Here’s a date for your diaries!! On SEPTEMBER 13th, MTV TWO will be having a bit of a SLIPKNOT special going on!

From 9pm on that night, the Iowa nine will take over the channel! Check this out for a Maggots dream night in:

Saturday 13th September (Beer + popcorn + MTV TWO)
21:00 Slipknot’s Perfect 10 – Corey and Paul from Slipknot introduce their top 10 music videos
22:00 Fred Meets Slipknot
22:30 Slipknot: MTV Live – Slipknot live in 2006
23:00 Slipknot Talk Videos

Miss it and you will certainly have missed out!!

Pick up the new album, ALL HOPE IS GONE, online HERE.

If you pre-order TRIVIUM’s upcoming album SHOGUN on PLAY.COM, you can get 25% off a cool, exclusive Trivium T-Shirt when you pick up the two together!

You can check out the tee at THIS location and if you like what you see, you can pick up the two right there as well!

CRADLE OF FILTH were in NYC recently and spoke to VAMPIREFREAKS.COM about their upcoming album GODSPEED ON THE DEVIL’S THUNDER, which is due for a release on the 27TH OCTOBER.

Check the interview out at THIS LOCATION to hear all about this Gilles de Rais fella the album is based around, amongst other things…

Pre-order the album HERE and don’t forget you can catch the guys live at London’s Forum on Dec 1st.

Check it out! Here is STAIND’s final update from the studio! Mike tells us how the recording has gone on the new album THE ILLUSION OF PROGRESS which hits shelves this coming MONDAY (SEPTEMBER 8TH)!!!

You can pre-order the album right HERE.

Unfamiliar with their work? You can check out their latest video for current single BELIEVE on their ARTISTS PAGE.

Cast your mind back about..oooooooh…a couple of months, and you will remember us asking you if there was anything you would like to ask DRAGONFORCE! Well, we went through your questions, and selected some of the good, the bad and the downright hateful, and put them to ZP and Herman when they dropped in to RR UK HQ one day. So here, for your viewing pleasure, are those answers!!

And let us not forget that the new album, ULTRA BEATDOWN, is in stores NOW and you can pick it up online HERE.

SLIPKNOT have once again made history.

ALL HOPE IS GONE, the Des Moines-based band’s fourth studio album, claimed the coveted #1 debut slot on Billboard’s Top 200 chart in the US, after an extraordinary SoundScan recount. The album was initially announced today as a #2 debut, a mere 13 units behind The Game’s #1 debut, marking the closest margin in SoundScan history. The chart positions resulted from a reported 238,272 copies of All Hope Is Gone sold in its first week in stores, while The Game’s LAX reported 238,285. With such an unprecedented margin, Roadrunner Records and WEA requested an historic recount. SoundScan obliged and chart positions have been reversed, with Slipknot claiming #1 and a new margin of 1134 albums. Final recount numbers are 239,516 for All Hope Is Gone and 238,382 for LAX sold during their first week of release. This marks a landmark achievement for Slipknot and Roadrunner Records.

Slipknot has seen similar outstanding first week sales globally with #1 debuts in Australia, Austria, Canada, Finland, New Zealand, Sweden and Switzerland, #2 in the UK, Germany, France, Belgium and Japan and a #3 debut in Norway.

In addition, Slipknot has been nominated for their first MTV Video Music Award in the “Best Rock Video” category for the album’s first single, “Psychosocial.” Premiered on FNMTV in July and then later added to regular rotation at MTV and MTV2 in the US, the video saw over 80 spins on the channels and has an excellent chance at taking home a Moon Man on Sept 7th.

Having spent their summer as the headliner on the inaugural Rockstar Energy Mayhem Festival, playing to an average of 18,000 people a night, Slipknot’s world tour continues on October 8th in Japan. The band will tour Australia, the UK and Europe for the rest of this year and return home for a US headline run in early 2009. Tickets for their December tour in the UK are close to selling out. Dates are as follows:

Mon 1st Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo
Tue 2nd Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo
Wed 3rd Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo
Fri 5th Dec – Cardiff International Arena
Sun 7th Dec – Birmingham NIA
Mon 8th Dec – Glasgow SECC
Tue 9th Dec – Manchester MEN Arena
Thu 11th Dec – Newcastle Metro Arena
Fri 12th Dec – Sheffield Arena

TRIVIUM are premiering their video for new single DOWN FROM THE SKY on their OFFICIAL MYSPACE PAGE!!! CHECK IT OUT!!

The single is available digitally NOW at all the usual spots and is the 2nd track to be made available from their forthcoming album SHOGUN which hits stores on SEPTEMBER 29TH!! You can pre-order that bad boy HERE.

BLACK STONE CHERRY are back! In part 2 of our latest catch up with the guys, we hear all about their influences, and I think you will agree they are a tad varied. Kelly Clarkson and Lamb of God in one sitting??! Crikey!

New album FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION is out NOW and you can pick it up right here at the ROADRUNNER STORE, and dont forget the ole tour that’s coming up! Tickets on sale as we speak…
Fri 5th Dec – Manchester Academy
Sat 6th Dec – Newcastle Academy
Sun 7th Dec – Glasgow Barrowlands
Tue 9th Dec – Sheffield Octagon
Wed 10th Dec – Birmingham Academy
Thu 11th Dec – Bristol Academy
Sat 13th Dec – Oxford Academy
Sun 14th Dec – London Brixton Academy

DREAM THEATER have released a video of a live performance of their stonking track FORSAKEN! Check it out below!!!

The clip is taken from their upcoming DVD release CHAOS IN MOTION 2007/2008, which documents their “Chaos In Motion” world tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to the day later on June 4, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It’s essentially a travelogue of their most recent touring experience.

The DVD will be available not only as a double DVD but also as a CD/DVD five disc collector’s set which includes two DVDs and three CDs, containing 14 live tracks featured in the DVD set as well as expanded artwork.

The DVD will hit stores in both formats on SEPTEMBER 29th.

PRE-ORDER ONLINE HERE.

Here it is folks! Part 1 in an indepth look behind the scenes of SLIPKNOT’S PSYCHOSOCIAL video!

See the guys arriving on set and the burning of some of the band’s masks!! Plus hear why Sid was late for the shoot!!!

The video was the first from the guys brand new album which buldozed into the UK album chart this week at