New Jesrey thrash metal veterans OVERKILL will embark on a U.S. tour in March 2022. Support on the trek will come from PRONG.

The dates are as follows:

March 03 – Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
March 04 – Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
March 05 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Jergels
March 06 – Cleveland, OH @ House Of Blues
March 07 – Columbus, OH @ The King Of Clubs
March 08 – Detroit, MI @ Harpo’s
March 09 – Ft. Wayne, IN @ Piere’s
March 10 – Chicago, IL @ Concord
March 11 – Cincinnati, OH @ Bogart’s
March 12 – Asheville, NC @ Orange Peel
March 13 – Orlando, FL @ House Of Blues
March 14 – Ft. Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
March 16 – Silver Springs, MD @ The Fillmore
March 17 – New Haven, CT @ Toad’s Place
March 18 – New York, NY @ Palladium
March 19 – Stroudsburg, PA @ Sherman Theater

This past September, OVERKILL bassist D.D. Verni spoke to Jeff Gaudiosi of MisplacedStraws.com about the progress of the recording sessions for the band’s new album. He said: “We’re recording it right now. A good portion of it’s done. It keeps getting moved, frankly, depending on the COVID situation, when we can tour. At first, we thought, ‘What difference does it make whether we tour or not? Just put a record out.’ And then we thought, ‘We really wanna put out the music and then bring it to the people.’ That’s the fun. It’s not just putting it out and just saying, ‘There you go’; it’s then being able to tour it and bring it and put it out there. So right now, we have a tour set for March here in the States, and then in April and May in Europe next year. The plan is to maybe have a record with that, with both those tours. So we have to kind of see how that goes with the touring part and with the record part. If the record’s done, maybe that makes sense to do. But if they pull the tours from us again, maybe we delay a little bit more; maybe we don’t at that point and we say, ‘Okay, let’s just move on.’ I’m not a hundred percent sure. But for the most part, it’s done. We’re just kind of recording, putting finishing touches on it. I mean, it’s gotta be mixed and all that, but we’re working on the cover right now with our artist. So it’s moving along.”

In November 2020, Verni told MetalAsylum.net that the band’s new LP would be mixed by Colin Richardson. “He did a couple of records for us, and he’s great,” Verni said.

Richardson previously worked with OVERKILL on 1997’s “From The Underground And Below”, 2000’s “Bloodletting” and 2003’s “Killbox 13”.

In June 2020, OVERKILL singer Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth told A&P Reacts that the band’s new songs were “a natural progression from ‘The Grinding Wheel’ [2017] and ‘The Wings Of War’ [2019]. I think when we had done the ‘Ironbound’ record [2010], it almost became like a trilogy in there — it was kind of like ‘Ironbound’, ‘The Electric Age’ [2012] and ‘White Devil Armory’ [2014], and they seemed to be the Father, Son and the Holy Ghost kind of a thing,” he said. “I think we kind of broke the mold a little bit with ‘The Grinding Wheel’, and then I think a little bit more with ‘The Wings Of War’. And on this one, I see it way more. And what I mean by that is that we’ve used other tools from our toolshed in the past, and that’s the slow grind that is coupled with that fast gallop. So it feels like a natural progression, but maybe two records ahead of what ‘The Wings Of War’ is. And that’s probably as objective as I can be.”

OVERKILL spent most of 2019 and early 2020 touring in support of its 19th studio LP, “The Wings Of War”, which was released two and a half years ago. The disc was recorded at Gear Recording Studio in New Jersey, SKH Studio in Florida and Jrod Productions with engineering handled by Verni and guitarist Dave Linsk. The album was produced by the band while Chris “Zeuss” Harris took care of the mixing and mastering. Travis Smith (NEVERMORE, OPETH, SOILWORK, DEATH) was again enlisted to create the artwork for the album.

“The Wings Of War” marked OVERKILL’s recording debut with drummer Jason Bittner (SHADOWS FALL, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM), who joined the band in 2017.

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Former MÖTLEY CRÜE singer John Corabi will release his autobiography, “Horseshoes And Hand Grenades”, on June 14, 2022 (postponed from on April 12, 2022), via Rare Bird Books. It was written wih the help of MÖTLEY CRÜE historian/author Paul Miles.

