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TESLA, RATT, CINDERELLA, JAKE E.LEE, WINGER, SLAUGTHER, THE WINERY DOGS, AMONG OTHERS ANNOUNCED FOR THE MONSTERS OF ROCK CRUISE 2014

The Monsters of Rock Cruise Team has announced the following about the Monsters of Rock Cruise, Escape To Monster Island set to sail on March 29th-April 2nd 2014.

“First of all, we have announced quite a few artists with more to come. We hope you are as excited about the lineup as we are! The cruise is March 29th-April 2nd, 2014, visiting Nassau and Monster Island. Regarding Nassau, we are working on additional details regarding our Nassau stop. We have good reason to go there so be patient as the cruise unfolds over the weeks to come. As far as Monster Island is concerned, we are planning something very cool and can not divulge details until we are closer to sailing. We can tell you this…this will be a day to remember at a very special destination. We think it is the coolest place we have visited thus far, so be patient Monster Cruisers, we’ve got your back!

Our ship is the new MSC Divina and she is spectacular! It will provide us with more entertainment options and other special features we are preparing especially for you. We just returned from Europe and were blown away by the awesome beauty, bars and stage layouts on this incredible vessel. Once again, your Monsters of Rock Cruise Team will not miss a thing…bigger, better and badder than ever!

As far as pricing, double occupancy rates will be similar to last year, starting about $900 per person. This price includes meals, entertainment, activities and much more, however, does not include gratuities, taxes and fees, which should be around $200 per person. Optional dining restaurants, drinks, spa services, gift shop and other discretionary purchases are additional. Finally, we will offer special discounted drink packages, which will offered as we approach the sailing date.

Once again we thank all of you for your interest in the 2014 Monsters of Rock Cruise. We will make history together, taking the greatest floating metal experience to new heights. Wish we could tell you more but we would have to…you know the rest!!

Also, once again, our very own Eddie Trunk will be hosting the festivities.

For more information, please visit monstersofrockcruise.com.

OFFICAL VIDEO FOR MEGADETH’S “SUPER COLLIDER” POSTED ONLINE

Megadeth have released the video for Super Collider, watch it below.

Super Collider was released on June 4th through Dave Mustaine’s new label, Tradecraft, distributed by Universal Music Enterprises (UMe).

The album was made available as a limited-edition CD with 3-D cover and bonus tracks, regular CD, regular LP, limited LP plus seven-inch vinyl and as a digital download.

ROB ZOMBIE CONFIRMED TO HEADLINE CLOSING NIGHT OF ROB ZOMBIE’S GREAT AMERICAN NIGHTMARE WITH SPECIAL GUESTS EAGLES OF DEATH METAL

The daily music performance lineup has been announced for Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare–the ultimate Halloween music and horror event–every Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday from October 10th-November 2nd at FEARPlex in Pomona, just outside Los Angeles.

Groundbreaking musician and filmmaker Rob Zombie will headline the closing night of music performances (November 2nd) during this bone-chilling experience that will combine the most advanced haunted house attractions with a not-to-be-missed music festival from top artists in the realms of hard rock/metal, rock alternative, EDM, and Latin. Other additions to the music lineup include: 3OH!3, 45 Grave, Beware Of Darkness, Blaze Ya Dead Homie, Butcher Babies, Duane Peters, Eagles Of Death Metal, Ghost Town, Mod Sun, Motionless In White, Powerman 5000, TSOL, The Dickies, The Vandals, and Wallpaper.

Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare will feature 15 nights of music. Each Thursday night will feature rock alternative music, Fridays EDM, most Saturdays hard rock/metal, and most Sundays will be Latin-focused. Please see below for the full list of music performances by date and visit
www.GreatAmericanNightmare.com.

for more details.

A creative collaboration between masters of the macabre Rob Zombie and preeminent haunted house producer Steve Kopelman, the fully immersive haunted house experience will feature three attractions based on Zombie’s own horror films: Lords Of Salem, Total Black Out, The Haunted World Of El Superbeasto 3D, and Haunt Of 1,000 Corpses.

The Great American Nightmare’s Bloody Boulevard will offer outdoor screenings of classic horror films, a DJ, food vendors, beer, wine and spirits, and much more, with freak show characters roaming throughout the grounds each night.

