SHADOWS FALL have made a video for track ‘FOREVERMORE’ and you can check it out below!!

The video track is taken from current album THREADS OF LIFE, which is in stores NOW. You can pick it up online HERE

The European leg of the mighty “Unholy Alliance Tour, Chapter III” has been confirmed to kick off in Manchester on October 27 and will play nearly two dozen shows over a four-week period. This third installment of what has been hailed as “the heaviest, darkest tour of the year” will feature Slayer, TRIVIUM, and Mastodon. An additional opening act will be announced shortly. While Slayer will close the shows, they will be co-billed with Trivium on the UK dates.

Ticketing info is available online at: slayer.net, www.myspace.com/slayer, www.trivium.org, or www.myspace.com/trivium.

Matthew Heafy, Trivium’s frontman commented, “Trivium is honored that Slayer has invited us to tour with them on the ‘Unholy Alliance Tour.’ All of us in Trivium are diehard Slayer fans and we look up to them for their music and longevity. They are one of the true pillars of heavy metal and for us to share stages with them is both an honor and a privilege. We’ve also known the Mastodon guys for a few years and we’re definitely looking forward to hanging with them as well.” Guitarist Corey Beaulieu continues, “I can’t wait to get out on tour with Slayer so we can watch them crush every night and then have the opportunity to share many drinks with them and Mastodon after the shows! I better get my liver in shape… it’s going to be awesome!”

The Unholy Alliance tour first launched in Autumn 2004 with a European edition that featured Slipknot, Slayer, Mastodon and Hatebreed. The venture was so successful, the first North American trek, dubbed “The Unholy Alliance Tour, Chapter II: Preaching to The Perverted,” kicked off in Summer 2006 with Slayer, Lamb of God, Children of Bodom, Mastodon, and Thine Eyes Bleed stomping and screaming its way to 30 U.S. and Canadian cities. The European run of “Unholy Alliance Tour, Chapter II” took place in Autumn 2006, featuring Slayer, In Flames, Children of Bodom, Lamb of God, and Thing Eyes Bleed. Kerrang! said about The Unholy Alliance Tour, “It’s so metal, it HURTS!”

SLAYER
A journalist once wrote of Slayer, “If Thomas Jefferson were alive today, he undoubtedly would be listening to Slayer.” Indeed, in the beginning, when there were no blueprints, no set paths, no boundaries or steps to follow, SLAYER assaulted the world with its new hybrid of metal and punk. Heavier, faster and darker than the rest, Slayer set the new standard which all others continue to follow. Slayer is the band that all other heavy acts are measured against, defining not only a genre but an attitude. For more than two-and-a-half decades, Slayer’s onslaught of sheer brutality has proven them to be the supreme thrash-metal band on the planet. Entire countries have banned their music, NARAS has graced them with two Grammy Awards. Slayer is currently writing material for a new album, release date TBD.

TRIVIUM
Orlando, Florida heavy metallers TRIVIUM are delighted to be co-headlining with SLAYER on the UK leg of this year’s colossal Unholy Alliance tour. Having performed over 600 shows in the last 36 months alone, Trivium are no strangers to the stage and life on the road. Last year, the worldwide million-selling band toured extensively with Machine Head, co-headlining the impressive Black Crusade tour, as well as finding time to play shows with the legendary Iron Maiden amongst others, supporting their Top Ten record “The Crusade” (which entered the mainstream UK chart at #7). Since then, they have been hard at work on their next studio album for Roadrunner Records, recently wrapping up recording with producer Nick Raskulinecz. It is due for release on September 29, 2008.

MASTODON
Hailing from Atlanta, Georgia, Mastodon have been critically acclaimed by almost every publication in the US and Europe. Their Grammy nominated album, Blood Mountain, the group’s third release, isn’t just unconventional, it’s surreal, progressive and unrepentantly heavy. Mastodon combined their favorite musical styles, including thrash, doom, prog and psychedelic metal to concoct something utterly original, undeniably devastating and irrefutably entrancing. They are currently in the studio with producer Brendan O’Brien recording their follow up to “Blood Mountain.”

The initial European dates are (more will follow):

OCTOBER
27 Manchester Arena, Manchester, England
28 NEC, Birmingham, England
30 Hammersmith Apollo, London, England
31 Hammersmith Apollo, London, England

NOVEMBER
2 CIA, Cardiff, Wales
3 SECC, Glasgow, Scotland
5 Stadthalle, Offenbach, Germany
6 Palladium, Cologne, Germany
9 Schleyerhalle, Stuttgart, Germany
10 Eishallel Deutweg, Winterthur, Switzerland
11 Zenith, Paris, France
16 Gasometer, Vienna, Austria
18 Zenith, Munich, Germany
19 Columbia Hale, Berlin, Germany

AIRBOURNE are currently winging their way to the UK to play Download festival on Sunday, attend the Metal Hammer Awards on Monday and then play some dates in Ireland. Not only that, but they release digital single RUNNIN WILD on Monday 16th June (check out the video below).

Recently, RR UK visitors submitted questions to frontman Joel and so here we present part 1 of his answers. Part 2 to follow tomorrow…

I saw Airbourne at King Tuts in Glasgow on the 10th Feb. You played a solo of Scotland the Brave. Was that planned or did you just play a few notes and it sounded like the tune, and you went off in a tangent? – Yvonne McCutcheon
Gday Yvonne. Nah it wasn’t planned but it was one of the first things I learnt to play on the guitar and hadn’t played it for years, so it just came to me at the time to play it loud for the Scots. Fuckin love that tune!

