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Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has revealed that roughly a month after he underwent emergency heart surgery in 2021, he suffered a stroke that led to brain damage and has affected his ability to play guitar.

As widely reported back in 2021, Faulkner’s aorta ruptured onstage during the Louder Than Life festival, leading to a 10-hour emergency surgery that saved the metal musician’s life.

Faulkner has since returned to the band, and continues to tour with the iconic metal act, but in a new video interview with Premier Guitar (as transcribed by Blabbermouth), he disclosed that he suffered another serious health setback shortly after the emergency heart surgery.

The guitarist related the incident and subsequent ramifications as follows:

“We went back out on the road in 2022 and have kind of been on the road since. But there’s a bit of collateral damage. Well, not a lot of people know — some nearest and dearest,...

Netflix’s sci-fi adventure The Electric State combines a gripping narrative with a carefully curated soundtrack that resonates with its post-apocalyptic setting. Directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, the film follows an orphaned teenager who embarks on a journey with a mysterious robot to find her long-lost brother. The diverse selection of songs, ranging from classic rock to pop hits, enriches the storytelling by reflecting the emotional and thematic undertones of the characters’ journey. This article provides a comprehensive list of every song featured in the movie, enhancing your viewing experience.

‘The Electric State’ Soundtrack – All Songs Featured in the Netflix Movie

The soundtrack of The Electric State plays a crucial role in shaping its emotional and thematic landscape. Tom Petty’s “Mary Jane’s Last Dance” sets the tone for the protagonist’s journey, evoking a sense of nostalgia. “I Fought the Law” and “Breaking the Law” underscore moments of rebellion and danger,...

Netflix’s The Electric State, directed by the Russo brothers, brings a retro-futuristic adventure to the screen with a soundtrack packed with ‘90s classics. Starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt, the film follows Michelle (Brown) and Keats (Pratt) as they navigate a dystopian America in search of Michelle’s missing brother. With a mix of action, emotion, and robotic companions, the film blends visual spectacle with music that underscores its themes.

Throughout the journey, songs appear in high-energy moments and quieter, sentimental scenes. A standout feature includes performances by a piano-playing Taco robot, adding a quirky twist to familiar tracks.

Full Soundtrack Listing: Mary Jane’s Last Dance – Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Mother – Danzig I Fought The Law – The Clash Sound Off (Duckworth Chant) – Willie Lee Duckworth & Bernard Lentz Take Me To The River – Al Green & Mabon Lewis Hodges (Performed by The Studio Musicians) Tornerai – Trio Lescano e Quartetto Funaro...

An action-packed adventure with a 90’s backbone awaits viewers in Netflix’s The Electric State starring Millie Bobby Brown and Chris Pratt.

The film also features the voice work of Alan Tudyk, Anthony Mackie, Brian Cox, Jenny Slate and more. Based on the graphic novel by Simon Stålenhag, the film watches Michelle (Brown) and Keats (Pratt) venture into the dangerous Exclusion Zone and the heart of artificial intelligence firm Sentre to try and rescue Michelle’s brother. The politics of robots vs. humans fall to the side as each of them has their own robot companion, and they meet more on their adventures to track down Christopher (Woody Norman), who Michelle was told died in a car accident that also took the lives of their parents.

Several 90’s needle drops play in many different scenes from the more sentimental ones to the high-adrenaline ones. Some are performed by a piano-playing Taco robot.

Warning! This article contains spoilers for Maxxxine.MaXXXine is the perfect entry in Ti West's X trilogy to include several popular songs, and the film makes great use of music throughout. Ti West is the hands-on creative behind the X movie trilogy, which began with X in 2022, followed by Pearl later that year, and 2024's MaXXXine. Each film features Mia Goth as the protagonist, and she occasionally appears as multiple characters. Meanwhile, Ti West has taken on the role of director, writer, producer and editor, while bringing in Tyler Bates as the composer for each entry, along with some additional help along the way.

Considering the fairly tight-knit production, the films rely on every element performing at its best in order to deliver a satisfying final product. Fortunately, the music team has proven their capability and created critically acclaimed entries throughout the X series. MaXXXine also features some of...

A generational moment took place during Turnstile‘s performance this past Friday (June 28th) at the Tons of Rock festival in Oslo, Norway.

While the hardcore band was in the midst of its typically raucous set, a member of Turnstile’s social media team captured two heavy metal legends taking in the action together from the sidestage: Metallica’s James Hetfield and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford.

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Hetfield was particularly excited, fist pumping and shouting along to the lyrics, while Halford stood in stoic observance as he appeared to mouth the words to the song.