Tickets for Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare are available now starting at only $30 at www.GreatAmericanNightmare.com. Each ticket includes access to all haunted house attractions, concerts and Bloody Boulevard activities. Tickets will also be available for purchase onsite during the Los Angeles County Fair at Pomona Fairplex (August 30th-September 29th). VIP packages will be available for purchase at www.GreatAmericanNightmare.com.

The Great American Nightmare music lineup is as follows:

Thursday, October 10th: 3OH!3, Wallpaper
Friday, October 11th: Blood On The Dance Floor, HeavyGrinder
Saturday, October 12th: Kottonmouth Kings, Twiztid, Blaze Ya Dead Homie
Sunday, October 13th: Ozomatli, with special guest
Thursday, October 17th: The Used, William Control
Friday, October 18th: DJ Bl3nd, DirtyLoud, One More Time (Daft Punk Tribute)
Saturday, October 19th: The Vandals, TSOL, The Dickies, Duane Peters
Sunday, October 20th: pro-wrestling sensations Lucha Libre USA, Metalachi
Thursday, October 24th: Emilie Autumn with special guest
Friday, October 25th: Doctor P, Zomboy, Terravita, Evol Intent
Saturday, October 26th: Motionless In White, Butcher Babies, Ghost Town
Sunday, October 27th: Reel Big Fish, Goldfinger, with special guest
Thursday, October 31st: Andrew W.K., Mod Sun, Beware Of Darkness
Friday, November 1st: MAJOR EDM HEADLINER to be announced on September 25, Dirtyphonics, Fei-Fei
Saturday, November 2nd: Rob Zombie, Eagles Of Death Metal, Powerman 5000, 45 Grave

Hours for Rob Zombie’s Great American Nightmare will be 6:30 PM until 11:00 PM on Thursdays and Sundays, 6:30 PM until 1:00 AM on Fridays and Saturdays.

FEARPlex (Fairplex) is located at 1101 W. McKinley Avenue in Pomona, CA, centrally located in the heart of Southern California. Fairplex is also home to the LA County Fair, the largest county fair in the world.

GREAT WHITE FEATURING JACK RUSSELL ANNOUNCES TOUR DATES

Great White featuring Jack Russell with his band of pirates are hitting the road to embark in a two month tour. The first show of the Pirates Life Tour starts at the World Famous Whisky A Go-Go in Hollywood, CA and then crossing the Nation.

Multi-Platinum original singer of Great White still brings it to the stage belting out all the original beloved songs that made the band take a place in rock history. Russell will be performing all their greatest hits from Save All Your Love, One Bitten Twice Shy, Rock Me and more.

July:

19 Los Angeles, CA Whisky A Go-Go
20 Las Vegas, NV Las Vegas Country Saloon
21 Jermone, ID Diamondz Bar & Grill
23 Fargo, ND JT Cigarro
24 Dickinson, ND Army’s West Sports Bar
26 Royalton, MN Halfway Jam Festival Grounds
27 Savage, MN Neisen’s Sports Bar & Grill
28 Thunder Bay, ON Crocks
31 Oklahoma City, OK Chameleon Room

August:

2 St. Louis, MO Fubar
3 Lincolnshire, IL Viper Alley
4 Etobicoke, ON The Rock Pile
8 Sturgis, SD Glencoe Camo Resort
9 Sturgis, SD Easyrider’s Saloon
10 Hazel Green, WI Sandy Hook Tavern
13 Allentown, PA Crocodile Rock
15 Clarion, PA Wasteland Live
16 White Marsh, MD House Of Rock
17 Lancaster, PA Village Nightclub
19 Warren, PA Holiday Inn (Acoustic Performance)
20 Luzerene, PA Brews Bros West
22 Appleton, WI Luna Lounge
23 Viroqua, WI Vernon County Fairgrounds- Jammin’
24 Muscatine, IA Elms Supper Club & Lounge
27 Little Rock, AR Revolution Music Room
29 San Antonio, TX Boozehounds
30 Dallas, TX The Boiler Room
31 Houston, TX Concert Pub North

September:

2 Milwaukee, WI Milwaukee Harley
7 Clovis, NM Curry County Events Center
8 El Paso, TX Pop’s Cantina
14 Versailles, OH BMI Indoor Speedway
20 San Juan Capistrano, CA The Coach House
21 Corona, CA Marquee 15
28 Macon, GA Cox Capitol Theatre

October:

18 North Platte, NE Sculley’s Shooters-Skull Fest (Jack Russell of Great White Acoustic)

November:

29 Agoura Hills, CA The Canyon

For more information, please visit www.jacksgreatwhite.com and www.facebook.com/jacksgwpiratespage.

AEROSMITH’S STEVEN TYLER TALKS ABOUT “ROCK FOR THE RISING SUN”

Gary Graff of Billboard reports:

A bit of band discord indirectly led to a new document of one of Aerosmith’s shining moments.

Frontman Steven Tyler tells Billboard that he initially brought Casey Patrick Tebo — who directed the forthcoming documentary Rock For the Rising Sun— into the Aerosmith camp about four years ago, during a particularly turbulent period in the group’s history. “There was a lot of shit going on at one point with the band,” Tyler explains, “and I got really pissed off and I thought, ‘I need to start filming a day in the life of myself on tour.’ So I brought (Tebo) out about four years ago, and he did such a great job he started doing the (video) screens and he started being our videographer on tour.”

“The band was getting along better than ever,” he says. “We’d just broken up for crazy fucking reasons, and I went away to get my head straight again. We booked a tour, South America first and we took it to Japan, and…It’s funny that it took that for the band to realize how important we are to each other and how fuckin’ good of a band we are and what a fuckin’ good time we have on stage that is infectious and gets people happy. We were just all in such a bad place that we didn’t realize our self-worth. I took going to Japan and playing those shows for the band to realize its own magic again. Somewhere along the line there it got the band happy again, and we thought, ‘Holy shit, we gotta do a fucking record right now!’ So, yeah, that tour helped us to a new album.”

Read more at Billboard.

EDDIE DICUSSES “THAT METAL SHOW”

Adam Lawton of Media Mikes spoke to Eddie about That Metal Show. Portions of the interview appear below.

AL: Can you tell us about the idea of bringing in guitarists, bassists and drummers to perform during the show?

ET: The ultimate goal is to have a band play one day but we can’t do that because we just don’t have the budget. We simply cannot afford to bring on an entire band or pay the publishing which is very expensive and a lot of people don’t realize that. We try and work around that buy just bringing in single musicians to do some shredding and stuff. We have had drummers, bassists and predominately guitarist as they lend themselves to the gig a little more. This season we split things down the middle with four shows being with a guitarist and four shows being with a drummer. We have a lot of fun bringing those guys in and it’s a great opportunity to showcase sometimes the little lesser known guys. For example Richie Kotzen has always been a favorite of mine and in America he is barely known. To have him featured on our show has been great as lots of people have been emailing me for more info on him.

AL: In the shows 12 seasons has there ever been a guest that you thought would never end up on the show but actually did end up being on?

ET: Steve Harris from Iron Maiden was tough. He doesn’t live in American and the Iron Maiden camp is extremely protective of their brand and how they do things. I have always had a great relationship with them but in order to get everyone on board the stars have to align themselves. The season that Steve was on ended up being a last minute score for us because Steve had just announced he was going to be doing a solo album and the band happened to be in Los Angeles. I went to their manager and just asked to have him on. Steve ended up coming down and having a blast. We hope to have him back one day. They guys who don’t live in America are a challenge logistically. Tony Iommi was another one that I was really excited to have one.

AL: Besides the remaining shows for this season what else do you have in the works?

ET: I just completed my second book which is the follow up to Eddie Trunk’s Essential Hard Rock and Heavy Metal Vol. 1. I just found out that Vol. 2 will be coming out on September 24th. The book is an exact sequel to my first book. The format and everything is the same except that there are 35 completely different bands in this one. I am really excited for that to be happening. I will also be continuing my two radio shows as this year I am celebrating my 30th year in radio. I am always out there looking for ways to make my projects bigger and take things to the next level.

Read the entire interview at Media Mikes.