“We want to thank everyone who came out to support the shows and all the bands on the recently completed European leg of The Crusade World Tour.

“After 8 months of non-stop worldwide touring we are heading home to Florida for some time off until the Family Values Tour kicks off across North America on July 20th.

“The past eight months of touring 'The Crusade' started off last October 2006 and saw us storm across North America on a headline run (with friends THE SWORD, PROTEST THE HERO, SEEMLESS, SANCTITY and CELLADOR) then over to Europe to finish off the year supporting the mighty IRON MAIDEN. We then started up again in early January 2007 and headed off to Japan and then over to Australia and New Zealand for the Big Day Out. After that we came back through North America (with good friends LAMB OF GOD, MACHINE HEAD and GOJIRA) then immediately hopped on a plane over to Europe again for a massive 65-day headliner (supported by ANNIHILATOR, GOJIRA and SANCTITY). No rest for the wicked…

“We want to thank the bands ANNIHILATOR, GOJIRA and SANCTITY, our management, Roadrunner Records worldwide, Bravado, The Agency Group, the promoters all of our support teams our tour management and production teams the crews, everyone who helped put this tour together and made it happen. We also want to thank our family and friends and those who help us to do we do. Most importantly, we want to thank YOU — THE FANS — who came out to the shows and who make all of this possible. Thanks for coming out to the shows and banging your heads and whatever else you banged. We appreciate it. Keep an eye out soon for some exciting tour news to come shortly as we have some fun plans to finish up the last few months of 2007.

“Below are some interesting facts around this leg of The Crusade World Tour:

European Crusade:

65 days
51 cities visited
44 gigs
17 countries
11,800 miles traveled
7 gallons engine oil
1757 gallons Diesel
7 Ferries
176 cases of water
88 cases of beer
tons of wine
44 bottles of vodka”

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

Ben Wells from Black Stone Cherry features in TheRighttoTock.com’s latest podcast (episode #19). You can hear the interview around 35 minutes in and he talks about how the band got started and where they go form here.

The guys will be playing at the Hyde Park Calling Festival on 24th June in London!

You can watch footage of Black Stone Cherry performing acoustically and being interviewed in Stockholm, Sweden at this location

Black Stone Cherry website

SOURCE: BLABBERMOUTH

The venue Caliban were scheduled to play in Southampton (The Brook) has major financial problems (liquidators have been appointed to liquidise their assets… more info

After Thursday night at 7pm, Kerrang! Radio will never be the same again… Killswitch Engage maestro Adam D will be co-hosting YourSpace with Sean Coleman,

With the wealth of Roadrunner bands that have been touring the UK of late, we've had interviews pouring out of ears, and all just for you, the adoring public.

Take a peek at the Caliban Press Page to check out Planet Loud's rather positive review of the boys' new album The Awakening.

“This truly is the sound of a band who have found their groove, every song picks the things that Caliban do well whether it be soaring melodies, machine-gun riffing or throat shredding vocals – and improves on that quality tenfold.”

The Awakening is out now, and reading that little review should give you reason enough to indulge yourself.

Kerrang!'s latest issue features a rare, 5K review of Dream Theater's forthcoming Systematic Chaos. It's well worth it to grab a copy at your local news stand, but you can also check out the review HERE.

www.dreamtheater.net

Dream Theater on MySpace

Dream Theater on YouTube

It's head-on-head fireball action as Still Remains steps into the driveway versus It Dies Today in a roman candle fight to the burned soles.

Still Remains new album The Serpent hits store shelves

Remember that little Still Remains competition we gave you forewarning about the other week?

Room Thirteen have posted their highly complimentary review of the amazing new Dream Theater album Systematic Chaos – head on over to the Press Page to read what they have to say on the topic;

“'Systematic Chaos' is dripping in Dream Theater class and is one of the band's best releases… varied, interesting, technically brilliant and over-all full of great ideas and catchy songs.”

The album Systematic Chaos is out today, so pick up a copy to hear exactly what is going on.