MADINA LAKE are currently freezing their nips off on tour with Anberlin in Canada and rumour has it a series of tour updates from the Chi Town crew is about to commence! Are you signed up to the River People mailout? If you are a fan and you aren’t you damn well should be! You’re missing out!!

Head on over to MADINALAKE.COM and sign up sharpish!! Check out the YouTube clip below of one of their previous tour updates for a taster of the kinda thing the lads are bound to come up with…

The tour marks the start of their promotion of forthcoming album ATTICS TO EDEN, which will be released on the 27th APRIL. Watch this space for deets of the first single and pre-order info for the album.

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“We wanted to make the record thrashier than anything we’ve ever done,” says Willie. ‘Let’s just go for it again, like we did on Palaces.’”

“Ashes of the Wake was very successful, Sacrament was very successful, and a band in our position could have just continued down that same path, trying to live up to certain commercial standards or whatever,” says Mark. “But Chris said something early on in the making of this record that really stuck with me — he said, ‘If we don’t do the kind of record we want to do now, when the hell are we ever going to do it?’

“I don’t want to take anything away from those albums, because it took them to get us here,” Mark continues, “But Sacrament especially was a very polished, very epic sounding, and very out-of-this-world record, and we kind of wanted to come back down to earth. This one really is an organic record, meaning that it’s natural — they’re real songs, and every note you hear on it is played by a real person, and it’s all captured in a very old-fashioned way.”

And if that doesn’t get you salivating at the prospect of the new offering from Virginia’s LAMB OF GOD we dunno what will!

Read the full bio HERE.

WRATH will be released in the UK on the 23RD FEBRUARY shortly after the band complete a bunch of UK shows on the Defenders of the Faith tour. The tickets are on sale now and the dates are as follows:

Sun 8th Feb – Belfast Mandela Hall (headline show)
Mon 9th Feb – Dublin Academy (headline show)
Wed 11th Feb – Bristol Academy
Thu 12th Feb – Birmingham Academy
Fri 13th Feb – Manchester Academy
Sat 14th Feb – London Brixton Academy
Sun 15th Feb – Glasgow Academy

You can pre-order WRATH now, and if you fancy getting a free sew on patch with your order, we recommend you head HERE.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE LAMB OF GOD NEWS.

If you head over to the MADINA LAKE merch store, you will see there are a few savings to be made. Scroll down the store for some great bundle offers and save cashola when you buy 2 or 3 items together!

This web ed is only wishing she had the ass to pull off the hot pants…

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Madina Lake are currently touring the US and Canada with Anberlin, and will release new album ATTICS TO EDEN on April 27th.

Watch this space for more updates from the band coming VERY soon!!

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES are confirmed to headline The JD Set at the Spring & Airbrake, Belfast on Friday 13 March 2009.

To buy tickets online, go to GETURTICKET or TICKETMASTER.

The JD Sets are a series of intimate shows arranged and sponsored by Jack Daniels. As such, the show is an 18+ show. However, if you are under 18 don’t worry- it will be aired on Channel 4 and the JD sets website at a time and date tbc.

For more details on the JD sets, CLICK HERE.

For more Kids In Glass House, head to THEIR NEW PAGE.

Buy Kids… merch and music at the KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES OFFICIAL STORE.

Exactly what it says on the tin…

For more info and news on Mutiny Within, head to their ARTISTS PAGE.

CRADLE OF FILTH are currently gallivanting across the USA with label mates SATYRICON in support of their current album GODSPEED ON THE DEVIL’S THUNDER, a concept album based on the life of infamous French serial killer Gilles de Rais.

“I wanted to play fast again,” comments Paul, “I wanted to bring more viciousness back to the band…a more dark feel; more symphonic moments.”

Check out the full video interview at THIS LOCATION.

You can pick up GODSPEED ON THE DEVILS THUNDER online HERE.

FOR MORE COF NEWS, CLICK HERE.

That’s right! For the first time ever a Roadrunner Records artist has debuted a music video on a video game service!

Log in now to your XBOX Live account for the world premier of DRAGONFORCE’S ‘The Last Journey Home.’

Xbox Live members will find the video in the SPOTLIGHT section!

The track is the second to be released from the bands current album ULTRA BEATDOWN which was released in August 08. You can pick up Ultra Beatdown as a CD or a CD/DVD set. You can get them online AT THIS LOCATION

For more DragonForce news, head HERE.

AIRBOURNE recently had their Aussie rock knowledge put to the test and you can check out the fun exclusively at the Classic Rock Magazine website HERE.

The guys are currently writing their follow-up to debut RUNNIN WILD, which you can pick up online HERE.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE AIRBOURNE NEWS.

The MEGADETH blog over at their official MYSPACE has seen another update, this time from Shawn…

I leave for the airport in a few hours, to which I am happy to have 100% completed these 12 new songs for the next Megadeth record – I am really excited on how they turned out both from a performance and a sonic standpoint, so now I can just spend a few quality weeks at home with my family before we once again head out for the Killing Road…

Read the full blog HERE.

Check out other Megadeth news HERE.

Megadeth hit the UK in February. Dates with Judas Priest and Testament as follows:
Tue 10th Feb – Dublin O2
Wed 11th Feb – Belfast Odyssey Arena
Fri 13th Feb – Sheffield Arena
Sat 14th Feb – Birmingham NEC
Mon 16th Feb – Glasgow SECC
Tue 17th Feb – Manchester Apollo
Wed 18th Feb – Newcastle Academy (headline show)
Fri 20th Feb – Cardiff CIA
Sat 21st Feb – London Wembley Arena

LAMB OF GOD have streamed upcoming single SET TO FAIL exclusively at ALT PRESS.

CLICK HERE to hear the track NOW.

You will be able to pick up the single digitally from February 2nd. The track is the second the band has revealed from their new album WRATH, which will be released as a regular CD, special edition CD and digital download on FEB 23RD.

For more Lamb of God news, CLICK HERE.

Check out this killer pre-order offer for Wrath with HMV- order now and get a free sew on patch! CLICK HERE!!