METAL HAMMER, CLASSIC ROCK, TOTAL GUITAR, MUSIC RADAR and REVOLVER have come together to bring you the brand new video from PORCUPINE TREE– the Przemyslaw Vshebor directed ‘Bonnie The Cat’.

The track ‘Bonnie The Cat’ is taken from the Grammy nominated band’s current album The Incident and is one of the standalone tracks from disc two of the 2-disc album. Disc one features the 55 minute musical statement that is the title track, made up of 14 individually titled, diverse, yet interlinked vignettes.

Head to one of the afforementioned sites NOW to watch the video in full.

Porcupine Tree are jurrently finishing off a mainland Euro run before hitting the US. The next and final UK show in support of The Incident will be on October 14th at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

The Incident is in stores now, and is available as in standard and deluxe edition packages. Pick them up online from THIS LOCATION.

Those awesome folks over at PLAYTHISRIFF.COM have sat down with two more or Roadrunner’s finest guitarists- this time Roadsy and Joel from Aussie rockers AIRBOURNE– and asked them for some tips for budding guitarists.

In the player below, check out their clip of six licks and see if you can match them lick for lick!

Airbourne’s current album No Guts, No Glory is in stores NOW. Pick it up online here.

The band play T in The Park this coming Sunday and will head back to the UK for a headline tour this coming December. Dates and ticket buy links can be found at our TOURS PAGE.

In a UK exclusive, ALTSOUNDS are giving you the chance to listen to the new album from KO퐌¿N– the blistering Korn III- Remember Who You Are, which is being hailed by critics as a return to form!

“This is, at the very least, the best album Korn have made since their debut. 9/10” Metal Hammer
“Re-asserts the quartet’s status as one of metal’s most innovative bands. KKKK” Kerrang!
“…easily the equal of any of their first three classic albums. 8/10” Rock Sound
“They still stake their claim as linchpins of modern rock.” Metro
“The rawest Korn record for 16 years. 4/5” Big Cheese

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO THE ALBUM NOW!

The album hits stores this coming Monday (July 12th) and the release coincides with the band airing an exclusive live show over at MySpace on Monday night.

To order the album online, CLICK HERE.

As some of you will be aware, last week MADINA LAKE bassist Matthew Leone was brutally attacked while rescuing a woman from being battered by her husband. Matthew has been now temporarily discharged from hospital to recuperate at his twin brother/Madina Lake frontman Nathan’s apartment and awaits further surgery on July 16. Nathan has confirmed to MTV News that things are still touch-and-go.

“Honestly, it’s like walking on glass, because I have to make sure absolutely nothing happens to him, have to keep him safe and protected and healing, and then, there’s the brain surgery, with all the risks of that,” says Nathan. “It’s a very tenuous situation. He can’t roll over, can’t really rest the side of his head on anything, and he can’t get up and walk around, even though he very much wants to. He spends most of the day right in the middle of my bed, so he can’t roll off at night. I’ve been sleeping on the couch. He’s slowly but surely getting his strength back, but it’s still hard, because not only is his surgery upcoming, but any time you have a neurological trauma, the long-term effects are unknown, and can be for up to a year,” Nathan explains. “So, right now, it’s a situation where we have all this time until the surgery, and you’re holding your breath that everything is stable until then. Then you need that surgery to go perfectly, and from there it’s another four to six weeks of recovery. So hopefully everything goes as well as possible.”

Arrested after the vicious assault, there is also the pending case against Matthew’s alleged attacker, 33-year-old Justin Pivec, which Nathan can’t talk about for legal reasons (“You have no idea how badly I want to say something,” he sighs), and the ongoing efforts by Madina Lake’s friends and fans to raise funds to help with un-insured Matthew’s mounting medical costs – efforts that have left Nathan amazed and his brother more than a little embarrassed. Fans and people just touched by the situation have already donated more than $12,000. Plans are afoot for a global online charity auction with donations of items from across – and outside – the music industry, not to mention multiple benefit concerts.

“In some ways he’s a shy person, and the attention that’s come from this is something he’s not ecstatic about, but at the same time, it’s just overwhelmingly positive, and of course it makes him feel much better,” Nathan says. “Everyone’s been so amazingly supportive, really, I can’t express what it means to all of us.” Fans can send email messages to Matthew via rrguest@roadrunnerrecords.co.uk, titling their email ‘A Message For Matthew’.