In a recent interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, Corabi stated about his book: “It goes all the way back to, obviously, me being born, but it talks about my parents. My grandparents were first-generation Italians from the Calabria section of Italy. My mother’s side of the family, I talk about them. It talks about me being born, my childhood being very kind of ‘Wonder Years’ — whatever — and then just it completely derailing and falling apart. And it goes into everything. There’s a lot of things that fans don’t know about me — some of my marriages. It talks about, again, my youth, childhood. I dive into the Uncle Jack stories.

“Basically, the book is really kind of a testament to [the fact that] I knew at a very young age that I wanted to do what I’m doing for a living,” he continued. “Now, has it panned out the way that the magazines, the articles — you know, Learjets, limousines and all that other stuff? Probably not. But I’m still pushing forward, still trying to find my slice of the pie. But it’s really kind of a testament to perseverance. And it goes right from the time I took my first breath to maybe a year ago.”

Corabi joined CRÜE in 1992 as the replacement for the group’s original singer, Vince Neil, who was dismissed due to personal differences. With Corabi on vocals, MÖTLEY CRÜE released one critically acclaimed full-length CD, which ended up being a commercial failure in the wake of grunge despite a Top 10 placing on the album chart. When Neil returned to the fold in 1997, Corabi was left on his own and formed the band UNION with ex-KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick.

When asked in a recent interview with 80’s Glam Metalcast, Corabi if he is concerned at all about what his former bandmates will think about his book, he responded: “To be honest with you, I don’t really think that I’m telling anybody anything that they didn’t already know. What the book really kind of goes through is me joining the band, being in the band, leaving the band, and it really kind of explains my mental state. Obviously, the MÖTLEY thing, all of it’s been so publicized with [the band biography] ‘The Dirt’ and just interviews and different things like that. I’m just explaining how I was feeling while certain things were happening and how I feel like I fit with the band but I never really did. So I’m kind of talking about my mental state through the whole thing. So I don’t really think I’m saying anything that will surprise anybody. And to be honest with you, and I don’t mean this to sound weird, but I don’t really care what those guys think… The minute they told me they were bringing Vince back, I walked away from it and I kind of accepted everything. It’s not me who keeps bringing it up. I’m still writing new music. I’ve done — in the last 10 years, between my solo records and the records I did with THE [DEAD] DAISIES and the new music that I’m doing, I think I’ve done five or six records. So I’m past it, I’m over it, I don’t even think about it.

“Paul talked to me about doing a book, which I really didn’t want to do in the beginning,” he continued. “But he said, ‘You know what, dude? You’re just one of these guys that, like, even though you kind of had a few chapters in ‘The Dirt’, you’re largely a mystery. There’s not a lot of stuff that people know about you. And I think your story is pretty fascinating.’ So I was, like, ‘Okay. Whatever. We’ll do the book.’

“It’s not a tell-all book about any band that I’ve been in; it’s not a tell-all book about any of my marriages; it’s basically a tell-all book about John Corabi from the minute I took my first breath till about a year ago or six months ago,” he explained. “I have an ex-wife or two that it might piss off, and I don’t give a shit about them either. So, whatever… [The book] is about perseverance and it talks about my life from the beginning to now. And the title is just about somebody that’s been close a lot. It’s a book about a guy that’s been in all the right places but at all the wrong times. So it’s pretty cool. It’s fun.”

Corabi went on to say that he doesn’t hold a grudge against any of the guys in MÖTLEY CRÜE. “Honestly, it may not seem it, but I don’t have any issues with the guys in MÖTLEY at all,” he said. “I love those guys. I don’t know why Nikki’s [Sixx, CRÜE bassist] had a hair up his ass for the last couple of years about me; I couldn’t tell you why. I don’t know. I don’t care. My only beef with those guys was I really wish they would have just left me out of [‘The Dirt’ biopic]. I really felt like — I don’t know if it was intentional, if it wasn’t intentional, but I really felt like my portrayal in the movie just made me look like a complete fucking babbling moron. And they also made it look like we were playing in high school gymnasiums to 10 people. Obviously, it wasn’t great — we all know that; it’s common knowledge — but the attendance wasn’t that bad; not as bad as they made it look. So I wish they would would have just left me out of the movie altogether and whatever. But it is what it is. I don’t care. I’m over it.”

In February 2018, Corabi released a live album of his performance of MÖTLEY CRÜE’s entire 1994 self-titled album, recorded on October 27, 2015 in Nashville, Tennessee. “Live ’94: One Night In Nashville” documents the album in its entirety along with the bonus track “10,000 Miles”, which was originally released as a bonus track on the Japanese version of the “Quaternary” EP.

