Roadrunner News

For your listening pleasure amongst your travels on our site this week we have Roadrunner Records & MTV's Headbangers Ball CHRISTMAS RUMBLE. Oh, it's true! A very rare piece from the Roadrunner Archives, in fact I do believe there is only ONE co

AND THE WINNER OF THE GRAMMY FOR BEST METAL PERFORMANCE IS... not Slipknot. Folks, I just heard, Deftones take home the prize this year. Twas a great feat nonetheless. Congratulations to SLIPKNOT once again for earning the nomina

A brief overview of the Roadrunner bands currently on tour, or about to hit the road (in A-B-C order): Fear Factory - Just finished their last date headlining the SnoCore tour (did you go?) on 02/17. Next stop for them is Europe (Burton and Chri

Be on the lookout, in about a month you will be seeing something new from Machine Head - a home video (really a web video) which will not be for sale, but free to view here on the Roadrunner site or at

Tuesday, February 20th 2001, ended up being a historic day for Sepultura - on the above date their 1996 release ROOTS was certified GOLD in the UK (100,000 units) and their 1991 release ARISE was certified SILVER in the UK (60,000 unit

First off, make sure you check out our FAN ART/PHOTO section under IN THE PIT. I just put up 6 Slipknot drawings sent in by Sean 'maggot larva' Fatone. Thanks again Sean! Also, The Maggot Corps Academy has arrived and they are looking for membe

I just got word that the final version of the new Fear Factory video for "Linchpin" off their upcoming DIGIMORTAL lp will be in the office on Friday (02/23). More word to come as to when we can get you all to see it.

For the SEPULNATION 2001 tour starting March 9th, more dates have just been confirmed. They are as follows: 3/18 - Cohoes, NY - Saratoga Winners 3/25 - Lake Buena Vista, FL - House of Blues 3/26 - Ft. Lauderdale, FL - Chili Pepper 3/28 - New

Glassjaw has announced they will be hitting the road for a string of East Coast dates with their compadres New Found Glory. Acts Movie Life and Cooter round out the bill. The dates are as follows: Sat/Apr-14 Asbury Park, NJ

Folks, this would usually be ARTIST page news (not here on the front page), but I do believe this is in a league all alone and deserves a front page announcement... I just received an email in regards to a Carnivore website (featuring Peter Steel