STONE SOUR have just entered the studio to record the follow-up to 2006’s Come What(ever) May. In the clip below, the guys check in from Blackbird Studios in Nashville, Tennessee with an introduction to the series of updates they will be running from the studio.

Keep an eye on Roadrunner UK and StoneSour.com in the coming months for more updates from the guys.

Welcome to part 2 of Airbourne’s beer tasting session, filmed when the band were with the folks over at Roadrunner Germany.

Click on the player below and see the O’Keefe brothers taste and rate some more beers. Fun times. If you missed the first instalment, simply CLICK HERE

Here we bring you part 2 of a 3 part series of updates from Aled and Iain of KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES fame, where they run through their forthcoming album DIRT track by track to give you a feel for what to expect from the record and what’s behind each of the track.

Click on the player to view this second instalment. If you missed the first one CLICK HERE.

You will be able to pick up the album from March 29th as a CD and digital standard release and a digital special edition. Pre-order the CD online now HERE.

Vegas rockers TAKING DAWN have spoken to Metal Hammer about their impending visit to the UK supporting label-mates Airbourne on their forthcoming headline tour.

The guys have seemingly been dying to get over here for some shows and they are excited to show the UK crowds what they are made of- and see if the UK crowds can live up to their touring experiences thus far in the US where they have already begun playing shows in support of their debut album Time To Burn.

Head to THIS LOCATION to check out the video interview with vocalist Chris.

You can pick up the album now digitally, or if you hold off until the 12th April you will be able to pick it up on CD. You can pre-order the CD and download the album AT THIS LOCATION.

Taking Dawn will be opening the Airbourne shows. Full dates (and ticket buy links) can be found at the Tours Page.

Last week, KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES announced some in-stores for the week of release of their forthcoming album DIRT.

If you’d like to go to one of these in-stores, you’ll need to collect a wristband from the hosting HMV stores in advance. In a slight change to the previously published details, the wristbands for the Cardiff and Manchester instores (detailed below) will now be available from 8:30am on Monday 29th March. Wristbands for London instore will be available from 8:30am on Wednesday 31st March.

There are only 300 wristbands available per instore so make sure you get your wristband nice and early. One wristband per fan only and you can only collect them in person, so you can’t collect one for your mate, they need to go down and collect it themselves.

The dates of the in-stores are as follows:

Monday 29th March – HMV Cardiff, 5pm
Tuesday 30th March – HMV Manchester, Arndale Centre, 5pm
Wednesday 31st March – HMV Oxford Circus, London, 5pm

There will also be an exclusive new KIGH t-shirt for sale at these instores!

Pre-order ‘Dirt’ online HERE.

May 3rd will see the release of the new album from MELISSA AUF DER MAUR. The album, Out Of Our Minds, will be available as a standard edition and a special edition digipack.

The full tracklisting will be as follows:

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Monday March 22nd will see KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES premier their forthcoming album DIRT on MySpace.

DIRT, recorded in Texas at with Jason Perry (The Blackout, ‘A’), is the follow-up to 2008’s debut album ‘Smart Casual’ (which debuted in the UK mainstream album charts at number 29). It will hit stores March 29th. Parts of the album were also recorded on the road during the New Found Glory tour (who appear on Maybe Tomorrow), and at Jason’s studio in Essex, where the band met Frankie Sandford (The Saturdays) by chance, and invited her to appear on ‘Undercover Lover’.

This will be the first opportunity for the public to hear the album in full after being teased with the band’s free mp3 gift to fans ‘Hunt The Haunted’ and singles ‘Youngblood (Let It Out)’ and current radio hit ‘Matters At All’.

“The album doesn’t pander to any fleeting trends,” Aled (Phillips, vocals) emphasizes. “It’s the most honest record we could have made. There are a few curveballs. It’s a bit rawer than our first. It’s quite a bit more expansive and the arrangements are more interesting. The most noticeable thing will be the inclusion and experimentation with electro elements, brass and strings. We’ve never wanted to cut ourselves off from playing with these things and making them part of our music. There’s some grandiose bits, some fun bits and some textured pretty bits that step away from the two guitars, bass, drums and vocals approach. It was a lot of fun. We all just wanna be Prince, really,” he laughs.

Fans should head to MYSPACE UK to check out the album in full from Monday morning (22/03).

The album can be pre-ordered online HERE.

AIRBOURNE. They’re Australian. They’re in a rock band. Of course they’ve tasted a few beers in their time! So our German office thought they would run some beers past them and see how they rated them- Airbourne’s guide to the beers you should avoid or put on your shopping list next time you are planning to RAGE!!

Check out this hilarious clip with Ryan and Joel and come back tomorrow to see part 2!

Airbourne will hit the UK at the end of the month, when we will run some UK beers past them so watch this space! Check their tour dates and pick up tickets HERE.

New album No Guts. No Glory is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

In the player below you will find part 6 of our introduction to the world of metallers MUTINY WITHIN. This snippet kicks off with live footage of the crushing track ‘Year Of Affliction’ and then introduces us to drummer Bill Fore. Bill tells us about his influences and style and a little about what makes the dude tick.

Mutiny Within have just released their debut album Mutiny Within digitally here in the UK. You can pick that up online HERE and also pre-order the CD, which will hit stores on the 26th April there too.

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES sat down with us in our offices recently and chatted to us about each of the tracks on their forthcoming album ‘DIRT‘, which will hit stores on the 29th March. Click on the player below to see part one of the 3 part track by track we recorded with the Aled (vocals) and Iain (guitar) to get a bit of a taster of the juicy tracks to come!

In other news, the digital special edition of the album is now available for pre-order. The special edition has 3 bonus tracks and can be pre-ordered online HERE. The Cd can be pre-ordered at THIS LOCATION.

The full tracklisting is as follows:

Artbreaker I
The Best Is Yet To Come
sunshine
Matters At All
Youngblood (Let It Out) Lili Rose
Giving Up
For Better Or Hearse
Undercover Lover
Maybe Tomorrow
The Morning Afterlife
Hunt The Haunted
Artbreaker II

With the special edition having the following tracks:
Believer
Reputation
When The World Comes Down