Recording took place at Steelman Studios in Van Nuys , California, in June 2014, with the album produced by the band and Matt McClellan and mixed by Steve Evetts. The band spent the middle of the year in Los Angeles recording 18 new tracks including an acoustic EP. Joining Schwab…
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The new album was originally planned to be an EP, but the set-list increased to 15 songs by June 2014.
A Quiet Riot documentary movie, titled ” Well Now You’re Here, There’s No Way Back ” (named after a lyric in the band’s hit song “Bang Your Head (Metal Health)”) and directed and produced by Banali’s fiancee Regina Russell , was completed around this time. It premiered at the Newport…
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Black Stone Cherry opened for Lynyrd Skynyrd and Bad Company on their co-headlining tour. The band recorded a new album in fall 2013, through early 2014. Magic Mountain was released on May 6, 2014, reaching number five in the UK albums chart. The first single was “Me and Mary Jane”.…
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On 17 May 2014, Seether performed their first single, “Words as Weapons,” from the album Isolate and Medicate , live at the Orbit Room in front of 1,700 fans. The band released a music video for the album’s second single, ” Same Damn Life ,” on 30 October 2014. The…
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Asked in May 2014 if Aerosmith would release a sixteenth studio album anytime soon, bassist Tom Hamilton replied, “I hope soon. But I really don’t know what we are doing because we no longer have a record contract. We are finished with Columbia. So, there is nothing written in stone.…
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There was more band member shuffling in May 2014 when guitarist Tory Stoffregen and drummer Randi Scott each left the band.
In May, Erna announced that the album would be titled 1000hp (1000 Horsepower).
Bruce Soord of The Pineapple Thief temporarily filled in Eriksson for the band’s May tour
On 29 April 2014, Bryan Wickmann was announced as the new touring guitarist. Wickmann was the band’s long-time guitar tech, as well as Isolate and Medicate’ s cover art creator, and a former art director of Schecter Guitar Research .