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NEWS BITES: MEGADETH To Play ‘Rust In Piece’, CONVERGE Goes Down Under and Blink-182 To Record New Album
It has been revealed that to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Megadeth’s “Rust In Peace” they will be playing the album in it’s entirety with a few fan favorites to follow. The tour will also include acts by Exodus and Testament who will be playing “The Legacy” in it’s entirety. The tour begins March 1.
In support of 2009’s “Axe To Fall” Converge is on a mini tour through Australia. Dates and more past the break. 03/12: Auckland, New Zealand @ Kings Arms
03/13: Wellington, New Zealand @ Bar Bodega
03/16: Perth, Australia @ Amplifier w/ Genghis Tron
03/17: Adelaide, Australia @ Fowlers w/ Genghis Tron
03/18: Melbourne, Australia @ Corner w/ Genghis Tron
03/19: Sydney, Australia @ Manning Bar w/ Genghis Tron
03/20: Brisbane, Australia @ Hi Fi w/ Genghis Tron
05/30: Baltimore, MD @ Maryland Deathfest w/ Entombed, Obituary, 16, and more
Converge is currently working on a full U.S. tour and as soon as dates are announced I will have them up.
And finally Blink-182 is getting ready to head back in the studio to record their first album since 2003’s Self-Titled full length. The album is in hopes for a 2011 release through Interscope. Blink-182 plan on touring Europe this summer.
AMC has announced that The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE, the standing-room-only performance celebrating AMC’s premiere of its newly-released The Vampire Lestat at New York City’s iconic Beacon Theatre last month, will debut on streaming.
The Vampire Lestat: One Night Only LIVE begins streaming on AMC+ on August 23.
Ahead of its streaming premiere, fans can preview the concert event, featuring original songs from series composer Daniel Hart and performed by Sam Reid, in Hall H at Comic Con International on July 24.
Our own Daniel Kurland attended the special event, highlighting how electric the Immortal Vampire is on stage: “It’s clear in this season of television that Reid was born to be a rock star, but it’s surreal to see him effortlessly command the stage — and the audience — at every step of the concert. He recites Shakespeare monologues and bitches out Armand between songs, all while the audience screams in support. For the duration of this concert, Reid is Lestat, and he’s given thousands of fans a memory that’s as immortal as any vampire.”
Based on Anne Rice‘s The Vampire Chronicles book series, The Vampire Lestat is the rock and roll-centric third season of AMC’s “Interview with the Vampire” created by showrunner Rolin Jones.
The Vampire Lestat goes on an electric multi-city tour while being haunted by “muses” from his wild and rebellious past. As his band’s popularity and star power rises, so does Lestat’s influence over vampires and humans alike, leaving others to contend with Lestat’s power in the face of the Great Conversion, an unnatural surge in the vampire population.
Jacob Anderson, Assad Zaman, Eric Bogosian, Delainey Hayles and Jennifer Ehle star with Reid. Executive producers include Jones, Mark Johnson, Hannah Moscovitch, the late Anne Rice, and her son Christopher Rice.
The series finale airs this Sunday, July 19, on AMC and AMC+.