German techno-metallers Electric Callboy will drop their new single, “Elevator Operator”, on January 24. Check out the teaser below.
In June 2024, Electric Callboy and Japan’s Babymetal teamed up for a new song, “Ratatata”, which is now available on all digital platforms.
They have released an official live video for the song, which can be viewed below. It was shot on May 25th at Fox Fest 2024 in Saitama, Japan, and was the first time Electric Callboy and Babymetal performed together live.
Happy 44th STYX’ Paradise Theater – January 19, 1981
Happy 37th MEGADETH’s So Far…So Good..So What! – January 19th, 1988
Happy 30th EXTREME’s Waiting For The Punchline – January 19th, 1995
Happy 18th MNEMIC’s Passenger – January 19th, 2007
Happy 15th SIX FEET UNDER’s Graveyard Classics 3 – January 19th, 2010 SIGH’s Scenes From Hell – January 19th, 2010 SONS OF AZRAEL’s Scouting The Boneyard – January 19th, 2010
Happy 10th MARDUK’s Frontschwein – January 19th, 2015 ANGELUS APATRIDA’s Hidden Evolution – January 19th, 2015
Happy 7th ANVIL’s Pounding The Pavement – January 19th, 2018 BLACK LABEL SOCIETY’s Grimmest Hits – January 19th, 2018 ARKONA – Khram – January 19th, 2018 CANE HILL – Too Far Gone – January 19th, 2018 OF MICE & MEN – Defy – January 19th, 2018 TERROR UNIVERSAL – Make Them Bleed – January 19th, 2018 UNSHINE – Astrala – January 19th, 2018
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King Crimson founder Robert Fripp and his wife, Toyah Willcox, have served up a throwback performance of The Cardigans hit, “My Favourite Game”, for Sunday Lunch. They originally shared it in 2022.
Last weekend, Robert and Toyah served up a performance of the Foo Fighters hit, “Everlong” for Sunday Lunch.
Supertramp, in 1979, was one of the biggest bands in the world, following the release and extensive accompanying tour for the album Breakfast In America. Their complete set at the 8,000-seat Pavillon de Paris in December of that year, on the third of four sold-out nights, will be released as Live In Paris ‘79 on 3LP and 2CD.
Recorded on December 1 & 2, 1979, the classic lineup of members Rick Davies (singer-songwriter-keyboardist) and Roger Hodgson (singer-songwriter-guitarist-keyboardist) with John Helliwell on sax, woodwinds, vocals and keyboards and a rock-steady rhythm section of bassist Dougie Thomson and drummer Bob Siebenberg capturing Supertramp performing at the peak of their career.
Unlike the previously released 1980 Paris live album, featuring selections from earlier shows of this Paris run, the triple LP and double CD features the complete Supertramp show from the tour, compiled from recordings during the two December shows.
Having been on the road for almost ten months throughout America, Canada and Europe in support of Breakfast In America, 1979’s top selling album, which sold in excess of 20 million copies, producing several hit singles and went on to win two Grammy awards. For a London based band that started in 1969 and, with a new lineup, reached stardom in 1974 with the release of its third album Crime of the Century and within five years to have now reached the very pinnacle of music success, it must have felt sweet.
Performing such Supertramp favorites as “Bloody Well Right,” “The Logical Song,” “Breakfast In America,” “Goodbye Stranger,” “Asylum,” “Even In The Quietest Moments,” “Give A Little Bit,” “Dreamer,” “Rudy,” “Take The Long Way Home,” “Fool’s Overture” and others amounted to nothing short of a celebration.
Drummer Siebenberg says, “looking back at that period, it really was the experience of a lifetime…the best of times.”
Saxophonist Helliwell notes, “those Paris shows were a definite high point for us because you could feel the audience reaction. You can actually hear the volatility in the French crowd. They sound a little mad!”
