Members:
- Mark Hunter - vocals
- Matt DeVries - guitars
- Rob Arnold - guitars
- Jim LaMarca - bass
- Chris Spicuzza - electronics
- Andols Herrick - drums

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).







 

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

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MetalSucks.net has a sweet, lengthy interview with ZP from DragonForce, in which he reveals plans to bring back the trampoline, expounds upon touring with Chimaira and Killswitch Engage, and much more. Give it a looksee and leave some feedback for the fine folks at MetalSucks.net.

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That's right, our boys Chimaira have a new clip for this heavy-ass nugget from last year's eponymous album to share with you fans.

Click HERE and watch their road crew having some well deserved touring favors.

The 2-disc special edition release of Chimaira is in stores now.

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Last year marked the inaugural Sounds of the Underground Tour, which saw 17 of the best and most brutal metal acts around traverse the U.S. and Canada. On July 2nd, 2005, the tour hit the parking lot of the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville, NJ, and with it came almost 5,000 fans.

Metal bands like DevilDriver, A Life Once Lost and Strapping Young Lad hammered out their sets alongside hardcore acts like Madball and Throwdown in the sweltering 95+ degree midday heat. As the sun began to set, stalwarts like Chimaira, Poison The Well and From Autumn To Ashes played well into the darkness. All of their passion and power is captured in the Sounds of the Underground Live: Volume 1 DVD.

So check out this ECARD featuring 3-minute teaser of all the live footage and backstage chaos you'll find on the DVD, coming to stores June 20th.

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Our friends at the Metal Union have sent us some of their photos snapped at last week's New England Metal & Hardcore Festival.

Click Dragonforce to view pictures of their performance and Chimaira to view theirs.

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Here it is at last: the complete, 3-day schedule for this year's New England Metal & Hardcore Festival has been posted!

With over 90 bands set to perform - including Roadrunner's own Still Remains (Friday 8:30 - 9:00PM), Chimaira (Saturday 10:45 - 11:30PM), Sanctity (Sunday 12:30 - 12:50PM), and DragonForce (Sunday 10:00 - 11:00PM) - this is a can't miss heavy metal event - reserve your tickets now!

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Believe it or not, there were as many people who thought we were April Fooling about the launch of our new Bulletin Board as did the Avril Lavigne gag!

Yeah, yeah, we know a RR BB upgrade was long overdue, but what do y'all take us for? Never mind, don't answer, just get on over there and sign up already, will ya?

You may also have noticed we have an outrageous number of incredible contests (free iPod, free PSP, free V-Cast cellphone, etc.) going on in our Free Shit section, so if you feel lucky (well do ya...punk?) sign up now!

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Today's a good day to visit Roadrunner's TOUR page, as a ton of new dates have been added to ongoing and upcoming tours by Chimaira, Soufly, DevilDriver, Still Remains, Theory Of A Deadman & Faktion

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As reported earlier, the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival (presented by ESP Guitars and Krank Amps) will return once again to the Palladium in Worcester, Mass. for its 8th edition this year.

Friday April 28 tickets are $35.00, Saturday April 29 and Sunday April 30 individual day tickets are $40.00. Three-day passes are $109.50. Tickets are on sale now at all Strawberries Record Stores, online at www.tickets.com, or by calling tickets.com at (800) 477-6849.

Proclaimed in past years as one of the best American festivals focusing on heavy music, the three-day show will host numerous metal, hardcore, and metalcore bands along with a jam-packed vendor area where fans can purchase hard-to-find CDs, t-shirts, and other music merchandise. ESP Guitars will be giving away guitars and Krank Amps will be giving away amps and even a half stack. As the festival approaches, there will also be a schedule of artist signings and other surprises. "If you decide to go to only one fest this year, this should be it," says Revolver Magazine and MetalJudgment.com calls it "...hands down, the best metal fest in the world."

The show will once again take place on two stages at The Palladium. Bands that have already been confirmed for the festival are: Lacuna Coil, Gamma Ray, DragonForce (first time EVER in America!), Arch Enemy, Chimaira, The Black Dahlia Murder, Bullet For My Valentine, Exodus, Cryptopsy, 100 Demons, A Perfect Murder, Alarum, Arsis, Bloodline Calligraphy, Bronx Casket Company, Byzantine, Caliban, Cattle Decapitation, Colin Of Arabia, Damnation AD, Dead To Fall, Death Threat, Demiricous, Dying Eyes Bleed, Ed Gein, Embrace The End, Folly, Full Blown Chaos, Goat Horn, God Forbid, Hate Eternal, Horse The Band, Hypersolid, If Hope Dies, Immolation, Inked In Blood, Into Eternity, Ion Dissonance, Ligeia, Losa, Mercury Switch, Necrophagist, Neuraxis, Nodes Of Ranvier, On Broken Wings, Protest The Hero, Ramallah, Righteous Jams, Ringworm, Sanctity, Scars Of Tomorrow, Second Story Window, Shoot To Kill, Since The Flood, Skinless, Still Remains, Suffocation, Sworn Enemy, The Acacia Strain, The Absence, The Classic Struggle, The Miles Between, Torn Assunder, Trouble, Twelve Tribes, Who Killed The Promo Queen, and Wolf.

More bands are being announced every day, talent is subject to change, vendors at this year's event will include Century Media, Trustkill, Eulogy/Hand of Hope, Metal Blade, Red Rocket Records, and many others.

For more information, please visit:

www.metalandhardcorefestival.com
or
www.myspace.com/metalandhardcorefestival

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As reported in our partner site Blabbermouth, eight of metal's hottest bands have contributed music to a special re-recording of Metallica's Master of Puppets to mark the 20th anniversary of the landmark album's release, and 25th anniversary of Kerrang! Magazine.

The CD will be given away free with Kerrang! issue 1102, which goes on sale April 5. Magazines with the special CD will be available in the usual spots outside of the U.K. - at your favorite record store or book store if they normally import Kerrang!

Cleverly entitled Remastered, the CD features exclusive recordings by Trivium, Machine Head, Chimaira, Bullet For My Valentine, Fightstar, Mastodon, Funeral For A Friend, Mendeed, and had its sleeve-notes written by none other than Lars Ulrich.

"It's awesome to think that some of you guys weren't even born when we recorded Master of Puppets!" laughed Lars. "When we started thinking about Kerrang! honoring Master of Puppets with this tribute album, and saw the artwork and the line-up of bands we realized it was a big deal. We're honored that it's a record that's perceived as a milestone and a record that's been so inspiring to so many people, both fans and young bands like Trivium and Bullet For My Valentine. We're as excited to hear this as you guys are!"

Remastered track listing:

MACHINE HEAD - "Battery"
TRIVIUM - "Master Of Puppets"
MENDEED - "The Thing That Should Not Be"
BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE - "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"
CHIMAIRA - "Disposable Heroes"
FIGHTSTAR - "Leper Messiah"
MASTODON - "Orion"
FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND - "Damage, Inc."

Visit www.trivium.org to check out Remastered's cover artwork.

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