If you’ve been wondering what is up with Bullet For My Valentine, wonder no more!
The boys from Wales are working away on their new album. Pulse Of Radio says they posted a teaser online for its fifth studio album, tentatively due out in August. Frontman Matt Tuck told Metal Hammer about the band’s approach this time, “What we really wanted to capture was the feeling of that excitement, that angst and that anger, that you finally get in that moment to let the world know who you are and what you want to say. Then, as the albums go on, and you get a bit older, that goes away. So we’re like, ‘Let’s recapture that angst of that younger, feisty Bullet that we used to be.’” Tuck told us not long ago why getting back to their roots is a good idea: “You know, the best time in any band’s career is when it’s fresh and everything’s starting out, and you just get that amazing feeling of like, you know, we’ve made something of ourselves and there’s an amazing road ahead. You know, sometimes that gets a little bit lost after you’ve been on the road for a few years, you know.” The band is touring with Slipknot in July and August and will be doing a big ole headlining run in January. Next week when I am with their managers, I will find out when the new music is due.
Speaking of Slipknot, in the UK, a new photo book, “Dysfunctional Family Portraits” by photographer Paul Harris, is releasing. An exhibit is taking place in London. Check it out here.
OK, people. I am usually never catty, but this here video will show you exactly whyScott Weiland is no longer in Stone Temple Pilots or Velvet Revolver. (He blamed this performance on his ear monitors not working!) WOW. I feel badly for his band.
Next week is huge in the hardDrive Radio studios! We’ll have Duff McKagan, Faith No More, Of Mice & Men, Butcher Babies, oh, and tomorrow, Muse. Speaking of Faith No More, they’ll release Sol Invictus, their first new album in eighteen years, on May 18, will be live streaming their May 8 concert from Detroit via Yahoo! Live at 9:15 pm eastern: https://bit.ly/1bQZvmu. The show, which will be broadcast from The Fillmore, is one of the band’s first North American performances since 2010 and is part of a string of sold out dates by the Bay Area outfit. Faith No More returns to North America in late July with a dozen additional dates including an August 5 performance at Madison Square Garden and a headlining spot at Heavy Montreal on August 8. Bumbershoot recently announced Faith No More as one of the headliners of the venerable Seattle festival. Sol Invictus will be streaming in its entirety via NPR on Monday, May 11, with Pandora giving listeners an early listen as of May 13. Exclaim will be streaming the album for Canada. The band performs on The Tonight Show on May 13, with the late night TV appearance being Faith No More’s first since 1995! EPIC for sure!
TUNE-IN tomorrow, Thursday, May 7, to watch the iconic American rock guitarist, songwriter and film producer SLASH join “CBS THIS MORNING” LIVEon CBS TV at 8:30AM ET/PT (PT is tape-delayed) for an interview and special announcement. Online, viewers can also tune-in live to watch the interview on CBSN, CBS News’ interactive streaming site: http://cbsn.cbsnews.com.
Blabbermouth reports Black Veil Brides, who we are waiting for confirm for our nextlive artist APP CHAT on the new hardDriveRadio APP, are releasing their very first concert DVD on Jul 10th. Alive & Burning was filmed in their hometown of Los Angeles on Nov 1st, 2014. Can’t wait to see it! Hard to believe I haven’t seen the band yet!….Happy 44th today to Chris “Shifty” Shiflett of Foo Fighters!
