Day in Rock Report for 08/19/2022

Red Hot Chili Peppers have premiered music video for their new single "Tippa My Tongue". The song comes from their forthcoming album, "Return Of The Dream Canteen", which will arrive on October 14th.

The new video features animation from Julien Calemard and Thami Nabil and reunited the band with direction Malia James who they worked with on the "These Are The Ways" video earlier this year. (read more)

Five Finger Death Punch have released a music video for their new single, "Times Like These", which comes from their brand new ninth studio album, "AfterLife".

Guitarist Zoltan Bathory said of the new album, "'AfterLife' is my Favorite Five Finger Death Punch record to date and it was also the most fun to make. If the previous album 'F8' was dubbed as the 'rebirth' of the band, then this one is our 'transcendence' for sure. (read more)

Ellefson-Soto, the new project from Megadeth cofounder David Ellefson and veteran vocalist Jeff Scott Soto, have announced that they will be releasing debut album this fall.

The record, entitled, "Vacation In The Underworld", is scheduled to hit stores on October 7th and Ellefson and Soto are joined on the effort by Andy Martongelli and Paulo Caridi. (read more)

At The Gates took to social media on Wednesday (August 17th) to welcome Daniel Martinez of Atheist fame as their touring lead guitarist for their current North American Tour.

Martinez is stepping in to replace Jonas Stalhammar for their tour celebrating the anniversary of their "Slaughter Of The Soul" album that features support from Municipal Waste. (read more)

Doriana Spurrell just released her new EP, "Forward", and to celebrate we asked the Americana star and songwriter to tell us about the song "Until I Die". Here is the story:

One of my favorite things about songwriting is how obscure and creative I can get with it. One of the songs featured on "Forward," my new EP, is called "Until I Die," and it's got a pretty unique story behind it. Most of my songs come from poetry I write; I consider poetry and songwriting to be almost one in the same. So I borrow a lot of lines and ideas from my poetry. This one came from a poem I was calling "colors," which I was inspired to write because of some colored pencils, actually. Writing poetry is like a discovery -- it forces me to find multiple meanings in my words. The idea of the colored pencils turned into the idea of creativity and how our ideas of creativity often get warped as we age. (continue)

(hennemusic) Motley Crue are sharing a remastered version of the video for their 1983 single, "Looks That Kill."

The song - which followed the title track to "Shout At The Devil" as the second tune issued from the band's second album - has the distinction of delivering the group their first appearance on the US Billboard Hot 100, where it peaked at No. 54 on the chart, while also reaching No. 12 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks list. (read more)

Organizers have announced additional artists that have been added to the upcoming KISS Kruise XI, which will feature two separate cruises this fall.

Both cruises will travel from Los Angeles to Cabo San Lucas and Ensenada, Mexico and week 1 will take place on October 24th through 29th and the new additions include Caleb Johnson & The Ramblin Saints, The Alive, and Guillotine and The Aviators, joining the previously announced KISS, Dokken, Warrant, L.A. Guns, Bruce Kulick and more. (read more)

Americana/alt-country singer-songwriter and bassist Deb Morrison has released a cinematic, short film-style music video for her new single, "Blackbird".

The song comes from her forthcoming debut solo album "The North Fork", which will arrive on September 9th. The "Blackbird" video keeps viewers on the edge of their seats with its haunting, ethereal visuals and stars actor Todd Lowe ("True Blood," "Gilmore Girls") alongside an eclectic cast of characters including a friend of Morrison's whose near-death experience inspired the song's lyrics. It was directed by Morrison and Nic Capelle of Rockton Road Studios, who also co-directed "The North Fork" and produced Morrison's upcoming album. (read more)

(hennemusic) The Band are streaming a series of live videos to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the release of their 1972 live album, "Rock Of Ages." The project captures the outfit performing during a four-night series of shows at the Academy of Music in New York City during the final days of 1971.

The Band are sharing several performance videos from the December 30 show filmed by Howard Alk and Murray Lerner; they have been newly-upscaled and are now available for the first time, including "Don't Do It," a cover of Marvin Gaye's "Baby Don't You Do It," and their own classics, "King Harvest (Has Surely Come)" and "The W.S. Walcott Medicine Show." (read more)

84 Tigers (Feat. Members of Small Brown Bike, The Swellers) have released a music video for their new single, "Great Basin", which comes from their forthcoming debut album, "Time In The Lighthouse" (Out October 21st).

Mike Reed had this to say about the track, "With this one we tried to capture some of the energy of being stuck in a storm. It's about those massive environmental forces and how we're constantly in a push and pull battle with the elements. The idea was to create a song that had that energy, and feels like you're in a race against something, teetering on the edge." (read more)

Blacklite District (Kyle Pfeiffer) recent released a visualizer video for his latest single, "Back Into Darkness." The video was created by Amber Pfeiffer and produced by Brett Hestla (Creed, Dark New Day).

Kyle had this to say, "I want to give a huge shoutout to Skratch N' Sniff for premiering this new visualizer, and for all the love they've shown my music over the past couple of years. (read more)

Lee Brice is celebrating the RIAA Gold Certification for his current radio single, "Soul," which was written by Kevin Kadish and Tony Ferrari, and marks Brice's 13th consecutive radio single to achieve RIAA certification.

Brice had this to say, "I am completely bowled over time and time again by how amazing the fans are! They keep my music playing and keep showing up to the shows - this is all because of them. I'm truly honored and feel like one lucky son-of-a-gun to get to do what I love." (read more)