So, what rocks your speakers? Perhaps a little Fear Factory? Crank them up, and make sure you’ve got quicktime installed, it is time to watch the latest Fear Factory video for ‘Bite The Hand That Bleeds’, the main track from the upcoming horror flick Saw. Blood and gore abounds, you have been warned. And if you’ve not seen it yet, you can also watch the cool video for ‘Archetype’ too.

Murderdolls frontman Wednesday 13 just e-mailed to announce the newest addition to his solo band – former Amen guitarist Matt “Pig” Montgomery. Matt will be joining Wednesday and go on his upcoming Look What The Bats Dragged In European tour. Mr 13 said: “Pig is the perfect guy for this, we’re both horror movie junkies, and the whole reason we got into music in the first place was Alice Cooper… This tour is going to be so much more exciting now that he’s on board.” While Matt said: “Playing with Wednesday on this tour is like being in your favourite horror film for two and a half weeks… Monsters, blood, rock n’ roll, it’s right up my alley, needless to say I’m very excited.” Don’t forget, those tour dates are as follows: November 03 Cardiff, Barfly 04 Exeter, Cavern 05 London, Islington Academy 07 Manchester, Academy 3 08 Birmingham, Academy 2 09 Glasgow, King Tuts 10 Belfast, Lime Light 11 Dublin, Music Centre 13 Brighton, Concorde 2 17 Colchester, Arts Centre 18 Liverpool, Barfly

Here is the latest from Chimaria frontman Mark Hunter: “Well, well… so it is the end of the line for touring the Impossibility of Reason. You all know how Road Rage went for us, and if you don’t know we have spent the past 2.5 weeks in Japan and Australia with our friends in In Flames. The tour has been a huge success for us. Japan was an amazing country and we met some really cool fucking people. If you ever go to Japan you must try Kobe beef. It is hands down the best piece of steak I have had in my life…thanks RR and NB for hooking it up cause the food was really expensive! The concerts in Japan were really good. We didn’t expect much being our first time, but to our surprise we had a ton of fans there, and we can tell we made a lot more. That makes it all worth it. “Heading down under…we had heard that Australia has the best metal fans in the world…now, we come from America where we know how crazy people can get. Even though sometimes American audiences can be a bit spoiled, it’s our home turf and when someone says that another country is better…it’s hard for us to believe. Then we went to the UK where we feel like that is our 2nd home. The UK has some of the best crowds on the planet hands down, we didn’t think it could get much better then that…until we went down under. Now I’m not saying one is better then the other, but HOLY SHIT is the only way to describe an Australian crowd. Our first time there, and you would have sworn we were playing a home town show in Cleveland. Each show was amazing and we can’t wait to get back (which will be soon!!) You guys rule, we will come back and do a full Australian headline tour as soon as we can. “We want to thank every single state in America, and country that we have been to in the past year and a half. Again, the fans we have made, the fans that we played to, you make our lives worth a damn. Thanks to all of the bands we have toured with on this record, and the friends we have made for a lifetime.” To all, thanks again —- Mark PS: We are heading down to Mexico for the first time in a few weeks, just to break up the monotony of writing…from what I hear about Mexican crowds, this could rival America, Australia and the UK combined…hopefully it lives up to our expectations…and I’m sure it will!

Two more new Trustkill band videos being shot… Yes, we are talking of Hopesfall, the track in question being ‘Icarus’, and also of Walls Of Jericho, for the song ‘There’s No I In F*ck You’.

In keeping with the dark and foreboding feel of the movie, the ‘SAW’ soundtrack delivers some of the most spine-chilling music around, featuring some of the Industrial scene’s leading luminaries as well as a clutch of up’n’coming new-age Metallers. TRACKLISTING: 1.Chimaira ‘Eyes Of A Criminal’ 2.Charlie Clouser ‘Hello, Adam’ 3.Fear Factory ‘Bite The Hand That Bleeds’ 4.Charlie Clouser ‘Last I Heard’ 5.Enemy ‘Action’ 6.Charlie Clouser ‘Reverse Beartrap’ 7.Pitbull Daycare ‘You Make Me Feel So Dead’ 8.Charlie Clouser ‘X Marks The Spot’ 9.Psycho Pomps ‘Wonderful World’ 10.Charlie Clouser ‘Cigarette’ 11.Caliban ‘The Beloved And The Hatred’ 12.Charlie Clouser ‘We’re Out Of Time’ 13.Charlie Clouser ‘F**k This Shit’ 14.Illdisposed ‘Dark’ 15.Charlie Clouser ‘Hellp Zepp’ 16.Charlie Clouser ‘Zepp Overture’

