hardDrive Live 5

Sometimes, there's no better feeling than losing control. Energy gets released; it's irresistible and infectious. That's the case on Bullet For My Valentine's fourth full-length offering, Temper Temper (RCA Records), set for release February 12, 2013. Tightening their grooves and sharpening their riffs, the Welsh quartet who has sold over 4 million albums world wide—Matt Tuck [vocals, guitar], Michael "Padge" Paget [guitar], Michael "Moose" Thomas [drums], and Jason James [bass]—fire off an incendiary collection of hard rock anthems with arena-ready bombast and metallic intensity.

After scoring two top 10 singles ("I Get Off" and "It's Not You" from their self-titled debut and touring steadily for two years with acts as diverse as Shinedown, Stone Sour, Disturbed, Megadeth, Papa Roach, Godsmack and countless others, Pennsylvania quartet Halestorm are back with their second full-length, The Strange Case Of.... Musically diverse and emotionally revealing, the album resonates with a newfound poignancy that takes Halestorm to a new level of creative achievement.

Over the course of the past few years, the London-based YOUNG GUNS have emerged as one of the UK's most electrifying new bands, garnering heavy radio play and UK chart success, while playing to packed-house crowds all across Europe, including a main stage performance at the Reading Festival, where they tore up the stage as part of a lineup that included Arcade Fire, Queens of the Stone Age, Guns N' Roses and Modest Mouse.

Stars in Stereo is wasting no time getting back on the road in the new year, and bringing their self-titled debut album with them. They had a busy 2012, releasing "The Broken" single on iTunes, and touring with the likes of The Used, Blue October, Hoobastank, and Foxy Shazam. The band will be hitting the road in 2013, starting off with a nationwide tour with hard rock heavyweights Drowning Pool and Flyleaf and continuing on to the fifth annual hardDrive tour directly after, with heavy hitters Bullet for My Valentine, Halestorm, and Young Guns.