HALESTORM have launched a Twitter campaign to reveal the cover of ‘The Strange Case Of…‘ and you can be part of the process of unveiling the artwork. Simply click here to head over to HALESTORM‘s website and follow the instructions – all it takes is following the band on Twitter and tweeting a message about the reveal, BOOM!

Pick up the 4-track EP ‘Hello, It’s Mz Hyde’ EP by clicking here.

You can also pre-order HALESTORM‘s new album ‘The Strange Case Of…’ along with label mates SHINEDOWN‘s new upcoming album ‘Amaryllis‘ together from Play.com and get

SHINEDOWN release their new album ‘Amaryllis‘ on the 26th of March and in anticipation oof the release, the band have revealed the official video for their killer single from the album, ‘Bully‘. The stunning video was directed by Darren Doane and you can check it out on Kerrang!’s website by clicking here.

Darren is a filmmaker and music video director from California and as well as directing music videos, he also directed two live action short film adaptations of the Malibu Comics superheroes Hardcase (a four minute music video style promo starring British kickboxer Gary Daniels) and Firearm (bit of music video / comic crossover trivia for you there!). Darren has directed videos for the likes of Blink 182, AFI, All That Remains. Deftones, Jimmy Eat World, UNDEROATH and many more bands.

The track ‘Bully‘ combines modern day ‘ripped from the headlines’ type sentiments of kids tragically committing suicide as as result of school bullying mixed with the band’s own personal experiences of dealing with bullies when they were younger. Spinning it in a positive direction, the song reveals that even though the vicious cycle continues, there’s always a way to rise up and overcome: “We don’t have to take this, back against the wall / We don’t have to take this, we can end it all”.

After ‘Bully’ was released, Myers took to his personal Facebook page to talk about the track, and the personal connection he has with it, “When you write a song with such a serious and sometimes controversial topic most feel you have to tread lightly and watch what you say. On this one we didn’t really feel like that,” admits Myers.

He talked about his own experiences with bullying in detail and then the light at the end of the tunnel. “I made it out alive,” said Myers, “Bullying in those days weren’t as bad as it has gotten now. There are kids who take their own lives because they feel there is now way out…STAND UP! If you know someone getting bullied or your kids are bullying someone ELSE, get involved! This HAS to stop!”

‘Bully’ serves as a true call to arms to anyone who’s ever been affected by bullying. While it’s not SHINEDOWN’s heaviest song to date, it still packs a punch and delivers on impact with a loud and clear message: “All you’ll ever be is the fading memory of a bully”.

You can pre-order ‘Amaryllis’ by clicking this link.

The 6th SOULFLY studio update is up online on MusicRadar and in today’s clip Max and the band discuss the main goals they had for the album, returning back to a heavier sound, how they feel this is the most ‘brutal’ and ‘extreme’ SOULFLY album to date and more! Check it out by clicking this link.

Click here to pre-order ‘Enslaved’ from Play.com and get an exclusive SOULFLY luggage tag…

Our friends over at MusicRadar have a killer clip from KO퐌¿N showing the making of their latest album ‘The Path Of Totality’, paying particular interest to how the drums were recorded. Check out what Ray has to say about the process and how he and Jonathan developed the percussion sounds on the album by clicking here and heading over to MusicRadar’s website!

KO퐌¿N are touring the UK in March and you can find the dates and tickets below:

25 March – O2 Academy Brixton, London
26 March – O2 Academy Birmingham
28 March – Academy Manchester
29 March – O2 Academy Glasgow
31 March – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
01 April – Mandela Hall, Belfast
03 April – O2 Academy Bristol

Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/xRQjAn

You can pick up a copy of KO퐌¿N’s latest album ‘The Path Of Totality’ by pointing your mouse in this direction.

Kentucky rockers BLACK STONE CHERRY have been confirmed for Soniphere Festival UK 2012!

“Now we can check off another goal on the ole BSC “wanna do it” list!” says guitarist Ben Wells. “We can’t wait to make our debut at Sonisphere 2012!!”

With gargantuan riffs and even bigger hooks, songs like ‘Rain Wizard’ and ‘Blind Man’ to dish out, SONISPHERE is serving the hottest piece of the BLACK STONE CHERRY pie so far. BOOM!

You can buy tickets for Sonisphere UK 2012 and find out more about the line up by clicking here.

KO퐌¿N‘s Jonathan Davis was interviewed by Radio Metal about the band’s latest album ‘The Path Of Totality‘ and how the band began the process of fusing Metal with Dubstep. See below for some extracts:

Radio Metal: You stated in Kerrang magazine that you were tired of hearing people calling you “the godfathers of nu-metal” and that you didn’t want to join the nostalgia circuit. But as a matter of fact, Remember Who You Are was an old school, kind of back to the roots album from Korn. Does this mean in a way that this album was made out of pressure from people who were expecting that from you rather than a real creative desire?

