MASTODON’s

THE AMITY AFFLICTION

ROYAL REPUBLIC are currently touring Europe and the party antics have extended from the tour bus to onstage. The band played a show in Grabenhalle St. Galle on Friday and in the video below you can see Adam’s crowd pleaser, whilst his guitar gets fixed – ladies and gents we present to you Tequila Suicide followed by I Must Be Out Of My Mind:

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For those who didn’t quite catch what a Tequilla Suicide entails, see below:

The 3-step approach to Tequila Suicide:
1. Snort the salt up your nose.
2. Drink the Tequila.
3. Squirt some lemon juice into your eye.

We also stumbled upon a video of the band covering Metallica’s Seek and Destroy from a show they did in Eindhoven last Tuesday, the 4th of October:

ROYAL REPUBLIC are touring the UK at the end of this month and you can find the dates over on our tour page.

SLIPKNOT have been nominated for Best Festival Headliner in this year’s UK Festival Awards. Click this link to vote to place your vote!

ZZ Top is hosting the La Grange Fest, the band’s very own music festival, later this month in Austin, TX and they have announced another special guest: SLIPKNOT frontman COREY TAYLOR. The ZZ Top- hosted music festival takes place on Saturday, October the 22nd at Austin’s ‘The Backyard’. Joining COREY on the line up are label mates LYNYRD SKYNYRD.

Billy Gibbons, on discussing the upcoming show, had this to add: “We’re looking forward to having a good time with all of our friends and fans on the 22nd. Down Austin way is gonna be the place to be that day, doncha know…”.

This solo show at La Grange Fest is not a one off performance for COREY. He has just announced a raft of solo shows in the US and Canada – and in case you missed it, the funny frontman recorded a video to promote his solo shows, which as predicted, is hilarious. Check it out below:

The last week has seen a filmed 3-part track by track with Mikael from OPETH doing the rounds on the Internet. The first part was posted on Classic Rock and second part on Revolver Magazine’s website. The third installement is now available and you can see it below this post. We have actually placed all three clips into this news piece so you can watch them in order – enjoy!

Part 1:

Part 2:

Part 3:

You can pick up a copy of Heritage by visiting OPETH‘s artist profile on our website.

SLIPKNOT have revealed the second in the series of DVD teaser clips for the 10th Anniversary Edition of Iowa and you can see that trailer below:

Iowa is out on the 31st of October and you can find more details and how to pre-order the album by pointing your mouse in this direction.

MACHINE HEAD have announced a series of launch parties in association with Scuzz TV, Attitude Clothing and Jackson Guitars with prizes being given away at each of the club dates. You can celebrate the launch of Unto The Locust at the following club venues:

Friday 21st October
Aberdeen – Rock Night @Korova Klub
Glasgow – Cathouse Hull – Komrades Rock Night @Pozition Club
Leeds – F*U*E*L @The Met
Lincoln – Rock Night @Sugarcubes
Sheffield – Drop @Corporation

Saturday October 22nd
Birmingham – Eddie’s Camberly – R.O.C.K.@Agincourt
Cardiff – Bogiez Rock Bar & Nightclub
Liverpool – Krazyhouse Manchester – Satan’s Hollow
Newcastle – ROCK @L.Y.H. Bar Newcastle
Nottingham – Hey Hey Hey @Rock City

Monday October 24th
Ipswich – Bounce @The Switch

Wednesday October 26th
London – Nasin @The Borderline

If you’re yet to grab your copy of the Metal Hammer ‘Unto The Locust’ fanpack – featuring the album, a dedicated Machine Head magazine and tons of awesome goodies – you can find order details over on Metal Hammer’s website. And if you fancy holding out for the CD/DVD Special Edition, you can pre-order that over on Play.com now too!

MACHINE HEAD are heading out on their first ever UK arena headlining tour with Bring Me The Horizon in December – see below for more details:

December 3rd – London Wembley Arena
December 4th – Birmigham National Indoor Arena
December 5th – Glasgow S.E.CC
December 6th – Manchester Central

You can find ticket details over on our tour page.

Soundwave Festival have made their first line up announcement and it’s looking incredible!? We are of course chuffed to see more than a few Roadrunner bands on the list and you can check those bands that have been confirmed to play, below:

SLIPKNOT
MACHINE HEAD
MASTODON
LAMB OF GOD
TRIVIUM
ALTER BRIDGE
UNDEROATH
BLACK LABEL SOCIETY
HATEBREED
TIMES OF GRACE
ROYAL REPUBLIC

Australia, anyone?

DELAIN have revealed another video update form the studio. In case you missed previous updates, head over to the news post that we did recently, which lists all the video updates thus far. Check out the video below: