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“‘THE BLACKENING’’S TRIUMPH CAME AT A COST...”

Robb Flynn, Machine Head

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18 104 6-24 THE NOISE We don’t half spoil you. In the opening section of this month’s Rock Sound you can get the skinny on the epic bill for the Rock Sound Impericon Exposure tour, Young Guns tell you all about their comeback album / single, Enter Shikari let us into their studio, Trash Talk and TesseracT tell us about their new EP and singer respectively, Gabe Cobra Starship tells us the pop songs it’s alright for rock fans to like and Jastamouse rants about sandwiches. 28-38 EXPOSURE What a month for new bands! Trapped Under Ice unleash one of the hardcore albums of the year, A Loss For Words continue 2011’s pop-punk onslaught, Hymns anarchic post-punk will bitch slap you upside the head, The Dirty Youth bring a bit of glitz back to the scene, Uneven Structure get their djent on and there’s much, much more. Don’t take our word for it, check it out! 40-86 FEATURES Skrillex is one of music’s biggest rising stars and his aggressive, electro assault is ready to take on the world. We tell his remarkable, untold story here. Elsewhere, we go into the guts of Slipknot’s most extreme story on the making of ‘Iowa’, Black Veil Brides’ Andy Biersack tells us all about his upbringing, Four Year Strong return with an altogether more serious face on, Every Time I Die tell us their mental road stories, we go

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deeper than ever into the world of Machine Head’s Robb Flynn, letlive.’s Jason Butler talks hip-hop, and there’s more from Patrick Stump, La Dispute, Crazy Arm, and Breathe Carolina, while Rise To Remain answer your questions! 88-110 REVIEWS Deaf Havana deliver one of the best albums of 2011 and there are reviews of the Lou Reed & Metallica hook-up, as well as the new Blink 182, Evanescence, New Found Glory, and This Is Hell records. Meanwhile, You Me At Six tackle this month’s singles. We've also got live reviews of Young Guns, letlive., Rise To Remain, Feed The Rhino, Such Gold, Between The Buried And Me and more. Get involved!

deliver one of the best albums of 2011 and there are reviews

Lou Reed & Metallica hook-up,

Blink 182, New Found Glory,

records. You Me At Six tackle You Me At Six tackle You Me At Six this month’s singles. We've also got

Young Guns, letlive.,

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A BASS-IC TRUTH The best thing about putting Skrillex on the cover of Rock Sound – by my reckoning, the first time a DJ / producer has ever been on the front of a rock magazine – is that it gives us a chance to talk about a whole different kind of music that might not fit strictly into the ‘rock’ category, but does fit into the bracket marked ‘awesome’. The man known to his mum as Sonny Moore has lived one hell of a life and, in Andrew Kelham’s enlightening and quite fantastic cover story, you’ll find out why he’s taken over our world in such dramatic fashion this year. Ben Patashnik, Editor

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