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Friday release # 100 A new song from a new forthcoming album from "U.D.O." Of Udo Dirkschneider, who just don't stop for a moment and continues to release materials from several projects simultaneously. July 2020, U.D.O. Collaborated with "Das Musikkorps der Bundeswehr", the military band of the German Federal Armed Forces, on an album "We Are One". This album included a collaboration with his former bandmates Peter Baltes (bass) and Stefan Kaufmann (guitar) and it led to the formation of a new band called "Dirkschneider & The Old Gang" which released three songs and a mini album called "Arising" in August 2020. Later, in March 2021, the band U.D.O.'s fifth live album "Live in Bulgaria 2020 - Pandemic Survival Show" was released. The Album was recorded on September 18, 2020, and was one of the only shows of such magnitude in front of an audience during the Covid-19 period. Today we are already announcing that the band U.D.O, will release their new album "Game Over", on October 22, 2021 when the leading single from it with the binding name "Metal Never Dies" released today. As can only be understood from the album's title, "Game Over", continues the line of "We Are One" and warns that if humanity does not reconsider a change of behavior, it may find itself facing deadly consequences. The line of protest that calls for the world to awaken can also be learned from the title of the songs themselves. For example, "Prophecy," "Marching Tank" or "Kids And Guns" which deals with increased arms sales and regulation in the U.S. arms industry, leading to higher homicide rates. This is the band's first studio album in 3 years, since the excellent "Steelfactory" LP released in 2018. This is the first time the band has written an entire album with the band's two new members, bassist Tilen Hudrap and guitarist Dee Dammers, who have already visited Israel in a performance at the Havana Club Club in Tel Aviv in April 2019. To listen to: Spotify Song List: 01. Fear Detector 02. Holy Invaders 03. Prophecy 04. Empty Eyes 05. I See Red 06. Metal Never Dies 07. Kids And Guns 08. Like A Beast 09. Don't Wanna Say Goodbye 10. Unbroken 11. Marching Tank 12. Thunder Road 13. Midnight Stranger 14. Speed Seeker 15. Time Control 16. Metal Damnation Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Friday Release # 98 And this time ... A 50 year old release !!! A new song by George Harrison, an outtake from the recordings of the immortal album "All Things Must Pass", which suddenly popped up now on the occasion of the 50th anniversary release of the album, which is due out on August 6, 2021. It turns out that when we wrote that in the album "All Things Must Pass" George Harrison's "volcano" erupted, we did not really understand that the echoes of this explosion would continue to resonate even 50 years later... It turns out that the song "Cosmic Empire" released today in its original demo version and without any production is just one of 17 new outtakes and 30 demos (!!!), which did not enter the triple and masterful album. It's just crazy!!! The package will include 5 discs + a Blue Ray disc or 8 vinyl records in the super deluxe version, and we are already excited to get to know a new 50 year old material of the quiet, modest and so talented beatle. Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Our latest falling in love "Nothing But Thieves" just dropped a new single !! We are very excited with this new song which sounds like a great evolvement from the previous album "Moral Panic" which came out last year. They have a very simple structure and dynamics but their sound and power are addictive, the integration of Conor Mason vocals with rest of band sound is absolutely amazing. From the first note they grab you, at the beginning it is gentle but than it is getting more and more strong. The band said they were inspired by the Hip-Hop dynamic sound, they compare between some of their heavier songs and the more aggressive side of hip hop which they wanted to try and get with this song. The band said: “It’s dark and chromatic and then it’s mixed like a hip hop track with loud drums and vocals. The idea was to try and explore that territory in the most authentic and fresh way.” Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Readers of "Total Guitar" and "Guitar World" magazines chose the greatest guitar riff of all time! In the July 2021 magazine of "Total Guitar" which was released on June 4, 2021 you will find the complete list of the 50 greatest riffs of all time chosen by the readers of the esteemed magazines. From the Beatles to Metallica you'll find Ozzy Osborne's "Crazy Train" in second place, AC/DC's "Back in Black" in third, Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water" in fourth place, "Ain't Talkin' Bout Love" from Van Helen in fifth, Metallica's "Enter Sandman" in sixth, Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" in seventh, Pantera's "Walk" in eighth, ZZ Top's "La Grange" in ninth and Hendrix' "Purple Haze" in 10th place. The list also includes Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit", Rage Against The Machine's "Killing in the Name", Slipknot's "Psychosocial" and Opeth and Heart are also there. And who in the first place you ask? So readers of the magazine chose Led Zeppelin's "Whole Lotta Love" riff as the greatest of all time. This is the full list: 50: Heir Apparent – Opeth 49: Ticket To