Ragga rock legends Skindred are proud to announce a first teaser for the track Machine ahead of their forthcoming UK Start the Machine Tour, which stops at O2 Guildhall, Southampton on April 20.

The band – formed in Newport in 1998 – is currently made up of Benji Webbe on lead vocals, Daniel Pugsley on bass, programming and backing vocals, Mikey Demus on guitars and backing vocals and Arya Goggin on drums.

Their style mixes heavy metal, alternative rock, and reggae, with integrate elements of hardcore punk, dancehall, jungle, ska, hip hop, drum and bass, dubstep and various other influences into their music.

They are well known for their energetic and involving live performances, and have won several awards including Best Live Band at the 2011 UK Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards and the Devotion Award at the 2011 Kerrang! Awards.

Skindred has appeared at a multitude of international music festivals, inclduing Boomtown Fair last year and a 2011 appearance at Download Festival, where the 'Newport Helicopter' was born.

Machine will be the first single from the band’s upcoming album titled Big Tings due out on April 27 on Napalm Records.

The band’s first album appetizer Machine has already been used as both the intro and outro theme to ACDC frontman Brian Johnson’s TV show Cars that Rock worldwide, and features Reef frontman Gary Stringer lining up alongside the band’s own Benji Webbe on co-vocals, and if that is not enough the single also features Motorhead/Bastard Sons guitarist Phil Campbell taking the honours on the guitar solo too!

Meanwhile Skindred shot some exclusive behind the scenes studio footage while recording their new album at Peter Gabriels Real World studio in the village of Box ,near Bath.

Skindred along with producer, James Loughrey, and engineer, Lee Slater, are currently putting the finishing touches to what will be the bands seventh studio album and could not be more excited about it.

Skindred guitarist Mikey Demus says: "The name hopefully says it all, you can expect some seriously Big Tings from Skindred on our next record. We’ve thrown away the rulebook and pushed ourselves harder than ever to create the biggest, baddest, and most banging songs we could muster.

"We can’t wait to start unleashing this new stuff on the world, so prepare yourselves for some Big Tings!"

Roaring and pounding Big Tings – the follow-up to 2015`s Volume – is a magnificent beast churning out heavy, distortion-laden riff punches melting into vocalist Benji Webbe`s frenzied rapping.

Explosive metal and punk material rubs shoulders with smooth melodies – and of course Skindred's trademark Godzilla-esquely huge choruses.

Big songs, big sound, Big Tings!