Gojira frontman Joe Duplantier was recently interview at Copenhell. In the intimate interview which you can watch below, Joe discusses his onstage persona, recording & what you can expect from their next record! Make sure you check out Gojira if you are going to Reading & Leeds Festival this year. They will blow your mind! 

Opeth have been nominated for ‘Best Band’ and ‘Best Album’ for ‘Pale Communion’ at this years Prog Magazine Awards. Click here to vote now! 

Australia’s The Amity Affliction are currently smashing it up on Warped Tour in the U.S. check out this killer live video of the band performing ‘Death’s Hand’ in California & get pumped for their UK headline run in November! 

This time last week were partying at the Metal Hammer Golden God’s where We Are Harlot won the Best New Band Award & Slipknot walked away with the award for Best International Band. You can now watch all the action from the Golden Gods below! 

The US touring spectacle, ‘Carnival Of Madness’ is set to make its debut appearance on UK shores in 2016, sponsored by Monster Energy. Established in 2010, the tour has seen an array of hard rock talent join the parade in years prior, including Alter Bridge, Papa Roach, Evanescence and In This Moment over in the US, but now it’s the UK’s turn in the spotlight with a fresh batch of bands!

Heading up the ‘Carnival…’ invasion on this side of the pond will be Kentucky rockers, BLACK STONE CHERRY, who announce this news as they ready to headline Stage Two at this year’s Download Festival. Special guests on the run are SHINEDOWN, who will release their fifth studio album via Atlantic Records this Autumn. Rounding out the bill are hot property, HALESTORM, and opening the evening are newcomers HIGHLY SUSPECT.

BLACK STONE CHERRY embrace returning to the UK once again, commenting "We are beyond excited and honoured to return to the UK to headline the UK’s first ever Carnival Of Madness Tour! The UK is a very special place for us, and to be able to return in this way after our first arena tour in 2014 is a testament to where our fans have taken us. We don’t take it for granted! With Highly Suspect, Halestorm, and Shinedown rounding out this incredible bill, you will for sure get your ass kicked like never before! Seriously…we’re comin’ for ya! Much love from your favorite Kentucky gentlemen!"

Brent Smith, SHINEDOWN’s frontman, is similarly looking forward to the run, enthusing "A huge hello to all our fans in the UK! We’re excited to be coming back as part of Carnival of Madness UK 2016. It’s a tour near and dear to our hearts in the US, and we CAN’T WAIT to share the stage with our close mates from Black Stone Cherry, Halestorm, and Highly Suspect! It’s going to be one hell of a show!!!!"

HALESTORM are also excited, with frontwoman Lzzy Hale stating; "’The Carnival Of Madness’ tours have always been so much more than just a show. It’s an outlet for creativity and energy, something both bands and fans can do together! We’ve enjoyed being a part of this ride for many years, and are thrilled to be coming over alongside our friends in Shinedown, Highly Suspect, and Black Stone Cherry. Carnival… will continue raising the bar in 2016 in the UK! Let’s make "rock show" a verb!"

Dates for the run rack up as follows:

Thu 28th Jan – CARDIFF Motorpoint Arena
Fri 29th Jan – NOTTINGHAM Capital FM Arena
Sat 30th Jan – LIVERPOOL Echo Arena
Mon 1st Feb – GLASGOW SSE Hydro
Tue 2nd Feb – BIRMINGHAM Barclaycard Arena
Thu 4th Feb – LONDON SSE Wembley Arena
Fri 5th Feb – LEEDS First Direct Arena
Sat 6th Feb – MANCHESTER Arena

A limited amount of VIP ‘First Entry’ tickets will also be available for purchase from www.carnivalofmadness.com on Friday 19th June. The bundle will include one general admission ticket, a ‘Carnival of Madness 2016′ UK tour t-shirt, a commemorative ‘Carnival of Madness’ tour laminate, and first entry to the venue.

The past week has been insane with Kerrang! Awards, Download Festival, Metal Hammer Golden Gods & We Are Harlot’s debut UK tour! Now the dust has settled we can look back at the awesomeness & celebrate the awards our bands picked up. Marmozets won Best Album at the Kerrang! Awards for their debut album ‘The Weird & Wonderful Marmozets’, Slipknot won ‘Best International Band’ at the Golden Gods & We Are Harlot won ‘Best New Band’. Party on! 

Watch the brand new Slipknot video for ‘Killpop’ right here & get amped for their headline Download Festival performance this coming Friday! 

Southampton’s goth-punk quintet CREEPER have enjoyed a phenomenal rise since their first sold-out hometown show at The Joiners last August. Having subsequently debuted in London with a rammed set at The Old Blue Last, they then hit the road for their first full tour as guests to Funeral for a Friend. After a rapturously received performance at this weekend’s Camden Rocks Festival, CREEPER can now confirm that they have signed a recording contract with Roadrunner Records.

"Roadrunner Records has been a constant in our lives ever since we were young," says vocalist Will Gould. "They have been a hugely important part of my young life, from picking up the first Slipknot album to The Misfits’ record ‘Famous Monsters’. To be involved with a record company who have put out some the defining records of our youth is incredibly exciting for us. It’s difficult to convey just how thrilled we are to be joining the Roadrunner family and to be making records together."

Will Gould and guitarist Ian Miles formed CREEPER from the fading embers of cult hardcore favourites Our Time Down Here. The line-up was completed with the addition of former Hang The Bastard guitarist Sina Nemati as well as bassist Sean Scott and drummer Dan Bratton.

CREEPER’S self-released debut EP established their musical blueprint, which combines the black-hearted punk rush of AFI, The Misfits and The Damned with the theatricality of David Bowie and My Chemical Romance as well as the dark romanticism of Nick Cave. The band are also inspired by old school horrors such as The Exorcist, The Twilight Zone and Phantom of the Paradise, as well as films which celebrate the outsider such as Heathers and Stand By Me.

CREEPER are currently putting the finishing touches to their first EP for Roadrunner. Set in the band’s hometown of Southampton, the video for first track ‘LIE AWAKE’ is the first instalment of a two part story of life, love and obsession which will conclude later in the year.

Upcoming festival dates include Download on June 13th, 2000 Trees on July 10th and Hevy Fest on August 14th.

Roadrunner’s Kvelertak are joining Slayer & Anthrax on tour in the UK this coming November & tickets are on sale NOW! Click here to get your ticket before they are all gone.

NOV

21 Newport Centre

22 Plymouth Pavillion

24 Manchester Apollo

25 Glasgow Academy

27 Birmingham Academy

28 Leeds Academy

30 Brixton Academy

The Amity Affliction will return to the UK this coming November for a very special run of headline shows! Tickets are on sale now, don’t sleep on it! You can also pre-order the band’s first ever documentary movie ‘Seem’s Like Forever’ which comes with a special edition of ‘Let The Ocean Take Me’. Check out the very limited edition bundles right here!