GUITARIST RITCHIE BLACKMORE ON WHY HE HAS DECIDED TO MAKE A BRIEF RETURN TO PLAYING ROCK MUSIC, “YOU START TO SEE YOUR FRIENDS PASS AND JUST FEEL IT’S TIME TO PLAY SOME OF THE OLD SONGS”
Nancy Dunham of Noisey spoke with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore. Highlights from the interview appear below. On playing rock music again: “I am doing four dates in June, which will be all rock,” Blackmore says, speaking to us alongside Night. “I have the band basically together and it will be [the best of] Rainbow and Deep […]
TONY IOMMI SAYS BILL WARD’S RETURN FOR BLACK SABBATH’S FINAL TOUR IS “DOWN TO BILL”
As previously reported, Black Sabbath has announced their final tour dates, dubbed The End. Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi recently spoke to the Birmingham Mail and said, “I can’t actually do this any more. My body won’t take it much more.” When asked about the chances of original drummer Bill Ward’s return, Iommi replied, “That depends […]
JOEL HOEKSTRA’S 13 PREMIERES SECOND SINGLE “UNTIL I LEFT YOU”
Whitesnake guitarist Joel Hoekstra will be releasing a new studio album Dying To Live from his electrifying new side project, Joel Hoekstra’s 13, on October 16th. Hoekstra had released a second video for the song, Until I Left You, featuring vocals by Jeff Scott Soto. Watch it below. Hoekstra states, Until I Left You is […]
KEVIN SHIRLEY LISTS THE 10 BEST IRON MAIDEN SONGS HE HAS EVER PRODUCED
Kevin Shirley – a record producer also known as The Caveman – has produced albums for the likes of Aersosmith, Dream Theater and Joe Bonamassa. Along with bassist Steve Harris, he co-produced Iron Maiden’s 2000 Brave New World. It was their first album as a six-piece and marked the return of vocalist Bruce Dickinson and […]
STRYPER RELEASE NEW SONG “BIG SCREEN LIES” FROM UPCOMING ALBUM
Stryper has released another song from their forthcoming new studio album, Fallen, which will be released on October 16th through Frontier records. Listen to Big Screen Lies below. Michael Sweet described the song with this sentiment, ““It talks about how Christians are mocked on screen. I don’t know if you know this, but 9.5-times-out-of-10 in […]
BLACK SABBATH ANNOUNCE “THE END” TOUR DATES
It’s the Beginning of The End. It started nearly five decades ago with a crack of thunder, a distant bell ringing and then that monstrous riff that shook the earth. The heaviest rock sound ever heard. In that moment Heavy Metal was born, created by a young band from Birmingham, England barely out of their […]