The clip was first posted to Turnstile’s Instagram Story and was eventually reposted on Reddit and other platforms, gaining some viral traction.

“Actually so sick to see some of the most iconic dudes in heavy music still appreciating the next generation,” read the top comment on the post in the r/hardcore subreddit.

Christmas has come early for genre fans this year with the release of MaXXXine, the third and perhaps not-so-final part of a horror trilogy that began in 2022 with X, a splatterfest set in the ’70s porn industry. Mia Goth was director Ti West’s leading lady, playing both Maxine Mink, the leading lady of the skinflick being made (The Farmer’s Daughters), and her crazy old nemesis, Pearl, who most violently objects to the goings on at her and her husband’s respectable Texas farmstead. For the second film, Pearl — a near-instant prequel — Goth resumed the title role, but in the latest, and for now the last, she reverts to Maxine Mink.

In the neon-lit, Hi-nrg world of MaXXXine, Maxine, it transpires, has escaped the notorious “Texas Porn-Shoot Massacre” without a scratch to her rep, and is about to embark on a legitimate acting career in a mid-range Hollywood horror film,...

Ozzy’s Boneyard (Ch. 38) is turning up the heat this Memorial Day weekend with the “Boneyard 200” special, a countdown of the top 200 hard and heavy classic rock songs — as determined by you, our listeners!

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These are the possible song choices for this year’s “Boneyard 200” countdown:

AC/DC – Back In Black

AC/DC – Dirty Deeds

AC/DC – For Those...

Godzilla vs Kong soundtrack features mostly instrumental scores, with only four main lyrical songs, fitting the thematic undertones of the film. Composed by Junkie Xl, the score is used for action sequences while classic songs like Elvis Presley's "Loving Arms" enhance emotional moments. Each song in the soundtrack, like Elvis Presley's "Loving Arms," complements specific scenes, adding depth and emotion to the monster mayhem.

The Godzilla vs Kong soundtrack has only a few songs that aren't instrumental scores, infusing some popular music into the monster mayhem, with some even having thematic undertones. Adam Wingard's Godzilla vs Kong was the build up of the cinematic universe known as the MonsterVerse, with the much anticipated showdown between the two iconic beasts. It also serves as a culmination of what came before, blending the aesthetic feel from Jordan Vogt-Roberts' Kong: Skull Island as well as Gareth Edwards's Godzilla and Michael Dougherty...

Judas Priest continue to unveil tracks from their forthcoming album Invincible Shield ahead of its March 8th release date.

“The Serpent and the King” is the fourth single from the LP so far, and it’s another scalding ripper from the British metal legends.

Rob Halford’s falsetto vocals are front and center — yep, he can still hit that vaunted Painkiller register — and the guitar tone sounds like it’s scratching the speakers from the inside. Under the hood, the guitar work and riff arrangements are densely composed — enough for both thrash and prog heads to feast on.

Regarding the album’s musical direction, guitarist Richie Faulkner told Audio Ink Radio that Invincible Shield “is progressive in the sense that it’s not like verse-chorus-verse-chorus-solo-chorus-finish,” likening it to Priest’s ’70s output.

“It’s musical part-verse-musical part,” he added. “It might do a few twists and turns, musically. It veers from the path of it,...

AC/DC’s iconic hard-rock anthem “Back in Black” has surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube, marking the second time the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame act has achieved the milestone.

The legendary band previously hit 1 billion views with “Thunderstruck,” which has since added roughly 400 million more views for a total of 1.39 billion.

Only a select group of hard rock songs have reached the 1 billion mark, with Linkin Park’s “Numb” leading the way at 2.17 billion and Guns N’ Roses’ “November Rain” just behind at 2.13 billion. Overall, Luis Fonsi’s “Despacito” featuring Daddy Yankee leads all music videos with a whopping 8.37 billion views.

“Back in Black” is the title track to one of the biggest-selling rock albums of all time. The 1980 LP has sold an estimated 50 million copies worldwide.

In 2020, Consequence celebrated the 40th anniversary of Back in Black with a number of exclusive features, including an interview with an AC...

The annual Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival has unveiled its 2024 lineup headlined by Disturbed, The Original Misfits, Pantera, and Slipknot.

Produced and promoted by Danny Wimmer Presents, the fest will return to Columbus, Ohio, for the weekend of May 16th through the 19th at Historic Crew Stadium. This year, the proceedings have been expanded to include a fourth stage, with 120-plus bands (over 40 more than previous lineups) set to perform in addition to other activities.

