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Former JOURNEY singer Steve Perry has announced the digital release of his first holiday record of his illustrious career, "The Season", on November 5. For years, fans have been asking for Perry's unmistakable voice to bring-in the holiday season. Steve notes: "I hope when people hear this record they're teleported in the same way I was when I recorded all these songs. I hope it brings them back to those golden moments with their loved ones and gives them that feeling of joy and connection and comfort that we all need so much." All eight tracks on the record come straight from the heart as Steve hopes to send listeners to the place they find the most comfort during the holiday season, which, for Steve, is his grandmother's home. "I'll Be Home for Christmas" opens on a cascade of layered vocals that perfectly capture its mood of melancholy longing. "As I was singing that song, I closed my eyes and all of a sudden found myself standing in the doorway that looked onto the living room of my grandmother's house," Perry recalls. "Her Christmas tree was always loaded with presents underneath, and covered with the tinsel that my mother and I put on to make the tree shimmer. I could see that tree so clearly in my mind, and then I opened my eyes and thought, 'Whoa — where did I just go?' Now everybody has passed, of course, but for just that moment I was home for Christmas." "The Season" track listing: 01. The Christmas Song 02. I'll Be Home For Christmas 03. Auld Lang Syne 04. Winter Wonderland 05. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve 06. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town 07. Silver Bells 08. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas Last October, Perry told Rolling Stone that he had been busy creating new music since the April 2020 release of his cover version of the BEACH BOYS classic "In My Room". "I have a studio and I'm always writing and always recording stuff," he said. "I have lots of music, so much stuff." Perry's first solo album in more than two decades, "Traces", was released in October 2018 via Fantasy Records (a division of Concord Records/UMG). He credited his late girlfriend, psychologist Kellie Nash, who died more than seven years ago, with helping him want to sing again; she'd made him promise he wouldn't go back into isolation when she passed. Perry dated Nash for nearly two years before she died in December 2012 after being diagnosed with breast cancer. He mourned for two years, and then began recording again. Upon its release, "Traces" was met with wide acclaim and tremendous excitement from fans and critics all over the world. The album entered the Billboard 200 Albums chart at No. 6, Perry's highest debut as a solo artist and earned the Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer his best-ever chart entries in the U.K., Germany, Canada and Japan. Perry reunited with JOURNEY for the first time in years as they were inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in April 2017. The iconic singer appeared onstage with his former bandmates as they each gave speeches, but did not perform with the group later in the event.

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GHOST's cover version of the METALLICA classic "Enter Sandman" can be streamed below. The track is taken from "The Metallica Blacklist", a four-hour, 53-song collection of the "Black Album" covers spanning an unbelievably vast range of genres, generations, cultures, continents and more, with each artist contributing a unique interpretation of their favorite "Metallica" LP cut. In a 2019 interview with Impericon, GHOST leader Tobias Forge said that METALLICA is "one of the most important bands for me — has been for a long time. Definitely a band without whom I probably wouldn't do these things. I wanted to be a rock musician before I knew, or before I was enamored with METALLICA, but they definitely inspired me. When I was a kid and liked THE ROLLING STONES and PINK FLOYD and Jimi Hendrix and all that, they were clearly from another time doing something that sort of belonged to the past, whereas METALLICA, when I started listening to them, they were very much current and they were very now. They were the biggest band in the world at that time, and still are. But they inspired me in many, many ways. And nowadays, of course, I get the amazing opportunity to be inspired and be taught, firsthand, by a band that I've spent so many years learning from from a distance." "The Metallica Blacklist" offers up new dimensions of the record whose gravitational pull first drew the mainstream to METALLICA — and provides new insights into the universal and timeless appeal that kept it there: the boundary-smashing influence these 12 songs have had on fans and musicians of all stripes. "The Metallica Blacklist"'s 53 tracks find singer songwriters, country artists, electronic and hip hop artists sharing their love of these songs alongside punk rockers, indie darlings, icons of rock, metal, world music and many, many more… and for 50+ good causes: Profits will be divided evenly between charities of the artist's choice and METALLICA's All Within My Hands foundation. "The Metallica Blacklist" is a fitting and limitless homage, one that features bands who've shared stages