Billy Idol has canceled his appearance at the third “Above Ground” benefit concert after catching a “respiratory cold.”

The 66-year-old singer, who burst on to the scene in the 1980s, was scheduled to appear at tonight’s (Monday, December 20) star-studded event in Los Angeles that raises awareness and funds for mental health for MusiCares.

Earlier today, Idol released the following statement via social media: “Unfortunately I’ve caught a respiratory cold going around this week (I have tested negative for Covid twice) – and while I had truly hoped I would get better enough to perform at the Above Ground benefit at The Fonda Theatre tonight, I simply don’t have a voice to sing with and so regrettably I am going to have sit this one out.

“I was so looking forward to playing some Lou Reed and PISTOLS classics with my mates Billy Morrison and Dave Navarro in support of such a worthy cause. MusiCares is one of the most vital organizations we have, doing hugely important work on behalf of so many of us in the music community. I’m truly sorry to miss the gig tonight, thank you for understanding everybody and I’ll see you soon.”

This year’s “Above Ground” will be held at Fonda Theatre. It will feature a number of special guest musicians, including SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor, FOO FIGHTERS drummer Taylor Hawkins, SUGAR RAY’s Mark McGrath, JANE’S ADDICTION’s Perry Farrell and more. The performers will cover all of the songs in order from Lou Reed’s 1972 album “Transformer” and THE SEX PISTOLS’ 1977 release “Never Mind The Bollocks, Here’s The Sex Pistols”.

In 2018, the “Above Ground” guest musicians performed 1980’s “Kings Of The Wild Frontier” by ADAM AND THE ANTS and the 1967 self-titled album by THE VELVET UNDERGROUND & NICO. In 2019, they tackled David Bowie’s 1972 effort “The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars” and THE STOOGES’ 1969 self-titled debut LP.

Thank you all for understanding and i’ll see you soon. – BFI@AboveGroundOrg pic.twitter.com/qg2AueFC0U
— Billy Idol (@BillyIdol) December 20, 2021

KISS frontman Paul Stanley has praised director and producer Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” documentary, calling it “eye-opening, joyous, astonishing and humbling.”

The three-episode, nearly eight-hour documentary features the four members of THE BEATLES — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr — crafting what was to become their final album. (THE BEATLES recorded “Let It Be” before “Abbey Road” but released the latter first.) It also includes the band’s iconic final performance on a rooftop in London.

Stanley, who previously said that his life was “changed forever” after seeing THE BEATLES on “The Ed Sullivan Show” in 1964, weighed in on the new documentary in a tweet Sunday night. He wrote: “WOW! Just watched The Beatles: Get Back. Eye opening, joyous, astonishing and humbling. To the very end their brilliance was without equal. The chemistry and magic between them is so powerful that seeing it end made me wish that much more they could have gone on forever. WOW.”

Culled and restored from 60 hours of studio sessions and the aforementioned rooftop concert, “Get Back” has been praised for finally allowing us to experience what it felt like to be in the studio with the Fab Four. Some of the original footage appeared in a much more condensed form in director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1970 documentary “Let It Be”, which was briefly available on home video in the 1980s, but never since. THE BEATLES drummer Ringo Starr was particularly unhappy with how that film came out, saying “there was no joy and no laughter” in it.

Stanley isn’t the only hard rock or heavy metal musician to publicly praise “Get Back”. Earlier this month, SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor told HardDrive Radio’s Lou Brutus about the documentary: “It is one of the most fascinating things I’ve ever seen. ‘Cause it challenges everything we thought we knew about them, especially that period. But at the same time, it reinforces what we thought we knew. To me, it’s cool watching their dynamic knowing that they’d been together since they were teenagers in one form or another. They’d been playing together since… I think it was — what? — 1956 when they all started kind of jamming together. And to watch that all kind of unfold and to see…

“Being in a band with people for multiple years, I understand how a dynamic works, so I can watch that with a certain savvy about how that plays out dynamic-wise, emotionally,” Taylor added. “Knowing that, especially from George’s point of view, who’s such a great writer, but then you get in a circle, and you’ve got John Lennon and Paul McCartney, it’s, like, where do you fit? So, watching him fight with that and try to kind of find his voice and find out who fits in with that whole thing, it’s fascinating. And knowing how that feels, especially in SLIPKNOT — not so much in STONE SOUR, but in SLIPKNOT — I could relate to that in so many different ways. And then watching them get stoked when something would pop. Especially watching Paul figure out ‘Get Back’ and watching that happen was so cool, dude. Because I’ve done it — I’ve sat there and just twisted on a riff until the melody line comes to mind, and just playing it and exhausting every avenue. If you wanna know how to write a song, there’s your blueprint right there. It’s just that easy.”

