Roadrunner Records is pleased to announce that following their headline appearance at the Bloodstock festival in Derby on September 3, WITHIN TEMPTATION will be playing a special London show with their full stage production at the Astoria on September 4. Tickets will be on sale shortly for 퉌£13.50. The support band is yet to be decided. It will be an event not to be missed!

Explosive riff lords TRIVIUM are all set to blow the roof off 15 of the UK’s rock venues when they return in September for a headlining tour. With album sales increasing for the last 7 weeks in a row í¢ä‰åäóì of the fastest selling Roadrunner debut since Slipknot’s ‘Slipknot’ – tickets are gonna fly! All That Remains will be main support. Witness the demolition at the following dates & locations: 퉌æ 퉌æ SEPTEMBER 10 í¢ä‰åäóì LEEDS Cockpit 11 í¢ä‰åäóì OXFORD Zodiac 12 í¢ä‰åäóì BRIGHTON Concorde 13 í¢ä‰åäóì NEWPORT TJs 15 í¢ä‰åäóì MANCHESTER Academy 3 16 í¢ä‰åäóì GLASGOW King Tuts 17 í¢ä‰åäóì STOKE Sugarmill 18 í¢ä‰åäóì LONDON Mean Fiddler 19 í¢ä‰åäóì WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall 20 í¢ä‰åäóì COLCHESTER Arts Centre 22 í¢ä‰åäóì BELFAST Limelight 23 í¢ä‰åäóì DUBLIN Music Centre 24 í¢ä‰åäóì LIVERPOOL Academy 2 25 í¢ä‰åäóì NOTTINGHAM Rock City 27 í¢ä‰åäóì PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms 퉌æ Tickets are on sale now for 퉌£10 regionally, 퉌£12 London from all usual box offices and online. You can also book through the 24-hour credit card hotline on 0870 400 0688. Book early and don’t miss out!

Here is the full, revised tracklisting for Machine Heads fortth coming DVD Elegies 1.. Intro 2. Imperium 3. Seasons Wither 4. Bulldozer 5. Old 6. Days Turn Blue to Gray 7. The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears 8. Ten Ton Hammer 9. The Burning Red 10. In the Presence of My Enemies 11. Take My Scars 12. Descend the Shades of Night 13. Davidian MACHINE HEAD – ELEGIES DROPS 15/8/05

We can already confirm that the follow tracklisting for Within Temptation’s forthcoming album The Silent Force. The release will be available as a regular CD, and as a Limited edition Digipack with DVD. The tracklistings are as follows: CD: 1.Intro 2.See Who I Am 3.Jillian 4.Stand My Ground 5.Pale 6.Forsaken 7.Angels 8.Memories 9.Aquarius 10.It’s The Fear 11.Somewhere 12.Destroyed (UK Bonus Track) 13.Jane Doe (UK Bonus Track) Limited Edition Digipack CD + DVD CD 1.Intro 2.See Who I Am 3.Jillian 4.Stand My Ground 5.Pale 6.Forsaken 7.Angels 8.Memories 9.Aquarius 10.It’s The Fear 11.Somewhere 12.Destroyed (UK Bonus Track) 13.Jane Doe (UK Bonus Track) DVD 1. Stand My Ground – Live @ Rock Am Ring 2. Angels – Live @Rock Am Ring 3. Memories -Live @ Rock Am Ring 4. Mother Earth- Live @ Rock Am Ring 5. Ice Queen-live @ Rock Am Ring 6. Stand My Ground – Video . Free Mp3 download coming later this Month, so watch this space

This week has seen the release of three highly innovative and crushing albums Devildriver – The Fury Of Our Maker’s Hand Throwdown – Vendetta A Life Once Lost – HUNTER And despite the albums being new borns, the great reviews are flooding in.Deo2 have put together their opinions of the albums (3 x 8/10) so why don’t you get a copy and do the same? Just send your reviews –>HERE<-- CLICK HERE to go to the rock section of DEO2 and read the three articles.

