Monday March 8th sees a new edition of the RED BULL BEDROOM JAM go to air and on next weeks show you will be able to see a killer interview with MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel and drummer Dave McClain. In the interview, the guys will talk about their journey through the music industry as well as their last tour in the UK and ‘album of the Decade, The Blackening.

Tune in HERE at 5pm UK time to see the interview and see the latest ‘bedroom jam’ from some young hopefuls. Also over at the site will be your chance to win copies of the album and signed goodies, so don’t miss it!!

Pick up ‘The Blackening’ online HERE.

TOTAL ROCK took some time with AIRBOURNE when they were in London recently to have a chat about their forthcoming album No Guts, No Glory which hits UK stores on MONDAY (March 8th).

Check out the clip below to see Sophie K having a right ole giggle chatting to Ryan and Joel in London’s Hard Rock Cafe about the album and their antics as a band.

You can pick up the album online HERE.

If you head to the OFFICIAL MYSPACE PAGE of epic rockers COHEED AND CAMBRIA you will be able to get your ears around the aural treat that is the second track to be revealed off their forthcoming album Year Of The Black Rainbow, which hits UK stores on the 12th of April.

The track, titled ‘Here We Are, Juggernaut’, follows the bands reveal of the track ‘The Broken’, which you can hear in the player below.

You can pre-order the album online HERE and let’s not forget the band will play a handful of shows in June here in the UK. Dates and ticket buy links can be found HERE.

As promised earlier in the week, here we bring you Part 2 of our ‘Gear Nerd’ interview with LAMB OF GOD GUITARIST Willie Adler. In Part 1 (which you can find HERE if you missed it), we chatted to Willie about how he got into playing, his guitar playing career and the first guitar he ever owned. In this final instalment, we talk about his endorsers past and present, his current set-up and his tips to budding guitarists…

RR UK: So who have you been endorsed by over the years and what guitars have you had from them?

WA: Framus was the first company to court us and let us try their stuff, and that went on for a few years. They were great guitars and I still have all those as well. We were doing the Sounds of the Underground tour in the States and the artist relations guy from ESP approached me and gave me his card. At that point the band was growing and I think – no offence to Framus – the band kind of outgrew that company and what he could afford to do for me at that point just wasn’t enough. I appreciate everything they did for me in the past, but that’s when I called the ESP guy.

RR UK: So what is it that you particularly like about their guitars?

WA: It’s just the way it feels. When you pick it up, it feels amazing. You don’t have to lower the action or change the pick-ups or anything, it’s just perfect. The way that they operate, the way they build their guitars and how hands-on they let you be when you construct custom guitars, it was great.

RR UK: What guitar are you playing at the moment?

WA: I am playing my signature model- the Willie Adler model- through ESP. It’s based on their Eclipse model but I changed a few things. The wood and pick-ups, and the actual finish on the guitar. It’s extremely flattering [to get offered a signature model], I mean, who am I to get a signature guitar, you know?! I guess none of it has sunk in, it’s still a treat to be able to have my own guitar. Something I’m very flattered and honoured by- that they would put me alongside people like Kirk Hammett, James Hetfield, or George Lynch. It’s quite the honour.

RR UK: Run us through your full stage set-up?

WA: I use a Mesa Boogie Mark 4 head – I actually use two of them. I don’t really use other pedals besides a tuning pedal and chorus pedals when I play ‘clean’. There’s one of my heads that runs through an isolation cabinet which is a Mesa Boogie cabinet, and that cabinet’s in a huge road case that sits behind the stage. So the cabinet in the road case is actually what everybody is hearing out in the audience, it just stays mic’d, doesn’t change, none of the settings change. So I use those two heads and I have a Rocktron Hush Super C unit. I just changed it all too as I got a new tech, but the meat and potatoes of the rig are the Mesa Boogie Mark 4 and the Mesa cabinets.

RR UK: So how many guitars do you have?

WA: I have four guitars with me. I have one that’s just a warm-up guitar, then I have my main one in drop D tuning, a back-up in drop D tuning, then one guitar for C# tuning cos we do three songs in C#.

RR UK: What would be your top tips for any budding guitarists?

WA: Just love what you do, I guess. If you’re playing a guitar to try and be in a band, or try and get girls or try and make money, its probably not gonna work out! But if you actually love what you do and it makes you feel great to play guitar, then that’s the best reason in the world to do it. Like I said, there’s no easy button to help you play fast, just continuous playing and practising and playing what makes you feel great, what you love.

Lamb of God’s current album ‘WRATH‘ is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

Sunday night saw NICKELBACK rock the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver. The band literally lit up the stadium with their electric performance of “Burn It To the Ground”, which was viewed by 60,000 in the stadium itself and a global audience that reached into the multi-millions.

Of their performance, the band said, “Having the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver has been a great honour for our city and our country. To be included in the Closing Ceremony, with so many talented artists and athletes, is something we will never forget”.

Check the player below to see the footage of the track being performed. Pretty darn fitting for a Friday night if you ask us….

‘Burn it To The Ground’ is taken from the band’s current album DARK HORSE which is in stores now (pick it up online HERE).

