“I got caught up in drugs and drinking. I expected the fans to accept that. I’m a different person today. I really enjoy who I am right now, my early years weren’t that good but my later years sure have been. I didn’t start very good, but I’m certainly going to finish much better. When I get on stage my one goal is to get you to walk away shaking your head and never want to pick up your guitar again,”

So says MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine in part 2 of Metal Hammer’s 3 part interview with the man, the legend.

You can check out the full interview at this location.

Megadeth have also just announced they will be playing at the Sonisphere Festival in Poland and the Czech Republic with Slayer, Anthrax and Metallica! Click for more info.

Current album ENDGAME is available now- buy online here.

Norweigan extreme metallers SATYRICON will now play London’s Islington Academy this coming Sunday (20th December). Tickets for the Shepherds Bush Empire will be valid at the Academy.

The show will mark the end of the touring cycle for the bands current album The Age Of Nero. The guys will begin work on more music in the New Year.

You can pick up The Age Of Nero online HERE.

On Friday 18th December SLIPKNOT will premier a short film by Shawn ‘Clown’ Crahan for the track ‘Snuff’ which is taken from the bands Gold Certified current album ‘All Hope Is Gone’.

Head to AOL MUSIC and SPINNER to check out the film, where it will have its exclusive World premier!

Today, the band posted a trailer for the film on their YouTube. Check it out in the player below:

We’ve been blathering on about it now for a few weeks and we have even posted previews but now here it is in all it’s glory- the Roadrunner UK staff’s Top Ten releases for 2009!

Within the lists you will find artists of all genres and labels- not just our very own! Some are in no particular order, most were painful to compile in such a brilliant year for music!

Click here to read the Top Tens in full and don’t forget you can comment with you opinions using the comment feature below, or hit us up on our TWITTER.

Herman Li- shredder extraordinaire with DRAGONFORCE and one of our favourite people. In the video clip below, we have a lil chat with him about how the Ultra Beatdown touring cycle has gone for the guys and what they have planned in the new year, now all that touring malarky is over and done with.

If you missed our behind the scenes on the tour, you can check that out here.

If you don’t have Ulta Beatdown yet, you should get on it! You can pick it up online now at this location.

THEORY OF A DEADMAN have lined up a UK tour next April in support of current album Scars & Souvenirs. Their new single, ‘So Happy’ will also be released digitally to coincide, on Monday 5th April.

Full UK dates line up as follows:

Sat 3rd Apr – LEEDS Met Uni SU
Sun 4th Apr – GLASGOW ABC
Tue 6th Apr – WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall
Wed 7th Apr – LIVERPOOL O2 Academy
Fri 9th Apr – LONDON Electric Ballroom

Tickets for the tour are on presale from today at THIS LOCATION. There is also a special VIP fan club pre-order, that includes a show ticket, a VIP meet & greet with the band pre-show, a year’s membership of the fan club, a special laminate and fan club t-shirt.

Tickets go on general sale from this Friday at box offices and all usual agents. Check back at our tours page Friday for ticket buy links.

We’re going to continue with the theme of introducing some new people to you! Following on last week’s getting to know you session with Charly from DELAIN, this week we chat with DOMMIN’S Kris and see what makes the man tick…

What were you doing when I interrupted you to do this?
I was watching the news in my hotel room.

Date of birth?
February 14th

Where did you go to high school?
In Covina, California

What was the first instrument you ever played?
Guitar. Well, actually tennis racket. But after a while that tennis racket became a guitar.

Tell us about the first band you ever played in.
I don’t even remember the first band, I’ve been in so many bands over the years! I was in a punk band with Billy (James – Dommin’s bassist) called Rent-A-Frend (sic) a long time ago, it was just like a poppy punk band, I was the metal guy in the band with hair down to my waist. It was fun, we played all the backyard parties and the keggers, and it was a huge party band, lots of craziness.

What’s your favourite food?
Anything good! I’m always on a misson for the perfect pizza or the perfect taco, or the perfect chicken teriyaki bowl. I don’t discriminate – good is good.

