Five Finger Death Punch frontman Ivan Moody is stepping away from the metal game.
During the band’s show in Denver on Friday, Moody told the crowd that he’ll be “retiring from heavy metal” after the next Death Punch album so that he can spend more time with his family.
“The last 15 years of my life, I have toured the world, I have seen every country, every city on this planet at least twice — that’s a fact,” Moody said while sitting next to his children. “Through that time, as many of you parents know, hard workers, I have missed a lot of time with my kiddos.”
Moody then shared that he’d “made…a deal” with his kids earlier that day, and he’s “gonna stick to it.”
“After this year, I am going to make one more Five Finger Death Punch, and then I am retiring from heavy metal,” Moody declared.
Fan-shot footage of Moody’s comments was posted to YouTube by user Follow Me to the Rockshow.
The Denver show was the penultimate stop on Five Finger Death Punch’s tour in support of their new album AfterLife, which dropped in August. The outing also included Megadeth, The Hu and Fire from the Gods on the bill.
Five Finger Death Punch will return to the road in November for a U.S. tour with country star Brantley Gilbert.
Things are heating up on The Real Housewives of Miami.
During BravoCon on Sunday, the Peacock Original series debuted the trailer for its fifth season in front of fans and the current cast — Alexia Nepola, Larsa Pippen, Lisa Hochstein, Julia Lemigova, Dr. Nicole Martin, Guerdy Abraira, Adriana de Moura, and Marysol Patton.
The trailer begins with a main focus on Lisa’s contentious divorce from Lenny.
“I don’t know if my marriage is going to survive,” she says, before the next scene where Lisa reveals to her cast mates that her estranged husband is already seeing another woman.
The current situation is much different from the life Lisa described when she first began the show.
“My husband is a top plastic surgeon in this town, and I am his best creation,” she says in a flashback. “My husband built the perfect wife, and I built the perfect life.”
Lisa and Lenny were married for 12 years before he filed for divorce in May. They share two children: seven-year-old son Logan and three-year-old daughter Elle.
In addition to Lisa’s relationship woes, the trailer teases conflict between all of the RHOM ladies, as well as the struggles within each of their own relationships.
The first four episodes of season 5 of The Real Housewives of Miami will be available to stream December 8, with subsequent episodes released weekly on Thursdays.
The “Loser” artist was set to perform an acoustic set as the opener on the tour, but, according to Variety, those who purchased tickets to the upcoming shows received an email informing them that Beck will “unfortunately no longer able to join Arcade Fire on their upcoming North American tour.”
The news comes after four people accused Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler of sexual misconduct in a report Pitchfork published in August.
The allegations against Butler range from sending unwanted sexually explicit photos and demanding such photos and videos from women to sexual assault. In a statement to Pitchfork, Butler maintained that his encounters with all four accusers were “mutual and always between consenting adults.”
Pitchfork’s report was published just days before Arcade Fire was set to embark on a European tour. While Arcade Fire still went through with the European dates, opener Feist dropped off the bill after two shows.
Beck’s reps declined to comment to Variety. Neither he nor Arcade Fire has publicly commented on the development.
If you are affected by abuse and needing support, or know someone who is, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-HOPE (4673). You can also chat online at thehotline.org or online.rainn.org, respectively.
Taylor Swift‘s got a busy couple of weeks ahead of her, as she rolls out the promotional activities for her new album Midnights, due out Friday.
On Instagram, Taylor posted a video detailing what fans can expect in the near future, starting this Thursday: A teaser trailer will be released during the third quarter of Thursday Night Football on Prime Video.
Friday, the album arrives, followed by what is described as a “special very chaotic surprise” at 3 a.m ET. At 8 a.m ET, the music video for one of Midnights’ tracks, “Anti-Hero,” premieres, along with what’s described as a #TSAntiHeroChallenge on YouTube Shorts. The lyric videos for other tracks drop at 8 p.m. ET.
As previously announced, Taylor will then appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Monday, October 24. Tuesday the 25th we’ll get another music video — so far, she hasn’t told us which one it’ll be. Next Friday, October 28, Taylor will appear on the BBC’s Graham Norton Show.
Meanwhile, Sunday night at midnight, naturally, Taylor released a first look at the lyrics of the album in partnership with Spotify. A billboard in New York City’s Times Square reads, “I should not be left to my own devices.” More lyrics will be revealed on billboards around the world, and on Spotify, this week.
