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SLAYER RELEASE VIDEO TEASER FOR THEIR NEW ALBUM DUE OUT SEPTEMBER 11TH

Slayer have released a new video announcing their new album, Repentless which will be released on September 11th through Nuclear Blast Records. Watch the promo below.

The band released a new song in April for streaming. Listen to When The Stillness Comes by clicking here.

Slayer will be part of the 2015 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival along with King Diamond, Hellyeah, The Devil Wears Prada, Whitechapel, Thy Art Is Murder, Jungle Rot, Sister Sin, Sworn In, Shattered Sun, Feed Her To The Sharks, Code Orange and Kissing Candice. The tour begins on June 26th in San Diego, California and winds down at the Gexa Energy Amphitheater in Dallas, TX on August 2nd. To read more about this tour, click here.

2015 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival dates:

6/26 – San Diego, CA @ Sleep Train Amphitheater
6/27 – San Bernardino, CA @ San Manuel Amphitheater
6/28 – Mountain View, CA @ Shoreline Amphitheater
6/30 – Auburn, WA (Seattle) @ White River Amphitheater

7/1 – Boise, ID @ Idaho Center Amphitheater
7/3 – Phoenix, AZ @ Ak-Chin Amphitheater
7/4 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater
7/5 – Denver, CO @ Red Rocks
7/7 – Council Bluffs, IA @ Harrah’s Council Bluffs
7/8 – Milwaukee, WI @ Eagles Ballroom
7/10 – Noblesville, IN (Indianapolis) @ Kilpsch Amphitheater
7/11 – Clarkston, MI (Detroit) @ DTE Energy Amphitheater
7/12 – Tinley Park, IL (Chicago) @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheater
7/15 – Toronto, ON @ Molson Canadian Amphitheatre
7/17 – Camden, NJ (Philadelphia) @ Susquehanna Bank Arts Center
7/18 – Burgettstown, PA (Pittsburgh) @ First Niagara Pavilion
7/19 – Hartford, CT @ Xfinity Theatre
7/21 – Holmdel, NJ @ PNC Bank Arts Center
7/22 – Gilford, NH @ Meadowbrook (Bank of NH Pavilion)
7/24 – Bristow, VA @ Jiffy Lube Live
7/25 – Boston, MA @ Xfinity Center
7/26 – Wantagh, NY @ Nikon at Jones Beach
7/29 – Atlanta, GA @ Aaron’s Amphitheater at Lakewood
7/31 – San Antonio, TX @ Whitewater Amphitheatre

8/1 – Houston, TX @ Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion
8/2 – Dallas, TX @ Gexa Energy Amphitheater

* Lineups in each city may vary.

Slayer is:

Tom Araya (singer, bass)
Gary Holt (guitar)
Paul Bostaph (drums)
Kerry King (guitar)

EDDIE TRUNK DISCUSSES THE STATE OF ROCK MUSIC TODAY, SAYS “THE STRONG WILL SURVIVE”

Jimmie Tramel of Tulsa World reports:

Trunk was asked this question: What’s the state of music right now? He said he can only speak in terms of rock music “because that’s what I know and live in, but I think it’s fairly healthy.”

Eddie continues, “I think unfortunately record sales and music sales are not there and I don’t know if they are ever coming back. We’re dealing with a new generation that doesn’t even feel that music is something you should own or have to pay for. It’s really going to be really hard to change that thinking with the younger people.

For me, I’m still all about owning CDs and having physical ownership of music. That’s more and more being thought of as sort of an old-school mentality. But where rock music is really, really, really thriving is live. It was always best served live and if you see what’s going on now, you have more bands on the road than ever before….

Just like anything, the strong will survive. The people who are smart and figure out a way to recreate or reinvent themselves are going to do just fine, but you are going to have some casualties. You are going to have casualties with the cruises. You are going to have casualties when it comes to festivals. It is going to happen because there are just so many of them. I don’t know how much the market can really hold.

“But, for now, I think the music industry is reinventing itself and as far as rock music is concerned, the live stage is where it’s at. I wish radio played more new music. I wish fans purchased music. But they are still certainly coming out to see it. We’ll see where it goes from there.”

