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Wolfgang Van Halen is the latest artist to take part in Drumeo's "Heard for the First Time" challenge.

The YouTube channel's viral series asks drummer to listen to songs that they'd never heard before, then come up with their own drum parts. While he's primarily known for fronting his Mammoth WVH band and playing bass in Van Halen, Wolf is also a drummer and actually plays every instrument on Mammoth's records.

For his episode, Drumeo tasked Wolf with drumming along to the hit "Youngblood" by the band 5 Seconds of Summer. Upon hearing it, Wolf confirmed that he did not know the song, guessing that it might be by Ed Sheeran or Harry Styles.

Wolf's rendition earned the approval of 5SOS drummer Ashton Irwin, who complimented his "beautiful playing." Irwin previously participated in the Drumeo challenge and played Megadeth's "Tornado of Souls."

Other past Drumeo videos include Red Hot Chili Peppers' Chad Smith playing Thirty Seconds to Mars' "The Kill," Megadeth's Dirk Verbeuren playing Paramore's "Misery Business" and Lamb of God's Art Cruz playing Imagine Dragons' "Thunder" after hearing them for the first time.

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All That Remains has announced a new album called Antifragile.

The 10th studio effort from Phil Labonte and company arrives Jan. 31. It's the follow-up to 2018's Victim of the New Disease, which featured the final recordings of late guitarist Oli Herbert.

"You've waited so damn long for this," Labonte says. "And I gotta tell you...I'm fired up to finally say it—we have a release date!"

"Mark it. This is it," he adds. "The wait is over. The time has come."

Antifragile includes the previously released songs "Divine," "No Tomorrow," "Forever Cold" and "Let You Go."

Here's the full track list:
"Divine"
"Kerosene"
"No Tomorrow"
"The Piper"
"Antifragile"
"Forever Cold"
"Poison It"
"Let You Go"
"Cut Their Tongues Out"
"Blood & Stone"

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This New Music Friday brings new songs from Underoath, Dorothy, Sick Puppies and more.

Underoath has premiered a track called "Generation No Surrender." It's the band's third new single of 2024, following "Teeth" and "Survivor's Guilt." Underoath's most recent album is 2022's Voyeurist.

Dorothy has put out a song titled "I Come Alive." It follows fellow 2024 singles "Mud" and "The Devil I Know." A new Dorothy album, the follow-up to 2022's Gifts from the Holy Ghost, is in the works.

Sick Puppies have shared another preview of their upcoming album, Wave the Bull. The latest track is called "Creature," and follows the songs "There Goes the Neighborhood" and "Going Places." Wave the Bull, the first Sick Puppies album since 2016, drops March 28. 

Three Days Grace drummer Neil Sanderson's Judge & Jury Records project with producer Howard Benson has released a song called "Euphoria." It features Sanderson on drums and vocals by Trevor McNevan of Thousand Foot Krutch.

("Generation No Surrender" & "Creature" videos contain uncensored profanity.) 

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Mark Hoppus made a surprise appearance during punk band Joyce Manor's show at the Hollywood Palladium in Los Angeles on Thursday.

The blink-182 bassist/vocalist took the stage during a performance of the song "Heart Tattoo." Hoppus posted video of the onstage collaboration to his Instagram Story.

"Love this band and love this venue," Hoppus added in a post. "Thanks for having me."

Hoppus had a busy 2024 touring with blink in support of their comeback album, ONE MORE TIME... .

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Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross' score for the film Queer is out now.

The project marks the Nine Inch Nails duo's second collaboration of 2024 with director Luca Guadagnino, following Challengers. They also scored Guadagnino's 2022 movie, Bones and All.

Reznor and Ross have previously won Oscars for their soundtrack work on The Social Network and Soul. They've also scored projects including The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Gone Girl and the Watchmen series.

Future scoring projects include 2025's Tron: Ares, which is being billed as Nine Inch Nails instead of Reznor and Ross. They've also been working on new NIN material.

