Month: September 2021

According to Billboard, IRON MAIDEN's latest album, "Senjutsu", has entered the Billboard 200 chart at position No. 3, making it the band's highest-charting LP ever. The British heavy metal legends previously peaked at No. 4 with their last two studio releases: 2015's "The Book Of Souls" and 2010's "The Final Frontier". Of "Senjutsu"'s 64,000 equivalent album units, album sales comprise 61,000, making it the top-selling album of the week. "Senjutsu" was released on September 3 via BMG. IRON MAIDEN's first […]

STATIC-X will bring more of its self-proclaimed "Evil Disco" to the masses with its "Rise Of The Machine" North American tour 2022. The 37-date run, produced by Live Nation, kicks off on February 21 in Portland, Oregon and runs over five weeks, wrapping up on April 3 in San Francisco, California. General tickets go on sale starting Friday, September 17 at 10 a.m. local time. The tour will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the […]

More than 30 years after the release of Ozzy Osbourne's "No More Tears", music fans will at last hear a new version of the album track "Hellraiser". The digital release of the album, due out September 17 (Sony), will include an updated interpretation of the song featuring a mash-up of vocals from Ozzy and the song's co-writer, longtime friend and colleague Lemmy Kilmister of MOTÖRHEAD. "Hellraiser" originally appeared on "No More Tears"; MOTÖRHEAD then recorded its own version and released it as a […]

In a new interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was asked what it was like to perform the title track of the band's debut album, "Rocka Rolla", for the first time in 45 years at last month's Bloodstock Open Air festival at Catton Park, Walton-on-Trent, United Kingdom. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I threw that out. We all had a list. I threw that out, and Glenn [Tipton, guitar] went, 'I don't think that's gonna work.' […]

IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson, who tested positive for COVID-19 last month after being fully vaccinated, discussed his battle with the disease in a new interview with Gregg Stone of the 103.5 The Fox radio station. "The delta variant is the dominant strain in America, and has been the dominant strain in the U.K. and Europe for a while now," he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). "But people who have gotten vaccinated are just not dying from […]

  Last month, ADEMA released its first single in nearly a decade, "Ready To Die". The song is taken from the band's upcoming album, "360 Degrees Of Separation". In a brand new interview with Michael Nagy of Discoveringbands.com, ADEMA frontman Ryan Shuck (ORGY, JULIEN-K, DEAD BY SUNRISE), who joined the group in 2019, stated about the track: "'Ready To Die' took the better part of the last two years to kind of develop. It's not like we sat down and took two years to […]

The official music video for "Stratego", a brand new song from IRON MAIDEN, can be streamed below. The track, which was written by guitarist Janick Gers and founder member/bassist Steve Harris, is taken from the band's 17th studio album, "Senjutsu", which was released on September 3 via BMG. The animated clip was made by Swedish director Gustaf Holtenäs and progresses the album's Japanese theme, following its protagonists on a journey through an imagining of Ancient Japan. IRON MAIDEN's first […]

Hachette Books has set an October 5 the release date for the new 336-page hardcover book "Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen" by music journalists Brad Tolinski and Chris Gill. "Eruption" offers a new look at guitar legend Eddie Van Halen via a groundbreaking oral history composed of more than 50 hours of interviews with Eddie, his family and friends. Published to coincide with the first anniversary of Eddie's death from cancer, the book highlights his greatest triumphs as a groundbreaking musician, including […]