You’ve all been hankering to hear what the new material on debut album ‘SMART CASUAL’ is sounding like- so wait no more!!

If you head to the KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES BEBO PAGE you will be able to hear and download the track GOOD BOYS GONE RAD- it’s never been heard before!!! And you can only check it out on Bebo!! So what are you waiting for??!

And if you are liking the sound of the new stuff, then remember you can pre-order the album HERE!!!

For more info on KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES head HERE.

On Monday 5th May, KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES will premier a BRAND NEW and NEVER BEFORE HEARD track off their upcoming debut album SMART CASUAL on BEBO.

Head to the bands brand new Bebo profile HERE from Monday afternoon to check it out!!

If you head to the HEADBANGERS BALL BLOG you will discover a cool video interview between Straight Line Stitch frontwoman Alexis and DEVILDRIVER frontman and pit master Dez Fafara.

Head HERE to check it out!

Current album THE LAST KIND WORDS is in stores now and you can order this online at the HERE both digitally and in the shiny CD format!

Feast your eyes on the final installment to the Mike & Mike series! This piece brings to a close the seven part video documentation of Mike Portnoy and Mike Akerfeldt’s talk at the Roadrunner NYC office. In this clip, the guys talk about each of their first concert experiences and the bands they grew up listening to. Check it out at the link below and see if you have anything in comon with your fave prog dudes:

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DONT FORGET that OPETH release their new album WATERSHED on the 2nd of July. Head HERE for more details on the formats. You can pre-order from THIS location.

DOWN‘s Kirk Windstein can be seen on Exclusivly on Metal Hammer Magazine’s website chatting about all things Down and New Orleans in a video interview that was filmed in Manchester on the bands recent UK headline tour.

Kirk speaks frankly about the toll the touring lifestyle has taken on his personal life, his childhood in New Orleans and how the Down members are focusing all their energies on Down- this is no side project but “priority number one!”

Head to THIS location to check out the interview in full.

DOWN’s current album ‘Over The Under’ is in stores now and can be picked up at the new THIS location.

Check out current video ‘On March The Saints’ HERE.

ROADRUNNER RECORDS are thrilled to welcome heavy metal masters LAMB OF GOD to the Roadrunner family (ex-North America).

LAMB OF GOD are renowned for their world class metal. Comprising vocalist Randy Blythe, guitarists Mark Morton and Willie Adler, bassist John Campbell, and drummer Chris Adler, the band have accumulated global sales of around three million units. They have performed numerous sold out shows across the globe as well as appearing at some of the world’s biggest rock festivals, including Ozzfest & Download. In 2007, they were honoured with a Grammy nomination.

“Having toured with countless Roadrunner bands both domestically and overseas Lamb of God has had the chance to see the amount of promotion and support the label puts into their bands. The foreign territories seem a perfect place to put the two machines in motion together. We look forward to a long partnership! Cheers!” enthuses frontman Randy Blythe. Roadrunner’s Snr VP International, Wally van Middendorp, agrees, “Roadrunner and Lamb Of God are a perfect match. We’re excited to be working with them. Everyone is looking forward to taking Lamb of God to the next level!”

The first LAMB OF GOD release on Roadrunner will be an all-new, 2-DVD set on June 30, 2008.

The Walk With Me In Hell 2-DVD set features over five hours of incredible, all-access footage. Disc 1 contains the highly anticipated feature documentary Walk With Me In Hell and multiple live performance extras from across the globe on the Sacrament World Tour. The documentary chronicles every detail in the lives of Lamb of God as they completed recording and toured around the world nearly three times over in support of the highly praised 2006 album Sacrament. Disc 2 includes an additional full-length Making of Sacrament feature plus LAMB OF GOD’s entire, uncut, brutal performance at the Download Festival 2007, where they performed in front of over 72,000 fans. Extras include deleted scenes, live performance videos for various tour stops, the official music video for Redneck, and a Making of Redneck documentary.

“We’re on stage for 90 minutes a day,” says drummer Chris Adler. “People want to know what’s going on for the other 22

Head on over the the DRESDEN DOLLS ARTISTS PAGE and you will be able to check out a brand new track from the Boston duo. Titled NIGHT RECONNAISSANCE, it is taken from the upcoming release NO, VIRGINIA which will hit stores here in the UK on MAY 19TH.

