Well the secret is out! The 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Tour will kick off June 29th with Rob Zombie, Five Finger Death Punch, Mastodon, Machine Head, Amon Amarth, Children of Bodom, Behemoth, Huntress, Job For a Cowboy and others TBA. See the Road Rage page for the low down. Tix on sale Friday. Hit the tour site. Meanwhile, those sneaky 5FDP boys included a snippet of a new tune in their tour trailer called “Here to Die.” Check it out here!…A couple of weeks ago, after winning their first Grammy ever, Halestorm was in an LA studio recording a bunch of cover songs. Turns out there will be another cover EP’s release as a result! Look for that later this year. And take a look at the Halestorm page over at the hardDrive Live Tour site too! www.harddrivelivetour.com…System of a Down are touring Europe this summer doing all the big festivals, but they decided to let us poor Americans have a taste too! July 29th, the band will play the Hollywood Bowl for the first time in their career. Hit www.systemofadown.com for more. Tix on sale for that event Mar 22nd, 10 AM PT…..My friend Richard Patrick sent me an email letting me know he posted a new song on the Filter website called “I Hate It When You Get What You Want.” It’s off his forthcoming new album The Sun Comes Out Tonight, which you can find June 4th. The first official single is called “What Do Ya Say” and you will hear it on hardDrive XL with Lou Brutus on April 1st. You can also hear it with an interview with Richard on hardDrive the weekend of April 6/7. The album was produced by Bob Marlette with Richard and guitarist Jonny Radtke (formerly of Kill Hannah.) Looking forward to seeing him at Rock on the Range and hopefully before when he comes through NYC to do press!…..Pulse Content reports 30 Seconds To Mars has revealed the new album will be called Love Lust Faith + Dreams, with the first single from the disc, titled “Up In The Air.” The rather poppie track arrived at radio yesterday. A copy of the song was physically launched into space on March 1st as part of a SpaceX cargo mission to ship scientific gear to the International Space Station, where it arrived and also premiered on Monday. Look for the album May 21st….Loudwire reported Godsmack‘s time off gave frontman Sully Erna the opportunity to branch out to the big screen. The vocalist has signed on to make his feature film acting debut in the upcoming Woodhaven Pictures film ‘Army of the Damned.’ According to Dread Central, the movie will feature Erna as one of a group of small town police officers who are being filmed by a reality TV crew when they get a domestic disturbance call that turns out to be something much more horrific and life threatening. In addition to Erna, the cast features former N*Sync member Joey Fatone, pro wrestlers Tommy Dreamer and Thea Trinidad and actors Michael Berryman, Nick Principe, Jackie Moore and Tom Paolino. The film, directed by Tom DeNucci, is expected to start shooting in April.
