Madball to shoot video for June 4th with Dale RAGE Resteghini (Hatebreed, Shadows Fall, Mudvayne, Unearth, Agnostic Front, Misery Signals). The video will be shot in an urban location which will be announced shortly. CLICK HERE to go to the music area of the site, and listen to newly uploaded Madball material. REMEMBER: MADBALL – LEGACY – OUT AUGUST 1st

So here it is, OBITUARY’s own perception of their music. A track by track of their entire new album (pt1). If you haven’t heard the band CLICK HERE and check out INSANE track 3 from their forth coming album Frozen In Time. Go to the bands ARTIST PAGE to view the album artwork. This track-by-track is featured in the latest issue of ZERO TOLERANCE, as part of an awesome 4 page feature by Chris Alo. TRACK-BY-TRACK 1. REDNECK STOMP The opening track is a mid paced and repetitive head banger. Listening to it, you are patiently waiting for the vocals, which never come, and then the song quickly fades out. í¢ä‰åñWe figure it’s been eight years and it would be cool to make everyone wait just three more minutes for the vocalsí¢ä‰åŒ adds Donald. í¢ä‰åñIt’s also not an annoying intro where you will skip it for future listensí¢ä‰åŒ 2. ON THE FLOOR With the fade out of the previous track, the start of this is like a punch in the face. John Tardy belches forth with brutal delivery from the opening second in this fast paced number. The pace only slows down for the chorus. í¢ä‰åñThat’s a fast songí¢ä‰åŒ comments Frank Watkins. í¢ä‰åñIt’s got that hook and I think it will become one of the better known songs.í¢ä‰åŒ 3. INSANE Another relatively fast song, with Donald Tardy supplying the thundering drums while his brother lays down the especially tortured vocals. Sounds a bit like it could have easily been on The End Complete. í¢ä‰åñWe did that one on our European tourí¢ä‰åŒ comments Frank Watkins. í¢ä‰åñWhen we would play all the old songs we just throw that in and it fits in perfectly, like a classic. Some kids didn’t even know it was new.í¢ä‰åŒ 4. BLINDSIDED Originally titled Samurai, this one shows a lot of that Celtic Frost-inspired classic Obituary groove. Relatively evenly paced, the song carries on but never gets boring. í¢ä‰åñThat’s the meat and potatoes on the albumí¢ä‰åŒ explains Donald. í¢ä‰åñThe song is mid tempo and it just stays there. If another band tried playing at that level they would fall asleep. But with us there is still so much energy, it is just bad ass.í¢ä‰åŒ 5. BACK INSIDE Another very quick song, with lots of fast but basic guitar leads. Has a catchy chorus of John Tardy ruthlessly barking out í¢ä‰åñBack inside!í¢ä‰åŒ í¢ä‰åñThat was a song I already had writtení¢ä‰åŒ Trevor states. í¢ä‰åñ I came down here, got real stoned and came up with it real quick. I think there are only two or three riffs in the whole song,í¢ä‰åŒ he laughs. REMEMBER: OBITUARY – FROZEN IN TIME – OUT JULY 11th

Come June 13th, the single release of Slipknot’s “Before I Forget” will street. This release, which also contains live versions of “The Blister Exists” and “Three Nil,” will be released on two separate collectors edition 7″ picture discs. More info on this release – and the audio of all tracks – can be found online HERE.

Chimaira – new music from upcoming self-titled release now up… Mark Hunter and Rob Arnold have now left our shores, from where they were spending time mixing Chimaira’s upcoming self-titled release with Colin Richardson. 8 of the 10 tracks that will be appearing on the release have been mixed, and due to modern technology, it’s like the band is still abroad – they have a live feed to the board. Technology, what will come next? Speaking of technology, and the reason for this update, new Chimaira music is here. The song, “Nothing Remains.” Mark Hunter’s introduction to the song is as follows: “What’s up friends? So we are super excited for you all to hear “Nothing Remains” today. It is going to be the first song on the new album and we truly feel it sets up the record perfectly. I can’t say that this is what the rest of the record sounds like, because each song has its own personality…but I will say a lot of what happens on this song you can expect from other tracks. Hope that makes sense…haha.” Anyway, enough bullshit, enjoy the track! check our MUSIC section for the goods. REMEMBER: THE MONSTER RETURNS AUGUST 2005 But… CLICK HERE for the oppotunity to meet Chimaira and to hear the album early!!!

