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FAITH NO MORE and MR. BUNGLE have canceled their previously announced fall 2021 performances. Mike Patton, who sings for both bands, said in a statement: “Sorry to report that due to mental health reasons, I cannot continue with the currently scheduled FAITH NO MORE and MR. BUNGLE dates. “I have issues that were exacerbated by the pandemic that are challenging me right now. I don’t feel I can give what I should at this point and I am not going to give anything less than 100 percent. “I am sorry to our fans and hope to make it up to you soon. The bands support me in this decision and we look forward to working through this in a healthy way.” The other members of FAITH NO MORE issued a separate statement expressing their disappointment about the tour cancelation...

RESIST & BITE, the new band featuring former TESLA guitarist Tommy Skeoch, has released a music video for the song “I”. The clip, which features studio footage, can be seen below. Joining Skeoch in RESIST & BITE are ex-LYNCH MOB lead vocalist Nathan Utz, guitarist Steve Stokes, drummer David Parks and bassist Brian Powell. RESIST & BITE has just released its self-titled debut album via Lor Live Records. The LP was recorded over a 21-period at Sound Stage Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with producer and engineer Michael Rosen and was mastered by Anthony Focx. Utz states: “The song ‘I’ is about all the people in the world that beat the odds. Anybody who gets up off their back and takes care of their business and really doesn’t let anything get...

HALESTORM drummer Arejay Hale spoke to Lou Brutus of HardDrive Radio about the band’s musical approach on the upcoming follow-up to 2018’s “Vicious” album, tentatively due in early 2022 via Atlantic. “At this point, we’re just, well, we could either try to create as much open, breathable space so when we play these songs in arenas, they can sound really big, or we can try to do almost the opposite, but tastefully,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “Like, let’s try to bring out more personality, let’s try to be even more ourselves in the sense of bringing more energy to the songs. ‘Cause like it or not, we play without a click track live, so the songs are gonna be a little bit faster, we’re gonna throw more...

Chance the Rapper drew comparisons between Kanye West and Michelangelo in a recent interview, stating that Ye is “obviously a legend.” Speaking on the KISS Hype Chart show, Chano stated, “He’s obviously a legend. He’s a very different artist from most of the people we’ve seen so far.” He continued, . “As everybody knows I rock with Jesus. It’s the first time that you’ve seen an artist of that magnitude in present day or in current times using all their resources to create a piece of art that’s fully magnifying God in a very unapologetic way.” He added, “Not used to seeing that, people that did that are like Michelangelo, and old renaissance artists and stuff. That’s a cool thing to see.” In mid-August, Chance revealed that he had a line “I met Kanye West, I’m never going to fail / He said,...

Todd Rundgren reportedly contributed to Kanye West‘s DONDA after they were initially put in touch through the rapper’s longtime collaborator, 88-Keys. Rundgren recently spoke to Ultimate Classic Rock and revealed that he has “three albums worth of Kanye stems on [his] computer.” He continues to share details of their early sessions, “I didn’t mind working on his gospel stuff. If you want to sing about Jesus, go ahead, I don’t care. I’ll help ya do it, you know? If you want to sing about your troubles with your wife, go ahead and do it. I don’t care.” However, over time, Rundgren seemed to continually grow frustrated with Kanye stating, “When it got into the homestretch in July, I just said, ‘That’s enough for me. I have no idea whether any of this is being used.’ You don’t get much fe...

RZA is a man of many talents. He’s an accomplished musician, the de facto leader of one of the most influential hip-hop groups in history, a SAG-nominated actor, decorated filmmaker and New York Times Bestselling author, but one of the toughest thing he’s ever had to do is tell the story of the Wu-Tang Clan in the Hulu series Wu-Tang: An American Saga. Speaking to HYPEBEAST just shortly after An American Saga first debuted, RZA explained that the hardest part of working on the show is that “it’s a very tedious job.” Two years and a second season later, he and his team were forced to face their biggest challenge yet: a pandemic. In addition to the trouble that came hand-in-hand with the extended period of time between seasons, the pandemic caused production and season premiere delays, ...