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Sharon Osbourne says Ozzy's doctors warned that Back To The Beginning "would kill him," that Ozzy answered "I know I'm dying... I want to go this way," and that she never told Black Sabbath or her own children how sick he was. Scott Penfold on why that was the right call, with the Back To The Beginning film in theaters October 28. Also today: Sully Erna confirms new Godsmack music "at some point next year," three years after calling Lighting Up The Sky the band's last album, with Mike Mangini now on drums ("I'm under contract, and I owe another record anyways"). And Obituary reissue Xecutioner's Return and Darkest Day, remastered through Relapse, with a tribute to the late Frank Watkins and Ralph Santolla. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Nirvana's Nevermind has passed AC/DC's Back In Black to become the sixth best-selling album of all time, by one thousand copies: 66,832,000 equivalent album sales to 66,831,000, per Chartmasters. AC/DC still lead on physical copies, 37 million to 30 million. Scott Penfold on how the count works, why the streaming number is the honest one, and the fact that should bother everyone: nothing released since 1991 is in the all-time top ten. Also today: Alice Cooper's memoir Devil On My Shoulder hits No. 1 on the UK Sunday Times list and No. 4 on the New York Times list, the same week Dave Mustaine's book is also in the Times top ten. And Metal Allegiance announce their January 28 NAMM-week show at the House Of Blues Anaheim with members of Opeth, Overkill, Mastodon, Queensrÿche and Armored Saint, plus David Ellefson and Marty Friedman; tickets on sale Thursday. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande says Clown told him on day one, "you don't have to be concerned about playing everything right," that the band "don't want to have another Joey in the band," and that the Brazilian rhythms Clown once shut down are now going into the studio. Scott Penfold on why that's the most important thing anyone has said about the next Slipknot album. Also today: Mötley Crüe announce "Carnival of Sins in Sin City," eight nights at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace from March 19 to April 3, 2027, with fan-voted setlists and presales starting today. And Papa Roach add a 30-date 2027 US leg to the Rise of the Roach tour, May 11 to June 27, with Ice Nine Kills and the breakout duo Ninth Key. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Sleep Token have broken a year of silence with a rare statement saying they have "no affiliation with any outside musical project that invokes this name" and that such claims "are not made with our blessing." The band never names a target; fans are pointing at Arcus, a mystery project teased last month as being "from the co-creator of Sleep Token." Also today: a Brent Council politician calls for Marilyn Manson to be removed from Slipknot's July 3, 2027 Wembley Stadium show, the council says it isn't their call, and Wembley says it is talking to Live Nation. Manson denies all wrongdoing; a civil trial is set for November 2027. And System Of A Down are projecting their logo across Los Angeles with a countdown running on their site, and the two-rose teaser has fans betting on the Rose Bowl. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Dave Lombardo joins Scott Penfold six days after The Pulse Of Atoms, his first album with dark-ambient pioneer Lustmord, and one day after Reign In Blood turned forty. He explains why he 'wasn't ready' to make the Lustmord record twenty years ago, why he turned down William Shatner's metal album before calling back to say yes, and what happened in the backstage cubicle at Download 2004 when Metallica needed a drummer with hours to spare. Also: Reign In Blood at 40 ('if I go into cardiac arrest, play Angel Of Death'), what Mike Patton taught him, the Misfits call from an unknown number, and news on Dead Cross and Satanic Planet. Full story: https://loadedradio.com/dave-lombardo-interview-loaded-radio-podcast/ Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Matt Heafy walked out of a Trivium recording session last year, called his wife and told her he was done with the band. He tells Metal Hammer what she said to send him back, why drummer Alex Bent left in October, and why Trivium are 'tighter live than we've ever been' ahead of Crown In The Grave on November 20. Scott on why the real headline is the one Heafy didn't say. Also: Michael Amott says Arch Enemy are 'slowly working on a new album' with Lauren Hart, and why 'slowly' is the right word for a band that's replaced its singer twice before and won both times. And Dave Mustaine's memoir In My Darkest Hour debuts at number four on the New York Times list, in the same year Megadeth's final album went to number one. The Take: metal's honesty problem, and three men who passed the test. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Floor Jansen and Nightwish have parted ways after 14 years, 'in mutual agreement.' Tuomas Holopainen once said her leaving would be 'one hundred percent' the end of the band; instead Nightwish say they'll record a new album in 2027, and Floor's second solo album, Hytress, arrives January 15. Scott on three singers, three exits and one common factor. Also: Sammy Hagar, 79 this week, tells Billboard he'd 'love to bury the hatchet with Alex' Van Halen, who called him 'a complete idiot' and hasn't spoken to him in 25 years. And Steve Harris books British Lion into the Cart & Horses, the 120-capacity East London pub where Iron Maiden played their first show, for six nights at Christmas. The Take: what a band is once the people change. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Ian Hill explains why he left Judas Priest after 56 years: arthritis in his shoulder and thumb, six shows in eight days, a tendon that snapped in Brussels, and a decision he says he'd already made. 'I had no choice, really.' His bass is on the next Priest album, and he's open to encores if asked. Also: Dream Theater post a studio photo and a hashtag, and album seventeen with Mike Portnoy is underway earlier than anyone said. And Sharon Osbourne finally explains why Megadeth weren't at Back To The Beginning: 'There was no time.' Scott's take: three endings, and the rule underneath all of them. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