MACHINE HEAD – ELEGIES The DVD will consist of a concert recorded at Brixton Academy, in December of 2004. The concert will be broken up every 2 or 3 songs with interstitial segments featuring the following themes: 1. The making of the album 2. The making of both videos shot during the “From The Ashes…” Album cycle. 3. Behind the scenes tour footage. The DVD will also include the promo videos for ‘Imperium’ & ‘Days Turn Blue To Gray’. REMEMBER: MACHINE HEAD – ELEGIES DVD – OUT 18th JULY

THE SOULFLY SIDE OF THE STORY The band have issued a statement disputing the account offered by a Russian politician regarding an incident in Moscow late last month which caused the group to cancel their concerts in the Russian Far East cities of Vladivostok and Khabarovsk. MosNews.com had previously reported that SOULFLY were boarding a plane from Moscow to Vladivostok on April 29 when Valery Kan, a local MP in the city of Ussuriisk, attempted to take SOULFLY mainman Max Cavalera’s stepdaughter Roxanne to the business class section of the plane, SOULFLY’s Russian promoters, FeeLee Management, were quoted by a Vladivostok television company as saying. “He approached Cavalera’s wife [manager Gloria Cavalera] and stepdaughter with two bodyguards. Cavalera was already sitting in his seat on the plane with the other musicians. The group’s backstage personnel was boarding together with his wife and daughter and tried to intervene but Kan started to threaten them. When the police arrived, Kan showed them his identity papers, mentioning his immunity as a deputy. The policemen then told the musicians that they were unable to intervene.” Initial reports suggested that Kan was drunk. When Cavalera’s wife attempted to stand up for her daughter, Kan reportedly pushed her away shouting obscenities. Later, Kan was quoted by a journalist of the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper as saying he did not harass Roxanne and accused the group members of offending him. He said he did not shout obscenities or push Cavalera’s wife. Kan said he was in the airport with a children’s taekwondo team that came home from the championship in Italy, and just wanted to have a conversation with the musicians, but they told him to go away. However, he did not want the journalist to mention his deputy status. The following account of the incident- written by Gloria Cavalera – was filed with the U.S embassy in Moscow: “We were going through security at Domodedovo airport [in Moscow] near Gate 38. I noticed my daughter, Roxanne Cavalera, was missing. I saw her ahead of me and hurried ahead of the group I was with to reach her. When I approached her, she said, ‘The weirdest thing happened. This Korean man asked me to go with him. Somehow he knew I was going to Vladivostok and asked me to go with him. He grabbed my arm trying to make me go with him. I told him no and he left, but then an older Korean man in a suit tried to pull me but I grabbed my arm away.’ As I stood there, the younger Korean came up again and said to her, ‘Come with me’ and tried to pull her by her arm. I put my arm around her shoulder and said, ‘Please, she’s my daughter, I’m her mother, please go.’ He shoved me and said, ‘Fuck you, you go.’ My crew, Jim Chinni, saw this and immediately came up to protect us. The Korean dude put his belongings down and said, ‘I know English, fuck you.’ He then spoke in Korean. In English he said, ‘You don’t know who I am, fuck you, you don’t know what I can do.’ I was desperately trying to make them stop. I was shocked the security, who were two feet away from us, did nothing. The Korean kept in Jim’s face. A Russian man walked up. He was dressed in black leather, with gold jewellery and gold teeth. He grabbed the Korean, laughing, and they walked off. I got my group together and we went to the gate. Some of my group went in the plane, we were the next to board, there were about 20 people behind us. The Korean came up, cut ahead of everyone, came to us and pointed at Jim and in Russian said, ‘When you get to Vladivostok, you have big problems, you’re a dead man!’ Our Russian translator heard him. In English, he (the Korean) also said, ‘Do not go to Vladivostock.’ There were three attendants from the airline who saw this but did nothing. We stopped and decided not to board the plane and I asked the attendants to help, but they did nothing. Our Russian friend, Max Filippov, went on the plane and got our friends off. During this, the Korean and the Russian man (we found out later he is a colonel of the Russian militia. My crew, who were on the plane, said he had a gun under his black sweater) boarded the plane. A band member, who was on the plane, noticed the Korean harassing the stewardess. The airport police arrived, asked for a description of the people, went on the plane and brought the two men off. They brought them to us and their attitude was very civil in front of the police. I kept insisting we were not getting on the flight. The police asked one band member, after showing him the Korean’s passport photo if it was the same man. It was, he said. (They never brought the guy in the suit – the older Korean – off). We were all near the gate, talking. The police walked off to a room with the two people to make copies of their passports. When the door [opened] once, some of our group saw them high-fiving and shaking hands. The police came out and said they could do nothing because the man had a diplomatic passport. When the police talked to the gate attendants, they all said they never saw anything. The Korean and Russian colonel boarded the plane and we left. When the gate people discussed what happened with our Russian friend, Max, they told him we were all just paranoid.” Jim Chinni, a member of SOULFLY’s road crew, has sent the following statement to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding the airport incident: “First I would like to say, [Kan’s version of what transpired at the airport is] NOT WHAT HAPPENED! At first he was speaking to Roxanne about going with him to Vladivostok, she told him, ‘No, I am here with a group of people.’ At that point he left. I was just clearing the security when I saw Roxanne, she said, ‘Some guy was messing with her but no big deal, he left.’ I said ‘OK then.’ We then grabbed our bags and were waiting for everyone else to clear security. Gloria cleared security next and Roxanne went over to her at that time, the Korean man returned by HIMSELF and approached Roxanne and said ‘YOU COME WITH ME NOW!’ Gloria replied to the guy nicely, ‘NO, that’s my daughter and she’s not going with you.’ He then PUSHED Gloria and said, ‘NO YOU GO AWAY!’ and to Roxanne, ‘YOU COME WITH ME!’ That’s when it was brought to my attention what was going on. Mind you, security wasn’t doing anything about what was going on. So I approached the guy and said, ‘NO, YOU LEAVE NOW!’ He dropped his bags and said, ‘Fuck you, American, you don’t know who I am!’ I replied, ‘I don’t care, you are not taking anyone anywhere or I will knock your teeth out!’ At that point we were nose to nose I didn’t know what to do, things were happening very fast. At that time, Gloria got between us and said, ‘It is not worth going to prison, just drop it.’ His bodyguard came up, grabbed him, waved and left. We stood there like, ‘Oh, my God, that sucked!’ We were already late for the plane so Gloria got everyone together and said, ‘Come on, let’s go.’ We headed to the gate we did not see the guy anywhere in the line of approximately 25 people for the flight. All of a sudden, he returns with two guys, he cuts through the line and said, directly to me, in front of the ticket takers, in perfect English, ‘DO NOT GO TO Vladivostok!’ Our Russian interpreter told us, in Russian, he said, ‘IF YOU GO TO Vladivostok, YOU’RE a DEAD MAN!’ When Gloria heard this, she said, ‘WE ARE NOT GOING TO Vladivostok!’ We already boarded three people on the plane, so we got our people off the plane and security finely got the guy off the plane. Security, holding his passport in hand was telling us that ‘he is a diplomat and there is nothing we can do about this, he is a very important man in Vladivostok.’ NOT A COACH FOR SOME TAEKWONDO CLASS! There were no kids ANYWHERE! He really meant to hurt us. I want to say, anyone who has ever been to Russia, TRUST ME, YOU’RE IN THIER COUNTRY! and unless you want to break rocks in Siberia for the next 10 years with only water and bread to subsist, then you best be careful! Oh, and by the way, the American Embassy can’t help you in Vladivostok it’s too far away from Moscow – a 10-hour flight! So I hope this sheds some light on what really happened. This was no joke! As for the fans, we would have been the first band to EVER PLAY THERE.”

