SLIPKNOT have revealed 9 clips relating to their upcoming release ‘Antennas To Hell‘ on their YouTube page. You may have spotted some of the earlier clips in previous news posts but we decided to place all of the clips in one news story so you can watch the entire series. Check them out below!

MusicRadar has joined forces with the friendly-types at Epiphone, as well as their sister magazines Total Guitar and Metal Hammer, to bring you an amazing Robb Flynn competition.

The frontman of Californian metal stalwarts MACHINE HEAD has recently teamed up with Epiphone to design a brand new baritone signature guitar, christened the Robb Flynn Love/Death Baritone Flying V. It’s said to be Epiphone‘s lowest and heaviest guitar ever – a no frills bruising metal machine worthy of its namesake. The Baritone Flying V design is the first of its kind for Epiphone and indeed the entire Gibson family.

In celebration of this significant advancement in metal guitar brutality, MusicRadar are offering one lucky winner the chance to design a decal for Robb Flynn‘s very own Love/Death Baritone Flying V, which will be presented to him by Epiphone later this year. The winner will have their design featured on one of Robb’s own touring guitars and bag an Epiphone Robb Flynn Love/Death Baritone Flying V, signed by the man himself. BOSH!

In addition, three runners-up will also win signed Love/Death Baritone Flying Vs. SO MANY AWESOME PRIZES!

To enter the competition just follow the steps below:

Pick up a copy of Metal Hammer or Total Guitar magazine and pull-out the Machine Head/Epiphone tear sheet. This will contain the design page, featuring the blank decal template. Alternatively, you can download the template from www.epiphone.com/robbflynncompetition.

Sharpen your pencils, chew your crayons and draw your design on the template.

Post your design to Epiphone Comp, Future Publishing, 2 Balcombe Street, London NW1 6NW. Alternatively, you can scan your design and upload it to www.futurecomps.co.uk/epiphone.

The closing date for competition entries is 12pm BST on Friday 27 July, so make sure they’ve received your entry by then.

The winners will then be announced by Robb Flynn himself on the Epiphone Facebook page on 17 August, as he signs the prize guitars!

Our friends over at MusicRadar are streaming the face-meltingly good upcoming album by GOJIRA titled, ‘L’Enfant Sauvage’. Click here to head over to MusicRadar’s website to have a listen NOW – and be sure to let us know what you think!

GOJIRA will taking part in an in-store meet and greet session on release day here in the UK and you can find those details below:

Monday 25th June, 5.30pm – 6:30pm
HMV, 14-18 High Street, Sheffield, S1 2GE

Fans can pre-order the upcoming album ‘L’Enfant Sauvage‘ at the following link: www.play.com/rr2012. Play.com are also be offering an exclusive guitar plectrum necklace with pre-orders of the Special Edition. Alternatively, you can pick up the album from iTunes by clicking here. Check out the tracklist for the album below:

Disc: 1

1. Explosia
2. L’Enfant Sauvage
3. The Axe
4. Liquid Fire
5. The Wild Healer
6. Planned Obsolescence
7. Mouth Of Kala
8. The Gift Of Guilt
9. Pain Is A Master
10. Born In Winter
11. The Fall
12. This Emptiness (bonus track)
13. My Last Creation (bonus track)

Disc: 2 (included in the Special Edition)

1. Oroborus (Live)
2. The Heaviest Matter Of The Universe (Live)
3. Backbone (Live)
4. Love (Live)
5. A Sight To Behold (Live)
6. The Art Of Dying (Live)
7. Drum Solo (Live)
8. Clone (Live)
9. Flying Whales (Live)
10. Toxic Garbage Island (Live)
11. Vacuity (Live)

GOJIRA are heading to the UK next week and you can find the dates and ticket details on our Tour Page by pointing your mouse in this direction.

SHINEDOWN performed a stonking set at Download a few weekends ago and in case you missed it, check out a snippet of their performance in their NME stage walk on clip below:

The band caught up with Kerrang! Radio, Total Rock, Real Radio XS & more whilst at the festival and you can see those video interviews below. Brent and Zach also performed a short acoustic set in the media area before the band’s full set and that can be seen below the press interviews. Enjoy!

Kerrang! Radio’s Matt Stock

Scuzz Lowdown:

Total Rock:

Click here to listen to the Real Radio XS interview with the band…

Acoustic performance:

Click here to pick up a copy of SHINEDOWN’s latest album, ‘Amaryllis’.