Supertramp Live In Paris ’79 tracklistings:
3LP:
Side A “School” “Ain’t Nobody But Me” “The Logical Song” “Goodbye Stranger”
Side B “Breakfast In America” “Bloody Well Right” “Hide In Your Shell” “From Now On”
Side C “Child Of Vision” “Even In The Quietest Moments” “You Started Laughing (When I Held You In My Arms)” “A Soapbox Opera”
Side D “Asylum “Downstream” “Give A Little Bit” “Dreamer”
Side E “Rudy” “Take The Long Way Home” “Another Man’s Woman”
Side F “Fool’s Overture” “Two Of Us” “Crime of the Century”
2CD:
Disc 1 “School “Ain’t Nobody But Me” “The Logical Song” “Goodbye Stranger” “Breakfast In America” “Bloody Well Right” “Hide In Your Shell” “From Now On” “Child Of Vision” “Even In The Quietest Moments” “You Started Laughing (When I Held You In My Arms)”
Disc 2 “A Soapbox Opera” “Asylum” “Downstream” “Give A Little Bit” “Dreamer” “Rudy” “Take The Long Way Home” “Another Man’s Woman” “Fool’s Overture” “Two Of Us” “Crime of the Century”
Mayhem, the Norwegian pioneers responsible for invigorating a global scene alongside originators such as Venom, Celtic Frost & Bathory, formed in 1984, and with a long history of tragedy, intrigue and infamy have become truly revered legends of black metal, with a large part of their legacy established in the late 80’s & early 90’s, notably when guitarist Euronymous and bassist Necrobutcher welcomed Hellhammer on drums and Dead on vocals, to help shape a new and inspired era of darkness.
Preceding this more notorious period, Mayhem ’s formative years were spent honing a selection of tracks of pure brutality, eventually leading to 1987’s iconic Deathcrush EP release – considered the launching point for the band onto the global map. Prior to this though, came 1986’s Pure Fucking Armageddon demo, featuring the trio of Manheim, Necrobutcher and Euronymous.
Command For Blood, Command For War initially included in the recent Pure Fucking Armageddon vinyl boxset, contains two early Mayhem rehearsals from Neccrobutcher’s own archive in all of their raw glory from back in 1986, recorded on the lead up to the eventual Pure Fucking Armageddon demo sessions.
The release features early versions of tracks which would remain a staple of Mayhem’s live set throughout the years, such as “Pure Fucking Armageddon” itself, and “Carnage”. The title also includes cover songs of tracks originally written and performed by genre godfathers, Venom.
The longest-running heavy metal tour in North America returns with its boldest lineup ever this year. The Decibel Magazine Tour resumes this spring with Norwegian black metal godfathers, Mayhem, headlining Decibel’s 12th continental expedition of the extreme.
Tour support comes from countrymate and dungeon synth progenitor Mortiis, New York City cinematic death metal chaos wielders Imperial Triumphant and San Diego death rock night-bringers New Skeletal Faces.
“Following the success of last year’s tour with the legendary Cannibal Corpse, we are really looking forward to returning to North America to once again headline the renowned Decibel Tour, also hitting some cities we haven’t visited in a very long time,” Mayhem says collectively. “We can’t wait to kick off the next chapter of Mayhem with our North American fans. See you all soon!”
Presented by Century Media, and sponsored by Peaceville Records, Out of Season, EMG Pickups, Perfect World Productions, and the Requiem Metal Podcast, tickets for the 2025 Decibel Magazine Tour can be found here.
Tour dates:
March 17 – Atlanta, GA – The Masquerade (Heaven) 18 – Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl 19 – Indianapolis, IN – The Vogue 20 – Chicago, IL – House of Blues 22 – Worcester, MA – The Palladium 23 – Reading, PA – Reverb 24 – New York, NY – Irving Plaza 25 – Montreal, QC – Théâtre Beanfield 26 – Toronto, ON – The Concert Hall 27 – Detroit, MI – The Majestic Theatre 29 – Minneapolis, MN – First Avenue 31 – Denver, CO – Summit
April 3 – Calgary, AB – The Palace Theatre 4 – Edmonton, AB – Union Hall 6 – Vancouver, BC – Rickshaw Theatre 7 – Tacoma, WA – Temple Theatre 9 – San Francisco, CA – The Fillmore 10 – Anaheim, CA – House of Blues 11 – Los Angeles, CA – The Belasco 12 – San Diego, CA – House of Blues 13 – Las Vegas, NV – House of Blues 14 – Mesa, AZ – The Nile 16 – Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall 17 – Austin, TX – Mohawk
Scour, the extreme metal collective featuring an impressive lineup of heavy music veterans, including Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down), Derek Engemann (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), John Jarvis (Nest, Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Mark Kloeppel (Misery Index), and Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, Lock Up), will release their long awaited full-length, Gold, on February 21 via Housecore Records in North America and Nuclear Blast in Europe.
