Slipknot - Something wicked this way comes!
In this week's Kerrang! magazine we hit the road with Iowa's favourite masked mentalists as they gear-up to hit the UK and prove once and for all that they're "still the most brutal band in the world!"
Plus: Paramore get caught up in Twilight hysteria as Stephanie Meyer's record-breaking literary series looks set to top the British box office charts, Dir en grey join the Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink Tour 2009, My Chemical Romance's Gerard Way and Mindless Self Indulgence bassist LynZ announce their pregnancy, Foo Fighters mainman Dave Grohl gets ready for his Christmas album, Guns N' Roses spark outrage in China and Good Charlotte talk exclusively to K! about their upcoming new studio album.
And: AC/DC rock New York, Gabe from Black Tide tells us the songs that changed his life, Kerrang!'s new agony uncle - HIM's Ville Valo - helps out with YOUR Christmas dilemmas, Introducing The Hot Melts and Jett Black, The Answer take the US by storm, Myles Kennedy from Alter Bridge on fame, fortune and those Led Zeppelin rumours, the K! verdict on the new Fall Out Boy album and The Prodigy get ready to rock a town near you!
Aaannnddd: Live poster special starring Slayer, Metallica, Rancid, Cancer Bats and Bullet For My Valentine.