The first is Come Taste The Band, the sole studio album from the MKIV line-up and originally put out in 1975. This has been expanded to feature not only the original album, but a remix from Kevin Shirley and previously unreleased tracks from that period.

The other is the compilation Deepest Purple, which was first issued in 1980. This has been expanded to include both Hush and Soldier Of Fortune, plus a DVD with TV clips and a track-by-track guide with Jon Lord.

Find out more at www.deep-purple.com

This will happen on July 1 next year at Alexandra Palace, as part of the Don’t Look Back series of shows. To add to the occasion, they’ll be supported by Dinosaur Jr., performing their 1988 album Bug in its entirety.

Tickets go on sale from 10am on Friday, September 3.

Ms. Mann, the priest-in-charge of St. Nicholas in Burnage, Manchester, has written in The Church Times: “Since Black Sabbath effectively created it in 1969…heavy metal has been cast as dumb, crass and on occasions, satanic; music hardly fit for intelligent debate, let alone theological reflection.

“Yet, as both priest and metal music fan, it strikes me that the Church, especially in these agonised times, has a serious gospel to learn from this darkest and heaviest music.”

Ms. Mann believes that the genre’s ability to deal with violence and death “Seems to offer its fans a space to accept others in a way that shames many Christians”.

However, whether Ozzy will be invited to read the lesson on a future Sunday at any church remains open to doubt!

The band went onstage over an hour later than expected, at 10.25pm, to be greeted by a hail of cans and bottles from an angry crowd.

At this point, Axl said to the fans: “Alright, here’s the deal. One more bottle, we go home. It’s up to you. We would like to stay. You want us to stay? We wanna stay. We wanna have some fun. If you don’t wanna have fun, all you gotta do is let us know and we’ve got no problem. We’ll go on our way.”

By 10.50, when more bottles were thrown, Axl took the band offstage. Despite pleas from an official onstage, bottles continued to be thrown, and at 11.10pm, the main lights came up and most of the audience left. However, 15 minutes later, GNR did go back onstage, to finish their set in front of a very small crowd.

Watch video footage of the latest Axl shenanigans here.

This lot started out in 2006 as Black Helicopters, playing as a trio around the local, combining free form noise with visual projections.

Changing their name to 19A.D.D., the threesome of Jared Emery (guitar/synthesisier/saxophone), Matt Blanks (bass/synthesiser) and Eric Periera (drums/synthesiser) spent three years working on songs for their debut album, Dead River. This was released last year on their own Level 36 label.

The band actually recorded this is several different environments, using both old style tape technology and state-of-the-art digital equipment.

A song from this album is to be featured on the free CD with the next issue of Classic Rock Presents Prog. In the meantime, you can download a 20-minute Pink Floyd medley for absolutely nothing right here. This was recorded at a Pink Floyd tribute show earlier in the summer.

Find out more at www.19add.com

Hi,

My name is Anni De Vil and I’m the lead singer of the all-female metal band Hysterica. This is my first blog for Classic Rock. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I wanted to start with. I finally decided to write about my audition with Hysterica.

I was discovered by Hysterica’s guitarist, Bitchie Blackwhore, who found my advertisement on a Swedish web page for musicians in the summer of 2008. I was a fan of Hysterica before I joined the band so I was in complete shock when Bitchie called and asked me if I wanted to try out for the band. After the call I started screaming and crying so badly that my parents thought that someone had died…

My audition with Hysterica is the most nerve-wracking, but also one of the best, memories of my life. I fell in love with the girls at once and after the audition they asked me if I wanted to fill in for their singer at their performance on the Alarm Scene at Sweden Rock Festival which was gonna take place only two weeks later. My answer was YES, of course.

I only had a couple of weeks left in high school and the show at Sweden Rock Festival was on the day before my graduation. That meant we had to drive as fast as we could from the festival all night to be able to make it back to Stockholm in time for my graduation party the day after. It’s safe to say that those were a couple of intense weeks.

A month after Sweden Rock Festival 2008 the lead singer left the band and I became the new lead singer.

This is my dream and I have never been this happy. I live for METAL and my Hysterical girls!

– Anni De Vil

www.hysterica.se

www.myspace.com/hysterica

Anni’s blogs will feature regularly on the Classic Rock website, so stay tuned for future instalments. Below: Anni performing with Hysterica at last year’s Hard Rock Hell festival.

The band was started in 2008 by drummer Dhani Mansworth. He’s now joined by guitarists Ben Brookland and Tagore Gray, bassist Rick Newman and drummer Matt Jones.

The five-piece have been recording their debut album at Barnyard Studios, owned by Iron Maiden’s Steve Harris. It’s being produced by Airrace guitarist Laurie Mansworth (Dhani’s dad) and is to be mixed by Voodoo Six’s Tony Newton.

Find out more at www.myspace.com/the_treatment

The band – also featuring Sammy Hagar, Joe Satriani and Michael Anthony – are keen to record their second album in the autumn, but Smith might not be available.

Hagar told The Pulse Of Radio: “To me, Chad is Chickenfoot. But Chad’s, you know, in the Chili Peppers. They’ve been writing for a year and they haven’t even started recording, and I just don’t see a window now. ‘Cause once they start recording, Chad’s never gonna be able to get a break, and then when they’re done with that, they’re gonna go out on the road for a year and a half. So we really don’t know what to do right now, but I think we’re gonna probably play with a few different guys and see what happens”.

Find out more at www.chickenfoot.us

The fourth annual Hard Rock Hell festival takes place December 3-5 at Pontins Holiday Village, Prestatyn Sands, North Wales.

The line-up is as follows:

Thursday December 3:

Tigertailz

Dumpy’s Rusty Nuts

9xDead

Gentlemans Pistols

Attica Undercover

Blind Ambition

Gypsy Pistoleros

Virgin Marys

Headrush

Friday December 4:

Airbourne

UFO

Skid Row

Uriah Heep

Hardcore Superstar

Diamond Head

Die So Fluid

Fatal Smile

Starseed

Benedictum

Raising Sand

Evil Scarecrow

The Plight

Furyon

Kobra And Lotus

Blackstar Whiskey

Blackstorm

Saturday December 5:

Helloween

Saxon

MSG

Fastway

Paul Di’Anno

Blaze Bayley

LA Guns

Tank

Pretty Boy Floyd

Marseille

Enuff Z’Nuff

Attica Rage

Tank

Blitzkrieg

Ignominious Incarceration

Saracen

Battleaxe

Jaguar

Tokyo Blade

Cloven Hoof

Spartan Warrior

More more info, go to the official Hard Rock Hell website here.

Seeing Eye Dog, as the album’s called, is the band’s seventh in all, and sees mainman Page Hamilton (guitar/vocals) joined by guitarist Dan Beeman, bassist Chris Traynor and drummer Kyle Stevenson. The band have even included a cover of the Beatles’ And Your Bird Can Sing. Says Hamilton of that choice:

“I just always loved that song and thought of doing it. It’s such an odd track and I always felt like I could do something cool with it. The degree of guitar difficulty didn’t come into my mind. I just love the song, the way it progresses.”

This time around, Hamilton feels the band have really stretched out, in terms of their style:

“The Helmet musical vocabulary is well established at this point, but I continue to work on a variety of musical projects that inevitably influence the Helmet songs. I’ve been working on movies with Elliott Goldenthal and co. for 17 years now and had never really experimented with incorporating these soundscapes (or shit sculpting as I prefer to call it) into Helmet songs.”

Seeing Eye Dog is released by the Work Song label on September 7. Right now you can download for free a remix of the song LA Water (done by Josh Boardman of Battle Tapes) here.

This is also the website for further info.