Check out the 3rd in the series of ‘in the studio’ updates from TRIVIUM, who are completing work on their upcoming album SHOGUN, which is due for release on the 29th September. Watch this space for news on how and when you can listen to a brand new track from the album…

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES have announced a UK tour for the Autumn in support of their debut album SMART CASUAL (in stores now).

The tour kicks off in Edinburgh on the 15th OCTOBER and finishes up in Northampton on the 29th. Full dates are as follows:

OCTOBER
Wed 15 Edinburgh, Liquid Room
Thu 16 Glasgow, QMU
Fri 17 Manchester, Club Academy
Sat 18 Leeds, Cockpit
Mon 20 Wolverhampton, Wulfrun Hall
Tue 21 Nottingham, Rescue Room
Wed 22 Sheffield, Leadmill
Fri 24 London, Astoria
Sat 25 Oxford, Academy
Sun 26 Cardiff, University – Solus
Mon 27 Southampton, University
Wed 29 Northampton, Roadmenders

In further Kids In Glass Houses live news, 6 tracks from their iTunes Festival show are now available to buy from iTunes at the bargainatious price of just

SLIPKNOT will premier their new video this coming Sunday morning at 2am on right here at roadrunnerrecords.co.uk.

The video, for their current single PSYCHOSOCIAL, is the first from the upcoming album ALL HOPE IS GONE, which hits the shelves on the 25th August.

Founded in Des Moines, IA, in September 1995, SLIPKNOT have released three studio albums, selling over seven million copies around the world. Their last studio album, Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses), released in 2004, debuted at #5 on the UK album chart and #2 on the US Billboard album chart.

The band will hit the UK in August for their main stage performances at Reading / Leeds festival on the 22nd and 23rd of August respectively.

PRE ORDER YOUR COPY OF ALL HOPE IS GONE HERE

METAL HAMMER MAGAZINE have unleashed an EXCLUSIVE podcast with their Editor Alexander Milas today which gives a review of the upcoming SLIPKNOT album ALL HOPE IS GONE.

Also on there is an interview with tub thumper Joey Jordison. Well worth checking out at THIS location…

Next weeks edition of KERRANG! MAGAZINE will feature SLIPKNOT on it’s cover not once, not twice, but NINE times as they release a series of individual covers- one for each member- of next weeks issue (which hits stores 23rd July).

The mage have released images of the covers on their website. Check them out at THIS location.

Slipknot are currently taking names at the US Mayhem fest, and will hit UK soil next month in preparation for their performance at this years Reading / Leeds festival. New album ALL HOPE IS GONE hits stores the 25th AUGUST.

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY HERE

AMANDA PALMER has posted the 2nd of her ‘Who Killed Amanda Palmer’ series of videos on her OFFICIAL YOUTUBE page. The videos- one for each track of her forthcoming album of the same title (in stores September 15th), are not only self contained, but also follow on from each other to make 1 movie. Check out part 2 below, and if you missed part 1, you can check it out HERE.

Metal masters SOULFLY release new album CONQUER on Monday JULY 21st (digitally, 28th JULY as a CD or CD / DVD). The reviews are starting to come in now and Kerrang! have given it a killer KKKK rating! Check out the review below:

Archimedes Once claimed that, given a long enough lever and a solid enough fulcrum, he could move the earth. He could have used Max Cavalera’s career as his pivot. Not everything the man’s put his name to has borne the mark of genius but he has had more brushed with the concept than most and, despite a prodigious output with Sepultura, the suitably explosive Nailbomb, current day-job Soulfly, Cavalera Conspiracy and a host of one-off collaborations, the dreadlocked Brazilian grower barely has a truly duff track under his belt. Okay, on Conquer you have the largely superfluous Soulfly VI, continuing the tradition of the self titled track on each Soulfly album and closing their sixth in a wash of Santana-style guitar meandering. It’s hardly an earth-shattering conclusion but before the point is a typically rock-solid affair punctuated by flashed of brilliance.

Last album Dark Ages was heralded as being at least a partial revisitation of early Sepultura territory and, while Conquer is not quite as full-on it does retain that sense of blinding ferocity in places. Fall Of the Sycophants is a straight-ahead Slayer-esque thrash-out while Warmageddon does indeed sound like the Apocalypse condensed into a small room with every window bolted shut. This being Soulfly however, there is of course still non-standard music augmentation scattered all over the place, plus those obligatory tribal rhythms and chugga-chugga grooves.

Opener Blood Fire Hate kicks things off like a mantra of destruction, with Morbid Angel’s David Vincent lending his growl to the rumbling, repetitive chant. Guest appearances are another staple of Soulfly albums and Throwdown’s Dave Peters join the party on the jaw-dropping Unleash, which combines what sounds like a theremin with gnashing guitars, swirls of synth and kick-in-the-bollocks brutality. Touching The Void utilises a Sabbathy doom riff with space rock leaning while the ironically far less doom-laden Doom switches from hook-laden hollering to a deep reggae groove.

The individual elements might change but the underlying tendency – one rumbling, head-pounding metal enhanced from a wide palette of experimental colours – remains exactly the same. From that standpoint, this might be ‘just’ another Soulfly album but it’s still one packed with enough invention, aggression and sheer quality tunes to make most other metal bands blush.

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY OF CONQUER HERE

In this weeks Kerrang! magazine, SLIPKNOT‘a Corey Taylor talks you through the new album ALL HOPE IS GONE (which is released 25/08) track by track.

‘Our album is gonna shock the fuck out of people’, says Taylor. ‘I’m so fucking excited about it…We just wanted to make something fresh and exciting,’ Taylor continues. ‘And after all the shit that we’ve been through the past three years, it was time to take the gloves off again!’

Read the full interview in issue 1219 (dated July 19th) which is on shelves NOW!

Also, check back here in the next couple of days for news of when and where you will be able to see the new video for current single PSYCHOSOCIAL!

PRE ORDER ALL HOPE IS GONE HERE

As if the news that DREAM THEATER are to release a live DVD isn’t enough, the band

Those Kentucky boys BLACK STONE CHERRY have posted a blog on their official MySpace about what it’s like being back on the road and their experience on their recent european run of festivals and what it was like supporting Whitesnake and Deff Leppard.

The also chat about shooting the video for their current digital single BLIND MAN, which is taken from their upcoming album FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION:

Yesterday, we shot the music video for our brand new single, “Blind Man”! We shot it in Louisville, KY at the famous Waverly Hills Sanitorium! It was so badass!! We’ve always wanted to go to Waverly Hills becuase of it’s history (and because we wanted to find a gohst there..it’s one of the Top 3 haunted places in America!!) So to shoot a video inside was very honoring…

FOLKLORE AND SUPERSTITION will be released on CD and as a digital download on AUGUST 18th. And let us not forget that the guys return to the UK for a full tour in December. Tickets are on sale now and dates are as follows:

Fri 5th Dec – Manchester Academy
Sat 6th Dec – Newcastle Academy
Sun 7th Dec – Glasgow Barrowlands
Tue 9th Dec – Sheffield Octagon
Wed 10th Dec – Birmingham Academy
Thu 11th Dec – Bristol Academy
Sat 13th Dec – Oxford Academy
Sun 14th Dec – London Brixton Academy