text: No guillotine, no headless babies, no spraying blood... nothing more than the instruments, the music and the musicians making it. This is all that will be seen onstage during Alice Cooper's upcoming 'Bare Bones' tour July 12th - August 10th, allowing Cooper to take his music to several markets previously unable to accommodate Alice's elaborate stage-show.
  The 'Bare Bones' tour will immediately follow the recording of a new as-yet untitled album, due for release through Spitfire Records this fall, and a week of shows in Europe in early July. Alice will be performing many of his classic songs that, without major stage set and props, will allow the music to speak for itself.
  Backing Alice on this tour will be longtime band members Eric Dover & Ryan Roxie on guitars and Eric Singer on drums, plus new bassist Chuck Garric. In the spirit of the stripped-down ‘Bare Bones’ tour, this will be Alice's first tour in many years to forego keyboards.
  Brazilian metal band SHADOWSIDE will make their triumphant return to the USA in May supporting legendary Canadian metallers ANVIL. SHADOWSIDE is promoting their latest release, Shades Of Humanity, which has been highly praised by the media and mentioned in "Best of 2017" lists worldwide including Carl Begai from legendary website Brave Words (Canada), as well as The Metal Resource (Netherlands), Headbangers Latinoamerica, among others. The album has also appeared as one of the top 15 best selling metal albums in 2017 in Brazil, along with bands like DEEP PURPLE and SEPULTURA.
  The tour will consist of a marathon of 29 shows in 46 days, being the band's 5th appearance in the country and their first since 2009. Check out the tour dates below:
  The tour marks the onstage debut of the band's new bass player Magnus Rosén (ex-HAMMERFALL), and they hope to achieve the same success of the tour in support of their previous album, Inner Monster Out, which went through almost 60 cities in 19 countries.
  A Brazilian tour in October should be announced shortly and tour dates in other countries are currently being discussed.
  Korn has parted ways with guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, who has chosen the Lord Jesus Christ as his savior, and will be dedicating his musical pursuits to that end. Korn respects Brian’s wishes and hopes he finds the happiness he is searching for.
  Jonathan, Fieldy, James and David are personally closer than ever, and are currently in the studio working on their eighth record, the follow up to their highly successful Greatest Hits album. The record is due to be released this coming September.
  Sweden's The Haunted are about to return with the follow-up to 2004's rEVOLVEr album, which saw original vocalist Peter Dolving return to the band's ranks. On October 30th (Europe, October 31st in North America) The Haunted will release The Dead Eye, the band's fifth official studio album.
  Guitarist Anders Björler comments on the working process: "I just got the final master from Tue Madsen (KATAKLYSM, HALFORD) with all the tracks in the final order, and it simply sounds killer. Completing The Dead Eye basically took all spring, starting with some rehearsing and pre-production early January. We left the Antfarm studio in early June a bit perplexed but with a sense of having created something very strong and powerful. You always feel a bit weird after a recording session. It's hard to distance yourself from your work, but this time we all felt that we had accomplished something out of the ordinary. Working with Tue Madsen as engineer/producer has been great, and it surely reflects on the album. Tue has the same kind of musical background as all of us, so it was pretty easy to communicate ideas and to explain our vision."