As I hope you are all aware, OPENHAND have just finished ripping the UK up with the likes of My Chemical Romance. However, in addition to this the band are doing a handful (no pun intended) of headline shows. MON – 11/04 Leeds, Cockpit TUE – 12/04 London, Camden Barfly If you still haven’t heard the band CLICK HERE to go to the music section and downlload TOUGH GIRL. WARNING It is strongly advised that you listen to the album in it’s entirety. Whilst the band have been over here they have filled out questionaires so you can get to know them that little bit better. We start with Bassist Michael Anastasi. ——- ——- WHO IS OPENHAND pt 1… who is Bassist – Michael Anastasi ? Name? Michael Age Too Old Instrument? Bass/Pizza Delivery All time favourite record? I have a few but… Quicksand Slip is the first one that comes to mind. Greatest experience on tour? There’s a bunch… But, the one that sticks out at the moment would be completely covering our friends van with CD samplers. Apparently there is photographic evidence of this, RR.co.uk will bring this too you asap Most horrible experience on tour? I can’t think of anything too horrible…?? But at our last show, on the Zao tour all of the bands had some fun with us and dropped some stink bombs whilst we played…… It smelled AWFUL!! Most embarrassing moment on stage? Collapsing from complete exhaustion Do you have any sort of ritual before going on stage? We try to meet up and hang out about a half hour before we play. HAVE A DRINK….RELAX…..AND GET READY TO HAVE SOME FUN! With which band would you love to tour with? Janes Addiction If I couldn’t be a musician, I would work as… A sound designer… That’s what I do when we’re not on tour. Best advice you ever heard? Treat people the way you want to be treated. With which famout person (alive or dead) would you love to spend some time with, and why? Elvis Presley!!! I’m a big fan, plus i’m sure he’s got some great stories to tell!!

WEDNESDAY 13’s debut album Transylvania 90210: Songs of Death, Dying, and the Dead, is out NOW!! To celebrate this WEDNESDAY 13 is descending on our fair lands, and is going rip the sh*t up!! Dates are as follows: APRIL Mon 11 í¢ä‰åäóì MANCHESTER Academy 3 Tue 12 í¢ä‰åäóì BRIGHTON Concorde 2 Wed 13 í¢ä‰åäóì LONDON Islington Academy Thu 14 í¢ä‰åäóì BIRMINGHAM Academy Fri 15 í¢ä‰åäóì GLASGOW Cathouse Sat 16 í¢ä‰åäóì NOTTINGHAM Rock City Tickets are on sale now from all usual box offices and online agents, priced 퉌£9 regionally, 퉌£11 London. All shows are for ages 14+. CLICK HERE to visit the ecard/game To celebrate the Album we are holding a Monster Masquerade Ball. The ball will be held on April wednesday 13 at the London Islington Academy gig. See what we’ve done there, clever eh. The person at the gig with the best ghoul/horror attire will win two tickets to the aftershow to meet the band, a signed CD/poster, plus one of Wednesday’s super-limited ‘Devil Doll’ puppets. So start roaming camden for your attire, and if you havent got a ticket for the london show yet CLICK HERE and snap to it.

Get ready…Trivium is coming. The band has been touring the states for the past few months, and will be till the end of the month. Then, it’s to the UK for the European Road Rage tour, where they will be touring with labelmates 3 Inches Of Blood and Still Remains. CLICK HERE to view the ROADRAGE 2005 minisite. The band has also been confirmed for this year’s Metal Hammer Awards show on Monday night, June 13th. The band is also up for a Metal Hammer Golden Gods award for Best Newcomer. But their not the only ones nominated… BEST LIVE BAND – SLIPKNOT BEST METAL RECORD LABEL – ROADRUNNER INCOMING AWARD FOR BEST NEWCOMER – TRIVIUM BEST VIDEO – CRADLE OF FILTH – NYMPHETAMINE You can vote online HERE. REMEMBER: TRIVIUM – ASCENDANCY – OUT NOW

