In May 2017 the band announced a new line up with the return of vocalist Brian Allen and guitarist Gunnar DüGrey replacing Holleman and Rasmussen respectively. This lineup of Vicious Rumors performed several live dates in Europe, as well as the US (California) in the summer of 2017.
The first official Sepultura documentary, Sepultura Endurance , premiered in May 2017
In May 2017, Joe Hasselvander suffered a heart attack two days before a string of US/European dates. In order to fulfill these obligations, the Gallagher brothers had a number of drummers to assist. Jimmy Mess did the Chicago show, Mike Heller ( Fear Factory , Malignancy ) performed on three…
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Despite an earlier decision not to release new music, Blackmore revealed in a May 2017 interview with Burrn! magazine that Rainbow were in the studio recording two new tracks. Blackmore stated, “I wrote one new song, and also recorded one of the old ones. Ronnie, who is in Madrid now,…
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To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Record Store Day, on April 22, 2017, Legacy Recordings released “Get Born Again”/”What the Hell Have I”, a special 45 RPM double 7″ single featuring four tracks remastered and available on vinyl for the first time, “What the Hell Have I”, “A Little Bitter”,…
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which was released on 7 April 2017.
By 2017, Scholz had begun writing new material for the seventh Boston album. He told the Sun Herald in April of that year, “I find that I’m in a position that I really need to write things that we can play at the shows. We play basically everything that people…
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In April 2017, the band announced that it would play several East Coast dates without Liebling, as a trio of Griffin (vocals), Turley, and Campbell. The singer was arrested and arraigned on charges of first-degree assault and vulnerable adult abuse with physical injury, with the victim believed to be his…
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In April 2017, Yoshiki announced that the sixth album’s songs were ready and only mixing and mastering remained, and the release was expected “in the next few months”.
they supported Testament on the latter’s Brotherhood of the Snake tour in North America in April–May 2017