“We’ve got an unusual luxury of hindsight,” Ian explained. “We finished an album more than a year ago, we’ve lived with those 12 songs since then, and we can look back on them and see what we really love and what we can make even better, especially with Joey back in the fold. On these U.S. dates, we’ll have a portable rig with us so we can work on the songs during any down time, and get everything to the point where we’ll be ready to get into the studio as soon as possible.”

Added Benante, “There are five or six songs from a year ago that we don’t want to change, we love them the way they are, other than having Joey making them his own with his vocals. Then there’s another five or six that we may want to rework, and then there are a bunch of other tunes that are still in the early stages, that we want to finish.”

Anthrax will join Slayer and Megadeth on the Jagermeister Fall Music Tour set to kick off September 24 at Superpages in Dallas, TX. The 20-date concert trek will mark the first U.S. tour Anthrax has done since vocalist Joey Belladonna rejoined the band earlier this year, and the first time the three bands have shared an American stage since the classic 1991 “Clash of the Titans” tour.

2  Slash ft. Chris Cornell  “Promise”

3  The Constellations  “Felicia”

4  My Darkest Day ft. Chad Kroeger  “Porn Star Dancing”

5  Crash Kings  “Mountain Man”

6  Brandon Flowers  “Crossfire”

7  Black Sunshine  “Once in my Life”

8  Ludo  “Whipped Cream”

9  Korn  “Oildale”

10  Papa Roach  “Kick in the Teeth”

Kings of Leon have announced that they’ve taken some time out of their busy schedule to make a new album! Sources say that the band plans on releasing the new studio album possibly as soon as October 19.

Drummer Nathan Followill declares that the album is “locked and finished. With four of the new songs, Mary, Immortals, Radioactive, and Southbound, getting great reception at their concerts, Followill is happy that the fans are so excited about their new stuff. He says:

“They’ve been going over really well, a lot better than we thought they would. Some of them are getting better reactions than the older songs, which is bittersweet but great to see that [fans] are digging the direction we’re heading in this record…It’ll be great when we can play the whole new record…It’s only confirmed that we’re happy with the record we made and the choices we made song-wise. It’s a great feeling to look down front every night, and there are kids singing every single world to songs that aren’t even released yet, which just means they’ve watched them a gazillion times on YouTube. It makes you feel good that the fans are craving the new music that much.”

The rock stars fell out five years ago while Iron Maiden were performing with Osbourne’s Ozzfest tour.

Dickinson was accused of criticizing the Black Sabbath star during the shows and Osbourne’s wife Sharon was so angry, she allegedly arranged to have eggs thrown at the singer while he was on stage.

And Osbourne admits he still hasn’t forgiven Dickinson – calling his behavior “childish” and “irresponsible”.

He tells The Quietus, “Every night he was going on stage sl**ging me off. And that wasn’t fair. If he didn’t like the f**king tour, he should have said, ‘I’m jumping (off) the f**king tour…’ I’d never said a f**king bad thing to him…

“Sharon got p**sed off… It was nothing to do with me. I’ll back my wife up to the hilt, but I didn’t know what was going down (with the alleged egg-throwing). But you know what? (Iron Maiden were getting) a few f**king quid (pounds) out of that Ozzfest. If you’ve got something to talk to me about, be a man. Come to my face and say, ‘I think you’re a f**king a**hole.’

“Don’t be a f**king idiot. It’s so pathetically childish…

“To this day I don’t understand what the f**king beef (problem) was. I just don’t get it… I really think he needs a f**king psychiatrist if he does that, he’s f**king nuts. It’s an irresponsible f**king thing to do. Sharon must have got p**sed off with this c**t, you know.”

2  The Killers  “Crossfire”

3  Papa Roach  “Kick In The Teeth”

4  Crash Kings  “You Got Me”

5  Bush  “Afterlife”

6  Black Sunshine  “Once In My Life”

7  Korn  “Oildale”

8  Crash Kings  “Mountain Man”

9  Neon Trees  “Animals”

10  Paramore  “Careful”

It is very likely that very few have heard of the group My Darkest Days, although that is likely to change this coming week, when the Toronto based group debut their debut single as Catch of The Day, on The Morning Dizzaster with Web & Coral.

The song was co-written and produced by Chad Kroeger of Nickelback fame. Like with other fellow Canadian rockers Default, Kroeger has undertaken producing and co-writing duties for the boys, hopefully propelling them to the level of rock stardom enjoyed by Kroger and his cohorts.

The video for “Porn Star Dancing” is reminiscing of 1987’s “Girls Girls Girls”.  The guys of my Darkest Days got a little help from Chad Koeger, Zakk Wylde, Rapper Ludacris and almost every exotic dancer in the Las Vegas area.

2  Crash Kings  “You Got Me”

3  Korn  “Oildale”

4  The Constellations  “Felicia”

5  New Politics  “Yeah Yeah Yeah”

6  Alice In Chains  “Lesson Learned”

7  Rush  “Caravan”

8  Papa Roach  “Kick In The Teeth”

9  Slash ft. Ozzy Osbourne  “Crucify the Dead”

10  Jackyl  “She’s Not A Drug”

Tyler himself feels that playing live “rekindles the fire for song writing” and that new material is “coming down the pike.”

Perry and Tyler have already started the process and the guitarist adds: “The bottom line is we haven’t done our best record yet, and we feel like first of all we owe it to ourselves, and second of all we owe it to our fans.”