Today, Scour release the new single and music video, “Blades”. Stream the single here, and watch the video below:
Deepening the experience set forth on Scour’s previously released EP trilogy, Gold pulls the listener through a blistering vortex of speed, aggression, and, above all, absolute horror. Drawing from a deep framework of literary horror masterworks, Gold guides the listener beyond the realm of death and through the metaphysical anomalies of a disheveled and decaying mind. In-so-which the pall of a savage universe is lifted, an inconceivable puppet master revealed, the remaining self of the listener excruciatingly dissolved, and left asking, “who is it that pulls the strings?”
Musically, Scour fuses the raw aggression of black metal with grindcore, punk, and thrash influences, manifesting a sound that honors extreme metal’s roots while pushing it into modern territory. Their minimalist approach is relentless and brutal, perfectly embodying this vision.
Gold, which features cover art by Cain Gillis, will be available on CD, LP, limited edition cassette (US only), and digital formats. Find pre-orders here.
Forged in 2015, Scour quickly made their mark with the blistering debut single “Dispatched.” Their first release, The Grey EP (2016), came via Anselmo’s own Housecore Records, followed by The Red EP in 2017. In 2020, Scour unleashed their most aggressive effort yet, The Black EP, released under Housecore and Nuclear Blast Records and featuring guest appearances from notable figures like Erik Rutan, Pat O’Brien, and actor Jason Momoa.
And now Scour elevates their intensity with the announcement of their first full-length album, Gold, which includes a guest solo by Gary Holt (Slayer, Exodus). Recording for Gold began in February 2023 at Nodferatu’s Lair – Philip Anselmo’s personal studio and rehearsal space – which saw the band highly engaged in a concentrated effort toward a truly diabolical composition, with Anselmo leading the charge at every turn. One would often find the entire band in the control room in ecstatic debate, meticulously mulling over every blast beat and divebomb. The album was intermittently refined, and lyrical concepts finalized, over the course of 2023 as touring schedules would allow.
Anselmo began vocal recordings in the Fall of 2023 at The Lair. Backup vocal recordings were then executed by the rest of the band in arena backstage rooms over the course of Pantera’s February 2024 tour, where the full band would also thoroughly review the instrumentation mixes. Once the tracks were finalized by Scour and mixing engineer Dennis Israel, they were then passed to Fascination Street Studio in Örebro, Sweden for mastering by Jens Bogren.
Despite their relatively short career, Scour has performed at some of the world’s most prominent festivals, including Roskilde, Hellfest, Tecate Metal Fest, and Maryland Deathfest. With such a powerful pedigree, Scour remains a dominant force in both live performances and studio recordings, and fans can expect even more from them in the future.
Swiss hard rock legends, Gotthard, have kicked off the new year with the release of their second single, “Thunder & Lightning”, from their upcoming 12-track studio album, Stereo Crush. As the world remains blanketed in snow, this new track spreads spring fever with its uplifting leads and emotionally charged storyline about love, quickly capturing the hearts of fans and heightening anticipation for the band’s eagerly awaited new album.
Today, alongside the worldwide launch of pre-orders, Gotthard are also excited to reveal the cover artwork for Stereo Crush, set to hit the shelves on March 21 via RPM. The artwork, designed by Thomas Ewerhard, who has previously collaborated with the band, perfectly encapsulates the album’s themes of honesty, rawness, and a broad spectrum of emotions.
“Freddy [Scherer; guitars] came to my house with the musical idea for this song. We started there and came up with the structure and the vocal melodies together and recorded the demo there. I then spent quite some time figuring out lyrics. The sound of the chorus riff somehow sounded electric to me, and I was thinking of words like ‘lighting,’ ‘thunder’ etc…and then I thought of the concept of how lighting never strikes twice but in this case it does, using this as a metaphor for love. Also in French, which I’m fluent in, you can say that ‘love at first sight’ is like getting hit by a bolt of lighting,” singer Nic Maeder sheds light on the track’s creation.
Watch the music video below, and stream “Thunder & Lightning” here.
After releasing two singles, there’s no really doubt that Gotthard are more than ready for the future with Stereo Crush. Decorated with a powerful and contemporary production, the album delivers a series of big anthems but also a few surprises which help the Swiss icons to improve their DNA fresh and to spice up the essence of their trademark sound in an exciting way. It’s clear like Swiss glacier water: 2025 belongs to Gotthard!
