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DETAILS FOR BLACK SABBATH’S “LIVE…GATHERED IN THEIR MASSES” REVEALED

Black Sabbath’s triumphant 2013 tour–which began earlier this year in Australia–can now be seen by fans around the world via the forthcoming Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses (Vertigo/Republic). Preorders for “Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses” are available now at blacksabbath.com and amazon. Watch a teaser below.

Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses track listings:
BLU-RAY and DVD track listing is as follows:

1. War Pigs
2. Into The Void
3. Loner
4. Snowblind
5. Black Sabbath
6. Behind The Wall Of Sleep
7. N.I.B.
8. Methademic
9. Fairies Wear Boots
10.Symptom Of The Universe
11. Iron Man
12. End Of The Beginning
13. Children Of The Grave
14. God Is Dead?
15. Paranoid

CD track listing is as follows:

1. War Pigs
2. Loner
3. Black Sabbath
4. Methademic
5. N.I.B
6. Iron Man
7. End Of The Beginning
8. Fairies Wear Boots
9. God Is Dead?
10. Paranoid

Due out November 26th, Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses will be available via a variety of formats. Options include:

● DVD standalone
● Blu-ray standalone
● Blu-ray/CD combo pack with a CD featuring live audio from the show, all packaged in a Blu Ray case
● DVD/CD combo pack with a CD featuring live audio from the show, all packaged in an Amaray box
● Deluxe Box with a Blu-ray disc of live show with exclusive bonus visual extras/two DVD discs/a CD featuring live audio from the show/poster/signed set list/photo booklet/guitar picks/official show “ticket”

Black Sabbath: Live…Gathered in Their Masses was recorded April 29th and May 1st, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia when the band–Ozzy Osbourne (vocals), Tony Iommi (guitar) and Geezer Butler (bass)–kicked off their world tour in support of their 13album, which entered the charts at #1 in 13 countries (including their first #1 in the U.S.). Meanwhile, Black Sabbath will head to South America and Mexico in October for a headlining stadium tour (where they’re expected to play to more than 300,000 fans) and then onto Europe in November and December.

THE WINERY DOGS LAUNCH U.S. HEADLINING TOUR OCTOBER 3RD

The Winery Dogs–Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater, Avenged Sevenfold), Billy Sheehan (David Lee Roth, Mr. Big) and Richie Kotzen (Poison, Mr. Big)—will launch their latest U.S. headlining tour tomorrow in Agoura Hills, CA at the Canyon Club in support of their critically-acclaimed self-titled debut album, which was released in North America July 23rd on Loud & Proud Records.

To further stir up excitement about the tour, the band world-premiered their latest video for the track “Time Machine” on Billboard.com. The clip was directed by Greg Kaplan and includes live rehearsal footage shot in Southern California, as well as concert footage shot during their recent sold-out tour of Japan. The Winery Dogs’ first-ever concert was in Osaka, Japan on July 15th.

Fans can pick up the album on the band’s official website, iTunes and Amazon. The band has already released three videos from the new album, Elevate, Desire, and I’m No Angel, which can all be seen on their official YouTube page. Elevate, the album’s first single, debuted at #30 on Mediabase’s “Mainstream Rock” airplay chart and is currently bulleted at #17. It’s been the #1 most-played current song on WDHA-FM (The Rock of New Jersey, 105.5) for a number of weeks.

Of one of the band’s first-ever tour dates in August, Philadelphia’s Tell Magazine declared: “this band really is the Cream of 2013—three of the best musicians around grouped together and playing powerful music that takes full advantage of their virtuosity… their live show certainly exceeded my expectations. These guys are on fire. I don’t think anyone who attended that show wasn’t floored by the performance. I think the band members themselves were amazed by the power they’re putting out, and how much fun they’re having… It’s clear that this is a band with a great future ahead of them, and I implore you not to miss this combustible combination when they come to your town.”

During the upcoming tour, The Winery Dogs will make a special stop at the Hard Rock Café in New York City on October 23rd to participate in a private star-studded celebration of Eddie Trunk’s 30th anniversary of his radio show. Trunk is best known as host of VH1 Classic’s That Metal Show and he played a key role in the formation of The Winery Dogs. The seeds of the band were planted in 2011 when Sheehan and Portnoy were working on music together with a different guitarist and songwriter. When that line-up didn’t gel, Eddie Trunk suggested they contact Kotzen and see if he was interested in forming a band. The rest is history. Tickets for the party are free and fans can enter to win them by clicking on the banner on this site.

