SCORPIONS will perform a historic concert to celebrate Bangladesh’s 50 years of independence on Friday, May 6 at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The Golden Jubilee Bangladesh Concert will feature as special guests one of Bangladesh’s most prominent artists, CHIRKUTT.

The Bangladesh Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division is organizing the event with the support of the Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park Authority, the United Nations Development Programme, the U.S. Embassy in Bangladesh, and local sponsors with the intent of gaining a global audience and celebrating Bangladesh’s golden anniversary through a live, one-night-only musical performance in the world’s most famous arena.

Proceeds from the event will benefit the United Nations Development Programme’s global awareness campaign on cyber security programs for the youth and children, especially in under developed countries.

Tickets will go on sale on Monday, April 4 at 10 a.m. EST via Ticketmaster. Scorpions Rock Zone fan club members will have an exclusive, first access to tickets available starting Thursday, March 31 at 10 a.m. EST.

For more information and to join the community, visit The-Scorpions.com/RockZone.

After gaining its independence, Bangladesh’s economy has grown massively with the support of different significant sectors such as agriculture, RMG, Energy, Pharmaceuticals, and ICT.

A previous Concert for Bangladesh, organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, was held at Madison Square Garden on August 1, 1971, featuring Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston, Leon Russell and BADFINGER.

With over 110 million records sold around the world, SCORPIONS will play fan favorites from their incredible catalogue, including “Wind Of Change”, “Still Loving You”, “Rock You Like A Hurricane”, “Send Me An Angel” and many more.

Founded in Hannover, West Germany in 1965, SCORPIONS were part of the first wave of metal in the 1970s with their debut album, “Lonesome Crow”, released in 1972. The band rose to arena status with seminal releases “Lovedrive”, “Virgin Killer” and “Animal Magnetism”. In the ’80s, SCORPIONS amassed a string of Billboard chart toppers from “Love At First Sting” and “Blackout”, including Top 10 singles “Rock You Like A Hurricane” and “No One Like You”, as well a string of successful singles such as “Send Me An Angel”, “Still Loving You” and “Wind Of Change”.

SCORPIONS were ranked No. 46 on VH1’s “Greatest Artists Of Hard Rock” and their hit “Rock You Like A Hurricane” landed at No. 18 on VH1’s list of the “100 Greatest Hard Rock Songs”.

Celebrated across the globe, the iconic rock act has received multiple honors, including World Music Award winners, a postage stamp in Brazil, a Star on Hollywood RockWalk, and Echo honors. Most recently, they were honored with the Lower Saxon State Award.

CHIRKUTT is one of the most popular fusion band music troupes in Bangladesh. Founded in 2002, the band has also worked on several local film music scores in their home country. After releasing their debut full-length album “Chirkuttnama” in 2010, and through live performances, they had a rapid upsurge in growth.

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Multi-Grammy-nominated rock act NOTHING MORE has dropped the official music video for their new song “Turn It Up Like (Stand In The Fire)”. The track, released via Better Noise Music on Friday, gives fans a first taste of the band’s long-awaited new studio album due later this year. The new visual, directed by Robyn August (Snoop Dogg, Pitbull), continues the band’s striking red and white color schemes used on their last album and showcases the intense and urgent energy of the song’s lyrics. Co-written by all four band members, the track is an unapologetic sonic rejection of the divisive, digitally-drowned state of the world with lyrics like: “All my friends are dead / They all got fucked by the Internet / All my friends are dead / Our brain’s bein’ bugged by the media.”

Billboard gave an exclusive look at the music video this past weekend, including some statements from NOTHING MORE frontman Jonny Hawkins. He said: “Something we’ve always pushed for as a band is to question everything. And I think we’ve just gone through a period where it had been unfashionable to question things. Because if you did, you were the pariah, you were the outcast, the other. For the last few years, I’ve felt like an animal in a cage, just pacing, and my teeth are showing more. I had nowhere to vent that rage and that frustration until we put it into this song. I think a lot of people feel this way. You saw it spill over into riots and protests. There’s all this stuff just pent up inside people. Thankfully, we’re going back out on the road soon, so I’ll have somewhere to put it.”

The new track comes ahead of the album’s official first radio single, which is set for an April 29 release across streaming and digital platforms. Stay tuned for more details coming from the band’s official social media channels.

Fans will be able to hear the new music live on the band’s recently announced co-headlining U.S. tour this spring, with Better Noise Music label mates ASKING ALEXANDRIA, featuring support from ATREYU and EVA UNDER FIRE . The tour is set to kick off in Kansas City, Missouri on May 13 and end in Houston, Texas on June 19, with other stops planned in Nashville, Denver, Atlanta, New Orleans, and more.

Rock audiences count NOTHING MORE among the most cherished acts, the kind of band who straddle the line between populism and intimacy with every performance. The San Antonio, Texas-born quartet builds unapologetically massive anthems from catchy hooks. Crowd pleasers clear a path for heady, confessional, thought-provoking emotionalism. Fresh rewards reveal themselves with repeat listens, welcoming like-minded seekers with rich melodicism, like the best of DEFTONES or TOOL.

Those who saw the band on tour with hard rock heavyweights like SHINEDOWN, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, BREAKING BENJAMIN, PAPA ROACH and DISTURBED will attest to what The Guardian observed: “There’s a sophistication to NOTHING MORE’s angst that raises them above the tumult-tossed pit.”

Kerrang! named NOTHING MORE one of “22 Artists Shaping The Future Of Rock”, alongside NINE INCH NAILS, TWENTY ONE PILOTS and BRING ME THE HORIZON. And Hawkins, who met guitarist Mark Vollelunga before they were old enough to drive, appeared with Billie Joe Armstrong, Dave Grohl and Hayley Williams in the English tastemaker’s “Top 50 Greatest Rock Stars In The World”.

