Over on Sunset Strip, LA, there is a legendary club called the Whiskey A-Go-Go and recently TRIVIUM played a MYSPACE secret show. Check out the footage below with the fans and of the show!!

And watch this space for footage from their recent Christmas show at London’s Borderline!

Pick up Trivium’s latest offering SHOGUN online HERE.

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Last week saw the realease of the frankly AMAZING ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT DVD and in an exclusive competition, METAL HAMMER are giving you the opportunity to win original artwork, a copy of the DVD, a copy of the album that spawned the show, a RR United flag and a handful of Machine Head plecs (Robb Flynn was one of the four original team captains).

Head on over to THIS LOCATION for full details / to enter.

You can buy the DVD online HERE.

If you are a MEGADETH fan but haven’t already be-friended them on MYSPACE then we highly recommend you head on over there and do so.

The band entered the studio with producer ANDY SNEAP last week, and the band are making regular updates on their official MySpace (which can be found HERE).

Writes Shawn:

So I arrived on Wednesday, right on the heels of Mr. Sneap (He arrived from the UK on Tuesday) and with each passing day, we seem to get more done than the last, I am happy to say. This morning Dave, myself and Andy finished another tune, and as I write this, I am almost finished recording the song that I have written – Dave had to step out for a few hours, so he will most likely hear it on Monday morning. No idea at all if it will or will not make the record, so we will have to see about that one Andy and I both dig it, so there you go.
It has been a good creative week – The pieces to the musical puzzle are slowly being put together, and I like what I am hearing. I hope you wil as well.

Head the their BLOGS PAGE to check out more- including entries from Dave Mustaine himself.

The release date for the follow-up to current album UNITED ABOMINATIONS is still currently TBC. Should you wish to check out the current offering, you can pick it up online AT THIS LOCATION

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MACHINE HEAD have been forced to cancel their remaining two performances on the Slipknot tour in Antwerp and Luxemburg, in the wake of guitarist Phil Demmel collapsing onstage during Machine Head’s second-to-last song Friday night in Sheffield, England.

Says bassist Adam Duce, “After considering the seriousness of Phil’s health condition, we all feel that skipping these last two shows is the best thing to do. It’s a bummer to end this tour like this after doing 9 amazing weeks and 3 continents with Slipknot, but getting Phil back to the States to get checked out is the most important thing right now. Our sincerest thanks to Slipknot and Children of Bodom for their support and understanding, we understand that it’s a big disappointment to the fans, and Phil is very sorry about it, but we all feel that his health and safety is most important at this time.”

Machine Head plan to resume touring Wednesday in Los Angeles for the first of two Metallica shows at The Forum.

The long-awaited video for the first single off new NICKELBACKalbum DARK HORSE is due to hit screens next week (week commencing 15/12), and here, in a RR UK exclusive, Chad and Ryan talk about the concept of the video for the track.

The single, GOTTA BE SOMEBODY, and new album DARK HORSE are both available in stores now!! Head on over to iTunes, or you can buy the albim online righht HERE.

Fore more Nickelback news, CLICK HERE and view their news page…

Head to the MEDIA PAGE (CLICK HERE) to check out the following vids selected by your webmaster for your perusal.

A bit of a mixed bag this week…

First up we have MADINA LAKE, who are set to release their follow-up to debut FROM THEM THROUGH US TO YOU in March 2009. Titled ATTICS TO EDEN, we had some tracks in this week, and everyone in the office was very excited! Check out PANDORA, the last single off their previous offering and get a taster of how things went for the guys on the last album. You’ll be hearing a lot from them in 2009.

Next up is BLACK STONE CHERRY who are just finishing up their run of UK shows. This video is for PLEASE COME IN, the second single from their new album FOLKLORE & SUPERSTITION. The guys live show is something to behold. If you missed out on this tour, watch out for further dates in 09.

Check out the (now controversial) video for AMANDA PALMER’S LEEDS UNITED, the first track taken frome her solo debut WHO KILLED AMANDA PALMER.

Next up is DEAD MEMORIES by the legendary SLIPKNOT. Yes, it’s been featured before, but the tour is all but over and it’s been AMAZING. If you missed it, feel the cyber sympathy coming your way. F*cking phenominal.

Here’s a new one for you. Available digitaly now (as they had a release in the US), THE PARLOR MOB will release their debut AND YOU WERE A CROW physically in the UK in Feb. This video for the track CAN’T KEEP NO GOOD BOY DOWN gives you a nice lil taster of the Led Zeppelin / Wolfmother things to come…

Next up is another one we are greatly anticipating in the office, with new tracks due to arrive imminently. LAMB OF GOD release WRATH in February, and it cannot come soon enough. There is saliva on the keyboard… Lets take this footage of WALK WITH ME IN HELL, taken from their recent DVD of the same name, to help us through…

Extreme metallers SATYRICON recently played 3 UK dates as part of their current European run of shows in support of their current album THE AGE OF NERO. KERRANG journo’s were in attendance, and it seemed they had a bit of a blast. If you missed the tour, check out the review below and make sure that you are in attendance when they next hit the UK!!!

“There’s no questioning the unstoppable force of Satyricon, however. Satyr is in fine fettle this evening, even if his new look (slimmed-down figure, slicked back hair) is less metal overlord, more Andrew Eldritch – perhaps a suitable icon to invoke, as a continual streamlining of his music increasingly echoes the direct-yet-grandiose, coldly sexual and knowingly camp sound of late 80’s Sisters Of Mercy. But where the latter relied on a drum machine, Satyricon have Frost, a drummer who could probably take on an electronic rival and win, judging by the precision blasting he delivers tonight, laying a perfect battery over which band spray immense, undeniable riffs.

Indeed, it’s these riffs – written by Satyr, performed live by he hired guns who make up the rest of Satyricon – which are key to the appeal of these metal veterans. Satyr has a knack for coming up with guitar lines which sound obvious in the best possible way: designed as precisely as a mathematical equation, but with deathless hooks which align them far closer to classic rock and metal of the ‘90s Norway (speaking of which, you can’t imagine, say, Gorgoroth coming onstage to AC/DC’s Hell’s Bells). As a smattering of oldies fit round a set drawing largely from Now, Diabolical and this years stellar The Age Of Nero, it vision sounds like nothing so much as victory: this is a simply majestic display of power.” KKKK

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SLIPKNOT finish up their UK headline tour today, and if you weren’t one of the lucky ones to get tickets for the tour, you may not want to read on. Below is a KKKK review from the London show from this weeks MACHINE HEAD, highlighting what a spectacle you missed out on…

We have had a mamouth number of bands in over the past couple of months, and so we have given some of them the opportunity to give us random questions to put to their label mates, and here we present the first of the series, which will run until Christmas.

Check out the player below to see pop rockers KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES pose questions to black metallers CRADLE OF FILTH.

Next up, on Monday 15th, watch out for Cradle Of Filth quizing KILL HANNAH…

Click the names below for more info on both bands:

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES
CRADLE OF FILTH

AMANDA PALMER has confirmed a Euro tour for 2009 and will take in a UK date as part of the run.