Kentucky boys BLACK STONE CHERRY have added a headline show in York, in between their shows on the Def Leppard / Whitesnake UK arena tour.

Incendiary Australian rockers AIRBOURNE are set to return to the UK for a massive run of headline shows in November. Having sold out every single one of their headline shows here in February, on their very first UK visit ever, the band can’t wait to come back and do it all over again!

CRADLE OF FILTH have confirmed they will be playing London’s Kentish Town Forum on December 1st. Joinging them on the bill will be Gorgoroth, Moonspell, Septic Flesh and Asrai.

Tickets are on sale now at THIS location.

The band are currently working on their follow-up to 2006’s Thornography amd this is pencilled in for release late autumn of this year.

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES see their debut album SMART CASUAL hit stores this week! We are pretty excited as we think it’s pretty rad, but if you don’t believe us, here is what KERRANG! made of it in their recent review:

Kerrang! Issue 1211 May 24 2008
Kids in Glass Houses – Smart Casual (Roadrunner) KKKK – Mark Griffiths
“Cardiff quintet shine on eagerly-awaited debut.”

South Wales’ Kids In Glass Houses are one of those bands that seem to have been around forever. Since 2003 they’ve regularly supported fellow countrymen Lostprophets and Funeral For A Friend and have released just one official EP (2006’s E-Epocalypse!) in that time. A considerable amount of groundwork, then, before delivering their first album.

Smart Casual opens with the grimy riff-fest of Fisticuffs; all jagged rhythms and syncopated beats it’s an off-kilter, angular affair that still carries a bit chorus. This is quickly followed by the single Easy Tiger (re-recorded from E-Epocalypse!) replete with infuriatingly catchy ‘do-do-doo’ refrains and more hooks than an angling wholesaler. So far, so good then, but cheery three-minute nuggets alone would quickly grate. Thankfully, Smart Casual also has intricacy, depth and an innate, underlying passion. Pillow Talk, for example, is more downbeat and refined with mournful, plaintive lyrics and a crafted, expansive sound.

The fact that the band spent so long touring and earning their live chops before putting an album out is fully vindicated on Smart Casual. There’s a perfect mix between radio-friendly melody and weightier, discordant guitar work and, though the serrated riffing dominates, the pop sensibilities add an intrinsic fun quality all too rare in these days of dour introspection and angst. At the risk of stating a lofty claim this is the strongest British debut album thus far this year. Or, if we’re being casual about things; this is smart.
For Fans Of: Funeral For A Friend, The Blackout

All editions of the album are in stores NOW!!!

BUY EITHER CD VERSION OF THE ALBUM HERE

BUY THE DIGITAL VERSION HERE

Part 3 of the KERRANG! EXCLUSIVE behind the scenes look at the making of KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES debut album SMART CASUAL has been added to KERRANG! RADIO

Part 6 in our 8-part series of interviews with Mikael

Head on over to the Metal Hammer website and you will see part 3 of their exclusive chim-wag between Steven Wilson of PORCUPINE TREE and OPETH

Chicago’s KILL HANNAH took time out of their busy schedule recently to shoot a brand new video for their next single off current album UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT OF US (in stores NOW).

The video, (Directed by Adam Grabarnick) which is for track BOYS AND GIRLS, was shot in Vision nightclub in downtown Chicago, which was used as a morgue during the great Chicago fire and supposedly it’s haunted…

*instert Twighlight Zone theme tune here*

Check out some shots from the shoot at the link below below and look out for the video’s online exclusive with MySpace UK coming soon…

CLICK HERE FOR THE GALLERY

Head on over to the Metal Hammer website and you will see that they have posted part 2 of a cool chim-wag that Steven Wilson of PORCUPINE TREE had with OPETH

SOULFLY are set to return with their sixth album, simply dubbed ‘CONQUER’ on 28th July.

Armed and ready for battle with their skull-clobbering new metal masterwork, the SOULFLY tribe features the same line up from 2005’s Dark Ages – vocalist/guitarist Max Cavalera, guitarist Mark Rizzo, bassist Bobby Burns and drummer Joe Nunez. SOULFLY are one of the premiere bands that helped revive the metal genre in the late ‘90s and through the new millennium, thanks to the way they meld metal, world music and Brazilian culture.

Cavalera, who spent his formative years changing the heavy metal landscape with the groundbreaking Brazilian metal legends, Sepultura and who recently reunited with his brother (and former Sepultura bandmate) Iggor for The Cavalera Conspiracy side project, is primed and ready to go with Conquer. About Conquer, Cavalera cryptically says, referencing key album titles from his illustrious career that spans Sepultura, Nailbomb and Soulfly, “From the beginning of this Devastation, from Visions of Schizophrenia and battles Beneath The Remains to Arise in this Chaos A.D. From Point Blank executions to trying to find the Roots of your soul. From Primitive ways to Trinity, from Prophecies to Dark Ages Inflikting the world with metal. The mission continues, stronger than ever. Conquer your fear and you’ll conquer life and death.”

Conquer continues the Soulfly sonic assault of stormy, thrashy guitar riffs, thunderous, tribal-influenced percussion and an infusion of atypical, world music conventions that Cavalera has built his hard-earned reputation on.

he track listing for Conquer is as follows. In the time-honoured Soulfly tradition, the album concludes with a self-titled track.

Blood Fire War Hate
Unleash
Paranoia
Warmageddon
Enemy Ghost
Rough
Fall Of The Sycophants
Doom
Rot
Touching The Void
Soulfly VI