TAPROOT Song Selected For TNA's 'Slammiversary' Event

Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling continues its partnership with Victory Records, announcing the selection of TAPROOT's single "Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)" as the theme song for the TNA blockbuster pay-per-view summer event "Slammiversary". Live from Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, "Slammiversary" will broadcast on Sunday, June 13. In celebration of TNA Wrestling's eight years of non-stop action, this three-hour epic event will feature Hulk Hogan, Rob Can Dam, AJ Styles, Jeff Hardy, Desmond Wolfe, The Pope, Ric Flair, Sting, and Jeff Jarrett, among other TNA superstars.

In addition, TNA superstar and Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle was featured in a special TAPROOT video on "TNA Impact" on Spike. Considered the greatest living professional wrestler today, Angle made his return to the ring after a self-imposed absence from TNA, with his focus on recapturing the TNA world heavyweight championship.

TAPROOT's new album, "Plead The Fifth", sold around 5,000 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 107 on The Billboard 200 chart.

"Plead The Fifth" was recorded on farm in Sullivan, Michigan with producer Tim Patalan (SPONGE, LOVEDRUG).

TAPROOT guitarist Mike DeWolf recently told AOL's Noisecreep that "Plead The Fifth" will sound closer to the band's 2000 debut, "Gift", than 2008's "Our Long Road Home",, which was progressive in nature. "We're definitely making it as heavy as possible and aggressive while still keeping a lot of the beautiful melodies and just the general beauty of things in it," he said of the forthcoming disc. "We're using a lot more of our baritone guitars, which was sort of the signature of the 'Gift' and 'Welcome' [2002] years, so that immediately makes things a lot heavier."

Regarding TAPROOT's last couple of albums, which tried to evolve away from heavy for the sake of being heavy, DeWolf said, "I think it threw a lot of fans for a loop. But at the time, we were willing to lose some people to gain some more. In general, I guess ... I don't know. But we're definitely getting back to it. I think a lot of people appreciated the progressive nature of what we were trying to do but at the same time, a lot of people are just fucking meatheads and only want heaviness. I guess some bands are pretty good at sticking to one thing and working that their entire career. Say ... AC/DC. But that wasn't us."

TAPROOT's "Fractured (Everything I Said Was True)" video can be viewed below.