Cast your mind back and you will remember that we gave you the opportunity to put some questions to MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn. Well, now we bring you the answers to the questions we selected.

Liam Dixon, Manchester
Are you looking forward to finally getting to showcase the Blackening fully in the UK?

For sure… I mean after all the amazing support slots and festival slots and even the co-headline it’s cool just to do an hour and 45 random songs and rotated stuff everyday. I mean we definitely got inspired by the Metallica thing of where they had these wild card slots where they’d throw in this crazy song they rarely ever play and it was like ‘man that’s so cool’, ya know? Even if it doesn’t really work or kinda half the crowd’s going what the hell song is this? Ya know, the people that do get it, get it.

Charles Voisin
Hey Robb, I worried to hear that Phil Demmel used to faint on stage. How does Machine Head react to this ? Is there a part of apprehension during each gigs ?

Yeah I mean, ya know there was. But he’s been doing good so we haven’t been worried about it as much but ya know obviously when it was fresh after happening it’s kinda a little scary. I mean it’s a condition that he’s gonna have for and has had for almost 20 years now so it can happen at any time but it hasn’t happened in I guess… the last time was in probably about a year ago, and it was a year before that the time happened before that, so it seems like it’s levelled out.

Tony Davis
When will the next CD be recorded? and Will you use the Dimebag guitar again!?!

Next CD will probably be recorded maybe around November, December or January. I don’t know if I’d use the Dimebag guitar again. I don’t kno… I mean maybe. I mean it seemed really appropriate on ‘Aesthetics…’ It seemed like it meant something on that. But I kinda just have it in my jam spot.

Metal Monster
Us Machine Head fans are damn loyal, at shows that comes from us to you and it shows in your responses- the admiration you have for us- the thanks and the way you interact with us is truly outstanding. At what point in the MH bloodline did this become very apparent?

The Burning Red.. now that’s when.. erm ya know, that’s the first time that I noticed people crying in the audience, and I was like woah that’s pretty intense. Girls and guys ya know? And fans would come up to me and tell me these horrific stories and that how our music got them through that. Up until then it was like ‘yeaaahh you guys are cool’, which I am cool with, ya know but that was when it seemed like it went to a different connection level, with The Burning Red.

Dave West
You left the band last year, but came back after having therapy with Adam. How are things now. Should we be worried or are things going well?

Yeah I never left the band. It’s funny like how the mythology of things grows ya know? Like I never left the band. I never even said I quit. The press kinda turned it into ROBB FLYNN QUITS!! But it didn’t.

March 29th sees the release of the 2nd album from KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES– the highly anticipated and frankly stunning DIRT.

When the band were in London recently, we sat down with vocalist Aled and guitarist Iain to chat about the recording of the album. In part 1 of a 2 part interview, we talk about the eventful time the band had in Texas when they were recording the album and what it was like working with producer Jason ‘Captain Vibe’ Perry…

You can catch part 2 here on Monday 8th March.

You can check out the interview in the player below, and if you are interested in learning more about Aled’s gun slinging incident or seeing more from the bands sessions in the studios, check out the bands Official YouTube Channel for 8 webisodes documenting the recording of the album.

The band have just announced a full UK headline tour kicking off May 2nd. Tickets are on sale now- check out the dates and buy online at out TOURS page.

Dirt can be pre-ordered online HERE now. And watch this space for more exciting news about Kids In Glass Houses coming tomorrow!

Following up from part one of our recent chat with HATEBREED’S Jamey Jasta, here we (spookily) bring you part 2 of our interview.

Click on the player below to see us chat about the band working with Zeuss on the album and why the band continue to work with him, what excites Jamey about ‘Hatebreed’ when he listens back over it and what the rest of the year holds for the band.

If you missed part one of the interview you can catch that HERE.

The new, self titled album from Hatebreed is in stores now. You can pick it up online HERE.

We have a confession, this was not our idea. We stole it off Mike Portnoy, but it was SUCH a rad idea, how could we not?!

In this new series of video quiz’s on ROADRUNNER UK, we test bands on themselves! Do they know how many records they have sold? When they last played where you live? The lyrics of their own songs? What happened in their last video?? YOU, the fans do. But can THEY remember all this shit?

In the first of this new series, we laid down the gauntlet to Mike Kroeger, bassist with arena rock titans NICKELBACK who, being the good sport he is, took up the challenge straight away! Check out the snippet below to see how well (or not!) he faired!

Check back next week to see is Willie Adler from LAMB OF GOD did any better…

Nickelback’s current album DARK HORSE is in stores now. You can pick it up online HERE.

ROLLING STONE magazine have run the most recent in the series of exclusive teasers from COHEED AND CAMBRIA and in this one, we get to hear from the producers of the forthcoming new album Year Of The Black Rainbow.

You can check out the snippet AT THIS LOCATION.

For any of you who have not visited the bands MySpace page recently and may have missed them posting the new track ‘The Broken’, you can check that out here now at Roadrunner UK. Just click on the player below.

Yeah Of The Black Rainbow hits UK stores on the 12th April. You can pre-order the album HERE.