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Stone Sour guitarist Josh Rand has revealed in a statement issued on Sunday (April 15th) that he sought treatment earlier this year for “an alcohol and Xanax dependency” which forced him to sit out the band’s last tour. Rand wrote, “As many of you may already know, in January of this year I made the difficult decision to step away from the Canadian leg of the Stone Sour tour. “I hit a personal breaking point and it was imperative that I address it.” [The PRP]
Although 2018 marks the 20th anniversary of Godsmack‘s self-titled debut album, the band is not going to commemorate that milestone. With the group just about to release a new album called When Legends Rise, singer Sully Erna told us… Find out tonight at 5:20 with Gunner.
Disturbed has posted a video update from its latest sessions at the Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas, where the band is recording its seventh studio album. The new disc will follow up 2015’s Immortalized, which ended a four-year hiatus for the quartet and was its fifth album to enter the Billboard 200 chart at Number One. [Blabbermouth]
The Offspring guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman told Detroit radio station WRIF that the band’s 10th studio album is now likely to come out this fall. Noodles said, “This record is taking us a long time, but I think it’s gonna be well worth the wait. We’ve been in the studio working a lot recently with Bob(Rock, producer) and finishing it up. We’ve got about 10 songs done, a couple of more that just need lyrics. And then we may do one or two more and it’s gonna be a done deal.” [Loudwire]
Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea has set a title and publication date for his long-awaited memoir, which he first announced in 2014. Titled Acid For the Children, the book is set to arrive on shelves September 25th. The book is described by Grand Central Publishing as focusing on Flea’s “fascinating life story, complete with all the dizzying highs and the gutter lows you’d expect from an L.A. street rat turned world-famous rock star.” [Exclaim]
Alice In Chains guitarist Jerry Cantrell spoke backstage at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony about late Soundgarden singer Chris Cornell, to whom Cantrell and Heart‘s Ann Wilson paid tribute on Saturday night (April 14th) by performing a cover of Soundgarden’s “Black Hole Sun” at the event. Cantrell told reporters, “Chris was a friend for many years and an incredible artist, a wonderful human being. And I’ve always been inspired by his work ethic and talent, and his band, Soundgarden, they were a big influence on us. It’s obviously very sad.”