Weekly Music News 28.08.22
Updated: 20 hours ago
A roundup of music news for the week beginning August 28, 2022
The band "Pierce the Veil" is releasing its first new music after six years of silence!!
After the release of its fourth album, "Misadventures", in 2016, the band continued to grow through strong sales and touring. In 2017, drummer Mike Fuentes, brother of singer and bandleader Vic Fuentes, faced sexual misconduct allegations involving a minor. Mike subsequently left the band. The remaining members went through a long period without releasing new music, although they reappeared during the pandemic to support their fans.
And now, six years later, the trio is releasing a new single, "Pass The Nirvana".
A new era, a new start and a new style. The melody and dynamics are quite different from what we knew before. The heaviness and powerful riffs remain, but the song has a simpler, slower, heavier structure than earlier tracks, with their constantly shifting dynamics, wild drumming and riffs, and wonderfully unhinged style.
In any case, we are delighted they are making music again and hope to hear a little more of that familiar DNA!!
Singer Ronnie Radke of "Falling in Reverse" has a book coming soon, "I Can Explain". Radke shares his experiences in prison and the PTSD he says followed his release. His imprisonment in 2008 followed a probation violation in a battery case connected to a 2006 altercation in which another person was killed. Radke did not fire the fatal shot. He entered prison while addicted to drugs and lost his place in Escape the Fate. After his release, he says, the outside world brought severe social anxiety, to the point that even ordering a sandwich at Subway was difficult. He discusses it all in the forthcoming book.
Musician Corey Taylor shares more about the ongoing hiatus of "Stone Sour" in an interview with SiriusXM this week. Corey says that, ultimately, he has no room for drama in his life. With tensions between Stone Sour members and Slipknot returning to an intense schedule, he has chosen to focus on his solo career. He would rather write his own material, gather good friends to record it and go out and play, without forcing a difficult band situation. He remains committed to Slipknot, while saying there are no immediate plans for Stone Sour.
"Architects" is releasing another single, "Deep Fake", from "The Classic Symptoms of a Broken Spirit", due on October 21, 2022. It continues the band's powerful, heavy, explosive style. We think they ought to invent a genre simply called "explosive"!!
Gifted musician and guitarist Nita Strauss has another single from her forthcoming album. Following last year's "Dead Inside", featuring David Draiman, she is now sharing a second single from her upcoming second solo album, this time an instrumental. It comes after Strauss announced her departure from Alice Cooper's band after many years to join Demi Lovato as lead guitarist.
Nita says her heart and soul lie in instrumental music, and that this track represents her own style and artistic voice. The album will feature several guest singers as well as instrumental pieces.
A new song and video from "Arctic Monkeys": "There'd Better Be A Mirrorball", from the upcoming album "The Car", due on October 21.
"Red Hot Chili Peppers" received MTV's Global Icon Award. During the emotional ceremony, drummer Chad Smith dedicated the award to Taylor Hawkins and his family, saying that he loved them and missed Taylor every day. "Fly on, Hawk!" It was not Chad's only tribute: his bass drum during the televised performance carried Taylor's logo.
Speaking of Taylor Hawkins, tomorrow's tribute concert at Wembley Stadium will feature Foo Fighters and a host of guests. The image below has details of where to watch. The show starts at 6:30 p.m. Israel time.
This week brings the BBC documentary series about "The Rolling Stones", "My Life as a Rolling Stone". Its four episodes each focus on a different band member. We have to ask: why not seven episodes? What about Bill Wyman, Brian Jones and Mick Taylor? The series is also available on Cellcom TV.
Today is the day!!! "Megadeth" is releasing its 16th album, "The Sick, The Dying... And The Dead!" Three excellent advance singles have left us wanting more. The standard edition has twelve songs, with a bonus-track edition adding covers of Dead Kennedys and Sammy Hagar, who also guests on his song. Alongside the album comes the third video in the trilogy following the band's mascot Vic Rattlehead, again produced by Dave: "The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead!: Chapter III". Everything people love about the band is here: heavy riffs, technical skill, aggressive rhythms and speed metal. Each listen makes this sharp, powerful, catchy record sound more like one of the band's best. Fresh inspiration comes from guitarist Kiko Loureiro, who co-wrote much of the material and even plays flute on "Night Stalkers", featuring ICE-T, from drummer Dirk Verbeuren and from Testament bassist Steve Di Giorgio, who recorded the bass parts. James LoMenzo has since returned as the band's permanent bassist.
Listen to the full album on: Spotify
"Queensryche" has another single and video from its forthcoming album, and it brings back the band's classic late-1980s progressive-metal sound. The nearly seven-minute "Behind The Walls" deals, according to the band, with people in crisis facing different forms of abuse.
The Prince of Darkness, Ozzy Osbourne, says he does not want to die in "crazy America". The iconic Black Sabbath singer plans to return to England, citing gun violence in the United States. He intends to move from his longtime Beverly Hills home to an estate in Buckinghamshire.
Singer Win Butler of "Arcade Fire" faces sexual misconduct allegations from four people. Three women describe interactions between 2016 and 2020 that they felt were inappropriate because of age gaps and power imbalances. A fourth person, who is gender-fluid and uses they/them pronouns, alleges two sexual assaults in 2015. Butler, who founded Arcade Fire with his now-wife Régine Chassagne in 2001, says the interactions were consensual and denies non-consensual conduct. Despite the allegations, Arcade Fire began its European tour in Dublin this past Tuesday.
If you are around Dizengoff Center tomorrow, make sure you do not miss Jango.
At the launch show for his new album, "Kerach BaEinayim" ("Ice in the Eyes"), Jango will host "Taarovet Eskot".
Jango says he cannot remember the last time all three original members performed together. In recent years, however, they have been writing and recording their second album, more than thirty years after their first. Buy tickets.
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