The brand new issue of Metal Hammer featuring

Opeth frontman Mikael

Watch Gojira’s Mario Duplantier smash his way through ‘L’Enfant Sauvage’ live in New York on the Roadrunner Records Drum Cam. The track is taken from the French metal monster’s most recent album ‘L’Enfant Sauvage.’

You can get your hands on the CD from Amazon right here or from iTunes. You can also stream

Merry ChrisMosh & Happy Holidays to everyone out there in metal land! Thank you for supporting Roadrunner & all of our bands this year. He is a little message from some of our awesome bands. Party on!

The guys in Alter Bridge have released an outtakes & bloopers video from their mammoth Fortress Tour. Alter Bridge’s latest album ‘Fortress’ was released on September 30th & it charted at no.6 in the UK.

Click here to get your copy of ‘Fortress’ now on Amazon or iTunes.

Opeth’s Mikael

Aussie hardcore mob The Amity Affliction are the latest Roadrunner band to be added to the Download Festival line-up. The band had this to say about the announcement, “Download is one of those massive international festivals I thought I’d only ever read about, so to be playing it is absolutely amazing; I’m humbled, as well as trepidatious and full of excitement, it’s going to fucking rule!”. The Amity Affliction will be joining label mates Alter Bridge & Trivium

The Amity Affliction’s latest album ‘Chasing Ghosts’ is out now! Click here to get it on Amazon or iTunes.

It has been announced via the official Slipknot website that drummer Joey Jordison is leaving the band. Here is the bands statement;

To our Maggots and fans around the world,

It is with great pain but quiet respect, that for personal reasons Joey Jordison and Slipknot are parting ways. We all wish Joey the best in whatever his future holds. We understand that many of you will want to know how and why this has come to be, and we will do our best to respond to these questions in the near future. It is our love for all of you, as well as for the music we create, that spurs us to continue on and move forward with our plans for releasing new material in the next year. We hope that all of you will come to understand this, and we appreciate your continued support while we plan the next phase of the future of Slipknot.

Thank you,

The ‘Knot

‘Meir’ the second album & Roadrunner Records debut from Norwegian black metal death punks Kvelertak has been voted the 2nd Best Metal of the year by Rolling Stone magazine. This is what they had to say about the monstrous record: “Two minutes and forty-five seconds into “Bruane Brenn,” the Norwegian sextet brings its maelstrom to a halt and lets some light in, as the guitarists Vidar Landa, Bjarte Lund Rolland, and Maciek Ofstad let loose some major key licks – it’s as heroically epic a moment as rock delivered in 2013. That sort of savage beauty is all over Meir, the band’s second effort. Even when frontman Erlend Hjelvik is growling and roaring, as on “Evig Vandrar,” the band injects a glorious AOR approachability. It may not be pure, but it’s purely thrilling.”

Get your copy of ‘Meir’ now on Amazon or iTunes right now!

LAMB OF GOD is pleased to announce that they have entered in to a worldwide distribution deal with Specticast (Led Zeppelin Celebration Day, Paul McCartney Rock Show) for their Don Argott (Last Days Here, Art of the Steal, School of Rock) directed feature film “As The Palaces Burn”. Filming for the feature began in 2012 and concluded in March 2013.

“As The Palaces Burn”, not to be confused with the making-of documentary packaged with the recent US re-release of the 2003 LAMB OF GOD album of the same name, was conceived to be a documentary focused on the power of music and its impact on cultures around the world and its ability to bring together people of all nationalities regardless of religious or political differences. After a worldwide casting call, filming took place in Colombia, Venezuela, Israel, India, and the United States. As filming reached its conclusion, the documentary was forced to take a major turn when the band’s lead singer, Randy Blythe, was arrested in the Czech Republic and charged with the murder of a fan in June 2012. Granted unique access to Blythe’s continuing saga, Argott’s filming covered Blythe’s 38 day imprisonment in Prague, his release and the band’s return to live performances, and finally Blythe’s trial for murder in Prague in February 2013.

“As The Palaces Burn” will debut worldwide on February 27th. Following the film, a 30 minute Q&A with the entire band and director Don Argott will be shown. The Q&A was conducted by VH1 Classics Eddie Trunk and filmed at the final show of the band’s North American tour in support of their most recent release, Resolution.

The trailer for the film can be found at www.asthepalacesburn.com.

LAMB OF GOD tour the UK in January. Dates are as follows:
Sat 12th Jan – SOUTHAMPTON Guildhall
Sun 13th Jan – LEEDS O2 Academy
Mon 14th Jan – NEWCASTLE O2 Academy
Wed 16th Jan – GLASGOW O2 Academy
Thu 17th Jan – BIRMINGHAM O2 Academy
Fri 18th Jan – LONDON Brixton O2 Academy
Sat 19th Jan – MANCHESTER Academy
Sun 20th Jan – BRISTOL O2 Academy