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Uriah Heep are recording their 25th studio album, Living The Dream, with Jay Ruston (Winery Dogs, Black Star Riders Stone Sour) producing.

A web campaign has been launched to assist Cardiacs singer Tim Smith with healthcare costs and fund the possible relaunch of his music career. For details go to www.justgiving. com/crowdfunding/ timsmith. Following a heart attack in 2008, Smith suffers from dystonia, which restricts movement and speech.

Veteran US-Canadian prog-metal band Dream Theater have announced a new deal with the Sony Music imprint Inside Out Music for their fourteenth studio album, due in 2019. Their most recent studio set was The Astonishing, released two years ago. Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John

Paul Jones are collaborating on a book to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Led Zeppelin. Page (pictured) also recently confirmed that “there will be a Led Zeppelin product coming out” – presumably tracks from the band’s archive – that “people will not have heard”.

Shinedown have completed their sixth album. The as-yet untitled record was produced and mixed by bassist Eric Bass and is the US group’s first conceptual piece. “It’s about the fight between a person and his or her depression,” singer Brent Smith told Classic Rock last year.