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For the 2022 Monegros Desert Festival held in Fraga, Spain, concert organizers have purchased a decommissioned Airbus A330 wide-body aircraft and converted it into a full stage and dance floor. Monegros partnered with 8.6 Beer to create “The Monegros 8.6 Airlines Experience,” a truly one-of-one club built for 1,000 people. The festival’s 2022 headline show stars the Wu-Tang Clan and more than 80 other artists such as Adam Beyer and Amelie Lens, with more to be announced. Past headliners for the event include David Guetta, A$AP Rocky, and Skrillex. The concert will be held between July 30 and August 1 next year. Head over to the Monegros Festival website for more information. In other festival news, 88rising reveals lineup for Head In The Clouds Festival 2021.

In a new interview with Finland’s Janne Vuorela, DESTRUCTION frontman Schmier was asked if he and his bandmates have used the coronavirus pandemic to work on material for the follow-up to 2019’s “Born To Perish” album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “For a long time, I wasn’t ready. And last year, I didn’t even try to think about a new album. But then the beginning of this year, I was kind of motivated. After the livestream, basically, I sat down and started writing new stuff. And then in February, we started to do the first demos and everything. And we’ve [been] going to the studio ever since now. At this moment right now, I’m gonna go to the studio tomorrow again to do the final mixes. So the new album will be done...

Lars Ulrich has wished his METALLICA bandmate James Hetfield a happy 58th birthday. Earlier today, Ulrich shared a photo of him and Hetfield mugging for the camera, and he wrote in an accompanying message: “Happy Birthday James. Here’s to nearly 40 years of crazy cool shenanigans of every kind imaginable…..including an occasional raised middle finger, a little mugging for the camera…… and lotsa attitude! Wouldn’t have it any other way. And as we always have to remember….Just getting started! Love you brother.” Born in 1963 in Downey, California, James was the son of a truck driver named Virgil and a singer named Cynthia. Hetfield‘s parents were Christian Scientists and strongly disapproved of the use of any kind of medicine or medical treatments, even when Cyn...

KORN drummer Ray Luzier has confirmed that he is featured on MÖTLEY CRÜE guitarist Mick Mars‘s highly anticipated debut solo album. Mars has been working on the disc — on and off — for at least the past five years. The effort is being recorded in Nashville, where Mars has lived for about eight years. Some of the early sessions for the LP were helmed by recently retired producer Michael Wagener (OZZY OSBOURNE, ACCEPT, WARRANT, SKID ROW) at Blackbird Studio. Earlier today, Luzier shared a photo of him with Mars, and he included the following message: “When Mars invades your studio- It’s an honor to work with this legend @mr.mickmars ! I’ve always loved his playing & tasty leads in Motley. To be playing on his solo record is pretty surreal, be on the look out for i...

GUNS N’ ROSES performed a reworked version of the song “Silkworms” during its concert Tuesday night (August 3) at Boston’s Fenway Park. “Some of you might have heard this under another name, but this is really kind of absurd to try this,” singer Axl Rose said while introducing the track. “Wasn’t that funny? And they don’t even know the joke yet. Okay, this is called ‘Absurd’.” After playing the song, Rose quipped: “See? I never run out of love songs. That was fun. So you heard it here first, a new GUNS N’ ROSES song.” GUNS N’ ROSES last performed “Silkworms”, which was reportedly written during the “Chinese Democracy” sessions, in 2001. GUNS N’ ROSES kicked off its ...