Every Time I Die have just finished their UK tour with My Chemical Romance, however before they buggered off to their 50 floor mansions in Hawaii I managed to catch a few intimate minutes with front man Keith to discuss politics, religion and gravity awareness. Q1. How have you found touring with My Chemical Romance so far? It’s probably the smoothest running tour we’ve ever been on. Their crew is extremely helpful and professional and the band is still as down to earth as they ever were. Q2. Your current album í¢ä‰åñGutter Phenomenoní¢ä‰åŒ has been extremely well received. Now that you are an established international rock star how is your life style going to change? I’m going to have to lose all respect for humanity. Q3. What has been your best and worst experiences on tour? The worst is always getting sick of the road. I’ve been in situations where I’m throwing up while shitting my brains out. Actually, that may be the best experience I’ve had, Q4. Not dissimilarly to me you wear a lot of checked shirts, are you a closet cowboy? Nothing closet about it. I bring a horse in the trailer and drink ginger beer. Q5. Last time you came in was on the í¢ä‰åñUnder The Guní¢ä‰åŒ Tour with A Life Once Lost, and Twelve Tribes. Have you found the audience with My Chemical Romance very different? They are far less í¢ä‰åñmaleí¢ä‰åŒ. Q6. Your last video featured the infamous Michael Madsen, what was he like to work with? Stunning. We got along famously. No ego, all party animal. Q7. Tell us an interesting fact that people don’t know about you? I’m the only one who really gets í¢ä‰åñití¢ä‰åŒ. Q8. If you could have a one to one with anyone (alive or dead) who would it be and why? Right now I’d say Michael Angelo (the sculptor/painter, not the Ninja Turtle) just because I’m reading a book about him. Last week I would have said one of the Garbage Pall Kids. Q9. What’s next for Every Time I Die? We’re playing on the Moon. A benefit show for gravity awareness.

Still Remains have signed up for K! XXV, an extra-special tour hitting the UK in January to celebrate Kerrang! magazine’s 25th birthday. They’ll be joined by Bullet For My Valentine, Hawthorne Heights, and Aiden for an unforgettable event. To warm you up in the meantime, check out this live performance from the band. CLICK HERE FOR K! XXV TICKET INFO

Trivium are fighting for the crown at Yahoo! Music’s “Who’s Next?” competition this month. Ok, that sounds a little dramatic but you get the point: VOTE FOR TRIVIUM AND YOU’RE VOTING FOR METAL! REMEMBER Trivium are coming over to BLOW YOUR BALLS OFF this march. CLICK HERE for a full tour listing.