The Winery Dogs tour dates:

Thu 10/3 Agoura Hills, CA Canyon Club
Fri 10/4 Las Vegas, NV Count’s Vamp’d
Sat 10/5 San Diego, CA Ramona Mainstage
Sun 10/6 San Juan Capistrano, CA Coach House
Tue 10/8 Sacramento, CA Harlow’s
Wed 10/9 San Francisco, CA Yoshi’s
Thu 10/10 Portland, OR Star Theatre
Fri 10/11 Seattle, WA Crocodile Café
Mon 10/14 Denver, CO Soiled Dove
Thu 10/17 Milwaukee, WI Potawatomi Casino
Fri 10/18 Palatine, IL Durty Nellies
Sat 10/19 Effingham, IL Effingham Performance Center
Mon 10/21 Pittsburgh, PA Altar Bar
Tue 10/22 Poughkeepsie, NY The Chance
Wed 10/23 New York, NY Eddie Trunk 30th Anniversary Party
Fri 10/25 Clifton Park, NY Upstate Concert Hall
Sat 10/26 Niagara Falls, NY Hard Rock
Sun 10/27 Allentown, PA Maingate Nightclub
Tue 10/29 Sayreville, NJ Starland Ballroom
Wed 10/30 Patchogue, NY Emporium
Thu 10/31 Pawtucket, RI The Met
Sat 11/2 Cleveland, OH Agora Ballroom
Thu 11/5 Cincinnati, OH Mad Frog
Wed 11/6 Ft. Wayne, IN Piere’s

DREAM THEATER SCORES NUMBER ONE “HARD ROCK ALBUM” AND ENTERS THE BILLBOARD 200 AT NUMBER SEVEN

Dream Theater, the milestone new album from Roadrunner Records band of the same name, has made a spectacular debut atop Billboard’s “Hard Rock Albums” chart, while simultaneously entering at #7 on the overall Billboard 200. This marks the GRAMMY-nominated group’s third consecutive top 10 debut, and also sees Dream Theater making top 5 chart debuts in Japan, Germany, Italy, Canada, Argentina, Switzerland, Holland, and Finland, as well as top 10 debuts in Denmark, Austria, and Norway with career high debuts in the United Kingdom and Australia.

Dream Theater – John Petrucci (guitar), John Myung (bass), James LaBrie (vocals), Jordan Rudess (keyboards & continuum), and Mike Mangini (drums) – debuted the album’s first single, The Enemy Inside this past August with USA Today and recently premiered a companion music video for the track with Billboard. During the process of making the video for the song, Dream Theater were connected with Save A Warrior, an organization dedicated to embracing returning veterans in a healthy and nurturing environment and offering safe, innovative and evidence-based resiliency programs for veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. In the coming months, Dream Theater will be working closely with the organization to help bring awareness to soldiers suffering from PTSD through social outreach, fundraising drives and more. The Enemy Inside can be viewed at www.youtube.com/dreamtheater.

Dream Theater will tour in support of Dream Theater, visiting 30 cities in 16 countries, with plans to tour North America beginning in March 2014, full details will be announced soon. For up-to-the-minute news and information, please visit www.dreamtheater.net/tourdates.

MANRAZE – FEATURING PHIL COLLEN (DEF LEPPARD) PAUL COOK (THE SEX PISTOLS) & SIMON LAFFY (GIRL) TO RELEASE “I SURRENDER” ON NOVEMBER 12TH

Manraze, the London-based rock band formed by iconic Def Leppard lead guitarist Phil Collen, along with punk rock forerunner Paul Cook (Sex Pistols) on drums and Simon Laffy, rockin’ bass player of Collen’s former glam-band, Girl, will release their new EP, I Surrender, on November 12th.

I Surrender will be comprised of three songs, including the title track, which features background vocals by Debbi Blackwell-Cook, who also appears on All I Wanna Do, a newly-recorded version of the song which first appeared on the trio’s 2011 sophomore album punkfunkrootsrock.  The final track is Connected-Live from Shepherd’s Bush, a live studio performance from a studio podcast session, not previously released.

The first single, I Surrender, was nearly forgotten about, explains Collen, “The song is eight years old. It practically never got finished. I was on tour last year and started singing the chorus. Early this year, I re-did the guitars to Paul’s original demo drums. I did a vocal and Simon played new bass-lines.  Ger McDonnell then did a brilliant edit and mix on what we gave him. Debbi Blackwell-Cook supplied the wailing outro-vocals that you hear at the end of the song. We feel this is our best song yet.”

In the spring of 2011, the Manraze single I, Superbiker was the theme song for the feature documentary of the same name. Another Manraze song featuring Debbi Blackwell-Cook titled Take On The World was also released in conjunction with the film. Directed by Mark Sloper, and released solely in the UK, the documentary is an in-depth expose’ into the merciless world of competitive speed bike racing and a look at the men who have dedicated their entire existence to this incredibly dangerous, adrenaline-fueled sport.

Since the last album release, all three band members have kept busy.   Collen continues to hold down his ‘day-job’ as lead guitarist with Def Leppard, currently promoting their Def Leppard Viva! Hysteria concert live album and dvd release this month.  Cook has been working with Edwyn Collins, first on his 2013 album release Understated, and then touring with Collins playing live shows. Currently, Cook is also playing in Subway Sect with Vic Goddard touring and recording a new album. Laffy has taken his talents into another creative lane, having authored two novels in his ‘off-time’, Red Sunrise and Seed of Satan.  Both are historical fictions, set around epic events of the 20th century and are in the process of being published.