Along with the lyric reveals, Taylor will also be sharing clips about Midnights on the pre-save page of Spotify’s mobile version. In the first clip, she says she’s going to reveal “five things that kept me up at night and helped inspire the Midnights album.” She then reveals what one of those things is: “Self-loathing.”
There’s also exclusive merch available via that pre-save page.
Despite various proposals that would have allowed the members of BTS to avoid South Korea’s mandatory military service, it appears that ultimately, ARMY will have to allow their boys to serve in the actual army.
In a statement released on Twitter, the group’s label, Big Hit, announced that all seven members of BTS will enlist in the military, with the first one up being Jin. He’ll be releasing solo material at the end of this month and will then “initiate the process” of enlistment. The group’s label said that the rest of BTS — RM, J-Hope, Suga, Jimin, V and Jungkook — will then subsequently enlist “based on their own individual plans,” which means they won’t be able to perform with their full lineup until 2025.
“BIG HIT MUSIC has focused to the milestone moment when it would be possible to respect the needs of the country and for these healthy young men to serve with their countrymen, and that’s now,” the statement said in part. It added, “The members of BTS are honored to serve.”
As Billboard notes, in South Korea, all able-bodied male citizens must spend at least 18 months in the armed forces. The draft usually starts at age 18, but K-Pop entertainers can postpone their service until age 30. Jin turns 30 in December. The youngest member, Jungkook, is 25.
Over the weekend, BTS performed in the South Korean city of Busan, in their role as ambassadors for that city’s bid to host the World Expo in 2030. The BTS in BUSAN concert was attended by about 50,000 people, with 49 million more watching online.
Billboard reports that at the concert, J-Hope told fans the group was “in a stage where we need your trust.”
After weeks of getting in hot water on social media, Kanye West is buying his own platform.
Specifically, Ye has agreed to acquire the app Parler, which bills itself as “the world’s pioneering uncancelable free speech platform.”
The move comes after Ye’s Instagram account was restricted recently for violating the platform’s rules and guidelines, reportedly over a now-deleted post that was labeled as anti-Semitic. Twitter on the same day also removed a tweet that was judged anti-Semitic.
In the Parler announcement, Ye declared, “In a world where conservative opinions are considered to be controversial we have to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.”
The announcement — which described West as “the richest Black man in history,” a descriptive he himself has used recently — claims Ye is “taking a bold stance against his recent censorship from Big Tech, using his far-reaching talents to further lead the fight to create a truly non-cancelable environment.”
Further, the press release says Ye’s ownership “will assure Parler a future role in creating an uncancelable ecosystem where all voices are welcome.”
Parlement Technologies CEO George Farmer noted in the announcement, “This deal will change the world, and change the way the world thinks about free speech,” explaining, “Ye is making a groundbreaking move into the free speech media space and will never have to fear being removed from social media again. Once again, Ye proves that he is one step ahead of the legacy media narrative.”
(NEW YORK) — The East Coast of the U.S. will need to brace for more devastating storms like hurricanes Fiona and Ian should the global reliance on fossil fuels remain business as usual, scientists are warning.
Warming temperatures around the world are the root contributor that will cause more storm systems to behave like Fiona and Ian, with increased moisture and the likelihood of rapid intensification as they head toward land, according to a study published in Geophysical Research Letters on Monday.
This will make the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. a “breeding ground” for rapidly intensifying hurricanes, the researchers said.
Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory studied data over the past four decades of hurricane activity and the conditions that shaped them and found that the rates at which hurricanes strengthen near the U.S. Atlantic Coasthave significantly climbed since 1979.
The direct observations made by the researchers showed that the increase was “very likely due to climate change,” Karthik Balaguru, a climate scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and author of the study, told ABC News.
The trend will likely continue if the current level of greenhouse gas emissions continues around the world, according to the study.
A mix of environmental conditions caused by a unique phenomenon along the Atlantic Coast makes it more conducive to hurricane development, Balaguru said.
Land is already generally warmer than ocean waters. Still, as greenhouse gases build and global temperatures rise, land is heating up much more rapidly, and the ocean and the difference in temperature between land and ocean continue to grow, Balaguru said. The increase in the temperature difference between the land and the sea can create stronger storms, he added.
“Unlike the ocean with unlimited water supply, there’s much less water in soil,” Ruby Leung, an atmospheric scientist at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, said in a statement. “That means the land can’t evaporate as much as water, so it can’t get rid of the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases as quickly as the ocean.”