Headliners Disturbed (Thursday), Original Misfits (Friday), Pantera (Saturday), and Slipknot (Sunday) will close out each evening on the main stage. Other major acts set to perform include Evanescence, Limp Bizkit, Judas Priest, Kerry King of Slayer (the second post-Slayer performance by King to be announced thus far), Staind, Sleep Token, Bad Religion, Rise Against, 311, Cypress Hill, Baroness, Clutch, Sum 41, Mr. Bungle, Anthrax, P.O.D., and many more.

Passes are on sale via the Sonic Temple website.

Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Bad Bunny classes up the joint, Offset enlists Travis Scott for a standout track from his new solo LP, and Tomorrow x Together slide into some smooth Eighties synths. Plus, new music from Ice Spice and Rema), Pink Pantheress, Boygenius, and more.

Bad Bunny, “Monaco” (YouTube)

Offset feat. Travis Scott, “Say My Grace” (YouTube)

Tomorrow x Together, “Chasing That Feeling” (YouTube)

Ice Spice feat. Rema, “Pretty Girl” (YouTube)

Pink Pantheress,...

AC/DC played their first show in seven years on Saturday night (October 7th) at the Power Trip festival in Indio, California. The evening also featured a set by fellow Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Judas Priest.

For this Power Trip gig, AC/DC’s lineup featured classic members Brian Johnson (vocals), Angus Young (lead guitar), and Cliff Williams (bass) alongside Stevie Young (rhythm guitar) and drummer Matt Laug.

Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden set the bar high at Power Trip the night before, but AC/DC were up to the challenge, showing no signs of rust as they ripped into “If You Want Blood (You’ve Got It),” marking the first time they’ve ever kicked off a set with the Highway to Hell song.

From there, the 24-song set featured one classic after another, with the very next tune being the iconic “Back in Black,” followed by other favorites like “Thunderstruck,...

AC/DC have announced the opening of the “High Voltage” pop-up dive bar in Indio, California, just 10 minutes away from the Power Trip festival where the band will play their first show in seven years this Saturday (October 6th).

The bar will be open daily October 5th-8th from 11 a.m. until 10 p.m. It will be located on at 82971 Bliss Ave., temporarily taking over the space currently occupied by Club 5 Bar.

AC/DC teased the pop-up bar with a dedicated Instagram account and via a website post that declares the pub “the ultimate way to connect and plug in with fellow AC/DC fans over the weekend and check out iconic AC/DC props and exclusive merch.” Some of the memorabilia and ephemera can be seen on the High Voltage Dive Bar Instagram account.

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Fest organizers Goldenvoice recently unveiled the schedule for the weekend,...

Ozzy Osbourne wants to go out with a bang.

In a new interview with Metal Hammer, the 74-year-old music legend shared an update on his health after undergoing a “final surgery” on his neck this month.

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“I’ve had all the surgery now, thank god,” he said. “I’m feeling okay – it was just dragging on. I thought I’d be back on my feet months ago, I just couldn’t get used to this mode of living, constantly having something wrong. I can’t walk properly yet, but I’m not in any pain any more and the surgery on my spine went great.”

With the surgeries behind him, Osbourne shared that he is now planning to record a brand new album.

“I’m getting myself fit,” he said. “I...

Ozzy Osbourne has revealed that he has to undergo yet another surgery due to the injuries he sustained in a 2019 fall and a 2003 Atv accident. He is also slated to get an epidural injection to relieve the pain he is currently experiencing.

It’s been a rough go of it for Ozzy over the past four years in particular. In 2019, he suffered a significant fall at home, dislodging metal rods that were inserted into his body after he famously flipped over in an Atv in 2003. On top of that, he continues to battle Parkinson’s disease.

In the return of episode of The Osbournes Podcast (watch below), which premiered on Tuesday (September 12th), the metal icon offered an update on his health, revealing that he set to undergo his fourth significant surgery related to his structural damage, including a major neck operation last year.

“My lower back is … I’m...

Ozzy Osbourne recently turned a corner with his recovery from surgery following an injury stemming from a 2019 fall, his wife and manager, Sharon Osbourne, tells Rolling Stone. “He’s doing a lot better,” she says. But he still has a long way to go before he can perform a full concert.

In July, Ozzy had to make the tough decision to withdraw from the upcoming Power Trip festival, which would have seen him co-headlining alongside Metallica, AC/DC, Guns N’ Roses, and others. “Unfortunately, my body is telling me that...

