SLIPKNOT are currently on their headline tour of the UK with label mates MACHINE HEAD

KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, one of the most loved and most successful of the Massachusetts metal scene exports, are proud to announce the recording plans of their fourth album for Roadrunner Records. The album will follow 2006’s acclaimed As Daylight Dies, which is approaching Gold-status (500,000) in the US. 2004’s The End of Heartache has achieved Gold certification in the US already, and is certified Silver in the UK (60,000).

For the first time in their career, the band will work with an outside producer and have chosen Brendan O’Brien (AC/DC, Rage Against the Machine, Pearl Jam, Stone Temple Pilots) to man the boards. KsE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, a noted producer in his own right who has recorded all of the band’s previous albums, will be taking a co-producer role on this record alongside O’Brien. The band will record in both Georgia and their native Massachusetts.

Killswitch Engage will spend the winter recording the album with a release tentatively planned for Spring 2009.

Two-time winners of the Classic Rock ‘Best Album’ Award, Britain’s PORCUPINE TREE are pleased to confirm a special all-seated London show on OCTOBER 9, 2009. This will be the band’s first London show in support of their forthcoming new album.

Tickets went on sale yesterday to fan club members only for the Hammersmith Apollo date, but go on sale to the general public tomorrow (December 5), priced

In the final of the ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT DVD clips, we see former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE vocalist Jesse Leach sing with their current vocalist Howard Jones. Check out the clip which can be found EXCLUSIVELY on KERRANG.COM!!

CLICK HERE TO VIEW.

If you have missed any of the series of clips, you can check out all of them (and the sites that have shown the love for the DVD) right HERE.

ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT will be a 2 disc DVD set featuring the fill 25th Anniversary concert and a disc of backstage footage and interviews. The DVD goes on sale on Monday 8th DECEMBER at all the usual retailers OR you can pre-order / pick it up online at THIS LOCATION.

Roadrunner UK took time with Frederik from OPETH when they were in Manchester on the last date of their recebnt UK tour to see what the band had been up to since they were last in the UK and what they would be up to in the coming months. Check it out in the player below…

The guys were in the UK playing shows in support of current album WATERSHED, which is in stores now. You can pick itnup online at THIS LOCATION.

HEAD HERE FOR MORE NEWS ON OPETH.

Monday 8TH DECEMBER sees the long aticipated release of the ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT DVD and in one of the last clips to be premiered online, you can see HIM’s Vile Valo performing Type O Negative’s ‘Black Number 1’.

To see the clip, head over to the NME.COM media player-

NICKELBACK have announced their return to the UK for a string of arena shows next May. The tour will be in support of their latest album DARK HORSE which hit stores on 17th November and follows their earlier sold out UK tour just a few months ago.

Chad (vox/gtrs), Ryan (gtrs), Mike (bass) and Daniel (drums) will bring their chart-bothering tunes to the following cities, so be sure to get tickets while you still can:

Fri 22nd May MANCHESTER Evening News Arena
Sat 23rd May GLASGOW SECC
Mon 25th May NEWCASTLE Metro Radio Arena
Tue 26th May BIRMINGHAM National Indoor Arena
Thu 28th May LONDON O2 Arena

Tickets available from LIVE NATION and will be on general sale from 9am on Friday 5th December 2008. All tickets are subject to booking fee and are priced at

When in Australia recently, Robb Flynn of MACHINE HEAD fame ran through some of his pet peevs and some of the things that he likes best and in this snippet he fills us in on what it is he loves about Australia. Bizarrely for a dude in a band, things involving booze and the ladies seem to rate quite highly with Mr Flynn…

Machine Head are currently on tour with SLIPKNOT and will return to the UK in February / March 09 with Metallica. Check out the TOUR DATES PAGE for full dates of both tours and buy online links.

For more Machine Head news, head to THEIR NEWS PAGE

Buy current album THE BLACKENING (now available as a 2CD/DVD package) HERE

AIRBOURNE finished their UK tour on Friday (28/11), playing the

TRIVIUM perform with ‘Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr’ with MACHINE HEAD’S Robb Flynn on vocals in this latest snippet from the forthcoming ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT DVD, which sees a release on the 8th DECEMBER.

You can catch this snippet and order your copy of the DVD at THIS LOCATION

One in a series of snippets, you can catch up on the previous ones at the DVD INFO PAGE which also includes details of the full (and rather amazing) tracklisting…