If you are lucky enough to live in the USA, then you will be looking forward to one of the most amazing tours ever concieved- the PROGRESSIVE NATION TOUR- which sees legends DREAM THEATER and OPETH on tour. Together.

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Kicking off on the 2nd of May and trawling through the States until the 31st of the very same month (full dates listed here), the one good thing to come out of this tour from those of us unable to book a plane ticket is that it’s meant that the US Roadrunner Office has been able to sit the 2 Mike’s down for a good ole chin wag. Part one is online NOW and if you clikc on the link below you can check it out…

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Don’t forget folks that DREAM THEATER relelased the digital EP ‘Forsaken’ this week, which features 2 previously unreleased live tracks. Buy online now at THIS location.

And for your live Opeth fix, you can always check out the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH TOUR which kicks off later this month. Tickets on sale NOW and dates are as follows:

Wed 23rd April – Birmingham Academy
Thu 24th April – Glasgow Barrowlands
Fri 25th April – Manchester Academy
Sat 26th April – London Brixton Academy

Swedish prog metallers OPETH have revealed the artwork to ‘WATERSHED’, their follow-up to the ctically aclaimed ‘Ghost Reveries’, which will be released June of this year.

You can take a peek HERE!

OPETH will be hitting these shores very soon on the DEFENDERS OF THE FAITH TOUR (with Arch Enemy and label mates DEVILDRIVER and 3 INCHES OF BLOOD. Check HERE for more details.

Purchase OPETH’S previous release online, in either a digital or physical format by clicking on the links below…

PHYSICAL

DIGITAL

MYSPACE / WEBSITE

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES will be performing a small acoustic show in Cardiff on Saturday 5th April and you can win tickets exclusivly at XFM.

Head HERE to enter.

Check out current single EASY TIGER and buy online HERE

They’ve not been around for a while, but tonight, at 12.01 NYC time (that’s about 4am our time) SLIPKNOT will update their website www.slipknot1.com with a taster of things to come in 2008…

Damn it’s exciting!!

South Wales quintet KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES release their new single GIVE ME WHAT I WANT on May 12th. This is the second single from their debut album SMART CASUAL, which is out on May 26th.

Track listings and formats:
CD
1. Give Me What I Want (radio edit) / 2. Be Nice (Start Now)

7” vinyl
A. Give Me What I Want (radio edit) B. Easy Tiger (acoustic)

Digital 2 Track (iTunes Exclusive)
1. Give Me What I Want (radio edit) / 2. Pink Suede (Studio Version)

Digital 1 Track (Available April 14th)
1. Give Me What I Want (radio edit)

The guys will tour the UK in May to support the release of both the single and album. Before that, you can catch them supporting Simple Plan in London on the following date:

Fri April 18
London, Astoria

Full tour dates are as follows:

MAY
Wed 21

Around their shows with Aiden, KILL HANNAH will be DJ’ing at the following venues:

Friday 28th March : DJ Set at Subversion Club, Portsmouth
Tuesday 1st April : DJ Set at Queens Student Union, Glasgow

so, if you want to catch they guys after their set, head on over!

Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY are currently in the studio recording their follow up to last years self titled debut. Posting on the bands MYSPACE blog, the guys write:

Hello everyone!! We’ve been at it for a few weeks now in the studio and things are goin’ great! Man, we can’t wait for yall to hear some of this! Right now we’re tracking guitars and vocals and the songs are comin’ along fantastic! Between old school pin ball machines, Call of Duty 4, and Myspace, we’re keepin’ pretty busy! ha!As you may have already seen, we’ve got Part 1 of our in studio videos uploaded and we’ve got more to come!! We’ll be still adding photos as well and will keep you all involved as much as we can!!
We’ll see yall soon on the road and be sure to keep your eyes and ears open for more info!!

You can see that afforementioned video HERE

Pick up their self titled effort online now:
DIGITAL
PHYSICAL

www.blackstonecherry.com

This week has seen two completely bi-polar releases here on Roadrunner.

If you missed KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES when they performed on NUTS TV, then you should head to their site and watch it on there because it’s pretty sweet!

Head HERE to check the guys out.

FYI you will need to click on MUSIC and then you will see KIGH in the menu on the right of the player…

CRADLE OF FILTH are set to host 3 episodes of MTV2’s HEADBANGERS BALL! Head to Sky channel 345 to check them out at the following times / dates:

Tuesday 1st April – 12pm
Tuesday 8th April – 12pm
Tuesday 15th April – 12pm

Current album THORNOGRAPHY is now available as an all singing all throat slitting special edition (THORNOGRAPHY- HARDER, DARKER, FASTER) and you can pick this up HERE