James Hetfield stopped Metallica's fourth Sphere show to tell the crowd what the band isn't: 'Metallica is not here, like some other entertainers, to influence you.' He didn't name names. He didn't need to. Scott takes a side on whether a band gets to decide what its stage is for. Also: Kelly Osbourne says she wrote 'Please help me' on a candle at Ozzy's grave and the next day Sharon arrived with the therapist who turned things around, and Butcher Babies' Heidi Shepherd says the hardest part of Carla Harvey leaving was losing 'a best friend of twenty-something years'. Full stories: https://loadedradio.com Free Loaded Radio app, live stream and socials: https://loadedradio.com

Mastodon are pressing real mastodon fossil into vinyl. The Bone Dust Edition of Marrow Deep is 170 copies at $150, made from a bag of 11,000-year-old mastodon teeth the band was given twenty years ago, ground to powder and pressed into the wax. You can't buy it; you enter a raffle. Also: audio of Black Sabbath's lost 1970 Dutch TV set, which the broadcaster said burned in a fire, has surfaced as The Lost 1970 Avro Sessions, and Metallica add 'Until It Sleeps' at their fourth Sphere show after 'Devil's Dance', 'The Outlaw Torn' and 'Fade To Black'. Scott picks which kind of scarcity is worth your money. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook: https://facebook.com/loadedradioofficial Instagram: https://instagram.com/loaded.radio X: https://x.com/loadedradio Threads: https://www.threads.com/@loaded.radio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@loadedradio YouTube: https://youtube.com/loadedradioofficial

Kenny Hickey of Type O Negative, in full: the live album is almost edited, Mike Marciano is mixing it and the target is early 2027; 'Prometheus', the unreleased Peter Steele song found on a cassette, will be released; and Hickey explains what Peter was carrying when the band made World Coming Down. Then the bands working now. Silvertomb's The Interpretation Of Nightmares is out November 13 on Steamhammer, seven years after the first album. Sun Don't Shine, with Johnny Kelly, Kirk Windstein and Todd Strange, has its debut From Birth To Death out. Plus October Rust at 30, Josh Silver, reunion nudges, his Type O albums top and bottom, and why they never played new songs live. Read more: https://loadedradio.com/kenny-hickey-interview-loaded-radio-podcast/ The Loaded Radio Podcast is Loaded Radio's interview show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook: https://facebook.com/loadedradioofficial Instagram: https://instagram.com/loaded.radio X: https://x.com/loadedradio Threads: https://www.threads.com/@loaded.radio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@loadedradio YouTube: https://youtube.com/loadedradioofficial

