L.A. Guns are streaming the song, Christine, from their forthcoming album, The Missing Peace, listen to it below.
The Missing Peace will be released October 13th through Frontiers Music Srl.
To view the record’s track list, and to watch a video for the song, Speed, please click here.
Loudwire Music Awards–the ultimate rock n’ roll award ceremony and concert–has announced that Dave Mustaine (Megadeth), will perform alongside previously announced artists Anthrax, Nothing More, Ice-T & Body Count, Halestrom, Starset, Power Trip and a special guest performance from Rob Halford of Judas Priest. Tickets for the rock ‘n’ roll concert event on Tuesday, October 24 at The Novo in downtown Los Angeles are on-sale now at loudwire.com.
In addition, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer and longtime Van Halen frontman, Sammy Hagar will be honored for his charitable efforts with The Hagar Family Foundation. “It’s always exciting to receive an award. But this one is extra special,” says the “Red Rocker” Sammy Hagar. “To be recognized for something you truly love doing and in front of an audience of your peers, doesn’t get any better than that!” The Hagar Family Foundation–created by Sammy and his wife Kari Hagar–is a private non-profit which puts their community philosophy towards giving into action by eliminating the red tape in getting funds and food quickly into the hands of the people and charities in need. “We look for things that are grassroots,” explains Hagar. “We want to give a dollar to somebody and have it go right in their pocket or put food on their table.” Since the launch of their foundation in 2008, they’ve given away almost $4 million.
Confirmed presenters so far for Loudwire Music Awards include Zakk Wylde, Steve Vai, Vinnie Paul, John 5, Rex Brown, Brendon Small, Brian Posehn, and members of As Lions, August Burns Red, Avatar, Beartooth, Bloodclot, Butcher Babies, Crown the Empire, Ded, Demon Hunter, Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes, Hellyeah, Hollywood Undead, Ice Nine Kills, Huntress, LA Guns, New Years Day, Of Mice & Men, Pop Evil, PowerFlo, Prayers, Quiet Riot, Red Fang, Royal Thunder, Steel Panther, Stitched Up Heart, Sum 41, Sylar, Wage War and many more to be announced.
Voting for the awards is now open until October 2nd. Loudwire.com readers are able to vote in multiple awards categories, including Album and Artist of the Year at Loudwireawards.com.
Following are the categories and nominees for the 2017 Loudwire Music Awards:
Hard Rock Artist Of The Year presented by Frontiers Records:
* In This Moment
* Korn
* Papa Roach
* Pretty Reckless
* Starset
* Stone Sour
Metal Artist Of The Year:
* Avenged Sevenfold
* Body Count
* Code Orange
* Mastodon
* Metallica
* Power Trip
Hard Rock Album Of The Year:
* At The Drive In “In*Ter * A*Li*A”
* Highly Suspect “The Boy Who Died Wolf”
* Papa Roach “Crooked Teeth”
* Royal Thunder “WICK”
* Starset “Vessels”
* Stone Sour “Hydrograd”
Metal Album Of The Year presented by Razor & Tie:
* Avenged Sevenfold “The Stage”
* Body Count “Bloodlust”
* Code Orange “Forever”
* Mastodon “Emperor of Sand”
* Metallica “Hardwired…To Self-Destruct”
* Power Trip “Nightmare Logic”
Hard Rock Song Of The Year presented by Apple Music:
* Foo Fighters “Run”
* Fozzy “Judas”
* I Prevail “Alone”
* Nothing More “Go To War”
* Of Mice & Men “Unbreakable”
* Starset “Monster”
Metal Song Of The Year presented by Apple Music:
* Body Count “No Lives Matter”
* DragonForce “Ashes of the Dawn”
* Municipal Waste “Amateur Sketch”
* Obituary “Sentence Day”
* Pallbearer “I Saw The End”
* Power Trip “Executioner’s Tax (Swing of the Axe)”
Best Live Band presented by eONE:
* Amon Amarth
* Anthrax
* Behemoth
* The Dillinger Escape Plan
* Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
* Iron Maiden
Most Dedicated Fans presented by BMG/Rise:
* Babymetal
* Blink-182
* Halestorm
* I Prevail
* Iron Maiden
* Rammstein
Breakthrough Band presented by Apple Music:
* Avatar
* Beartooth
* Bloodclot
* Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes
* King Woman
* Royal Thunder
Best New Artist presented by Century Media:
* Black Map
* Cover Your Tracks
* Ded
* Gone Is Gone
* Greta Van Fleet
* Zeal & Ardor
Best Vocalist presented by Fearless Records:
* Chester Bennington, Linkin Park
* Maria Brink, In This Moment
* Bruce Dickinson, Iron Maiden
* Myles Kennedy, Alter Bridge
* MLNY Parsonz, Royal Thunder
* Corey Taylor, Stone Sour
Best Guitarist:
* Tosin Abasi. Animals As Leaders
* Synyster Gates & Zacky Vengeance, Avenged Sevenfold
* Brent Hinds & Bill Kelliher, Mastodon
* Dave Mustaine & Kiko Loureiro – Megadeth
* Mark Tremonti, Alter Bridge
* Zakk Wylde, Ozzy Osbourne/Zakk Sabbath
Best Drummer:
* Charlie Benante, Anthrax
* Brann Dailor, Mastodon
* Mario Duplantier, Gojira
* Tomas Haake, Meshuggah
* Matt Greiner, August Burns Red
* Vinnie Paul, Hellyeah
Best Bassist presented by Indigo Hotels:
* Frank Bello, Anthrax
* Derek Boyer, Suffocation
* Rex Brown, Rex Brown
* Matt Freeman, Rancid
* Steve Harris, Iron Maiden
* Mike Kerr, Royal Blood
Previously announced:
The Corage Award – Tony Iommi
The Lemmy Award presented by Eagle Rock Entertainment – Rob Halford of Judas Priest
WWE superstar Chris Jericho will serve as host for the first-ever Loudwire Music Awards ceremony and concert with the GRAMMY Award-winning Rob Halford of Judas Priest receiving the “Lemmy Lifetime Achievement Award”– named in honor of late Motörheadfrontman Lemmy Kilmister. Halford will join Black Sabbath guitarist and fellow heavy metal icon, Tony Iommi–who will be presented with the “Courage Award,” which recognizes not only his unparalleled musical output, but his absolute bravery in his battle with cancer.
