Power metal pioneers, Dynazty, have released the new single, “Call Of The Night”, the opening track of their new album, Game Of Faces, out on February 14 via Nuclear Blast.
Singer Nils Molin comments: “Night-time. A time for calm and tranquility or a time for fears, deceit and, villainousness? When light shifts so does the mind of man. ‘I have seen the depths of the dark well. I know the stories it can tell. The allure of danger, strangers, and the promises they sell.’ We’re proud to present you with the opening track and one of my personal favorites of the album – ‘Call Of The Night’. Enjoy and don’t forget to place your pre-order of Game Of Faces, out on February 14!”
Stream the single on all platforms and check out the video below:
The new album, Game Of Faces, contains eleven brand new tracks and will be available in the following formats: CD jewelcase, vinyl, and digital. Pre-order here.
Game Of Faces tracklisting:
“Call Of The Night” “Game Of Faces” “Devilry Of Ecstasy” “Die To Survive” “Fire To Fight” “Dark Angel” “Fortune Favors The Brave” “Sole Survivor” “Phoenix” “Dream Of Spring” “Mystery”
“Game Of Faces” video:
“Devilry Of Ecstasy” video:
Dynazty is:
Nils Molin: vocals Love Magnusson: guitar Mikael Lavér: guitar Jonathan Olsson: bass Georg Härnsten Egg: drums
Steve Hackett’s annual performances at Trading Boundaries, in Sussex, UK have become something of a tradition for the legendary guitarist in recent years. Presenting stripped down material, and showcasing his acclaimed classical compositions, these unique & intimate concerts have become a highlight of the year, beloved of his fans.
As Steve explains: “It’s always a joy for me to play at Trading Boundaries, a magical intimate place full of beautiful lights and exotic imagery, illuminating the darkest time of year over Christmas and New Year… It’s the perfect location for my acoustic set.”
Live Magic At Trading Boundaries, set for release on January 17, collects various recordings from these shows from over the years, and also features appearances from regular collaborators including brother John Hackett on flute, Roger King on keys, Rob Townsend on flute & sax, and Amanda Lehmann on guitar & vocals. The release also coincides with Steve’s next two live appearances at the venue, on January 18 & 19, 2025.
Today, he is pleased to release a live recording of the track “Jacuzzi”, originally featured on his 1980 solo album Defector, and you can check out the visualizer below.
Steve comments: “I’m thrilled to be releasing such a special album of live virtuoso performances over the years at such a magical venue.”
Live Magic At Trading Boundaries will be available as a Limited Edition CD Digipak, Gatefold 180g 2LP & Digital Album, mixed by long-time live sound engineer Ben Fenner. Pre-order here.
Tracklisting:
“Improv” “Blood On The Rooftops” “The Barren Land” “Black Light” “Horizons” “Jacuzzi” “Supper’s Ready” (Excerpt) “After The Ordeal” “Hairless Heart” “Jazz On A Summer’s Night” “Gnossienne No. 1” “Walking Away From Rainbows” “Poulenc Organ Concerto” (excerpt) “The Red Flower Of Tai Chi Blooms Everywhere” “Hands Of The Priestess” “Memory Lane” “Only Happy When It Rains” “Ace Of Wands” “The Journey”
“Ace Of Wands” visualizer:
Over the course of 17 tracks, Steve explores various facets of his catalogue, including Genesis classics like “Blood On The Rooftops” and “Horizons”, stripped down solo material such as “Ace Of Wands” and “Hands Of The Priestess”, and magical renditions of his much-acclaimed classical catalogue like “Black Light” and “The Journey”. As a result, this album shows a completely different side to his playing: “Somehow, you can feel the special atmosphere through the sound of the music on this new live album, which is a complete contrast to my live rock shows.”
“I love the delicate dreamlike quality of this show with John and Rob interplaying beautifully on flute and sax, interspersed by surprising moments of power, such as the point when Roger’s keys become the sound of a full blown pipe organ!” The album also features two performances of tracks from Amanda Lehmann’s most recent solo album ‘Innocence and Illusion’, “Amanda’s lovely vocals on her own spellbinding songs also provide a special contrast.”