As for the upcoming UK Madina Lake dates, Nathan and his bandmates met to discuss how Matthew’s injuries will affect their plans. “We have the Sonisphere Festival coming up in the UK and a few headlining dates around that. We decided last night that we’re going to commit to playing them, and we’re not going to hire a bass player to fill in,” Nathan says. “Instead, if it’s possible, we’re going to try to have Matthew record his bass tracks here, and then run them when we play live. We’re not going to hire a new bass player [for the shows] … we don’t want anyone to take his place. So, if he can pick up a bass, he’s going to play his parts.”

The full list of dates you can see Madina Lake at are as follows:

Sun 1 Aug – KNEBWORTH Sonisphere Festival
Mon 2 Aug – CARDIFF Barfly
Tues 3 Aug – KINGSTON New Slang @ Hippodrome
Wed 4 Aug – LONDON Barfly
Thu 5 Aug – YORK The Duchess
Fri 6 Aug – POOLE Chords
Sat 7 Aug – NEWQUAY Boardmasters Festival
Sun 8 Aug – FOLKESTONE Hevy Festival

MURDERDOLLS continue to document their pissing off of tour manager Sully with the posting of Mad Manager 5! This time it seems Joey and Wednesday 13 are a lil tardy leaving the video shoot for their forthcoming video for ‘My Dark Place Alone’. Needless to say, Sully is not impressed…

The single My Dark Place Alone is available digitally now. New album Women And Children Last is now available to pre-order at at this location. It hits the UK on August 30th.

We can confirm that STONE SOUR will team up with Avenged Sevenfold this coming October for a UK tour.

Stone Sour frontman Corey Taylor told Kerrang! “Lately, tours have become watered down with same sounding bands and same sounding songs. What we’ll be offering is a great live and musical experience that will appeal to all different types of music lovers.” Read the full interview HERE.

Kerrang! will exclusively reveal the full list of dates in next weeks magazine, so make sure you pick that bad-boy up!

Stone Sour will release their 2nd single from forthcoming album AUDIO SECRECY on August 1st. The track ‘Say You’ll Haunt Me’ will be available as a digital single. The new album hits stores on September 6th.

You wouldn’t really hear KO퐌¿N and think ‘matchmaker’ but as this latest superfan clip from the band shows, they were indirectly responsible for the marriage of fan Marius to his lady wife and the couple have been together now a whopping ten years!

The clip was shot on a recent US tour which the band kicked off in anticipation of the release of their new album Korn III- Remember Who You Are which hits UK shelves July 12th (Pre-order HERE).

Don’t forget to head to Myspace UK on Monday to see an EXCLUSIVE concert with the band!

It’s about time we blessed your web browsing with another in our Gear Nerd series and so this time we are bring you our chat with COHEED AND CAMBRIA frontman Claudio Sanchez whilst he was chillin’ backstage at this years Glastonbury Festval…

RR UK: How old were you when you started playing guitar and what made you pick up the guitar?
Claudio Sanchez: I think I was thirteen, fourteen years old; somewhere in there. Twelve, thirteen, fourteen… Actually I originally wanted to play the drums, but a friend of mine was like “you wanna start a band?” Drums seemed like the easiest instrument so I was like “I’ll play the drums” and we started to flyer the town. It’s a little bit of a story but, we started to flyer the town and we found this guitar player and he was great. Long story short he called my friend that night and he knew we were just starting out and he gave him a bunch of shit like “you guys are dreamers and nothing will happen for you”. So I thought ah fuck that I’m gonna play the guitar… that’s how I picked it up.

RR UK: What styles have inspired you over your career?
CS: Everything really… I mean I grew up listening to a wide range of music, with my mother and father listening to different types of music. I just kind of drew from everything and then of course in my adolescence kind of breaking away from that and listening to more contemporary rock music. So, just everything really- Jazz, Blues, Classic Rock, Latin, Motown, Pop music, ya know what ever. It might not be at the forefront of what we do but there is certainly an influence somewhere.

