Month: September 2024

Metallica have confirmed its record-breaking M72 World Tour will be extended with 21 new North American tour dates in April, May, and June 2025, with support from Pantera and Limp Bizkit. The tour will conclude its 2024 run with four nights at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, where Metallica will play to more than 250,000 fans throughout two No Repeat Weekends.

The latest leg of concerts commences with an appearance at Sick New World Festival in Las Vegas next April, with stadium shows in Toronto, Nashville, Philadelphia, Charlotte, Atlanta, Tampa, Houston, Santa Clara, Denver, and more, as well as two headlining nights of the Sonic Temple Music Festival in Columbus, Ohio.

In the cities where Metallica will perform multiple nights, the band promises to play unique “no repeat” setlists at each show. New for this leg of concerts, Metallica will also play several one-off shows in venues including two college football stadiums: JMA Wireless Dome in Syracuse, New York on April 19th, and Metallica’s first-ever visit to Blacksburg, Virginia, home of the Virginia Tech Hokies (the May 7th show at Lane Stadium will culminate 20+ years of “Enter Sandman” playing as the Hokies take the field).

In addition to direct support from Pantera and Limp Bizkit, the shows will feature opening sets from Suicidal Tendencies and Ice Nine Kills. Tickets for Metallica’s newly announced No Repeat Weekends and tickets for the single-night engagements will be on sale to the general public beginning Friday, September 27th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. A Live Nation pre-sale on Thursday, September 26th (use access code SETLIST).

As always, a portion of proceeds from every ticket sold will go to local charities via the band’s All Within My Hands Foundation, established in 2017 as a way to give back to communities that have supported Metallica over the years.

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The 40th anniversary of Iron Maiden’s fifth studio album, Powerslave, is being re-release with a limited-edition zoetrope vinyl picture disc release on November 15th.

Iron Maiden’s fifth studio album Powerslave was originally released in September 1984 and charted at No. 2 in The UK, No. 3 in Switzerland, No. 4 in Norway, No. 5 in Germany and Sweden, No. 11 in New Zealand, No. 15 in Austria, No. 21 in Canada, No. 21 in US, and No. 26 in Australia, achieving multiple gold and platinum discs. Powerslave features the iconic singles “2 Minutes To Midnight” and “Aces High” alongside fan favorites “Powerslave” and the epic “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”

The new edition will feature unique zoetrope artwork and the 2015 remastered audio of the album. The original sleeve has been expanded and contains new artwork and exclusive Powerslave at 40 liner notes from band founder Steve Harris. In addition, there is a Walmart Exclusive version featuring a lenticular 3D album art-sized print.

The Powerslave 40th Anniversary Zoetrope edition is available for preorder now.

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As I Lay Dying are set to release their eighth full-length studio album, titled Through Storms Ahead, dropping on November 15th via Napalm Records.

The current lineup of As I Lay Dying features vocalist Tim Lambesis and guitarist Phil Sgrosso, alongside recent newcomers Ryan Neff (Miss May I) on bass and clean vocals, Nick Pierce (ex-Unearth) on drums, and Ken Susi (ex-Unearth) on guitar. The album features the new tracks “Burden” and “The Cave We Fear To Enter”, which dropped earlier this summer as the band’s first new music in five years.

As I Lay Dying also shared the new single, “We Are The Dead”, featuring Alex Terrible (Slaughter To Prevail) and Tom Barber (Chelsea Grin).  See the video for We Are The Dead: here.

Pre-order Through Storms Ahead here.

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Motörhead announced they will release the new ‘We Take No Prisoners’ The Singles 1995 – 2006″ box set on October 25th, featuring a collection of a & b sides in a deluxe 7″ set, expanded cd and digital.

We Take No Prisoners is a collection of the bands singles spanning 1995 to 2006, including the tracks ‘Sacrifice’, ‘God Save The Queen’ and ‘Whorehouse Blues’ in addition to a selection of rare live and radio edits and a long lost promo interview with Motörhead’s late frontman Lemmy Kilmister and Mikkey Dee from 2004.

Here is the official announcement: Back in the golden era of the single of the 1970’s and 80’s, Motorhead would regularly assault the ears of chart listeners on a Sunday afternoon with a string of hit smashes in the rock charts of the time. The single as a format may have been less prominent from the 90’s onwards due to the dawn of the CD, but that didn’t diminish the calibre of the singles and promos that Motorhead continued to release. These mostly CD singles are now rare and highly collectable, so it only feels fitting for this era of the band’s bullet belt full of hits to be reappraised and released on the format that singles were born for, 7″ vinyl.

To pre-order ‘We Take No Prisoners’ The Singles 1995 – 2006″ head HERE.

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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds will embark on a 2025 North American tour next spring, their first North American dates in seven years (and the band’s first tour since 2022).

The tour begins on April 15 in Boston at the Agganis Arena before heading to NYC’s Barclays Center in Brooklyn. St. Vincent is opening those two dates. The tour will serve as support of their new album Wild God, released on Aug. 30 (the band’s first album since 2019’s Ghosteen).

Tickets for the North American dates are available via Ticketmaster.

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Jack White has released the official music video for “That’s How I’m Feeling,” taken off his new album, No Name  which was officially released on August 2.

The video clip for That’s How I’m Feeling combines footage from White’s ongoing pop-up tour, of which stops are being announced “as close to the show date as possible.”

White is also set to play Mempho Music Festival in Memphis, Tennessee on October 6 and Mexico’s Corona Capital festival in November. invitation holders will receive priority access.

Check out the video for That’s How I’m Feeling – HERE.

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