As you may have heard SLIPKNOT released new album ALL HOPE IS GONE this week! What you may NOT know is that it is currently sitting at number 2 in the UK album charts! Head out this weekend and pick it up and maybe they can knock The Verve off the top spot!
You may also have heard that the SK camp is a plethora of broken bones. Not only did Joey (drums) break his ankle recently (causing their late departure from the Reading / Leeds line-up), but DJ Sid broke BOTH his heels on their first show in 2.5 years in Seattle, on the first show of the US Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Tour. We managed to grab a few mins with Sid out in Texas to chat about what the bejeezus happened, and here is what he told us:
(Pick up ALL HOPE IS GONE online NOW- CLICK TO BUY.)
We have a new forum here at RR UK!
Here at RR HQ we are wondering if there should be a cheque in the post to KERRANG.COM as their podcasts are FULL of Roadrunner bands!! Katie P has been catching up with folks all over the place!!
Head HERE for chats with TRVIUM and MACHINE HEAD!
HERE is where you can check out TRVIUM chatting about their new album and their upcoming co-headline tour with Slayer- the Unholy Alliance!
Last, and by no means least, you can catch up with KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES after their Barfly show in THIS ONE!
Blimey!
TRIVIUM release their new album SHOGUN on the 29th SEPTEMBER and if you pre-order this with HMV, you will recieve a cool sew-on patch, absolutely FREE!
Now thats the kinds deal we like!
Head to THIS LOCATION for more info!!
It’s the week we have all been waiting for! DRAGONFORCE and SLIPKNOT have released their new albums!!!
If you head to a record store near you you can pick up Slipknot’s ALL HOPE IS GONE and DragonForce’s ULTRA BEATDOWN in either regular CD or CD/DVD versions, both of which feature behind the scenes of the recording of the albums!!!
Alternatively, for those of you of a more digital persuasion / not wanting to get up out of your seat / hungry for a barigain, you can pick them up at 7Digital for the bargainatious price of just
KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES have been keeping themselves busy! Earlier this month they played Japan’s SummerSonic Festival and had a whale of a time! You can catch up with their shennanigans at the NME.COM blog right HERE.
Then there was their killer performances at the Reading and Leeds festivals this past weekend! Roadrunner UK were at Reading with the guys, and caught their rumpus in the NME tent and their signing, which is documented in pictures in their PICTURE GALLERY.
If you went to the Leeds or Reading signing sessions the band did, you can check out the NME galleries to see if there is a pic of you there with the guys too:
READING
LEEDS
Aaaaand Roadrunner also witnessed the floor buckling performance at the Camden Barfly on the 16th as part of the Kerrang! Week Of Rock! The photographic evidence can be found HERE…
The guys are now preparing to hit the road once more, with their UK dates being on sale NOW! Full dates as follows:
Wed 15th Oct – Edinburgh Liquid Room
Thu 16th Oct – Glasgow QMU
Fri 17th Oct – Manchester, Club Academy/Academy 2
Sat 18th Oct – Leeds Cockpit
Mon 20th Oct – Wolverhampton Wulfrun Hall
Tue 21th Oct – Nottingham Rescue Rooms/Rock City
Wed 22nd Oct – Sheffield Leadmill
Fri 24th Oct – London Astoria
Sat 25th Oct – Oxford Academy
Sun 26th Oct – Cardiff University Solus
Mon 27th Oct – Southampton University
Wed 29th Oct – Northampton Roadmenders
They’re back! BLACK STONE CHERRY
CRADLE OF FILTH have revealed the rather dazzling artwork for their upcoming album GODSPEED ON THE DEVIL’S THUNDER, which is due for a release on the 27th OCTOBER.
Get your peepers around THIS:
If you are a COF fan you will hopefully have taken advantage of the 24 hour download of TRAGIC KINGDOM on the homepage.
CRADLE OF FILTH are set the release the track “Tragic Kingdom” as a FREE 24 hour MP3 download from www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk, kicking off Wednesday August 27th, 5am UK time!!
The track is the very first to be released from the bands upcoming album ‘GODSPEED ON THE DEVIL’S THUNDER’. The album, which hits stores on October 27th, has been described by the band as
‘conceptual and is based on the well-documented, true-life fall from grace of a shadowy historical figure named Gilles de Rais, a wealthy French nobleman who was one of Joan of Arc’s brothers-in-arms. He was best known, however, as a prolific serial killer who mixed prayers with his nightly murders as well as an aspiring alchemist. He was accused of a panoply of crimes, among them heresy, demonology and kidnapping. There’s even an extreme fringe sect of historians who question de Rais’ true status, with some convinced he was framed.’
The album will be available as a digital download, CD or CD/DVD package and you can pre-order from HERE.
The band are scheduled to play London’s Forum on December 1st, and tickets are on sale NOW.