Metalcore band Silent Screams have confirmed they are to fill the support slot on Malefice’s late summer UK tour.

Visiting various small venues, Malefice and Silent Screams can be caught live at the following:

Wed 19 Sep – Manchester, Roadhouse
Fri 21 Sep – Birmingham, Academy 3
Sat 22 Sep – Leicester, Soundhouse
Sun 23 Sep – Glasgow, ABC 2
Mon 24 Sep – Newcastle, Academy 2
Tue 25 Sep – Liverpool, Academy 2
Wed 26 Sep – York, Stereo
Thu 27 Sep – Cardiff, Bogiez
Fri 28 Sep – Islington, Academy 2
Sat 29 Sep – Weymouth, Pavillion
Sun 30 Sep – Southampton, Joiners
Mon 01 Oct – Exeter, Cavern
Tue 02 Oct – Plymouth, White Rabbit

Silent Screams’ album ‘When It Rains’ was released in the autumn of 2011, on the UK’s boundary-pushing metal label Basick Records (also home to the excellent Circles and Chimp Spanner). Malefice’s third album ‘Awaken The Tides’ was released via Metal Blade last summer.

It has been announced that pop-punkers The Hype Theory and ska-punk band New Riot are set to play a handful of co-headline gigs in June 2012.

Promoted by Big Cheese magazine and appropriately dubbed the ‘Big Cheese Tour’, there are seven confirmed dates in all:

14 June – Leicester Soundhouse
15 June – Sheffield Corporation
16 June – Bedford Esquires
17 June – York Stereo
18 June – Islington academy 2
20 June – Guildford Boileroom
21 June – Southampton Unit

The Hype Theory’s album ‘Glory Days’ was released on Small Town Records in October 2011.

In the lead up to their appearance at the Ghostfest featival, Australian hardcore band Villa Rise have announced a handful of other UK dates. The four dates are as a co-headline with metal band Echoes.

The confirmed dates are as follows:
Tue 26 Jun, Newcastle, Three Tuns
Wed 27 Jun, Manchester, Retro bar
Thu 28 Jun, Wordsley, The Crown
Fri 29 Jun, Stoke, Underground

Villa Rise will be appearing at Ghostfest on Sunday 1st July. To find out more about Ghostfest, click here.

As further promotion for the new Europe album ‘Bago of Bones’, vocalist Joey Tempest and guitarist John Norum engaged in a detailed chat with Barbara Caserta for Linea Rock. You can view the complete interview below.

A somewhat unprofessional and more flippant chat with Joey Tempest on BBC News can be seen here.

As part of Dean Delray’s ‘Let There Be Talk’ podcasts, Queens of the Stone Age man Nick Oliveri gave a forty-five minute interview and acoustic performance, which you can now see below.

Oliveri first came to fame as part of the legendary stoner rock band Kyuss, before achieving greater fame as part of Kyuss’s successor band Queens of the Stone Age (fronted by ex-Kyuss guitarist Josh Homme). He also fronts his own band, Mondo Generator.

[By clicking on the YouTube logo, you will be taken to a comedy YouTube channel which also features Delray’s podcast with Limp Bizkit‘s Wes Borland among other stand up clips].