This is the last in our Getting To Know You series here on Roadrunner UK and in this one we hand you over to another of our rising stars, who delivered quite possibly the most entertaining Getting To Know You yet!

Allow us to introduce to you Chris Babbitt, the vocalist from newbies TAKING DAWN. You’re gonna love these guys…

What were you doing when we interrupted you to do this interview?
Cleaning and watching the new Star Trek (well, and touching myself but that’s pretty much the same as watching the new Star Trek, FUCK that movie is good! And frankly, when am I NOT touching myself?)

Date of Birth?
11-11

Where did you go to school?
Bishop Gorman High School; University of Las Vegas Nevada

What did you want to be when you were growing up?
I’ll never grow up… but the answer is the next Hulk Hogan

Tell us a little about your first band…
7th FUCKING Son! I was 18 and we sounded like Iron Maiden, Megadeth, and Shadows Fall wrapped in one (3 of my all time fave bands). I loved the music we were writing, but it limited where I wanted to go, and I don’t do well with boundaries. I decided to keep the Maiden harmonies and Megadeth solos because I bleed metal, but I can’t escape that I’m rock’n’roll down to the bone.

Track of the moment?
Lady Gaga-I Like It Rough or Shakira-SheWolf

Album of the moment?
Steel Prophet-Messiah (most under-appreciated metal record EVER) or Eminem-Relapse

Beverage of choice?
Pussyjuice Cocktail or Diet Coke [ed.- we Googled the cocktail for the curious: Captain Morgan’s, Parrot Bay Coconut Rum, Lime Juice, Grenadine, Orange Juice, Pineapple Juice. There are other definitions, but we are assuming the beverage…]

Food of choice
Pussy or…well, let’s face it, PUSSY

Movie of the moment?
40 Year Old Virgin or Avatar…12 foot, half naked, blue broads that don’t speak english, alll riiight…GIGGITY!

Highlight of your career so far?
The triplets in Vancouver, The reverend’s daughter in Knoxville, or that tranny from Philly (in pepsi/coke taste-test you’ll never guess she was a man… I mean, it’s not gay if it’s post-op, right?

Random Fact?
I have one matching freckle on each of my eyelids…and another on my 😉

Watch this space for more on Taking Dawn REAL soon…

Miss the last of the Getting To Know You series? Check it out HERE and then sift back…

For the past few weeks, we have been giving you the opportunity to put your questions to TRIVIUM front man Matt Heafy. Well, we have PLENTY to be going on with now, so we are currently sifting through those questions so we can get the cream of the crop over to him to answer ASAP.

Whilst we wait for Matt to sit down and answer those, we thought we would give you the opportunity to get some questions in for LAMB OF GOD! They will be in the country in a few weeks so get those questions in and we will pose the best ones to them when they are here in London!

Up for it?? All you need to do is email your question to rrguest@roadrunnerrecords.co.uk, titling your mail ASK LAMB OF GOD and remembering to pop your full name and location in the mail with your question!

Then you just need to watch this space to see if YOURS was one of the questions answered…

The band will be in the UK for their second headline tour in support of current album Wrath in February. Full list of dates below. Tickets can be picked up HERE.

Tue 9th Feb – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
Wed 10th Feb – NEWCASTLE O2 Academy
Thu 11th Feb – GLASGOW Barrowlands
Fri 12th Feb – MANCHESTER Academy
Sat 13th Feb – LONDON Brixton O2 Academy

If you would like to read the last set of answers from our ASK THE ARTIST series, take a look HERE, where you can read the answers from SATYRICON.

Would you like to have all access backstage passes to a MADINA LAKE show? Or how about meeting the band and watching a sound check before a show? Or even better, would you like a private performance by Madina Lake in your very own home? All of these and tons more goodies are available to you exclusively on Pledge Music.

Head to the band’s Pledge Music page and make a pledge to the band’s chosen cause- The Keep-A-Breast Foundation– and get access to exclusive video content and competitions!! Check out the video message from Matthew to find out more…

Don’t forget the band have some UK shows coming up in march, kicking off in Oxford on the 25th March. Head to the tours page for the full list of dates and ticket buy links!!

Madina Lake/Pledge Music Intro from Pledge Music on Vimeo.

Madina Lake’s current album Attics To Eden is in stores NOW. Buy online HERE.

To continue our series of streaming tracks from the forthcoming DOMMI album, we are giving you another chance to check out the track ‘Dark Holiday’ from the band’s d

Like all of us, ALEXISONFIRE were horrified by the scenes in Haiti following the massive earthquake there a little over a week ago. they have therefore decided to donate the proceeds from all online merch sales in the month of January to the Haiti relief fund.

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Sophie K of TOTAL RCOK fame has posted another of her podcasts over at the site! In this one, she chats to KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Joel about the bands current album Killswitch Engage and being on the road, as well as a little about his alluring eyes…

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES will release digital single Matters At All on January 31st. The track, which is taken from the forthcoming album DIRT (in stores March 29th), and is the second single to be taken from the release.

HATEBREED have posted on their Facebook and Twitter that owing to frontman Jamey Jasta being ill, the band will be missing the first 3 shows of the forthcoming MACHINE HEAD tour.

The affected shows (Stuttgart, Offenbach & Hamburg) will be made up around Hatebreed’s April 23rd Groezrock Festival show and the band have posted today that they will play the following venues:

Thursday, 22 April – Hamburg @ Docks
Friday 23 April – Meerhout @ Grozrock
Saturday 24 April Stuttgart @ LKA
Sunday 25 April – Wiesbaden @ Schlachthof

Jasta comments “I feel terrible to have to miss these first 3 shows but I need this time to heal up to make sure I will be 100%”.

Hatebreed will join the tour 1/29 in Norway, meaning the UK dates are unaffected.

The band are touring in support of their current self titled album which is in stores now. You can pick it up online at HERE.

In this second part of our interview with DOMMIN frontman Kris, filmed at the end of last year when he popped to Blighty to meet with press, we talk about how Kris would describe the Dommin ‘sound’ and his musical influences plus hitting the road in the US on tour and looking forward to doing the same here in the UK.

Dommin will be in the UK next week, hitting venues in support of Lacuna Coil. You will be able to catch them at the following venues. if you have tickets to see Lacuna, then make sure you get there nice and early as Dommin will open the shows.

Fri 29th Jan – Academy, Dublin
Sun 31st Jan – Academy, Manchester
Mon 1st Feb – Academy, Birmingham
Tues 2nd Feb – ABC, Glasgow
Thur 4th Feb – Academy, Bristol
Fri 5th Feb – Shepherds Bush Empire, London

If you don’t have tickets, you can find buy links HERE.

You can pre-order Dommin’s debut album Love Is Gone, which hits stores on February 15th,

As promised last Monday, here we bring you the first in the series of video updates the KILLSWITCH ENGAGE lads shot when they were on tour in South America at the tail end of 2009. In this snippet you get a taster for just how happy the fans over in Brazil were to see the guys over there to play some shows. The reception they recieved at the airport, the venues and during the shows was amazing and the guys were blown away. See for yourself in the video clip below…

Killswitch Engage are about the head out on the road in the US of A, their first headline run in their home country for current album Killswitch Engage, which is in stores now- order online HERE.