German metal singer Doro has shared a cover of the Judas Priest classic “Living After Midnight” featuring guest vocals from Priest frontman Rob Halford himself.

Considering the heavy metal pedigree of both singers — Doro as the frontwoman of the iconic German band Warlock in the ’80s and as a longstanding solo artist, and Halford as the Metal God — “Living After Midnight” comes as a natural choice for a cover version. It’s a confident and rebellious track, and the duo sings it with conviction. Obviously, Halford has performed the song countless times, but still sounds as triumphant as ever delivering the boastful lyrics alongside Doro.

“Judas Priest and Rob Halford have always been one of my biggest inspirations and continue to be my heroes,” remarked Doro in a press release. “It was so great working with Rob. ‘Living After Midnight’ has always been one of my favorite songs and I...

Ozzy Osbourne has decided to call off his headlining set at the inaugural Power Trip festival this fall, admitting his health is still shaky and he’s not willing to have his first show in almost five years be “half-assed.” Judas Priest will take his place instead, the band announced Tuesday.

“As painful as this is, I’ve had to make the decision to bow out of performing on Power Trip in October,” Osbourne wrote on social media Monday. “My original plan was to return to the stage in the...

Judas Priest guitarist Richie Faulkner has partnered with Gibson for the new Flying V Custom artist signature model.

The Flying V has long been Faulkner’s axe of choice when he’s onstage, and the new signature model features numerous personal touches — the striking Pelham Blue finish being the most obvious.

The signature guitar also touts a one-piece mahogany body with a full-face pickguard, multi-ply binding, a mahogany neck with a custom Richie Faulkner profile, and an ebony fretboard with a mother-of-pearl falcon inlay at the 12th fret. Schematically, the guitar features a minimal electronics setup, with only a pickup selector switch and a single volume control.

“This guitar has become a good friend of mine over the past couple of years and is the latest evolution of my main guitar with Priest for the past 12 years,” Faulkner said in a press release. “It’s something that has evolved as...

In 1980, Dolly Parton was ruling the pop and country charts with “9 to 5” while Judas Priest were “Breaking the Law” and the members of Mötley Crüe weren’t even wearing leather. At that point in time, none of those artists likely ever thought they’d cross paths. Now, Parton has teamed with Priest screamer Rob Halford and Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx and guitarist John 5 on a new song, “Bygones,” one of two new tracks Parton released from her upcoming Rockstar album, out Nov. 17.

Over crunchy guitars, Parton asks...

Dolly Parton has continued rolling out her Rockstar era with a pair of new tracks: an original song titled “Bygones” featuring Judas Priest’s Rob Halford and a cover of Heart’s “Magic Man” with Ann Wilson herself.

“Bygones” also features Mötley Crüe bassist Nikki Sixx and John 5, who recently joined the Crüe as their new guitarist. On the track, Parton and Halford trade dueling vocals, singing, “I’m sorry, so sorry/ How long must you punish me?/ Why can’t we just move on?/ Let bygones be bygones.”

In a statement, Parton called “Bygones” one of her “very favorites” on the album, adding, “The song fits with so many couples and coupling my voice with Rob, one of my all-time favorites, made it even more special.”

On her cover of “Magic Man,” Parton mostly sticks to the original, singing the first verse before handing the mic over to Wilson for the second verse.

Some of the biggest names in music are among this year's nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

On Thursday, the storied institution announced the musically diverse new slate of nominees, representing classic rock, contemporary alt-rock, hip hop, blues and funk, to name just a few genres.

Among the rock artists in contention for induction are Bon Jovi, Dire Straits, Judas Priest, The Moody Blues, Radiohead, and Rage Against the Machine.

The British pop duo Eurythmics, the funk bands The Meters and Rufus featuring Chaka Khan, British pop rock singer Kate Bush, and hip hop artist and actor LL Cool J are among some of the other possible future inductees.

For a few of the performers, this isn't the first time they've been on the coveted short list. English groups Depeche Mode and The Zombies, as well as...

After conflicting reports as to his well being, Tom Petty has passed away at 66. The rock legend was found unconscious in his Malibu home after suffering cardiac arrest yesterday, eventually being taken to UCLA Santa Monica Hospital; though Petty held on much longer than original reports stated, several outlets now confirm his passing. If you’ve already made your way through your favorite songs on Spotify, spare some time for his most memorable music videos.

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“Mary Jane’s Last Dance”

Kim Basinger plays a dead woman in “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” which won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video in 1994. “I said, ‘She’s got to look really good, or why would he keep her around after she’s dead?'” Petty once said of his reasoning for casting her. “I thought, ‘Kim Basinger would be good.

