Aerosmith to Return with Movie Song

Aerosmith are set to return with a movie soundtrack song. Ultimate Classic Rock reports that the song “Legendary Child” will appear on the soundtrack for the forthcoming sequel, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, which will be released on June 29.

“Legendary Child'” was an outtake from the band’s 1991 Get a Grip sessions, but Aerosmith have now re-recorded it for the movie, and it’s also looking likely to appear on the band’s forthcoming new album due in Fall 2012.

Aerosmith’s Joe Perry recently told Canada’s QMI Agency that the forthcoming album “definitely has a feel like some of the early stuff. People are always asking for something that sounds like the old stuff. We’ve tried to bring that back.”

Hear an original demo of the 20 year-old “Legendary Child.”

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Trent Reznor Plans Nine Inch Nails Return

Trent Reznor plans to return to active service in his old job as Nine Inch Nails this year, after spending most of his time working on soundtracks in recent years.

In an interview with Billboard, Reznor said he was getting ready to work on new NIN material, but was not yet sure what form the music would take. “It’s all kind of hypothetical right now,” Reznor said. “When I sit down with a notebook and a little mini-recorder is when my bluff will be called, and then it might not happen at all.”

Reznor admitted he was at first unsure whether to use the Nine Inch Nails name for the new material. “At the moment it’s going to live in the Nine Inch Nails column, for a few reasons. I enjoy the challenge of moving that kind of brand forward, that identity, shaping it to who I am now instead of who I was a few years ago when I last left off.”

Nine Inch Nails have been in mothballs since 2009. Reznor’s recent works include the soundtracks to the David Fincher films The Social Network and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo as well as his other band, How to Destroy Angels, with wife Mariqueen Maandig and Atticus Ross. How to Destroy Angels’ first full-length album also is due this year. There is no word yet on whether Reznor plans to bring NIN back to the live stage as well.

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Lita Ford Plots ‘Real’ Return

Lita Ford is planning a May release for her new album, Living Like a Runaway, on SPV Records.

The album will feature guitar hero Gary Hoey. “Gary Hoey and I wanted to approach this record by getting back to basics,” Ford explains. “We want to strip away all the electronics and plug-ins and keep it to vocals, guitar, bass and drums. Going back to basics is going back to what punk, metal and The Runways was for me. Living Like a Runaway means freedom and empowerment. To do what I want and to pursue my dreams while answering to no one.”

Ford’s previous album, Wicked Wonderland, was panned by critics for what some saw as a focus on Ford’s now ex-husband, Jim Gillette, rather than on Ford’s own vocals and guitar playing. Ford recently told Classic Rock Revisited, “the last album I did was called Wicked Wonderland, I put it out with Jim Gillette, and we were married at the time. It is kind of a Jim/Lita album and not a really true Lita album. I got a lot of schpeel about that. A lot of people have told me that they want a real Lita album, and I know what they mean. They are going to get it.”

SPV A&R Representative/Product Manager Olly Hahn said, “When I bought Dancin’ on the Edge back in 1984 I never thought that I would ever sign Lita Ford to a label. But a dream of mine came true and it’s a huge honor for us at SPV/Steamhammer to have one of the leading women in rock ’n’ roll on our label.”

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Metallica Return to Black Album Sound?

The next Metallica studio album will feature concise, groove-oriented songs akin to their breakthrough 1991 self-titled chart topper.

In the January 19 edition of Rolling Stone, guitarist Kirk Hammett says the album will be the logical successor to “the black album” in the same way that Death Magnetic carried on the progressive song structures of 1988’s …And Justice For All.

Hammett said, “This stuff we’re coming up with is more groove-oriented, a heavier version of what we were doing in the early ’90s.”

Drummer Lars Ulrich says the shorter, more to-the-point material is not likely to be completed this year. “If I said 2012, I’d be lying,” Ulrich said. “I hope it’s not later than 2013.”

Meanwhile, Ulrich says the band is planning a 3D movie inspired by the 1976 Led Zeppelin film The Song Remains the Same, “which is 75 percent concert, 25 percent other stuff,” but flipped in the opposite direction. “All of the non-concert footage, instead of being about the band members, is a story that unfolds, set against the backdrop of the concert.”

The film, which will be funded by Metallica, does not yet have a title, a finished script or a director. Hammett said the band were sold on the idea by their management, who promised, “that it would be a lot of fun and we would have a big-ass stage to play on – the biggest Metallica show we’ve ever done, next-level stuff.”

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The Darkness Return to America

The Darkness recording in Nashville may seem crazy, but it is happening.

The reformed U.K. hard rockers are busy working on their third album and frontman Justin Hawkins tells Rolling Stone that they have their swagger back. “For every person that loved us another person hated us. That used to annoy us, but now it turns us on again,” Hawkins says of the band’s love/hate reputation. The Darkness return to North America early in 2012, for a brief tour starting February 1 in Toronto.