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Black Sabbath have shared a clip of them performing their classic track Children Of The Grave.
It’s taken from their upcoming concert movie The End Of The End, which was shot during the last show of their farewell tour earlier this year in their home city of Birmingham. It will be screened at 1500 cinemas around the world for one night only on September 28th.
Watch it below.
Sabbath recently said, “To bring it all back home after all these years was pretty special. It was so hard to say goodbye to the fans who have been incredibly loyal to us through the years. We never dreamed in the early days that we’d be here 49 years later, doing our last show on our home turf.”
The End Of The End features live scenes from the concert along with backstage footage and studio performances of tracks they didn’t play on the night.
For more information, visit the film’s website.
additional source: Classic Rock via teamrock.com
In a August 16th news posting, the Atlanta KISS Expo had announced that former KISS guitarist, Vinnie Vincent, will be appearing at their event, in 2018.
The L.A. KISS expo Facebook page has posted a handwritten note from Vincent, in which he states, he is “happy and excited to be seeing all of you at the Atlanta KISS Expo on January 20th, 2018.” See Vincent’s entire note below.
To read more about this event, please click here. Additionally, the Atlanta KISS Expo has an FAQ section, which addresses Vincent’s appearance.
Vincent replaced lead guitarist Ace Frehley in 1982 and played with KISS for two years.
As previously reported, Europe is will release their new album, Walk The Earth, on October 20th. The band are streaming the title track, which can be heard below.
Walk The Earth track listing:
1. Walk The Earth
2. The Siege
3. Kingdom United
4. Pictures
5. Election Day
6. Wolves
7. GTO
8. Haze
9. Whenever You’re Ready
10. Turn To Dust
Europe’s latest releases were The Final Countdown 30th Anniversary Show-Live At The Roundhouse and 2015’s War of Kings.
As previously reported, Stryper bassist Tim Gaines announced that he is no longer a member of the band.
Gaines said that “all hell broke loose” after he “ended up getting a divorce, which is taboo as far as Christianity, I guess.” He added, “…I’m not the only guy in Stryper to have gotten a divorce. Everybody in the band is married to divorced people. And I’m the bad guy, but everybody else has done it too, so? Whatever…”
Remaining Stryper members Michael Sweet (guitar, vocals), Oz Fox (guitar) and Robert Sweet (drums) released the following statement, in response to Gaines’ claims:
“Dear fans and friends,
We wish Timothy Gaines nothing but the best, and we will always remember the history and the good times that we all shared together.
We have done our best to remain courteous and professional despite the barrage of disrespectful comments, posts and tweets that have been made public time and time again by Tim and [his new wife] Brandee on what seems to be a daily basis.
The accusations that have been made that our decision to terminate Tim is based on his divorce couldn’t be further from the truth. We have all struggled with separation and divorce in our relationships over the years, and it has never affected anyone’s position within the band.
The band decided to take a hiatus in order to give Tim time and space to work through his personal issues. However, based on Tim and Bradee’s intentional, erratic and hostile behavior, which has damaged Stryper and threatened to undermine the band’s ability to go forward professionally, we were left with no other choice but to part ways. Tim and Brandee have left their scars and have hurt us in more ways than you can imagine.
We were also forced to retain legal representation based on a public post/threat that Tim made about suing the band in 2016.
Tim is our brother, and we love him, but this has become a toxic relationship at this point and due to that, we cannot continue on with our mission and stay true to who we are and what we represent with Tim in the band.
We’re excited about the future and we will be making an official announcement very soon about our new album, tour and bassist.
We love our fans and we appreciate your support and patience as we work through these changes. The best is yet to come!”
