Month: March 2022

Founding STONE TEMPLE PILOTS bassist Robert DeLeo spoke to AXS TV's "At Home And Social With" about his upcoming first-ever solo album. The 56-year-old musician said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Through this pandemic, there's been a lot of time and a lot of free time. And it gave me a chance to pick up all my acoustic instruments and kind of talk to them a little bit and see what they had to say back. And before I knew it, […]

Swedish occult rockers GHOST will release their fifth album, "Impera", on March 11 via Loma Vista. The official lyric video for the LP's latest single, "Twenties", can be streamed below. With its messianic promises of reigns of pennies and piles of moolah set to an appropriately manic musical backdrop, the unrelenting and propulsive "Twenties" stands in stark contrast to its predecessor, the eerily hypnotic "Call Me Little Sunshine". In fact, the apocalyptically prophetic vibe of "Twenties" — particularly its lyrical […]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY will embark on a U.S. headlining tour in the spring. Support on the trek, which will kick off on April 30 in San Diego, California and end on May 21 in Inwood, West Virginia, will come from Nita Strauss, the Los Angeles-based guitar shredder for the ALICE COOPER band, and Jared James Nichols. A special BLABBERMOUTH.NET presale will begin on Wednesday, March 2 at 12:00 p.m. local time and end on Thursday, March 3 […]

GWAR will return to the road in North America this spring. The first leg of "The Black Death Rager World Tour" kicks off May 19 in Ft. Wayne, Indiana and runs through June 17 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Support on the trek will come from CROWBAR, THE NATIVE HOWL and NEKROGOBLIKON. Tickets go on sale to fan club members this Thursday, March 3 and to the general public this Friday, March 4. GWAR frontman Blothar The Berserker comments on the upcoming […]

ENVY OF NONE, the new band from Alex Lifeson (RUSH), Andy Curran (CONEY HATCH), Alfio Annibalini and singer Maiah Wynne, will release its self-titled debut album on April 8 via Kscope. The LP's second single, "Look Inside", can be streamed below. Lifeson is no stranger to the concept of evolution. As a founding member of RUSH, he's been able to explore more musical ground than just about any other guitar player out there — taking rock to new progressive heights throughout […]

THE OFFSPRING has announced the "Let The Bad Times Roll" U.S. tour with special guests RADKEY and BLAME MY YOUTH. Produced by Live Nation, the 18-city trek kicks off on April 26 at Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre in San Diego, California, making stops across the U.S. in Salt Lake City, Houston, Boston and more before wrapping up in Milwaukee at The Rave/Eagles Club on May 22. Frequently regarded as one of the best rock […]

TOOL, which is currently on tour in support of its Grammy Award-winning album "Fear Inoculum", has taken it back to their beginning, celebrating the 30th anniversary of its first commercially available release "Opiate", with a reimagined and extended version of the EP's title track and an accompanying short film. "Opiate²" is now available via DSPs and can be streamed below, with the Blu-ray only visual companion coming on March 18. Visual artist Dominic Hailstone ("Alien: Covenant", "The Eel") […]

After months of teasing and multiple single releases, California rockers PAPA ROACH have officially announced that their new album, "Ego Trip", will be released April 8, 2022 via New Noize Records in partnership with ADA Worldwide (WMG's independent label and artist services arm). The eleventh studio album of a career that continues to carve a fearless and singular path through a fourth decade, "Ego Trip" sees PAPA ROACH continuing to break new ground in a time when many are desperate for […]

Grammy-winning hard rock band HALESTORM, which will release its fifth studio album, "Back From The Dead", on May 6, today announced new U.S. headline dates in May, their first U.S. shows since the conclusion of their co-headline dates with EVANESCENCE in January. Kicking off May 10 in Billings, Montana, and running through May 30 in Missoula, the dates, which include festival stops at St. Louis's Point Fest on May 21 and Daytona Beach's Welcome To Rockville on May […]