This week saw the release of the brand new single from STONE SOUR– the stunning Say You’ll Haunt Me– and so we took some time with front-man Corey Taylor when he was in London to chat about the track and ask for a little bit of an insight into the video, which has just started to do the rounds on a TV station near you!

Click on the video player below to see what he had to say about the track, and we’ve also popped the video to the track in there for your audio/visual pleasure too!!

You can pick up the track as a digital single now at all the usual outlets, including iTunes. New album, Audio Secrecy will hit stores on the 6th September. Pre-order the CD/DVD at HMV and get a free sew-on patch! CLICK HERE to get your order in NOW!

If you saw the first part of MUTINY WITHIN‘s ‘So Far in 2010’ series, you’ll know they the guys like to have a good time.

But that’s not all – fans will be aware of keyboardist Drew’s alcohol-fuelled alter-ego DrewL, who comes out to play in the clip below with hilarious consequences, speaking in a language known only to himself and generally chugging like a madman.

The band also head over to one of Canada’s natural gems, the Montmorencey waterfall in Quebec, which they quite correctly surmise as containing ‘a lot of damn water’. Who says people in metal bands are stupid?

The Make A Wish Foundation works with children who are suffering life threatening illness to try and bring happy times to their tough lives by granting their biggest wish. Young Andrew Kent is suffering leukaemia and he’s almost half way through 4 years of treatment. His wish was to meet KO퐌¿N and the guys were more than happy to make that dream come true.

Check out the clip below to see Andrew meet all of the band, watch side of stage and get a special gift from Jonathan.

Ko퐌¿n will hit England in September for the Ozzfest show at the O2 arena in London and a short run of dates. Dates rack up as follows and you can get tickets now from this location.

Sat 18th Sept – LONDON O2 Arena (Ozzfest show)
Fri 8th Oct – SOUTHAMPTON Guildhall
Sat 9th Oct – WOLVERHAMPTON Civic Hall
Sun 10th Oct – MANCHESTER Apollo

Their new album Korn III- Remember Who You Are is in all good record stores now, or you can buy online HERE.

When he was at Sonisphere this past weekend, Corey Taylor (vocalist with Stone Sour) gave Rock Sound a special acoustic jam whilst he was hanging out on the Gibson bus on site. Posted over at the Rock Sound website now you can check out Corey’s rendition of Johnny Cash’s ‘Give My Love To Rose’. You can check it out HERE.

The site also decided to let bands interview each other over the weekend, with each band answering a question then posing a question for an unknown band. Check out the clips below, which feature Roadrunner artists Delain, Soulfly and Madina Lake

Last weekend MADINA LAKE played Sonisphere Festival- their first show without their bass player Matthew Leone- who was savagely beaten a few weeks ago coming to the aid of a woman being beaten in the street and is currently recovering at home after undergoing surgery on his brain.

In the video interview below, drummer Dan Torelli fills us in on how that first show without Matthew was for them and the emotions that went through his mind when they hit the stage last Sunday. He also talks about why they decided to continue with not only the Sonisphere show but the run of headline shows they had booked and the following Boardmaster and Hevy festival dates and also why, rather than have a stand in, they decided to simply play to Matthew’s recorded bass parts.

Dan also fills us in a little about how Matthew is currently doing back home in Chicago and what they are working on for the future.

Donations are still being taken for Matthew, to help pay his medical bills (which are extensive). Get full details and place a donation, please

BLOODSTOCK OPEN AIR takes place August 13-15th at Catton Hall and we are giving YOU the chance to go for FREE and see our very own OPETH open the first night of the festival!

In association with Bloodstock and The Noise Cartel we have a pair of standard weekend tickets complete with camping and a parking pass to give away!!! Not only that, but we here at Roadrunner UK will give the lucky winner a copy of both of our Opeth releases- ‘Ghost Reveries’ and ‘Watershed ‘. We will also throw in Fear Factory’s ‘Soul Of A New Machine’ and Obituary’s ‘Slowly We Rot’.

For terms and conditions, to enter and to check out some Murderdolls and Airbourne give-aways, head to the COMPETITION SECTION now!

Other bands performing at this years festival include Meshuggah, Behemoth, Children Of Bodom, Fear Factory, Obituary, Cannibal Corpse and Gojira!

WITHIN TEMPTATION have announced a select European tour kicking off in February 2011.

The guys from the Official Sonisphere UK Website took time with some of our guys over the weekend to have a chat to them about what’s going on in their world and they have started to post their video interviews on the site.

Check out the players below to see Corey Taylor try out a new moustache, talk about playing acoustically and his comic book geekery, Max Cavalera talks about how the older he gets the heavier his records get and Martijn Westerholt builds his fantasy band and fills us in on how Delain came together five years ago.

