Aerosmith had hinted that they’d play one of their albums live in its entirety during their summer tour with ZZ Top, and now Steven Tyler and Co. report it’s a done deal: Tyler and Joey Kramer told Boston radio station WZLX they’ve chosen 1975’s "Toys in the Attic." Toys, which hit Rolling Stone’s list of the Greatest Albums of All Time, features the hits “Walk This Way” and “Sweet Emotion” as well as the tile track. The album reached number 11 on the Billboard Album chart.On a side note, I remember seeing the group when they did their tour to support this album, they played with Rush and the J. Geils Band in a small venue in Northern Indiana. What a show.....
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Great Company For Strait
George Strait's album "Troubadour" has been certified Platinum by the RIAA (one million copies sold). That gives him 33 Platinum or multi-Platinum albums in his career, in third place behind Beatles and the Elvis Presley.
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Whitney Houston Releasing First Album in Seven Years
Sony made it official by announcing that Whitney Houston's new album, which is currently untitled, is set for release on September 1. It is her first non-holiday album of new material since 2002's "Just Whitney" and only the seventh of her 24-year career.
Hopes are high at Arista where Houston's track record is hard to beat. Three of her six previous studio albums (Whitney Houston, Whitney and The Bodyguard Soundtrack) went to #1, "I'm Your Baby Tonight" hit #3, "Just Whitney" #9 and only 1998's "My Love is Your Love" failing to crack the top ten (#13 peak). Those albums produced eleven #1 singles and a total of 22 top tens.
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New GRAVEWORM LP
Italian/German gothic black metallers GRAVEWORM will release their seventh album, "Diabolical Figures", on June 16 via Massacre Records. The CD was recorded at Stage One studios in Borgentreich, Germany with producer Andy Classen (DEW-SCENTED, CALLENISH CIRCLE, TANKARD, OCCULT). It contains 10 songs and features a guest appearance by Karsten "Jagger" Jäger from DISBELIEF. The cover artwork (see below) was created by the Italian digital artist Daniel Hofer of Archetype Design.
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HACKNEYED – finish recordings, unveil cover
Germanys death metal lunatics # 1 have finished the recordings for their highly anticipated new album „Burn After Reaping“ due on August 14th via Nuclear Blast!
Commented drummer Tim Cox „After long and hard work, we just finished the studio work for „Burn After Reaping“ and I can assure you, that the songs will kick major ass!! It will be louder and more brutal than anything you’ve heard before! Our producer Corni Bartels pushed us to the limit and made the album what it is right now – a fucking killer! We have done a lot of crazy things and tried a lot to pimp the album. „Burn After Reaping“ will differ from „Death Prevails“ if it comes to songwriting and sound, but of course all known HACKNEYED trademarks have been kept. Björn Goosses of KILLUSTRATIONS (DEW-SCENTED, ABORTED etc…) created the artwork which matches our expectations perfectly. It fits the album like every single song!“
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THREAT SIGNAL – Cover Art
Canadian modern thrash metalheads THREAT SIGNAL have just released more information about their upcoming album Vigilance.
The tracklist is as follows: 'Afterlife', 'Through My Eyes', 'The Beginning Of The End', 'United We Stand', 'Beyond Recognition', 'Another Source Of Light', 'Hate Machine', 'Severed', 'Lost', 'Revision', 'In Repair', 'Escape From Reality', 'To Remember'.
The album will be released on August 28th via Nuclear Blast.
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New Slayer Album
The new Slayer CD will be titled "World Painted Blood" and is tentatively due for release late this summer. Known tracks include the title cut, as well as the single “Psychopathy Red,” which came out as a limited-run 7” vinyl single back in April. The album is produced by Greg Fidelman, who also worked on Metallica’s comeback smash Death Magnetic.
In a May 19th, axe-wielder extraordinaire Kerry King suggested the album would be similar in style to their 1990 album "Seasons in the Abyss" - “because I think Seasons was a little bit of everything, as far as Slayer goes. I think this one has a little bit of everything… So I would imagine people are gonna compare it to that one."
King shared songwriting duties on "World Painted Blood" with fellow guitarist Jeff Hanneman, taking on six songs himself, with Jeff writing seven (including the title cut and “Psychopathy Red”), but according to King, not all of the songs recorded might ultimately make the cut.
"I got out of that mindset that was popular in the '90s when everybody put as much material on CDs as would fit,” he said.
“All my favorite records from when I was growing up had 10 songs tops, and they're all kick-ass, so I just [think back to] how I perceived records as when I was a fan."
The band will also be teaming up with Megadeth – for the first time in 15 years – in a series of four Canadian shows this month, also supported by Machine Head and Suicide Silence. They’ll also be headlining together with Marilyn Manson for the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival beginning next month.
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This Looks Interesting....
Prepare for Chthonic's 'Retribution' This Summer
Taiwan’s extreme-metal superstars Chthonic are putting the final touches on their new album Mirror of Retribution, which is slated for international release this August. Anthrax’s Rob Caggiano took on the role of producer for the 11-track epic, which the band says will explore “both the spirit and mortal worlds,” blending ancient mythological depictions of hell with pages from their country’s turbulent history
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