Max Cavalera and his SOULFLY tribe have announced a full UK tour for February 2009. The band, whose critically acclaimed album, ‘Conquer’ came out earlier this year have lined up the following shows:

Sun 1st Feb – Portsmouth Pyramid Centre
Mon 2nd Feb – Oxford Zodiac @ Academy
Tue 3rd Feb – Bristol Academy
Wed 4th Feb – Dublin Academy
Thu 5th Feb – Belfast Spring & Airbrake
Fri 6th Feb – Glasgow ABC
Sat 7th Feb – Manchester Academy 2
Sun 8th Feb – Leeds Cockpit
Mon 9th Feb – Nottingham Rock City
Tue 10th Feb – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Wed 11th Feb – London Electric Ballroom

Tickets are on sale now from box offices, all usual agents and the online resources highlighted on the TOURS PAGE.

Support comes from Phoenix, AZ based outfit, Incite, who are fronted by Max’s stepson, Ritchie Cavalera!!

THRASH HITS are the latest pimpers of all things METAL to get in on the action and host an EXCLUSIVE clip from the upcoming ROADRUNNER UNITED DVD – ROADRUNNER UNITED: THE CONCERT- which sees a release on the 8th DECEMBER.

If you head to THIS LOCATION you will be able to check out snippets featuring Joey from SLIPKNOT, Jamey of HATEBREED and Andols from CHIMAIRA, the latter of whom discusses how his involvment in the project eventually led to his re-joining the band…

If you have missed any of the previous snippets, or would like to pre-order online, head to THIS PAGE!

If you head to the FUSE website, you will be able to check out the video vote for their awards this year and interestingly, SLIPKNOT are battling against Britney Spears!!!!

You can vote for SLIPKNOT in this metal vs pop battle right HERE, where their video for ‘Psychosocial’ is up against Brit’s ‘Womaniser’.

Slipknot land on UK soil on MONDAY (December 1st) to kick off the UK leg of their headline tour with label mates MACHINE HEAD. Dates are as follows:

Mon 1st Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo **SOLD OUT**
Tue 2nd Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo

Actually, it’s not as bad as it sounds. Bruce actually seems a friendly if slightly slobbery fella! He joins Satyr as he updated us from the mainland Euro leg of the SATYRICON tour that hit our shores TODAY!

Check out the video below to hear why Evile have had to pull out of the tour (ouch!) and how things have been going generally for the guys…

There are still a few tix available for the few UK dates, which are as follows:

TONIGHT 24th November – Birmingham Barfly
Tue 25th Nov – Leeds Rio’s
Wed 26th Nov – London ULU

The tour is in support of new album THE AGE OF NERO, which is in stores NOW. Pick it up online FROM THIS LOCATION.

For more news on Satyricon, head to their NEWS PAGE.

It’s an excectic mix your illustrious web master has selected for you this week, fueled by new video releases, past loves relived and eger anticipation of things to come!

If you head to the MEDIA PAGE of the website HERE, you will be able to feast your eye and ears on the following:

OPETH hit the UK on tour this week and my LORD are they on devastating form! Last nights show at Shepards Bush Empire was nothing short of incredible. Top if this weeks playlist is BURDEN, their new video.

Following up behind it is NICKELBACK’S current single GOTTA BE SOMEBODY. Bit of a shift from Opeth, granted, but new album DARK HORSE has been on constand rotation here in the office

NICKELBACK recently sat down with the BBC’s Emma Jones for their enternainment news and chatted about the success of their hit single ‘Rockstar’ and their new album DARK HORSE.

“It definitely showed us how to have a successful video – only be in for six seconds at the end…”

Chad (vocals) jokes about the hit single’s video.

The main focus of the interview is of course their new album, which was released this week (17/11). Produced by Mutt Lange (AC/DC, Def Leppard), it’s one hell of a rocker of a record.

Comments Jones:

“Lange’s stamp is all over Dark Horse – from the vocal harmonies to the multi-layer guitars. It is the most polished record the band, once described as ‘post-grunge ‘, have put out.
The first single, Gotta Be Somebody, is a traditional Nickelback up-tempo ballad, but much of the album is surprisingly heavy…”

Check out the full article HERE.

And be sure to

It’s not just the lads that are into metal, over at FEMALEFIRST.CO.UK they like a slab of metal as much as anyone, and there they are running the latest ROADRUNNER UNITED DVD snippet which features Ripper Owens tackling ‘Abigail’ and Killswitch Engage’s Adam D doing some KILLER impressions, with band mate Howard Jones royally wetting himself with laughter!

Check it out at THIS LOCATION

In other Roadrunner United related news, if you buy your copy of the DVD from PLAY.COM, you will recieve

I case you were missing them as much as us as they trundle around the world in support of their new album ULTRA BEATDOWN, here is a snippet of footage taken from the DRAGONFORCE Astoria show when they were here on tour back in September.

You can keep up to date with DragonForce developments at THE DF NEWS PAGE

BUY ULTRA BEATDOWN ONLINE HERE.

See Nathan, Matthew, Mateo and Dan on their first day in the studio recording new album ATTICS TO EDEN- from cooking breakfast to getting used to their new surroundings, Dan takes the camera and takes YOU through it all!

Don’t forget that if you would like to get these updates before they go live here, then you should sign up for the MADINA LAKE mailing list over at their official website MADINALAKE.COM.

FOR OTHER MADINA LAKE NEWS HEAD HERE.

ATTICS TO EDEN is scheduled for a release March 2009.

Although this is less of a rant and more of a big up to some of his fave new bands of the moment from back home! Here we kick off a series of mini rants with Robb Flynn of MACHINE HEAD fame. The first of 6, we will be updating the site with these every few days in the run up to their impending UK tour with Slipknot in December.

Some of the shows are sold out, but there are still some tickets available. Check out the dates / venues below. Buy online links are available at the TOURS PAGE…

Mon 1st Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo **SOLD OUT**
Tue 2nd Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo **SOLD OUT**
Wed 3rd Dec – London Hammersmith Apollo **SOLD OUT**
Fri 5th Dec – Cardiff International Arena **SOLD OUT**
Sun 7th Dec – Birmingham NIA
Mon 8th Dec – Glasgow SECC
Tue 9th Dec – Manchester MEN Arena
Thu 11th Dec – Newcastle Metro Arena
Fri 12th Dec – Sheffield Arena

FOR MORE MACHINE HEAD NEWS CLICK HERE

And dont forget you can now pick up a LIMITED 2 CD / 1 DVD set of current album THE BLACKENING. FULL TRACKLISTING AND BUY ONLINE LINK HERE.