Ill Nino is currently in the studio recording LP #3. What to tell? The band’s A&R Rep checks in with the following update: I can tell you that the guys have recorded fifteen songs 12-13 of which will end up on the finished album. And while every band always tells you that their next batch of material is going to be way heavier than the previous LP — Los Ninos mean it! At this point, just drums and rhythm guitars are done and already you can hear the whole thing becoming waaaay more bombastic, The two fairly dead-on references the guys are making are Slayer and Mars Volta. Sheer brutality melded with real Latin jams ala Santana at his peak. The whole studio vibe is down and dirty this time. While drums were done at a studio in Upstate New York, the Ill Nino guys (with producer Eddie Wohl and trusty engineer Dan Korneff — who are both helming the record with drummer Dave Chavarri co-producing) have set up shop at the band’s practice space in Union City, New Jersey where bassist Laz Pina’s brother owns a full-blown recording studio! It’s probably the most “real” approach to making a record the band could have possibly taken. The lunch special at the Spanish restaurant is still four bucks a plate and cigarettes are well, too expensive! Vocals start this week and already, you can tell Cris Machado has taken a big step up both as a singer and lyricist. As much as the music has matured , the same is more than true of Cris’ side of things. Rather than go on and on trying to explain, suffice to say you’ll hear soon enough. Really, Ill Nino elpee numero tres is really the product of a lot of soul searching. It’s the sound of Ill Nino simply being Ill Nino! As brutal and melodic as a band can possible. Remember, this is a band with legitimate heavy roots (shit, Jorge from Merauder was their original singer!) and a sound that’s instantly identifiable. There’s no chasing of trends going on here. No aspirations other than simply writing the best songs the band can — which means bruisers and anthems with plenty of bloody spice and bloodier sonic salsa!

BETZEFER are Roadrunners latest signing. Their debut international release DOWN LOW is due for release this June. But if your very demanding, and need to know MORE, NOW!! Check out this feature courtesy of Blistering.com.

Wednesday 13’s zombie-tastic ‘Transylvania 90210’ album hits stores from Monday April 11th, as he starts a brief UK 퉌ætour.
You can pick up the album for around 퉌£12.99 from HMV, Virgin, MVC, Music Zone and your local official ‘Roadrage’ store. Or buy on-line for 퉌£9.99 from AMAZON.