COREY TAYLOR (Stone Sour)

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES have announced their stunning album DIRT will be available across Europe and Australia in the coming weeks. The album, which is already available in the UK, France and Japan will be available in the following countries on the following dates:

Germany: August 6th
Austria: August 6th
Switzerland: August 6th
Norway: August 9th
Denmark: August 9th
Holland: September 6th
Belgium: September 6th
Australia: August 27th

Look out for it in a store near you, coming soon!! You can check out webisodes from the recording of the record over at the bands Official YouTube. Check out a couple of tracks from the album in the player below.

Buy Dirt in Japan HERE
Buy Dirt in France hereHERE

And here in the UK, you can pick it up AT THIS LOCATION.

For all the latest global tour dates for the band, check out the bands Official Website- www.kidsinglasshouses.com.

We grabbed 5 minutes with guitar legend SLASH when he was in London to player Wireless festival recently to have a chat to him about how he got into playing guitar and find out a little more about his signature Gibson and his stage set up in the latest in our Gear Nerd series.

RR UK: How old were you when you first picked up the guitar?
Slash: I think I was 15 when I first started and it was complete absorption from then.

RR: So, can you remember the first time you picked up the guitar? What were the circumstances; what made you turn to it?
S: It started with Steve Addler [Guns N’Roses original drummer]. He and I met and we were about 14 and he had an electric guitar at his house, and we would ditch school and go ‘n’ hang out at his place when his grandparents left the house for work in the morning. He had an electric guitar and a stereo and he’d crank it all up to 10 and bang on this thing, and it was very exciting that that age, you know, with all the bands you are into, like any typical teenager and the whole ‘rock star’ thing… So anyway we thought we’d start a band, and what happened was I figured I’d play bass so I went to a local music store with out an instrument, not knowing anything about what I was doing, and I said “I wanna learn how to play bass”, and I went in with a teacher and he said “do you have an instrument” and I said “no”, and he goes “okay”, and he had a guitar and he was tryin to pick my brain about what it was I wanted to do, what kind of bass I wanted to play- I didn’t know anything about anything! And while he was sitting there he was playin’ lead guitar- it was Cream- and I was going “that’s what I wanna do!” and said “well that’s lead guitar” and so I was like, “well THAT’S what I wanna do” so I switched over from bass, without even really knowing what bass was, into lead guitar! Then I asked my grandmother if we had any guitars layin’ around, and she pulled out an acoustic flamenco guitar that had been in the closet for years, and it had one string on it and I started on that guitar and the one string and I learnt a bunch of songs on that one string. And then the guy at the music store told me how to put the other five strings on it, play a couple of chords and some rudimentary stuff, and I watched him learn how to play stuff off of records, and I said I could do that, and it goes on from there.

RR: So was guitar the first instrument you picked up or were you playing something before it?
S: Yeah it was the first thing. My mother tried to get me to learn how to play piano when I was like err, 8 or 9 years old but I hated it.

RR: But your heart lay with the guitar?
S: I had no idea at that time, that, that was where I was headed.

RR: So you’ve always played Gibsons? Is that right?
S: For the most part yeah. I went through the typical trial n’ error like everybody does; trying to find the right instrument but the first electric guitar that I ever purchased was a Gibson Les Paul copy, so I gravitated towards that from the onset, and then on the way tried a bunch of different things, but ended going back to a Les Paul.

RR: So for you, what is it about that guitar that you really love so much?
S: I love the way they look, there’s something about that; that before I knew anything about instruments obviously I was attracted to. And then there’s a certain sound; a theres a certain thickness to the les Paul sound. Then also just the weight and sturdiness of the guitar- it’s very solid and I’m a hard player, so it needs to feel solid, ya’ know? And from that everything about the Les Paul has sort of fit with whatever it is I am doing.

RR: So fill us in about your set up on stage- your pedals, the guitars that you use and your amps?
S: There’s really not a lot going on. I have a Marshall up there today that is the prototype for the new Marshall Slash model that’s coming out and its basically built to sound like the amp I used back when I did ‘Appetite For Destruction’, so that’s what im using right now and I have another head, which is another Slash model, which is actually a Jubilee SL, that is being used for my clean sound. I have a wah wah pedal that I use and then I have a boost for when I do solos that makes that sound just a little bit louder than my rhythm sound, and a couple of little pedals for certain parts in solos, like one phase shifter for one song and a blue box for another song- very limited as far as pedals and stuff are concerned.

RR: Am I right in thinking you’ve just released your own signature Gibson?
S: Yeah, yeah. It’s basically a replica of a replica. It’s a guitar that’s design after my main recording guitar, which was a replica of a 59 Gibson Les Paul that I have been using in the studio for the last 20 something odd years. It’s a beautiful guitar, and that’s what I’m using on stage. So I put both these, Marshall and the Gibson which are both related, on the circuit at the same time. It’s more for fans than anything for trying to emulate that sound, and what not ya’ know, but I’m using that stuff myself.

If you have missed any of our other Gear Nerds in the series, you can check them out