THE AGONY SCENE – THE DARKEST RED – OUT NOW “The Latest and greatest new american metal band” – KERRANG KKKK “Impressive opening from metalcore heroes” – Metal Hammer 7/10 But hey why should you listen to those guys, why not make your own judgements. CLICK HERE to see the prey video CLICK HERE to hear PREY CLICK HERE to hear SCAPEGOAT demo mix

Name: Avital Tamir Age: 23 Instrument: Vocals All time favourite record? Black Sabbath – Sabotage Greatest experience on tour? Being on tour itself IS the greatest experience for me! Living the rock N’ roll life! Most horrible experience on tour? Half a year break from shows after our last tourí¢ä‰åŒ_ Most embarrassing moment on stage? We were playing this show in a club in Tel-Aviv, and I was banging my head like crazyí¢ä‰åŒ_ It was kind of a low stage and after I took the mic off the stand, it was just left standing there (not on the stage itself but on the floor, and it was lowered so it wont be in my way). At some point I banged my head really low and hit my face with that damn standí¢ä‰åŒ_ I didn’t notice it at first, but when I caught the sight on peoples faces and started feeling something dripping next to my left eye I got the ideaí¢ä‰åŒ_ It cut my face, and on stage too! We played the last 20 minutes of the show, and when I finally got to see it I couldn’t believe its sizeí¢ä‰åŒ_ It was fucking huge!!! My face was all swollen for the next couple of weeksí¢ä‰åŒ_ Was a damn cool show though &#9786 Do you have any sort of ritual before going on stage? Just hanging out back stage with my band, stretching our muscles and exercising a bití¢ä‰åŒ_ It’s all that! With which band would you love to tour with? Definitely SLAYER!!! If I couldn’t be a musician, I would … probably be laying dead in a gutter. Best advice you ever heard? “Stop going to those damn techno parties!!!” (Matan Cohen) With which famous person (alive or dead) would you love to spend some time and why? Interestingí¢ä‰åŒ_ It would be cool to get to spend time with Ozzyí¢ä‰åŒ_ I think we’re on the same page &#9786 What’s one thing you would like to achieve in life? A wall of plaques is what I’m talking about! Last Words: I’m gonna be a rock n’ roll singer, I’m gonna be a rock n’ roll star! REMEMBER: BETZEFER – DOWN LOW – OUT JUNE 6th

Check out this on-the-road DEVILDRIVER update from Dez. “So, Friday night was Big E’s in Edgerton, WI, where we headlined again…show was absolutely insane – massive pit, kids were literally going after one another…Before the show, the Machine Head guys had a bbq during the day, want to than them for that…and want to thank MH’s crew for working for us these past few nights. The show the next night was only about 2.5 hours away, Chicago. Absolutely sold out, and Machine Head made their return to the stage. Seemed like everyone was hanging out that night, even some Roadrunner folk came down. We’d like to thank House Of Blues for treating us so well, we’ll be back soon. Last night was Headliners in Louisville, KY… and to the fans there, you guys did great. After the show, we hung out for about 2 hours with everyone – autographs, pics, what have you. We have the day off today, and are currently on a 15-16 hour drive from KY to NJ, where we will be playing the Starland ballroom tomorrow night. ..currently in OHIO doing 65 down the 71. Most of the guys are asleep, so i’m watching Deep Blue Sea.” -Dez

Name? Joshua Michael Brigham Age? 25 Instrument? Guitar All time favourite record? Hum í¢ä‰åäóì Downward is Havenward Smashing Pumpkins í¢ä‰åäóì Siamese Dream í¢ä‰åŒ_. (I can’t pick just one) Greatest experience on tour? Getting to travel internationally Most horrible experience on tour? Trying to go sober for one month Most embarrassing moment on stage? When we fuck up a song Do you have any sort of ritual before going on stage? Killing a 1 year old chicken, then I light a candles and smear blood on my private parts With which band would you love to tour with? Every Time I Die If I couldn’t be a musician, I would work así¢ä‰åŒ_ A pizza delivery guy, which is what I do on tour Best advice you ever heard? Live fast, die young With which famous person (alive or dead) would you love to spend some time with and why? Jesus. Maybe I could find some truth. REMEMBER Hopesfall are on tour until the 25th May. CLICK HERE for full tour dates.