Apocalyptica will launch their North American tour on February 6 in Washington, DC. The “Apocalyptica Plays Metallica Vol. 2 Tour” will feature support from guitar virtuoso, Nita Strauss.
An update from Apocalyptica states: “It’s high time for us to come for a visit to see you crazy metalheads! In less than a month, the “Plays Metallica Vol. 2 Tour” 2025 is going to blow your minds – new album, new show, new surprises – same hard and heavy cello-metal, but on a next level!
“For Washington, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Montreal, Detroit, Minneapolis, Winnipeg, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Calgary, Vancouver, Portland, Austin and Houston, you can still get some limited VIP-packages including a ticket, meet & greet, photo option, exclusive merchandise, crowd-free merch shopping and more! In all other cities – VIP is sold out!
“Check out all dates and see you there, soon!!!”
Tickets are available here. Tour dates are listed below.
Formed in 1993 at the world-renowned Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, Finland, Apocalyptica began as a loving, lo-fi nod to Metallica from four classically trained musicians. Their debut album, Plays Metallica By Four Cellos, released in 1996, was a game-changer. As founding band leader Eicca Toppinen explains, “We just loved Metallica and we wanted to play it with the instruments we were able to play, which just happened to be cellos. We played a metal club in Helsinki, and then we were asked to do an album. Five months after it was released, we were opening for Metallica. It’s still unbelievable to me.”
Fast forward to today, and Apocalyptica has released eight rapturously received records, sold six million albums, and toured relentlessly. Now, they continue their unique homage to Metallica with Plays Metallica, Vol. 2, featuring powerful collaborations with Metallica members and using original tracks from the legendary Cliff Burton. The album came out June 7, 2024 to rave reviews.
Tour dates:
February 6 – Washington, DC – Warner Theatre 7 – Philadelphia, PA – The Fillmore Philadelphia 8 – Boston, MA – Orpheum Theatre 11 – New York, NY – Brooklyn Paramount 12 – Montreal, QC – MTELUS 13 – Toronto, ON – Queen Elizabeth Theatre 14 – Cincinnati, OH – The Andrew J Brady Music Center 15 – Chicago, IL – Athenaeum Center 16 – Detroit, MI – The Fillmore Detroit 18 – Minneapolis, MN – Uptown Theater 19 – Winnipeg, MB – Burton Cummings Theatre 20 – Saskatoon, SK – Coors Event Centre 21 – Edmonton, AB – Midway Music Hall 22 – Calgary, AB – Grey Eagle Event Centre 24 – Vancouver, BC – Queen Elizabeth Theatre 25 – Seattle, WA – Moore Theatre 26 – Portland, OR – Crystal Ballroom 27 – San Francisco, CA – Palace of Fine Arts 28 – Los Angeles, CA – The Orpheum Theatre
March 1 – Phoenix, AZ – The Van Buren 3 – Denver, CO – Paramount Theatre 5 – Austin, TX – ACL Live – Moody Theater 6 – Dallas, TX – The Majestic Theatre 8 – Houston, TX – Bayou Music Center
Apocalyptica Plays Metallica, Vol. 2 is out now via new label Throwdown Entertainment.
Tracklisting:
“Ride The Lightning” “St. Anger” “The Unforgiven II” “Blackened” “The Call Of Ktulu” (in memory of Cliff Burton) “The Four Horsemen” (ft. Robert Trujillo) “Holier Than Thou” “To Live Is To Die” “One” “One” (Instrumental)
As wildfires continue to ravage Los Angeles County, several of the area’s most iconic landmarks have come under threat – among them, the Hollywood Bowl, reports Ultimate Classic Rock.
The Sunset Fire, one of six major fires in LA, broke out on Wednesday evening and spread rapidly. Its location in the famed Hollywood Hills puts it close to the Bowl, as well as such popular tourist attractions as the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Hollywood Sign.