Roadrunner Records kicks off it’s 25th Anniversary celebrations at retail by entering the Metal Zone, well Music Zone, really. We’ve teamed up with 퉌æthe 59-store Music Zone chain to offer you a range of over 80 new and classic Roadrunner CD’s for between 퉌£5.97 & 퉌£7.97 from April 14th. You can find your nearest store here: CLICK HERE The full list of titles and prices instore are as follows: 3 INCHES OF BLOOD ‘ADVANCE & VANQUISH’ CD RR 8274 2 퉌£7.97 36 CRAZYFISTS ‘A SNOW-CAPPED ROMANCE’ CD RR 8374 2 퉌£7.97 36 CRAZYFISTS ‘BITTERNESS THE STAR’ CD RR 8483 2 퉌£6.97 AMEN ‘AMEN (UK EDITION)’퉌æ MID-PRICE CD RR 8656 9 퉌£5.97 ANNIHILATOR ‘BEST OF’ CD RR 8247 2 퉌£5.97 BIOHAZARD ‘URBAN DISCIPLINE + NO HOLDS BARRED’ DBL CD RR 8290 2 퉌£7.97 BLEEDING THROUGH ‘THIS IS LOVE, THIS IS MURDEROUS’ CD RR 8234 2 퉌£6.97 BRUJERIA ‘BEST OF’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8345 2 퉌£5.97 CALIBAN ‘THE OPPOSITE FROM WITHIN’ CD RR 8246 2 퉌£7.97 CHIMAIRA ‘PASS OUT OF EXISTENCE’ CD 12084772 퉌£6.97 CHIMAIRA ‘THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF REASON’ CD RR 8397 9 퉌£6.97 COAL CHAMBER ‘BEST OF’ CD RR 8259 2 퉌£5.97 COAL CHAMBER ‘GIVING THE DEVIL HIS DUE’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8389 2 퉌£5.97 COAL CHAMBER ‘CHAMBER MUSIC’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8659 2 퉌£5.97 COAL CHAMBER ‘COAL CHAMBER’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8863 2 퉌£5.97 CRADLE OF FILTH ‘NYMPHETAMINE’ CD RR 8282 2 퉌£7.97 DEICIDE ‘BEST OF’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8340 2 퉌£5.97 DEICIDE ‘DEICIDE’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8744 2 퉌£5.97 DEVILDRIVER ‘DEVILDRIVER’ CD RR 8393 2 퉌£7.97 EIGHTEEN VISIONS ‘BEST OF’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8220 2 퉌£5.97 EIGHTEEN VISIONS ‘VANITY’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8227 2 퉌£5.97 FEAR FACTORY ‘ DEMANUFACTURE MID-PRICE CD RR 8956 2 퉌£6.97 FEAR FACTORY ‘REMANUFACTURE MID-PRICE CD RR 8834 2 퉌£5.97 FEAR FACTORY ‘SOUL OF A NEW MACHINE + FEAR IS THE MINDKILLER’ DBL CD RR 8257 2 퉌£7.97 FEAR FACTORY ‘ARCHETYPE’ CD RR 8311 2 퉌£7.97 FEAR FACTORY ‘DIGIMORTAL’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8561 2 퉌£6.97 FEAR FACTORY ‘OBSOLETE’ CD RR 8752 2 퉌£6.97 FROM AUTUMN TO ASHES ‘TOO BAD, YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8287 2 퉌£5.97 GLASSJAW ‘EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW…’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8578 2 퉌£6.97 HATEBREED ‘THE RISE OF BRUTALITY’ CD RR 8315 9 퉌£7.97 ILL NINO ‘CONFESSION’ CD RR8391 2 퉌£6.97 ILL NINO ‘REVOLUTION/REVOLUCION’ CD RR 8497 2 퉌£6.97 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ‘ALIVE OR JUST BREATHING’ CD RR 8457 2 퉌£6.97 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ‘KILLSWITCH ENGAGE’ CD RR 8286 2 퉌£7.97 KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ‘THE END OF HEARTACHE’ CD RR 8373 2 퉌£7.97 KING DIAMOND ‘BEST OF’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8341 2 퉌£5.97 LIFE OF AGONY ‘BEST OF’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8342 2 퉌£5.97 LIFE OF AGONY ‘RIVER RUNS RED’ MID-PRICE CD RR 9043 2 퉌£5.97 MACHINE HEAD ‘BURN MY EYES’ CD RR 9016 2 퉌£6.97 MACHINE HEAD ‘HELLALIVE’ CD RR 8437 2 퉌£6.97 MACHINE HEAD ‘THE BURNING RED’ CD RR 8651 2 퉌£6.97 MACHINE HEAD ‘THE MORE THINGS CHANGE…’ CD RR 8860 2 퉌£6.97 MACHINE HEAD ‘SUPERCHARGER’ CD 12085002 퉌£6.97 MACHINE HEAD ‘THROUGH THE ASHES OF EMPIRES’ CD RR 8363 2 퉌£6.97 MERCYFUL FATE ‘BEST OF’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8339 2 퉌£5.97 MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES ‘DEVILS NIGHT OUT’ MID-PRICE CD RR 9358 2 퉌£5.97 MISFITS ‘CUTS FROM THE CRYPT’ MID-PRICE CD 12084672 퉌£5.97 MISFITS ‘FAMOUS MONSTERS’ MID-PRICE CD CD RR 8658 2 퉌£5.97 MOST PRECIOUS BLOODí‰Œæ ‘OUR LADY OF ANNIHILATION’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8236 2 퉌£5.97 MURDERDOLLS ‘BEYOND THE VALLEY OFí¢ä‰åŒ_’ CD RR 8426 8 퉌£6.97 NAILBOMB ‘POINT BLANK’ MID-PRICE MID-PRICE CD RR 9055 2 퉌£5.97 NICKELBACK ‘SILVER SIDE UP’ CD 12084852 퉌£6.97 OBITUARY ‘ANTHOLOGY’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8562 2 퉌£5.97 OBITUARY ‘SLOWLY WE ROT’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8768 2 퉌£5.97 OPEN HAND ‘YOU AND ME’ CD RR 8239 2 퉌£7.97 POISON THE WELL ‘TEARS FROM THE RED’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8221 2 퉌£5.97 QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE ‘QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE’ CD RR 8674 2 퉌£6.97 SEPULTURA ‘ARISE’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8763 2 퉌£5.97 SEPULTURA ‘BENEATH THE REMAINS’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8766 2 퉌£5.97 SEPULTURA ‘BLOOD-ROOTED’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8821 2 퉌£5.97 SEPULTURA ‘CHAOS A.D’ CD퉌æ RR 9000 2 퉌£5.97 SEPULTURA ‘MORBID VISIONS/BESTIAL DEVASTATION’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8765 2 퉌£5.97 SEPULTURA ‘ROOTS’ CD RR 8900 2 퉌£6.97 SEPULTURA ‘SCHIZOPHRENIA’ MID-PRICE CD RR 8764 2 퉌£5.97 SLIPKNOT ‘IOWA’ CD 12085642 퉌£6.97 SLIPKNOT ‘VOL 3:THE SUBLIMINAL VERSES’ CD RR 8388 2 퉌£7.97 SLIPKNOT ‘SLIPKNOT’ CD RR 8655 8 퉌£6.97 SOULFLY ‘3’ CD RR 8455 2 퉌£6.97 SOULFLY ‘PRIMITIVE’ CD RR 8565 2 퉌£6.97 SOULFLY ‘PROPHECY’ CD RR 8304 2 퉌£7.97 SOULFLY ‘SOULFLY’ CD RR 8748 2 퉌£6.97 SPINESHANK ‘SELF-DESTRUCTIVE PATTERN’ CD RR 8454 2 퉌£6.97 SPINESHANK ‘HEIGHT OF CALLOUSNESS’ CD RR 8563 2 퉌£6.97 STONE SOUR ‘STONE SOUR’ CD RR 8425 2 퉌£6.97 THROWDOWN ‘HAYMAKER’ CD RR 8233 2 퉌£6.97 TYPE O NEGATIVE ‘BLOODY KISSES’ CD RR 9100 2 퉌£6.97 TYPE O NEGATIVE ‘LIFE IS KILLING ME’ CD RR 8438 2 퉌£6.97 TYPE O NEGATIVE ‘OCTOBER RUST’ CD RR 8874 2 퉌£6.97 TYPE O NEGATIVE ‘SLOW, DEEP AND HARD’ MID-PRICE CD RO 9313 2 퉌£5.97 TYPE O NEGATIVE ‘THE LEAST WORST OFí¢ä‰åŒ_’ DIGI CD RR 8510 5 퉌£7.97 TYPE O NEGATIVE ‘WORLD COMING DOWN’ CD RR 8660 2 퉌£6.97

