Who put the week on fast forward?? It’s freakin’Friday once again. Oh, hang on- THAT’S A GOOD THING!

And here, as ever are the top stories from Roadrunner Records UK this week!

First things worth of note- ALEXISONFIRE and DREAM THEATER both released their new albums this week!! If you click on thier names, you can get the full details, check out tunes and buy online!

In other news…

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE STREAM THEIR NEW ALBUM EXCLUSIVELY ON MYSPACE
On Tuesday morning, the band began streaming their upcoming self titled album on their MySpace page. It’s still there until release on Monday (June 26th) so it’s not too late! (Click for more…)

DEVILDRIVER ANNOUNCE UPCOMING UK ONLINE PREMIER OF NEW ALBUM
And following nicely on, DevilDriver will stream their upcoming album PRAY FOR VILLAINS form the 6th of June in prep for it’s JULY 13 release. (Click for more…)

CRADLE OF FILTH’S DAVE PYBUS TELLS US WHAT’S ON HIS IPOD
We continue out series with the leather clad bassist, who gets the award for most unexpected guilty pleasure thus far (Click for more…)

WE INTERVIEW MIKE PORTNOY
One of the most awesome dudes we have ever had the pleasure of working with and a darn breeze to interview! We didnt have the heart to cut up this interview, so we ran it all in 2 parts. Forthcoming and charming; interesting and funny, this is Dream Theater’s drummer chatting about the new reacord, the tour and much more…
Click for Part 1
Click for Part 2

ALEXISONFIRE TAKE US THROUGH THE NEW ALBUM, TRACK BY TRACK
Such a great album and so awesome to get an insight into the lyrical content. This is Dallas and George giving us a walk through. (Click for more…)

TOURS!
Man alive! CKY about to land in a couple of weeks, DEVILDRIVER and DRAGONFORCE announcing tours, ALEXISONFIRE heading out on Eastpak… it’s all go!! We think you should check out the TOURS PAGE.

And, if anyone is interested, we updated the ROADRUNNER UK BLOG a couple of times this week! Check it!!