THE DRESDEN DOLLS will also make available a book to accompany the release. Detailing the contents in a recent MySpace blog, Amanda Palmer comments:

The Virginia Companion is a 350-page BEAST is about as big as a f*cking phone book and includes zillions of never-seen photos that Brian and I lovingly chose from the archives of the past few years. I also write (as I did in the last book) about the process of recording the record, the stories behind the songs and the story behind the artwork including a TON of art submissions for the record that weren’t used in the final packaging. There is an entire gallery devoted to the beautiful album-inspired artwork of Barnaby Whitfield (the pastel-artist and painter who created the masterpiece for the cover of the Paradise DVD and our Good Day 7″), tons of alternate album covers we were toying with, Haikus, a little section written by Brian, live photos, scribblings and bibblings and other flotsam and jetsam to make sure you never go hungry for dresden dolls trivia again.
The book also includes sheet music for every song from Yes, Virginia and No, Virgina (a total of 23 songs) for piano and voice. Each song also includes guitar tabs for you rock and roll types.

Details of how to order the book are not available at this time, but you can pre order the album NO, VIRGINIA HERE.

OPETH have made the track THE LOTUS EATER, taken from their forthcoming album WATERSHED (in stores June 2nd) available as a free download! Head to the Roadrunner UK Homepage to download the track NOW.

Also available now, at all the usual digital outlets, is the first single taken from that release PORCELIAN HEART. You can check out the video for this at the OPETH ARTISTS PAGE.

You can pre-order your copy of WATERSHED from THIS location.

KIDS IN GLASS HOUSES have confirmed that they will appearing at this years Reading / Leeds and Download festivals in addition to their full UK tour, which kicks off later this month.

The guys will play the DOWNLOAD festival on SUNDAY 15th June on the 2nd Stage and kick it at the Reading / Leeds festival on the NME Stage, appearing at Reading on Saturday 23rd August and Leeds on Sunday 24th.

Current single GIVE ME WHAT I WANT is due for release on May 19th and is followed by album SMART CASUAL on the 26th. You can pre-order both at THIS location.

Full tour dates are as follows and tickets are on sale NOW:
Wed 21 Middlesbrough, Empire

SATYRICON are set to release a new 5-track EP entitled ‘My Skin Is Cold’ on 2nd June.

Offering the first taste of new Satyricon material in over two years, the new EP also includes two tracks – ‘Live Through Me’ and ‘Existential Fear-Questions’ – that were excluded from 2002’s ‘Volcano’ album because, according to Satyr,

“they did not fit with the flow of the album, even though they are maybe even better than some of the songs that did make it on there”.

Closing with two extraordinary live tracks – ‘Mother North’ and ‘Repined Bastard Nation’ – recorded at Gjallahorn during the band’s triumphant show with musicians from the Norwegian Broadcasting Orchestra and the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra in November 2006, this is an essential collection of treasures from the Satyricon vault that should keep die-hard fans satisfied until the completion and release of the band’s forthcoming seventh full-length album which is due for release via Roadrunner on 3rd November.

“You could say that the new song is an indication of what the album will sound like, but it is not the whole story,” states Satyr. “The new songs are coming out really big, really grand. Some need time to crawl under your skin and others, they’ll strangle you from the first bar. It’s not operatic or theatrical, but it comes across as huge. It sounds like a journey. It’s emotional, it’s atmospheric, it’s grand and it’s epic. It’s overwhelming.”

The EP will be available as a CD / Vinyl package or as a digital bundle and the tracklisting is as follows:

CD:
1. MY SKIN IS COLD(exclusive)
2. LIVE THROUGH ME (Re-mastered, original version only released previously as bonus song on the LP edition of ”Volcano”)
3. EXISTENTIAL FEAR-QUESTIONS (Re-mastered, original version only released as bonus song on the LP edition of ”Volcano”)
4. REPINED BASTARD NATION (Live and turbocharged from the ”Gjallarhorn” show at Sentrum Scene, Oslo, November 2006)
5. MOTHER NORTH (Live from the ”Gjallarhorn” show at Sentrum Scene, Oslo, November 2006)

7″ Vinyl:
A. “My Skin Is Cold” (Newly recorded exclusive track)
B. “Mother North” (live from Gjallarhorn)

Meanwhile, Satyricon are currently rehearsing for the summer festival circuit in Europe, although it’ll be later in the year before we see them in the UK. Stay tuned for more album and tour news as we have it.

Check out a snippet of the title track at the official SATYRICON WEBSITE

Pre-order MY SKIN IS COLD or pick up their last offering NOW, DIABOLOICAL at the new ROADRUNNER STORE