Good morning Radicals! Here’s what’s happening today in the world of Rock and Roll!
Disturbed has revealed that the band has completed work on its seventh studio album. The quartet has also launched an online poll to collect public opinion regarding the type of track that should be unveiled as the first taste of the group’s new music. The two choices provided in the poll are: “Heavy” and “Ballad.”
The band wrote online, “The new record is done! The new album includes many styles of music. Since our last album and the recent footage from the studio, we’ve seen a lot of discussion about the evolution of our new music. Disturbed Ones, we have decided to embrace the debate. For our next single — what kind of sound do you want it to be?” You can take the poll here.
Singer David Draiman told us a while back that Disturbed has always wanted to put melody in its music: “There’s a huge contingency of kids that want stuff that they can just bash their head open to, you know, and that’s great. We provide that as well. But to us, when we make our music, it has to be fused with melody. The aggression and the power needs to be harnessed with hooks that stay with you.”
The new disc will follow up 2015’s Immortalized, which ended a four-year hiatus for the quartet and was its fifth album to enter the Billboard 200 chart at Number One. Immortalized featured the band’s massive hit cover of Simon & Garfunkel‘s “The Sound Of Silence.”
Alice In Chains bassist Mike Inez said in an interview with France’s United Rock Nations that the band’s upcoming album, Rainier Fog, is one of his favorites, explaining, “Records are like signposts in your career, and this is where we’re at in 2018. We don’t think about it too much — we don’t go, ‘Oh, we’ve gotta do a record like this,’ or, ‘We’ve gotta do a record like that.’ There’s a filtering process — everybody throws their riffs and stuff in the meat grinder, or coffee machine, and 10 songs drip out of that over the course of a year.”
Inez added, “We approach it the same — we just plug our guitars in the f**king amplifiers, and everything kind of turns out all right for us, so we’ve learned to trust that, and it’s cool. I love this record; it’s one of my favorites, actually.”
Rainier Fog will be released on August 24th. It’s the band’s first album in five years and their first time recording in their hometown of Seattle in more than 20 years. The album title itself is a tribute to the city.
The band recently shared a second single from the record, called “So Far Under.” This follows “The One You Know,” which arrived earlier this spring. Listen below:
Rob Zombie told Loudwire in a recent interview that his upcoming movie, Three From Hell, is not going to be what people expect. The plot of the film is a secret for now, although it is the third installment in Zombie’s “Firefly Family” trilogy after 2003’s House Of 1,000 Corpses and 2005’s The Devil’s Rejects.
Asked to characterize the movie, Zombie said, “It’s nothing (like) what people seem to think, which is always fun to read, because everybody’s like, ‘Oh, I know what this is. It’s exactly this.’ And they’re always wrong, which is great. I’ll just say it’s not a prequel. I’m making this movie 15 years after the last movie, so my cast is aging the wrong direction and I certainly didn’t replace them with other actors.”
Zombie added, “The one thing I will say is that when we got together — because my biggest fear of making this movie was the actors won’t have the vibe they had — it was almost spooky how much (they vibed). It didn’t seem like it was 15 years later, it seemed like it was six months later.”
Zombie told us a while back where the inspiration for the Firefly clan came from: “My mom’s side of the family were pretty interesting because she grew up in the traveling carnival business, so they were like carnies and bikers and they would always fight with each other — like brutally, physically with each other. But as soon as someone else stepped in, they were united. ‘We can hate each other but you can’t get in the middle of it,’ and that’s what I wanted with these characters. They’re always fighting and they seem to hate each other but they like each other when someone else steps in. It was that weird conflict that you would see with those sort of families.”
Three From Hell stars Sid Haig, Sheri Moon Zombie and Bill Moseley as the murderous Firefly trio, who were last seen going down in a hail of bullets at the end of The Devil’s Rejects.
Guns N’ Roses Ex-Guitarist DJ Ashba Arrested for DUI https://t.co/bykb6cIAsm
— TMZ (@TMZ) July 30, 2018
Sixx: A..M. and ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist DJ Ashba was arrested on Friday (July 27th) on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, according to TMZ. The 45-year-old musician was pulled over in Fairbury, Illinois for blowing a stop sign. Officers on the scene gave him field sobriety tests after he showed signs of impairment, and he was arrested and taken to jail after reportedly failing the tests.
Ashba, who lives in Las Vegas, was raised in Fairbury, where he returned over the weekend to attend the 29th running of the Prairie Dirt Classic at Fairbury American Legion Speedway. He also reportedly performed the U.S. national anthem at the event on the 28th, meaning he did not spend a lot of time behind bars.
Ashba took to his Facebook page on Sunday (July 29th) to write, “It was so nice to chill back home for a few and reset. Thank you to everyone in my hometown of Fairbury for having me out to perform the National Anthem for ya’ll. It was an honor!”
Ashba joined Guns N’ Roses in March 2009 following the departure of Robin Finck. He exited the group six years later, saying in a statement that he was leaving “to dedicate myself to my band Sixx: A.M., my adoring wife and family, and to the many new adventures that the future holds for me.”
Earlier this year, after Sixx: A.M. founder Nikki Sixx hinted in several interviews that the band was over, Ashba and Sixx: A.M. bandmate James Michael launched a brand new project called Pyromantic.
Finally, we’d like to wish a Happy Birthday to Avenged Sevenfold singer M. Shadows! Hes’ in good company, as today is also Rob Zombie guitarist John 5‘s birthday!