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The tribute concert to late Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan took place Thursday in London, and featured performances by Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan, among others.

In his first public performance since canceling shows due to his health, Homme played Lanegan songs including "Carnival" and "Come to Me," according to NME's recap of the show. The Kills' Alison Mosshart also sang with Homme on "Come to Me."

"As someone who got the pleasure of spending way too much time with Mark Lanegan, let me tell you he would have pretended to hate this," Homme said. "But he would have loved to see you all here tonight."

Gahan performed throughout the night, opening the show with a rendition of "Sideways in Reverse" and closing it with "Hit the City" alongside Lanegan's widow, Shelley.

Other performers included Chrissie Hynde of Pretenders, Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie and Greg Dulli of The Afghan Whigs, who also played with Lanegan in The Gutter Twins.

Lanegan died in February 2022. The tribute was held about a week after what would've been his 60th birthday.

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Sammy Hagar has joined the lineup for Metallica's 2024 Helping Hands benefit concert, taking place Dec. 13 in Los Angeles.

The Red Rocker will be joined by his Best of All Worlds lineup, which includes his former Van Halen bandmate Mike Anthony, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani and drummer Kenny Aronoff.

Metallica has also announced that musical duo SistaStrings will be playing Helping Hands, as well.

The biannual Helping Hands benefits Metallica's All Within My Hands charity foundation and features a rare acoustic performance from the metal legends. 

Previous openers and special guests include Greta Van Fleet, Cage the Elephant and St. Vincent.

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Shadows Fall has returned with a new song called "In the Grey."

The track marks the first fresh material from the 2000s metalcore vets in 12 years. The group released their last album, Fire from the Sky, in 2012 before going on hiatus in 2015. They reunited in 2021.

"When Shadows Fall first got back in the practice space to prepare for our reunion shows, we did not know if it would lead to new music," says frontman Brian Fair. "But the excitement of jamming together and all of the riffs that [guitarist] Jon [Donais] had floating around in his head led us in the direction almost immediately. The idea began flowing, the energy started building and new songs began taking form out of the chaos."

You can listen to "In the Grey" now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video on YouTube.

Shadows Fall is playing a hometown show in Worcester, Massachusetts, on Dec. 21 celebrating the 20th anniversary of their 2004 album, The War Within.

(Video contains uncensored profanity.) 



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The Smashing Pumpkins will close out their year with a performance at the NHL Winter Classic.

The 2024 edition of the annual outdoor hockey game takes place New Year's Eve at Wrigley Field in Billy Corgan and company's hometown of Chicago. The "1979" rockers will take the stage during the pregame festivities before the puck drops between the Chicago Blackhawks and the visiting St. Louis Blues.

Portions of the Pumpkins' performance will air as part of the game broadcast, which begins Dec. 31 at 4 p.m. CT on TNT, Max and other platforms. Chance the Rapper, who's also from Chicago, will perform, as well. 

For more info, visit NHL.com.

The Winter Classic performance will cap an eventful year for the Pumpkins, which included the release of a new album, Aghori Mhori Mei, and touring U.S. stadiums with Green Day.

Meanwhile, the hockey/music connection will continue into 2025 with Twenty One Pilots performing during the NHL Stadium Series game in March between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Detroit Red Wings.

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Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell has announced a spoken word edition of his new solo album, I Want Blood.

For each song, Cantrell has recorded an alternate version where he recites the lyrics over the instrumentals, instead of singing them as he does on the original album.

Cantrell will be putting out spoken word tracks every Thursday, starting with the lead single, "Vilified," which you can listen to now streaming on YouTube.

The original I Want Blood was released in October, and includes contributions from Duff McKagan of Guns N' Roses, Metallica's Robert Trujillo and Faith No More's Mike Bordin.

Cantrell will launch a U.S. solo tour supporting I Want Blood in January.

