We caught up with sludge metal legends Jimmy Bower & Pat Bruders of Down at Download Festival. The guys talk about what makes for a perfect festival (I am sure you can guess a couple of these things!), who would headline their dream festival, their favourite festival memories (or lack thereof) & the importance of getting out on the road & playing live.

Those wonderful people at Total Guitar spoke with Slipknot guitarist Mick Thomson at Download Festival before the band headlined the Friday night. In the video which you can check out below, Mick takes us through his Ibanez custom shop

Bands don’t come much more brutal than Deicide!

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We caught up with Mastodon guitarist Bill Kelliher after the band destroyed the Main Stage

Australian post-hardcore five-piece, THE AMITY AFFLICTION are thrilled to announce eight headline shows in the UK this coming September.

Racking up the miles in support of their third album ‘Chasing Ghosts’, which crashed into the Aussie album chart at #1 on release late last year, the band can’t wait to hang out with their UK fans. Drummer Ryan Burt extends this invitation… “Hello UK friends! We’re super excited to be heading your way in September and we would love it if you’d come party with us at a show near you!”

For a good time, get your tickets now! THE AMITY AFFLICTION will be bringing the breakdowns to the following locations:

Sun 8th Sep – SOUTHAMPTON – The Cellar
Mon 9th Sep – MANCHESTER – Academy 3
Tue 10th Sep – LEEDS – Cockpit
Wed 11th Sep – GLASGOW – Cathouse
Thu 12th Sep – NEWCASTLE – Academy 2
Fri 13th Sep – CARDIFF – CF10 University
Sat 14th Sep – LONDON – Underworld
Sun 15th Sep – BIRMINGHAM – O2 Academy 3

Support comes from British upstarts, Landscapes and fellow Aussies, In Hearts Wake.

Tickets go on general sale on Friday 5th July, priced

During the next few weeks while Lamb of God is gearing up for several European dates in August, vocalist Randy Blythe is busy gearing up for the release of his upcoming memoir. The memoir, which puts emphasis on the past year of his life, is an incredible, harrowing, heartbreaking, and redemptive story told in Blythe’s already well-recognized writing style. It seems that almost every major media outlet has attempted to righteously cover the story of Blythe’s arrest, incarceration, trial, and acquittal for manslaughter in the Czech Republic last year, but now, the man at the centre of it all unveils the truths of the ordeal, personally detailing every aspect in his own words. No ghost-writers, no co-authors, just Randy Blythe, himself.

Randy Blythe is pleased to announce that the rights to this currently untitled memoir, currently slated to hit stores in the spring of 2014, have been sold for the USA to Executive Editor Ben Schafer at Da Capo Press. Da Capo Press is a member of American publishing company the Perseus Books Group. Internationally, much acclaimed publisher Random House has purchased the foreign rights to the memoir and will act as publisher in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. Random House recently put out Corey Taylor’s two best-sellers.

“While I’ve dreamed of being a published author almost since I began to read, I never imagined my first book would center around such a sad topic. Sometimes though, life unexpectedly provides you a story that needs to be told,” states Blythe. “I believe this one does (for several different reasons, not just for the benefit of myself), so I will tell it with the respect and dignity all involved deserve. This will be a good read, I promise you, and I hope some good comes of it.”

Randy Blythe and his band Lamb Of God will headline the Bloodstock Festival in the UK in early August.

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