Thrash metal pioneers Megadeth have always had a foot in video games. Dave Mustaine and company have recorded songs for games like Gears Of War, Duke Nukem 3D, and even Guitar Hero. So is it any surprise that after bands like Iron Maiden, Avenged Sevenfold, Motörhead and Judas Priest have created games inspired by their […]...

While the mainline series that is Dark Nights: Metal is allowing for Scott Snyder to display his vast knowledge of this DC Universe, we can’t help but love how the various tie-ins that’ll hit stands this fall have an Elseworlds kind of flavor to them. Well, there’s that and the fact that each of them spotlight various evil versions of Batman.

To date, we’ve been offered closer looks at a sinister-looking Flash-Batman amalgam, The Red Death, and a twisted Batman-Joker hybrid known as The Batman Who Laughs, the latter of which may ultimately prove to get the most attention. Regardless, the next fellow to emanate from the Dark Multiverse that we’ll aim to discuss is bound to turn a few heads himself.

Dubbed “The Dawnbreaker,” a moniker that’d also be a good name for either a Judas Priest song or a wrestling move,...

In the next episode of Comedy Central’s “The Comedy Jam,” Mark Duplass teams up with Reo Speedwagon’s lead vocalist Kevin Cronin to perform the band’s 1984 hit “Can’t Fight This Feeling.” The new comedy and music series, created by Josh Adam Meyers and directed by Joel Gallen, premiered March 22.

The eight-episode weekly series is based on the special that aired back in August 2016 and the live shows in Los Angeles. Each episode features a different set of stand-up comedians performing in front of a live audience. They share a personal experience, which they relate to a hit song. After telling their story, the comedians sing the song backed by The Comedy Jam Band.

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“We have been working under the false impression that what comedians want most is to have television and digital...

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Mazes And Monsters provided the first feature role for a young Tom Hanks in 1982 - and warned against the perils of Dungeons & Dragons...

Where there's great popularity, there's sometimes an equal and opposite backlash. Pokemon has occasionally been accused of promoting everything from Satanism to animal cruelty. The book Why Knock Rock, published in 1984, warned of the morally corrosive dangers hidden in the music of Judas Priest, Kiss and Led Zeppelin.

Before all this, there was the moral panic surrounding Dungeons & Dragons. From humble beginnings, the role-playing game quickly became a phenomenon in the 1970s, taking the company behind it - Tactical Studies Rules, founded by Gary Gygax - from a tiny cottage industry to a 600-strong firm by the end of the decade.

Dungeons & Dragons' brilliance lies in its freeform design; with only a few raw materials - dice, counters, a rulebook - the game conjures...

I loved Mad Max: Fury Road. It was unlike anything I’d ever seen, and when I drove home from the theater after the movie ended, all I wanted to do was listen to Judas Priest while speeding wildly down the freeway. Unfortunately, I live in Los Angeles, where you can never go faster than 10 mph. So that never really happened. Just when you think they couldn’t improve on the multi-Oscar winner, something comes along to make the post-apocalyptic hellscape just one louder. Producers have decided to issue the “Black & Chrome” edition, which turns the entire movie into black and white. It’s the film you never thought you needed, but now you probably can’t live without. In a 2015 interview with /Film, the movie’s director George Miller explained how fond he was of the Mm:fr b&w when he said, “Every time I saw the black and white I thought ‘Oh,...

I’ll confess. I have a real mushy soft spot for Heavy Metal music. Back in the ‘80s, in my teen years, my buddy Nick and I would crank the latest from Kiss, Scorpions, Judas Priest, Cinderella, etc. And there’s something specifically about Metal tailored to teenagers – that heightened sense of drama we feel at that age, the hormonal urges, and the need to push back against ‘society’. (Right – but please give us our allowances to consume products, okay?)

But Metal also equated with power, which was aligned with evil, and before long, many parents came up with the notion that Metal was Satan’s music. (Is the Pmrc still a thing? Brr.) Well, marketing is marketing, and few Metal bands fought the label (hell, some even embraced it). So it seemed the timing was right for that satanic safe haven, the Horror Film, to meet up with the...

A new selection of challenges are coming to Guitar Hero Live this week as Activision unveils a three new Ghtv Premium Shows. These three new shows feature some of the world’s biggest rock acts and a few festival anthems that will be sure to get you in the mood as summer creeps ever closer.

