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SLAYER, ANTHRAX AND DEATH ANGEL ANNOUNCE FALL 2016 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

Slayer, with Special Guest Anthrax and Death Angel, will join forces this fall for a seven week North American beat down. The dates start in Cleveland on September 9th and will hit both major and secondary markets across the continent. Confirmed dates are below. The Slayer Fan Club Presale starts at 10:00AM local time on Tuesday, May 10th, and the general on-sale begins this Friday, May 13th at 10:00AM local time. For all ticket purchasing and VIP packages details, log onto slatanicwehrmacht.com/tour.

Said Slayer’s Kerry King, “It’s always super fun for us to tour with Anthrax. Frank is one of my best friends in the biz!! Put that together with Death Angel, and fans will probably see the best package this year. See you there!”

Watch the tour’s video clip below.

Fans will hear their favorite Slayer songs from the band’s 30-year plus discography, as well as a few of the newer songs from Repentless, named “The Metal Album of the Year” by Guitar World. Slayer and Anthrax stormed through Europe together last fall, amassing a string of sensational live reviews, so North American fans, this will be a night of metal music that should not be missed.

“We are very excited to tour again with our fellow Kings Slayer on a thrash/metal extravaganza,” said Anthrax’s Charlie Benante. “Two of the Big Four – now that’s a night of metal for all the Kings and Queens!”

Added Mark Osegueda from Death Angel, “We are thrilled and honored to be part of this amazing North American touring package. Slayer/Anthrax/Death Angel – it just looks, sounds and feels right. This will be Death Angel’s first-ever tour with Slayer, something we’ve hungered for our entire career. And we will bring that hunger to the stage every night, so get there early because this will be a show not to be missed; from the first note of the night until the very last! Metal is alive, hungry, thriving, and coming for you!”

With more dates to be announced, here is the confirmed itinerary:

September:

9 Jacob’s Pavilion, Cleveland, OH
10 Freedom Hill Amphitheatre, Detroit, MI
12 Sound Academy, Toronto, ON
13 Metropolis, Montreal, QC
15 Stage AE, Pittsburgh, PA
17/18 Rock Allegiance, Chester, PA*
20 Egyptian Room, Indianapolis, IN
22 The Pageant, St. Louis, MO
27 Hard Rock Live, Orlando, FL
28 Fillmore, Miami, FL
30 Horseshoe Casino Tunica, Tunica, MS

October:

3 Norva, Norfolk, VA
5 Tabernacle, Atlanta, GA
7 Gas Monkey Live, Dallas, TX
8 ACL at the Moody Theatre, Austin, TX
10 Fillmore, Denver, CO
11 The Complex, Salt Lake City, UT
13 The Wilma Theatre, Missoula, MT
17 ENMAX Center, Lethbridge, AB
19 South Okanagan Events Centre, Penticton, BC
20 Abbotsford Centre, Abbotsford, BC
23 Reno Events Center, Reno, NV
27 El Paso County Coliseum, El Paso, TX

* Slayer, Anthrax and Death Angel are all on this bill

IMAGES OF OZZY OSBOURNE’S ALLEGED MISTRESS SURFACE ONLINE

As previously reported, Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne have separated after 33 years of marriage after suspicion of martial infidelity on Ozzy’s part.

Could the woman at the center of this controversy be hairstylist Michelle Pugh, 45? According to the Daily Mail, and other publications, she is the woman at the center of the controversy.

Sharon allegedly kicked Ozzy out of their $10 million Beverly Hills home last week after claiming she had proof he had been having an affair with Pugh.

A source told the Daily Mail, “Sharon went ballistic with Ozzy and accused him of having the affair. She said she had suspected something had been going on for some time and now had proof. Ozzy was extremely sheepish and admitted being close to Michelle. It is likely Sharon has discovered calls and possibly meetings.’

Images have surfaced of the pretty blonde stylist (see below), who is rumored to have enjoyed an affair with the legendary rocker.

In March, Sharon, 63, shocked her fellow The Talk panelists when she revealed that Ozzy, 67, slept with two of the nannies hired to look after their children.

She said, “We used to have four nannies, because I had three children – I would work five days a week – I would travel because you can’t work a nanny seven days a week. I’m telling you, they were the bane of my existence. They were all wanting to be celebrities. They were all wanting money. Then, out of nowhere, dropped: ‘I caught two of them in bed with Ozzy! At different times. It goes on and on.”

When one of her cast members suggested maybe she should be angry at her 67-year-old rocker husband, Sharon excused his behavior as Ozzy was not sober at the time. She said of when she busted him, “He’s out of his mind and he’s calling them his first wife, he’s calling them me.”

