Alternative Music

JOHN 5 AND THE CREATURES, the band led by former MARILYN MANSON and current ROB ZOMBIE guitarist John 5, has postponed the next three shows on its “Sinner” North American tour after a positive COVID-19 test within the touring party. JOHN 5 AND THE CREATURES expect to resume the trek on April 28 in Austin, Texas. Earlier today (Saturday, April 23), John 5‘s social media was updated with the following statement: “After a positive test for Covid, JOHN 5 & THE CREATURES are postponing the next three shows of the current Sinner Tour – These dates include 23rd – Las Vegas, 24th San Diego and the 26th April Albuquerque. “We have been following Covid protocols but still had a positive test, The appropriate response is to postpone and we’ll announ...

MEGADETH guitarist Kiko Loureiro has shared behind-the-scenes video from the rehearsal sessions for the 2022 leg of the band’s “The Metal Tour Of The Year” with LAMB OF GOD, TRIVIUM and IN FLAMES. Check out the 11-minute clip below. The 49-year-old Brazilian musician, who lives in Finland with his wife and kids, and his MEGADETH bandmates kicked off the 2022 leg of “The Metal Tour Of The Year” on April 9 at Michelob ULTRA Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Last month, MEGADETH bassist James LoMenzo discussed the band’s setlist for the 2022 leg of “The Metal Tour Of The Year” during a bassist roundtable video chat with Knotfest‘s Ryan J. Downey. “You have to take into account that Dave‘s [Mustaine, MEGADETH frontman] been through a ...

DREAM THEATER‘s 2002 performance of the entire “The Number Of The Beast” album by IRON MAIDEN will be made available for the first time ever on vinyl and streaming services on June 10 via InsideOut Music. Originally released on DREAM THEATER‘s YtseJam Records in 2005, this one-of-a-kind performance sees the progressive metal giants again paying tribute to some of their historic musical icons. This unique 2002 performance in front of a French audience at La Mutualite in Paris, France is the only available recording of this one-off historic event, forever preserved in the YtseJam collection as part of the growing “Lost Not Forgotten Archives” series. A few days before the Paris show, DREAM THEATER also performed the entire “The Number Of The Beast...

LAMB OF GOD bassist John Campbell will miss the next couple of shows on the band’s “The Metal Tour Of The Year” in order to “take care a family matter back home.” He will be temporarily replaced by former MACHINE HEAD and current VIO-LENCE guitarist Phil Demmel, who previously stepped in for LAMB OF GOD guitarist Willie Adler during LOG‘s January appearance on the ShipRocked cruise. Demmel already played his first show as the bassist for LAMB OF GOD Friday night (April 22) at the Resch Center in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Fronting LAMB OF GOD at the same gig was Joe Badolato, vocalist for New Jersey deathcore outfit FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY. Badolato was filling in for LAMB OF GOD‘s regular singer Randy Blythe, who was taking a few days off from the road afte...

In a new interview with Rhys Bowler, former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing spoke about the advent of thrash metal in the early 1980s and the impact that it had on the evolution of PRIEST‘s sound. “Other than heavy metal, I think thrash metal, obviously because around about the time in the ’70s and early ’80s, we saw some very good stuff coming around [from] the U.K., with bands like VENOM, but obviously we had METALLICA, which had a great relevance and [later on] great bands like MACHINE HEAD,” Downing said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “MOTÖRHEAD, to me… I have to say MOTÖRHEAD was to blame for all of that, I think,” he continued. “Well, I say ‘to blame’ — I’d change that to ‘thank’ for that, ’...

PEARL JAM singer Eddie Vedder has teamed up with NASA to interview the crew aboard the International Space Station in celebration of Earth Day 2022. The compelling interview touches on climate change and what the astronauts had to say about having a front-row seat to our changing planet. Watch Vedder‘s interview below. The interview is Eddie‘s second collaboration with NASA teams as he worked with them on his “Invincible” music video inspired by their Artemis I Moon mission in support of his recent solo album “Earthling”. The Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft — the only human-rated spacecraft in the world capable of deep-space travel — are planned to lift off from Launch Pad 39B at NASA‘s Kennedy Space Center for the uncrewed Artemis ...

Original SALIVA singer Josey Scott has returned to the studio to record some new solo music as well as reworked versions of several of the band’s classic songs. Scott left SALIVA at the end of 2011 after 15 years with the group, reportedly to pursue a solo Christian music career. He was quickly replaced by Bobby Amaru, who can be heard on SALIVA‘s last four releases: “In It To Win It” (2013), “Rise Up” (2014), “Love, Lies & Therapy” (2016) and “10 Lives” (2018). On Friday (April 22), Scott shared an Instagram video of him in the studio recording what appears to be a new version of the SALIVA classic “Your Disease”, and he included the following message: “After ten long years, of hibernation, and truly learnin...

Mike Shinoda says that there are no plans for new music, albums or live shows from LINKIN PARK. The 45-year-old musician, who was recently appointed Community Innovation Advisor of Warner Recorded Music (WRM), addressed LINKIN PARK‘s future during a Twitch livestream on Friday (April 22). “The only LINKIN PARK news I have for you is that… Yeah, we talk every few weeks — I talk to the guys, or some of the guys,” he said. “And there’s no tours, there’s no music, there’s no albums in the pipeline. Okay, so let me just tell you that. So just keep in your minds that that is not happening. “I’m just gonna say that much for now,” he continued. “I say that because anytime the band says anything or does anything, everyone tries to st...

METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett says that he was “pretty shocked” that he got the “blessings” from all of his bandmates to release his debut solo EP, “Portals”, especially considering that METALLICA‘s former bassist Jason Newsted famously left the group more than two decades ago over the way his then-side project ECHOBRAIN was handled. “It was amazing because our band has not had a lot of great progress with band members going solo, as everyone knows,” Hammett told Rolling Stone in a new interview. “But all that went down almost 20 years ago, and we’re such different people now. We’re all just older, wiser, and more mature. Well, I don’t know if we’re wiser, but we’re definitely older, and a little b...