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MOTÖRHEAD UNLEASH #MOTÖRHEADFORLIFE CONTEST TO CELEBRATE THE RELEASE OF THE “AFTERSHOCK” TOUR EDITION CD AND THE 2014 WORLD CUP

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

JUDAS PRIEST POST A PREVIEW FOR “METALIZER” ONLINE

Judas Priest have been previewing and streaming full versions of songs from their upcoming album Redeemer of Souls, which will be released July 8th. Below is a preview of the song Metalizer with an introduction from guitarists Glenn Tipton and Richie Faulkner. Listen to it below.

In the past several weeks, Judas Priest have been previewing and streaming many of the songs from Redeemer of Souls. Click on the highlighted titles below to hear the corresponding song.

Redeemer of Souls
March of the Damned
Halls Of Valhalla
Crossfire
Dragonaut
Battle Cry

GUITARIST VIVIAN CAMPBELL TO UNDERGO STEM CELL TRANSPLANT

Def Leppard just started their summer tour and guitarist Vivian Campbell is happy to be onstage, but as soon as their live shows end, the reality of Campbell’s current health concerns will once again hit home. The guitarist revealed to the Herald Extra that following the tour, he’s hoping to receive a stem cell transplant.

The guitarist was previously treated for cancer and was thought to be in remission, but he reveals that remission talk was premature. Campbell explained, “It came right back. I don’t know if the cancer came back or it never totally went away, you know, but the initial scan I did last fall after doing my chemo, the scan came back clean. But there was something about it, the oncologist was unclear about and didn’t feel good about, so I was referred to another specialist.”

Campbell, who also played in the band Dio, says he learned that there was some growth coming back and that a surgical biopsy revealed that the cancer had come back. The guitarist reveals that he’s been doing some “high-tech chemo” and reveals that he’s about halfway through his treatment. “It’s really kind of easy going,” says Campbell. It’s the first new drug that’s been discovered for Hodgkin’s since 1977 and they made this discovery in 2011 … so I’m part of this research clinical trial that’s going on.” The guitarist adds that the treatment has not affected his hair, skin or nails, which he’s thankful for.

The guitarist concludes, “Assuming that it all works and I actually get to a perceived remission stage by August, then as soon as the tour is over in early September, I’m going to get a stem-cell transplant, which I can’t say I’m looking forward to, but I’ve been told if I don’t do that, the cancer’s going to keep coming back every couple of years. And every time it’s a little bit more resistant. It is what it is. It could be worse — but at least I have health insurance.”

As for touring while undergoing treatment, Campbell says it’s very therapeutic for him. He adds, “There’s nothing worse than sitting around the house concentrating on the negative. I’ve always enjoyed my work and I’ve always felt very fortunate to be able to do what I love. I am well up for the summer tour indeed.”

additional source: loudwire.com

OVERKILL PREMIERE NEW SONG “ARMORIST”

Jersey thrash lords OVERKILL have debuted an all new single today titled Armorist from their highly anticipated new LP White Devil Armory due out July 22nd.

“Seems like a long time coming, but the wait is over! I’m stoked, we’re stoked, are you stoked?” says vocalist Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth. The band recently shot a video for the track with director Kevin J. Custer.

Blitz continues “Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls: Nuclear Blast, eOne Music and Overkill proudly present AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARMORIST!” Watch the lyric video below.

Overkill will release their seventeenth LP White Devil Armory on July 22nd via eOne Music in North America, and July 18th overseas via Nuclear Blast. The effort is the follow up to the critically acclaimed The Electric Age released in 2012.

The band has quite a bit of touring lined up with a highlighted performance scheduled at Heavy Montreal Festival on August 9th. After that the band will embark on a U.S. tour, view all dates here. Tickets are on sale now.

This year’s White Devil Armory is as vital, powerful, aggressive and melodic as any of the albums in Overkill’s ridiculously impressive back catalog, which stretches over 16 slabs of genre defining and redefining molten metal. The crunch is unmistakable. The voice is irreplaceable. Get less than a minute into White Devil Armory and it’s clear it’s Overkill. No pretense, no musical red herrings. This is tried and true, always trusted thrash metal.

Pre-order on iTunes here.

White Devil Armory track listing:

1. XDM
2. Armorist
3. Down To The Bone
4. PIG
5. Bitter Pill
6. Where There’s Smoke
7. Freedom Rings
8. Another Day To Die
9. King Of The Rat Bastards
10. It’s All Yours
11. In The Name

GUITARIST JOE SATRIANI DISCUSSES WHAT INSPIRED HIM TO PLAY GUITAR AND BEING A GUITAR TEACHER TO STUDENTS SUCH AS STEVE VAI, KIRK HAMMETT AND ALEX SKOLNICK

Kory Grow of Rolling Stone interviewed guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani. Portions of the interview appear below.

RS: What first inspired you to make sounds no one has ever made on guitar before?

JS: Hearing Jimi Hendrix as a little kid and falling in love with everything that he did on guitar rewired my basic nature. To me, that was a normal thing that you should do: you should strive to be as innovative as Hendrix. I would always think, “Well, how would Hendrix approach something like this?”

RS: I’ve never read any “Joe Satriani was so strung out” stories.

