Mikael and Fredrik of OPETH fame are special guests on tonight’s Bruce Dickinson Rock Show (05/12) from 10.00pm!! You can tune in to the show online at THIS LOCATION or tune in digitally via DAB Radio or your telly via the following channels: SKY 0120, Freeview 707, Free Sat 707, Virgin 909.

If you are off out tonight for a few jars however, fret not.

SLIPKNOT this week grace the cover of the latest issue of KERRANG. Pick up your copy this week to venture behind the scenes at a Slipknot show, see awesome pics of the set up of the current tour and to hear about the stresses and strains; the highs and adrenelin of the touring circus that is Slipknot.

Also, tonight (05/12) sees Zane Lowe meeting Slipknot on MTV2! Tune in to Gonzo, MTV2 @ 7pm (channel 355 on SKY) to see his interview with Clown and Corey. MTV2 will also have an end of year special on the 30th December, with the band taking over the channel from midnight for 3.5 hours. The ‘Slipknot Night’ will also feature footage shot at the 3rd London Hammersmith Apollo show (that’s what all those cameras were for!!).

Slipknot still have the following dates to play on their current jaunt across the UK. There are a *handful* of tickets left if you have a good scour online / hit up the venues direct. Give it a shot- you never know! All Hope may not yet be Gone… (Groan)

Fri 5th Dec – Cardiff International Arena
Sun 7th Dec – Birmingham NIA
Mon 8th Dec – Glasgow SECC
Tue 9th Dec – Manchester MEN Arena
Thu 11th Dec – Newcastle Metro Arena
Fri 12th Dec – Sheffield Arena

Slipknot are touring in support of new album ALL HOPE IS GONE- pick it up online HERE. It is available as a regular CD or CD/DVD digi pack…

For more Slipknot news, head to THEIR NEWS PAGE.

NICKELBACK recently recorded a short live set for Walmart’s Souncheck series and you can now catch this online AT THIS LOCATION.

CLICK THE LINK to check out the guys performing the following tracks (which include to from new album DARK HORSE:

Rockstar
Gotta be Somebody
Animals
This Afternoon

followed by an interview with the whole band.

Nickelback have also just announced a tour in support of DARK HORSE and the tickets went on sale this morning (05/12). Check out the TOURS PAGE for buy online links. Full dates are as follows:

Fri 22nd May MANCHESTER Evening News Arena
Sat 23rd May GLASGOW SECC
Mon 25th May NEWCASTLE Metro Radio Arena
Tue 26th May BIRMINGHAM National Indoor Arena
Thu 28th May LONDON O2 Arena

CLICK HERE FOR MORE NEWS ON NICKELBACK

BUY ‘DARK HORSE’ ONLINE HERE! Features the tracks ‘Gotta Be Somebody’, ‘Something In Your Mouth’ and ‘This Afternoon’…

BLACK STONE CHERRY kick off their UK tour in support of current album FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION tomorrow (DECEMBER 5TH) and to coincide with this, we have a video for new single PLEASE COME IN which is available digitally now!! Check out the video in the player below:

Tickets are still available for the shows, and the dates are as follows:

Fri 5th Dec – Manchester Academy
Sat 6th Dec – Newcastle Academy
Sun 7th Dec – Glasgow Barrowlands
Tue 9th Dec – Sheffield Octagon
Wed 10th Dec – Birmingham Academy
Thu 11th Dec – Bristol Academy
Sat 13th Dec – Oxford Academy
Sun 14th Dec – London Brixton Academy
Tues 16th Dec – Dublin Academy
Wed 17th Dec – Belfast Limelight

For more news on Black Stone Cherry, head to their NEWS PAGE

Buy FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION online HERE

SLIPKNOT are currently on their headline tour of the UK with label mates MACHINE HEAD

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, one of the most loved and most successful of the Massachusetts metal scene exports, are proud to announce the recording plans of their fourth album for Roadrunner Records. The album will follow 2006’s acclaimed As Daylight Dies, which is approaching Gold-status (500,000) in the US. 2004’s The End of Heartache has achieved Gold certification in the US already, and is certified Silver in the UK (60,000).

For the first time in their career, the band will work with an outside producer and have chosen Brendan O’Brien (AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots) to man the boards. KsE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, a noted producer in his own right who has recorded all of the band’s previous albums, will be taking a co-producer role on this record alongside O’Brien. The band will record in both Georgia and their native Massachusetts.

Killswitch Engage will spend the winter recording the album with a release tentatively planned for Spring 2009.

Two-time winners of the Classic Rock ‘Best Album’ Award, Britain’s PORCUPINE TREE are pleased to confirm a special all-seated London show on OCTOBER 9, 2009. This will be the band’s first London show in support of their forthcoming new album.

Tickets went on sale yesterday to fan club members only for the Hammersmith Apollo date, but go on sale to the general public tomorrow (December 5), priced

In the final of the ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT DVD clips, we see former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE vocalist Jesse Leach sing with their current vocalist Howard Jones. Check out the clip which can be found EXCLUSIVELY on KERRANG.COM!!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW.

If you have missed any of the series of clips, you can check out all of them (and the sites that have shown the love for the DVD) right HERE.

ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT will be a 2 disc DVD set featuring the fill 25th Anniversary concert and a disc of backstage footage and interviews. The DVD goes on sale on Monday 8th DECEMBER at all the usual retailers OR you can pre-order / pick it up online at THIS LOCATION.

Roadrunner UK took time with Frederik from OPETH when they were in Manchester on the last date of their recebnt UK tour to see what the band had been up to since they were last in the UK and what they would be up to in the coming months. Check it out in the player below…

The guys were in the UK playing shows in support of current album WATERSHED, which is in stores now. You can pick itnup online at THIS LOCATION.

HEAD HERE FOR MORE NEWS ON OPETH.

Monday 8TH DECEMBER sees the long aticipated release of the ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT DVD and in one of the last clips to be premiered online, you can see HIM’s Vile Valo performing Type O Negative’s ‘Black Number 1’.

To see the clip, head over to the NME.COM media player-