MÖTLEY CRÜE's New Tattoo disc will now be released July 11, and GREAT WHITE's new Greatest Hits compilation will be out July 18. QUEENSRYCHE's Greatest Hits album will be out June 27, and the band will hit the road to support it starting June 6 in San Francisco, California.
The BLACK CROWES have chosen bassist GREG RZAB to replace SVEN PIPIEN. The band's summer tour with JIMMY PAGE kicks off on June 24 in Tinley Park, Illinois.
STAIND, P.O.D., DOPE and CRAZY TOWN are joining forces for the Return of the Rock tour, which launches June 14 in Kansas City, Missouri and runs through June 29 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Black metal veterans VENOM will release Resurrection on June 6.
STEPHEN PEARCY's new band NITRONIC will play a series of western dates starting May 19 in Anaheim, California, running through June 1 in Tucson, Arizona. Dates in Texas and Colorado are being booked now for the tour, on which 13A is the support act.
Here's a post from Spitfrire records: The last time Axl and Zakk shared studio space was about 5 years ago when Zakk was brought in to replace Slash on G'N R's next album. The collaboration lasted about four songs (great rockers-that deserve to be released as is). Since then, Zakk has released numerous CDs and Axl has spent over six million dollars of Geffen's money and has released one song on a soundtrack. Fast forward to the year 2000; Zakk is finishing up work on his first movie, the freshly renamed Rock God with Friend's star Jennifer Aniston and Marky Mark (Mark Walhberg). Zakk performs on all of the soundtrack songs states "my fucking guitar playing is all over it. You'll know who's doing the fills! Songs like Blood Pollution. It's cheesy '80's metal, but I'm trying to make it as cool as possible. I've written Crown Of Falsehoods for the movie. I'll be singing that one on the soundtrack." Zakk will be on the road ("Japan in June, July /August we'll be in the States with Crowbar raping stages repeatedly and end of August/September in Europe. We will definitely hit Canada - Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal. All the major markets.") supporting Black Label Society's new release Stronger Than Death. The album's inspiration comes from Blink 182 and Third Eye Blind, "just listening to their shitty music for awhile and you just get a penchant for violence. I've turned my anger to Third Eye Blind now. They're the cheesiest fuckers. If I played music like that. I would have been getting my ass kicked repeatedly in high school." As for the album itself, "the new album was recorded at Rumbo studios. That's where Guns recorded Appetite. We did it in the same room. Appetite is one of the best records of all time. I saw Axl down there. I played him some of our shit and he played his stuff. It was great seeing him again. He played me a piano ballad and a bunch of others ones. Some high rockers!" Any truth to the rumours that Axl has gone industrial? "Nah, it doesn't sound anything like that. I didn't hear any keyboards going on. I told him that 'if you want me to jam on anything. Just let me know. I'm right down the hall.' Nothing happened though. Anyhow, he looks exactly the same as he always has and he's singing his ass off. He takes care of himself. He's not a junkie or any of that shit." Thanks for the Axl update Zakk! Any last words about BLS? "We just shot the video for Counterfeit God. Mark Wahlberg plays bass in the video. It's hysterical. The song is essentially about non-alcoholic beer. Oh, the brutality!"