“AI & I” “Thunder & Lightning” “Rusty Rose” “Burning Bridges” “Drive My Car” “Boom Boom” “Life” “Liverpool” “Shake Shake” “Devil In The Moonlight” “Dig A Little Deeper” “These Are The Days”
“Boom Boom” lyric video:
Produced, recorded and mixed by long-time producer Charlie Bauerfeind, who’s known for his work with the likes of Helloween and Blind Guardian, alongside co-producer and founding member Leo Leoni at Yellowhouse Studio, and mastered by Sascha “Busy” Bühren (TrueBusyness), with artwork once again provided by Thomas Ewerhard, Stereo Crush promises to set new standards which will additionally come to shine on the band’s forthcoming touring cycle: Gotthard will be touring in May, accompanied by special guests Y&T, rounded off by select festival and headline dates during the course of the year.
Stereo Crush Tour 2025 with Y&T:
May 23 – Bochum, Germany – RuhrCongress 24 – Geiselwind, Germany – Music Hall 25 – Frankfurt, Germany – Batschkapp 27 – Hamburg, Germany – Große Freiheit 36 29 – Munich, Germany – Circus Krone 30 – Filderstadt, Germany – FILharmonie 31 – Telfs, Austria – Rathaussaal
More upcoming Gotthard live dates:
June 14 – Zamora, Spain – Z! Live Rock 27 – Basel, Switzerland – Summerstage 28 – Ehingen, Germany – Martkplatz
July 20 – Locarno, Switzerland – Moon&Stars (“Steve Lee – The Show”) 22 – Regensburg, Germany – Piazza im Gewerbepark
Announcing the postponement of their “Coming Home To Las Vegas” residency, rock legends Scorpions have issued the following:
“We regret to inform you that due to Mikkey Dee’s ongoing recovery from his recent hospitalization, we have made the decision to postpone our Coming Home To Las Vegas residency to August 2025. The health and well-being of our brother is of the utmost importance. We wish Mikkey a full and speedy recovery and look forward to rocking with you all again soon!”
The new dates are confirmed for August 14, 16, 19, 21, 23. All tickets will be honoured for the new dates. Refunds will be available at point of purchase.
Scorpions add: “All other previously-announced performances are currently scheduled to go on as planned. See below for all upcoming tour dates, and come rock with us as we celebrate 60 years of Scorpions!”
Tour dates:
March 15 – Mexico City, Mexico – Foro Sol
April 16 – Brasilia, Brazil – Arena BRB Mané Garrincha 19 – Sao Paulo, Brazil – Monsters of Rock @ Allianz Parque 21 – Rio de Janeiro, Brazil – Qualistage 24 – Santiago, Chile – Movistar Arena 26 – Buenos Aires, Argentina – Tecnopolis 30 – Bogota, Colombia – Masters of Rock Festival
May 3 – Quito, Ecuador – Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa
June 4 – Skive, Denmark – Skive Festival 6 – Solvesborg, Sweden – Sweden Rock Festival 9 – Tampere, Finland – Nokia Arena 11 – Riga, Latvia – Arēna Rīga 16 – Gdansk, Poland – Ergo Arena 18 – Krakow, Poland – Tauron Arena 21 – Clisson, France – Hellfest 24 – Paris, France – AccorHotels Arena 27 – Cartagena, Spain – Rock Imperium Festival 29 – Barcelona, Spain – Parc de Can Zam – Barcelona Rock Fest
July 5 – Hannover, Germany – Heinz von Heiden Arena 10 – Lucca, Italy – Lucca Summer Festival – Piazza Napoleone 12 – Locarno, Switzerland – Piazza Grande – Moon&Stars Festival 15 – Pamplona, Spain – Navarra Arena 18 – Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal – Meo Marés Vivas Festival 21 – Marbella, Spain – Starlite Festival 24 – Nimes, France – Arènes de Nîmes
August 14 – Las Vegas, NV – PH Live at Planet Hollywood 16 – Las Vegas, NV – PH Live at Planet Hollywood 19 – Las Vegas, NV – PH Live at Planet Hollywood 21 – Las Vegas, NV – PH Live at Planet Hollywood 23 – Las Vegas, NV – PH Live at Planet Hollywood
(Image credit: Alien Weaponry: Frances Carter/Alt Blk Era: Press/Avantasia: Kevin Nixon/Tariot: Press/Conquer Divide: Jim Louvau)
We’re back! With 2024’s fan-voted round-ups out the way – that’s both albums and songs, thank you very much – we can set our sights on the year ahead, and a world of new possibilities with bands pouring in.
