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RAINBOW “MONSTERS OF ROCK-LIVE AT DONINGTON 1980” DVD+CD SET OUT APRIL 22ND

The date was Saturday August 16th,1980. Rainbow took to the stage to headline the first rock festival ever staged at Castle Donington – a concert that would inevitably be the last live show featuring the line-up of Ritchie Blackmore (guitars), Don Airey (keyboards), Graham Bonnet (vocals), Roger Glover (bass) and Cozy Powell (drums).

On April 22nd, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release this very concert — Monsters Of Rock – Live At Donington 1980 as a DVD + CD set and via digital formats [MSRP $19.98].

Monsters of Rock contains all the surviving footage of this concert, and marks the first time that the audio from the show has been available as a full-length standalone CD.

This show was the culmination of Rainbow’s tour in support of the hugely successful 1979 album Down To Earth. Featuring new tracks alongside classics from earlier in their career, the set includes Since You Been Gone, All Night Long, Stargazer, Long Live Rock N’ Roll, Catch The Rainbow, Eyes Of The World, and more. Punctuated with virtuoso solo spots which allow Blackmore, Airey, and Powell to shine, Monsters of Rock highlights the sheer musical prowess in the band. The show climaxes with Blackmore destroying his guitar and thrusting it into an amp which promptly bursts into flames before fireworks burst overhead, concluding a truly explosive show.

Rainbow is a legendary rock band in every sense of the word, and Monsters Of Rock – Live At Donington 1980 captures an incendiary performance at a significant point in the band’s career.

View a video clip of All Night Long below.

Monsters Of Rock – Live At Donington 1980 track listing:

CD:

1) Lazy
2) All Night Long
3) Catch The Rainbow
4) Eyes Of The World
5) Guitar Solo
6) Difficult To Cure
7) Will You Love Me Tomorrow
8) Long Live Rock ‘n’ Roll

DVD:

1) Intro / Eyes Of The World
2) Since You Been Gone
3) Stargazer
4) Catch The Rainbow
5) Lost In Hollywood / Guitar Solo
6) Difficult To Cure / Keyboard Solo
7) Drum Solo / Lost In Hollywood (reprise)
8) Lazy
9) All Night Long
10) Blues
11) Will You Love Me Tomorrow
12) Long Live Rock N’ Roll

AC/DC TO RESCHEDULE UPCOMING U.S. TOUR DATES, SINGER BRIAN JOHNSON ADVISED BY DOCTORS TO DISCONTINUE TOURING

AC/DC are forced to reschedule the ten upcoming dates on the U.S. leg of their Rock or Bust World Tour. AC/DC’s lead singer, Brian Johnson, has been advised by doctors to stop touring immediately or risk total hearing loss.

Tomorrow’s show in Atlanta through Madison Square Garden in New York, NY in early April will be made up later in the year, likely with a guest vocalist. More information regarding these rescheduled shows to come. Current ticket holders can hold on to their tickets for the rescheduled dates or receive a refund at point of purchase.

Dates to be rescheduled:

March 8 Atlanta, GA Philips Arena
March 11 Ft. Lauderdale, FL BB&T Center
March 14 Greensboro, NC Greensboro Coliseum
March 17 Washington, DC Verizon Center
March 20 Detroit, MI The Palace
March 23 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena
March 26 Cleveland, OH Quicken Loans Arena
March 29 Buffalo, NY First Niagara Center
April 1 Philadelphia, PA Wells Fargo Center
April 4 New York, NY Madison Square Garden

ROB ZOMBIE & KORN UNVEIL DETAILS BEHIND THEIR CO-HEADLINING SUMMER 2016 TOUR

Metal music legends Korn and Rob Zombie unveiled details behind their co-headlining summer 2016 tour. Produced by Live Nation, the two influential bands will launch this summer’s most anticipated metal music tour on July 19, 2016 at Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre in Englewood, CO and will visit 26 North American cities including Austin, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto, Seattle, Las Vegas and more. A complete list of dates, venues and cities is below. In This Moment will join the tour as special guests.

Tickets go on sale starting Friday, March 11 at livenation.com. Be sure to stay tuned to livenation.com, robzombie.com and korn.com for the latest news and updates on their summer tour.

Rob Zombie & Korn North American Summer tour. All dates, cities and venues below subject to change.

