Our firends over at Total Guitar have been running a series of track by track clips featuring Misha and Spencer from PERIPHERY. The fourth and final clip in the series has gone up on their website today and you can watch all four parts on Total Guitar‘s website by clicking the links below:

Track by track, part 1
Track by track, part 2
Track by track, part 3
Track by track, part 4

Pick up a copy of PERIPHERY’s Special Edition of their debut album, which features instrumental versions of all the tracks PLUS a bonus track called ‘Passenger’ by pointing your mouse in this direction.

When the Canadian prog-rock trio RUSH signed to Roadrunner last year, it seems that the band had found their spiritual home, with many Roadrunner artists declaring a lifelong love for the band. Our friends at MusicRadar are premiering a clip featuring interviews with members of STAIND, OPETH, MACHINE HEAD and MASTODON in which they talk about theri first RUSH memories and what albums they got into first. They also talk about their favourite tracks and suggest what album/tracks a first time listener should listen to when getting into RUSH. BOOM!

Click here to head over to MusicRadar and watch the clip.

You can pick up a copy of the band’s debut release through Roadrunner ‘Time Machine 2011: Live In Cleveland’ by pointing your mouse in this direction.

Metal Hammer‘s upcoming issue out tomorrow has a killer feature with COREY TAYLOR, which includes some awesome photographs of the SLIPKNOT / STONE SOUR frontman. He also graces the cover of this issue, which you can see below:

The mag is jam packed full of great content as always, including a catch up with KO퐌¿N‘s Jonathan Davis, Max Cavalerra‘s SOULFLY, OPETH, DREAM THEATER and much more! You can pick up a copy online by clicking this link and you can find out more about the magazine by pointing your mouse in this direction.

‘Amaryllis‘ sees SHINEDOWN joining forces once more with multiple Grammy Award-winning producer Rob Cavallo (Kid Rock, Green Day), who previously collaborated with the band on the record-breaking ‘THE SOUND OF MADNESS‘.

SLASH, the iconic, Grammy-winning rock guitarist and songwriter–is currently in a Los Angeles studio putting the finishing touches on his second solo album. The as-yet-untitled disc is due out May 22 in the USA on SLASH’s own label Dik Hayd International.

In the UK, the album will be released on May 21 in exclusive Classic Rock Fan Pack form – providing a unique collectable package containing the studio album with bonus tracks alongside a specially created magazine with unseen behind-the-scenes content put together by Classic Rock. The Fan Pack format will also come with free gifts including a pin badge & artwork poster and will be available to buy via more than 2000 retail outlets on newsstands nationally as well as the traditional high street and online music retailers. Roadrunner Records will simultaneously release the record digitally. The standard physical release of the Slash album will follow through Roadrunner Records on June 18 2012.

The new SLASH album will follow his 2010 debut album Slash (Also released in Fan Pack format and which has now sold over 100,000 copies in the UK alone) and his November 2011 first-ever live solo album, the two-CD/DVD set Made In Stoke 24/7/11. Notably, the Slash album debuted on the Billboard Top 200 chart at #3 (#1 on the Rock chart, #1 on the Independent chart, and #1 on the Hard Music chart). Digitally, the album also became the #1 overall digital album and hit #1 on iTunes in 13 countries. Internationally, the disc achieved Top 5 chart positions in over a dozen major territories, hitting #1 in both Japan and New Zealand.

For the new album, SLASH—along with and his bandmates Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums) and Todd Kerns (bass)–have teamed with producer Eric Valentine, who also produced the Slash disc. All the songs were written together by SLASH and Kennedy, and cameras have been rolling throughout the entire making of the album. Check out exclusive behind-the-scenes footage airing weekly beginning yesterday:

SLASH also talks about the album and forthcoming tour (dates TBA) this Q&A:

Looking at all your Twitter updates, you sound really pumped about the new disc. This time around, you and Myles wrote all the songs and he sings lead on all the tracks. What inspired this scenario since your debut solo album featured multiple vocalists (including Myles on two songs)?

Well having Myles sing on the first record inspired me to take him on the road, then taking him on the road inspired me to have him sing on the whole record. So yeah the tour last year definitely inspired the decision for him to sing on the new record. He has a really broad range. He is just very musical as far as his melodic style is concerned and he’s also very lyrical and just a really powerful singer. There’s a lot of positives about the way he sings.

Perhaps you want to talk a bit here about your other bandmates and what they each bring to the sound?

There’s Brent who is probably one of the best drummers I’ve ever played with–he has a great way of playing very powerful rock n roll while still being able to keep it behind the beat and sexy. And then Todd has got to be one of the most overall talented musicians I’ve worked with, just a really great bass player. Todd’s very quick in the studio, a quick learner and creative as a writer; on top of that, he’s also a great singer.

Beyond you and Myles writing all the songs and Myles singing all the leads, in what other ways is the new album perhaps different from your debut solo album?

Myles and I basically collaborated on the new material. The main thing is we wrote these songs together which is a big difference from the last album where I wrote each song with all of the different collaborators. The whole creative nucleus is between Myles and me. On top of this, the whole rhythm section of Brent and Todd brings something to the table and changes the dynamic completely from the last record–it’s much more cohesive.

With your record company Dik Hayd Records, you remain an independent artist and work with major companies for distribution. Can you talk about how you as an artist benefit by this scenario in these interesting times for the music industry?

It puts me more in the driver’s seat of how I want to market the record, but even more importantly than that, I’m not giving half of everything that comes in on the album to the record company.

Eric Valentine returns as producer for the new disc. What do you feel he brings as a producer to these songs and the overall approach?

The first thing we always talk about with Eric is he’s an extremely gifted musician, but he is basically as talented an engineer, so it makes for a great combination as a producer. As a person he’s easy to work with–he’s very patient and he lives and breathes what he does. That’s a lot like how I am, we’re similar; I can call him at any moment and ask him a question or share an idea I have with him. He’s always in his element and it’s something that I can appreciate.

You toured the world seven times with the last album. What are your tour plans for the new album?

Right now we’re starting off with radio shows in the states and then we’ll do as much of Europe as possible. We’ll also tour in Asia and Australia, and try to hit South Africa this year as well as India and a couple other spots. Trying to just broaden our horizons a bit.

Keep up to date with all things SLASH by clicking this link.

HALESTORM‘s new EP ‘Hello, it’s Mz Hyde‘ is out now in anticipation of the release of their full album ‘The Strange Case Of…‘ in April. The band have filmed a teaser clip and posted it on their YouTube channel, which you can watch below:

Pick up a copy of HALESTORM’s EP ‘Hello, It’s Mz Hyde’ from iTunes by clicking this link.

You can also pre-order HALESTORM’s upcoming album ‘The Strange Case Of…’, out on 9 April 2012, by pointing your mouse in this direction.

As we announced yesterday, we will be releasing the debut album by STORM CORROSION. You can find out more about the release by clicking this link. The band started a Facebook Page the other day and they have uploaded some photos from a recent shoot. Check out the pics below:

Be sure to check out the band’s Facebook page by clicking here and watch this space for more STORM CORROSION news!

Our friends over at Metal Hammer have an exclusive SOULFLY clip from the studio up on their website and you can check it out by clicking this link.

You can get a FREE live version of ‘Prophecy’ if you head over to Amazon by clicking here, as well as picking up a copy of the Special Edition of the album. Play.com also have an offer on whereby if you order the Special Edition version of the album, you get a bonus SOULFLY luggage tag. Click here to find out more about the offer from Play.com.