SLASH released his new album ‘Apocalyptic Love‘ as part of a Classic Rock fan pack on the 21st of May and yesterday the Roadrunner Special Edition was released in the UK. In celebration of the new album, MusicRadar have been premiering exclusive track by track clips featuring the man in the hat himself. The fourth and final part is up and you can check it out by clicking this link. In case you missed the first three clips, you can check those out below:

NME was at Download a few weekends ago and whilst there they spent some time with COREY TAYLOR, LAMB OF GOD, SHINEDOWN and HALESTORM before the bands took to the stage. You can check out those stage walk ons below:

COREY TAYLOR:

Click here to pick up SLIPKNOT’s latest release.

LAMB OF GOD:

Click here to pick up a copy of LAMB OF GOD’s latest release.

HALESTORM:

Click here to pick up a copy of HALESTORM’s latest release.

SHINEDOWN:

Click here to pick up a copy of SHINEDOWN’s latest album.

SLASH released his new album ‘Apocalyptic Love‘ as part of a Classic Rock fan pack on the 21st of May and today you are able to buy the Roadrunner Special Edition release, which includes two extra tracks. Check out the tracklist below:

1. Apocalyptic Love
2. One Last Thrill
3. Standing In The Sun
4. You’re A Lie
5. No More Heroes
6. Halo
7. We Will Roam
8. Anastasia
9. Not For Me
10. Bad Rain
11. Hard & Fast
12. Far And Away
13. Shots Fired
14. Carolina
15. Crazy Life

Click here to pick up a copy of the Special Edition of ‘Apocalyptic Love’ on iTunes.

In the third part of MusicRadar‘s exclusive track-by-track guide to SLASH‘s new solo album ‘Apocalyptic Love‘, SLASH talks through the tracks Hard And Fast, Far And Away and Shots Fired and explains the origins of the siren at the beginning of the last track. Click here to check out the video and in case you missed parts 1 and 2, you can watch those clips below:

Pick up a copy of SLASH‘s new Special Edition album ‘Apocalyptic Love‘ from iTunes by clicking here.

MusicRadar are streaming an exclusive preview of innovative French metallers GOJIRA‘s new live film ‘The Flesh Alive‘. The stream is opening track ‘Oroborus’, filmed live at France’s Garorock festival a few years ago.

The full ‘The Flesh Alive‘ package includes a 93 minute live film of the band’s 2009 Garorock festlival appearance, an 80 minute gig filmed in Bordeaux, a 15 minute live set from Les Vieilles Charreues, a live album and an hour long documentary on the making of their 2008 album The ‘Way Of All Flesh‘.

In addition to the above, the band are set to release their fifth album ‘L’Enfant Sauvage‘ on 25 June and the Special Edition DVD includes the above mentioned Garorock festival performance.

GOJIRA will taking part in an in-store meet and greet session on release day here in the UK and you can find those details below:

Monday 25th June, 5.30pm – 6:30pm
HMV, 14-18 High Street, Sheffield, S1 2GE

Fans can pre-order the upcoming album ‘L’Enfant Sauvage‘ at the following link: www.play.com/rr2012. Play.com are also be offering an exclusive guitar plectrum necklace with pre-orders of the Special Edition.

Australia’s The Amity Affliction, selected as one Alternative Press’ Top 100 Bands You Need to Know About in 2012, have entered a Florida studio to work on their proper Roadrunner Records debut, Chasing Ghosts.

Chasing Ghosts is scheduled to be released on September 17. It follows the band’s previous album Youngbloods. The Amity Affliction are holed up in the studio with producer Michael “Elvis” Baskette (Alter Bridge, Falling In Reverse, Escape The Fate, Incubus) as they prepare their latest release.

Frontman Joel Birch checked in from the studio to shed a little light on the process, saying, “Recording with Elvis has been the most amazing experience for Amity since we began making records eight years ago. It’s incredible. We came into this record more prepared than we ever have before as well, so everything is coming together really, really well.”

Birch further stated, “We’re all loving the new songs. It feels like there is an entire album of awesome songs that we love which hasn’t happened prior to this; we’ve finally written an album we are proud of from start to finish, no filler whatsoever.” The singer also commented on the lyrical direction of Chasing Ghosts, revealing, ” I’ve tried to write my thoughts in a manner that can connect with people on an even more personal level than I did on Youngbloods, and I’m proud that the substance and depth hasn’t been lost or compromised, or watered down.”

Alternative Press lauded the band for its “brutally honest racket,” saying, “While you can waste as much time as you want throwing labels such as post-hardcore, scream, or metalcore at the Australian quintet, all that matters is they writer honest songs with tons of hooks and some serious bite.”

Loudwire.com also pointed out the band’s knack for “mixing hard-hitting hardcore and melodic rock with sing-scream vocals,” while ARTISTdirect praised the band as “Modern heavy metal at its finest…Amity Affliction are the most exciting band of 2012. Combining gnashing riffs a la Killswitch Engage and hooks that rival Deftones, Amity Affliction are primed to take over.”