Ill Nino – STUDIO UPDATE “Well where do we begin? Drums are all recorded, Electric guitars are done, and we’re in the middle of recording the Bass, Percussion, Acoustic guitars, and Samples. We know people are gonna trip when they hear the new shit, we promise the new songs are a shitload heavier than anything we’ve ever done, pure Latino Metal. As soon as we can, we’ll put an MP3 of a new song for everyone to check out, also check out the photo gallery this weekend, as we’re posting pictures of the band recording the new CD, Peace.”

If you haven’t been able to get tickets to see OPENHAND support MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE on the follow dates: Wed 6th April í¢ä‰åäóì WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall Thu 7th April í¢ä‰åäóì GLASGOW Barrowlands Fri 8th April í¢ä‰åäóì MANCHESTER Academy Sat 9th April í¢ä‰åäóì LONDON Astoria Don’t dispair the band are playing a handful of headline dates. Sun 10th April – OXFORD Zodiac Mon 11th April – LEEDS Cockpit Tue 12th April – LONDON Camden Barfly REMEMBER: OPENHAND – YOU AND ME – OUT NOW

BLOOD HAS BEEN SHED – SPIRALS/NOVELLA OF URIEL This special edition 2-CD Blood Has Been Shed package combines their 2 previous album releases on Ferret Music. Tracklisting is as follows: Spirals 1. Age Of Apocalypse (MP3 HERE) 2. Prion 3. Greetings From The Gallows 4. She Speaks To Me 5. Rainman 6. Uatu 7. The House Of Fists 8. Beatnik 9. Beginner’s Luck 10. Technicolor Jackets 11. Weeping Willow 12. Call Waiting (John Doe Has The Upper Hand) 13. Six Twelve 14. Cortisone Novella Of Uriel 15. Wetwork 16. Benediction 17. And A Seraphim Cries 18. En Sabah Nur 19. Intervention 20. Faded Pictures Faded Memories 21. Signs And Omens 22. And Her Name Was Entragian 23. Of Sand And Sulfur 24. Candlelight Vigil 25. Metamorph (MP3 HERE) You can see the artwork HERE. Did you know? Blood Has Been Shed features 2 members of the current Killswitch Engage lineup – singer Howard Jones and drummer Justin Foley.