On Monday 19th, Lamacq Live (9pm – 1am) will be playing a half hour documentary all about the New York Dolls. Great as a starting point for any fan of punk and classic rock, it also serves as a nostalgic trip down memory lane for those that were there. ONE DAY IT WILL PLEASE US TO REMEMBER EVEN THIS is out on July 24th.

There’s a brand new interview with 36 Crazyfists in this month’s issue of Rock Sound magazine. “If you watched the news constantly, you’d never want to leave your house” says Brock Lindow. There’s also an exclusive track on the FREE Sound Check CD. Rock Sound issue 86 is on sale now priced 퉌£3.50 from all good newsagents. 36 Crazyfists new album REST INSIDE THE FLAMES is out now!

Bleeding Through, Trivium, Ill Nino, and Soulfly will all again be featured on Redemption Live!, this time all together in a Roadrunner Special. Watch Sky channel 368 from 1am on Friday night/Saturday morning to catch this awesome slab of live brutality. And for those who miss it first time round, or just if you want to see it again, it will be repeated on Monday 19th June. Click here to go to Redemption TV’s schedule.

It’s been a busy time for Trivium of late firstly their fantastic appearence at the Download Festival last weekend, and then taking home no less than 3 (!!!) Golden Gods at Monday’s Metal Hammer Awards. But it’s back to work now on their new opus ‘The Crusade‘, and Paolo has dropped by to let us all know how it’s going. “Paolo here, just giving you an update before we head out early tomorrow for tour. We have finished tracking all of ‘The Crusade’, 15 songs total. Mixing has already begun and should be done in the next few weeks! We are incredibly excited with what we have accomplished in the studio. “This goes out to all our friends in Australia and New Zealand who have been patiently waiting for us to come down and play shows for you. Thank you for all the messages you have sent to us, we get hundreds and hundreds a week. There is a good chance we will be down in early 2007, once we confirm them we will let you know! We aren’t a band that likes to play a few shows, we will make sure we hit both coasts and play as many shows as we can. Thanks for spreading the word about us!!!! See you soon!!”

Glen Drover from Megadeth recently checked in from the studio to give us all a quick update on how the brand new eagerly anticipated Megadeth album is coming along. “I have been working hard on getting myself in shape for the upcoming solo fest on the new album. Things are going very well! Dave [Mustaine] is now recording his rhythm guitar tracks in L.A., so it should be a few more weeks before I start my process.” The production duties on MEGADETH’s as-yet-untitled Roadrunner Records debut are being handled by Mustaine and co-producer Jeff Balding. The initial studio sessions held at Sarm Studios, outside of London were filmed by director Michael Sarna (ANTHRAX, OBITUARY) and are available at Megadeth.com to fan-club members.

STONE SOUR will celebrate the release of their forthcoming album ‘Come What(ever) May‘ with an exclusive album playback party at London’s Mean Fiddler before their show on July 5. We’ve fixed it for 25 lucky winners and a friend to listen to the album, meet the band and get an exclusive T-shirt as a momento of the occasion. To enter this amazing one-off competition head over here.

