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Def Leppard will hit the road this week for the start of their Summer Stadium Tour with Journey. They’ll come armed with new music in the form of their latest single, “Just Like ’73.” Guitarist Phil Collen says fans should expect further surprises: “We changed the whole set,” he tells Loudwire sister site UCR. “The stage show is drastically different.” Def Leppard has been rehearsing this week in St. Louis in advance of the official start of the tour on Saturday night (July 6). “It’s going to take a lot of energy. There’s going to be a lot of running around,” Collen explained. “So I’m working ...
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Geezer Butler, much like Ozzy Osbourne, has shared a similar regret about his time in Black Sabbath, telling Full Metal Jackie on her weekend radio show that the absence of drummer Bill Ward on the band’s final tour is something he wished hadn’t happened. “We were all sad about it, that he couldn’t really do it,” says Butler. “But yeah, I’d love Bill to have been on the last album and tour.” Butler was a guest on the show, discussing his “Into the Void” memoir. Within the chat, he speaks about seeing some of rock’s biggest names before they hit it big and which fellow musicians he knew were bo...
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The night before the Exies released their new EP, Closure, frontman Scott Stevens walked the Loudwire Nights audience through it, track-by-track. “These are six songs that all have meaning to them,” Stevens told host Chuck Armstrong on Thursday night (June 27). “It’s just crazy. I mean, I’m talking to the guys [in the band] and everybody’s just kind of scratching their head a little bit. How did we get here?” The Exies haven’t released a collection of new songs since 2007’s full-length, A Modern Way of Living With the Truth, their fourth album. Since then, Stevens has remained busy as a songwr...
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“It really was like my first solo record — I just kind of did it to see if I could do it.” Lamb of God founding member and guitarist Mark Morton recently hung out with Chuck Armstrong on Loudwire Nights (June 25) and dove deep into his new book, Desolation: A Heavy Metal Memoir. “I didn’t know if I could do it or not, but I was willing to see if I could do it.” Morton admitted that writing Desolation was a lot harder than putting together an album — something System of a Down’s Serj Tankian also recently revealed. “It’s just very, very time-consuming,” Morton said. “It’s more difficult than ma...
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On Oct. 11, the Offspring will celebrate the release of their latest studio album, Supercharged. Ahead of that day, longtime guitarist Noodles joined Loudwire Nights to discuss the record and reflect on the band’s last 40 years. “I wonder where all the time went,” Noodles admitted to Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong. “I don’t feel 40 years older than I did back then, you know? I haven’t matured much, I’ll tell you that.” As far as Supercharged goes, Noodles is ready for fans to hear it. “I want to get the rest of it out. This is always a really nervous time, a frustrating time in a lot of ...
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“It was like a completely new thing,” Melvins singer Buzz Osborne tells Full Metal Jackie on her weekly radio show about the band’s Tarantula Heart album, adding “It’s very odd.” Indeed, Osborne did come up with a very unique approach to recording the band’s latest record. revealing that two of the band’s members for this album were surprised when they heard the final album. He details how it all went down in the chat below. Osborne also delves into what passes the muster for him when it comes to creating their new music, details what’s on the horizon for both himself and Melvins and he also t...
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“It was when I turned 15, because I picked up the guitar on my birthday. It was that summer.” Slash joined Chuck Armstrong on Monday’s Loudwire Nights (June 17) to celebrate the recent release of his latest solo album, Orgy of the Damned. In addition to discussing that record, he also opened up about how he fell in love with rock — and the guitar — in the first place. “I had been going to music festivals, I was really into a lot of records and a lot of music,” he recalled. “At that time it was all a huge new discovery thing for me. All these new bands and all these records that I hadn’t heard ...
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“I should have done it. Do it, ladies and gentlemen. Reach out.” Ahead of A Day to Remember‘s show in the Kansas City area on Sunday, June 9, frontman Jeremy McKinnon spoke with Loudwire Nights host Chuck Armstrong about one of his dream collaborations and why it will never happen. The conversation aired exclusively on Thursday’s edition of Loudwire Nights (June 13). “I remember back in the day,” McKinnon told Chuck, “Tom Petty would have been up there for me. There was a time where I was considering putting together a more, just like, singer-songwritery — my own stuff. I do that on the side a...
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After a very busy 2023, this year seems to be pretty quiet for Shinedown. While they have a handful of live shows, it’s nothing compared to the massive tours they embarked on last year, all in support of their latest album, Planet Zero. As drummer Barry Kerch recently revealed, though, Shinedown are actually keeping busy in other ways in 2024. “We’ll be kicking it hard again next year because we are currently working on whatever that next record is going to be,” Kerch shared on Loudwire Nights Tuesday (June 11). “I literally was just in Charleston last week at the studio where we recorded Plan...
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While the new Anno Domini box set reflecting on the Tony Martin-era of Black Sabbath is front and center for Tony Iommi right now, the guitar great revealed to Full Metal Jackie on her weekend radio show that things have been picking up creatively for him of late. Iommi shared that he’s working on a new album and has been writing when he feels like it, taking the pressure off of having to meet a deadline. He also shared his appreciation for reuniting with Ozzy Osbourne in a creative space in recent years. But that’s just the beginning of things keeping Iommi busy as he drops the news he has a ...
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