JS: [Laughs] I remember trying to smoke a cigarette and my body just rejected it. I couldn’t get hooked on cigarettes if I tried. But by the time all the other interesting substances were being presented to me, I just decided to stop trying things in fear that I might try it and I might like it. I was already crazy about music.

RS: As a guitar teacher, you’ve managed to coach some famous pupils, including Steve Vai, Metallica’s Kirk Hammett, Primus’ Larry LaLonde and Testament’s Alex Skolnick. Were you that good of a teacher or were you just lucky?

JS: I always thought I was the luckiest guitar teacher ever. I did have just a lot of great students. You’d have Larry come in, and he would say, “Man, listen to these songs we’re writing. How do you play over that? What kind of a solo can I do?” He was such an interesting student, as were Kirk and Alex. They had great technical facility, which made teaching them really great because you could show them something and six days later they had it down.

RS: What about Steve Vai?

JS: You couldn’t make a Steve Vai [laughs]. That’s a one-in-a-billion type of personality that comes out together with an incredible talent facility. You grow it; you help them grow it. Hopefully, it matures and they don’t hit any roadblocks along the way.

RS:
How did Kirk grow as a guitarist in the time you worked with him?

JS: He had a very interesting thing going on. He was in Exodus at the time we started lessons and, then all of a sudden, he got into Metallica, and they were making a record and they were on tour. So he would come in with stuff that was going to be on the Metallica records. He had a real need to get things figured out. He was totally into [Scorpions and UFO guitarist] Michael Schenker and Hendrix and stuff like that, but it didn’t really apply to what he was writing with James [Hetfield] and Lars [Ulrich], and I really was there to show him the possibilities and then sit back and watch it turn into something. He loved it. He would say, “Lay it on. Give me as much information to choose from as possible,” and then he would go on and make his own decision about it and how to apply it. And the guys in the band must have encouraged it as well, because all that stuff wound up on the records and it was so cool to hear it.

RS: What did you learn from touring with Mick Jagger in 1988?

JS: He was so professional. He wasn’t a taskmaster. He didn’t try to control everybody. He liked to bring people into the band that would surprise him. Just sitting down with him when he’d pick up an acoustic guitar and start playing, I was just amazed at what a natural musician he was. I realized at that time that he brought just a ton of stuff besides being a great showman; he was a deep musician and that was evident during the rehearsals. He was just so into the audience; he would do anything to make it a good show and that, to me, is so important. That shows the true mettle of a great artist, that they surrender themselves to the audience and want the audience to have a great time. And then, after the show, he wanted to celebrate with everyone.

RS: Were you worried about taking that gig so early in your career? It was a controversial tour, because Mick refused to do a Stones tour and Keith Richards was doing his own tour at the time.

JS: I was so out of the whole thing that I didn’t really realize what it was all about. I was so on the fringe of music that I didn’t concern myself with it. I wasn’t reading Rolling Stone magazine. That was for successful people [laughs]. And so I just didn’t think about it.

RS: What have you taken from Chickenfoot into your solo career?

JS: The same thing I took from the experience with Jagger and Deep Purple: people are the most important thing. With Chickenfoot, we all showed up for a silly, Sammy Hagar celebrity jam, just to have fun. We were shocked that there was something else to it. No one wanted to be the first one to say it, because it was too corny: “Man, that was great. We should be in a band.” But all of a sudden, it all came out of everybody’s mouth and that’s undeniable chemistry.

That chemistry is so important. When it happens, you’d be an idiot to walk away from it. I wrote two songs about it on my most recent album, Unstoppable Momentum, Jumpin’ In and Jumpin’ Out. Sometimes you just have to jump into things, because it’s so obvious it’s a once-in-a-lifetime moment. And then there are times when you have to jump out, when you realize this is too much; this isn’t going anywhere.

Read the entire interview at Rolling Stone.

On April 22nd, the guitarist released, Joe Satriani: The Complete Studio Recordings, a 15 CD library box set.

source: rollingstone.com

BON JOVI PREMIERES “GROWIN’ UP THE HARD WAY” DEMO FROM “NEW JERSEY” DELUXE REISSUE

Chris Payne of Billboard reports:

Bon Jovi is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year and the band is opening up the vaults to mark the occasion.

On July 1st, Jon Bon Jovi and company will re-release the landmark 1988 album New Jersey, which spent four consecutive weeks atop the Billboard 200 and spawned five singles that reached the top 10 of the Hot 100. The deluxe edition of the New Jersey reissue will feature a second disc of unreleased demos in addition to the remastered original CD. Check out one of those demos, Growin’ Up the Hard Way”, premiering exclusively via Billboard.com can be heard here.

Growin’ Up the Hard Way comes from the Sons of Beaches session, which features 12 other Bon Jovi demos. The deluxe edition also includes three bonus tracks to go along with the original album: a cover of Thin Lizzy’s The Boys Are Back In Town, a b-side called Love Is War and an acoustic version of the Japanese b-side Born to Be My Baby.

On top of all that, a super deluxe edition features a 2 CD and DVD box set. The DVD includes seven Bon Jovi music videos and an 88-minute documentary of the band’s 16-month tour behind New Jersey, previously unreleased in North America. A 60-page softcover book featuring rare photos is also included in the bundle.

The “New Jersey” deluxe edition can be pre-ordered through Amazon.

source: billboard.com