July:

19 Englewood, CO Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre
20 Salt Lake City, UT USANA Amphitheater
22 Albuquerque, NM Isleta Amphitheater*
23 Phoenix, AZ Ak-Chin Pavilion
24 Irvine, CA Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre
26 Nampa (Boise), ID Idaho Center Amphitheater
27 Auburn, WA White River Amphitheatre
29 Mountain View, CA Shoreline Amphitheatre
30 Las Vegas, NV Mandalay Bay Resort & Casino

August:

2 Austin, TX Austin 360 Amphitheater
3 The Woodlands, TX Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion*
4 Dallas, TX Gexa Energy Pavilion*
6 Noblesville, IN Klipsch Music Center
7 Cincinnati, OH Riverbend Music Center*
9 Maryland Heights, MO Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*
10 Kansas City, MO Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
21 Clarkston, MI DTE Energy Music Theatre
23 West Toronto, ON Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
24 Cuyahoga Falls, OH Blossom Music Center
25 Burgettstown, PA First Niagara Pavilion*
Syracuse, NY Lakeview Amphitheater
28 Boston, MA Xfinity Center
30 Holmdel, NJ PNC Bank Arts Center*

September:

1 Hartford, CT Xfinity Theatre*
2 Camden, NJ BB&T Pavilion
3 Bristow, VA Jiffy Lube Live*

ANTHRAX’S “FOR ALL KINGS” MAKES TOP TEN DEBUT ON BILLBOARD’S TOP 200 ALBUMS CHART

Multi-Grammy nominee Anthrax have blasted into Billboard’s Top 10 with their 11th studio album, For All Kings, bowing at #9-bullet on the Top 200 Albums Chart and selling 34,000 units. This debut eclipses the #12 debut made by the band’s 2011 Grammy-nominated, critically-acclaimed Worship Music.

The album also topped the Hard Rock Albums chart in both the U.S. and Canada with its #1 debuts, and landed at #5 and #7 respectively on the U.S. and Canada’s Top Current Albums charts. Additionally, For All Kings debuted at #2 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart, #2 on the Independent Albums chart, #4 Physical Albums, and #5 Vinyl Albums chart.

“We share this Top 10 victory with all of our fans,” said the band’s Charlie Benante. “Heavy metal is alive and well.”

Since For All Kings was released last Friday, February 26th, it has held the #1 position on both the iTunes Heavy Metal Albums sales chart and Amazon’s Best Sellers in Metal chart. In addition, the album’s first single, “Breathing Lightning,” debuted last week in the Top 40 on both the Mediabase Active Rock Chart and on BDS.

Press has also been an enormous champion of For All Kings, “The album is thrash perfection…” “…a near flawless album…5 out of 5 stars…” “…one of Anthrax’s best CDs of all time, a sparkling triumph…” “…a surefire album-of-the-year contender…”

For All Kings is the band’s 11th studio album, was produced by Jay Ruston, and is their first album since 1990’s Persistence of Time to be written specifically for Joey Belladonna’s soaring vocals, an integral part of Anthrax’s classic signature sound. And the album IS classic Anthrax, with the band’s metal thrash roots clearly front-and-center, and lyrics that tackle topics such as the struggle to grow up and be responsible, having blind faith and selling your soul, how the way you live your life affects everyone around you, and murder and martyrdom rooted in an ideology.

“Thank you so much to everyone who loves the record we made,” added Anthrax’s Scott Ian. “The response to For All Kings has been fantastic, seriously, thank you all so much.”

Anthrax is currently on tour in South America with Iron Maiden and will return to the U.S. for a series of festival dates in the Spring.

GUITARIST TONY IOMMI PLANS TO WORK WITH FORMER FRONTMAN TONY MARTIN AGAIN

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has revealed plans to record with former frontman Tony Martin.

He sang with the band for two stints between 1987 and 1997, appearing on their albums The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross, Tyr, Cross Purposes, Cross Purposes Live and Forbidden. His time with Sabbath ended after they settled their differences with Ozzy Osbourne.

Now Martin has been lined up to add new music to the re-release versions of Headless Cross and Tyr.

Iommi tells The Music, “We’ve held back on the reissues because of the current Sabbath thing with Ozzy, but they will certainly be happening.

“I’d like to do a couple of new tracks for those with Tony. I’ll also be looking at working on Cross Purposes and Forbidden.”

Iommi and Martin last met at the unveiling of a plaque to commemorate late drummer Cozy Powell. The singer said later, “I was greeted by Tony very warmly. It’s the first conversation of any length I’ve had with him in 15 years. And it turns out we may well be working together soon.”

Sabbath are currently performing on their final world tour, which includes a headline appearance at this year’s Download festival in June.

source: teamrock.com