Jonathan Davis: For us as a band, it’s just all really about innovating and trying to do different things. When we did the Korn III record, that was also an experiment to see what it’d be like working with Ross [Robinson, producer] again. We’ve always experimented. We’ve been a band for 18 years and we had a lot of fun doing this record. It was so different and we had so much fun doing it.

Radio Metal: Your new album The Path Of Totality came out only a year after Remember Who You Are, as if there was a creative urge that the later didn’t completely satisfy. Is this what happened?

Jonathan Davis: Why did we put the album out so quickly? Well, we just did. This is what happened. We feel it, we just start writing songs, I write constantly, still. The whole year of touring I was writing. And doing everything is just cool, I mean we decided to make music and put it out there. We’re not one of those bands that goes five years between records.

Radio Metal: How do you make such two different musical worlds, metal and dubstep, work together? I guess a metal band such as Korn has a very different way of working compared to dubstep artists such as Skrillex?

Jonathan Davis: No there are a lot of similarities there, there really is. Dubstep music is really heavy. Some of those sounds were just so heavy that we thought it would work so we wanted to experiment. We didn’t know if we were going to make an album or what we were going to do but when we got with Skrillex we did a few soungs and once we got there, “fuck the EP let’s do a whole album, I guess we’ll work with all these different amazing producers”.

Read more by clicking this link.

KO퐌¿N are touring the UK in March and you can find the dates and tickets below:

25 March – O2 Academy Brixton, London
26 March – O2 Academy Birmingham
28 March – Academy Manchester
29 March – O2 Academy Glasgow
31 March – Olympia Theatre, Dublin
01 April – Mandela Hall, Belfast
03 April – O2 Academy Bristol

Buy tickets here: http://bit.ly/xRQjAn

You can pick up a copy of KO퐌¿N’s latest album ‘The Path Of Totality’ by pointing your mouse in this direction.

AT THE SKYLINES have revealed the album arwork for thier yet to be released album ‘The Secrets to Life‘. Check out the cover below and watch this space for further updates on the album!

SOULFLY‘s new album ‘Enslaved‘ is out on the 12th of March and in anticipation of the release, the band announced yesterday that they would be doing a live chat online with Horns And Hails. The chat will take place at 9pm on the 6th of March and you can take part in the chat by clicking here and heading over to Horns and Hails website. Come say hi to Max IRL!

‘Enslaved‘ was recently reviewed by ThisIsNotAScene and you can see an extract from that review below:

‘Enslaved’ features some of the heaviest songs Soulfly has ever written. Tracks like ‘Legions’ ‘Gladiator’ and ‘Redemption of Man by God’ featuring Dez Fafara (DevilDriver, Coal Chamber) crush skulls and promise to break bones in the live arena and prove that Max can still pen an absolute beast of a tune when he puts his mind to it.

Check out the full review by clicking here!

SLASH‘s new album ‘Apocalyptic Love‘ – featuring bandmates Myles Kennedy (vocals), Brent Fitz (drums) and Todd Kerns (bass) – will be released on 21 May in exclusive Classic Rock Fan Pack form, providing a unique collectable package containing the studio album with bonus tracks alongside a specially created magazine with unseen behind-the-scenes content put together by Classic Rock.

The Fan Pack format will also come with free gifts including a pin badge and artwork poster and will be available to buy via more than 2000 retail outlets on newsstands nationally as well as the traditional high street and online music retailer.

The Classic Rock Fan Pack is available for pre-order now here. And if you’re gagging to hear some of the album, our friends over at MusicRadar are streaming ‘You’re A Lie’ on their website and you can hear it by clicking here.

Roadrunner Records will simultaneously release the record digitally on the 21st and the standard physical release of ‘Apocalyptic Love’ will follow on 18 June 2012.

The full tracklisting for the album is as follows:

1) Apocalyptic Love
í¢ä‰åŒÂ2) One Last Thrill
í¢ä‰åŒÂ3) Standing In The Sun
í¢ä‰åŒÂ4) You’re A Lie
í¢ä‰åŒÂ5) No More Heroes
í¢ä‰åŒÂ6) Halo
í¢ä‰åŒÂ7) We Will Roam
í¢ä‰åŒÂ8) Anastasia
í¢ä‰åŒÂ9) Not For Me
í¢ä‰åŒÂ10) Bad Rain
í¢ä‰åŒÂ11) Hard & Fast
í¢ä‰åŒÂ12) Far And Away
í¢ä‰åŒÂ13) Shots Fired

In the UK the Classic Rock Fan Pack release will also feature two extra exclusive bonus tracks:

14) Carolina
í¢ä‰åŒÂ15) Crazy Life

You can buy a copy of ‘You’re A Lie’ from iTunes by clicking here.