Imagine that we live in some amazing parallel universe, where there is no third world debt, hunger, poverty and Slipknot present radio shows. Well we’re glad to announce that we’re one step closer to our Utopian fantasies. On June 29th Joey & Paul from SLIPKNOT co-presented the Radio 1 Rock Show. So go and check it out –> CLICK ME!! <--

A couple of select quotes from a recent interview with Metalrage.com. Metalrage.com: There’s been this quote going around that Max Cavalera has labelled the new album “a calm and peaceful album.” Explain to me what a calm Soulfly album sounds like. Marc Rizzo: “You know what?! There’s no way that could be true. Because this record, is the heaviest SOULFLY record so far. It’s a mix of SOULFLY, and old-style SEPULTURA that Max was doing back on ‘Arise’ and ‘Beneath the Remains’. It’s almost like a thrash record, you know. The real SOULFLY elements are still there, but there’s a lot of new songs that are fast-paced, a lot of guitar solos, it’s got fast thrash-type rhythms. So I’m pretty sure he didn’t say that. Maybe lyrically, but musically it’s fucking heavy. It’s the best SOULFLY record yet. It’s got everything I like in heavy music. A lot of awesome drumming, a lot of double-bass. Lots of fast tempos, Max’s vocals are really heavy. I think it’s awesome, it’s right where ‘Prophecy’ left off, with a step further to the heavier side. Totally. It’s a brutal record, people are going to be shocked when they hear it.” Metalrage.com: SOULFLY is not unfamiliar to the word “experimenting,” even soul and traditional Brazilian influences have been put into the records. With all the heavy stuff going on this new record, is there still room for that sort of stuff? Marc Rizzo: “Yeah, there’s a lot of cool jams on it too, but overall it is the most relentless SOULFLY record. It’s all ‘Boom,’ in your face! One after another of just slamming heavy fucking songs that kick your ass, man. There is a couple of jams on it, but it is not as ‘jammy’ as the earlier records. This record is more song-orientated.” Read Marc Rizzo’s entire interview with Metalrage.com

The latest issue of KERRANG! features an awesome three page feature on Trivium which starts out as follows: Saturday June 11, 2005 will be remembered as the day the UK fell in love with Trivium. At a stroke, their ecstatically received Download festival performance – at which a 30,000-strong crowd went collectively apeshit at 11am – transformed Trivium from up-and-coming newbies into genuine global contenders. The band’s cutting-edge take on classic thrash, combined with frontman Matt Heafy’s startling, stadium-size star quality, has made Trivium THE name to drop in metal circles – as demonstrated by the current, lightning-fast proliferation of Trivium T-shirts and hoodies. But this is just the beginning… Buy KERRANG! today to read the full article!!

Roadrunner Records is proud to announce the signing of critically acclaimed Dutch goth-metallers Within Temptation for the UK, Australia, and Japan. 퉌æ Fronted by the nightingale-throated Sharon den Adel, the band is completed by Robert Westerholt (guitar), Jeroen Van Veen (bass), Stephen van Haestregt (drums), Martijn Spierenburg (keyboards), and Ruud Jolie (guitar). 퉌æ í¢ä‰åñWe are very happy that our new album is being released by Roadrunner in the U.K., Australia, and Japan,í¢ä‰åŒ say Sharon and Robert. í¢ä‰åñA lot of our fans from these countries send us messages requesting a local album release. We wanted to work with a label that understands our music and now we are definitely at the right place.í¢ä‰åŒ 퉌æ Formed in 1996, Within Temptation has released three albums including the platinum album ‘Mother Earth’ – selling over 800,000 albums in their career to date. Latest album ‘The Silent Force’, originally released in November 2004, crashed into the Netherlands official chart at #1, and was certified gold a mere three weeks later. Further Top 5 positions followed in Germany (gold), Belgium (also gold), and Finland, with Austria, Sweden, Switzerland, Spain, France, and Norway all also placing the album high in the Top 30. A UK release is set for August 29th in brand new CD and CD/DVD formats including bonus tracks and live footage. 퉌æ In early 2005, with over 400,000 copies of ‘The Silent Force’ sold in Europe, the band was awarded the Conamus Music Export prize as well as the Edison Award for Best National Band (the Dutch equivalent of the US Grammys & the UK Brits). A TMF Award (MTV Benelux’s domestic award ceremony) followed. 퉌æ Within Temptation are currently on the European festival circuit, appearing at Pinkpop, Werchter, Rock Am Ring, Rock Im Park, Sweden Rock, Ruisrock, Aerodome, Wacken, and Gurten. Support slots with Iron Maiden in Paris and Zurich have also been announced. In addition, a special one-off show in Amsterdam on July 22 is confirmed, where the band will perform on an island in the middle of a river for 10,000 fans! 퉌æIn the UK, Within Temptation will headline the annual Bloodstock Festival on September 3. Stay tuned for more dates.

“2005 is the year of Transgression for FEAR FACTORY!” Due out on the 22nd August the aptly named Transgression sees Fear Factory at their finest. In addition to the standard album, the record will be available as a limited edition pack with BONUS DVD featuring 3 music videos!! and the ‘making of the album documentary’.