2  Slash ft Fergie  ” Beautiful Dangerous”

3  Rush  “Caravan”

4  12 Stones  “We are One”

5  Against Me!  “Teenage Anarchist”

6  Green Day  “Last of the American Girls”

7  New Politics  “Yeah Yeah Yeah”

8  Cage the Elephant  “In One Ear”

9  Framing Hanley  “You Stupid Girl”

10  Trevor Hall  “Volume”

The Black Sabbath star is baffled he has managed to survive to the age of 61 and is convinced doctors and scientists would benefit from dissecting and studying his body after he dies.

He says, “By all accounts, I’m a medical miracle. When I die, I should donate my body to the Natural History Museum. It’s all very well going on a bender for a couple of days but mine went on for 40 years. At one point, I was knocking back four bottles of cognac a day, blacking out, coming to again and carrying on.”

The Dreamer hit-maker has struggled with an addiction to alcohol and prescription drugs, and was hospitalized with severe injuries after he was involved in a quad bike accident in 2003.

However, he admits he has always had concerns about his health: “I happen to be the world’s worst hypochondriac. I will catch a disease off the telly (TV). Being ill is like a hobby. I’ve even started to diagnose my own diseases, thanks to Google.”

2  New Politics “Yeah Yeah Yeah”

3  Stone Temple Pilots  “Between the Lines”

4  Against Me!   “Teenage Anarchist”

5  LCD Soundsystem  “Drunk Girls”

6  Cage the Elephant “In one Ear”

7  Seasons After  “Cry Little Sister”

8  Flyleaf  “Chasm”

9  Vampire Weekend  “Cousins”

10  Travis McCoy  “Billionaire”

He recently sat down to talk about the process, and revealed he’s not only doing a duet with one of our faves, Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis, but also collaborating with producers Stuart Price – who’s worked with Madonna and Kylie Minogue – Daniel Lanois (who’s worked with Bob Dylan and U2) and Brendan O’Brien (Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young).

Flowers says:
“It’s a pretty good line-up, I think. Stuart and Daniel have been working together, and I’ve done another three tracks with Brendan on his own. Jenny’s helped me out on a couple of songs, and we also get to duet on the record, on a song called Hard Enough, which turned out great. She’s always popped into my mind whenever I think about getting a female vocalist involved because she’s a fellow child of Las Vegas, too. It’s all very rooted right here in Las Vegas dirt.”
Wow! He has quite the variety of musical aesthetics working at once!
We can only imagine what the final product is going to sound like!
We’ve got a good feeling about this one, folks.

Earlier this week, Rose filed a $5 million dollar countersuit against Azoff, claiming the industry honcho was “devising a secret plan to set up Rose and the band for failure so that Rose would have no choice but to reunite with the original Guns N’ Roses’ members,” a move the dreadlocked singer staunchly opposes.

Rose’s suit also fires back at Azoff for allegedly abandoning his manager duties on the eve of a major tour, and for filing a lawsuit in March seeking $1.8 million in commissions from the band’s run of tour dates through Asia, Canada, and South America in support of their 2008 comeback album Chinese Democracy.

But Slash doesn’t buy it. “I don’t know where Axl is coming from”

Slash firmly supports Azoff.

“I know where Irving is coming from — he’s looking for commissions for a tour that he booked,” the top-hat-sporting rocker added. “[It's a] pretty reasonable kind of thing. Axl’s countersuing, so I’m not sure exactly what the merit is that he’s countersuing, exactly.”

According to the Hollywood Reporter, Rose claims that Irving — whose Front Line Management was recently acquired by Ticketmaster — has gained too much power in the music industry, which he uses to punish artists and harm their careers if they don’t follow his orders. Adding to Rose’s anger: Azoff filed his suit against William Bailey, the singer’s real name — something that “carries significant emotional damage from Rose’s childhood.”

What do you think of the lawsuits? Team Axl … or Team Slash and Azoff? Tell us in the comment section below!

Azoff, the CEO of management firm Front Line, originally filed suit against Rose in March, claiming the singer reneged on an oral agreement giving him 15 percent of his earnings from a big money concert tour – a deal said to be worth $2 million.

But Rose has fired back at Azoff, accusing the music mogul of failing to properly promote the band’s 2008 album “Chinese Democracy” in an alleged bid to force him to reform the original Guns N’ Roses line-up.

In legal papers filed in a Los Angeles court on Monday, the frontman also takes aim at his one-time manager for allegedly lying about a possible joint tour with fellow rock legends Van Halen and mishandling Guns N’ Roses’ tour dates, according to the Hollywood Reporter.

The lawsuit states, “Upon realizing that he couldn’t bully Rose and accomplish his scheme, Azoff resigned and abandoned Guns N’ Roses on the eve of a major tour, filing suit for commissions he didn’t earn and had no right to receive.”

Rose is demanding more than $5 million in damages for breach of fiduciary duty, constructive fraud and breach of contract.

The  ‘pay what you want’ scheme allows fans to download it for free but are encouraged to pay what they can as all profits are being donated to Keep Music In Schools charity program.

The album titled ‘Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante’ was “recorded many years ago” according to the duo, although most of the tracks have remained unreleased until now.

By giving away music, Frusciante is apparently making good on his “musical lesson” to RZA, while the better known half of the Mars Volta continues to blaze his spaced out path to progressive rock immortality.
Download it here ‘Omar Rodriguez Lopez & John Frusciante’