Guitar Hero Live‘s newest Premium Shows are titled ‘Festival Headliners’, ‘Face Melting Metal 2’ and ‘Desert Rising’, and the track-lists are as follows:

Festival Headliners

· Bon Jovi – Because We Can

· Kings of Leon – Radioactive

· Judas Priest – You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’

Face Melting Metal 2

· August Burns Red – Identity

· Bullet For My Valentine – Raising Hell

· Arch Enemy – War Eternal

Desert Rising

· BØRNS – Electric Love

· Of Monsters and Men – Empire

· Rancid – Ruby Soho

This week’s line-up is available now so, if you’re in the mood for some stadium rock or all-out metal, check back...

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On the whole, heavy metal was quite polarizing throughout the 90’s. The first half of the decade was generally popular with fans but the second half witnessed the formation of the sub-genre nu-metal which many saw as a watered down product that betrayed the origins of heavy metal.

When it came to prominence in the late 90’s, many bands saw it as an opportunity for quick access to a more mainstream audience and witnessed bands like Machine Head, Judas Priest and even Megadeth succumb to its tantalizing promises, and ultimately, falling short of their goals.

But this wasn’t the only change happening at the time, because many bands were also changing their sound and creating entirely new sub-genres by shifting themselves into new artistic directions. Many were also refining their sound further by utilizing new production techniques not available to them before, as well as expanding their...

The eleventh entry in an on-going series of audiovisual essays by Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin. Greg Mottola's Adventureland (2009) is now playing in the United States through February 29.Few subjects divide people more sharply and ferociously than respective tastes in music. We build our identities, our system of values, even our world-views, through the music we choose to love and cultivate, whether as players or listeners—and we project our musical distastes onto a screen (or a variety of screens) constituting those monstrous Others from which we differentiate and dissociate ourselves.Popular movies have a lot to do with propagating this fascinating but treacherous and unstable cultural process. Especially teen movies, which involve themselves with the vagaries of pop, rock, and other musical styles more extensively and intimately than most genres—particularly at the level of ‘sampling,’ of the selection of pre-existing tracks for the film soundtrack (and,...

The friends and family of the late Lemmy Kilmister, known for being the truly rock and roll heart of Motörhead, gathered yesterday for a funeral service. Lemmy died in late December from to a particularly aggressive form of cancer. His funeral was filled with tributes from the likes of Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Slash, Judas Priest's Rob Halford, and Anthrax's Scott Ian. In his eulogy, Grohl described his first meeting with Lemmy, describing him as his hero, "the one true rock and roller who bridged my love of AC/DC, Sabbath, and Zeppelin, with my love of GBH and the Ramones and Black Flag." Fighting back tears, Grohl closed his speech by quoting the Little Richard song "Precious Lord Take My Hand." In his speech, Slash spoke about being "fucking intimidated" when he first met Lemmy with Guns N' Roses in London. "He was such a fucking...

Friends and family gathered Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, as fans gathered online worldwide, to pay tribute to Motörhead lead singer Ian Fraser Kilmister - aka Lemmy. Kilmister died in late December, just days after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, the band said. His passing was received by an outpouring of grief from musicians and other celebrities, including Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Juliette Lewis, Ice T and others. For his memorial service, the band - which would be disbanding after Lemmy's death - planned something equally large: a global gathering in remembrance and celebration for a "warrior and a legend.

Friends and family gathered Saturday afternoon in Los Angeles, as fans gathered online worldwide, to pay tribute to Motörhead lead singer Ian Fraser Kilmister - aka Lemmy. Kilmister died in late December, just days after being diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer, the band said. His passing was received by an outpouring of grief from musicians and other celebrities, including Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne, Juliette Lewis, Ice T and others. For his memorial service, the band - which would be disbanding after Lemmy's death - planned something equally large: a global gathering in remembrance and celebration for a "warrior and a legend.

Activision and FreeStyleGames are continuing their commitment to add more songs to Guitar Hero Live‘s streaming Dlc service Ghtv, with more live concert recordings and various metal and punk hits being added to the game.

Rival Sons, a Californian rock band set to tour with Black Sabbath next year, will have three live versions of various songs added to Ghtv today. Meanwhile, two new Premium playlists, which require in-game currency to access specific tracks before they enter the main channel’s free rotation, are also available, with separate themes focusing on metal and pop-punk.

The full track list of new songs is as follows:

Rival Sons – Keep On Swinging (Live) Rival Sons – Pressure and Time (Live) Rival Sons – Electric Man (Live) System of a Down – Toxicity Judas Priest – Painkiller Bullet For My Valentine – Tears Don’t Fall Sum 41 – Fat Lip Four Year Strong – Just Drive Tonight Alive – Lonely...

