The band then began work on their sixth studio album called Play It to Death , which they recorded at Bandwagon Studios and released in July 2008. Towards the end of 2008, owing to Harry Harrison’s ill-health and other commitments, Luther Beltz returned to front the band for the Play…
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In July 2008, De la Rocha and the drummer Jon Theodore , formerly of the Mars Volta , released an EP as One Day as a Lion .
On June 28, Kiss headlined the Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel , Belgium. It was the last show of the European leg of the Kiss Alive/35 Tour.
The first of these dates was at the Glasgow SECC on 17 June.
Three days later, they headlined the Arrow Rock Festival in Nijmegen, Netherlands .
In a June 2006 interview with MTV.com, Halford said of the group’s concept album about the 16th-century French writer Nostradamus , “Nostradamus is all about metal, isn’t he? He was an alchemist as well as a seer – a person of extraordinary talent. He had an amazing life that was…
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As part of this tour, Kiss headlined the Download Festival at England’s Donington Park on June 13.
On 11 June, Def Leppard announced further dates for their 2008 World Tour.
On June 8, it was reported that all of X Japan’s previously scheduled shows would be postponed until further notice, due to a recurrence of Yoshiki’s disc herniation .
In early 2007, drummer Lee Kerslake had to leave the group due to ill health. In March of that year the band recruited Russell Gilbrook as their new drummer and immediately started recording a new studio album entitled Wake the Sleeper , where they used double bass drums in the…
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