Following on from their slaying performance at this year’s inaugural Sonisphere festival, metal aggressors LAMB OF GOD are set to destroy UK towns in February 2010, with a headline tour in support of new album WRATH. Joining them in their mission will be JOB FOR A COWBOY and additional guests to be announced.

Tickets are available via pre-sale at 9am Friday 28 August and will be on general sale 9am Tuesday 1 September. Tickets will cost

Here, as promised, we bring you the second installment of the Track by Track run through of PORCUPINE TREE’S new offering THE INCIDENT from Steven Wilson.

In the clip below, Steven walks us through the second disc of the album, which contains the remaining four tracks. If you missed part 1- which covers CD 1 and the 55 minute, 14 part title track- then you should head to THIS LOCATION where you can check out that video clip.

From Monday we will introduce you to the other members of the band in a 3 part series of interviews with each of them about their careers and their involvment with Porcupine Tree.

Don’t forget you can pre-order both editions (regular and deluxe) of the album from THIS LOCATION. Full details of the editions, tracks and full description of the deluxe from Steven are also available there.

This week’s What’s On Your iPod comes from your humble webmaster!

HATEBREED have revealed the artwork for their upcoming breakdown fest HATEBREED, in stores October 5th.

You can also hear a brand new track on the band’s official MySpace HERE.

Watch this space for news about the pre-order and the upcoming video!!

JULIETTE LEWIS releases new album Terra Incognita on the 14th SEPTEMBER and you can listen to the album exclusively on SPOTIFY from MONDAY AUGUST 31st.

The full album will stream from Monday for premium users and then will be available for free users from the 7th!

CLICK HERE to download the platform if you are not already signed up! And watch this space for news on where you will be able to download a FREE track and see the first video from the album!!!

Another weekend, another summer festival!! This weekend sees the Reading / Leeds festival kick off and our lads in MADINA LAKE, ATREYU, ALEXISONFIRE and KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES will all be doing their thang at the festival.

Below are the stage and signing tent times for all of our artists at the festival and as ever Sami (er, me- Ed.) and Kirsten from the office will be updating the Roadrunner UK Twitter with behind the scenes gossip with our folks (CLICK HERE TO FOLLW US!!).

Stage times etc as follows:

Yesterday, 4 Chi Towners touched down in Gatwick airport. Yes, MADINA LAKE are in the UK already, priming themselves for their mainstage appearance at this weekends Reading / Leeds festiva!

Whilst they are in town, as well as popping into the RR office to distract us, they will be heading over to Radio 1 to sit and have a live to air chat with Nick Grimshaw.

Make sure you tune in tonight (Thursday 27th August) to hear the guys on the show! You can tune in from 10pm tonight online at THIS LOCATION.

Watch this space for stage and NME signing tent times for Madina Lake at Reading / Leeds fest coming soon…

BUY CURRENT ALBUM ‘ATTICS TO EDEN’ ONLINE HERE

Hardcore masters HATEBREED release their new album OCTOBER 5TH- a self title opus primed to make your ears bleed!

The album will be available as a standard CD and also as a CD/DVD special edition, which will feature live footage from Waken 2008 and the bands Download 2009 set. Yes. You read that correctly. Make a space in the middle of your sitting rooms people. We predict some windmilling arms… For the comedown, you can watch a documentary of the making of the album.

The full tracklisting of the special edition will be as follows:

CD1 (as the regular edition)
1. Become The Fuse
2. Not My Master
3. Between Hell And A Heartbeat
4. In Ashes They Shall Reap
5. Hands Of A Dying Man
6. Everyone Bleeds Now
7. No Halos For The Heartless
8. Through The Thorns
9. Every Lasting Scar
10. As Damaged As Me
11. Words Became Untruth
12. Undiminished
13. Merciless Tide
14. Pollution Of The Soul

DVD- Live at Download 2009:
Live At Download Festival 2009
1. Never Let It Die
2. Thirsty and Miserable
3. Hollow Ground
4. Live For This
5. Empty promises
6. As Diehard As They Come
7. To The Threshold
8. I Will Be Heard
9. Destroy Everything
Live At Wacken Festival 2008
10.This Is Now
11.The Most Truth
12.Beholder Of Justice
13.Defeatist
14.Making Of The Album ‘Documentary

Pre-order details coming soon…

In the player below you can check out the first of a series of podcasts about the up and coming album from LYNYRD SKYNYRD talking about new album GOD & GUN’S which comes out on the 28th September

In the episode below, the guys talks about two tracks from the album, and we will launch a snippet per week in the run up to the release. These will also be available to download for FREE from iTunes too, so download to show your friends!!

You can pre-order the album from THIS LOCATION.

It started out as a bit of fun on his personal YouTube- but we love it so much we are telling you all about it!

Vocalist with newcomers MUTINY WITHIN, Chris, recently grabbed a mic and did a cracking rendition of Nessun Dorma. Check it out below. An no, he’s not miming. The guy has a frickin’ phenominal voice!

Check out Mutiny Within at their OFFICIAL MYSPACE. Their debut album will be released early 2010.