When DOWN performed at this years High Voltage Festival a couple of weeks ago, we sat down with guitarist Kirk Windstein for a quick catch up about their forthcoming DVD release. During our chat, we touched upon the topic of new Down material and it would seem the band have indeed started to work on some new tracks…

“[We’ve written] two songs and we’re really happy with them; kinda’ getting in that groove now you know? Usually when we finally get round to doin’ it ya’ know it’s difficult. We’re at different points in our lives because of our age…ya’ know we’re all in our forty’s. I have a daughter…and a girl at home…Jimmy’s got the same thing, Phil’s got the same thing, Rex is married and has twins- a boy and a girl, Pepper just had his first child…We’re all at different parts in our life and it gets where…like Phil was just saying, we basically recorded and toured for 2 and a half years and that’s a long time! I think now we’re up to 36 countries we played, including twice in Australia, Japan, we did Metallica summer tour, we hit over in Europe, we did Metallica first leg of Death Magnetic US Tour, we did a bunch of Sonisphere stuff last year with Metallica, we played with Slipknot, Anthrax, Saxon- you name it, so it was like when we got home, we needed a break.”

“We’ll email, but nobody will call anybody. Basically when we get off the plane from the last show on the last tour, we’ll get off the plane and its like (laughs) “I hate all you mother fuckers, fuck you! Do not call me, Goodbye!” but its all in fun. When your stuck up each others ass 24/7 for 2 and a half years, it’s pretty difficult, you need a break, and now everyone feels rejuvenated, fresh, its now’s the time. We know when the time is right- everyone’s got that spark now. But we didn’t want to force ourselves to do it if we didn’t feel it. I mean music is emotion. It’s got to be real; its got to be from the heart. We didn’t want to force ourselves to do it if we didn’t feel the time was right, and now, we’ve had 2 great jams, 3 great jams, wrote two songs, and at the end of the third night it was like “Dude! I had fuckin’ fun today, it was great!” The sparks back, the desires back, and its time to be Down.”

Watch this space for more information on the forthcoming Down DVD release, including that video interview with Kirk about it’s content.

Current album DOWN III- Over The Under is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

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August 7-8 in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan saw this years Summer Sonic Festival take place and this year, one of the brightest stars on the bill was SLASH who was there to showcase tracks from current album ‘Slash‘ (in stores now) as well as trun through a few G n R classics!

In the player below you can see an interview with Slash and a clip of part of the show.

You can pick up the new album, which also features the likes of Chris Cornell, Fergie, Dave Grohl, Myles Kennedy, Kid Rock, Lemmy and M. Shadows amongst others, at all good record stores or online HERE.

Check out tracks over at his Artist Page.

During his recent acoustic set at Sonisphere UK, STONE SOUR / SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor performed the track ‘Snuff’, dedicating the track to Paul Gray, bass player with Slipknot, who sadly passed away in May of this year. We were side of stage for the emotional and beautiful performance and you can watch it in full in the player below.

Stone Sour will release their new album AUDIO SECRECY on September 6th. You can pre-order a copy online HERE, now.

As promised on Friday, here is the second instalment of our interviews with the Roadrunner bands who helped rock Knebworth a little over a week ago on the UK leg of SONISPHERE FESTIVAL. In this video clip, DELAIN and SOULFLY chat about their recent releases, performing at the fest and what the future holds whilst

It’s time to have some demented fun with your favorite Murderdolls. Head on over to the band’s site and enter the Hospital, where it’s your turn to be the gruesome surgeon.

Four more games are coming full of extraction, anesthetic, and amputations, plus we will be premiering a some new Murderdolls music exclusively in-game.

You can pre-order the band’s forthcoming album ‘Women and Children Last’ by clicking here.

With more festivals under their belt this summer than you can shake a stick at, Welsh rockers KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES will be unleashing their own brand of chaos at Belfast’s Belsonic festival on Friday 20th August, as support to Stereophonics.

The eight-day, 5,000 capacity outdoor festival will see artists including Lostprophets, Twin Atlantic and Biffy Clyro playing in Custom House Square in Belfast, and should you so wish, you can get your hands on tickets from belsonic.com.

MURDERDOLLS will release their new album WOMEN AND CHILDREN LAST on August 30th, and the iTunes pre-order for the album is up NOW!

To get the album straight into your iTunes library on the day of release, click on one of the links below to pre-order the tracks!

Standard Edition: CLICK HERE TO ORDER

Spec Edition (which features 3 bonus tracks): CLICK HERE TO ORDER.

If you prefer CD’s you can order the CD and CD/DVD packages online now too at HERE.

‘A Public Disservice Announcement’- the new album from Tommy Lee’s METHODS OF MAYHEM will see a release here in the UK on September 20th and below we can confirm the full tracklisting!!

The first single ‘Time Bomb’ will be available from this coming Sunday (August 8th) as a digital single from all the usual outlets. If you’re digging the track, then you can pre-order the album now at Play.com for

Last weekend we hit yet ANOTHER festival (don’t you just love summer??!)- this time we were at Knebworth for the UK leg of Sonisphere!

We took some time with each of the bands we had on the bill over the weekend for a bit of a chat, and in the player below you can check out part one of our two part series with the guys at the fest. In this we have a bit of a chin-way with STONE SOUR frontman Corey, DELAIN’S Charlotte and Martijn, SOULFLY’S Max, CKY’S Chad I. Ginsberg and last but by no means least MADINA LAKE’S Dan.

Check back on Monday when we will bring you part two of the interview and also some exclusive side of stage footage of Corey Taylor’s acoustic set at the festival.