The brilliant street teamer Jo Shields has sent us her review of Nickelback at the recent Milton Keynes shows. Milton Keynes certainly had their share of hot weather over the weekend, undoubtedly the presence of Canadian rock band Nickelback helped rise the temperatures of the 45000 crowd that swarmed the Milton Keynes National Bowl over the weekend. Chad Kroeger Ryan Peake, Daniel Adair and Mike Kroeger were on the last leg of supporting Bon Jovi on their “Have A Nice Day” world tour, and it goes without saying this was one of the best live performances I had seen from them. Kicking off with “Animals” from the album “All The Right Reasons” and a good mixture of songs from their multi platinum albums “Silver side up” and “The Long Road” Chad Kroeger can hold an audience in the palm of his hand, Cheeky banners being held up from the ladies in the golden circle one in particular spelling out “Chad we want to see your package” Chad obliged by producing a small box that was thrown to him from the side of the stage from one of the crew with the words “Chad Package” written on it which got the crowds roar of approval. Another added attraction to the hour long set was the guitar solo which accompanied the crew firing off Nickelback T-shirts far into the crowd from a cannon on the stage, such a sight to see masses of swarming arms trying their best to catch the rolled up shirts which made brilliant cannon ammunition. One particular moment that stands out in my mind where Chad announced the next song as “one for the ladies”, the acoustic sound from the single “Far Away” filled the arena as the evening sun was just beginning to set over the sun kissed crowd, it couldn’t have been timed any better. It was the total flawless performance from Nickelback that impressed the fans that had come to see Bon Jovi, and to hear the crowd singing in unison to their final song that started it all off for them in the UK “How You Remind Me” was a masterpiece in itself, thanking for the applauding crowd for their support, they left the stage to make way for the main act Bon Jovi. With Nickelback’s latest UK release “Savin Me” sitting pretty in the UK rock singles chart at number 2, It is safe to say Nickelback have proved they plan to be and will be around for a long time yet, They are so appreciative of their fans too, watching them signing autographs, posing for photographs just shows how down to earth they are and they take nothing for granted!! Set List Animals Woke Up This Morning Photograph Too Bad Far Away Never Again Someday Savin’ Me Figure You Out How You Remind Me If you want to join the roadrunner street team CLICK HERE

Last night at the KOKO in Camden, the red carpet was laid out ready to recieve the metal royalty – it was of course the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards! And we did rather well. Trivium stole the show last night in picking up no less than THREE awards. In addition to winning Best Live Band, Travis picked up the award for Best Drummer, and Matt was given the most prestigious of awards – The Golden God. Satyricon also walked away with the Best Underground Band, and Within Temptation finally picked up their first ever UK award by winning the award for Best Video for ‘Angels‘. And to top it all off, we here at Roadrunner were voted the Best Metal Label for the second year running! So as we wipe away the tears, we just want to thank everyone who voted for us, thanks to everyone who buys the albums, all the bands for making such great music, and thank you to Marta and Brock for going and collecting it for us. Thank you. With the old acceptance speech out the way, here is the full list of winners. Best Underground Band (Sponsor: Century Media and EMI) Presented By: Turisas Winner: Satyricon Icon (Sponsor: Roadrunner) Presented By: Ian Camfield Winner: Cristina Scabbia (Lacuna Coil) Best Newcomer (Sponsor: Albert Productions) Presented By: Ian Camfield Winner: Aiden Best Video Presented By: Ian Camfield Winner: Within Temptation ‘Angels’ Best Metal Label (Sponsor: Grindstore) Winner: Roadrunner Presented By: Ian Camfield to Marta (Bleeding Through) and Brock (36 Crazyfists). Best Drummer Presented By: Ian Camfield Winner: Travis Smith (Trivium) Best International Band (Sponsor: Trustkill) Presented By: Jada Pinkett Smith Winner: Avenged Sevenfold Spirit Of Hammer (Sponsor: Jagermeister) Presented By: Nick Oliveri Winner: Lordi Riff Lord Winner: Presented By: Seb Bach and Rita Abbott Jerry Cantrell (Alice In Chains) The Dimebag Awards For Young Guitarist Shredder Presented By: Rita Abbott Winner: Synyster Gates (Avenged Sevenfold) Best Live Band (Sponsor: Nuclear Blast) Presented By: Ian Camfield Winner: Trivium Best Album Of The Year Presented By: Ian Camfield Winner: Coheed And Cambria Best Album Of The Last 20 Years (Sponsor: Krank) Winner: Slayer – Reign In Blood Golden God Winner: Matt Heafy (Trivium) Best UK Band (Sponsor: Last Stop China Town) Presented By: Ian Camfield Winner: Bullet For My Valentine

Due to the Virgin Megastore on Oxford Street getting flooded over the weekend, they have unfortunatley had to cancel the 36 Crazyfists instore signing session that was due to happen at lunchtime today.

Our little pet gnome has been hard at work, just for you! We now have a fantastic new eCard up for Stone Sour! Featuring not only the spanking new video for ‘30/30-150‘, you can also have a very special listen to the tracks ‘Reborn‘ and the haunting ‘Through Glass‘ from the new album COME WHAT(EVER) MAY (released July 31st). Other goodies on the site include downloadable AIM buddy icons and web banners.