According to the Mirror, A spokesman at Meche, the hair salon where Michelle works, says she has taken some time off for what they described as a “personal emergency.”

sources: dailymail.co.uk and mirror.co.uk

OZZY AND SHARON OSBOURNE ALLEGEDLY SPLIT AFTER 33 YEARS OF MARRIAGE, “HE’LL BE BACK” CLAIMS A SOURCE

Metal icon Ozzy Osbourne and his manager wife, Sharon, have reportedly separated after 33 years of marriage, reports E! news.

A source tells E! News that the couple mutually agreed that Ozzy would move out of the house temporarily. In addition, the split has nothing to do with the singer’s sobriety. Our insider shared that the rocker has been sober for three and a quarter years and has not touched drugs or alcohol in that time.

A source tells People that it’s true that the couple have split for now, that they would not be surprised if they worked through their breakup. The source also noted that Sharon believes that Ozzy is having an affair.

A source close to the couple also tells People that the rumors of the split are “sort of true.”

He’ll be back,” the source added.

Ozzy and Sharon met in the early ’70s when he rose to fame with the band Black Sabbath. The two wed on July 4th, 1982 and had three children—Aimee Osbourne, 32, Kelly Osbourne, 31, and Jack Osbourne, 30. The family, minus Aimee, starred on the hit MTV reality show The Osbournes between 2002 and 2005.

source: eonline.com and people.com

AXL ROSE SHOOTS TO THRILL WITH AC/DC IN LISBON, PORTUGAL, ENTIRE CONCERT POSTED ONLINE

Mark Sutherland of Rolling Stone reports:

AC/DC must be starting to think someone up there doesn’t like them. A catalogue of misfortune has beset this most enduring of hard-rock bands during the past two years. First, founding guitarist Malcolm Young stepped down from the band due to dementia. Then drummer Phil Rudd left in a haze of criminal charges. Most recently, singer Brian Johnson had to quit touring or face total hearing loss, while the band faced a backlash from fans unhappy at the manner of his departure and/or his superstar replacement: Axl Rose, singer of the newly reunited Guns N’ Roses, and a man who recently faced some adversity of his own in the form of a fractured foot.

Rose just doesn’t seem very AC/DC somehow. Like Johnson, the singer keeps a hat jammed to his head at all times, but there the similarities were expected to end.

Yet Rose actually seemed happy to play a different role here. From his opening greeting of “Nice to meet you!” – just five minutes later than billed – he was a deferential and pleasant presence between songs and an energized, brooding one during them. He remained seated throughout the main set, his leg still encased in a brace, but even his perch was more low-key than during the recent Guns N’ Roses shows: It resembled a humble office chair that had been jazzed up at the last minute with a few lumps of metal and some devil horns.

But while Rose’s body might be ailing, his voice remained in great shape. From the opening salvo of Rock or Bust, Shoot to Thrill and Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be, it was clear that, musically at least, the GN’R man is a great fit for AC/DC.

…Rose seemed particularly at home on Bon Scott-era classics such as Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and High Voltage and happy to defer to Angus Young’s all-action, duckwalking showmanship. Once Rose is mobile again – and that can’t be far off, as he walked on and off the stage between encores – that dynamic may change, but for now, Young handled the heavy lifting, leaving Rose free to enjoy himself…and enjoy himself he did, self-deprecatingly introducing Shot Down in Flames as “a song they wrote about my life story”

Read more at Rolling Stone.

Watch the whole concert below.

Set List:

Rock or Bust
Shoot to Thrill
Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
Back in Black
Got Some Rock & Roll Thunder
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
Rock N’ Roll Damnation
Thunderstruck
High Voltage
Rock N’ Roll Train
Hells Bells
Given the Dog a Bone
Sin City
You Shook Me All Night Long
Shot Down in Flames
Have a Drink on Me
T.N.T.
Whole Lotta Rosie
Let There Be Rock

Encore:

Highway to Hell
Riff Raff
For Those About to Rock (We Salute You)

source: rollingstone.com

ARMORED SAINT’S JOHN BUSH DISCUSSES THEIR LATEST ALBUM, BEING A “HERITAGE” BAND AND WHY HE DOES NOT LIKE RE-RECORDING OLD MATERIAL

Ruben Mosqueda of Sleaze Roxx spoke with Armored Saint frontman John Bush. Highlights from the interview appear below.

Sleaze Roxx: I’m a little embarrassed that I didn’t pick up the new album Win Hands Down until about a month ago. It’s brilliant. It meshes the old school Saint sound with the Symbol era Saint. It’s damn near perfect.

John Bush: Thank you. Win Hands Down came out in June of last year, but it’s still a relatively new and fresh record to us.