It all started in 2004, when Phil Collen, after 20+ years as lead guitarist for Def Leppard, decided to express himself via another creative outlet.  After a chance meeting on the street with Paul Cook, Manraze finally released their debut album Surreal through Universal Records in the summer of 2008 to rave reviews.  The group’s debut album was chocked full of rebellious in-your-face mantras (Turn it Up, This Is, Skin Crawl, Running Me Up) ranging from hardcore punk to dub.  They were seen as a cross between the Foo Fighters, Green Day, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, and The Police. Manraze is a response to the ever changing climate of multi-faceted music and should be heralded for far more than just being a ‘rock band’.

 

THE WINERY DOGS POST VIDEO FOR “TIME MACHINE” ONLINE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Billboard is premiering the video for the Winery Dogs’ Time Machine. Watch it below.

“Lyrically, Time Machine explores the curse of vices and the desire to look into the past to discover the origin of these vices with the ultimate goal of a cure,” singer/guitarist Richie Kotzen said. “Believing in the notion that many of our bad habits are rooted in past life events.”

The Winery Dogs are a rock trio that consists of Kotzen (Poison, Mr. Big), bassist Billy Sheehan (Mr. Big) and drummer Mike Portnoy (Dream Theater). Time Machine is the new single off the band’s self-titled debut album, which was released in July on Loud & Proud Records and peaked at Number 27 on the Billboard 200.

source: billboard.com

SAXON DRUMMER NIGEL GLOCKLER DISCUSSES TOURING IN AMERICA AND RENEWED INTEREST IN THE BAND

Ruben Mosqueda of Oregon Music News spoke with Saxon’s drummer Nigel Glockler. Portions of the interview appear below.

OMN: It’s been awhile since Saxon played a proper U.S. tour.

Glockler: We did about two weeks on the Call to Arms tour but you’re right. it’s been a while. We’ll be doing a month this time around. It’s great that we’ll get to play places like Portland this time around because we haven’t played there in years!

OMN: Saxon has to play all the hits but you’re also not afraid to mix it up with some new stuff. How hard is it to draft a set list for you?

Glockler: It’s a nightmare! (laughs) The more albums you release the more choices that you’ve got. We’re on tour obviously to promote the new album so we’ve got to play five to six new tracks and then everything else just has to fit around it you know? (laughs).

OMN: Obviously people who are metal fans are familiar with Saxon’s back catalog which includes classic records like Saxon, Denim & Leather and Wheels of Steel. You’ve been on a roll starting with 2004’s Lionheart and you returned for the follow-up album Inner Sanctum. Worldwide Saxon has kept the same level of popularity, but Stateside there’s been this renewed interest in Saxon.

Glockler: Yeah, I mean we can play in front of 70,000 people in Europe; obviously they all haven’t come out to see us, but we are headlining one of the stages and they are there watching us. I think the [renewed] interest has a bit to do with stronger material and a push by the label to be quite honest. I think there’s been a resurgence in traditional heavy rock–people have heard the ‘thrash and death’ or whatever you call it and they want the traditional stuff. We’re getting some really young kids at our festival appearances and they know all the words to the songs.

OMN: There’s an interesting parallel between Saxon and a band like Motorhead who haven’t been this huge, ‘blockbuster’ band like a Def Leppard or a Bon Jovi. Saxon and Motorhead have always been able to capture the youth.

Glockler: Yeah, basically their audience grows with them, doesn’t it? We’re attracting the kids all the time. We’re proud that we’ve able to achieve that–not a lot of bands from our area can say that.

OMN: You joined Saxon in 1981 and were in the band until about 1987. What led to your first departure from the band?

Glockler::Yeah, I’ve left a couple of times haven’t I!? (laughs) The first time I got fed up with management quite frankly. I got to the point that I hated what I was doing and I just wanted out. Then I got the gig drumming for GTR with Steve Howe I needed a break–I needed a change. That was it pure and simple. Then I came back 1989 and left in 1997 after Unleash the Beast tour. In the middle of that tour we went to South America we didn’t take our gear so I used a rental kit. I ripped a muscle between my arm and my shoulder. I kept playing and finished the rest of the tour. When I was playing it was fine but when I went to the hotel or the tour bus to lay down to sleep my back and my neck were in excruciating pain. I was like “My God what is going on?!” Eventually after the end of the tour I went to see my doctor and I was told that I had ripped a muscle and that I needed to stop playing for five to six months. That’s what happened. I’m all healed up now but I was away from the band for a while. I was still writing with them; I was doing everything, just not recording or touring with them. The break from drumming and touring made me fall in love with the drums again.

OMN: What’s your favorite thing about touring the United States?

Glockler: I love it over there. My wife is American. In fact my first wife was American as well. (laughs) I guess I have a thing for America I guess?! (laughs) I love it over there. People are great, they’re so polite, the fans are great and the music is incredible. I’ll tell you what I’m looking forward to in Portland, I was talking to my friend Dave McClain (Machine Head) and he was telling me that I really need to try Voodoo Doughnuts! (laughs).

Read more at Oregon Music News.

Saxon is currently on tour with Fozzy.