Month: July 2022

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band announced their 2023 international tour, with 31 dates in the United States. The tour will mark Springsteen and The E Street Band’s first since February 2017, and their first in North America since September 2016. The 2023 international tour kicks-off February 1st in Tampa, Florida, running through April 14th in Newark, New Jersey before heading overseas to Europe.

European dates for the 2023 international tour were announced in May and over 1.2 million tickets have already been purchased; many cities have already added second or third stadium shows due to popular demand.  At the conclusion of their European run in July 2023, Springsteen and The E Street Band will begin a second North American tour leg in August (dates to be determined). Tour dates in the UK will also take place next year, with further details to come.

The tour will be using Ticketmaster’s Verified Fan platform for tickets sold via Ticketmaster. Fans can register for Ticketmaster Verified Fan through Sunday, July 17th for the chance to buy tickets. All registrants who are verified will be equally eligible to receive a unique access code for the Verified Fan On-sale. Registering does not guarantee you will receive a code, or have the ability to purchase tickets.

Note, there will be no Verified Fan presale for the non-Ticketmaster shows at Houston’s Toyota Center, Philadelphia’s Wells Fargo Center, Brooklyn’s Barclays Center or Cleveland’s Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse; those four concerts will have all their tickets go up for sale to all comers at 10 a.m. local time on their on-sale dates.

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Testament dropped the music video for their track “Curse Of Osiris” to celebrate the announcement of their limited edition, “Titans Of Creation Video Album”, available on September 9th. The special collection will be limited to 6,500 units worldwide and feature features performance videos of all the tracks from their 2020 album, “Titans Of Creation”.

The announcement reads: “The footage was compiled at a soundstage in San Francisco and was edited into music video-style clips that will be available on Blu-Ray accompanying the CD with bonus photos and liner notes plus a button and sticker in a longbox. Staying true to the record, the performances feature Gene Hoglan behind the kit.”

Chuck Billy had this to say, “I’m very excited and proud to release the video play through for the Titans of Creation album. We were fortunate enough to have Gene Hoglan on drums before his departure. Now fans can watch us play the entire album in their homes with friends and start their own mosh pit in their living rooms.”

Watch the video for ‘Curse Of Osiris’– here.

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Five Finger Death Punch has released their brand new single called “Times Like These” from the band’s forthcoming album, “Afterlife”.

Afterlife is set to be released on August 19th and features the previously released title track, as well as the new singles “Times Like These”, “IOU” and “Welcome To The Circus”.

“Times Like These” arrives after the band has broken the record for most consecutive No. 1’s on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Chart after their previous single, and album title track gave the band’s their 13th No. 1 hit.

Take a listen to Times Like These – here.

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Metallica‘s classic song “Master of Puppets” has exploded in popularity over the last week with over 17 million Spotify downloads since the ‘Stranger Things‘ season 4 finale was released July 1 on Netflix.

“Master of Puppets” first hit Spotify‘s Top 50-Global chart within a few days of the episode first being made available on Netflix.  The METALLICA classic had 426,623,861 Spotify downloads last week, and as of July 11, has 444,117,621 downloads and has an 80 percent popularity score.

Metallica thanked ‘Stranger Things‘ for its use of “Master Of Puppets“, posting on social media how honored they were to have their music involved in the massively popular hit show, and noting that they were “totally blown away” by the final episode.

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The Cult will release its first album in six years, Under the Midnight Sun, on Oct. 7. The project’s first single, “Give Me Mercy,” is out now, along with an official music video.  Take a look at the video for “Give Me Mercy” – here.

Under the Midnight Sun was produced by Tom Dolgety, and inspired by an experience frontman Ian Astbury had at a music festival in Finland when the sun was still up in the middle of the night: “There were rows of flowers at the front of the stage from the performances earlier that evening. It was an incredible moment. I was compelled by this vision, this anomaly, this memory, of being under the midnight sun. Tom helped us bring a new musical shape and frequency to our process.”

Under the Midnight Sun is the follow-up to the 2016 album Hidden City. The Cult is also back on the road, touring alongside Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Zola Jesus in St. Paul, Minn.  The tour is scheduled to run through July 30 in Orillia, Ontario.

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Sevendust have added a final leg of their 20th/21st anniversary tour this fall in celebration of their gold-certified 2001 album “Animosity.”  The fall leg kicks-off Sept. 9 in Danville, Va. with the band playing the Blue Ridge Rock Fest. a day later in Cherokee, North Carolina. The fall leg will feature Nonpoint, Bastardane and Burden Of The Sky opening. Bastardane features Castor Hetfield, son of Metallica vocalist/guitarist James Hetfield, on drums.

Animosity hit No. 28 on the Billboard 200 Album Chart upon its release in 2001, yielding the radio singles “Praise” and “Live Again,” while the song “Angel’s Son” from the ‘Strait Up Lynn Strait’ tribute album also became one of the band’s signature hits, and was ncluded on the Animosity collection.

Tickets are available now via sevendust.com,

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