Read more at Tulsa World. Also, read part one of Eddie’s interview with Tulsa World, here.

GIRLSCHOOL AND CRUCIFIED BARBARA TEAM UP FOR NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES

Legendary all girl British hard rockers Girlschool are gearing up to storm North America for the first time in 20 years, reclaiming their rightful place as the hardest rocking bunch of females to ever destroy a stage.

The band will be previewing tracks from their new album, Guilty As Sin, set for release later this summer via UDR Music and, as a special treat, they will be selling a Special Edition Ep, Propaganda!, featuring two songs from the new album, (Take It Like A Band and Come, The Revolution) as well as revisiting two tracks from their classic Hit And Run album in the form of re-recorded versions of Kick It Down and Watch Your Step. Rounding out the Ep, which is limited to 300 copies, is the girls’ blistering cover of The Bee Gees classic Staying Alive. Both Propaganda! and Guilty As Sin were helmed by legendary producer Chris Tsangarides (Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy, etc)

The gals are bringing along the leaders of the new wave of female hard rockers, Swedish headbangers Crucified Barbara, who return to North America for the second time in three years. With a new label, Despotz Records, and new album, In The Red, the Swedes are ready to lay waste to the States and Canada once again. Produced by Chips Kiesbye (The Hellacopters, Millencolin, etc), In The Red features eleven tracks of pure mayhem.

Support on all dates comes from Old James and Velvet Black.

Girlschool and Crucified Barbara North American dates:

5/20 Ramona, CA – Ramona Mainstage
5/21 Las Vegas, NV – Vamp’d
5/22 Los Angeles, CA – Whisky
5/24 San Francisco, CA – Slims
5/27 Portland, OR – Bossanova Ballroom
5/28 Seattle, WA – Studio 7
5/29 Vancouver, BC – Venue
5/31 Bozeman, MT – The Fault Line
6/3 Kansas City, MO – The Scene
6/4 Fridley, MN – GB Leighton’s Pickle Park
6/5 Chicago, IL – Reggies
6/6 Weston, MI – Token Lounge
6/7 Toronto, ON – The Hard Luck
6/9 Cleveland, OH – Beachland Ballroom
6/11 Ottawa, ON – Mavericks
6/12 Montreal, QC – Katacombs
6/13 Londonderry, NH – Tupelo Music Hall
6/14 Brooklyn, NY – Saint Vitusc

FORMER SKID ROW FRONTMAN SEBASTIAN BACH SAYS HE IS MOST RECOGNIZABLE MEMBER OF THE BAND

Former Skid Row singer Sebastian Bach was a guest on Snider Comments podcast with host Dee Snider of Twisted Sister where he discussed his former bandmates.

Bach told Snider, “The biggest lie that those guys always tell is, ‘We wrote all the songs on all the records.’ If you listen to my albums and the Skid Row albums, and then you listen to the Skid Row albums without me, and then listen to my solo albums, that’ll give you all that you need to know about who wrote what. When they say, ‘We wrote the song 18 And Life, you [just] sang it.’ Okay, let’s examine that statement. You can go listen to the original version of that song online, and then you can listen to me doing it, and there’s something called a melody line. Okay? Where it goes, ‘Lived nine to five and he worked his fingers to the bone.’ Every time my voice goes into the register where you turn it up and go, ‘Holy sh-t! Did you f–king hear that?’ Those are the notes that I wrote, okay? Nobody does that in the version before that I didn’t f–king… ‘Can I sing this note in this part?’ ‘Yeah, do that, Sebastian. Yeah, do that.'”

He continued, “So I’m nineteen years old, taking these f–king songs and turning them into Judas Priest songs, as far as… I’m rewriting the melody lines, never thinking anybody was gonna like it, never thinking anybody was gonna buy it. I’m thinking I’m gonna be the next Malice, not the next Bon Jovi. The last thing anybody ever thinks is that somebody is gonna like this s-it. That was, like, the last-case scenario. So I’m not in court, saying, ‘I wrote this note! I f–king…’ I’m not gonna be in litigation when I’m nineteen. You know?! So, [them saying] ‘We wrote all the songs’ is such a f–king pile of shit.”

