it comes to vibes. And you can hear that in the album. For the first time we made songs without thinking that now we have to do a goth ballad or a rock song. We just did things more spontaneusly and it led to an album that is a lot more dark, ambitious and multi-dimensional than its predecessors. We also paid a lot more attention to lyrics, and the production was organic, which made the sounds more dynamic on ‘Where Angels Fear’.
“It will be awesome to go and play these new tunes to people; we’ve really waited this for long.”
Source: Blabbermouth.net
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