Beverage of choice?
Probably just water

Song of the moment?
I’ve been playing Undisclosed Desires by Muse. Just the way that song flows, it reminds me of songs I’ve heard before. There’s something so familiar about it, just the vibe of the song.

Album of the moment?
A lot of times I get albums on the road from other bands we tour with, so I’ve been listening to Kill Hannah’s album and The Becoming’s album. When I get home, it just reminds me of the tour.

Movie of the moment?
Up. It almost made me cry – almost – I gotta be a man! I love movies that can really pull at your heartstrings like that. It’s strange…with computer animation you feel like you wouldn’t have that same kind of connection with the characters, but you watch it and, you know, well it moved me THAT much. I don’t want to give too much away, but there’s something about a couple who’ve been together since they were kids and they’re at the end of their days, and all the things they’ve gone through… There’s four or five moments in that movie where you can’t not feel anything.

Biggest pet peeve on the road?
Crazy drivers. When we’re driving across the US, you get these people who merge onto the freeway and rather than speeding up to get the speed everyone else is going, they get on the freeway and just stop or slow down, or go at a snail’s pace. We’re driving in the van and we’re all waving them forward cos we’ve got our trailer with all this weight behind us.

What has been the most prominent moment of your career so far?
That’s a tough one. What I thought was really cool – and for other people this might seem really small – but we were on tour with Lacuna Coil, Kill Hannah and Seventh Void, and Seventh Void has some of the guys from Type O Negative. Kenny Hickey (Type O Negative’s guitarist) comes up to me and he says “I really like your guitar tone, it’s got so much expression,” and that meant something to me, because that’s something I really work at – if I hit it softly, it’s got to come across real soft, or if I bang on those strings it’s gotta be loud – I want it to be emotionally expressive. The fact that he appreciated that, and most people wouldn’t even notice that? I was on cloud nine.

Random fact about you?
I’m excellent!

Dommin release their debut album on February 15th 2010. watch this space for more interviews with Kris in the new year…

Our chums over in the Roadrunner Australia took some time with MEGADETH guitarist Chris Broderick, and here we present that 6 minute video interview.

In the video, he talks extensively about how he tackled the guitars both on new album ENDGAME and in their live sets. He also shows us some of his guitar techniques and fave riffs.

Click on the player below to watch the interview.

ENDGAME is in stores now and you can pick it up online HERE.

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES are set to reveal the title and artwork for their forthcoming album on January 1st 2010!! At 4pm on the 1st, head right here to Roadrunner UK to see a presentation of the front cover of the album.

Also available, same time and place- for 48 hours only- will be a FREE MP3 download of a track from the band’s album sessions. At this stage, not all of the tracks from the sessions in El Paso, Texas, are fully mastered and the final track-listing is not decided. There are more tracks than are likely to be on the finished album, so if the track will be on the final album is not completely set in stone. This may well be the only time you can get your mitts on the track!

The new album will be released on March 29th 2010. Second single ‘Matters At All’ sees a release on the 31st January as a digital single and will be available on all the usual platforms!

Don’t forget the guys are continuing their series of from-the-studio video updates over at their Official Website. Check out webisode #5- ‘Unlucky, Punk’ at the site now. (No stuntmen were used in the production of this snippet.) Webisode #6- ‘No Guns, Just Bass’ will launch at the same place, Monday 21st December.

Kids In Glass Houses are also set to support Lostprophets on their upcoming UK tour, which kicks off Feb 4th 2010. get all the dates and pick up tickets HERE.

THE PARLOR MOB have loaded another live set in to their Official Website.

Head to this location to listen to the track ‘Cry Wolf’ recorded live at the Centennial Hall, London ON and for the full set, if you’re not signed up to the site already, then sign up (it’s free!) and then you can listen to the whole set. This is the third live set the band have posted, so by signing up you will be able to listn to the other two as well! And rumour has it, there are two more to come…

The Parlor Mob’s debut album And You Were A Crow is in stores now. You can pick it up online HERE.