In a December 2017 interview with Rolling Stone , Serj Tankian said that System of a Down wrote some new material but was uncertain of what to do with it. He then said that he doesn’t want to commit to a new album due to the lack of committing to…
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In December 2017, it was announced that the band was working on their seventh studio album.
Their first mini-album, We Are , followed on November 29, 2017.
On 16 November 2017, it was reported that Uriah Heep would begin recording their 24th studio album, titled Living the Dream , with producer Jay Ruston. The album was released on 14 September 2018, and the band embarked on a world tour in support of it that would take them…
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In November it was announced that X Japan will perform at the year-end Kōhaku Uta Gassen , as part of the White Team.
In November 2017, Swedish independent label Woah Dad! acquired the albums that Tankian recorded for Reprise Records .
On 28–29 October 2017, the band recorded their concerts in São Paulo , Brazil for a future live album and DVD.
Two days later, Manson announced he had “decided to part ways” with bassist Twiggy, after a rape allegation was made against Twiggy by his former girlfriend, Jack Off Jill vocalist Jessicka ; for the rest of the tour, Juan Alderete (formerly of Racer X and The Mars Volta ) joined.
He was cleared to perform by doctors in time for the next show in San José, Costa Rica on 23 October, although his illness forced the band to temporally remove a few songs from their setlist, and to have Deris, Hansen and Gerstner support him more vocally.
The band’s founding guitarist, Daisy Berkowitz, died on October 22, 2017, at the age of 49;