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Metallica's Lars Tributes Cliff Burton- Watch Steven Tyler and Jeff Beck Jam- Feist Full Album Preview- Accept Plan Next Album- Junos Go Metal- Symphonic Queen- more

Revolver caught up with Lars Ulrich for the 25th anniversary of Metallica bassist Cliff Burton's death to discuss his late bandmate. Here is how Lars remembers meeting Cliff: I had just never really seen anything quite like it. It was just unique and so original. And there was just this incredible stage presence and this uniqueness to the whole vibe. I had just never seen anything like it. It was new, it was different. And obviously you could tell there was an incredible ability, and there was a stage presence, and all this type of stuff wrapped up in this incredible type of personality. And I think we were a little intimidated by him in the beginning because he was just so unique. But then as we got to know him a little bit, and I sort of started courting him to try and jump ship [from his band Trauma], then I started realizing he was a pretty chill dude." Lars has a lot more to say here

(BW&BK) Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler performed at the iHeartRadio festival in Las Vegas on Saturday, September 24th. Tyler was joined on stage by Jeff Beck and Damon Johnson on guitar, Randy Jackson on bass, Tal Wilkenfeld on bass and Marti Frederiksen on drums. check out video footage here

(SRX) Accept have started work on their next album. The new album is scheduled to be finished and released in the spring of 2012 and will once again be produced by Andy Sneap. more

This Juno goes to 11. The annual Canadian music awards will hand out a trophy for metal / hard music album of the year beginning in 2012, organizers have announced. more

(PNO) The New York Times is reporting that Scion is and has been backing indie and punk bands to help sell their brand and have developed Scion A/V. One of the artists quoted in the piece is historic punk act The Melvins who will be releasing a "mini-album" next year on Scion's dime. more

(Billboard) Feist makes her return since 2007's "The Reminder" with her new record "Metals," and now fans can hear the album in full before its Oct. 4 release date. Listen here.

(BW&BK) Celebrating 40 years of legendary hits, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: Symphonic Queen is scheduled for Tuesday, October 18th at at 7:30 PM at London, England's Royal Albert Hall. more

(BW&BK) In a new update from Eric Greif, Esq. - President of Perseverance Holdings Ltd. which runs everything related to Death/Control Denied legend Chuck Schuldiner's intellectual property - they have started work on three new Death releases including a double live CD (The Sound of Perseverance-era), a live DVD (Leprosy-era) and the overhaul of the band's 1990 album Spiritual Healing. more