RR UK: Are you self taught or did you have lessons?
C: More self taught. I took a couple of lessons to try to understand the theory of the instrument, but I think I was too late. I had learned it one way and it was just hard to get out of that habit. So in terms of theory I kind of understand the general concepts but I can’t apply them to guitar.

RR UK: Describe your practice and warm up routines/schedules.
CS: For singing I’ll do a warm up routine… I’ve acquired a few over the years, I’ve met with vocal coaches to learn about how to maintain my voice and warm it up. As far as guitar I just kinda play around just warming up, ya know nothing in particular. Just playing what I feel like and that just kinda loosens all the joints.

RR UK: How often do you practice guitar?
CS: I only really practice before we play, like I’ll warm up. Other than that most of the time I’m simply writing song;, in a way that’s just a different kind of practising. I don’t really practise scales. I do try to practice writing. I think the more you attempt it the more practice you get. I guess that’s kinda a practice routine.

RR UK: What was the first band you played with and how long was it between when you picked up a guitar or any other instrument and when you started playing in your first band?
CS: It wasn’t too far off… I started playing at thirteen years old maybe and uh, I think shortly after that year we started playing. I didn’t learn in the traditional sense. I just picked up song books and played songs a little bit. I guess that’s kinda how you learn but shortly after that I just started to construct my own tunes. It just kinda went from there. Early on we had a few songs, we played a few battle of the bands, we actually got disqualified from one. It was actually kinda funny because we started to play- the band was called Toxic Parents- and uh, we started to play and all of the kids got out of their seats and rushed the stage and that’s why we got disqualified. It was pretty cool! It was a big auditorium, and everyone was seated for most of the bands before us. We went on we were in the middle of the bill. I guess we must have played a song that excited them and people came up and they had to call the police and the police had to make sure that there was security for the band. Kids weren’t hurting themselves. We got disqualified for that.

RR UK: What was your first guitar?
CS: My first guitar was a Tamara. I think it was a Stratocaster copy. It was burgundy red. It was kinda a nice guitar actually for being the first guitar I’ve ever owned. But yeah, it was an electric guitar.

RR UK: Are there any styles of music you listen to specifically because you like the style of guitar playing that might maybe surprise people that listen to your music?
CS: You know I like songs, I don’t really listen for guitar playing or technique or things like that. I’m kinda attracted to the big picture, not necessarily parts of it. I do find that in some bands certain guitar players can really speak with the tone of the guitar and the choice of the note selection and I can really admire that. But for me for the most part, it’s really about the big picture; how does the song sound.

RR UK: How would you describe the way you play, your style?
CS: Um, it’s certainly a sloppy style… I mean again because I’m not technically proficient, in terms of theory and things like that. I like to have fun on the stage, I like to be a bit energetic. I’m certainly not up there like fixated ya know, making sure I’m hitting every note the right way. I just kind of……I just do what I do and if it sounds good then cool.

RR UK: Do you have any tips for aspiring guitarists?
CS: Just continue doing what you do. I mean… if you love what you do someone else is going to. Don’t be discouraged by others- if anything use that as energy to fuel yourself to propel further. But at the same time, make sure you have all your bases covered and have a plan B. Cause I did. I went to school and got a job placement in case this didn’t work out for me in this world I had something to fall back on that wasn’t musical.

RR: In terms of the guitars that you have with you on the road and also the ones that you use to record, specifically on the last album, are they the same ones?
CS: Yes. The brown Explorer is a 1980 Gibson E2, which I used a lot of on the album and I use it live. Um, a 76’ Gibson Explorer reissue which is used a bunch on the record. A couple of Taylor guitars, all the stuff is pretty much on the record that I use live. A few things here or there certainly at home but the main cast is with us out here.

RR: Talk about your effects set up- what do you have at your feet?
CS: Basically it’s a controller that controls this loop station and there is a tonne of stuff…Death by Audios, Interstellar Overdrive, Super Fuzz Gun. Another company called Dwarfcraft Devices, there’s a Great Destroyer. The Great Destroyer is an interesting pedal- it kinda breaks, makes the guitar sound broken, it chops up the signal like an extreme tremolo, if you will, but more just broken… it sounds great. There’s a couple of analogue delays, vintage analogue delays like an MXR M-118 a Morley Bad Horsie Wah, gives a wah effect.