The same mix of hurricane-favoring conditions doesn’t appear in the Gulf of Mexico but could form in other regions, including those near the East Asian coastline and the northwest Arabian Sea, the researchers said.
Combined with warmer ocean waters and greater atmospheric humidity, these conditions allow the storm systems to jump multiple storm categories in a short amount of time, according to the study. And because of the speed of the strengthening, the storms can often elude meteorological predictions, even with modern-day technology, the researchers said.
Last month, Hurricane Fiona caused widespread destruction in Puerto Rico — five years after Hurricane Maria wiped out much of the island’s infrastructure. Just 10 days later, Hurricane Ian did the same to southwest Florida, completely decimating Sanibel Island and Fort Myers Beach with deadly storm surge and catastrophic winds. Both storm systems strengthened into powerful Category 4 hurricanes before landfall.
Damage from weather and climate disasters could exceed $100 billion by the time 2022 comes to a close, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced last week.
A study published in Nature in January found that annual costs of flooding alone in the U.S. could climb by 26% to $40.6 billion by 2050 as a result of climate change.
(WASHINGTON) — The Justice Department is asking a federal judge to sentence Steve Bannon, adviser to former President Donald Trump, to six months in prison and make him pay a $200,000 fine for his conviction on two counts of criminal contempt of Congress, according to a new court filing.
“From the moment that the Defendant, Stephen K. Bannon, accepted service of a subpoena from the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, he has pursued a bad-faith strategy of defiance and contempt,” prosecutors said Monday. “The Committee sought documents and testimony from the Defendant relevant to a matter of national importance: the circumstances that led to a violent attack on the Capitol and disruption of the peaceful transfer of power. In response, the Defendant flouted the Committee’s authority and ignored the subpoena’s demands.”
The statement continued, “For his sustained, bad-faith contempt of Congress, the Defendant should be sentenced to six months’ imprisonment—the top end of the Sentencing Guidelines’ range—and fined $200,000—based on his insistence on paying the maximum fine rather than cooperate with the Probation Office’s routine pre-sentencing financial investigation.”
Bannon was found guilty in July of defying a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
He had been subpoenaed by the Jan. 6 panel for records and testimony in September 2021.
The Davidson County, Tennessee medical examiner’s office has determined that America’s Got Talent season 15 and The Voice season 11 contestant Nolan Neal, found dead in his apartment back in July, died from “acute combined drug toxicity,” according to Deadline. The death was ruled an accident. He was 41. Neal had a history of substance abuse and addiction, about which he often spoke candidly…
Bravo has renewed Below Deck Sailing Yacht and Below Deck Mediterranean for seasons four and eight, respectively, while Peacock has renewed Below Deck Down Under for a second season, the cable channel and streaming service announced on Saturday. All shows are set to air in 2023. Meanwhile, season 10 of Below Deck premieres November 21 and Below Deck Adventure debuts November 1. Both air on Bravo…
Bravo confirmed at its BravoCon convention in New York City that The Real Housewives of New York City will return for its 14th season with seven new stars, according to Deadline. Sai De Silva, Ubah Hassan, Erin Dana Lichy, Jenna Lyons, Lizzy Savetsky, Jessel Taank and Brynn Whitfield are the new housewives from the Big Apple that will be part of the upcoming season set to begin filming this fall. The cast was announced during a taping of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen. RHONY had been placed on pause following the show’s 13th season. Season 14 is set to debut in 2023…
Former Disney Channel star Josh Peck took to Instagram on Friday to announce that he and his wife, Paige O’Brien, have welcomed their second child. the The 35-year-old Drake & Josh alum posted a pic of the newborn sleeping next to 3-year-old big brother Max, captioned, “Shai Miller Peck.” O’Brien shared a similar photo, along with a black-and-white shot of Max kissing Shai and a solo shot of the infant. Josh and Paige tied the knot in 2017…
(NEW YORK) — As the holiday shopping season begins to ramp up, online shoppers should keep an eye out for changes to return policies at some of their favorite stores.
Some major retailers, like Zara, Abercrombie & Fitch and J.Crew, are adjusting their shipping return policies, making free returns a thing of the past.
But, experts say, there are still ways to avoid those fees.
ABC News’ Chief Business Correspondent Rebecca Jarvis appeared on Good Morning America Monday to discuss some of the changes shoppers may soon see:
