KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES have added an extra date to their forthcoming UK tour. The band will now play Leeds Metropolitan University on November 20th.

Tickets are on general sale for ALL the dates NOW. The full dates rack up as follows:

Thu 11th Nov – Norwich UEA
Fri 12th Nov – Southampton Guildhall
Sun 14th Nov – Cardiff University Great
Mon 15th Nov – Bristol Academy
Wed 17th Nov – Glasgow ABC Barrowlands
Thu 18th Nov – Birmingham Academy
Fri 19th Nov – Manchester Academy
Sat 20th Nov – Leeds Met Uni
Sun 21st Nov – Newcastle Academy
Tues 23th Nov – Sheffield Academy
Wed 24th Nov – London Shepherds Bush Empire

You can pick up tickets over at the bands Official Website!

The band are touring in support of their new album DIRT, which is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

Those awesome folks over at BIZARRE MAGAZINE will be interviewing BLACK LABEL SOCIETY main man Zakk Wylde for a forthcoming takeover edition of the magazine and so they are looking to readers of the mag and fans of BLS to provide the questions they will be putting to Zakk when they sit down with him.

If you have a question for Zakk about his illustrious career or the band’s forthcoming album Order Of The Black then you should drop an email with your full details to Bizarre@dennis.co.uk and title the email A QUESTION FOR ZAKK WYLDE and you never know- yours may be one of the questions put to the man himself!

Zakk will be heading back to the UK to play this summers HIGH VOLTAGE FEST on July 24th. The new album will be available digitally from August 9th and on CD from August 23rd. Pre-order online HERE.

On August 30th, MUDERDOLLS will unleash their brand new album WOMEN AND CHILDREN LAST and over the past 5 days, over at their Official Website, the band have been posting teasers of the art for the album but now, to your left, you can see the artwork in full!

We’ve waited 8 years to make sure“, says guitarist Joey Jordison, “but this is the perfect time to bring Murderdolls back to the world. We’ve got nothing to lose, and nothing to prove. So raise your fist along with us motherfuckers and sorry if you get a bloody nose along the way. It’s about to get ugly!…“

The first single from the album will be available from July 4th. You can listen to the track now in the player below.

The band will play with label-mates Korn on the forthcoming Ozzfest show in London on September 18th.

Pre-order ‘Women And Children Last’ online now HERE.

As The Final Frontier Tour featuring Iron Maiden and DREAM THEATER kicked off on June 19th, DT’s keyboard virtuoso spoke with metalexiles.com all about the tour, his band’s philosophy and the role technology plays in his life and music.

Writes the site, “Jordan Rudess is the essential musician. The Dream Theater sound would not be the same without his theoretical input and deft fingers with the keyboards and other regarded instruments of electronic sound… Jordan had much to divulge, the process behind Dream Theater, his hot new invention the MORPHWIZ and why you need an iPad.”

Read an excerpt below. For the full feature CLICK HERE.

Metal Exiles: I would imagine you [and Iron Maiden] have some of the same crowd considering the virtuosity and the draw would be about the same.
Jordan: Well, its just the size of the crowd, Iron Maiden are still huge. They still can draw about 20,000 people to any given gig.

Metal Exiles: I know Theater writes as a collective but how much of you (Personality wise) goes into the writing?
Jordan: The way the band works is that there are three main writers in the group, Portnoy, Petrucci and myself. Together we write all of the music but Petrucci and myself will write all of the notes and harmonies but sometimes Mike will write some of the notes. Mike is the director if you will, guiding the writing if you will, organizing all of the riffs that we write and coming up with suggestions. But for me the way that Dream Theater works is that they allow much of me stylistically to come forward in the work. I go out and collect ideas, interesting technologys, seeing what I can get away with and bring them into the band to keep our sound fresh and keep moving forward.

Metal Exiles: That being said, how much ground do you think you broke musically with Black Clouds?
Jordan: The band is not an electronic, futuristic ensemble, we are bout tipping the hat to the art rock/metal scene and the magic of Dream Theater is really about our own particular combination of ideas together. You have the metal side and the prog side and mixing with virtuoisity you have Dream Theater. What ground we break is in how we put the styles together. From a personal standpoint and the technologies we use since I use many new things the Continuums, ipad’s, iphones and using DT as vehicle to introduce these things to the world, is the flavor of what we are talking about.

Metal Exiles: What was the biggest hurdle getting the MORPHWIZ from start to finish?
Jordan: It was just a lot of work, I am busy as a keyboardist, busy with Dream Theater, making albums so it was a huge process but it was a fun one. The guy that I partnered with is a great programmer, he can make anything I think up happen. If I want a green circle and have it move as I push my finger around a grid and slowly fade away when I remove my finger it can happen. It is all possible, it is just up to me to guide the vision of it and Kevin is a numerical magician who can make incredible things happen. Peaole are telling me they want to buy an ipad just to get the program. It is great that I can offer this program to the fans.

Dream Theater’s current album Black Clouds And Silver Linings is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

It’s time for part 4 of the Download Festival 2010 series here at Roadrunner and today sees us chatting to none other than the man, the legend Dave Ellefson- one of the founding members of MEGADETH.

In this candid interview we chat to Dave not only about playing Donington again, his Megadeth history and the bands recent 20th Anniversary tour for Rust In Peace, but we also ask him about his coming back to Megadeth and what it’s like working with Dave Mustaine again.

If you missed parts 1-3, you can check them out at the links below:

Part 3- Coheed And Cambria
Part 2- Killswitch Engage
Part 1- 36 Crazyfists

Check back tomorrow when we chat to Atreyu!

Megadeth’s current album ENDGAME is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.

Metal behemoths KO퐌¿N are set to play a handful of UK headline shows following their Ozzfest appearance at the O2 Arena on 18th September.

The band’s new studio album, ‘Ko퐌¿n III: Remember Who You Are’ hits stores on 12th July, with first single, ‘Oildale (Leave Me Alone)’ already available to purchase from i-Tunes and all good online retailers. Dates rack up as follows and tickets are on sale now at www.seetickets.com.

Fri 8th October – SOUTHAMPTON Guildhall –

If you head on over to the CLASSIC ROCK website you will be able to see an exclusive clip from the new CD/DVD release from LYNYRD SKYNYRD.

At this years Download Festival we had TWELVE bands hitting the two main stages and so we took the opportunity to hang with the guys and give you a taster of their day and have a chat to them.

Over the past couple of days we have watched from stage-side with 36 Crazyfists and chatted to their guitarist Steve Holt and talked nut flashing with Killswitch Engage.

Today, in part three of our Download festival series, we talk to Travis of COHEED AND CAMBRIA about the previous two times the band have played the fest and the festival tips he has following years of going to festivals with his father as a kid. This is where the leaves come in…

Click on the player below to check it out!!

Travis will expand on his festival expertise this coming weekend when he and the band head to the hallowed ground of Glastonbury to play ‘The Other Stage’ at the world famous fest.

The bands current album Year Of The Black Rainbow is out now.

In the final part of this week-long Track by Track of GRAND MAGUS’ new album HAMMER OF THE NORTH, front-man JB walks us through the final two tracks of the record.

First in the clip in the player below is ‘Savage Tales’- a track that JB struggled with in the studio, battling to match his vocal prowess on the original demo. The final track on the album ‘Ravens Guide Our Way’ he describes as the “perfect way to end the album”.

If you missed the other parts of the track by track, then head HERE to catch up.

Hammer Of The North is in stores NOW. Pick it up online HERE.

All this week we have been taking a walk through the SOULFLY discography with front-man and ex Sepultura founding member Max Cavalera.

The journey has taken us from the first self titled album- Max’s first album without his Seps cohorts (with whom he’d been writing and touring with for over 12 years) through to ‘OMEN‘, the band’s current and seventh studio offering, which Max talks us through below…

‘Conquer’ was seen as our most aggressive album of those last three, but ‘Omen’ is somewhere in the middle.

It’s got both metal and hardcore elements. It has a strong, fast thrash element but it’s got some great moments like ‘Rise of the Fallen’ too, which turned out to be such a great song with Greg Puciato. I do my lower vocals and Greg does his higher pitched Dillinger Escape Plan vocals, and that song really took off as an instant classic, everybody who heard it said straight away ‘Oh yeah, that’s a great song!’.

The album was recorded in LA. It was the first album where I didn’t travel anywhere, there’s no world music involved, it’s just pure thrash metal and hardcore all the way. The material in the studio was coming out so brutal, I thought if I included world music it would ruin it. It feels so powerful like it is.

Soulfly has evolved so much through the years, this actually is different for us, because it was made in just one place. We didn’t travel round the world – maybe the simplicity has made the difference!

If you have missed any of the previous parts of the series, then head back HERE to check them all out. all of our regular features (including Discography sessions with other artists are collected HERE.

Omen is in stores now. Pick it up online HERE.