IRON MAIDEN REMASTER ALBUMS FOR ITUNES
Nineteen Iron Maiden albums have been remastered especially for iTunes. Parlophone Records announced the move, which sees 15 studio albums, two best-of compilations and two live records remastered from their original analogue sources. Bassist and founding member Steve Harris says, “The Mastering For iTunes procedure allows the listener to experience the music as close as […]
WHITESNAKE STREAM THEIR VERSION OF DEEP PURPLE’S “LAY DOWN, STAY DOWN”
Whitesnake will be releasing their Purple Album, which is the re-imagination of Deep Purple’s Mark 3 and Mark 4 studio albums, on May 19th. The band has been streaming songs online from this forthcoming release and have now released their version of Lay Down, Stay Down. Listen to it below. Listen to other songs from […]
MARILYN MANSON REPORTEDLY GETS PUNCHED AT A DENNY’S IN CANADA
Alyssa Toomey of E!Online reports: Marilyn Manson is currently on tour in support of his latest album The Pale Emperor and on Saturday, the 46-year-old rocker held a concert in Alberta, Canada. After the show, the musician reportedly hit up a local Denny’s to grab a bite to eat…where he was allegedly punched in the […]
TWISTED SISTER ANNOUNCE 2016 TOUR WITH DRUMMER MIKE PORTNOY
TMZ reports: Twisted Sister will be calling it day after one last tour, the hair metal heroes will unplug their amps in 2016. A rep for the band tells us Dee Snider and the boys made the decision last month to call it quits — just one week before drummer A.J. Pero died from a […]
FORMER VAN HALEN SINGER SAMMY HAGAR COMMENTS ON THE BAND’S NEW LIVE ALBUM, SAYS “THEY’VE GOT SOME PRETTY ROUGH VOCALS”
Doug Elfman of the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports: I knew Sammy Hagar was calling me Monday, so I kept saying to myself, “Don’t ask him how terrible the new Van Halen album is.” But then, Hagar brought up how terrible it is. “I’m trying to tread lightly on the whole thing,” Hagar told me. “Every […]
DRUMMER NICK MENZA SAID HE PLANNED A RETURN TO MEGADETH, UNTIL THEY OFFERED HIM “A VERY UNFAIR DEAL”
Drummer Nick Menza says he was asked to rejoin Megadeth – but refused when he was offered a “very unfair deal.” Menza confirmed that he met with Dave Mustaine to discuss a reunion of the band’s Rust In Peace era lineup, which would have seen him and Marty Friedman back in the band. He says […]