Weekly Music News 13.08.23
What is this??? "Guns N' Roses" have released a new-old song, "Perhaps". Talk of new music from the rock legends has been everywhere since Slash and Duff McKagan rejoined the band in 2016. Nobody understood why the band was focusing entirely on touring rather than new material. Two years ago, the band released "Absurd", followed by "Hard Skool" in 2021. Neither was newly written material, but older songs that had never received an official release. Now comes a song originally recorded during the "Chinese Democracy" sessions in 2000 and leaked online in 2019. It was played at the soundcheck for the Tel Aviv show on June 5, 2023, and even leaked through jukeboxes in bars across the United States. The drummer here is Brain, who also played on "Chinese Democracy", "Absurd" and "Hard Skool". Following the leak, the song has now been released, with a physical single planned for October 27. There is a surprise: another new song, "The General", is set to appear on the B-side. Interestingly, the video passed one million views in its first day.
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"Boten Matok Ba'kirkas", the veteran rock band led by Gadi Altman, returns stronger than ever with its fourth album, "Butz". The album will be accompanied by a launch show with special guests that true rock fans cannot miss, on August 25 at Ozen in Tel Aviv. Tickets here:
Listen to the album on: Spotify
Singer Corey Taylor has a third new single, "Talk Sick", released about a month before his second solo album, "CMF2", due September 15. Corey described the new song: "That sick guitar, at first I played it through a speaker the size of a coffee cup. It made it sound especially violent. It felt like being stung by bees to the sound of the Sex Pistols."
Who do you think is the greatest rock singer of all time? Billboard yesterday published its list of the 50 greatest rock singers of all time, men and women. It includes Zack De La Rocha, Dave Grohl, Courtney Love, Serj Tankian, Paul McCartney, Chester Bennington, Ozzy Osbourne, Steve Perry, Chris Cornell, Axl Rose, Robert Plant, Freddie Mercury, and many more, with none other than Mick Jagger at the top. In its explanation, the magazine wrote that nobody moves like Jagger. He has the voice, the look, the fashion sense and the charisma: the greatest rock and roll frontman in the world's greatest rock band.
The band "Alcatrazz" never rests... We are still taking in the new album, "Take No Prisoners", and the band is already releasing a new single, "Sign of the Cross", which is not on the album.
The band "Cannibal Corpse" releases another single from its sixteenth studio album, "Chaos Horrific", due September 22.
The band "Imagine Dragons", scheduled to play Tel Aviv's Yarkon Park on August 29, received a letter this week from Serj Tankian asking it to cancel its upcoming September show in Azerbaijan. Tankian, a well-known activist, accused Azerbaijan's dictatorship of responsibility for genocide. He took to social media to call for the show's cancellation after, he said, a private letter to the band went unanswered.
(Photo: Kevin Winter / Rich Polk / Loudwire)
New! New! New!
The band "Canine" released a new single, "Vessels", this week. The song deals with depression, anxiety and addiction, moving between the understanding that depression is a real illness that can consume you at any moment, much like cancer,
and the endless search for some relief, peace of mind and a place to call home. The band dedicated the song to people who face this "invisible" illness every day, every hour.
The band SHREDHEAD releases a new video for "Risk of Rain". The band worked with Norbert Crowfield, who spent around six months capturing nature and landscapes on Tenerife and adding his own touch to create the finished video. A reminder that SHREDHEAD will play Reading 3 at Tel Aviv Port on August 24. The band also shares a little trivia: the song's title is a tribute to the video game of the same name, which all the members played.
If you made the fatal mistake of missing "The FINAL ROUND" by "Hotbox", you have a chance to make up for it: the band uploaded the full show to YouTube yesterday. Here is the madness that went down:
Nearly 30 years ago, "Green Day" changed punk rock forever with its defining album, "Dookie". Now the band is beginning the 30th-anniversary celebrations for "Dookie" with a release of demo versions of the album's songs. This is only the beginning: to mark three decades of this landmark album, the band will release an expanded edition on September 29, with four CDs or six LPs featuring outtakes, demos and live recordings.
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