Dir en grey - The untold story of the world's biggest cult band!
With Asia and America already under their spell, Dir en grey are set to become a phenomenon in the UK as the Kerrang! Relentless Energy Drink Tour 2009 rampages though our shores. But can Japan's biggest stars handle it?
Plus: "We're the anti-My Chemical Romance" MCR guitarist Frank Iero unveils his new band Leathermouth, Madina Lake's Matthew Leone tells us his Favourite Shit, on the set of Funeral For A Friend's new video, Isis team-up with Tool, meet Slipknot's Shawn 'The Clown' Crahan's new band Dirty Little Rabbits, +44 split-up, Architects level Birmingham and We Are The Ocean trash Oxford, the stories behind Alkaline Trio's biggest hits and Introducing Telegraphs and Bury Tomorrow.
Boys Like Girls' Martin Johnson faces the Random Question Generator, we get up close and personal with Five Finger Death Punch, Jonathan Cook from Forever The Sickest Kids tells us the songs that changed his life, Inside The Mind of Soulfly's Max Cavalera and Seether's Shaun Morgan tells us the last time he told a great big dirty fib!
And: Free posters of Avenged Sevenfold, Guns N' Roses, The All-American Rejects, The King Blues and The Answer!
Damn. Best live band SHOULD have been Green D