Before that, they head to Nashville to record some extra tracks and to add polish on the upcoming, unnamed album. “I doubt there’ll be pedal steel, but I’m definitely not averse to it because I love that sound,” Hawkins says. “But I think it’s a great place to go anyway just to spend some time there.”

Of new songs, Hawkins adds. “There’s one called ‘I Can’t Believe it’s Not Love,’ and I suppose it’s the nearest equivalent the new set of songs has to ‘Friday Night’ or something like that. It’s an acoustic-y, swing-y one with a massive guitar solo in the middle. Then there’s another song called ‘Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us,’ which has been in the set for a while. There are probably seven or eight tracks we’ve actually done live, all of which will make it onto the record probably.”

The Darkness’s full North American tour dates are:

Feb. 1: Toronto (Phoenix)
Feb. 3: Boston, MA (Paradise)
Feb. 4: New York, NY (Irving Plaza)
Feb. 7: Philadelphia, PA (Trocadero)
Feb. 8: Washington, D.C. (9:30 Club)
Feb. 10: Detroit, MI (St Andrew's Hall)
Feb. 11: Chicago, IL (Metro)
Feb. 12: Minneapolis,MN (First Avenue)
Feb. 15: Denver, CO (Summit)
Feb. 17: Las Vegas, NV (House of Blues)
Feb. 18: Phoenix, AZ (Celebrity Theatre)
Feb. 19: Los Angeles, CA (House of Blues)
Feb. 21: San Francisco, CA (Fillmore)

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Def Leppard Return to Rock Roots in 2012?

Def Leppard guitarist Vivian Campbell recently shared his band’s ideal future plans in an interview with Radio Metal. After the release of the live album, Mirrorball, this year, Campbell said he’s looking forward to getting back in the studio in 2012.

“It’s our intention in 2012 to make another studio album and hopefully we’ll lean a little bit toward the rock side of the spectrum.”

Campbell then addressed the idea that some fans would like Leppard to make an album akin to High ’n’ Dry.

“I mean it’s our intention to try and get back some of the flavor, but I think it would be wrong to try and make an album that sounds exactly like High ’n’ Dry,” he said. “What was really good about High ’n’ Dry was that it really showcased the influences of rock. But that's only part of the influences of Def Leppard.

“The band is also very melodic in terms of our influences and many people would say that the real Def Leppard sound was from Pyromania and onward. There was a fusion of [these] rock elements and the pop sensibilities. That’s always been what we tried to achieve when we write songs and go to the studio, to balance these two elements. There’s a percentage of our fans that really want us to just get back to the rock thing and we’re very aware of that, but I don’t think that's the majority of the Def Leppard fans.”

Yet, Campbell did suggest that he would like to go into the studio with the “influence” of High ’n’ Dry in mind.

“I do think that that’s a good influence or target for us collectively to look at when we think about our next studio record, and I think that there’s a couple of guys in the band who share that opinion.”

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Dethklok Return to the Stage

Dethklok will emerge from the Mordhaus this coming weekend to headline the Mayhem Festival in San Bernadino, California.

As bass player Bryan Beller says in an e-mail update, “It’s the only Dethklok show this year. If the whole audience dies somehow, then it will be just like the television show. (Yeah, it’s an in-joke, I know. Sue me.) We go on dead last, 11 p.m., after Godsmack, Distubred, and 34,926 other bands. Maybe the audience will be dead before we go on. Either way, we’re playing for somewhere around 30,000 people, so we thought it would be a good idea to rehearse this week so we don’t suck or get killed ourselves.”

The Dethklok live band also features Metalocalypse creator and Gibson signature artist Brendon Small on guitars and vocals, Mike Keneally (solo, Frank Zappa, Steve Vai) on guitar, and Gene Hoglan (Strapping Young Lad, Fear Factory) on drums.

Beller and Keneally will also be performing – separately – as members of Steve Vai and Joe Satriani’s respective bands at a benefit concert for Cliff Cultreri at the House of Blues in West Hollywood on Sunday night. The event will be streamed on Steve Vai’s GuitarTV.com website.

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TV on the Radio Well-Rested for Return

Three years after their album Dear Science cracked the U.S. Top 20, the experimental Brooklyn alt-rock group, TV on the Radio, have returned with a new album, Nine Types of Light, and a renewed energy – thanks to an uncharacteristic hiatus.

“The strangest thing about the hiatus is that I actually didn’t realize that it was an official thing,” singer Tunde Adebimpe told ClashMusic.com. “But we definitely did need to take a break, at least from touring, for everyone’s individual sanities.”

During the group’s downtime, Tunde fell back on some old habits. “Drawing and writing, filmmaking and a visual re-education for myself,” he said. “Just stuff that I’ve always been doing, but it was nice to not have to be anywhere every day for a year.”

As for the layoff, Tunde doesn’t think it will affect the group long-term:

“I remember picking up two Breeders records that came out, and being shocked that the previous record had came out seven years beforehand. They didn’t stop existing in my mind,” he said. “Hopefully the interest is still there [for us] – and if it’s not, there are other things to be done.”

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