Slipknot frontman Corey Taylor will be joining the cult-hit TV series Doctor Who in a unique way, providing the monstrous scream of a new alien warlord called Fisher King, according to the BBC.

"We needed an awesome roar for the Fisher King," Doctor Who producer Derek Ritchie told the British news network. "We asked Corey if he might like to do the honors. He was completely up for it. ... He has one of the most well-known screams in the history of music. We now have the most incredible roar for our incredible monster!

Welcome back to This is Our Design. All good things come in small packages. All great podcasts come a couple days late. We’re not really sure if either of these things is true, but we know this: you don’t owe us your listenership…you owe us Awe (we’re actually not very sure about this, either; we just like to believe it). This week, co-hosts Sean Colletti and Kate Kulzick are joined by author Cooper S. Beckett of Eat The Rudecast as the crew breaks down yet another strong central sequence in addition to talking about folk tales and much more. This all leads in, of course, to “Kate’s Classical Corner” and “The Devil in the Details,” which are always ready to shock and disturb you with how thorough they are. As always, you can e-mail us at thisisourdesign666[at]gmail.com.

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Chicago – TV production is entrenched in Chicago, and currently one of the hottest shows produced here is Fox Network’s “Empire.” The intricate sound details of the show, including the music, are handled by a Chicago-based post production company called Periscope Post & Audio. One of the founders and principle owners is Michael Nehs.

Periscope is part of the 50 acre campus which also encompasses Cinespace Studios. The Chicago-based film and television complex. once a steel plant, is now home to the hottest network and cable television series, including “Empire.” Periscope Post & Audio has been instrumental in providing services for these shows, complete production elements like the “dailies” overview (looking at footage that was filmed that day), expert color correction and editing, in addition to sound services like design, audio mixing. voiceover and Adr (Additional Dialogue recording).

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Rock Band 4 is getting ever closer to its release in early October, and while a major selling point of the game is full backwards compatibility with song Dlc purchased in earlier iterations, developer Harmonix is still sticking to series tradition and including plenty of songs built into the game from the start.

11 new tracks have been announced today, spanning various artists, genres, and decades. The full list can be seen below:

Aerosmith – “Toys in the Attic” The Cure – “Friday I’m In Love” Dream Theater – “Metropolis – Part 1 “The Miracle And The Sleeper”” Foo Fighters – “The Feast and the Famine” Judas Priest – “Halls Of Valhalla” Live – “All Over You” The Outfield – “Your Love” Ozzy Osbourne – “Miracle Man” Paramore – “Still Into You” St. Vincent – “Birth In Reverse” Van Morrison – “Brown Eyed Girl”

A brief new trailer has been released showcasing some of the new songs, along with a look at the revamped...

Another Thursday, another This is Our Design. We may or may not be able to continue saying that based on future screeners and scheduling, but–really–isn’t life unpredictable in general? Wouldn’t Hannibal want you to embrace the spontaneity of suffering like the flying patterns of a sparrow? For being without this podcast is suffering. That’s what we tell ourselves, anyway…

What do co-hosts Sean Colletti and Kate Kulzick also tell themselves? Something equivalent to “Omgeuuurrrggghhh!!!” this week, because director Vincenzo Natali (Cube, Splice) makes a return appearance to talk about “Secondo” and the opening to this season of Hannibal that he has helped create. Discussion topics range from how we bear sorrow through stories, the effects of shooting through beveled glass and the return of yet another beloved character in Jack Crawford (and his hat). After your “Hannibal by the Numbers,” stick around until later in...

Ensuring that Harmonix and its reinvigorated Rock Band 4 doesn’t steal all of the limelight in October, Activision has today confirmed that Guitar Hero Live – its own modernized take on the musical genre – will debut across PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Wii U on October 20.

According to the publisher, the base game and the all-new guitar controller will be bundled together for $99, and in the above trailer we see how the revised peripheral is changing things up in FreeStyle Games’ upcoming reboot. Guitar Hero TV, for instance, is an always-online mode that will provide fans with a continually-updated roster of musical videos to rock along to, and this playlist will boast the latest in greatest songs storming up the charts.

Not only that, but Ghtv will allow budding rockstars to compete with friends and online companions over the interwebs or, if you want to hone your rocking skills on your lonesome,...

Here's one of those 'This'll make you feel old' nuggets - Citv's kids' classic Art Attack is 25 years old today, having aired its first episode on June 15, 1990.