When asked if he thinks that it’s okay for another singer to come and imitate his vocal style, Bach responded: “No. I think they should change the name of the band and leave… Like, Van Halen, okay, had Sammy [Hagar]… Well, they had Gary [Cherone]…. [Laughs] I forgot about that. But anyways, I would say, save the name of the band… I’m not saying that for me; I’m saying that for all of rock and roll.”

He continued, “If you’ve got the five guys in the original band that are still alive, you should respect that because that is such a rare thing. Like, you guys just lost [drummer] A.J. [Pero], and now that [possibility] doesn’t exist anymore. And I walk around going, I ain’t getting any f–king younger. I go, ‘This is still possible.’ So it’s, like, [to] even have that opportunity and deny it, or just say, ‘F–k it,’ that’s, like, bad for all of rock; that’s not just bad for me.”

He also said that he believes that he is the most recognizable member of the band, stating “The elephant in the room here is, like, when you and me walk down the street, Dee Snider and Sebastian Bach, we are the human beings that other human beings hang out the car window and go, ‘Youth gone wild, motherf–ker!’ ‘We’re not gonna take it!’ There’s no other people… There’s no other guy… Not one guy in Skid Row walks down the street and can’t walk down the f–king street. I can’t walk down the street without people going, ‘F–k! What the f–k!’ There’s no [other] guy in the band that will ever have that; they never will. The public decides. It’s like the show American Idol. ‘We’re gonna pick an American Idol.’ No, you’re not. America is gonnna pick the f–king idol. America is the people that decide who the band is. You know what I’m saying?!”

In related news, Skid Row band members Rachel Bolan and Dave Sabo officially announced former TNT singer Tony Harnell as their new vocalists on Eddie’s Sirius/XM show Eddie Trunk Live. The band recently re-recorded 18 & Life with Harnell and it can be heard here. The band also recently announced tour dates with Harnell, click here to see the tour itinerary.

KISS FRONTMAN PAUL STANLEY SAYS MAKING NEW MUSIC ISN’T NECESSARY, STATING “THERE HAS TO BE A PURPOSE TO US DOING AN ALBUM”

Martin Kelly of Classic Rock Magazine reports:

KISS frontman Paul Stanley says it’s not necessary for the band to record another album.

He believes they had good reasons to make 2009’s Sonic Boom and 2012’s Monster – but that their tally of studio outings might stop at 20.

Stanley tells Classic Rock’s Paul Brannigan, “There has to be a purpose to us doing an album. There was a time when we did albums because the contracts said so. But I only want to work now when it’s justified. Sonic Boom was an album that very much needed to be done, and Monster just felt like, ‘Well, we did Sonic Boom – let’s see where we go from here.’”

He adds, “Having accomplished that, I feel we can move forward without new music. There are enough things going on in KISS that right now it doesn’t feel utterly necessary to make a new album.”

That doesn’t mean Stanley won’t change his mind. “Anything is possible,” says Stanley. “But at the moment I don’t see it on the horizon. I’m not one to ever say ‘never.’”

KISS will close out this year’s Download festival at Donington next month – and the frontman insists they’ll deliver. “If we have the honor, you better believe that we need to bring it, and need to justify being the last band everyone’s going to see. As a band that’s never been known for subtlety, believe me, we’ll be pulling out all the stops.”

Asked whether he’d consider following other bands down the route of creating their own festival, Stanley says: “I really have no desire to do anything of that magnitude. I’d be dealing with too many idiots.”

source: classicrock.teamrock.com

JOE SATRIANI STREAMING “ON PEREGRINE WINGS” FROM HIS FORTHCOMING ALBUM “SHOCKWAVE SUPERNOVA,” LISTEN HERE

Joe Satriani is streaming On Peregrine Wings, taken from forthcoming album Shockwave Supernova, set to be released on July 24th. Listen to it below.

“While working on a project for an animated TV show called Crystal Planet, I thought this music would be perfect for a flying character and what would it feel like to jump off a cliff and start flying,” says Joe. “There would be fear and exhilaration to be thousands of feet in the air. The movie in my head informed me on how the song developed using unusual scales and the intense velocity of the drumbeat and the crazy solo.”

To read more about Shockwave Supernova, please click here.