We might’ve missed the boat on the likes of Lacuna Coil, Harakiri For The Sky and Venamoris last week (though we’re sure we’ll see them pop up again), but fear not: we’ve hunted high and low to find you some of the most exciting new music around.
Whether you’re looking for explosive black metal, melodically inclined alt or something completely off the deep in, we’ve assembled a fine selection of new music releases for you to explore below. Much as we have for the last couple of years, we ask you to cast your votes in the poll below and tell us which songs excite you most. So with no further ado, this is your first installment for the best metal songs of 2025. Happy listening!
Architects – Blackhole
All the way back in December 2023, Architects released Seeing Red, the first taste of a follow-up to the previous year’s The Classic Symptoms Of A Broken Heart. Decidedly heavier than anything on that album, it signalled a move back to the hard-hitting metalcore of their earlier releases, shifting away from the more tonally experimental material they’d flirted with recently. With just over a month to go until The Sky, The Earth & All Between arrives (Feb 28), latest single Blackhole doubles down on the heft found in its preceding songs, shrieking and snarling with impressive intensity whilst still keeping the massive radio-friendly choruses that turned Architects into a festival and arena headliner.
Nu gen experimentalists Alt Blk Era don’t really care for staying within genre confines. That goes some way to explain the rave-friendly energy of Run Rabbit, a pulsing electro beat and insistent, catchy chorus feeling like a throwback to the likes of The Prodigy and 90s EDM. With their debut album Rave Immortal arriving next week (Jan 24), we reckon there’s plenty more to explore.
Alien Weaponry are back! Four years since the Māori metal champions graced the cover of Metal Hammer and released their second album Tangaroa, they’re swinging back with force on new single Mau Moko. Putting some extra heft into their groove metal, the single feels perfectly fitting for a band who have earned global acclaim, setting up big things for new album Te Rā, due March 28 and giving us more to be excited about as they tour the US with Kerry King.
ALIEN WEAPONRY – Mau Moko (Official Video) – YouTube
When a band like Whitechapel declare they’re looking to make “their heaviest album to date”, you know it’s probably going to get gruesome. Sure enough, the deathcore veterans’ latest single – and title track of their upcoming ninth album, due March 7 – is a scabrous blast of extremity, raging blastbeats and angry god bellows masking a surprising amount of melody in the guitarwork, while the more overt hardcore stylings slip through the din to really let the “core” in their genre descriptor shine through.
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Whitechapel – Hymns In Dissonance (Official Video) – YouTube
It’s funny to think now, that Avantasia started out as a short-lived side project for frontman and founder Tobias Sammet. The initial two-part Metal Opera releases gave way to a further eight records and now Avantasia are a triumphant rallying call for those seeking out the most joyous, bombastic and grandiose elements of power metal. Sure enough, Against The Wind is pure galloping ecstasy, pure excitability and roaring choruses that give us plenty to be excited about ahead of new album Here Be Dragons, due February 28, while we can practically hear the enormity of Against The Wind in the live setting long before Sammet and co. kick off their UK and European tour.
AVANTASIA – Against The Wind (feat. Kenny Leckremo) (Official Lyric Video) | Napalm Records – YouTube
Plunging headlong into the same realms of weightless melodies and deceptive heaviness that have sustained Deftones for over 30 years, Split Chain’s latest single I’m Not Dying To Be Here is pure nu gaze bliss. On tour in the UK in March and April, as well as lined up to play Slam Dunk in May and Download in June, the time seems ripe for this lot to make a splash on the wider metal scene. Now if only someone could get them a Deftones support slot…
Split Chain – “I’m Not Dying To Be Here” – YouTube
Metalcore is a global phenomenon in 2025. Over 20 years since the genre hit the mainstream, exciting new bands are still popping up around the globe to show how the scene can still produce electric new talent, Singapore’s Tariot being a perfect example. New single Fragments swings for the fences with thundering riffs and throat-shredding snarls, only to give way to glitching electronica and an absolutely colossal breakdown. Chuck in an ascendant melodic segment, and you’ve got a perfect example of how the sound of metalcore is still spreading and being adopted in fresh new ways.
