Our resident Aussies AIRBOURNE will release a digital special edition of their current album RUNNIN’ WILD on the 24th May.

Available from all the usual digital platforms, the full track listing will be as follows:

1 Stand Up For Rock ‘N’ Roll
2 Runnin’ Wild
3 Too Much, Too Young, Too Fast
4 Diamond In The Rough
5 Fat City
6 Blackjack
7 What’s Eatin’ You
8 Girls In Black
9 Cheap Wine & Cheaper Women
10 Heartbreaker
11 Hellfire
12 Heads Are Gonna Roll ,br> 13 Dirty Angel
14 Hotter Than Hell
15 Red Dress Woman
16 Stand & Deliver

The band are currently in their home country working on the follow-up to Runnin’ Wild. Release date TBC at this stage. They will take a break from their work to head back to the UK and perform at Sonisphere Festival. Tickets for the fest, which takes place August 1st and 2nd at Knebworth, are on sale now. For more information, inclusing full line-up and tickets, head HERE.

Today STEADLUR released their debut, self titled album and we are pretty excited about it! And we are not the only ones!!

Head on over to THRASH HITS and you will find a cool interview with the bands main man Phil. So how does he describe the band?

“…we are quite young and we aren’t into wearing bell bottoms or baggy ass jeans. We try to keep our music driving and sleazy…”

Dunno about you, reader, but that sounds good to us!!!

You can read the full interview HERE and if you wanted to check out the album it’s STREAMING HERE, EXCLUSIVELY AT ROCK SOUND.

CLICK TO BUY ONLINE.

BLACK STONE CHERRY hit the UK this week to support label mates NICKELBACK and so it’s with rather good timing that they reveal their brand new video right here, right now!

The video, for the track THINGS MY FATHER SAID, is the third from current album FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION which is being re-released as a special tour edition on JUNE 8th. This will be a 2CD set, with the 2nd disc including the following bonus tracks:

Yeah Man
Big City Lights
We Are Kings
Bulldozer
Cowboys
Drinkin’ Champagne
Peace Is Free (acoustic version)
Hell & High Water (live at Kerrang! Radio)
Lonely Train (live at Kerrang! Radio)
Maybe Someday (live at Kerrang! Radio)

To pre-order your copy, head HERE.

DREAM THEATER have released one of the cover versions from their upcoming special edition of new album BLACK CLOUDS & SILVER LININGS as a digital ‘single’.

If you head to iTunes now, you will be able to download the track:

We recently chatted to Mike about the track, so click on the player below to learn more about why the guys, who are famed for their live cover versions, decided to record the track to include on their special package.

You can pre-order the upcoming album online now, from THIS LOCATION.

May 18th sees Atlanta’s STEADLUR release their debut, self titled album here in the UK, and those folks over at ROCK SOUND are giving you the opportunity to hear the album in it’s entirety!!

CLICK HERE TO CHECK IT OUT NOW!!

If you like what you hear, you can pick up the album online HERE.

The guys will be in the UK for the first time in just a couple of weeks to play a spattering of club shows before their Download performance on the Friday of the festival. You can catch the guys at the following venues. Tickets are on sale now:

Tue 9th June – London Barfly
Wed 10th June – Liverpool Barfly
Thu 11th June – York Fibbers

This coming Monday- May 18th- CKY release their new album CARVER CITY, and in this latest interview snippet, the band tell us about the concept behind the album.

From Monday morning, you will be able to pick up the album in your local store and on iTunes. If you want to pre-order online, you can simply head HERE.

Head back to Roadrunner UK on Wednesday 20th for the global premier of the first video from the album, for track A1 Roller Rager!

When MADINA LAKE left these shores last weekend, they headed straight home to Chicago to put on an album release party there in the city, as they had been here with us lucky people when they released their new album, ATTICS TO EDEN, in the USA.

Today, the guys loaded up some footage of the show, and it looks like it was a blast! And it also looks like they have some new lights to play with! Click on the player below to check the shenanigans out!

We have some AMAZING new albums coming up and here we present the pre-order links for those of you who feel the need to hold your copy now!!! If you are a fan of KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, LEXISONFIRE, BLACK STONE CHERRY or DEVILDRIVER, then check out the links and frankly storming offers below…

Killswitch Engage ‘Killswitch Engage’ Special Edition with exclusive free patch at HMV.com: CLICK!

Devildriver ‘Pray For Villains’ Special Edition with exclusive free patch at HMV.com: CLICK!

Black Stone Cherry ‘Folklore & Superstition’ special edition: CLICK!

Alexisonfire ‘Old Crows / Young Cardinals’ CLICK!

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So it would seem Roadrunner’s own Mike Gitter (A&R) stopped in on MEGADETH’s Dave Mustaine in the studio the other day, and Dave just made an update on the band’s OFFICIAL MYSPACE blog about the visit. It would seem it was a positive one…

Droogies!
I just wanted to take some time to update you on what is going on on my world, and I hope to see Chris today and will check when he is going to have some time to say hello.
Yesterday at the studio, we had a visitor from Roadrunner, our A&R man – Mike Gitter. I was at the studio yesterday morning to work on my biography with my co-writer, Joseph Layden, and I hear the doorbell ring just about 9:00 and I open the door and Mike is there. I asked, “you are here early, what would have happened if I didn’t come in early, and he said that he made it from the traffic being light and the flow going his way.
We went to get some breakfast and came back to Andy Sneap feverishly working in the studio on the Land Of The Lost (LOTL) music that I provided for the film, and I looked into the control room and saw Will Ferrell going over a cliff first thing in the morning. It was quite surreal.
But nothing felt as good as when I was in the studio and the first song stopped and Mike hollered, “YEESSS!!!”

The release date of the new material is still TBC. Keep checking back here for more news.

DEVILDRIVER are set to release the first single off their upcoming fourth studio album PRAY FOR VILLAINS on MAY 25th.

The title track from the album will be made available as a digital single on all the usual platforms, with the album being set for release on the 13th JULY. Watch this space for details on where you will soon be able to pre-order your copy.

Currently on tour in the USA with label-mates SLIPKNOT, DevilDriver will hit the UK next month for a couple of dates around their Download main stage performance on Saturday 13th June. The band will also play:

Friday 12th June Newport TJ’s
Tuesday 16th June Oxford O2 Academy 2

as well as tearing it up at the METAL HAMMER Golden Gods on June 15th in London.