Judas Priest band members
Rob Halford, Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner have scheduled special New York City in store signing on Tuesday, July 8th at Hard Rock Café New York at 6:30 P.M.
Starting at 4 p.m. on July 8th, be one of the first fans to purchase Redeemer of Souls from FYE at the 43rd street at Hard Rock TSQ and receive a wristband that will get you access to the signing. Please note, the band will only be signing copies of their new album.
In the past several weeks the band has been previewing songs, some in their entirety and others just snippets, from Redeemer of Souls. Click on the highlighted titles below to hear the corresponding song.
After two decades, Maryland group Kix with be releasing a new album called, Rock Your Face Off, on August 5th through Loud & Proud Records.
The band have released lyric video for the song Love Me with Your Top Down which they premiered last Friday on Eddie’s “Friday Night Rocks” radio show. Watch it below.
As guitarist Brian “Damage” Forsythe explains, “When we first played Love Me With Your Top Down live just a few months ago, it went over like gangbusters with the fans. It’s a catchy little tune with classic Kix flavor, a perfect choice for the first taste of the record.”
Michael Sweet has revealed the likely name of his new supergroup featuring George Lynch.
The Stryper frontman is teaming up with Lynch, of Dokken and Lynch Mob, as well as former Megadeth bass player James Lomenzo and one time Whitesnake drummer Brian Tichy on the project, to be known as Sweet Lynch. An album will be released in the coming months.
Sweet tells Guitar International: “It looks like we are going to go with the name Sweet & Lynch. We were debating that for a while and the label was pushing it for it.
I co-wrote the songs with George. I called Brian Tichy and James Lomenzo to put the band together. You’ll start to hear about it in September with the first single and video. It’s an incredible combination of classic 70s and 80s. You will hear some flavors of Journey, Bad Company, Dokken, Van Halen, and Stryper.
James and Brian are amazing musicians. They tore it up. The drums and bass are just as impressive as the guitars. Everybody really delivered.
I love this CD. I’m super excited for people to hear this CD. I’m so proud of it.”
Meanwhile, Sweet says he lost a diary he was writing in preparation for his book Honestly: My Life And Stryper. He says: “I lost it on the road. Somebody I’m sure has it and enjoying it and may even publish it someday. “Maybe none of the stories will line up with the stories in my book. I did this book from memory, as I have a pretty good memory of things.”
Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson, never one to censor himself, has reportedly taken a couple of potshots at Metallica and Judas Priest frontman Rob Halford.
According to Loudwire, the singer recently chastised Halford for apparently using a teleprompter to help him remember lyrics during live shows. “People pay good money and you can’t even remember the sodding words,” exclaims Dickinson. “The daftest one I ever saw was Breaking the Law.”
Also, back in 2011 Dickinson told Metal Hammer that Iron Maiden were a much better band than Metallica.
“I got into trouble for saying that we’re better than Metallica … and, it’s true!” Dickinson added, “They might be bigger than us and they might sell more tickets than us and they might get more gold-plated middle-class bourgeoisie turning up to their shows but they’re not Maiden. I did say it’s a bit of a wind-up. I thought, if I’m going to turn into an a–hole, I might as well, you know, go for it!”
In a new interview with the Guardian, Dickinson’s comments were brought up to Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, who offered a humble response. “I will never argue with that,” says Ulrich. “I will always support Bruce Dickinson in whatever nonsense he says. That’s part of the fun. So go Iron Maiden! It’s fine.”
Iconic hard rock band Motörhead have been churning out their unique brand of Rock N’ Roll for more than 35 years. To celebrate the reissue of their 21st album “Aftershock” and the 2014 World Cup, the band is teaming up with loudwire.com to give away limited edition Motörhead World Cup tees.
Ten lucky winners will be selected to receive a special edition Motörhead World Cup shirt representing the country of their choice by posting a photo with a sign of #motörheadforlife to Twitter and/or Instagram and hash tagging #Motörheadforlife and tagging @myMotorhead and @loudwire.
In celebration of the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, the contest video for the song Going To Brazil from the forthcoming tour edition CD, can be viewed below.
The band is currently gearing up for their European summer tour. See tour dates below.
Motörhead will reissue it’s 21st studio album Aftershock via UDR/Motörhead Music on July 29th in North America under the title Aftershock-Tour Edition.
The expanded edition will contain a Bonus Live CD consisting of live material comprised from the band’s historic appearances in early 2014.
In further celebration of the reissue, UDR/Motörhead Music will be releasing a video for the song Lost Woman Blues filmed live from The Warfield in San Francisco on Friday April 18th, 2014. The show was part of the band’s warm-up mini tour for the upcoming European festivals. The song’s performance, verve, swagger and attitude show Motörhead have maintained their rich ripeness and added another layer of grit and polish. The video is set to premier on VH1 Classic on July 7th.
Aftershock proves one major thing no-one should ever forget…they are Motörhead, and they play rock’n’roll!
Aftershock Track Listing:
Heartbreaker
Coup de Grace
Lost Woman Blues
End of Time
Do You Believe
Death Machine
Dust and Glass
Going To Mexico
Silence When You Speak To Me
Crying Shame
Queen of the Damned
Knife
Keep Your Powder Dry
Paralyzed
Bonus Live CD Track Listing:
Damage Case
Stay Clean
I Know How To Die
Metropolis
Over The Top
The Chase Is Better Than The Catch
Rock It
Lost Woman Blues
Doctor Rock
Just `Cos You Got The Power
Going To Brazil
Killed By Death
Ace Of Spades
Overkill
Motorhead tour dates:
6/24 Milan Ippodromo Italy
6/27 Wetzikon Eishalle Switzerland
7/4 London, England Hyde Park United Kingdom
7/6 Roitzschora With Full Force Germany
7/11 Aix Les Bains Festival Musilac France
7/25 Moscow Crocus City Hall Russian Federation
7/27 Minsk Palace Of Sport Belarus
8/1 Wacken Wacken Open Air Germany
8/3 Lokerse Lokerse Feesten Belgium
8/10 Colmar Festival de la Foire aux Vins France
9/22 – 9/26:
Miami & Key West / Cozumel, Mexico, Florida & Mexico Motörhead’s Motörboat United States Minor Outlying Islands
