Members:
- Jonny Santos - Vocals
- Tommy Decker - Drums
- Mike Sarkisyan - Guitars
- Robert Garcia - Bass

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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Roadrunner Records launched a Mighty Fine REISSUES ECARD which features lots of goodies such as tracks, videos, & photos from all of the recent and upcoming ass-kicking Re-Issued albums.

Reissues include: The Best of series with classics: Obituary, Suffocation & Spineshank & The 2 for 1 series with classics: Madball, Front Line Assembly, & Life of Agony. Check it out here!

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Coming next week, three best ofs, three great bands, a whole degree in metal. Get a sample with the playlist below. Don't forget to share on Facebook, MySpace, or wherever you choose to hang.




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One of the best bands in metal history, Spineshank's sound is impossible to forget. The Best of Spineshank is a must have for your Spineshank, Roadrunner Records or overall metal collection!

Track Listing:

1. Violent Mood Swings
2. Smothered
3. Stillborn
4. Dead To Me
5. Asthmatic
6. The Height Of Callousness
7. New Disease
8. Synthetic
9. Cyanide 2600
10. Detached
11. Where We Fall
12. Shinebox


Click here to pre-order The Best of Spineshank

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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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Hey guys. It's Amy from "Ask Amy" here. Got an exclusive little scoop for you about former Spineshank singer Jonny Santos. Since one of the most popular "Ask Amy" questions is what happened to Spineshank, here's some new info!

Santos has a new band, dubbed Silent Civilian . He's singing and playing guitar in this project. It's a different style than the 'Shank. See below for a little transcript of my convo/Q&A session with Mr. Santos.

Amy: It's been a few years since you left the 'Shank. How do you feel, looking back on that decision?

Jonny: The band ran its course, and even though we got nominated for a Grammy, I still left. I left on a high note.

Amy: Give us the rundown on Silent Civilian, please!

Jonny: It's the whole other side of Jonny Santos. I took a year off after Spineshank, just jamming and getting my feet wet. I went back to playing guitar. I was playing since I was 7 and I quit playing to be the frontman for Spineshank. I wanted to get comfortable playing and singing. I found a great group of guys, and we get along well, and they are all really talented musicians. I knew I couldn't do Spineshank Part II, because that is what everyone is expecting. I grew up on thrash, and my old bands were thrash band. The first Spineshank demos were like old Sepultura! Some of the riffs I wrote for this new album, I wrote when I was 13 years old. I was inspired to do this because there was no expectations at all. We went in and kicked ass. Some of the songs are 6 and a half minutes, and lots of guitar work and drum work. I made a musician's album, in away, and took the time with Logan Mader and made the best record of my life, ever. I still think that the band is still developing.

Amy: Another Roadrunner alum, Logan Mader of Machine Head fame, produced your upcoming record. How'd you hook up with him?

Jonny: Logan heard the band and called me, and told me he wanted to do it. He took interest in the band right away and he produced the demo, and then said he wanted to do the whole record. He has found his calling as a producer and engineer. He was patient with the band and super easy to work with.

Amy: It sounds like you're super excited about this new project!

Jonny: It feels like my career is starting again and that I've still got it.

Amy: Alright, thanks for catching me up!

Jonny: Tell everyone at Roadrunner I said what's up.

Silent Civilian's debut, Rebirth Of The Temple is out in May. But it's not on Roadrunner. Visit their MySpace page at www.myspace.com/silentcivilian




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We have a new page for you to bookmark alongside our main hub here at RoadRunnerRecords.com...

Our newly revamped and relaunched official home on MySpace - come take a look at www.myspace.com/roadrunnerrecords.

Once there, you can join our network of friends, make new ones to talk music and whatever else you please with, and enjoy everything from pictures, to banners, to videos and jukeboxes, to special promotions and prize giveways for all your favorite Roadrunner artists.

We're looking forward to seeing you there and welcome your feedback to help us make Roadrunner's MySpace page the best that it can be.

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This past Thursday (12/15), will go down as one of the greatest shows in Roadrunner's history. Many great artists got together and performed some classic Roadrunner tunes with once in a lifetime dream pairings.

