Issueskilled it when they were on tour withThe Amity Affliction on their latestLet The Ocean Take Metour! We caught up withTyler Carter to talk about what he was most excited about doing on the tour and what makes him a MANIAC!

There aren’t many things in life that are more exciting than a newSlipknot album, and any extra little detail that we get in the lead up to the new album.5 The Gray Chapter just make us that much more excited.Corey Taylor recently spoke toColorado’s 94.3 KILO Radio and revealed new details about the album and let us know when the masks are going to be revealed!

Avenged Sevenfold always have something pretty exciting in the works and they have just released a new video for “This Means War” which features live footage from several shows across Latin America!

A7X guitarist Synyster Gates recently spoke to Music Radar about the track:

Every Time I Die’s Andy Williamsobviously works out pretty hard (that dude is huge!) and he’s been kind enough to share with us his awesome work out playlist! Stream the playlist below!

If you were also crying all weekend that you weren’t able to attendRock Am Ring festival, we’ve got the next best thing for you. We’ve found full, professionally shot sets fromOpeth, Trivium & Avenged Sevenfold!

Happy viewing.

Our feature artist this week is the one and only Royal Blood, the hottest new hard rock band around!

Who are they?
Hailing from Brighton, England, Royal Blood are Mike Kerr (vocals/bass) and Ben thatcher (drums).

Lamb of God’s Chris Adleris a pretty accomplished musician, which well we already knew, but I didn’t realize just how many instruments he played. In this interview withGuitar Center he talks about his musical history, the first gig he went to and the feeling he gets when performing live.

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Suicide is unfortunately much too common in our society and almost everybody will go through their lifetime knowing someone that has, or has tried to, take their own life. When looking for answers, grieving loved ones all too often point the finger at music and musicians, because of the great role that music plays in everybody’s life.Avenged Sevenfold were recently blamed for the suicide of a 16 year old boy from the UK, and they wanted to address the issue.

Thomas Yagodinski has uploaded a phenomenal stop-motion video Mastodon’s ‘Bedazzled Fingernails’ to Youtube!

The video features some seriously cool ghoulish visuals and just looks amazing.

The amount of work that would have gone into it is insane.

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Need help with programming drums? Who better to help you out thanPeriphery’s Misha Mansoor?! He’s uploaded a pretty comprehensive YouTube tutorial clocking over 15 minutes and it’s worth the watch.

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