IT'S the tour that brought some of the biggest names in heavy metal into the limelight.

Kerrang! was born in June 1981 as a heavy metal spin-off of Sounds magazine.

Throughout its lifetime the tour has celebrated the loudest and, to the uninitiated, the scariest music on the planet.

Hugely influential, it has been instrumental in breaking what have become some of the biggest rock bands on the planet - Metallica, Guns N' Roses, Iron Maiden, Korn, Marilyn Manson and Slipknot, to name a few.

Lucky Daily Echo readers now have the chance to be there when The Kerrang! Tour 2007 comes to Southampton Guildhall next week.

Ayrshire trio Biffy Clyro, The Bronx, The Audition and I Am Ghost will all be performing on the 13-date UK tour.

Headliners Biffy Clyro are taking a break from recording their fourth album and will hit the road with Californian punk rock n' rollers The Bronx, Chicago pop punkers The Audition and Californian goth metal crew I Am Ghost.

The Kerrang! Tour 2007 will be rocking the roof off the Guildhall on Thursday.

"This tour means a lot to us," Biffy Clyro bassist James Johnston grins.

"Kerrang! has always supported us and it's a real privilege to be part of this. We're very excited to be headlining and we can't wait to rawk!

"We feel most at home on the road so it's great to be going on tour again. There are people all over the country who we can't wait to see."

"I'm so stoked that we're able to be a part of the Kerrang! Tour," says The Audition frontman Danny Stevens.

"It's such an honour that fans in the UK would want to have us back! Expect some crazy stuff!"

To be in with a chance of winning a pair of tickets to the gig, just answer the following question: Which Ayrshire band is headlining The Kerrang! Tour 2007?

Send your answer, name, address, telephone number to: Kerrang competition, Scene South, c/o Lorelei Reddin, Southern Daily Echo, Newspaper House, Test Lane, Redbridge, Southampton, SO16 9JX or e-mail lorelei.reddin@soton-echo.co.uk by the end of the week.

If you're not lucky enough to win, tickets for the shows cost £14. Call 023 8063 2601.