Hawkins and Vollelunga started the band in 2003 and were quickly joined by bassist Daniel Oliver and later by drummer Ben Anderson. The band’s blend of explosive bombast and nuanced storytelling resulted in a half dozen Top 10 singles at Mainstream Rock Radio, including the No. 1 hit “Go To War” and the SiriusXM Octane song of the decade and Active Rock chart-topper “This Is The Time (Ballast)”.

NOTHING MORE appeals to fans of LINKIN PARK, INCUBUS, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE and all crucial acts that stoke relatable passion with authenticity and integrity.

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For the first time in over 20 years, 20 of SEX PISTOLS’ recordings from 1976 to 1978 are collected together to tell the story of one of the world’s most influential and extraordinary bands.

“Sex Pistols: The Original Recordings” covers a historic period when the band were rarely out of the news or the charts.

SEX PISTOLS left the British establishment shaking when they exploded onto the music scene, kickstarting what later became known as punk — a term the band was never comfortable with. Young people ripped up not just their musical forebears but their social ones too and SEX PISTOLS were the snarling, ferocious figurehead of the revolution.

They made one perfect, 40-minute album for the ages in 1977’s “Never Mind The Bollocks” and from its artwork to the individual players, the attitude and music — every bit of it influenced the world we live in today.

The record is frequently listed as one of the most influential albums of all time with musicians from JOY DIVISION and NEW ORDER to Kurt Cobain, Noel Gallagher, GREEN DAY to Yungblud all citing them as key inspiration. And this was not just musically — punk showed that anyone could create and many took the hint across fashion, art and design and more.

SEX PISTOLS’ 1977 single “God Save the Queen” was banned by the BBC and reached No. 1 on the U.K.’s NME chart, but appeared at No. 2 on the official U.K. singles chart, leading to accusations that the song was purposely kept off the top spot. For the only time in chart history, the track was listed as a blank, to avoid offence to the establishment.

The collection soundtracks the period and features key singles “Anarchy In The UK”, “God Save The Queen”, “Pretty Vacant” and “Holidays In The Sun”, essential tracks from “Never Mind The Bollocks”, further originals and covers from “The Great Rock & Roll Swindle” soundtrack album and some essential B-sides in “I Wanna Be Me” (the flipside of “Anarchy…”), “Satellite” (the B-side of “Holidays In The Sun”) and “Did You No Wrong” (from “God Save The Queen”).

Track listing:

01. Pretty Vacant
02. God Save The Queen
03. Bodies
04. No Feelings
05. I Wanna Be Me
06. Anarchy In The UK
07. Submission
08. No Fun
09. (I’m Not Your) Stepping Stone
10. Holidays In The Sun
11. New York
12. Problems
13. Lonely Boy
14. Silly Thing
15. Something Else
16. C’Mon Everybody
17. Satellite
18. Did You No Wrong
19. Substitute
20. My Way

Formats:

* CD
* 2LP (Black vinyl)
* 2LP (Transparent Green)
* 2LP (Transparent Yellow)
* Cassette – 5 with individual artwork
* Digital

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Bassist Danny Lilker of New York thrash veterans NUCLEAR ASSAULT says the group’s June appearance at the Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly could turn out to be their final United States performance. The band will play its seminal 1986 “Game Over” debut in full at the event.

In a recent interview with Decibel magazine editor-in-chief Albert Mudrian, Danny touched upon why NUCLEAR ASSAULT has resisted the ongoing trend of bands playing their popular albums front-to-back in a live setting. “It’s funny,” he said. “There’s this thing now what they call ‘deep cuts’ and everything. Musicians laugh at that expression because that means ‘shit you never wanted to play live’ because you have an hour to play and you prioritize to play a few from this and a few from that. Now we’re going to be playing a few songs from that record that we’ve never played. Those are deep fucking cuts, right to the bone. [Laughs] We’ve never done anything like that. S.O.D. [STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH] has, or at least my little S.O.D. franchise band that plays in different territories around the world with different dudes. But, no, NUKE has never done that.”

Danny then shared the reasons behind NUCLEAR ASSAULT finally deciding to play all of “Game Over” for the first time in their career, likely putting an end to their live presence in the United States.

“We’re going to be pretty much wrapping it up,” he said. “Nobody is getting any younger. People have commitments and families and stuff like that. I’ve been to a couple of the Metal & Beer Fests and I was usually pouring or just hanging out and drinking or something. So, I think it’s truly cool to be able to do this and I’m not kissing your ass here, at a nice, prestigious American metal festival. Also, I like beer. In all seriousness, it will be cool playing one of these. Like I said, I’ve been to a couple and when I go backstage and bullshit with people, I feel like, ‘Shouldn’t I be doing something?’ I think it should be a lot of fun and that might be our last U.S. show, actually.”

Decibel Magazine Metal & Beer Fest: Philly will take place June 10-11, 2022, at The Fillmore in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The event also features CANNIBAL CORPSE, CANDLEMASS, WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM, THE RED CHORD and VOIVOD, among others.

NUCLEAR ASSAULT’s “Pounder” EP was released on CD and as a digital download in 2015 via drummer Glenn Evans’s own Sidipus Records.

Prior to forming NUCLEAR ASSAULT in 1984, Lilker witnessed the birth of thrash metal as an original member of ANTHRAX, and was later a crucial component to S.O.D. and BRUTAL TRUTH.

While many thrash metal bands tempered their aggression with melody, NUCLEAR ASSAULT stuck to its guns throughout and in the process, released such thrash classics as 1988’s “Survive” and 1989’s “Handle With Care”.

After an extended hiatus, the group returned in the early 21st century with its first new studio album in over a decade, 2005’s “Third World Genocide”.