Sleaze Roxx: We get bombarded with so much music that some great records get lost in the shuffle. Win Hands Down is one of those records for me. I’m glad that you’re still out promoting it.

John Bush: I agree. The video for the song Win Hands Down (see below) was released about three to four weeks before the record. I can’t recall exactly. We did a handful of dates with Saxon in May of 2015 before the record was released. We did another video for An Exercise In Debauchery (see below) which was released about three months ago.

At this point it’s still our new record. We’re a heritage band. A lot bands of our ilk are. When you put a record out, the record can linger for a while and it can be promoted for a couple of years. We’re Armored Saint. We’re not releasing records that often. La Raza was released five years before Win Hands Down<’/strong> and Revelation was released ten years before that. We move rather slowly. I try to emphasize that it’s “quality” over “quantity.”

Armored Saint is a band that has been around over 30 years but I think that most people know the stuff from the first eight years of our career. That’s just the way that it is. I agree with what you said. I think we’ve made a “modern” record that stays true to the “origins” of the band. I think Win Hands Down features some of the best writing and performances of our careers.

Sleaze Roxx: Throughout the evolution of the band, you’ve retained your unique signature sound that sets you apart from others.

John Bush: That’s true. I think it’s hard to differentiate one band from another these days. I don’t think that it only applies to music in the metal world or pop music. I grew up listening to pop music in the ’70s. I will put it on Sirius’ “70s on 7” and it could be song after, song after, song that I absolutely love. You want to have a sound that is pivotal, but at the same time, you’ve got to develop it. You’re always learning and growing a person; so hence so should your music. It just makes sense.

Sleaze Roxx: How do you feel about the Chrysalis era albums? There’s some great music on March Of The Saint, Delirious Nomad and Raising Fear.

John Bush: I’m proud of them. Some moments are way better than others. I’m certainly not going to reveal that because I want people to feel however it is that they feel about those songs. I know people have a connection with their records. It’s their feelings and that’s good enough for me.

It’s weird to me when bands go back and re-record songs and albums. It’s like they’re trying to right a wrong. To me, it’s like who cares? When we made March Of The Saint, records were made and sounded like that sounds. Could we have made a better sounding record now? Of course we could have. Why would we do that? It doesn’t matter. As an old schooler, I’d be like “I don’t like it as much, I don’t like it as much!”

Wait didn’t David Coverdale just remake Burn or something like that?

Sleaze Roxx: Right, he recut a bunch of Purple songs with Whitesnake and called it the Purple album.

John Bush: Why? For starters, it isn’t Blackmore playing on it. I don’t care who is in the band. Ritchie Blackmore has his own style of playing. It’s unique. Ian Paice also has his own style of play. I don’t know. I mean even his voice sounds way different than it did then. I’m not saying it’s better or worse. It’s just different. I’d like to hear it live with Whitesnake, that’s great. To just redo a bunch of stuff; I just don’t see the point. I don’t like it. As musician… no wait as a fan — I don’t like it. That’s just me. [Def] Leppard did the same thing I think. That might have been for a different reason or something. Going back and trying to recreate what you did 25 years earlier in a different studio with a different mindset? Sometimes even different players? I just don’t see the point?

Sleaze Roxx: So when you were in Anthrax, the band went into the studio to recut a bunch of “classics.” Were you in favor of The Greater Of Two Evils?

John Bush: When I recorded The Greater Of Two Evils — ironically enough — it wasn’t too long there after that I left the band. In all honesty, knowing what I know now, I wouldn’t have done it. The truth of the matter — when I sang those songs live, they were my muse and I gave them all the love I could and I enjoyed performing them. In retrospect, they didn’t need to be re-recorded. I feel the same about recutting Armored Saint — just with these songs, it was Joey Belladonna singing these songs. I sang those live. I was the singer in the band. I didn’t need to recut them. I guess I’m telling people not to buy that record [laughs]!

Sleaze Roxx: When Anthrax issued the compilation Attack of the Killer A’s — you threw in a new recording where you and Joey traded off on vocals. Were you in the studio at the same time during that?

John Bush: We did it together. It was really neat to do something together. We both thought it was a cool idea. We both embraced it and a cover just seemed easier than to write a new song. Any old school Motown song is cool. It’s some of my favorite music. I love the Temptations. It might have been my idea to record that. I can’t recall exactly. Joey was really into it. The Temptations have a couple different vocalists on that song so it made sense. If you can believe this — when Joey and I have been around each other, we’ve always been pleasant with one another and we get along well. It wasn’t awkward to do it was pretty fun.

Read more at Sleaze Roxx.

Watch videos for Win Hands Down and An Exercise In Debauchery below.

source: sleazeroxx.com

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