The heavyweight tour of the year!

New Found Glory, The Blackout, Letlive., and While She Sleeps team up for the tour of the year... who will land the knockout blow?

Are you ready for the Kerrang! Tour Sponsored By Relentless Energy Drink? Check out our exclusive interviews with every band on the tour!

Plus: Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley is laid up with a bad back - find out how you can send him a 'get well' card!

Plus: five awesome posters featuring the late Avenged Sevenfold drummer Jimmy 'The Rev' Sullivan, Young Guns, Blessthefall, Never Shout Never, and Shinedown.

Win the chance to hang out with You Me At Six, a Jägermeister iPod and tour goodies, and tickets to Lostprophets and Rise To Remain's tours!

Also in the issue: Lostprophets vocalist Ian Watkins gives K! the lowdown on their new album Weapons, their monster UK tour and why they refuse to go away...

After losing two members last month, Rise To Remain frontman Austin Dickinson tells K! what the future holds for the London-based metallers.

They're not the only band to experience a personell change. We can also exclusively reveal Rolo Tomassi's new line-up too!

We reveal which 14 bands will be added to this year's Download festival bill.

Crowns are, um, crowned this week's best new band. Plus, there's profiles on The Minutes, Awolnation, and Invaders.

Andrew W.K. reveals what's in store for his I Get Wet 10th anniversary shows.

Mastodon prepare for their biggest UK yet. Plus, drummer Brann Dailor talks about socks.

Asking Alexandria frontman Danny Worsnop takes on the Ultimate Rockstar Test and gives it a kick up the arse.

The K! Verdict: Check out our live reviews of Soundgarden, My Chemical Romance and Parkway Drive in Australia, My Ruin, Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows, and Four Year Strong, with the latest albums from Young Guns, Fucked Up, Van Halen, Marmozets and The Mark Lanegan Band all rated and reviewed.

That's this week's Kerrang! in a nutshell, on sale Wednesday, February 1.