In the wake of their triumphant headline slot at this year’s High Voltage Festival, progressive rock overlords, DREAM THEATER have announced their ‘A Dramatic Tour Of Events’ UK tour for early 2012.

THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA is continuing with the countdown to their album release by revealing a series of countdown clips, featuring snippets of the album tracks. We posted news about the first three clip reveals HERE and you can see the the most recent clips, below:

10 // Chicago

9 // Forever Decay

8 // Born To Lose

7 // Kansas

You can hear the album in it’s entirety over at THIS LOCATION and you can find pre-order details for the album, HERE. Dead Throne is out on the 12th of September.

Is there a question you’ve been dying to ask Robb Flynn, Phil Demmel, Adam Duce or Dave McClain of MACHINE HEAD? With their new album Unto the Locust set for release both this month as the fanpack and next month as the standard release, the band is offering fans a rare opportunity to get their questions answered directly by them!

CLICK HERE to submit your question before the end of this week!

MEGADETH revealed the artwork for their upcoming album, TH1RT3EN, yesterday and today they have revealed a stream of the track Public Enemy No. 1 on their website. Head over to the site at THIS LOCATION to stream the track in full and keep checking in for more MEGADETH news coming soon!

SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman COREY TAYLOR was interviewed by Artisan News Service at the premiere of the documentary God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, directed by Osbourne’s son Jack and he spoke about his love of and respect for Ozzy. Said Taylor, “I think the thing that makes Ozzy so legendary is the fact that even after all this time, he still does it for the pure pleasure of doing it. Yeah, he makes a lot of money doing it, he’s in amazing bands, he’s gotten to play with so many amazing people, but he still goes out and performs and does it to the best of his ability because he loves to do it. It’s one of those things that, as a fan and also as a frontman, you hope that you hold on to years later. The guy just loves entertaining the fans, loves having a good time on stage and he just lives for it.”

You can see that interview below:

This is it – the cover to MEGADETH’s forthcoming album TH1RT3EN, which will be in stores on the 31st if October. You can see the artwork to the left of this post and the track listing is as follows:

CD VERSION
1. Sudden Death
2. Public Enemy No. 1
3. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
4. We the People
5. Guns, Drugs & Money
6. Never Dead
7. New World Order
8. Fast Lane
9. Black Swan
10. Wrecker
11. Millennium of the Blind
12. Deadly Nightshade
13. 13

VINYL VERSION
SIDE A
1. Sudden Death
2. Public Enemy No. 1
3. Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)
4. We the People

SIDE B
1. Guns, Drugs & Money
2. Never Dead
3. New World Order

SIDE C
1. Fast Lane
2. Black Swan
3. Wrecker

SIDE D
1. Millennium of the Blind
2. Deadly Nightshade
3. 13

It’s been a while but Massachusetts hard rockers STAIND are back with their first studio release in three years. And thanks to our friends at MusicRadar, you can hear it on their site, NOW! Head over to MusicRadar at THIS LOCATION to hear the album in it’s entirety!

October 2011 sees STAIND head to the UK on tour for the first time since 2009. The dates are as follows:

Thursday 6 – GLASGOW Garage
Saturday 8 – MANCHESTER Academy 2
Sunday 9 – BIRMINGHAM HMV Institute
Monday 10 – LONDON Forum

And you can buy tickets for the tour, HERE.

OPETH are set to release their upcoming album, Heritage, on the 19th of September and the album is already being reviewed in anticipation of that release. As well as an awesome cover and feature in the latest issue of Terrorizer (image to the left of this post), the band have been receiving rave reviews in the likes of Classic Rock Prog, Record Collector, Guitarist, Metal Hammer (9/10), Powerplay (9/10). Bizarre and more! The band have features in the latest issues of Classic Rock Prog and Metal Hammer, and you can see one of the great shots from the Classic Rock Prog feature below:

There are also some great reviews online, a few of which can be seen below:

Most Opeth fans familiar with their non-metal influences will understand and truly appreciate how groundbreaking this record is. After all, it is still distinctly Opeth and another fine specimen alongside their existing body of sublime work, making it a strong contender for Album Of The Year shortlists. There may be some fans that will struggle to cope without the brutality Opeth usually offer, but whichever way you feel: you have to hand it to a band that continue to evolve and push boundaries like no other.

Read the entire review over on Thrash Hits, HERE.

…Opeth’s yearn for change is a largely successful one. Compositions like ‘The Devil’s Orchard’, ‘I Feel The Dark’, ‘Nepenthe’ and ‘Famine’ are still vintage Opeth, even without the familiar death metal outbursts. The songs are still complex, multi-layered and are still filled with nifty progressive twists and turns. The typical haunting and melancholic atmosphere that made “Blackwater Park” and “Ghost Reveries” so memorable are still present on “Heritage”. ‘H

Check out the track “Spectrelight” below, which features Scott Kelly from Neurosis. The track is from the upcoming album “The Hunter” – coming for you on September 26th!

New York prog rockers COHEED AND CAMBRIA have written a song for the upcoming Batman game, ‘Batman: Arkham City’. See below for what the band’s frontman, Claudio Sanchez, had to say about the project:

“I write in a very conceptual format with the stories that surround Coheed and Cambria but Batman has a much larger, defined history and rules that go along with it. My goal was to find universal themes from Batman’s existing history to help give the lyrics legs and dimension so that the song could live within that world.”

Keep up to date with what the band are up to on their Facebook page, which can be found HERE.