Wednesday 13 are doing a set of instores to promote their awesome new album “Transylvania 90210:Songs Of Death, Dying, And The Dead”. OUT ON APRIL 11. The instore shall commence at 4pm. If you can’t make it in the day, why not get tickets to one of their UK gig dates, from 11th – 16th? INSTORES ARE AS FOLLOWS: Mon 11 April – HMV Manchester, 90 Market St, Manchester, M1 1PD. Tues 12 April – HMV Brighton, 48 Churchill Square Shopping Centre, Brighton, BN1 2TE. Thurs 14 April – HMV Birmingham, 38 High St , Birmingham, B4 7SL. Fri 15 April – HMV Glasgow, Lewis’ Building, Argyle St , Glasgow, G2 8AD. Don’t forget Wednesday 13 UK TOUR 11-16 APRIL

HOPESFALL (with Tsunami Bomb) With almost two years of non stop touring with groups such as The Ataris, Coheed & Cambria, Killswitch Engage, Snapcase and The Juliana Theory under their belt Hopesfall are a must see for anyone with eyes ) Sat 14th May – London Mean Fiddler Sun 15th May – Bristol Fleece 7 Firkin Mon 16th May – Nottingham Rock City Tue 17th May – Birmingham Academy Wed 18th May – Glasgow Cathouse Thu 19th May – Newcastle Globe Fri 20th May – Leeds Josephs Well Sat 21st May – Manchester Hop & Grape Sun 22nd May – Leicester Princess Charlotte Mon 23rd May – Oxford Zodiac Tue 24th May – Brighton Concorde 2 Wed 25th May – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms

Street Teamer Aaron gives us his Critic of Bleeding Through‘s latest gig in preston. First band of the night were For My Anger with hardcore guitars and deep screaming vocals with the two singers harmonising in parts of songs. Next up were Elias Last Day a local preston band which got a great crowd reaction with the pit opening up and more people joining in it was a great set as they played a couple songs and some new songs they went off stage with a great crowd reaction and i hope they get the chance to play at the mill again to show how good they are. Cult Of Luna were up next with a awesome set all round playing a couple of songs the crowd weren’t really getting into it which i thought was a shame because these guys were awesome. I thought to myself that the reason there not liking it was because its not the type of music to mosh to its music you stand and listen to. As they went off stage people started to move to the front to watch Bleeding Through. As the starting of ‘ this was a fucking bomb for a few seconds this place was armageddon there was a fire fight ‘ the the pit just went crazy as i ran in losing my shoe people were going crazy.Standing at the front with an awesome view Brandan kept standing at the front barrier for people to sing into the microphone.At one point he threw the microphone into the crowd as people started grabbing it like mad people i grabbed it and roared the lyrics into it then Brandan got it back and carried on but then he had undone the clip holding the microphone to the lead as it fell onto the floor which was quite funny. Playing most songs off the This is love this is murderous like Love lost in a hail of gunfire , Sweet vampirous, number seven with a bullet , on wings of lead , this is love this is murderous , murder by numbers and revenge i seek. Which got the crowd really going and getting the pit to go mental with people running everywhere and just people going generally crazy. Also playing some new songs as brandan said ‘ if you guys love this new stuff you’ll love the new album ‘. As the guys went off the crowd started shouting ‘ one more song, one more song, one more song ‘ with that the guys and gal came back on and did one encore song with brandan standing on the barrier thanlking us and saying that they will be back sometime soon. With that an awesome night was over with Brandan and Marta coming to the barrier hugging and kissing fans on the cheek you could tell that the band really were thankful for all the support they got from the guys and gals in the crowd. After that people just dispersed to go home as me and a fellow street team member stood near the barrier we could see the band putting there own equipment away. So as i held out my album cover the guys were more than happy to come over the barrier and sign album covers and take photos with there fans as i stood there with three of the band members near me i thought these guys deserve to be heard in the metal world because they love their fans and also love to talk to them and play kick ass metalcore music. If you want to be a teamer like Aaron CLICK HERE

Check out this interview with Soulfly Frontman Max Cavalera, brought to us by music mania magazine. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ARTICLE SOULFLY’s live DVD “The Songs Remains Insane” OUT 28/02/05

Metal Hammer is pleased to report that Chimaira guitarist Rob Arnold did not die last week as a fake internet reports have suggested. A fake news story has been circulating since tuesday afternoon stating that: í¢ä‰åñChimaira guitarist Rob Arnold was found dead in car aged 25. Cleveland police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a man whose body was found following a suspected road accident in Co Roscommon this morning.” í¢ä‰åŒThe man, who is identified as 25 year old guitarist Rob Arnold, was found dead inside a vehicle that was spotted in a ditch by a passing motorist in Cloonfad East at around 9am. A post mortem is due to be carried out later today to determine the cause of his death.í¢ä‰åŒ Chimaira’s publicist told Metal Hammer: í¢ä‰åñRob’s just fine and amused to learn of his death yesterday.í¢ä‰åŒ An official statement from the band is as follows: í¢ä‰åñIn more startling news, guitarist Rob Arnold has returned from the dead. Donations for his family are still being accepted.”

Check out two new tracks from Still Remains and The agony Scene, both these tracks have been taken from albums due later this year. CLICK HERE to listen

O.k. so I wasn’t completely honest, the band havent been attacked by a circus following their tour. But they were interviewed by rockmidgets.com. CLICK HERE TO READ THE INTERVIEW Don’t forget Caliban are touring with Hatebreed from march 5th – 15th.

Check out this great write up from this months rocksound. Giving OPEN HAND album of the month. Not only does it give you an overview and critic of the album, but offers an insight into the many trials of frontman Justin Isham The situation Open Hand’s Justin Isham has dealt with over the past couple of years is one you hope no frontman will ever have to experience. To watch your band crumble around you at the first sniff of success just doesn’t bear thinking about for most young hopefuls, even more so when it’s because your fellow musicians have given up on something you believed was their lifeblood. But that’s exactly what happened in 03 when, just as debut release ‘The Dream’ was beginning to make an impression, the guitarist, bassist and drummer all upped and left. Ask Isham why he this happened and he’ll hint vaguely at things like the band members’ increasing greed for money and the corresponding lack of it. Listen to the latest offering ‘You And Me’, however, and you’ll probable decide that it had more to do with fate. In classic ever-cloud-has-a-silver-lining fashion, Isham has triumphed against the odds to make Open Hand better that we ever hoped they could be í¢ä‰åäóì at once more accessible and more dangerous, more melodic and more aggressive, more coherent and more complex. It was already evident from ‘The Dream’ that Open Hand were no ordinary hardcore act. For a start words such as melody, pop and experimentation dominated their vocabulary. Then, when heavyweights Poison The Well brought them to our shores in the spring of 03, they were the support act that provided the light to the headliners’ impenetrable shade. With its Smashing Pumpkins-style grandiosity, ‘This Is The End’ carried the early signs of an ambition that centers on the epic, while the curiously incoherent ‘Radio Days’ and ‘Never Alone’ quietly dipped their toes into prog rock territory and found the water to be nice in deed. And so it is that ‘You And Me’ expands on those initial sparks of promise and increases them tenfold. Having created a sterling backing band by re-recruiting original bassist Micheal Anastasi and former guitarist Sean Woods, adding drummer and new vocal force Paxton Pryor (previously of The Vacation) and guest vocalist Hayley Helmericks (Monofog), Open Hand is now a truly unstoppable operation. From the bomb blast opening of ‘Pure Concentrated Evil’ through to monumental closer ‘Hard Night’, this is an astonishingly powerful album. Isham’s voice has a new found confidence that enables him to judge the songs’ twists and turns í¢ä‰åäóì both sonic and thematic í¢ä‰åäóì and ride them effortlessly, be it in the silky smooth majesty of ‘Her Song’, or the muted vocal swagger of highlight ‘Tough Girl’, where the singer battles it out with Helmericks to great gender-bending effect. Together with book and ‘Tough Guy’, and the record’s third duet ‘Take No Action’, these songs mark an edgier and altogether ballsier approach for Open Hand, one that puts them up there with ‘Antenna’ era Cave In, but still screams innovation. That’s not to say that Isham and co have abandoned their talent for dreamy melodies, and creations like the title track, ‘Jaded’ and the divine ‘Trench Warfare’ fly the flag for a kind of QOTSA lite. Open Hand have succeeded in making a record that defines them, by finally creating an audible identity while still ensuring boundaries are continually reinterpreted. They’ve also achieved that feat of feats – making sure that if you weren’t convinced the fist time around, you’ll be helpless to resist them now. CLICK HERE to go the ROCKSOUND site

FREEZING OUR BALLS OFF! – Ill Ni퀌±o update í¢ä‰åŒWassup everyone, We’ve been in the studio for the last 35 days, freezing our balls off, writting some heavy fuckin’ shit, jamming all day, eating rice & beans and busting each other’s balls. The new music is coming out sweeter than your sister’s ass, everything we want the new CD to be, percussive, brutally heavy, latin, and very melodic, all you guys will be very pleased. We’ll start the recording process our new CD the 3rd week of February, also keep your eyes on the tour date section, as we’re playing, 2 very exclusive dates in the tri-state area early March see you all soon.í¢ä‰åŒ

Check out this awesome interview with BLEEDING THROUGH,brought to us by detonator.tv CLICK HERE to go to the site