Weekly Music News 29.12.24
Updated: 2 days ago
This week saw the release of the first single from a special memorial project honoring Yonatan Savitsky, a soldier, a gentleman and a devoted metalhead who fell in the heroic battle for the Kissufim outpost.
The project is an album of five songs by Israeli metal bands, managed by Metalist magazine. Nimrod Friedrich coordinated the music and oversaw all the musical material and its technical management, while Maor Appelbaum mastered the entire album. Everyone involved volunteered their work out of a genuine wish to honor Yonatan Savitsky, a metalhead and one of our own.
The bands and artists who took part are:
D'arc Mother, Yadin Moyal, inLabyrinth, Yagon, StormbounD and Shiran Band
Speaking of Israeli metal, this week "Shiran Band" announced a changing of the guard on guitar.
Excellent Israeli tribute band "Slippery Days" announces a special show: The Best Of Bon Jovi "Crossroad" LIVE in Netanya marking 30 years of Bon Jovi's huge greatest-hits album. They will perform every song on the album, from beginning to end, in thrilling live versions!
The show will take place February 13, 2025 at Rubiz 1929, Netanya Stadium.
The godfather of grunge, Neil Young, announced this week that he is withdrawing from Glastonbury 2025 because of the BBC's partnership and demands that had not been agreed in advance. Young argues that the publicly owned broadcaster has taken control of what was a nonprofit, anti-commercial festival and turned it into a commercial, corrupted event. Young wrote online that they "wanted us to do a lot of things in a way we were not interested in. It seems Glastonbury is now under corporate control and is not the way I remember it being."
You have probably heard about the wild shows by "Iron Maiden", complete with pyrotechnics, elaborate stage sets and huge elements straight out of Hollywood action films, giving Maiden's performances extraordinary power. This week, vocalist Bruce Dickinson said that the 2025 tour will take the show a step further with things they have never done before. He said: "For those of you who have bought tickets, which is, like, all of you, it's gonna be really, really cool. I'm really looking forward to it. We're gonna be doing stuff we've never, ever done before, and it'll be a setlist for the ages."
We think this is a good time to look for tickets for the upcoming tour, or at least start getting ready for 2026...
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