Three-time Grammy nominees, STONE SOUR are set to release their third studio album, ‘Audio Secrecy’ on 6th September.

The album was recorded in Nashville during the Spring floods earlier this year, with producer Nick Raskulinecz (Foo Fighters, Alice In Chains, Rush) manning the boards. The quintet (vocalist Corey Taylor, guitarists James Root and Josh Rand, bassist Shawn Economaki and drummer Roy Mayorga) have returned with a broadened range, a deepened perspective and the determination to make their new offering a multi-layered record free of stylistic limitations. “It’s everything I've ever wanted to do on one album,” says Taylor. “It's heavy, it's melodic, it’s dark, it’s slow, it’s light and it’s beautiful. You’ll hear something different with each listen and most importantly, it's REAL. We're throwing caution out the damn window.” The album’s title is a play on words for idiosyncrasy. “I’m a fan of double meanings and metaphorical speak,” muses Taylor. “There are so many levels to what those two words combined could mean. As a title, it perfectly fit the album.”

The album’s first track, ‘Mission Statement’ is available now from iTunes and all good online digital retailers with the release of first ‘single’, ‘Say You’ll Haunt Me’ following on 1st August.

Just when you thought all the fun was gone in rock….The inimitable MURDERDOLLS are BACK! Their first album for eight years, titled ‘Women and Children Last’ hits stores on 30th August.

MURDERDOLLS is the frankenstein brainchild of Joey Jordison and partner-in-grime, Wednesday 13. The band sees Joey step from his day job and masked role behind the drumkit in Slipknot, to low slung lead guitar, whilst Wednesday fronts the band. The duo breathed new life into the project with a brand new line-up, yet their ‘fuck you’ attitude, devilish glamour and trademark black sense of humour remain. Joey and Wednesday are excited to bring back their revamped musical monster, exclaiming, “We don't look at this as a return...this is REVENGE! The music scene today is as boring and stale as it was in 2002, when we first formed the band. And this time around, everyone is the enemy!”

Wednesday dug deep for the lyrical content on ‘Women And Children Last’. He declares, "It's definitely personal. I've been doing campy horror lyrics since I was 15 years old, and I wanted to expand beyond that. For the new Murderdolls, I wanted to keep the humour and violence intact, but I wanted to show a different side of the band. I'm singing about life this time, instead of Dracula. If you really want to get down to it, we're a sex-drugs-rock-n-roll band more than anything."

"Drug Me To Hell" and "Blood Stained Valentine” feature solos from legendary Mötley Crüe guitarist, Mick Mars. About working with Mars, Jordison comments, "He's always been my favourite member of Mötley Crüe. He's just a really classy guy, and his guitar playing is so unique. We sent the songs to him, and he loved them and before we knew it, he was in the studio tracking. The way he plays - his style - is so different than anyone that I've ever seen. He's like a demonic Jeff Beck." Wednesday elaborates, "Every day around 6 o'clock, we'd have dinner and the Mötley Crüe ‘Behind the Music’ would be on VH1 Classic, so we had to call Mick for 'Blood Stained Valentine.' It was really cool sitting next to this guy in the studio knowing that he wrote some of my favourite songs that were the soundtrack to most of my life. I've always considered Mick Mars to be one of the true villains of rock 'n' roll like Ozzy and Alice Cooper. I hope one day we're looked at in that same way."

Comments Joey, "We’ve waited 8 years to make sure, but this is the perfect time to bring Murderdolls back to the world. We've got nothing to lose, and nothing to prove. So raise your fist along with us motherfuckers and sorry if you get a bloody nose along the way. It’s about to get ugly!..."Women and Children Last"!!!”

'Order of the Black' features Black Label at its best, with frontman/lead axeman Zakk Wylde’s signature guitar virtuosity and howling vocals, as well as a propulsive rhythm section, courtesy of bassist J.D. Deservio and drummer Will Hunt, along with a few surprises.

Wylde commented in jest, “The Doom Crew and I have been holed up in the Black Label Bunker for the last few months laying down some of the heaviest, sexiest tracks imaginable. We can’t wait for Berserkers worldwide to hear the symphonic masterpiece that is the new BLS record!”

In the two decades since Ozzy Osbourne hired him away from his job at a New Jersey gas station, Zakk Wylde has established himself as a guitar icon known and revered the world over. Writing and recording with Osbourne led to multi-platinum success, inspiring him to create the now legendary Black Label Society in 1998.

In the decade plus since, BLS has turned the notion of what a rock band should be upside down by inspiring legions of fans (known as Berserkers) all over the world to follow the mantra: Strength, Determination, Merciless, Forever (SDMF for short). Wylde and his Berserkers have established a heavy metal institution true to the vision of uncompromising, unfiltered and unrestrained rock n’ roll.

Having spent the majority of 2007 proving themselves worthy of the hype that followed their ‘E-Pocalypse’ demo, Kids In Glass Houses look set to step it up a notch further still, with the release of ‘Easy Tiger’, the first single from their eagerly anticipated forthcoming debut album, ‘Smart Casual’, set for release in May.

The single also marks the band’s first release on Roadrunner Records, who signed the quintet in December, whilst the band were on tour supporting fellow countrymen Funeral for a Friend.

“I think releasing ‘Easy Tiger’ is a perfect introduction tor people who may not be familiar with us already,” states frontman Aled Phillips. “It showcases what we’re about as a band and what people can expect from the album.” The brand new version of the fan favourite track is partnered with a cover of Oasis b-side ‘Stay Young’ as well as original artwork by singer Aled (shown above). In addition, the 7” version of the single is limited to just 2000 tiger print picture discs, each containing an insert slip personally signed by the band.

The song’s subject matter will strike a chord with adolescents. Aled explains, “The song was written after I’d been to some student party just after I’d finished school. There were a lot of drugs going around and at the time I’d never really been in that sort of situation before. I just found the whole situation really odd, so I ended up writing about it and how difficult it is to watch people you’re so close with change and become strangers. The line “put your money where your mouth is” was as much a reference to the actual physical act of drug taking as it was about this weird camaraderie that was prevalent, with people sort of encouraging each other and ranking each other on how wasted they could get.”

The band recently spent two days in a West London studio, shooting a video for the single. Visually striking with lots of neon imagery, watch out for it coming to TV screens and the internet soon.

With hooks and melodies catchier than the common cold, ‘Easy Tiger’ looks set to propel Kids In Glass Houses even further into the spotlight, and only heighten the excitement and anticipation surrounding the release of ‘Smart Casual’.