Rush: Clockwork Angels Tour DVD Coming November 19th

Rush have just announced that their anxiously awaited Clockwork Angels Tour DVD will be released on November 19th in both DVD and Blu-Ray formats.

From the announcement:

Rush Clockwork Angels Tour captures the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers' 2012-2013 sold-out tour from a unique point-of-view approach to filmmaking utilizing distinct composition and a voyeuristic style that at varying moments puts the viewer on the stage, at the side of the stage, and throughout the arena. 

For the first time ever the legendary band (Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Neil Peart) was accompanied on this tour by an eight-piece string section! This electrifying 2-DVD or single Blu-ray concert (both formats contain the same content) features over 3 hours of music including favorites Tom Sawyer and The Spirit of Radio, 3 drum solos, new string arrangements of classics such as YYZ, Dreamline and Red Sector A, and rarely performed songs such as The Body Electric and Middletown Dreams. 

Extensive bonus features include a full version of Limelight from soundcheck and an exclusive backstage documentary shot throughout Europe. With over 40 million albums sold worldwide and more consecutive gold and platinum awards than any other rock band following The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, Rush remains one of the most inventive, compelling, and relevant musical groups today.

"Clockwork Angels Tour" track listing: 

Set One: 

01. Subdivisions 02. The Big Money 03. Force Ten 04. Grand Designs 05. The Body Electric 06. Territories 07. The Analog Kid 08. Bravado 09. Where's My Thing?/ Here It Is! (drum solo) 10. Far Cry 

Set Two: 

11. Caravan * 12. Clockwork Angels * 13. The Anarchist * 14. Carnies * 15. The Wreckers * 16. Headlong Flight */ Drumbastica (drum solo) 17. Peke's Repose (guitar solo)/ Halo Effect * 18. Seven Cities of Gold * 19. Wish Them Well * 20. The Garden * 21. Dreamline * 22. The Percussor (I) Binary Love Theme (II) Steambanger's Ball (drum solo) 23. Red Sector A * 24. YYZ * 25. The Spirit Of Radio 

Encore: 

26. Tom Sawyer 27. 2112 

Bonus: 

28. Limelight (soundcheck recording) 29. Middletown Dreams 30. The Pass 31. Manhattan Project 

Special Features (Blu-ray/DVD only) 

* Can't Stop Thinking Big (25-minute tour documentary) 

* Behind The Scenes (featuring Jay Baruchel) 

* Outtakes 

* Interview With Dwush 

* Family Goy 

* Family Sawyer 

* The Watchmaker (intermission tour film) 

* Office Of The Watchmaker (closing tour film)

"Black Sabbath: Live...Gathered In Their Masses"; New Live DVD Due Out November 26

Black Sabbath will release "Black Sabbath: Live...Gathered In Their Masses" as a live DVD soon. You can now watch the teaser below. 

Due out November 26th, the DVD was recorded in April 29th and May 1st, 2013 in Melbourne, Australia (additional details TBA), when the band  kicked off their world tour in support of their "13" album, which entered the charts at #1 in 13 countries (including their first #1 in the US).

The lower clip below features fan-filmed video of Black Sabbath's entire August 28th show in Irvine, CA at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre.

Motörhead: "Aftershock" Cover Art Revealed; Classic Rock Fanpack Edition To Be Released

The cover art for Motörhead´s 21th studio album was revealed today. "Aftershock" will be out October 22. It was recorded at Maple Sound Studios in Santa Ana, California with longtime producer Cameron Webb.

"Aftershock", will be released as a an official Classic Rock collectors fanpack that features the new LP in full plus a 132-page magazine that forms the "ultimate sleevenotes" to the new release, with extensive and exclusive interviews with Lemmy, Mikkey Dee and Phil Campbell. 

Pre-order your copy now at this location (official on-sale date is October 21). 

Fanpack edition includes: 

* New album "Aftershock" 

* 132-page magazine 

* Giant double-sided poster 

* Exclusive Motörhead car sticker 

"Aftershock" tracklisting:

Heartbreaker
Coup de Grace
Lost Woman Blues
End Of Time
Do You Believe
Death Machine
Dust And Glass
Going To Mexico
Silence When You Speak To Me
Crying Shame
Queen Of The Damned
Knife
Keep Your Powder Dry
Paralyzed



"Aftershock will be made available in the follwing formats:
* CD album Digipack
* CD album Jewel case
* Double LP Gatefold sleeve
* Digital album
* D2C version (exclusive Direct to Consumer package

“Steal it if you must, buy it if you can!” says Lemmy, who’s pride in the album is so immense that guests to his home and dressing room in the last couple of months have been treated to extremely loud airings of the rough mixes, while Phil Campbell adds, “I really think the variation on the album shows that we’ve dug deep and produced some of our best work for a long time.”

“It is,” says Mikkey Dee, “a really, really strong Motörhead album, one that really does define everything this band stands for.”

Judas Priest: Completes Writing New Album; "It´s Heavy", Says Rob Halford

Rob Halford spoke to Billboard.com about the progress of the songwriting and recording sessions for the band's long-awaited follow-up to 2008's "Nostradamus". 

"The writing process is complete," he said. "Now it's the painstaking work of making sure that you get every single note, every single nuance of the vocal, every tiny aspect...right. We're still tracking (instruments). It's just a very laborious but enjoyable part of making the record." 

Regarding the sound of the new Priest material, Halford said, "[It's] hard. It's heavy. It's something we think our Priest fans will be thrilled with. We know we have a reputation to maintain, and we know we have to deliver something really strong and solid. The album is going to be full of all the great things you love about Judas Priest - I don't think I can say anything more than that without being hung, drawn and quartered."

Priest plans to tour in support of the album, though not quite as extensively as it has in the past. Next year will also mark the 40th anniversary of the group's debut album, "Rocka Rolla," which Halford says will be commemorated in some way.

Deep Purple: "The Audio Fidelity Collection" Box Set Coming In December

Audio Fidelity will be re-releasing the four remastered Mark II studio albums as a box set this December. These are not the anniversary remasters, but the ones done by Steve Hoffman exclusively for the label. They contain no bonus tracks, just the same material as the original albums. The target audience are audiophiles not satisfied with the audio quality of the anniversary remasters, completis collectors, and the lovers of shiny things.

"The Audio Fidelity Collection" contains four classic Deep Purple 24K Gold CD titles from the Mark II line-up - the most celebrated line-up in the band's history recorded from 1970-1973:
"In Rock", "Machine Head", "Fireball" and "Who Do We Think We Are"

The four albums have already been previously released by Audio Fidelity separately as limited editions, and fetch a pretty penny at secondary markets. Priced at $130, this is a reasonable opportunity to pick up all four of their remasters for those who don’t have them.