Def Leppard announce a 45-date 2027 North American arena tour with Goo Goo Dolls and The Struts, March 2 in Allentown to July 2 in Indianapolis, with five Canadian stops. A dollar from every ticket goes to City of Hope, where Vivian Campbell is being treated after revealing his cancer has returned. Also: Los Angeles declares November 13 Billy Idol Day, with a free City Hall set from Idol and Steve Stevens the day before their Rock Hall induction, and Deafheaven surprise-release the three-song At Work In The Fields Of The Bomb EP, which Kerry McCoy calls their heaviest ever. Scott asks why heavy is back. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook: https://facebook.com/loadedradioofficial Instagram: https://instagram.com/loaded.radio X: https://x.com/loadedradio Threads: https://www.threads.com/@loaded.radio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@loadedradio YouTube: https://youtube.com/loadedradioofficial

Black Sabbath nearly made one last album with the original four. Producer Andrew Watt says Ozzy, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler were all in and the plan died with a long email from Bill Ward, but Iommi told Classic Rock this summer he never wanted a follow-up to 13. Scott picks a side. Also: the Osbourne family host the purple-carpet world premiere of Ozzy & Black Sabbath: Back To The Beginning in Los Angeles on October 14 ahead of its worldwide cinema run from October 28, and Slayer mark 40 years of Reign In Blood with a liquid-filled zoetrope vinyl, out November 20. Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook: https://facebook.com/loadedradioofficial Instagram: https://instagram.com/loaded.radio X: https://x.com/loadedradio Threads: https://www.threads.com/@loaded.radio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@loadedradio YouTube: https://youtube.com/loadedradioofficial

Dave Mustaine says Megadeth's number one farewell album may not be the last word: at a Grammy Museum Q&A he revealed plans to go through the "half-songs" left over from the sessions to see if any are worth finishing, stressing it would only come from recordings already made. Scott explains why the word "final" is the one to watch. Also: Randy Blythe says he didn't know Lamb Of God had a new logo until he saw the Into Oblivion artwork ("nobody tells me anything"), and Staind announce a 27-date second leg of the Break The Cycle 25th anniversary tour with Seether, Hoobastank and Hinder, including Vancouver, Calgary and Edmonton. 0:00 Megadeth: Mustaine on the leftover half-songs 1:35 Lamb Of God: Randy Blythe and the logo nobody told him about 2:35 Staind: Break The Cycle second leg, dates and on-sales 3:30 The Take: leave the word "final" alone 4:25 Outro Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook: https://facebook.com/loadedradioofficial Instagram: https://instagram.com/loaded.radio X: https://x.com/loadedradio Threads: https://www.threads.com/@loaded.radio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@loadedradio YouTube: https://youtube.com/loadedradioofficial

Sepultura's last show ever moved from a 26,000-capacity stadium to a 9,000-seat hall, and the band added an intimate 'Last Ceremony' event two nights before the finale. Scott argues the downgrade is the most honest thing a metal band has done this year, and answers the 'not without the Cavaleras' crowd. Also: the Scorpions biopic Wind Of Change has a trailer and a January 2027 release date, with Dominic West as Doc McGhee. And Chad Gray cancels two solo shows over 'deep vocal issues' with a statement more singers should copy. 0:00 Sepultura: the smaller goodbye and The Last Ceremony 1:35 Scorpions: Wind Of Change trailer, cast, release date 2:40 Chad Gray cancels San Diego and Santa Ana 3:35 The Take: Sepultura without the Cavaleras, and the farewell industry 4:30 Outro Metal Breakdown Daily is Loaded Radio's weekday rock and metal news show, hosted by Scott Penfold. Read more at https://loadedradio.com Listen live: https://loadedradio.com/heavy-metal-radio-stream-hard-rock-loaded-radio/ Get the free Loaded Radio app: Apple: https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/loaded-radio-metal-radio/id1575710502 Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.loadedradio.player Follow Loaded Radio: Facebook: https://facebook.com/loadedradioofficial Instagram: https://instagram.com/loaded.radio X: https://x.com/loadedradio Threads: https://www.threads.com/@loaded.radio TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@loadedradio YouTube: https://youtube.com/loadedradioofficial