RR UK: What amps do you have on tour?
CS: A Mesa cabinet that’s being fed by a Bogner Uber Shaw. That’s just a higher watt amp head.

RR UK: When you guys go out on tour do you always use the same gear or does it change midway through the tour?
C: Well for this last stretch I’ve just been toying around with different amps, but for the most part that’s the general vibe I use.

Coheed’s current album Year Of The Black Rainbow is in stores now. Pick it up HERE.

If you have missed our other Gear Nerds, you can check them out at THIS LOCATION.

Not content with being named as Billboard’s ‘Group of Decade’ and kicking off 2010 by performing at the Closing Ceremony of the 2010 Winter Olympics, NICKELBACK show NO signs of slowing down, as they have extended their Dark Horse World Tour with another mammoth run through the USA. For our American readers, the full list of dates and the ticket buy links can be found HERE.

Since it kicked off around the release of the album back in November 2008, “Dark Horse World Tour” has been a smashing success, as all previous legs have been completely sold out. Since 2009, Nickelback have sold more than 1.6 million tickets and have played more than 120 global shows.

“Our fans have been amazing all over the world from Japan to New Zealand, Australia, Dubai, the UK and North America,” said Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger. “Our fans keep us going and we are excited to play 25 more dates in the US with Three Days Grace and Buckcherry.”

In other Nickelback news, the band has just released select songs which will now be available as downloadable content for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii platforms in the Rock Band Music Store. The “Nickelback Pack 01” will include a bevy of the band’s most recognizable hits. Additionally, the popular “Tap Tap Revenge” rhythm game franchise expands with “Nickelback Revenge,” currently the #1 music game at iTunes. The new game features eleven of Nickelback’s most popular songs of all time, including “How You Remind Me,” “Rockstar,” “This Afternoon,” and “If Today Was Your Last Day.”

Nickelback will release their third single from Dark Horse, ‘This Afternoon’ on August 8th, as a digital single. The hot chick fest of a video can be viewed HERE. It’s rather fun. Check it out!

Pick up Dark Horse online now RIGHT HERE.

KO퐌¿N is once again reinventing itself and doing something completely innovative, nine albums and two decades into its incredible career. The band will perform for an hour and twenty minutes inside the mysterious crop circle that was recently revealed in the final installment of a viral web campaign. The band worked closely with longtime UK-based circle makers, circlemakers.org, on the shadowy design which features a series of intricate circles, one of which includes the iconic Korn logo, and stretches over 920 feet long and 350 feet wide. The concert event, which is a first for a rock band, takes inspiration from the eerie atmosphere of Pink Floyd’s legendary “Live at Pompei.” The concert will make its North American broadcast premiere on HDNet on Sunday, July 11 at 8 PM ET and will have a worldwide online premiere on Monday, July 12 via MySpace in countries all over the world.

“The setting and the mood took us into a totally new direction musically. We took the opportunity to stretch out and experiment with the performance. I don’t think we’ll ever be the same,” said frontman Jonathan Davis.

“I felt like we were on some new frontier musically for Korn”, said guitarist James “Munky” Shaffer. “This is definitely going to add a new dimension to our live shows.”

Over the last month, web watchers were exposed to mysterious, unexplainable footage shot from a wheat field near Korn ‘s native Bakersfield, California. The viral series lead many to wonder what was going on and what exactly Korn had in store for their loyal fans. Well, the time has come to find out what is really going on with these ominous “signs.” The band will perform several songs from their new album as well as dipping into their beloved catalog and playing numerous classics and fan favorites, which certainly ups the event’s “must see” status.

“We spent a lot of time fooling around in the wheat fields and corn fields surrounding Bako when we were kids, and it gets pretty spooky out there at night. That’s where we got the inspiration for the whole thing, so we decided to have some fun with the viral videos,” Davis also said.

Be sure and tune into the “Krop” circle broadcast – you will not be disappointed. Here are some viral clips surrounding the event for your viewing pleasure:

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You can pre-order forthcoming album Korn III- Remember Who You Are, which hits UK stores on the day of the broadcast (July 12th), at THIS LOCATION.