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Alice Cooper teamed with his daughter Calico Cooper and Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash for “Freewheelin’,” a song that was featured on the album Solid Rock Revival, and now a new animated lyric video for the track has just been released.

Solid Rock Revival, which is nominated for a Grammy for Best Children’s Music, was released under the name Rock for Children, a rock collective that includes Alice, his daughter and others. The album features contributions by Judas Priest’s Rob Halford, Run DMC's Daryl “DMC” McDaniels and more. 

Proceeds from the album benefit Alice’s Solid Rock Teen Centers, which provide free after-school training in areas such as music, dance, art, and more for teens ages 12-20. It has locations in Mesa, Phoenix and Goodyear, Arizona.

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Bring Me the Horizon and Hozier are headlining the U.K.'s 2025 Reading & Leeds Festival.

The initial bill also includes Bloc Party, Wallows, The Linda Lindas and Royel Otis. Presales begin Friday, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Dec. 9.

For more info, visit ReadingandLeedsFestival.com.

Reading & Leeds consists of two festivals with the same lineup that take place simultaneously over the same weekend. The 2025 edition will be held Aug. 21-24.

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Lamb of God frontman Randy Blythe has announced a book tour in support of his upcoming memoir, Just Beyond the Light: Making Peace with the Wars Inside Our Head.

Dates include Feb. 19 in Philadelphia, Feb. 23 in Boston and March 1 in Chicago. At each stop, Blythe will participate in a Q&A session and will sign copies of his book.

Tickets go on sale Friday starting at noon ET. For more info, visit RandyBlythe.com.

Just Beyond the Light, Blythe's second book, will be released Feb. 18. It follows his 2015 memoir Dark Days, which detailed his incarceration in the Czech Republic on manslaughter charges related to the death of an attendee of a Lamb of God concert. Blythe was acquitted in 2013.

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Iggy Pop has shared the performance of his solo classic "The Passenger" recorded for his upcoming live album, Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023.

As its title suggests, the set was recorded during the 2023 edition of the famed Swiss festival.

You can listen to the live "The Passenger" now via digital outlets, and watch the performance streaming now on YouTube.

Live at Montreux Jazz Festival 2023 will be released Jan. 24.

Iggy's most recent studio album is 2023's Every Loser, which was produced by Andrew Watt and features contributions from Guns N' Roses' Duff McKagan, Chad Smith of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Jane's Addiction's Dave Navarro, blink-182's Travis Barker, Pearl Jam's Stone Gossard and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.

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Forget the hoverboard and the flying car, the real invention of the future has arrived: the Pit Diaper.

Created by the water company Liquid Death in collaboration with Depend, the Pit Diaper allows concertgoers to relieve themselves without having to stop moshing or giving up their spot on the floor to visit the bathroom.

"If you’ve been to a concert, you know the scariest place isn't the mosh pit. It's the bathroom," Liquid Death says. "Now you can avoid having to brave that hellscape with the new Pit Diaper, powered by Depend!"

An accompanying video promises that the Pit Diaper has a "sleek design," so "no one will ever notice you're wearing it."

If the Pit Diaper sounds like something you need in your life, you can order one now for the price of $75 via LiquidDeath.com.

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"Lips of an Angel"? More like fists of a Kroeger.

Hinder drummer Cody Hanson has revealed in an interview with The Jesea Lee Show that he "almost got beat up" by Nickelback frontman Chad Kroeger. 

As Hanson explains, the almost-fight happened when Hinder was out on tour with Nickelback, and he and Kroeger were hanging outside of a hotel room and talking about horses, of all things. Kroeger apparently didn't think that a Quarter Horse was a real thing, so Hanson joked, "Maybe it's 'cause he's Canadian and they use the metric system."

"I wasn't trying to be a d***," Hanson says, though Kroeger obviously felt differently.

"He comes over and he wraps his arm around my neck," Hanson recalls. "I think he's joking, right? And then I notice he starts really squeezing."

Hanson shoved off Kroeger, who then told him, "If you want to make a person from Canada mad, the first thing you do is call them a Canadian."

"I'm super confused at this point," Hanson says. "And we're all drunk as s***."

While Kroeger then "stormed off," Hanson continued to get madder at the situation and tried to follow him, only to be rebuked by his bodyguard. Eventually, Hanson says the combination of being drunk and angry led him to start crying.  

"I couldn't control it, man," Hanson laughs. "I was so embarrassed."

The next day, Kroeger visited with Hinder to patch things up and, as Hanson tells it, started handing out handfuls of Viagra to the band as a "peace offering."

"That's the time I almost got beat up by Chad Kroeger and probably his bodyguard and I cried," he concludes.

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Pearl Jam has announced a U.S. tour for 2025.

The headlining outing runs from April 24 in Hollywood, Florida, to May 18 in Pittsburgh. In between, it'll stop in Atlanta, Nashville and Raleigh, North Carolina, with two shows in every city.

Tickets will go on sale through Ticketmaster's Artist Presale program on Dec. 13 at 10 a.m. local time. You can register to participate in the sale now through Dec. 10 at 10 a.m. PT.

Members of PJ's Ten Club can access a presale now.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit PearlJam.com.

Pearl Jam will be touring in continued support of their new album, Dark Matter, which was released in April.

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Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Faith No More drummer Mike Bordin guests on a new song from ex-Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Joe Holmes.

The track is called "Cross Eyed Stare," and is out now via digital outlets. Its accompanying video, which features both Trujillo and Bordin, is streaming now on YouTube.

Holmes played in Ozzy's band from 1995 to 2001. During that time, Trujillo and Bordin were also part of the Prince of Darkness' live lineup.

You can also hear Trujillo and Bordin contribute to the new solo album from Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell, I Want Blood.

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Sum 41's final trip Down Under will not go on as planned.

The Australian leg of the "Fat Lip" outfit's farewell tour, which included performances at the Good Things Festival, has been canceled due to frontman Deryck Whibley feeling "too unwell to perform."

"Sum 41 are gutted they can't perform, and we fully understand and appreciate fans' disappointment," reads a statement posted to the Good Things Facebook. "Deryck's health and wellbeing is the focus and priority though, and we hope you will join us in sending him well wishes for his recovery." 

Prior to the announcement, Sum 41 pulled out of a headlining show in Brisbane scheduled for Wednesday while sharing that Whibley had been diagnosed with pneumonia. Whibley previously landed in the hospital with pneumonia back in 2023.

Sum 41 are scheduled to return to the road in January for a run through their native Canada, marking the final leg of their farewell tour. It will conclude with a show in Toronto on Jan. 30, followed by Sum 41's induction into the Canadian Music Hall of Fame in March.

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A long in the works Led Zeppelin documentary is finally set to hit theaters.

The film, Becoming Led Zeppelin will open exclusively in IMAX theaters on Feb. 7, with a one night only early access screening to take place Feb. 5 in 18 markets, including New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago and Boston.

Becoming Led Zeppelin is a film fans have been waiting for for a long time. In fact, it first premiered as a work-in-progress at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Sony Pictures Classics acquired the rights to the completed film in May. 

The movie, described as a “hybrid docu-concert film,” is the first officially sanctioned documentary about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame group.

As for why it took so long to complete, it seems the filmmakers had a hard time finding early footage of the band, and had to search for material to use for the project.

“We spent five years flying back and forth across the Atlantic scouring attics and basements in pursuit of rare and unseen film footage, photographs and music recordings,” writer/producer Allison McGourty explains. “Then we transferred each piece of media with custom techniques, so that in IMAX, these 55-year-old clips and music would look and sound like they came out of the lab yesterday.”

Director Bernard MacMahon adds, “The cinematic power of IMAX paired with the film’s authentic sound creates an immersive and transportive viewing experience letting audiences feel like they are there, in the venues with the band.” 

Tickets for Becoming Led Zeppelin are on sale now.

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