WOW! Just watched The Beatles: Get Back. Eye opening, joyous, astonishing and humbling. To the very end their brilliance was without equal. The chemistry and magic between them is so powerful that seeing it end made me wish that much more they could have gone on forever. WOW. pic.twitter.com/LvHzPQG5lf
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) December 20, 2021

50 years ago today I saw the Beatles make their debut playing on the Ed Sullivan Show and my life changed forever. pic.twitter.com/oJ4a4kMpoJ
— Paul Stanley (@PaulStanleyLive) February 10, 2014

A “Dawn Of The Dead” t-shirt that once belonged to Cliff Burton has been returned to the late METALLICA bassist’s family 35 years after his death.

Cliff was reportedly a big fan of the the original “Dawn Of The Dead” film, widely considered to be one of the scariest zombie movies from the 1970s, and often appeared in public and in photographs wearing a shirt displaying the film’s title logo across his chest.

Earlier today, the Instagram account that is controlled by Burton’s family shared a photo of FAITH NO MORE drummer Mike “Puffy” Bordin holding a vintage “Dawn Of The Dead” t-shirt and it included the following message: “A huge Thank You to Mike ‘Puffy’ Bordin for bringing Cliff’s original Dawn of the Dead shirt back home where it belongs It’s been a roller coaster of emotions and we appreciate Mike and the person who kept it safe for us for 30 plus years. Our only regret is Ray [Burton, Cliff’s father] isn’t here to see it.”

In a 2012 interview, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett, who has a vast array of horror movie memorabilia, said that “Dawn Of The Dead” was one of his favorite zombie movies because it was Burton’s “favorite movie.”

Cliff was asked to join METALLICA in 1982 after the band saw him perform with his group at the time, TRAUMA.

The bassist was not willing to move to Los Angeles, where METALLICA was based, so they decided to move to the San Francisco area so that he would join.

Burton played on METALLICA’s first three studio albums — “Kill ‘Em All”, “Ride The Lightning” and “Master Of Puppets” — and co-wrote classic songs like “Ride The Lightning”, “For Whom The Bell Tolls”, “Fade To Black”, “Creeping Death” and “Master Of Puppets”.

His life was tragically cut short at the age of 24 in a tour bus crash on September 27, 1986 in Sweden.

Burton’s initial replacement in the group was Jason Newsted, who stayed in the lineup until 2001. Robert Trujillo joined in 2003 and remains in the band to this day.

February 10, 2018 was proclaimed “Cliff Burton Day” by Alameda County supervisors. The late METALLICA bassist would have turned 56 years old on that date had he lived.

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Knock Knock. Who’s there? A picture of Cliff Burton in a Dawn of the Dead shirt. You’re welcome. pic.twitter.com/hd5UA9ubxe
— Uncle Blackie Pete (@ZineMatica) August 13, 2021

“Dawn of the Dead was Cliff Burton’s favorite movie, therefore it’s one of my favorite zombie movies.”- @KirkHammett pic.twitter.com/6FPfu6DJdB
— The Kirk Hammett Collection (@fearfestevil) September 2, 2015

Earlier this month, EVANESCENCE postponed the remaining five shows on its U.S. tour with HALESTORM due to multiple COVID-19 cases within the touring party. The concerts in Cincinnati, Pittsburgh, Camden, Newark, and Worcester, which were originally scheduled to take place between December 12 and December 18, will now happen at the end of January.

Speaking to Terrie Carr of the Morristown, New Jersey radio station 105.5 WDHA about the show postponements, EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee stated (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Basically, it was a day before my birthday. And we are all vaccinated, so the cases that did pop up are pretty mild symptoms. But within our touring party, there was several cases [that] popped up. We test every day, so we knew right away. And we were able to lock it down right away. And I think that is key.

“Our protocols are crazy,” she continued. “We are always masked except when we’re onstage or in a dressing room without anybody in there. It’s a whole thing to do, but it’s the right thing to do. And there’s the element, I think, for all of us in the world, there’s a part of it that you can’t completely control, and that’s other people, so you have to do everything you can and know that even being vaccinated, even wearing your mask, all that stuff, you still, especially when you’re going to places, like a show or anything else, you have to have all those things in place and also be flexible and know that stuff happens and you can still get it and you can still pass it to somebody else. It’s a community effort. We have to think about each other, not just ourselves, and just do the best we can with the time that we’re living in. The fact that we are able to go out there and make this happen is a wonderful thing; it’s to be grateful for, and I am.