If you missed it, our friends in METAL Injection got you covered. They captured the night in over 200 photos, including photos of members of SLIPKNOT (unmasked), KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, MACHINE HEAD, TRIVIUM, DEICIDE, BIOHAZARD, HATEBREED, HIM and many more. The photos are available for viewing by CLICKING HERE.

Roadrunner United:The All-Star Sessions is in stores now

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Roadrunner Records has put together a groundbreaking record to mark the label's 25th Anniversary. Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions is IN STORES NOW and it  is a master-class in hard rock/metal.

'Captains' Joey Jordison ( Slipknot ), Dino Cazares (ex- Fear Factory/Brujeria ), Robert Flynn ( Machine Head ) and Matthew Heafy ( Trivium ) play on the songs they have written and have also assembled a unique team of artists to appear on each track. I n cluding contributions from such metal luminaries as Corey Taylor, Paul Gray and Jim Root of Slipknot, Howard Jones and Mike D. from Killswitch Engage, Peter Steele and Josh Silver from Type O Negative, Dez Fafara of DevilDriver/Coal Chamber fame, Mark Hunter of Chimaira, King Diamond and members of Opeth, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Trivium, Sepultura, Soulfly, Deicide, Life of Agony and many, MANY more - this is an album in which the whole is even greater than the sum of it's parts.

If you are a fan of METAL - be it black, death, thrash, trad, 'core or whatever the hell you want to call it - pick this album up because it is truly a testament to 25 years of the best metal has to offer all on one CD. Also includes an hour long bonus DVD on the making of the album.

Click here to preview music from the album, in stores now.

YOU COULD WIN A ROADRUNNER LOADED APPLE IPOD
How well do you know your Roadrunner history? In celebration of this landmark release, we are holding a Roadrunner Trivia Contest, and the top 4 winners of the contest will recieve brand-new Apple iPods with engraved signatures of all 4 captains, as well as the entire Roadrunner discography loaded onto it! So, what are you waiting for, start playing today.

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Today we give you more music from the upcoming Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions release, one of the songs from captain Joey Jordison, a death metal track titled "Annihilation By The Hands Of God." The line-up for the track is as follows:

Glen Benton (DEICIDE) - vocals
Matt DeVries (CHIMAIRA) - rhythm guitar
Rob Barrett (CANNIBAL CORPSE, ex-MALEVOLENT CREATION) - rhythm guitar
James Murphy (ex-TESTAMENT, DEATH, OBITUARY)- solo
Steve DiGiorgio (TESTAMENT, SADUS) - fretless bass
Joey Jordison (SLIPKNOT) - drums

"I had the idea of using Glen Benton on the song before even writing anything," tells Roadrunner United captain Joey Jordison. "However, instead of writing a typical death metal song, I wanted to do something a little more structured, even hooky, while still maintaining death metal and blast beat aspects."

The result, a technical piece of death metal filled with the individual personalities of members from the bands Deicide, Chimaira, Malevolent Creation, Death, and Sadus...and of course, Slipknot, as Joey himself had written the song prior to the members from the above bands coming to town to record.

"Steve (bass) comes out of left field, he's one of a kind. Rob (guitar) contributed greatly to a black metal tone of the song with his guitar parts over the blast beat sections, and Matt (guitar) with his picking style. Each guy had their own staple on how their parts of the song should go, all of which helped with the overall feel of the song," Joey praises.

When asked for a favorite part of the song, Joey has no comment. "I write songs as a whole, with sections that move from one part to another and all make sense together in some way." That being said, he does say to check out the searing breakdown, crunch section, right before the last pre-chorus.

As for the lyrics, they were all written by Glen himself, so you should have an idea of the lyrical content. If you have trouble following the words for now (lyrics will be posted online upon release of the CD), do know you get four "Satan's" in a row during the bridge of the song.

"I couldn't be happier with it," Jordison tells of how "Annihilation By The Hands Of God" turned out. "Probably the favorite song I did...though, hard to pick as each of the four are so different from one another." With that in mind, check out "Annihilation By The Hands Of God," now in our MUSIC section, and come October 11th (release date for Roadrunner United) you'll be hearing all songs to have come from captain Jordison, and decide first-hand which is your favorite.

Enjoy.

Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions coming October 11th

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