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DEF LEPPARD's new single, "Fire It Up", can be streamed below. It is the third single from the band's upcoming album, "Diamond Star Halos", which will arrive on May 27 via UMe. The follow-up to 2015's self-titled LP is available for pre-order now in multiple configurations, including a deluxe edition, 2-LP vinyl, digital formats and more. Exclusive bundles including newly designed album merch have also launched. In a recent interview with Germany's Rockland Radio, DEF […]

MÖTLEY CRÜE and DEF LEPPARD summer tour openers CLASSLESS ACT are continuing to enjoy a breakthrough year in 2022, having just released a new track with a guest appearance by CRÜE singer Vince Neil. "Classless Act", which was produced and mixed by the band's bass player Franco Gravante, is set to appear on the soundtrack for "The Retaliators", a Better Noise film coming this fall. CLASSLESS ACT lead singer Derek Day and Vince get a little greasy singing "So sit back, relax, and witness the class of the classless […]

QUEENSRŸCHE has set "Digital Noise Alliance" as the title of its new studio album, due on October 7 via Century Media Records. Earlier today (Friday, May 20),QUEENSRŸCHE guitarist Michael Wilton shared a short video teaser for the upcoming follow-up to 2019's "The Verdict", and he included the following message: "Digital Noise Alliance - October 7, 2022 #Queensryche #DigitalNoiseAlliance #NewAlbum". "Digital Noise Alliance" was once again helmed by Chris "Zeuss" Harris, who previously worked with QUEENSRŸCHE on 2015's "Condition Hüman" and "The Verdict" LPs. This past March, QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La […]

To mark the 300th issue of Classic Rock, Ozzy Osbourne gave a wide-ranging to the U.K. magazine in which he confirmed that he is "waiting on some more surgery" on his neck. "I can't walk properly these days," he revealed. "I have physical therapy every morning. I am somewhat better, but nowhere near as much as I want to be to go back on the road." Asked if he thinks about mortality, Ozzy said: "At […]

During an appearance on yesterday's (Thursday, May 19) episode of SiriusXM's "Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk", METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich discussed the band's plans for the coming months. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We just got back from [playing for] three weeks in South America. I'm still decompressing. But oh my God, to be back out there playing and actually touring — most of what we did in the fall were one-offs and scattered festivals — […]

PEARL JAM has canceled tonight's (Wednesday, May 18) concert at Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California and Friday's (May 20) show at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada after bassist Jeff Ament tested positive for COVID-19. The latest concert cancelations come just days after drummer Matt Cameron contracted COVID-19, leading the other members of PEARL JAM to recruit new touring guitarist Josh Klinghoffer, longtime Ament collaborator Richard Stuveru, a fan plucked from the audience, a high school senior, and […]

ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian spoke to Kyle Meredith about the band's plans for the coming months. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "We didn't get to tour [for our actual 40th anniversary in 2021], so we're doing the 40th-anniversary tour in our 41st year. [Laughs] Obviously, we couldn't go out last year and do it when we wanted to, so we've got this summer run coming up with BLACK LABEL [SOCIETY] and HATEBREED. And we're calling that part of […]

JANE'S ADDICTION has pulled out of this coming weekend's Welcome To Rockville festival due to guitarist Dave Navarro's "long bout with COVID." Replacing them on the bill of the four-day event, which will take place May 19-22 in Daytona beach, Florida, is PORNO FOR PYROS, the post-JANE'S ADDICTION band fronted by Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell. Earlier today, Farrell issued the following statement via social media: "The gang and the government are no different. That makes me 1%. Rockville, although we are […]

The BBC and Buckingham Palace have unveiled a glittering group of performers from the worlds of music and dance set to perform at the Platinum Party at the Palace concert which takes place on Saturday, June 4 at Buckingham Palace — and live on BBC One, BBC iPlayer and BBC Radio 2. QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT, Alicia Keys, Hans Zimmer, Ella Eyre, Craig David, Mabel, Elbow and George Ezra will share the three-stage setup with the likes of DURAN DURAN, Andrea Bocelli, Mimi Webb, Sam Ryder, Jax Jones, Celeste, Nile Rodgers, Sigala and Diversity — all […]

In a new interview with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio, SEVENDUST guitarist John Connolly spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the follow-up to 2020's "Blood & Stone" album. He said: "We're in demo mode right now. We're gonna hit the studio in the summer. So, yeah, we're working up as many new demos as we can. We started working with LJ [singer Lajon Witherspoon] [to] get the vocal process going. But, yeah, probably [in] July, August, [we'll] hit […]