Originating as a segment on '80s show No. 73, Art Attack was later spun off into its own series and became one of Citv's longest-running programmes, continuing in its original form until 2007.

There have been several attempts to revive the BAFTA-winning show - and to replicate its success abroad - but none of these imitations came close to the original and best, fronted by the brilliant Neil Buchanan.

Prepare for a nostalgia rush as we present 9 reasons why we still love Art Attack - and its original host Buchanan - a quarter of a century on.

1. That absurdly jaunty theme tune

"This is an art attack! This is an art attack! This is... Art Attack!"

Heralded by a 'Pencil 'n' Paper alert', the...

Activision may be gearing up for a grand reveal at E3 next month, but that doesn’t mean the studio can’t grant backstage passes to budding Guitar Hero Live fans in order to tease some details ahead of time.

Part and parcel of the series’ lucrative success a generation ago was the songs featured on the set list, and developer FreeStyleGames – creative minds behind 2009’s spinoff DJ Hero – is ensuring that Live‘s soundtrack is just as memorable, with the likes of Ed Sheeran, Fall Out Boy and Rage Against The Machine toplining the game’s early set list.

That said, the music scene isn’t what it was a decade ago when the franchise first debuted, and Guitar Hero Live will reflect the new tones and tastes of 2015, all the while retaining some old school classics for good measure.

Speaking to specialist magazine Rolling Stone, the title’s...

The trio known as Lord Dying has a lot of things in common with their road brothers of most of the last two years, Red Fang and Black Tusk. Lots of loud, completely fucking metal things. Impossibly riffy and heavier than Thor’s sledgehammer when it cracks open your skull, Lord Dying’s sophomore effort via Relapse, Poisoned Altars, comes into the world the same way it leaves it; kicking and screaming bloody murder.

Hailing from the town that does not give a single fuck about what you think, Portland, Oregon, Poisoned Altars is full of eight face-melting tracks that include the six-plus minute juggernaut “An Open Sore’” that features Red Fang vocalist Aaron Beam. If you’re at all planning on coming back as a bullet getting shot out of a gun in the next world, you now have the perfect soundtrack for that trip. Speaking of aural juggernauts,...

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In terms of hysterical moral panics over pretty prosaic pop culture, the Satanic subliminal messages in rock music scare ranks somewhere between all the people burning Beatles records after John Lennon’s ill-advised Jesus crack and the time a large portion of the American population genuinely believed that playing Dungeons & Dragons would turn kids into occult-obsessed serial killers (mainly it just made them spend a lot of money on dice and get good at maths). And yet somehow it lead to congressional hearings, court cases, and an attempted bill to stop the practice of backmasking in music.

Backmasking is exactly what it sounds like – recording some vocals and reversing them, then concealing them within a regular song. Starting with the rise of the Christian right in the late seventies and reaching fever pitch in the following decade, people with way too much time on their hands decided that...

Title: Dream Deceivers – Heavy Metal on Trial Director: David Van Taylor Running Time: 58 minutes, Not Rated Special Features: Pov’s Simon Kilmurry talks to director David Van Taylor about the film and documentary filmmaking December 23, 1985 in Sparks Nevada, 20-year-old James Vance and 18-year-old Raymond Belknap shared a 12-guage shotgun to end their lives. They had spend several hours drinking, smoking weed and talking about their favorite band Judas Priest. Raymond was the first to put the barrel under his chin and pull the trigger. James picked up the shotgun, still slippery from Raymond’s blood and put the barrel under his own chin, pulled the trigger – but [ Read More ]

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Sia picked a good week to release her excellent “1000 Forms of Fear.” The Australian singer/songwriter’s latest album will come in at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with a very only 53,000, making it one of the lowest sales tallies ever for a debuting chart topper. The summer doldrums are in full effect as the sum total of all 10 albums in top 10 will hover around 300,000 or more than 80,000 less than Coldplay sold in its opening week for “Ghost Stories” this spring. Sam Smith’s “In The Lonely Hour” hangs out at No. 2 (45,000). The unsinkable “Frozen” soundtrack will be No. 3 (40,000), while Trey Songz’ current No. 1, “Trigga” and Ed Sheeran’s “X” are too close to call for No. 4. Next come two more debuts: Judas Priest’s “Redeemer of Souls” at No. 6 (32,000) and Dirty Heads’ “Sound Of Change” at No. 7 (24,000). Miranda Lambert’s “Platinum” is No. 8 (22,000), “Now That’s What I Call Music 50” at No.