Music fans and casual readers, ladies and gentlemen, I, the Editor-In-Chief for Rockfreaks.net, present you a comprehensive guide to 2009, the most detailed all-around guide to everything important that happened in the rock and metal music scenes in the past year. How many other sites are able to walk you through more or less every single genre relevant to rock music, starting from indie rock and pop punk and ending in hardcore and extreme metal, and do so with a tongue-in-cheek attitude (as often as we can) and in a manner that's pretty damn close to as user-friendly as it gets? That's right,...

I'll be interviewing A Day To Remember this Friday before their show in London. If you got any questions you'd like to ask then just leave them here or contact me.

Architects will tour the United Kingdom next Fall:

Oct 1st - Academy 2, Birmingham, UK
Oct 2nd - Club Academy, Manchester, UK
Oct 3rd - Garage, Glasgow, UK
Oct 4th - Academy 2, Newcastle, UK
Oct 6th - Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, UK
Oct 7th - Waterfront, Norwich, UK
Oct 8th - Koko, London, UK
Oct 9th - Anson Rooms, Bristol, UK

This is a new This Will Destroy You demo, tentatively titled "Black Dunes":

Iraqi heavy metal band Acrassicauda, made famous by the documentary "Heavy Metal In Baghdad", are streaming their debut EP, "Only the Dead Can See the End of the War" online. Check it out here:

The band also has a new video for their track "Garden of Stones":

Children of Bodom are writing new material and plan to hit the studio this summer. The new album is expected to arrive in stores no earlier than 2011.

Accept have lined up some European dates in May:

May 11th - Forum Palace, Vilnius, LIT
May 14th - B1 Maximum, Moscow, RUS
May 15th - Lensoveta Theater, St. Petersburg, RUS
May 18th - Virgin Oil Co., Helsinki, FIN
May 20th - Debaser Slussen, Stockholm, SWE
May 26th - Islington Academy, London, UK

Vocalist ZP Theart has left Dragonforce due to "insurmountable differences of musical opinion". The remaining members of the band have begun writing a new album, and have also started a worldwide search for a new vocalist.

One day, whilst watching something incredibly manly, I accidentally sat down on the TV remote causing the channel to switch from that manly program to something called "Gossip Girl". And, because of my herculean strength, I broke the remote, meaning I couldn't change back the channel. Oddly enough, this ordeal reoccurred at the same time every week during the remainder of Gossip Girl's season. And then again for the next season. Please don't dock me any Man Points.

Why is this relevant? Taylor Momsen, who portrays Jenny Humphrey on that show, has her own band. I know what you're thinking: "an actress turned pop-star isn't uncommon, and certainly isn't worthy of a mention on Rockfreaks." 16 year old Taylor Momsen isn't your average actress-turned-wannabe-pop-star though. She has an actual (credible?) band. They are called "The Pretty Reckless"; they cite the likes of Nirvana and The Beatles as influences; they've signed to Interscope Records and will playing the entire Warped Tour this year. They are worth a listen.

Beach House, Dirty Projectors and Health have been confirmed for the festival. The next announcement will feature a number of British names, stay tuned for that.

From First To Last are now streaming "Throne To The Wolves" on their myspace.

In the middle of this page, where it says "Free Mp3", you can get a free song from Streetlight Manifesto called "Hell".

Don't forget that the fourth edition of the Copenhagen Showdown event goes down on Friday. It's pop punk special, The 20Belows are playing alongside a few other good bands, check it out!