Tariot – Fragments (Official Music Video) – YouTube
Innovation is all well and good, but sometimes all you need is a hard-as-nails fist to the face from some thumping post-hardcore. That’s exactly what State Of You are offering on latest single To The Core, bridging the snarling, stomping force of peak Every Time I Die with an oh-so-hooky chorus that could have been lifted straight from the days of Kerrang! and Scuzz TV. It’s a taste of the band’s new EP On A Knife’s Edge, due Janaury 24 with a celebratory release show at London’s Black Heart the following night.
Dawn Of Ouroboros – Bioluminescence
From explosive post-black metal breakouts to gorgeous melodic refrains, Oakland’s Dawn Of Ouroboros shine on new single Bioluminescence. It’s a brilliant showcase of contrasting styles and approaches, drawing comparisons to the likes of Wolves In The Throne Room or even Svalbard in its more explosive moments, while the gentle melodies could easily have come from a Spiritbox song. The title track of the band’s upcoming third record, due March 7, this band is one to keep your eyes out for – especially if you’re on the West Coast, as they’ll be touring the US in March.
DAWN OF OUROBOROS – BIOLUMINESCENCE (OFFICIAL VIDEO) – YouTube
Teaming up with Of Virtue, Conquer Divide’s latest single Bad Dreams puts their oh-so-hooky and powerful brand of modern metalcore through its paces in a massive rager. The interplay between vocalist Kiarely Taylor and Of Virtue’s Tyler Ennis shows how the bands bounce off each other, putting a whole new spin on the idea of a duet. On tour with both New Year’s Day and Ankor in the UK in early 2025, we reckon you’d be mad to miss this lot.
Conquer Divide – Bad Dreams (Feat. Of Virtue) (Official Lyric Video) – YouTube
Alt metal seems to be having a moment again in recent years. Put it down to the shift Bring Me The Horizon made post-Sempiternal or the massive popularity of bands like Sleep Token and Spiritbox, but there’s a host of new bands tinkering with alt rock sensibilities again. LA’s Kills Birds are a prime example, drawing on some of the more melancholic elements of a genre like shoegaze without directly lifting its shimmering notes and inevitable Deftones/Smashing Pumpkins associations, resulting in a sound that is clear, punchy and very, very addictive.
With vocals that sound like fetid breath squeezed from an ancient corpse, Sweden’s Scitalis are proof that Norway doesn’t have the market cornered on the most vicious, flesh-rending corners of black metal. New single Suffering is utterly crushing, a punishing excercise in raging intensity that somehow manages to seed some kernels of melody beneath a tempest of clattering drumbeats and ungodly wails. Taken from the band’s second album Maledictum – out next week, January 24 – it’s exactly the kind of extreme metal wake up you want going into 2025.
Staff writer for Metal Hammer, Rich has never met a feature he didn’t fancy, which is just as well when it comes to covering everything rock, punk and metal for both print and online, be it legendary events like Rock In Rio or Clash Of The Titans or seeking out exciting new bands like Nine Treasures, Jinjer and Sleep Token.
“We regret to inform you that due to Mikkey Dee’s ongoing recovery from his recent hospitalization, we have made the decision to postpone our Coming Home to Las Vegas Residency to August 2025,” the band shared on social media. “The health and wellbeing of our brother is of the utmost importance.”
Scorpions were originally scheduled to launch their “Coming Home to Las Vegas 60th Anniversary” residency on Feb. 27 at PH Live at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino, with dates extending into March. The sojourn will now run from Aug. 14 to 23, marking their third Vegas residency since 2022. Buckcherry will still provide support.
Mikkey Dee Was Almost ‘Playing Drums With Lemmy in Heaven’
Dee recently detailed his sepsis ordeal, revealing that he was close to death due to the bacterial blood infection.
“This holiday season, I have been hospitalized with a very serious blood infection (Sepsis),” the drummer shared on Facebook. “I was admitted for three weeks but now I am home fighting this bastard bacteria. Thankfully, I have received fantastic care at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg, my hometown. So thanks a million to all the Doctors and Nurses that have been giving me the most excellent care.”
Dee, who played in Motorhead for more than two decades before joining Scorpions in 2016, said he was close to joining his former bandmate, the late Lemmy Kilmister.
“They cut away what was dead and infected and badly infested. It was not a good journey I was on,” he told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. “Another day and I’d be playing drums with Lemmy in heaven. I can say that.”
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