“We have such a good team,” Amy added. “And HALESTORM was really super flexible. It wouldn’t have been the same thing if we couldn’t all be back together doing a show. We have the same venues and HALESTORM and LILITH CZAR and the whole thing just in a couple of weeks. So it’s really the best-case scenario for how that could have gone, and I’m stoked that we’re gonna be right back.”

New EVANESCENCE + HALESTORM dates:

Jan. 14 – Cincinnati, OH @ Heritage Bank Center (postponed from Dec. 12)
Jan. 16 – Camden, NJ @ BB&T Pavilion (postponed from Dec. 17)
Jan. 17 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Peterson Events Center (postponed from Dec. 14)
Jan. 20 – Worcester, MA @ DCU Center (postponed from Dec. 18)
Jan. 21 – Newark, NJ @ Prudential Center (postponed from Dec. 15)

EVANESCENCE and HALESTORM’s tour kicked off on November 5 at in Portland, Oregon and was scheduled to run through December 18 in Worcester, Massachusetts.

EVANESCENCE and HALESTORM first toured together in 2012. Lee later guested on the track “Break In” on HALESTORM’s 2020 “Reimagined” EP and HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale lent backing vocals to the EVANESCENCE song “Use My Voice” and appeared in the accompanying music video.

EVANESCENCE was on tour supporting this year’s “The Bitter Truth” album. HALESTORM was promoting its latest single, “Back From The Dead”, which recently became the band’s sixth No. 1 at rock radio.

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Ted Nugent says that Alec Baldwin should spend the rest of his life in prison for shooting and killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins on the set of the film “Rust”.

Earlier in the month, Baldwin made a surprising claim during his first major interview since the fatal shooting, saying that “the trigger wasn’t pulled” when a “live round” was discharged and ended up mortally wounding Hutchins and injuring director Joel Souza in the October 21 tragedy.

Nugent, who is the national spokesman for pro-hunting lobbying group Hunter Nation, touched upon the incident in a new interview with Rock Titan TV. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “There’s only one gun law you need on planet earth, and that is never point a weapon at anything you’re not willing to destroy.

“Hey, Alec Baldwin, you prick. You soulless, nasty, rotten prick,” he continued. “You were pointing the gun at a human being. You killed her. You’re guilty. I don’t wanna hear about the hammer; I don’t wanna hear about that trigger. You were pointing it at a human being. You’re guilty. You should be in a cage for the rest of your rotten punk-ass life.”

In an in-depth interview with ABC News’ George Stephanopoulos, Baldwin said that he had started to cock the gun and released the hammer but that “I never pulled the trigger.”

A script supervisor has sued producers, including Baldwin, saying scene did not call for gun to be fired.

Other people have blamed Baldwin for Hutchins’s death, including former U.S. president Donald Trump, whom Baldwin famously enraged with his long-running “Saturday Night Live” impression.

In an interview last month, Trump slammed Baldwin as a “cuckoo-bird” and a “nutjob,” adding, “usually, when there’s somebody like that, you know, in my opinion, he had something to do with it.”

“But if nothing else, how do you take a gun and just, whether it’s loaded or not loaded, how do you take a gun, point it at somebody that’s not even in the movie and just point it at this person and pull the trigger and now she’s dead?” he added.

Following Hutchins’s death, the former president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., made headlines when he sold t-shirts on his web site that mocked the shooting. The $28 shirts featured the message: “Guns don’t kill people, Alec Baldwin kills people.”

Nugent has called Donald Trump “the greatest president in our lifetime.” He also said the billionaire real estate mogul represents “the heart and soul of the best American families out there.”

Leading up to the 2020 presidential election, Nugent teamed up with Donald Trump Jr. on the campaign trail.

Last month, Nugent, who recently resigned from the board of the National Rifle Association (NRA) after 26 years, released the official lyric video for his new song “Come And Take It”. The track will appear on Nugent’s recently completed new studio album called “Detroit Muscle”, which is due on April 29, 2022 via Pavement Music.

In recent months, Nugent has been selling hats emblazoned with the words “Come And Take It”, a slogan which originated in the Texas Revolution in 1835 and is now used as a symbol of gun-rights advocates and the NRA.