Have you checked out the latest issue of METAL HAMMER?? If not, we recommend you head to your local news agents right blinkin’now! Especially if you are a fan of DRAGONFORCE or MEGADETH.

In this months issue, as well as the usual metal awesomeness contained within it’s pages, you will find a giant Megadeth poster and a DragonForce patch. Holy sweet giveaway!

Get full details of what is in this months issue HERE.

It’s time to meet more newbies! This time it’s the turn of new signing TAKING DAWN.

If you are anything like us, ever since we announced that we signed the mighty ROB ZOMBIE you have been salivating over the prospect of new music.

Well now, we bring you some! Click on the player below to hear a brand new track from Rob- this is “WHAT?’.

Watch this space for more news from the Rob Zombie camo in the coming weeks as more comes in about the new record, which is due 2010.

In continuation of our series of interviews with SLIPKNOT A&R man Monte Conner, in the player below you can now listen to snippet four of our six part interview with Monte about the early days of the band and the recording and release of teh bands self titled debut.

In this section, Monte talks about the vibe in the studio when the band were recording and producer Ross Robinson’s approach to the recording of the record.

Check details of the 10th Anniversary Editions of this album, and buy online HERE.

If you missed parts 1, 2 and 3 of this interview, check out the links below. Part 5 will load tomorrow evening at 4pm.

PART 1
PART 2
PART 3

PLANET ROCK recently gave it’s listeners and website readers the opportunity to pose prog questions to prog legend and DREAM THEATER drummer Mike Portnoy.

The stickiest questions were posed to Mike just before he attended the Classic Rock Awards here in London a couple of weeks ago (where the band won an award for ‘Spirit Of Prog’) and if you head to THIS LOCATION you can check out if one of your questions was posed and how he faired overall.

Dream Theater’s current album ‘Black Clouds & Silver Linings is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

Have an iPhone? Love KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES? Then have we got news for YOU!

If you head to the iPhone app store or click HERE, you can now get a Kids In Glass Houses iPhone App!! It’s a real cool way for you to keep up to date with the band and interact with them. Using the ap you can upload pics from their shows to Flikr (which will be linked to on the bands website), head on over to the app message board and chat and you can listen to current single Youngblood (Let It Out)!!

Head to the app store now and it check it out!

Those awesome guys in THE PARLOR MOB have been on the road in Europe for quite some weeks now. They kicked off with some dates earlier in the month supporting label mates Black Stone Cherry here in the UK and then headed in to Europe with them, taking in new countries and winning new fans.

We caught up with them in the middle of that run, and in the player below you can see our interview with frontman Mark Melica as well as a few snippets of the show from the Hammersmith Apollo.

The guys headed back in to the UK this week and playerd a headline show in Nottingham and some radio sessions and they will finish up tonight in London, headlining the infamous Barfly.

Current album ‘And You Were A Crow’ is in stores now. You can pick it up online at HERE.

Check out some tracks and videos at the bands artist page.

AIRBOURNE are back with another of their updates from the studio. In this clip, they talk about what happens when the lads go out drinking…

The next in the series of updates will be available on Monday 16th November over at KERRANG.COM. Bbe sure to check it out!!!

New album ‘No Guts, No Glory’ is to be released early 2010. Watch this space for more news from the guys! And don’t forget that the guys are in the UK in Feb to tour. Dates and tickets can be found HERE.

PLANET ROCK are the first website to show the brand new video from BLACK STONE CHERRY!!!

If you head on over to THIS LOCATION you can check out the video for ‘Soul Creek’!!

The track is taken from the bands current album Folklore & Superstition which is in stores now (Click here to buy online).

The band recently finished up a UK tour, and we sat down and had a chat to vocalist Chris and Bassist Jon- you can check out that interview HERE.

If you head on over to the ROCK SOUND website, you will be able to check out the latest on-the-road update from the ATREYU.

This latest update comes from the band on the rd in the US and was shot at their Haloween show. Check out the outfits of the fans and of the guys themselves…

CLICK HERE TO VIEW.

The band’s new album CONGREGATION OF THE DAMNED is in stores NOW.

Pick up the new album from Atreyu online HERE