“Due to the Sunset Fire, we have received evacuation orders and all Hollywood Bowl staff have safely evacuated the premises,” the famed concert venue announced on X. “We extend our deepest gratitude to the firefighters who are working tirelessly to protect our community.”
At time of writing, the Sunset Fire had burned more than 60 acres in approximately six hours. Firefighters have enlisted water dropping helicopters to help battle the blaze.
A little bit further away, the famous clubs of the Sunset Strip – including the Whisky a Go Go and the Troubadour – have canceled their shows out of an abundance of caution. Thus far, the fires have claimed five lives and more than 2,000 structures, with over 100,000 residents evacuated from their homes. Pacific Palisades and Altadena are among the other hard hit areas.
Ride and former Oasis guitarist Andy Bell has collaborated with Neu! and Harmonia guitarist Michael Rother on his brand new single, i’m in love.
The new single, a cover of post-punk band The Passions 1981 hit I’m In Love With A German Film Star, also features vocals from Dot Allison and gives the song a dream-pop meets krautrock makeover.
The single is taken from Bell’s upcoming third solo album, pinball wanderer, which he will release through Sonic Cathedral on February 28.
“I went through a stage of playing the guitar part for that song at every Ride soundcheck,” says Bell of the new single. “Erol Alkan has always maintained it’s ‘proto shoegaze’ and I agree. Dot has been a friend of mine for a long time now. Like many people of a certain age, I loved One Dove, and when I booked her to DJ at a club night in Sweden in about 2004, she levelled the place by playing Ace Of Spades by Motörhead at 3am and we became mates. I played on some tracks on her last album Consciousology and this was her returning the favour.
“Then, incredibly, Michael Rother from Neu! also ended up on it. I met him at his show at the Barbican last February and asked him to remix the song, but instead he decided he wanted to play guitar, which took everything to a whole new level. I was leaving for a tour the next morning and I knew I had to mix the single before I left. Hearing Michael’s guitar parts in the mix was such an incredible feeling; it just fired me up to keep on recording and mixing into the night.”
Bell will be playing a series of acoustic solo shows for the first time, forming part of a tour of independent record shops in February and March. The shows are as kick off with an album launch at London’s Stranger Than Paradise. You can see the full list of dates below.
pinball wanderer will be available in a variety of formats including limited cyan, magenta and yellow vinyl variants.
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Andy Bell: pinball wanderer 1, panic attack 2. i’m in love… 3. madder lake deep 4. apple green ufo 5. pinball wanderer 6. music concrete 7. the notes you never hear 8. space station mantra
Andy Bell acoustic shows
Feb 27: Londin Stranger Than Paradise Feb 28: Oxford Truck Store Mar 2: Bedford Slide outstore at Esquires Mar 3: Brighton Resident Mar 4: Coventry Just Dropped In Mar 5: Manchester Piccadilly Mar 6: Liverpool Jacaranda
Slayer’s Kerry King has revealed what his relationships with the members of Metallica look like, including original lead guitarist Dave Mustaine.
Talking on the Lipps Service With Scott Lipps podcast, the guitarist, who briefly played with Mustaine in Megadeth in 1985, says he has some time for the ex-Metallica man, but will always “bolt” before long.
“Mustaine’s cool, but Mustaine’s one of those guys that he can’t help but stick his foot in his mouth,” says King (via Blabbermouth). “So, I’ll take my 20 minutes and I’ll bolt just before anything gets uncomfortable.”
Turning to the current members of Metallica, the guitarist continues: “It’s funny, James [Hetfield, singer/guitarist] is one of those guys, even though we’ve got basically the same career, different circles, we did the Big Four [concerts featuring Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer and Anthrax in 2010 and 2011], he made a point to come say hey to us, but it’s funny that it hasn’t occurred in the 40 years we’ve both been doing this that I’ve rarely seen James.
“Kirk’s [Hammett, lead guitarist] cool, Rob’s [Trujillo, bassist] cool, Lars [Ulrich, drummer] is cool. We hang out when they feel like hanging out. Yeah, that’s all of ’em.”
