Last night saw the Kerrang! Awards 2008 ceremony take place in London and two of our lot triumphed!! MACHINE HEAD claimed the Best Live Band award and SLIPKNOT were granted the Icon award.

The awards saw nominations for MADINA LAKE, KILL HANNAH and KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES too, and whilst not winners in their categories, it was your votes that got them the nominations in the first place, so we would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who voted in the awards from everyone here at RR HQ and from all the Roadrunner nominees and winners.

Those lovely folks over at METALHAMMER.CO.UK, TOTALGUITAR.CO.UK and CLASSICROCKMAGAZINE.COM exclusively bring you Behind The Scenes of the HEROES OF OUR TIME!!

See DRAGONFORCE posing, air shredding, taking the piss out of each other and generally being…DragonForce!

Click on the mag links to check it out!

DragonForce release their new album ULTRA BEATDOWN on Monday (25th AUGUST). You can pick it up online HERE.

AIRBOURNE and OPETH have been nominated in this years CLASSIC ROCK Awards.

Airbourne are up for the Best New Band accolade and Opeth Album of the Year for WATERSHED.

You can check out the other nominees and vote at THIS LOCATION.

Pick up Airbourne’s ‘Runnin’ Wild’ and Opeth’s ‘Watershed’ HERE.

They’re back! Yes our lads from Kentucky are kickin’ it with one of their fave tunes from the 90’s this time. Yes, they missed out the 80’s. We know. Why? Now that we don’t know. But hey, it’s all good, it’s all just for the craic anyhoo…!

Oh and to promte their new album which hit stores this week! Yes! You can pick it up online HERE.

If you head to the METAL HAMMER WEBSITE you will see that they are giving you the opportunity to win original chromalins of the artwork for the new album ALL HOPE IS GONE!!

Check out and enter the competition HERE!!

CLICK TO PRE ORDER THE ALBUM.

As seen exclusively on MTV, here is the full length version od the video for SLIPKNOT’S PSYCHOSOCIAL. Have this to keep you goin’ till Mondays (25/08) release of ALL HOPE IS GONE…

In the current issue of Disorder Magazine, they catch up with KILL HANNAH for an exclusive interview to talk about making it, breaking it, their fans, their music and the perils of spending too much time on the road. Featuring never before seen photos, you can grab the mag from all good stores and online at THIS location!

And if THAT wasn’t enough, if you pick up the new issue of KERRANG mag, there is a rather hot poster of the guys too. Yum, frankly.

Don’t forget that the guys hit the UK on a headline tour SEPTEMBER. Tickets are on sale NOW and the dates are as follows:
Tue 23rd Sept – Edinburgh Cabaret Voltaire
Wed 24th Sept – Newcastle Academy
Thu 25th Sept – Norwich Waterfront
Fri 26th Sept – Sheffield Academy 2
Sat 27th Sept – Leeds Cockpit
Sun 28th Sept – Bristol Academy
Mon 29th Sept – Exeter The Phoenix
Tue 30th Sept – Brighton Concorde 2
Thurs 2nd Oct – Nottingham Rock City
Fri 24th Oct – Stoke Sugarmill
Sat 25th Oct – Dublin Whelans
Sun 26th Oct – Belfast Limelight
Mon 27th Oct – Glasgow Garage
Tue 28th Oct – Northampton Roadmenders
Wed 29th Oct – London LA2
Thu 30th Oct – Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms
Fri 31st Oct – Manchester Academy 2
Sat 1st Nov – Birmingham Academy 2

The tour is in support of album UNTIL THERE’S NOTHING LEFT OF US, which is in stores NOW. BUY ONLINE HERE.

SCUZZ TV will be running a SLIPKNOT week from FRIDAY 22nd AUGUST, jam packed with interviews and footage from the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Tour over in the US of A!!

You should tune in on the following days to check it out!!!

Fri August 22nd- 9pm
Sat August 23rd – 6pm
Sun August 24th – 3pm
Mon August 25th – 10am
Tues August 26th – 9pm
Thurs August 28th – 2pm

Don’t forget the NEW album ALL HOPE IS GONE hits stores on MONDAY. You can pre-order online HERE.

Lemme tell ya- that headline doesn’t lie!

On Monday (AUGUST 25TH) SLIPKNOT release the long awaitied ALL HOPE IS GONE, and in the new issue of METAL HAMMER magazine, is gets a WHOPPING 9/10. Check out the review below…

They may be inexorably linked with the nu metal era, but isn’t it about time that Slipknot were recognised and praised- thanked even- for being the band that did the most to hasten the genre’s demise? By introducing a generation reared on grunge, pop-punk and, erm, Coal Chamber to authentically brutal mental that brought the past and the future violently together, Slipknot helped to usher in a new era, one in which the decidedly non-mainstream likes of Lamb Of God and Mastodon are now able to reach out to big audiences without being thwarted by their own refusal to compromise. No one else has ever taken blastbeats to the top of the UK album charts, after all, but sometimes a fearsome reputation isn’t enough. Four years on from Vol.3, Slipknot need to fire a few million volts up metal’s arse all over again. And guess what? They’ve made it look easy.
Insanely heavy and as ugly as the sickest of sins, All Hope Is Gone is stuffed to the gills with gruesome, churning guitar tones and waves of interwoven noise and discord that fizz and fester with malicious intent. Songwise, it’s a relentless barrage of brilliance, as vast numbers of crushing, mutant thrash riffs, squealing solos and hair-raising percussive potency collide with the strongest melodies Slipknot have ever written and, appropriately, a career-best vocal performance from Corey Taylor. Most remarkably, Slipknot have reached a mature, creative zenith without sacrificing any of their trademark intensity. Gone is the aimless indulgence that made Slipknot and Iowa such cluttered affairs, and white the impetus behind Vol.3’s scattershot experiments remains, this time you can trade a red line of inspiration from the righteous proselytising of spoken word intro .excute right through to a raging, breathless finale, 60 minutes later. The opening riff-riot of Gematria (The Killing Name), the Rammstein-ish stomp of Psychosocial, the urgent tempo shifts of the Anthrax-like Vendetta and the wild sonic steel spray of This Cold Black all hark back to the bug eyes exuberance of Surfacing and People – Shit, while offering so much more in the way of emotional depth and shrewd musicality. The curveballs come with the lurching vitriolic and plainly Meshuggah-inspired Butcher’s Hook, Sulfer’s skewed harmony trippiness and the huge, instantly memorable choruses that inject Dead Memories, Wherein Lies Continue and Snuff with such disquieting poignancy. Best of all, the untamed assault of the title track bring the album to a commanding close- a perfect encapsulation of the Des Moines destroyers’ entire sound, ethos and appeal, in five non-more-‘knot minutes.
There are very few metal bands around today that would dare to be this adventurous while still maintaining such drive, focus and belligerence. Familiarity may have dulled Slipknot’s visual impact and there’s little here that will turn naysayers into frothing advocates overnight, but who cares? All Hope Is Gone is dizzyingly close to perfect. It’s not just this band’s greatest achievement to date, but one of the most distinctive and obscenely thrilling metal albums of the century so far.

Order ALL HOPE IS GONE online at HERE

In this weeks issue of KERRANG! Magazine, there is a spiffing KKKK review of the new DRAGONFORCE album ULTRA BEATDOWN (in stores AUGUST 25th)! Check it out below! Seems there folks over there are diggin’ it just as much as us here at the ole RR HQ!!

Pick up your copy of Ultra Beatdown online HERE

On a final note, if you (like us in the RR office) were wondering what the bejeezus a ‘merkin’ is, then wonder no more.