In a MYSPACE UK exclusive, BLACK STONE CHERRY got all festive back-stage at Brixton Academy and did their own version of Santa Claus is Coming To Town.

Check it out, and have a cool yule all!

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM BLACK STONE CHERRY

Here it is folks. Continuing the long tradition of posting the RR UK Office staffs top 10 albums of the year, CLICK HERE to see what has really blown us away in 2008.

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES popped into BBC Radio Wales the other day for a bit of a chat with Beth. Check out these killer pics of Iain and Aled in the studio. Note the rather splendid new beard that Mr Mahanty is sporting. It’s quite impressive!

CLICK HERE FOR PICS

For more news on Kids In Glass Houses, POINT YOUR MOUSE HERE, and let us not forget that you can pick up their stunning (and PUNCTASTIC poll topping) debut SMART CASUAL HERE.

Fancy getting your mits on some RR classics of the digital variety? Then head on over to iTunes where you can now pre-order some upcoming digital special editions!

To be released on the 29th December, you will be able to purchase the following albums, two of which (Cantrell and Gruntruck) have never before been available digitally. Full tracklistings below…

Life Of Agony – River Runs Red
1. This Time
2. Underground
3. Monday
4. River Runs Red
5. Through And Through
6. Words And Music
7. Thursday
8. Bad Seed
9. My Eyes
10. Respect
11. Method Of Groove
12. The Stain Remains
13. Friday
14. Here I Am, Here I Stay
15. Depression
16. 3 Companions
17. Plexiglass Gate

Jerry Cantrell – Degradation Trip
1. Psychotic Break
2. Bargain Basement Howard Hughes
3. Anger Rising
4. Angel Eyes
5. Solitude
6. Mother’s Spinning In Her Grave (Glass Dick Jones)
7. Hellbound
8. Give It A Name
9. Castaway
10. She Was My Girl
11. Chemical Tribe
12. Spiderbite
13. Locked On
14. Gone

Murderdolls – Beyond The Valley Of The Murderdolls
1. Slit My Wrist
2. Twist My Sister
3. Dead In Hollywood
4. Love At First Sight
5. People Hate Me
6. She Was A Teenage Zombie
7. Die My Bride
8. Grave Robbing U.S.A.
9. 197666
10. Dawn Of The Dead
11. Let’s Go To War
12. Dressed To Depress
13. Kill Miss America
14. B-Movie Scream Queen
15. Motherfucker I Don’t Care
16. Crash Crash
17. Let’s Fuck
18. I Take Drugs
19. White Wedding
20. Welcome To The Strange
21. I Love To Say Fuck

Spineshank – The Height Of Callousness
1. Asthmatic (Edit)
2. The Height Of Callousness
3. Synthetic
4. New Disease
5. (Can’t Be) Fixed
6. Cyanide 2600
7. Play God
8. Malnutrition
9. Seamless
10. Negative Space
11. Transparent
12. Perfect Ending
13. Full Circle
14. The Height Of Callousness (Force Fed Integrity Mix)
15. Asthmatic (Punctured Lung Mix)

Fear Factory – Obsolete
1. Shock
2. Edgecrusher
3. Smasher/Devourer
4. Securitron
5. Descent
6. Hi-Tech Hate
7. Freedom Or Fire
8. Obsolete
9. Resurrection
10. Timelessness
11. Cars (Remix)
12. 0-0 (Where Evil Dwells)
13. Soulwound
14. Messiah
15. Concreto (1998)

Type O Negative – October Rust
1. Bad Ground
2. (No Title)
3. Love You To Death
4. Be My Druidess
5. Green Man
6. Red Water (Christmas Mourning)
7. My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend
8. Die With Me
9. Burnt Flowers Fallen
10. In Praise Of Bacchus
11. Cinnamon Girl
12. The Glorious Liberation Of The People’s Technocratic Republic Of Vinnland By The Combined Forces Of The united Territories Of Europa
13. Wolf Moon (Including Zoanthropic Paranoia)
14. Haunted
15. (No Title) (Outro)
16. Black Sabbath (From The Satanic Perspective)
17. Haunted
18. Cinnamon Girl (Extended Depression Mix)

Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses
1. Machine Screw
2. Christian Woman
3. Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare-All)
4. Fay Wray Come Out And Play
5. Kill All The White People
6. Summer Breeze
7. Set Me On Fire
8. Dark Side Of The Womb
9. We Hate Everyone
10. Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family)
11. 3.O.I.F.
12. Too Late: Frozen
13. Blood & Fire
14. Can’t Lose You
15. Suspended In Dusk
16. Christian Woman (Butt-Kissing, Sell-Out Version)
17. Blood & Fire (Out Of The Ashes Mix)

Sepultura – Roots
1. Roots Bloody Roots
2. Attitude
3. Cut-Throat
4. Ratamahttha
5. Breed Apart
6. Straighthate
7. Spit
8. Lookaway
9. Dusted
10. Born Stubborn
11. Jasco
12. Itsari
13. Ambush
14. Endangered Species
15. Dictatorshit
16. Canyon Jam
17. Procreation (Of The Wicked)
18. Mine
19. War (Bob Marley Cover)
20. Lookaway (Master Vibe Mix)
21. Mine (Andy Wallace Mix)
22. Dusted (Demo)
23. Roots Bloody Roots
24. R.D.P.
25. Untitled
26. Attitude (Live At Ozzfest)
27. Roots Bloody Roots (Megawatt Mix 1)
28. Roots Bloody Roots (Megawatt Mix 2)

Gruntruck – Push
1. Tribe
2. Machine Action
3. Racked
4. Crazy Love
5. Above Me
6. Gotta Believe
7. Break
8. Slow Scorch
9. Follow
10. Body Farm
11. Lose
12. Push

Soulfly – 3
1. Downstroy
2. Seek ‘N’ Strike
3. Enterfaith
4. One
5. L.O.T.M.
6. Brasil
7. Tree Of Pain
8. One Nation
9. 9-11-01
10. Call To Arms
11. Four Elements
12. Soulfly
13. Sangue De Bairro
14. Zumbi (Outro)
15. I Will Refuse
16. Under The Sun
17. Eye For An Eye (Live At Ozzfest 2000)
18. Pain (Live At Ozzfest 2000)

Soulfly – Primitive
1. Back To The Primitive
2. Pain
3. Bring It
4. Jumpdafuckup
5. Mulambo
6. Son Song
7. Boom
8. Terrorist
9. The Prophet
10. Soulfly II
11. In memory Of…
12. Flyhigh
13. Terrorist (Total Destruction Mix)
14. Back To The Primitive (Dub Shit Up Mix)
15. Bring It (Armageddon Mix)
16. SoulFire

Soulfly – Prophecy
1. Prophecy
2. Living Sacrifice
3. Execution Style
4. Defeat U
5. Mars
6. I Believe
7. Moses
8. Born Against Anarchist
9. Porrada
10. In The Meantime
11. Soulfly – IV
12. 1)Wings
2)March On River Dina
13. Prophecy ( Demo)
14. Propechy (Live In Poland)
15. Seek ‘N’ Strike (Live In Poland)

ROCK-SOUND.NET have asked some of rocks biggest names who they think will be the big hitters next year, and in their two part special, they have spoken to none other than Dan from STEADLUR, Nathan from MADINA LAKE and KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES. HEAD HERE to check it out.

And over on ROCKSOUND TV, they have a chat to MACHINE HEAD’S Robb Flynn about the worst thing that has ever happened to him on stage! Erk!

CLICK HERE and then click on ‘Interviews’ and you canny miss him…

NICKELBACK recently exclusively chatted to TISCALI MUSIC about thier fave tracks on their new album DARK HORSE.

If you missed it, check it out below…

They also recently chatted to MSN MUSIC exclusively about their top 5 most influential artists. You can also check that below too.

Don’t forget that DARK HORSE is in stores now and you can also pick it up online at THIS LOACATION.

And you can check out more Nickelback news HERE.

Click on the player below to check out the first track from the new album from the mighty LAMB OF GOD.

This is CONTRACTOR.

Continuing our festive series of bands interviewing bands, check out the latest installment featuring AIRBOURNE answering questions ‘randomly generated’ by TRIVIUM…

Allegedly so, according to this ITN news report! Although I would also allege it’s never done me any harm. Others may argue…

Anyway, from one bunch of headbangers to another, enjoy…

STAIND’S London show at the Astoria on the 26th January 2009 has had to move to the Forum due to the closure of the Astoria.