Mustaine is one of metal’s most famously outspoken figureheads. For example, during a Megadeth concert in Northern Ireland in 1988, he dedicated a song to “the cause”, not knowing it was a sobriquet for the IRA. Megadeth had to be escorted across the Irish border in a bulletproof bus afterwards, and the incident partially inspired one of the band’s biggest songs, Holy Wars… The Punishment Due.
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“I think if myself and Dave Mustaine could have coexisted for four years, it would have been a very different band,” he reflected. “I’m not saying I’d have made them better – I’d have made them different.”
During a Loudwire interview in 2015, King said that he joined Megadeth because it could be a “gigantic learning situation” that helped promote Slayer.
“I didn’t go and say, ‘Hey, I’m gonna be in Megadeth,’” he explained, before quipping: “I don’t know how anybody can be in Megadeth for more than a couple hours. That guy [Mustaine] is crazy.”
Mustaine was in Metallica from 1982 to 1983 and formed Megadeth shortly after his dismissal. King co-founded Slayer in 1981 and, though the band retired in 2019, they reactivated last year as a live-only force.
“I knew The Poison was going to be massive!” Metal Hammer releases exclusive Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine bundle – featuring a t-shirt you can’t get anywhere else!
Alongside the new issue of the magazine, which comes with a cover you can’t buy anywhere else, the package contains a t-shirt only available through us! Its striking design pays tribute to the bands’ 2005 classics Ascendancy and The Poison, both of which will be played in full when they hit the road in late January.
“For [Matt Tuck, BFMV singer/guitarist] and I, these records in 2005 changed our lives,” Trivium frontman Matt Heafy says in the new Hammer. “But we were only able to really see the impact 10, 15, 20 years after. A lot of the coolest metal bands that I love these days, I’ll talk to them and they’ll say, ‘Trivium was my first live band I ever saw.’ Or they’ll say Ascendancy or The Poison was their first record. That’s so cool!”
“This is going to sound cocky here, but I knew the album was going to be massive,” Tuck adds as he looks back on The Poison. “I knew it was going to fucking kick off. I believed what we were doing was better than anyone else and it was more unique than anyone else. I believed in it, in me and in the band. Belief made this happen.”
As well as the Trivium x BFMV interview, the new Hammer lists the 50 albums metalheads will need to hear in 2025, including releases from such titans as Sleep Token, Halestorm, Architects, Jinjer and Cradle Of Filth.
“[Our new album is] called The Screaming Of The Valkyries and it should be out at the beginning of April,” Cradle Of Filth lynchpin Dani Filth reveals in a Hammer exclusive. “It’s got elements of everything we’ve done, really. It has a few head nods to works like Midian and Dusk And Her Embrace, especially in the atmosphere and the subject matter.”
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We also talk with decorated Alice Cooper guitarist Nita Strauss, throw your questions at Alice In Chains mainstay Jerry Cantrell and give you a sneak peek at a new Stranger Things graphic novel starring everybody’s favourite TV metalhead, Eddie Munson.
The European leg of The Poisoned Ascendancy kicks off in Cardiff on January 26. North American dates have been confirmed for the spring, and more shows are expected to be announced in the future. See the full list of concerts so far below.
Trivium x Bullet For My Valentine 2025 tour dates:
Jan 26: Cardiff Utilita Arena, UK Jan 27: Cardiff Utilita Arena, UK Jan 28: Glasgow OVO Hydro, UK Jan 30: Manchester Co-op Live, UK Jan 31: Birmingham Utilita Arena, UK Feb 01: London The O2, UK
Feb 02: Düsseldorf Mitsubishi Electric Hall, Germany Feb 04: Stuttgart Scheleyer-Hall, Germany Feb 05: Zurich The Hall, Switzerland Feb 07: Paris Le Zenith, France Feb 09: Antwerp Lotto Arena, Belgium Feb 10: Hannover Swiss Life Hall, Germany Feb 11: Amsterdam AFAS Live, Netherlands Feb 13: Hamburg Sporthalle, Germany Feb 14: Berlin Max-Schmeling-Halle, Germany Feb 15: Frankfurt Jahrhunderthalle, Germany Feb 17: Milan Alcatraz, Italy Feb 18: Munich Zenith, Germany Feb 19: Vienna Stadthalle, Austria Feb 21: Gliwice Arena, Poland Feb 22: Prague Forum Karlin, Czechia Feb 23: Luxembourg Rockhal, Luxembourg Feb 26: Lisbon Campo Pequeno, Portugal Feb 27: Madrid Vistalegre, Spain
Mar 30: Vancouver PNE Forum, Canada Apr 01: Seattle Paramount Theatre, WA Apr 03: San Francisco The Masonic, CA Apr 04: Wheatland Hard Rock Live, CA Apr 05: Reno Grand Sierra Resort Grand Theatre, NV Apr 08: Denver Fillmore Auditorium, CO Apr 10: Las Vegas The Pearl Concert Theater, NV Apr 11: Inglewood YouTube Theater, CA Apr 12: Phoenix Arizona Financial Theatre, AZ Apr 15: Dallas Gilley’s South Side Ballroom, TX Apr 16: San Antonio Boeing Center At Tech Port, TX Apr 17: Houston Bayou Music Center, TX Apr 19: Chesterfield The Factory, MO Apr 20: Omaha Steelhouse Omaha, NE Apr 22: Green Bay Epic Event Center, WI Apr 23: Grand Rapids GLC Live at 20 Monroe, MI Apr 26: Chicago Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom, IL Apr 27: Detroit The Fillmore Detroit, MI Apr 29: Pittsburgh Stage AE Outdoors, PA Apr 30: Philadelphia The Fillmore Philadelphia, PA May 02: Boston MGM Music Hall at Fenway, MA May 03: Laval Place Bell, Canada May 04: Toronto Great Canadian Resort, Canada May 06: Washington DC The Anthem May 07: New York The Rooftop at Pier 17, NY May 09: Bethlehem Wind Creek Event Center, PA May 11: Nashville The Pinnacle, TN May 13: Corbin The Corbin Arena, KY May 14: Atlanta Coca-Cola Roxy, GA May 17: Charlotte Skyla Credit Union Amphitheatre, NC May 18: Raleigh Red Hat Amphitheater, NC
Louder’s resident Gojira obsessive was still at uni when he joined the team in 2017. Since then, Matt’s become a regular in Prog and Metal Hammer, at his happiest when interviewing the most forward-thinking artists heavy music can muster. He’s got bylines in The Guardian, The Telegraph, NME, Guitar and many others, too. When he’s not writing, you’ll probably find him skydiving, scuba diving or coasteering.
As part of their 30th-anniversary celebrations, Israeli prog metallers Orphaned Land have re-recorded the very first song they ever wrote to honour two friends who have been killed in the recent conflict in the Middle East.
The Beloved’s Cry was the title of the band’s very first demo, released in 1993 and also appeared on 1994’s debut album Sahara. The two new versions honour the band’s friends Yotam Haim and Eden Yerushalmi, and readers should be warned that both versions feature recordings from both just prior to their abductions in the conflict.
The band have long pushed for peace and a greater understanding between all faiths, something singer Khobi Farhi eloquently put across when he appeared at the 2018 Prog Awards.
In a lengthy statement, the band say: “As part of the 30th-anniversary celebrations of Orphaned Land’s debut album Sahara, we decided to re-record the very first song the band ever wrote and recorded—an extraordinary, one-of-a-kind piece, and the only love song the band has ever created: The Beloved’s Cry.
In addition to celebrating the album’s milestone, two profound events inspired us to record two new and unique versions of this timeless song.
The Hanukkah show that followed October 7th was emotionally overwhelming for us. The band even posted on social media asking if it would be appropriate to perform at all. After receiving an outpouring of support, we went on to play two concerts filled with hope. During these shows, children in the audience lit candles on stage in an evening that brought everyone—both the audience and the band—to tears. Together, we lit and dedicated a Hanukkah candle for Yotam Haim, who at that moment was still alive but held captive in Gaza. The atmosphere was luminous, and the crowd was filled with hope and strength. Sadly, that hope lasted only for a night, as the very next morning, we learned that Yotam had been tragically killed while trying to escape captivity.
In August, I travelled to Berlin on behalf of the band to attend the Metal Hammer Awards, Europe’s largest metal magazine awards ceremony. To our joy and surprise, Orphaned Land won the prestigious “Attitude” award for our work in bridging divides and spreading unity over the years. When I accepted the award, I wore a ‘Bring Them Home’ shirt that I managed to arrange in Berlin. On stage, I called for an end to the war and the immediate return of all hostages. The night filled me with pride and happiness—feelings that were short-lived. The very next morning, we received the devastating news of the cold-blooded murder of six hostages, including Eden Yerushalmi, who had been abducted from the Nova music festival. After 11 months in captivity, she was found deceased, weighing only 36 kilograms, in conditions of unimaginable deprivation.
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These days are a time of immense darkness. Our band, often seen by our audience as a beacon of light, felt reduced to nothing more than a flickering flame on a matchstick.
Still, despite it all, we have no choice but to continue walking this path—to shine with whatever light remains and ring every bell that can still chime.
We recorded two new versions of The Beloved’s Cry, now released in memory of our beloved Eden Yerushalmi and Yotam Haim.
Both versions include the voices of Eden and Yotam, recorded in moments before their abduction (alongside identical versions without their voices, which will also be released this Friday for those who find it too painful to bear). We hope these songs will help us remember and honour them and inspire us to someday be worthy of them—in a better world.
We will always remember you, Eden.
We will always remember you, Yotam.
Kobi Farhi, on behalf of Orphaned Land.”
ORPHANED LAND – The Beloved’s Cry for Eden – YouTube
Bonnie Tyler’s Total Eclipse Of The Heart, one of the biggest power ballads of the 1980s, was originally intended for a Nosferatu musical.
Penned by legendary composer and record producer Jim Steinman, the track was revisited on a number of occasions across his career, but found its greatest success with the Welsh singer upon its 1983 release as the lead single from her fifth studio album, Faster Than the Speed of Night.
Impressed by his work on Meatloaf‘s balls-to-the-wall mega hit Bat Out Of Hell in 1977, Tyler reached out to the songwriter through her record company, CBS, with hopes of a collaboration.
“I’d seen Meat Loaf on the BBC’s Old Grey Whistle Test doing Bat Out of Hell, so I told Muff Winwood at Sony that I wanted to work with Jim Steinman,” Tyler told The Guardian during a 40th anniversary reflection on the hit in 2023. “Muff looked at me like I was barmy and told me that Jim would never do it. ‘I just want you to ask him,’ I said.”
Though he initially declined Tyler’s offer, Steinman was eventually swayed after hearing demos from the powerhouse vocalist, later stating that she had the “perfect voice” for what he was trying to accomplish, adding: “her performance [on the track] was like an exorcism.”
In the 2023 interview, Tyler revealed: “Around the time we were recording, Meat Loaf had lost his voice, and after it was a hit he always used to say: “Dang. That song should have been mine!” I poured my heart out singing it.”
The earliest version of Total Eclipse Of The Heart took form in 1969 for a high school musical Steinman had written and starred in titled The Dream Engine, before returning to the song on a professional basis for a musical based on FW Murnau’s 1922 vampire film Nosferatu.
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Composed during a lunar eclipse, the fang-toothed iteration was given the new name of Vampires In Love, though it was “never finished” and finally put aside along with the shelving of the musical. Fortunately, years after Tyler’s monumental triumph with the track, it would once again find its teeth for a different bloodsucking musical titled Dance Of The Vampires (Tanz der Vampire), Steinman’s stage adaptation of the 1967 Roman Polanski comedy horror film The Fearless Vampire Killers, which debuted in Vienna in 1997.
