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CHIMAIRA To Co-Headline ROADRAGE Tour

CHIMAIRA will be teaming up with three other Roadrunner acts (who will be named in the next few days) in August to co-headline the return of a USA RoadRage tour. Dates, venues and bands will be announced shortly. In other news, the second CHIMAIRA show in Greece (Thessaloniki) has been canceled due...

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SLIPKNOT: No Plans To Record 'Doctor Who' Theme

SLIPKNOT are not in talks to record the theme tune to the classic TV show "Doctor Who", despite a report in a tabloid last week. The Sun "revealed" that the masked metallers were working on a song to be used for the show's comeback at the end of the year, but a spokesperson ...

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FACE DOWN: Former THE HAUNTED Singer Inks New Record Deal

Swedish "metalcore" band FACE DOWN, featuring former THE HAUNTED vocalist Marco Aro, have reportedly signed a deal with Black Lodge Records — the label imprint operated by Sound Pollution, the biggest independent metal distributor/label in Sweden. FACE DOWN released two albums in the late '90s — "Mi...

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THREE INCHES OF BLOOD Finish Recording New Album

Canadian metallers THREE INCHES OF BLOOD have completed the recordings for their Roadrunner Records debut at a Chicago studio with producer Neil Kernon (NEVERMORE, CANNIBAL CORPSE, DEICIDE). The band laid down 15 tracks in total, including new versions of previously recorded tracks "Destroy The Orks...

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ILLDISPOSED Finalize Track Listing For New Album

Danish death metal veterans ILLDISPOSED have set "1-800 Vindication" as the title of their new album, tentatively due late summer through Roadrunner Records (Europe). The CD was produced by Ziggy and is currently in the mixing/mastering process. "1-800 Vindication" track listing: 01. I Believe In Me...

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CRADLE OF FILTH Announce DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL Warm-Up Show

British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH will be playing a very special show at the London Underworld, Camden, next Friday, June 4 as a warm-up to their Download festival appearance the following day. "This will be our smallest gig in a long time and obviously we will be playing our usual set (and...

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CRADLE OF FILTH Postpone Greek Shows

British black metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have been forced to postpone their previously announced shows in Greece. The following is bassist Dave Pybus' official statement on the matter: "Firstly, I, on behalf of the band, want to apologise to the fans in Greece for us not being there to play our first...

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LAST CRACK Receive Radio Airplay In Iraq

LAST CRACK's "Energy Mind", a song Metal Maniacs magazine called "one of the greatest songs of the decade (1990s),if not all time," from the group's 1991 Roadrunner Records release "Burning Time", produced by Dave Jerden (JANE'S ADDICTION, ALICE IN CHAINS),became the first song to be played on 94....

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Label: 'Leaked' SLIPKNOT U.K. Dates Are False

According to SLIPKNOT fan site Black-Goat.com, Roadrunner Records U.K. has confirmed that the previously announced SLIPKNOT U.K. headlining tour dates are in fact FALSE. "Sorry for any confusion or excitement," reads a posting on the site. As previously reported, SLIPKNOT's new album, "Vol. 3: (The...

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Report: SLIPKNOT Fans (a.k.a. Maggots) Take Manhattan

MTV.com is reporting that as a demonstration of his dedication, 23-year-old Brandon of Lancaster, Pennsylvania bussed it more than 160 miles to New York to meet up with roughly two dozen like-minded fanatics for the second installment of the Maggot March, a promotional get-together organized by SLIP...

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Label: CRADLE OF FILTH/LENNON Collaboration Scrapped

The proposed collaboration between Tennessee singer-songwriter Lennon Murphy and British black metal band CRADLE OF FILTH on a song for COF's upcoming CD, "Nymphetamine", has been scrapped, Roadrunner Records A&R man Mike Gitter has informed BLABBERMOUTH.NET. Although news of the collaboration w...

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CRADLE OF FILTH: Special Guest Appearance Planned

20-year-old Tennessee singer-songwriter Lennon Murphy (web site) has reportedly been enlisted to record a guest appearance for the new CRADLE OF FILTH album, "Nymphetamine", tentatively due this summer through Roadrunner Records. The as-yet-undisclosed cut is said to be the projected first single fr...

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KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Music In POP-TARTS Commercial: Video Available

A Kellogg's Pop-Tarts TV commercial, featuring a brief snippet of the KILLSWITCH ENGAGE song "The Element of One", has been posted online at this location (to play the commercial, click on the TV set at the top of the page). As previously reported, KILLSWITCH ENGAGE sold 37,531 copies of their lates...

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Report: SLIPKNOT's JÄGERMEISTER MUSIC TOUR Did 90 Percent Business

SLIPKNOT's Jägermeister Music Tour with FEAR FACTORY and CHIMAIRA did 90% business at venues ranging from 1,500- to 6,000-seat capacities, according to Billboard magazine. The tour wrapped May 14 at Memorial Hall in Sacramento, Calif. "This was the biggest, best-ever Jäger tour, and it's still build...

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SOULFLY, ILL NINO To Team Up For U.S. Tour

Labelmates SOULFLY and ILL NINO will be teaming up for a U.S. tour beginning in late July, according to a posting on the Roadrunner Records web site. The trek, which will feature a third, as-yet-unannounced band, will run through August (and possibly longer). Confirmed dates will be made available s...