This weekend at the Download Festival, the folks over at Kerrang! hosted a special signing tent. Running throughout both days (albeit with a gap during the mighty Metallica), each band was scheduled a 30-40 slot in which they could meet the fans, and sign stuff. As luck would have it, Stone Sour were the last band in the signing tent yesterday, and so many people had queued up to meet them, that the band decided to stay on longer, and signed stuff for fans for nearly 2 hours… including some very wet fans who braved the torrential downpour in the queue waiting. We’ll have some photos of the signing session, and the band’s live set here on this site soon. In other Stone Sour news, as announced by Corey on stage yesterday, a new single ‘Inhale’ will be released on July 7th. The tracklisting will be as follows: 1. Inhale 2. Inside The Cynic* 3. Inhale (Rough Mix)* 4. Inhale (Video)* * previously unreleased If you can’t wait til then to check out the new video for Inhale, you can catch it on Sky channel Scuzz, or right here in our VIDEO section.

It’s the morning after the Download Festival, and we have good news to report. Nickelback’s Silver Side Up has officially been certified TRIPLE PLATINUM here in the UK – that’s over 900,000 copies shipped. Many congratulations going out to the band, and of course, the fans.

The brand new album from Junkie XL is out on Monday, and we thought we’d let you listen to the entire album first. You can hear CD1, called 3PM, in our cool E-CARD – check out all the guests including Grant Nicholas of Feeder, Robert Smith from The Cure, Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode, Saffron, Terry Hall, Gary Numan, Solomon Burke, and a host of others. You can hear CD2, called 3AM, right here in our Junkie XL MUSIC section. Check out all 11 awesome tracks!

Have you stopped by the website Burn It Blue lately? The good folks there have recently posted up a feature on Junkie XL, which you can read HERE.

So, Download Festival this weekend. The weatherman’s promising sunshine, so let’s hope that’s no lie. Without further ado, here’s where and when you can catch our bands over the weekend. SATURDAY 31ST MAY Kerrang!/Radio 1 Stage: MURDERDOLLS – 14:15-14:55 Scuzz Stage CHIMAIRA – 11:10-11:40 SUNDAY 1ST JUNE Kerrang!/Radio 1 Stage: STONE SOUR – 16:15-16:55 SPINESHANK – 13:40-14:10 Be sure to check out the Kerrang! signing tent lineup on the days too…

Hear the entire 3PM CD of the new Junkie XL album in our brand new Junkie XL e-card, as well as a range of photos, and a load more! Feast your eyes on it HERE. Did you ever see anything so colourful. ‘Radio JXL: A Broadcast From The Computer Hell Cabin’ out June 2nd. New single ‘Catch Up To My Step’ out now.

If you’re near Northampton tonight we highly recommend you head down to the Soundhaus and check out the utterly crushing live show from Chimaira… and their very special US friends The Height Of Callousness in support. We’re sure it’ll be a night to remember.

We’re pleased to announce that Stone Sour will be doing 2 instore appearances during their upcoming UK dates. You can meet the band and get your stuff signed at these times and places: Tues July 8th 4pm Virgin Megastore, 6-8 Wheelergate Nottingham NG1 2NB Fri July 11th 4pm Virgin Megastore 52-56 Market Street Manchester M1 1PW

Happy 3-day weekend. What to do with it? How about a little new Type O Negative each day… Saturday: Download yourself a brand new MP3 of ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Me’ from the MUSIC section. Play it very loudly. Sunday: Check out the bands PHOTO pages.. more than a dozen new shots posted up from the official photo shoot with Daniel Moss. Monday: Head on over to Metal Hammer’s website, for a special Type O Negative LISTENING PARTY, where you can hear the entire new album ‘Life Is Killing Me’… not out until June 16th. Of course, if you don’t want to wait, you can do all those things today, right now.

A while back, a ‘ghost writer’ from Roadrunner Records US wrote a review of the New Jersey Skate And Surf Fest in Asbury Park, NJ which took place back on April 25th. Well, another glorious US music festival took place this past weekend. This time, the scene of the crime was The Palladium in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Roadrunner acts involved, Killswitch Engage and Chimaira. The name of the occasion, New England Metalfest. Now, while we do NOT have the luxury this time around of some unnamed Roadrunner employee writing an account of the event, we do have some ‘glorious’ photos from the weekend. Yes, more than a few of Roadrunner’s own attended Metalfest this year, and thanks to our very own “Marketing Matt”, we have pictures to show. Marketing Matt’s photos (and there actually is one truly CLASSIC shot) can be found in the Killswitch Engage and the Chimaira photo galleries. Enjoy.