Hey faithful readers, it is an honour for me to be the first to provide an update from the Rockfreaks.net camp at Roskilde Festival this year. This is our newest initiative at the festival this year.

For those of you who cannot make it to the festival, or who are not camping with us. This is our way of including all of you in our festival experience.

There will be added additional updates on a running basis throughout the festival, but don\'t worry this is not a replacement for our regular Roskilde Festival reviews. Please check back for more upda...

Keep of Kalessin will be touring the UK later this in year in support of their new album "Kolossus", to be reviewed here very shortly. Support will come from Abgott and Disguise.

September 16th - Cathouse, Glasgow, UK
September 17th - Fibbers Magee's, Dublin, IRE
September 18th - Queen's Hall, Nuneaton, UK
September 19th - Junktion 7, Nottingham, UK
September 20th - The Man On The Moon, Cambridge, UK
September 21st - The Underworld, London, UK

Below is an illustration demonstrating Roskilde Festival weather between Saturday midnight (when wristbands are first given out) and Sunday midnight (by which time everyone will be drunk again). Gates open at 8am, and between about 8:20 and 11am everyone will be setting their tents up. Anyone else think that the weatherman is playing a funny joke on us (notice the shape)?

Most of our staff will be spending the next eight or nine days at Roskilde Festival. That means updates will be few and far between, but EW will keep you updated on metal news and JM will try to blog a little bit from the festival as well. Come visit us at k49/k38 in East - look for a giant inflatable penguin in a massive camp (dual pavilions) and possibly a Canadian flag!

Scars On Broadway, featuring some System Of A Down members, will play Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark on September 6th.

Danish music venue The Rock has received a whopping 220,000kr donation from Tuborg for a new sound system at the venue (the old one is REALLY bad, believe me). To celebrate the occasion, everyone is invited to the venue on August 4th at 14:00 for a few free Tuborgs while the new soundsystem is tested with some heavy metal.

West Coast Riot tomorrow, Metal Town this weekend and Roskilde Festival starting on Saturday. This means we're forced to try and catch up on our review piles as much as possible, because after we come back from the festivals, not only do we have to type up all the interviews and reviews that we still have in our queue, we'll most likely arrive to a shower of new promos in our mailbox. So here's a summary of all what's been posted in the last 24 hours (updated constantly):

Album Reviews:
* Primavera - Primavera EP [5]
* The [New] Shining - Supernatural Showdown [7]
* Mr. Gnome - Deliver This Creature [7]
* Coldplay - Viva La Vida Or Death And All His Friends [4]
* Imagika - Feast For The Hated [7]
* Weezer - Weezer (The Red Album) [8]
* Commodor - Driving Out Of Focus [8]
* The Crimson Ghosts - Dead Eyes Can See [6]
* Victorian Halls - Springteen [5½]
* End The Century - Hammer And The Anvil [6]
* Deicide - Till Death Do Us Apart [5½]
* The Offspring - Rise And Fall, Rage And Grace [6½]
* Forever The Sickest Kids - Underdog Alma Mater [1]
* Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly - Searching For The How's And Why's [3½]


Interviews:
* 36 Crazyfists
* Lets Talk Tactics

We invite you to share your opinion on each review's comments!

Norma Jean has posted another new song online from their upcoming album "The Anti-Mother". You can find "The Birth of The Anti-Mother" on their Myspace page.

The album will be released on August 5th.

Soulfly has posted a new song online called "Unleash". You can check it out at Roadrunner Records.

Their new album "Conquer" will be released on July 29th through the label.

The Academy Is... will tour across the UK in September together with We The Kings and The Maine. Dates and venues below:

September 13th - Clwb Ifor Bach, Cardiff, UK
September 14th - Academy 3, Manchester, UK
September 15th - ABC2, Glasgow, UK
September 16th - Cockpit, Leeds, UK
September 17th - Islington Academy, London, UK
September 19th - Academy Upstairs, Oxford, UK
September 20th - Barfly, Birmingham, UK
September 21st - Wedgewood Rooms, Portsmouth, UK

The Ataris will release a new album in early 2009, which will apparently be a return to their "Blue Skies, Broken Hearts - Next 12 Exits" sound. Here's what the band had to say about the record:

Quote: "the songs are coming along awesome! Have about 10-15 new songs and hope to write a handful more before finally recording in the fall. Still working on a bit more lyrics, Have a lot written but just need to piece them all together now. Music is just very melodic, raw, catchy, upbeat, sing along rock songs... Kinda like Minneapolis in a train wreck with early 90's Chapel Hill passed out drunk in the alley behind Gilman ST."

Lagwagon will release an EP called "I Think My Older Brother Used To Listen To Lagwagon" on August 19th through Fat Wreck Chords.

UnderOATH has set "Lost In The Sound Of Separation" as the title of their new album, which will surface on September 2nd through Tooth & Nail/Solid State.