Good morning Radials! Hope everyone enjoyed their weekend. Let’s take a look at what’s up in the world of Rock and Roll:
Seether plans to begin recording the follow-up to 2017’s Poison The Parish LP for a tentative early 2020 release. Drummer John Humphrey told T95 The Rock Station at last weekend’s Rocklahoma festival, “We’ve been home since the holidays, kind of recharging our batteries. We’ve done a couple of shows, and we’ll go in at the end of summer and early fall and track a new album.”
Humphrey added, “We’ve got some material brewing. Shaun‘s (Morgan, vocals/guitar) sending out demos to everybody to kind of get prepared. And, yeah, we’ll head into the studio here pretty soon and start tracking new stuff.”
Morgan told us a while back that having fun while making music was important to him: “It seems like sometimes, this feels a little bit more like work than it used to, and I’d like for that to not continue to grow and become a feeling that overtakes the sense of fun of this and the adventure of this and just really how much this is better than doing a lot of other jobs, right?”
Seether’s last LP, Poison The Parish, was its seventh studio effort. It yielded the Top Five rock radio hits “Let You Down” and “Betray and Degrade,” as well as the single “Against The Wall.”
Shinedown has released an EP titled Get Up, featuring a new acoustic version of the band’s hit crossover anthem “Get Up,” along with the original song and the recently released piano version.
Frontman Brent Smith said about the EP, “‘Get Up’ is a song about empathy, it’s a song about not being afraid to fail, it’s a song about inspiring others and now we want you to hear the song as it began.”
“Get Up” climbed the rock chart before it became a crossover hit at Hot AC and has racked up nearly 40 million streams. The song was inspired by Smith watching his friend, Shinedown bassist Eric Bass, deal with clinical depression.
The song gave the band the most Rock Airplay Top 10s ever and its 13th Number One on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Songs chart — the second most in the history of the chart, tied with Van Halen.
The original version of “Get Up” can be found on Shinedown’s sixth studio LP, Attention Attention. The current single from the disc, “Monsters,” has broken into the Top Five at rock radio.
In This Moment singer Maria Brink has told Loudwire in a new interview that the band’s upcoming album, Mother, will feature no less than four guest vocalists. Brink would not reveal who the artists were, but did describe them as “jaw-dropping.”
The band’s last album, 2017’s Ritual, featured a guest vocal performance from Judas Priest legend Rob Halford on the song “Black Wedding.” Guitarist Chris Howorth told us a while back how the collaboration happened: “Maria was kind of like, she liked the chorus but she wasn’t really happy with the way the verses were going, so she started having this idea of a mother and a priest. And you know, we’re friends with Rob Halford, so we asked Rob and he said yes — he’s the greatest dude ever — and you know, he came down to Vegas and did the vocals for it and it was unbelievable. I mean, when I hear his voice kick in on the song, it’s unreal.”
Mother is tentatively due out in August. Howorth said in a recent interview that it was the band’s “heaviest record” in seven years, adding, “Now that it’s all done and I’m hearing it as one thing, I’m, like, ‘Damn! This is really heavy.’”
In This Moment has a number of shows scheduled through the rest of the year, including summer festival appearances in the U.S., dates with Disturbed in late summer and early fall, and a European tour with Halestorm in November.
Avenged Sevenfold is auctioning off 20 pieces of gear and memorabilia through the band’s newly launched shop at the Reverb site. All proceeds raised from the sale of the items will go to Notes For Notes, a non-profit that builds, equips and staffs after-school recording studios inside Boys & Girls Clubs. Among the items on the block are a Schecter Synyster Gates guitar, Zildjian Custom A cymbals played on stage by Brooks Wackerman, a sunburst Schecter Johnny Christ Signature Bass and more.
Three of the five surviving members of Linkin Park recently got together, sharing photos of the meet-up on Instagram. Singer Mike Shinoda posted a photo of himself, DJ Joseph Hahnand drummer Rob Bourdon, writing, “So grateful to have met my idols & biggest influences, @mrjoehahn and @robbourdon from @linkinpark.” Linkin Park has been inactive for the better part of two years since the death of vocalist Chester Bennington in July 2017.
Soundgarden has released a clip of the band performing the song “Blind Dogs” from its upcoming set Live From The Artists’ Den. The now-legendary, 29-song, February 23rd, 2013 show at the Wiltern Theater in Los Angeles will be issued on July 26th in a limited edition Super Deluxe box set as well as standard Blu-ray, CD and digital formats.
Deadland Ritual has released a new single and video called “Broken And Bruised.” The band features Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler, former Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum, Billy Idol guitarist Steve Stevens and singer Franky Perez. Songs from all three of those acts made it into the show at Deadland Ritual’s recent live debut in Los Angeles.