Ride – The Beatles 48: All Right Now – Free 47: G.O.A.T. – Polyphia 46: Outshined – Soundgarden 45: No One Knows – Queens Of The Stone Age 44: Can’t Stop – Red Hot Chili Peppers 43: Life In The Fast Lane – Eagles 42: Message In A Bottle – The Police 41: Stargazer – Rainbow 40: Alive – Pearl Jam 39: Born To Be Wild – Steppenwolf 38: Psychosocial – Slipknot 37: Scuttle Buttin’ – Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble 36: Mississippi Queen – Mountain 35: Sweet Child O’ Mine – Guns N’ Roses 34: Man In The Box – Alice In Chains 33: You Really Got Me – The Kinks 32: The Boys Are Back In Town – Thin Lizzy 31: Lateralus – Tool 30: Seven Nation Army – The White Stripes 29: The Spirit Of Radio – Rush 28: (Don’t Fear) The Reaper – Blue Oyster Cult 27: Barracuda – Heart 26: Breaking The Law – Judas Priest 25: Walk This Way – Aerosmith 24: 2 Minutes To Midnight – Iron Maiden 23: Beat It – Michael Jackson 22: Ace Of Spades – Motörhead 21: Money – Pink Floyd 20: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction – The Rolling Stones 19: Sweet Home Alabama – Lynyrd Skynyrd 18: Angel Of Death – Slayer 17: Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana 16: Killing In The Name – Rage Against The Machine 15: Symphony Of Destruction – Megadeth 14: Sunshine Of Your Love – Cream 13: Money For Nothing – Dire Straits 12: Johnny B. Goode – Chuck Berry 11: Layla – Derek And The Dominos 10: Purple Haze – Jimi Hendrix 9: La Grange – ZZ Top 8: Walk – Pantera 7: Iron Man – Black Sabbath 6: Enter Sandman – Metallica 5: Ain’t Talkin’ ’Bout Love – Van Halen 4: Smoke On The Water – Deep Purple 3: Back In Black – AC/DC 2: Crazy Train – Ozzy Osbourne 1: Whole Lotta Love – Led Zeppelin Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Singer David Lee Roth has released a brand new song called "Giddy-Up", as part of a planned 11-track album whose date has yet to be released. The song "Giddy-Up" was first introduced in November 2020 when Roth released a 17-episode online comic book called "The Roth Project", written and drawn by David Lee Roth himself (for those who have not listened and watched - recommended). David also painted the cover of the single. The online comic included four more songs: "Somewhere Over the Rainbow Bar and Grill," "Alligator Pants," "Lo-Rez Sunset" and "Manda Bala," all written and recorded with guitarist / bassist John 5 in collaboration with drummer Gregg Bissonette, Keyboardist Brett Tuggle and percussionist Luis Conte. David and John have collaborated on a number of additional songs that are planned to be released in an album that will include 11 songs. These are materials Roth wrote for his solo career and for Van Halen, but were not released. Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Friday Release #94 The project featuring former ACCEPT band members Udo Dirkschneider (vocals), Peter Baltes (bass) and Stefan Kaufmann (guitar) has released a new single accompanied by a video clip - "Every Heart Is Burning". The ensemble also includes Sven Dirkschneider (drums) - son of Udo, Manuela Bibert (vocals) and Mathias Dieth (guitar). This is the band's third single after "Where The Angels Fly" released in September 2020 and "Face Of A Stranger", released in April 2021. On August 27, all three songs will be released as a mini-album called "Arising". Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Thirty Seconds to Mars are celebrating the post-Covid-19 return to live music with a new video for “Hail to the Victor,” taken from their 2018 album America. It looks like they were missing their fans, their music and their shows. A music video which is a celebration of freedom, out of the lockdown, out of the limitations and back to music, back to live shows. Not surprising that they choose this electro hype pop song, 3 years after the album America was out. Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

One day when I was 14, I read in the daily newspaper a review of two masterpieces that came out at the time, "Gentleman" by The Afghan Whigs and the other was Soundgarden's "Superunknown" ... these were my first years on my musical journey. That day, I went to the record store on a nearby street and listened to the marvel called Soundgarden and the unique, unrecoverable voice of Chris Cornell. From then until today my life has evolved and changed, Chris has also evolved and changed... for me while listening, even 4 years after he left. He created more wonderful and less wonderful things ... but always the same voice, the intensity (and in retrospect also with pain), they were an integral part of my life soundtrack. When I was alone, together with my amazing friends and later, even intensified with my beloved wife and our precious young daughters. To this day he is the artist we have seen the most ... every visit to the holy land, we were there. His death hit me so unexpectedly. Even after I lost relatives, I did not describe how you could feel that way with the physical loss of someone ... especially one you did not know personally. Crying in the office and not realizing / believing that I feel it in such a sharp way ... the tears have flowed and occasionally the same teary eyes revisit. Why? Through the sounds, words, emotion and messages he tried to convey / still conveys to us, every time we listened something that he touched... like any form of communication, he had an authenticity that penetrated, alongside rare talent he evoked empathy... as