Good morning Radicals! Let’s dig into this mornings music news!
Stone Sour will release its first official live album, Hello, You Bastards: Live In Reno, on December 13th. The set features 16 of the band’s most popular tracks captured at a single show, including “Absolute Zero,” “Through Glass,” “Bother,” “Get Inside” and “Song #3,” all recorded live on October 5th, 2018.
The album will be available on CD, digitally, and as a numbered 180-gram double vinyl package, limited to just 2500 copies, which also includes a poster, backstage pass, guitar pick, autographed setlist and a download card.
Guitarist Josh Rand said in a statement, “This is the Reno show in its entirety, just how it went down on October 5th, 2018. We’re extremely proud of the fact that it’s 100% live with absolutely no overdubs! It’s not perfect but neither are we.”
Stone Sour has been off the road and out of sight since completing the touring cycle for its 2017 studio album Hydrograd. Singer Corey Taylor has been working with Slipknot since then, recording and currently touring behind that group’s sixth LP, We Are Not Your Kind.
Taylor told us a while back how he manages to balance his different projects: “The thing that I found with myself is that I can juggle a lot of stuff, but if I’m doing too much at the same time, I can’t really put that Taylor energy into it, you know — whatever that means, usually not a good thing — but the thing I noticed is that if they’re not all due at the same time, I can focus on one, get that as close to completion as I can, and then jump to the next one.”
Bring Me The Horizon may abandon the traditional album format for the band’s next efforts. With a new song called “Ludens” released on Wednesday (November 6th), frontman Oli Sykes told NME that the group is changing its approach to releasing new music.
Sykes explained, “We’ve got plans, definitely. ‘Ludens‘ will be the first song you hear from the new record. We’re not going to do an album again, maybe ever. We’re thinking about doing shorter records. I don’t want to say we’re going to do something and not live up to it, but the plan is to release multiple records next year.”
Asked if he was bored with the album format after releasing this year’s Amo, Sykes responded, “I’m really proud of Amo, but it was such a f**king ballache to make. We spent a whole f**king year of our lives making that record. Part of me was like, ‘For what? We’re never going to get to play all of those songs’. You have to ration your creativity over all your songs.”
Sykes elaborated that releasing shorter records more quickly would allow the band to experiment with different styles and not worry about fitting them all onto a single LP, saying, “There’s all this s**t you need to think about and how it’s going to sit on a 15 track album. I don’t want to do that . . . I’d like to make a bunch of records where each of them has a distinct vibe to it.”
“Ludens” is taken from the official soundtrack of the upcoming video game Death Stranding, which arrives on Friday (November 8th).
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has opened up about his longtime relationship with Chili Peppers frontman Anthony Kiedis, both in a new interview with The Guardian and his new memoir, Acid For The Children, which arrived on Tuesday (November 5th).
In the memoir, Flea recalled that Kiedis was “unlike anyone” he had met, adding, “Among my friends, I was the guy who was always trying to do something that would freak people out. Then I met Anthony and he matched me step for step. We got up to all kinds of crazy s**t.”
Flea also described Kiedis as “controlling” in the memoir, but declined to elaborate on it to the Guardian, saying the two bandmates had “issues” between them that he wasn’t willing to discuss. But Flea did say, “He doesn’t accept that I’m different and that things that excite me may not excite him. He’s looking to be the alpha.”
Flea also explained how Kiedis’ drug abuse affected him over the years, saying, “It’s painful and scary and sad . . . because the rationale of someone who’s a drug addict is disingenuous and hollow and misguided.” Elsewhere in the memoir, Flea described his own battles with drug addiction and his grief when early Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak died of an overdose at the age of 26.
Finally, we want to wish a Happy Birthday to Shinedown guitarist Zach Meyers and former Mudvayne and Hellyeah guitarist Gregg Tribbett!