with METALLICA alongside artists who are younger than the original album. It's a truly staggering, at times mystifying assemblage of musicians, dozens of whom have little to nothing in common other than the shared passion for the music that's united them for this album. All profits from "The Metallica Blacklist" will be split evenly between the All Within My Hands foundation and 50+ charities chosen by the artists who play on the album. All Within My Hands was founded by the band in 2017 as a way for the entire METALLICA family to give back to communities that have supported the band by supporting workforce education, the fight against hunger, and other critical local services. "The Metallica Blacklist" features the following tracks: * ALESSIA CARA & THE WARNING - Enter Sandman * MAC DEMARCO - Enter Sandman * GHOST - Enter Sandman * JUANES - Enter Sandman * RINA SAWAYAMA - Enter Sandman * WEEZER - Enter Sandman * SAM FENDER - Sad But True (Live) * JASON ISBELL - Sad But True * MEXICAN INSTITUTE OF SOUND FEAT. LA PERLA & GERA MX - Sad But True * ROYAL BLOOD - Sad But True * ST. VINCENT - Sad But True * WHITE REAPER - Sad But True * YB - Sad But True * BIFFY CLYRO - Holier Than Thou * THE CHATS - Holier Than Thou * OFF! - Holier Than Thou * PUP - Holier Than Thou * COREY TAYLOR - Holier Than Thou * CAGE THE ELEPHANT - The Unforgiven * VISHAL DADLANI, DIVINE, SHOR POLICE - The Unforgiven * DIET CIG - The Unforgiven * FLATBUSH ZOMBIES FEAT. DJ SCRATCH - The Unforgiven * HA*ASH - The Unforgiven * JOSÉ MADERO - The Unforgiven * MOSES SUMNEY - The Unforgiven * J BALVIN - Wherever I May Roam * CHASE & STATUS FEAT. BACKROAD GEE - Wherever I May Roam * THE NEPTUNES - Wherever I May Roam * JON PARDI - Wherever I May Roam * SEBASTIAN - Don't Tread On Else Matters * PORTUGAL. THE MAN FEAT. AARON BEAM - Don't Tread On Me * VOLBEAT - Don't Tread On Me * THE HU - Through The Never * TOMI OWÓ - Through The Never * PHOEBE BRIDGERS - Nothing Else Matters * MILEY CYRUS FEAT. WATT, ELTON JOHN, YO-YO MA, ROBERT TRUJILLO, CHAD SMITH - Nothing Else Matters * DAVE GAHAN - Nothing Else Matters * MICKEY GUYTON - Nothing Else Matters * DERMOT KENNEDY - Nothing Else Matters * MON LAFERTE - Nothing Else Matters * IGOR LEVIT - Nothing Else Matters * MY MORNING JACKET - Nothing Else Matters * PG ROXETTE - Nothing Else Matters * DARIUS RUCKER - Nothing Else Matters * CHRIS STAPLETON - Nothing Else Matters * TRESOR - Nothing Else Matters * GOODNIGHT, TEXAS - Of Wolf And Man * IDLES - The God That Failed * IMELDA MAY - the god that failed * CHERRY GLAZERR - My Friend Of Misery * IZÏA - My Friend Of Misery * KAMASI WASHINGTON - My Friend Of Misery * RODRIGO Y GABRIELA - The Struggle Within Photo credit: Ebru Yildiz

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Welsh metallers BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE have released "Shatter", the third single from their upcoming seventh, self-titled studio album. Due on October 22, "Bullet For My Valentine" follows the success of the band's last album, 2018's "Gravity", which saw the metal juggernauts' catalog surpass one billion streams in the U.S. That accomplishment solidifies BULLET's hard-earned status as one of the most elite bands in the hard rock scene. On the last cycle, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE played its biggest shows to date, including a U.K. arena tour and a massive show at London's Alexandra Palace. But this time around, the band has taken things back to basics. "Bullet For My Valentine" is stacked with squealing solos and monstrous riffs that will delight fans — both new and old. "I think it's the most ferocious side of BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE that I've ever known," says lead guitarist Michael "Padge" Paget. "It's time for us to put out a really angry, heavy, aggressive record. I just can't wait to grimace on stage!" "I wanted to come out guns blazing, fucking middle fingers flying, and just go for the throat," agrees vocalist and lead guitarist Matt Tuck. "I think this is a far more aggressive, intense part of BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE. It's always been there. I've just never opened the floodgates on it. I want to take people's heads off in a metaphorical way. "This is the beginning of BULLET 2.0. It signifies where we are right now. The music is fresh, it's aggressive, it's more visceral and passionate than it's ever been." Tuck began writing the album in September 2019 before the coronavirus pandemic brought things screeching to a halt in early 2020. But in June 2020, Tuck and longtime producer, Carl Bown, who co-produced the band's 2015 album, "Venom", and produced and mixed "Gravity", picked up the pace again. Together, they hunkered down at Treehouse Studio in Chesterfield, where the remainder of the album was written. Aptly self-titled, the band has triumphed, creating an album that will cement its place in the metal pantheon. "Bullet For My Valentine" track listing: 01. Parasite 02. Knives 03. My Reverie 04. No Happy Ever After 05. Can't Escape The Waves 06. Bastards 07. Rainbow Veins 08. Shatter 09. Paralysed 10. Death By a Thousand Cuts BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE is: Matt Tuck - Vocals, Rhythm Guitar Michael "Padge" Paget - Lead Guitar Jamie Mathias - Bass Jason Bowld - Drums