it also felt in every moving cover he performed ... as if without much effort "became his own". In retrospect, through the lyrics, Chris carried a lot more pain than we described ... and if we had to pick one song, it was easy to pick one with pain, that connects us to the last stop in our relationship - "the Farewell" with all the bumming emotions that comes with it. But he, like his music, evokes a lot more emotions ... and they keep pounding ... Through the masterpieces with Temple Of The Dog, Soundgarden, Audioslave or the marvelous solo career, there is a connection of sounds and words that resonate and remind us that it is woven into our souls. Thank god🙏 for the privilege that we got and still get,to have this as part of the soundtrack in our lives ... like this song, it was and still is a thunderous ...LOUD.. LOVE ...this way we did got to know each other! Soundgarden - Loud 🖤 Love The Wiz On Facebook

Pearl Jam’s "Ten Club" announced today, May 6th the launch of DEEP, an immersive live web hub. Now, you can listen to 186 official shows - containing up to 5,404 individual tracks, spanning two decades of the band’s tour history. By accessing this hub, fans can now search their favorite shows by category and listen to custom-curated playlists, including “Best of CITY,” “Best of YEAR,” “Best Political Songs,” “Best Covers,” as well as playlists for new fans such as “Pearl Jam for Dummies,” and many more. By popular request, DEEP also features a Custom Setlist Generator. By inputting your name and birthday, you can receive a custom setlist generated in Eddie Vedder’s instantly recognizable handwriting. The setlist also transforms into a streamable, custom playlist that has the added bonus of written personal descriptions for the Bootlegs, by the fans. Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Dave Grohl is well know for his love of Music History and his desire (which increased dramatically during the COVID) to share his backstage, inside stories. We already saw it in "Sound City" documentary. On April 30th Dave's new movie "What Drives Us" is out. The movie tells the stories of some of the biggest artists in music, recalling the romance and adventure, as well as the insanity and chaos, of their time on the road. It also outlines how a VAN becomes a band’s home of sorts and how its legacy endures all these years later. While the world has changed, the custom has not changed. There is no other way to know whether you can make it in this business. You have to get in the VAN !! Participants include Foo Fighters, Ringo Starr, Flea, Brian Johnson, St. Vincent, Slash, Duff McKagan, Ben Harper, The Edge, Mike Watt, Ian Mackaye, Exene Cervenka, Tony Kanal, DH Peligro, Charlie Gabriel, Jennifer Finch, Dave Lombardo, Kira Roessler, Pete Stahl, Lars Ulrich, and Steven Tyler. Dave stated: “This film is my love letter to every musician that has ever jumped in an old van with their friends and left it all behind for the simple reward of playing music,” The movie will stream on Amazon Prime Video WW beginning on April 30. Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Suddenly, in complete surprise, the 77-year-old rocker Mick Jagger indulge us with a new song in which he collaborates with Dave Grohl which plays guitar, bass and drums. The two released "Eazy Sleazy" - a kind of COVID-19 rock anthem about lockdown, zoom app, masks, vaccine deniers and more, all while celebrating the return to freedom ... It has already been defined as the rock anthem of the "Post Covid-19 lockdowns". Mick Jagger tweeted about it as follows: "I wanted to share this song that I wrote about coming out of lockdown, with some much needed optimism - thank you to Dave Grohl for jumping on drums, bass and guitar, it was a lot of fun working with you on this-hope you all enjoy Eazy Sleazy!" And if you're already fascinated by the simple, kicking and direct rock'n'roll of "Eazy Sleazy", then it's hard not to mention the great resemblance to the song "Liar" by the Sex Pistols ... Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to the website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Radio show, Sundays at 11:00

Friday release, sponsored by Covid-19 # 15 Another new single released yesterday, a new song by David Gilmour, his first in 5 years. The song was written by David Gilmour to accompany the audio book "A Theater For Dreamers", published by his wife Polly Samson, following the original novel released about three months ago. Gilmour noted that audio books have an unrealized potential for collaborating with musicians. It seemed natural to him that other artists should collaborate with writers to accompany the audio books in music, as his new song "Yes, I Have Ghosts" accompanies the book "A Theater For Dreamers". The beautiful acoustic song also features Gilmore daughter Romany, singing and playing the harp. Gilmour noted that he started working on the song just as the Covid-19 crisis erupted and he was in lockdown, so he was forced to cancel the sessions designed to take place with other musicians and backing singers. David Gilmour went on to work on the song with his daughter Romany and said he could not have been more pleased with the way her voice blends in with his and the way she accompanied him in playing the harp, which was a new discovery for him. For listening: Spotify, Apple Music. Follow us on Facebook or Subscribe to our website "Face/Off" - Israel's Rock Blog & Podcast