Dance Of The Vampires (Tanz der Vampire) was built from an entirely new songlist, aside from Total Eclipse Of The Heart, which was retitled Totale Finsternis for the show. Speaking of the reasoning behind the ballad’s inclusion during an interview with Playbill in 2002, the year the show came to Broadway, Steinman explained: “That was an accident almost. I’m surprised it stayed in. But, it was in [the] Vienna [production]. I had only a month and a half to write this whole show and we needed a big love duet.
“But with Total Eclipse of the Heart, I was trying to come up with a love song and I remembered I actually wrote that to be a vampire love song. Its original title was Vampires in Love because I was working on a musical of Nosferatu, the other great vampire story.”
He continued, “If anyone listens to the lyrics, they’re really like vampire lines. It’s all about the darkness, the power of darkness and love’s place in [the] dark. And so I figured ‘Who’s ever going to know; it’s Vienna!’ And then it was just hard to take it out.”
In 2022, Tyler would attend the show’s 25th anniversary at the Stage Palladium Theater in Stuttgart as their guest of honour.
Tyler’sTotal Eclipse Of The Heart would go on to become the fifth-best selling single of 1983 in the UK, also shooting to the top of the charts in the US and many other countries across the world. At its highest point it sold an astounding 60,000 copies a day. Thankfully, in the midsts of its globe-spanning mainstream success, the track still managed to retain its gothic roots, with Tyler telling the Guardian: “We shot the video in a frightening gothic former asylum in Surrey. The guard dogs wouldn’t set foot in the rooms downstairs where they used to give people electric shock treatment.”
Unfortunately, Total Eclipse Of The Heart didn’t quite make it onto the soundtrack of the newest Nosferatu interpretation by Robert Eggers, but we won’t hold this missed opportunity against him for too long.
Actor Steve Guttenberg, who rose to fame as Police Academy‘s Officer Mahoney, is among those currently trying to fight the Los Angeles wildfires.
Guttenberg, also known for his roles in hit films such as Three Men and a Baby, Short Circuit and Cocoon, was interviewed Tuesday during a live news broadcast. The reporter initially did not recognize the actor, who was trying to move cars that had been abandoned on the street so that firefighters could get through to battle the blaze in his Pacific Palisades neighborhood.
“What’s happening is people take their keys with them as if they’re in a parking lot. This is not a parking lot. We really need people to move their cars,” Guttenberg told KTLA in the video posted below. “If you leave your car behind, leave the key in there so a guy like me can move your car so that these fire trucks can get up there.”
In a July 2024 story promoting his appearance as the Grand Marshall of the town’s Fourth of July parade, Guttenberg was described as “one of the most beloved residents” of Pacific Palisades. “I’ve lived here for 37 years and every day in the Palisades is like a vacation,” he explained. “[I love] the enthusiasm of the people. There is an air of delight and town togetherness for the various events.”
As of Thursday morning, the New York Times reported that multiple Los Angeles-area wildfires, fueled by a recent lack of rain and the Santa Ana winds, has so far burned more than 27,000 acres of land and killed at least five people.
“This is the worst fire I’ve ever seen in my life, and it’s terrible. The sky at one in the afternoon is dark, it looks like evening,” Guttenberg told NBC News on Wednesday. “If you’re able-bodied, help people, help people in wheelchairs, small children, mothers that have anxiety and are in panic attacks. It’s really important to help people.”
While praising the efforts of his neighbors to help each other during this tragedy, Guttenberg expressed hope for the future. “When all this is over and we go back to normal life, let’s try to keep this empathy, let’s try to keep this kindness and this thoughtfulness. This is a time that we’ve got to band together. We’re not one street or one town or one city, we’re one community.”
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Music’s Worst Concert Accidents and Tragedies
The possibility for danger always lurks whenever large groups of people get together, and that’s especially true at concerts and festivals.
