MÖTLEY CRÜE has added another major milestone to its legendary career as "Kickstart My Heart" has officially surpassed one billion streams on Spotify, earning the track a place in the platform's coveted Billions Club. The band joins some of the most legendary names in rock in this elite group, including Ozzy Osbourne, BLACK SABBATH, METALLICA, AEROSMITH and LED ZEPPELIN. One of the band's most recognizable and enduring songs, "Kickstart My Heart" has continued to connect with

Conrad "Cronos" Lant of black metal pioneers VENOM has died at the age of 63. The vocalist/bassist's passing was confirmed in a post earlier today (Thursday, October 1) on VENOM's official social media, although no cause of death was revealed. The message reads as follows: "IN MEMORIAM — CONRAD 'CRONOS' LANT. It is with profound sadness and broken hearts that we share the news that Conrad 'Cronos' Lant has passed away. "For more than four decades, Conrad's voice, bass and vis

#ozzyosbourne #blacksabbath #cinematic Trafalgar Releasing announced today the global cinematic release of "Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning", produced by Mercury Studios, the world's leading music-focused content studio. The film definitively captures the triumphant final live performance from Ozzy Osbourne and the original BLACK SABBATH lineup: Ozzy (vocals),Tony Iommi (guitar),Geezer Butler (bass) and Bill Ward (drums). The film will run as an event release beg

#nile #coroner #tour Next March/April, NILE and technical thrash pioneers CORONER take on North America together: a co-headline run that puts two of metal's most singular forces on the same stage every night, with strong guest support from SYN ABSENCE and one more special guest to be announced. The trek will kick off on March 2, 2027 in Greenville, South Carolina and will conquer the states until it ceases fire on April 11 in Leesburg, Virginia. NILE and CORONER 2027 "Underwo

#metallica #tour #72seasons METALLICA has confirmed a series of new North American stadium dates that extend the band's massive "M72" world tour into 2027. Having played 99 shows in 26 countries since its April 2023 kick-off, the Live Nation-promoted "M72" world tour will resume May 8, 2027 at BC Place in Vancouver — hitting a dozen new cities for the first time on this run throughout the American southwest, midwest and beyond — and will conclude June 19, 2027 at Rice-Eccles

#rammstein #mexico #cinema 2022 marked the North American debut of the most extreme spectacle in live music, when RAMMSTEIN brought its full-scale stadium production to the continent for the first and only time. Seven 747s and nearly 210 crew members brought rock 'n' roll's most ambitious pyro-theatrical experience overseas to blaze a flaming trail through 12 open-air dates that began on August 21 in Montreal and went on to set seven U.S. stadiums ablaze before the tour concl

#styx #venetianlasvegas #residency Legendary and multi-platinum rockers STYX are set to return to The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas in 2027 for the seventh consecutive year. The five-night engagement will take place January 29 and 30 and February 3, 5 and 6, 2027, with all performances scheduled to begin at 8:30 p.m. Citi is the official card of STYX's exclusive Las Vegas engagement at The Venetian Resort Las Vegas. Citi cardmembers will have access to

#ozfox #stryper #newalbum In a new interview Michael Sweet of Christian metal pioneers STRYPER explained why STRYPER guitarist Oz Fox doesn't play on the band's upcoming eighteenth studio album, "Throne Of Thorns", which will arrive on September 25 via Frontiers Music Srl. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "Well, believe it or not, it wasn't related to [Oz's] health issues in terms of his [2024] brain surgery. He's been doing great with that. He's been out touring