The release is part of Back To Black Friday, an event sponsored by Record Store Day organizers to encourage the support of independent local record stores.

With a pressing limited to 10,000 copies, the sleeve artwork features a painting of Nelson Mandela by Irish artist and illustrator Oliver Jeffers.

The band wrote the new song at the invitation of movie producer Harvey Weinstein and the b-side of the release will feature a second track, “Breathe (Mandela Version)”, an updated song origin...

Cardiff Aviation Limited, the aircraft maintenance and flight training organization established in July 2012 by Dickinson and business partner Mario Fulgoni, recently acquired European Skybus flight training.

Cardiff Aviation was launched in mid-2012 by Dickinson, who is himself a 7,000-hour Boeing 757 pilot, and Mario Fulgoni, a seasoned senior aviation manager and former airline captain...

In a brand new interview with Greece’s Metal Kaoz, Bostaph was asked if he has any other projects going on besides his current full-time gig with Slayer. “I still have my other band, Blackgates,” he replied. “And we’re talking about, I mean, I haven’t had any time. Slayer is main priority, but if I have some free time, I’m gonna try to do a five- or six-song EP with Blackgates. We have our original singer back, Dan Nelson, so we’re really happy about that...

Metallica collaborated with Reed in 2011 on the album “Lulu”, which was a commercial failure and widely panned by fans and critics.

Nevertheless, the disc was the last recorded work released by Reed, and the members of Metallica may have been the last musicians to work with him in the studio.

Speaking to Ben Beaumont-Thomas of The Guardian, Ul...

“I think you have to clarify what he said, and what we mean is we cannot keep going on doing these month-after-month, long, extended tours,” Daltrey tells Billboard. “It’s extremely hard, hard work, just the grind of it. So we have to be realistic. The band got better reviews on our last tour (the 2012-13 Quadrophenia & More trek) than we had for years. It was incredibly enjoyable. It was incredibly exhausting, and we have to be realistic about our age.”

“But it’s not going...

Asked if they were “Beliebers” now that pop singer Justin Bieber has publicly claimed that the Metallica songs “One” and “Fade To Black” were his “jams,” Metallica frontman James Hetfield said: “Are we Beliebers? Yes.” Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich offered: “Is it possible to have respect for him without being a Belieber? I think the kid’s really talented and obviously to go through what he’s going through at that early age must be a mindfuck...

Sharon and Ozzy’s son Jack revealed in a recent interview that he and his parents “have talked about” the possibility of resurrecting the MTV program, which aired from 2002 to 2005. “It’s been thrown around a little bit,” he said.

However, Sharon made it clear earlier today (Tuesday, October 29) on her talk show “The Talk” that any reports of “The Osbournes” coming back are “absolutely not true.” She added: “We could never touch what was.”

In a 2012 interview, Sharon stated about “The Osbournes”: “Our lives were never the same again. Everybody’s grown up with Ozzy, everybody loves Ozzy, but for us we were a family...

SEPULTURA’s new album, “The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart”, was released on October 25 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Although it was inspired by Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 movie “Metropolis”, “The Mediator Between Head And Hands Must Be The Heart” is not a concept album or a soundtrack like its precedessors “Dante XXI” (based on “The Divine Comedy”) and “A-Lex” (ba...