Dear all, Excuse the following exercise in bad grammar, doctrinal expletives and general buffoonery but I am writing this report from ‘The Chapel’ studios here in deepest, darkest rural Lincolnshire following a night out at the local pub (the only means of entertainment in the entire region) and a fall into a deep ditch full of water, having partially succeeded in rescuing a drowning football. Suffice to say I awoke this morning having half-laughed myself to death watching the two pseudo-documentaries on our soon-to-released new DVD to find my shoes caked in mud and my pants on the wrong way around (but that’s entirely another story). So far so good in respect to the new album, the producer Rob Caggianno having successfully crossed the Atlantic on what must be his fourth attempt in under a week and the band having been nicely tucked away in their respectful bedrooms, where I would indeed be now if it weren’t for the fact that Rob has chosen to put the bass cabs directly beneath me in an attempt to shake all the teeth out of my head. Incidentally Rob has been rather ill for the last four months with a stomach parasite he ingested from some dodgy food he ate in Mexico. No, the food didn’t have Anthrax, but it did have something in it that causes Rob to have to take fifteen different homeopathic tablets three times daily. He actually showed us a picture of the horror he ate as taken by Scott Ian, who apparently warned him not to eat what looks like a meat ‘Millenium Falcon’. In actual fact it was a skinned raw Goat’s face complete with sagging eyeballs, but to a pissed-up Rob it looked like heaven. You can see more of Rob in this state on our forthcoming DVD, Peace Through Superior Firepower. He is also available for weddings and Bar Mitzvahs. On the studio front there’s not a great deal to report other than Paul’s face has instantly begun to melt, sitting in front of his 50 inch computer screen (you know what they say about big screens don’t you…), rehearsing the tracks and smoking the herb as if his facial elasticity depended on it. Charles is his accomplice in the rehearsal side of things although he prefers a box of nineteenth century nasal snuff to weed and a lengthy piss up at the pub with me and various sheep farmers. Adrian and Dave are busy recording drums and bass whilst I wile away the first few days amending the latest chapter to ‘The Gospel Of Filth’ and writing this pile of old baloney. Incidentally the book is still progressing nicely although as you can imagine the whole process is a lengthy one what with the constant migration of ideas between conspirators and the amount of research that has gone into it’s construction, although author Gavin Badderley has promised to deliver it early next year. Still, the wait will be worth it i can promise you, the chapter i have just finished proof reading on (to tie in with the chapter headed “Cruelty And The Beast”) is extremely cantankerous, tracing the history of serial murder from Medieval attributions to werewolves through to modern day vampire-killers and cannibals. This chapter also features an alternative narrative on the Norwegian Black Metal murders of the mid-nineties as well as quotes and useful insights by everyone from Mushroomhead to Emperor to Charlie Manson. The next time I put poisoned ink to paper I will include a preview of one of the more juicier parts of the text for your delectation and much-sought after approval. But only if you’re good girls and boys… Never before in the history of this band have we been so ready for an album prior to going in. All of the songs have been rehearsed and demoed relentlessly, Paul is actually going over one even as we speak, over and over again to the point where I wish I’d never been born with ears. Like a bat. Still, in my sensory radar is the smell of dinner being slowly cooked, which is one great benefit of being cooped up in a residential studio. The food! By the time I go to India at the end of the year i will doubtless be about the size of a balloon with a face like Vince Neil back on the booze. To be fair though, everyone is making an effort to stay a little in shape this time around, even to the point of an early morning jog. And Dave has upped wanking himself off to five times a day AND with the other hand! Apparently. The threat of an upcoming UK tour will do that to a man you know. On the tour front the tickets sales are going so well we subsequently decided to add in a warm-up show in sunny Colchester the day prior to Southampton. Tickets for this are scant and going fast so you’d better grab them quick if you wish to see us at our musical and possible physical worse (five weeks worth of studio banquets later… ). Anyway, that seems to be all for now, i promise to keep you updated on a regular basis although as of next week I will be starting vocal duties concurrently in studio two. This is so I’m not left to the last minute with a stomach full of flutterbies. We are also doing several covers during this recording period and if someone out there can guess what they are, then a signed photo of Charles wearing our new girlie knicker and bra set shall be yours. You lucky fuckers! Till next I befoul the air with my presence…. hope you all had a happy halloween! With love, Count Filth

Groovy Ghoul Wednesday 13 surprised the Dutch crowd last Sunday night by coming on stage during the encore wearing the famous KISS latex Masks. When asked about the event the band responded: “The crowd just loved it and went wild!! Hey it’s a KISS Nation after all … We all grew up with the hottest band and needless to say we just love them…. Each night before we hit the stage you will hear KISS music out of our dressing room and during the drives on the tourbus … yep … we are watching a lot of KISS video’s” The band are coming back to the UK to complete the final part of their european tour on the 22nd November. To win the oppotunity to interview the band CLICK HERE

According to a posting on OBITUARY’s official web site, “a good possibility” exists that the band will be shooting a new video at their December 9 concert at the Masquerade in Tampa, Florida. OBITUARY’s latest CD, “Frozen in Time”, was released in July and is the group’s first collection of new songs since 1997’s “Back from the Dead” was self-produced by the band, with Mark Prator and Scott Burns engineering, and was mastered by Tom Morris at Morrisound.

Within Temptations stella track ANGELS has been added to the KERRANG! TV selection number 146. Don’t forget Within Temptation – The Silent Force Tour DVD is out on the 21st November.

Don’t forget that DEVILDRIVER & THE AGONY SCENE are coming over to our fair shores this December for 6 dates of pure evil!!! CLICK HERE to go to the tour section and find your nearest gig.

Check out the following videos that have been added to loaded on Kerrang! TV. – Slipknot ‘The Nameless’ – Every Time I Die ‘Kill The Music’ – Ill Nino ‘what You Deserve’

As you’re hopefully all aware, CHIMAIRA are coming over at the end of this month to “RIP SHIT UP”. If you’ve never seen this band live you literally have to come. If you’ve seen them before you know what i’m talking about and probably already havee your tickets. In preparation for this monster tour the band have revamped their site. So CLICK HERE and check it out. Here is what the band had to say about the new site. “We have revamped our site. Expect updates more frequently and next time you see Chris make sure to get him a bottle of Grey Goose Vanilla for all of his hard work. [sarcasm] Also make sure to give Jim a pat on the back for his hard work on coming up with such a creative design and having the smarts to teach Chris how to do everything.[/sarcasm]”