Do you think music as a whole could or will ever take a turn from a hip hop and pop centered music culture back to a rock n roll style culture like the 70s and 80s? – Jesse Brillhart
Gday Jesse. Whatever the outcome Rock’n’Roll will always prevail. We shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend Rock’n’Roll, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender! Hopefully Churchill one mind me for that one!

What is the origin of the name of Airbourne? How did you decide on it? – Kee
Gday Kee. Diving out of an aeroplane with nothing but a chute and your mates straight into exploding flak and not knowing whether you’re gonna live or die is what we think touring and playing live is like.

Do you rate Powderfinger, Silverchair, Jet and Wolfmother as good Aussie bands? – Andrew
Gday Andrew. Yes I do, Powderfinger, Silverchair, Wolfmother and jet have all done kick arse things for the Australian music industry in the past 15 years such as opening locked doors overseas for other Aussie bands, so we fully support them 100 percent.

What strings and pickups do you guys use to get your specific sound? – Joel Hoyt
Gday Joel. Both roadsy and I use D’Adario 10-52’s and Seymour Duncan 59’ pickups. The amplifier is always a Marshall 100watt JMP or JCM800 through classic cabs.

Debut album RUNNIN WILD is in stores NOW. Click HERE to pick up a copy

If you head over to BEBO, you will see that on their music page, they have an exclusive on MADINA LAKE’S new video for the track PANDORA, which is taken from their current album FROM THEM, THROUGH US, TO YOU (in stores NOW).

Head on over to have a look by clicking HERE!!!

PICK UP THE ALBUM HERE

CRADLE OF FILTH bassist Dave Pybus will make an appearance at the London Guitar Show, to be held at London ExCeL between 12-15 June.

Dave will be on the Rotosound Stand – A26 at 12.00 Midday on Sunday 15th June to chat and sign special event posters which will be available on the day!

For more information HEAD HERE

Cradle of Filth are currently recording their follow up to Thornography, which will be released towards the end of the year. Watch this space for more news soon…

OPETH recently sat down with Opeth and had a chat to them about their recent release WATERSHED, which is in stores now.

You can check out the 2 part interview at the following locations:

PART 1

PART 2

PICK UP WATERSHED HERE

Want to know where and when to find your fave ROADRUNNER bands at Download Festival this year? Then look no further! Below are details of when and where you can see your fave Roaderunner artists playing at the festival and also details of their signing sessions in the KERRANG! signing tent…

STAGE TIMES:

Friday
Kill Hannah 8:15pm – 8:55pm (3rd/Gibson stage)

Saturday
Madina Lake 2:15pm – 2:55pm (2nd stage)

Sunday
Black Stone Cherry 1:30pm – 2:10pm (Main stage)
Airbourne 3pm – 3:30pm (2nd stage)
Within Temptation 3:30pm – 4:10pm (Main stage)
Kids In Glass Houses 4:40pm – 5:10pm (2nd stage)
Cavalera Conspiracy 9pm – 10:15pm (2nd stage)

KERRANG! SIGNING TENT:

Friday
Kill Hannah 5pm–5:45pm

Saturday
Madina Lake 12pm-12:50pm

Sunday
Airbourne 12:45pm -1:15pm
Kids In Glass Houses 2.20pm – 3pm
Within Temptation 5:50pm – 6:30pm

SOULFLY release their brand new album CONQUOR on the 21st July and if you order this quite frankly mamouth slab of heavy metal from TOWNSEND RECORDS you will get a FREE Soulfly poster with your CD (whilst stcoks last).

To take advantage of this special offer, head to THIS location.

For those of you to hear new material from Max and crew, you will be happy to hear that they release digital single UNLEASH on JUNE 23rd!!

DRAGONFORCE release ULTRA BEATDOWN, the follow up to 2006’s SILVER awarded ‘Inhuman Rampage’, at the end of August and we are giving YOU the chance to put your questions about what you can expect from the album, and anythning else that has puzzled you about the fellas, to the guys themselves.

Email your question to rrguest@roadrunnerrecords.co.uk, titling your email ‘DF Q&A’, and then popping your question in the main body of the email. The best questions will be put to the guys and the resulting video interview will be posted right here in HERE

If you are not familiar with the work of the ‘Force, we can highly recommend that you check out the video for Through The Fire And Flame below…

You can pick up current album ‘Inhuman Rampage’ HERE

Remember the days of the mix tape? Getting all your fave tracks together on one tape and maybe you used to even decorate the plain covers of your blank tape? Well those days are back! MIXA is a 1GB USB storage device, presented in the form of a cassette tape, complete with case and it’s putting the physical back into digital and bringing back the mix tape! You design and buy your blank Mixa tape and then load your fave tracks!

And KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES are getting in on the action (they love a bit o’ retro!)

To celebrate the launch of the Kids In Glass Houses debut album ‘Smart Casual’ (in stores NOW!) the band have teamed up with MIXA to create an exclusive limited edition MIXA™.

The Kids in Glass Houses MIXA is available NOW from MIXA.COM and will be the first in a series of MIXA™ Limited Editions that will be launched in collaboration with leading names from the worlds of music, art and design. Fans will be able to kick start their mix tape compilation with a free download of the track ‘Good Boys Gone Rad’ and the sleeve has been designed by front man Aled Phillips. It also comes pre-loaded with exclusive content including video clips for making of the album ‘Smart Causal’ as well as a digital collection of band photos.

PICK UP ‘SMART CASUAL’ HERE NOW