36 CRAZYFISTS have fixed up a few instore signings whilst they’re over here in October for their UK tour. Catch the crazy Alaskan loons at 4pm each day at the following stores and get your copy of their current album ‘A Snow Capped Romance’ scribbled on by Brock and his pals. 5th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì MVC, Eldon Square, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 12th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì MVC, The Hayes, Cardiff, CF10 13th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì MVC, Mander Centre, Wolverhampton WV1 18th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì MVC, Paris St, Exeter, EX1 In addition, on all the following nights, the guys will be guest DJ’ing after their shows at the following local clubs from around 12 midnight: Friday 8th October í¢ä‰åäóì Jillys Rockworld Manchester Thursday 14th October í¢ä‰åäóì Oxford Zodiac ‘Club With No Name’ Friday 15th October í¢ä‰åäóì Liverpool Krazyhouse Saturday 16th October í¢ä‰åäóì Sheffield Corporation. Full UK show details are as follows. Be sure to catch one of the most acclaimed bands of this year’s Download Festival while you can! 3rd Oct – LONDON Mean Fiddler 4th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì LEEDS Cockpit 5th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì NEWCASTLE University 6th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì GLASGOW Garage 7th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì EDINBURGH Venue 8th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì MANCHESTER MDH 10th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì BELFAST Limelight 11th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì DUBLIN Music Centre 12th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì CARDIFF Clwb Ifor Bach 13th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì WOLVERHAMPTON Wulfrun Hall 14th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì OXFORD Zodiac 15th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì LIVERPOOL University 16th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì SHEFFIELD Corporation 18th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì EXETER Lemon Grove 19th Oct í¢ä‰åäóì PORTSMOUTH Wedgewood Rooms Tickets are on sale now, priced 퉌£10 in London and 퉌£9 regionally. Support comes from Eighteen Visions and Bullet 4 My Valentine.

Congratulations are due to all in Nickelback and at the Roadrunner office in Australia, for latest album ‘The Long Road’ has just been certified officially TRIPLE PLATINUM.

Hot off the press… the new Cradle of Filth review in Kerrang! magazine – out today. And a stonking 5 out of 5 review it is too…. read on. NYMPHETAMINE KKKKK ADDICTIVE BRITISH STEEL FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL THERE WILL be those who believe that Cradle Of Filth’s brief dalliance with Sony was evidence that the band had lost the plot. The fair-to-middling reviews that last year’s ‘Damnation And A Day’ album received certainly suggested that a few hapless dimwits were relishing the prospect that Dani Filth and co were heading for a post-pride fall and even though the album sold remarkably well and did little to dent Cradle’s status, the sound of critical knives being sharpened has been audible ever since. All those prophecies of impending calamity were outright bollocks, of course. Cradle Of Filth have long been UK extreme metal’s own Iron Maiden a prolific, consistent and reliable force that has only engendered animosity on such grand scale because they’ve had the audacity to sell lots of records around the world and display a frank disregard for pandering to either underground elitism or mainstream sensibilities. In the end, cynicism is easy. Making albums as good as ‘Nymphetamine’ patently is not. Despite what a handful of friendless purists will argue, this is the best album Cradle Of Filth have ever made. ‘Midian’ and ‘Damnation And A Day’ may have been held together with more powerful notional glue but, unhindered by lofty concepts, Cradle’s eighth studio effort revels in its own diversity, traversing countless different musical moods, employing many ingenious lyrical wheezes and doffing its hangman’s cap respectfully at generous fistfuls of metal’s classiest stylistic advances. There’s an almost compilation-like feel to proceedings as the brutal, blackened deathcore of ‘Gilded Cunt’ leads on to the stately but scathing ‘Nemesis’, the elegant menace of ‘Gabrielle’ and the shadowy horror of ‘Absinthe With Faust’. Elsewhere there’s a Maiden-esque melody pile-up (‘Coffin Fodder’), a dignified but caustic mid-paced elegy (‘English Fire’), some gleefully unwholesome punk-metal (‘Filthy Little Secret’) and a hideous, blast-ridden theatrical epic (‘Mother Of Abominations), not to mention the bold, sprawling, three-part title track that boasts more hooks than a coachload of Abu Hamza impersonators. Lyrically, too, ‘Nymphetamine’ marks a high point. Dani Filth’s reliably deranged poetic skills remain Cradle’s most sorely underrated weapon. Here, he consistently excels himself. This is the sound of a great band having a huge amount of fun with their sound, throwing every conceivable idea into their steaming cauldron and brewing up something dense, unholy and deliciously substantial. Cynicism be damned Cradle Of Filth are more vital than ever. And here’s the proof. Dom Lawson (KKKKK) ‘Nymphetamine’ is released next Monday, Sept 27.

We’re pleased to inform you that Caliban have been added to the Machine Head tour, which hits the UK in November. God Forbid will also be appearing.

By now, we hope you have all had the chance to hit up our MUSIC section and download the latest MP3 added, “I Can Revive Him With My Own Hands,” from the latest addition to the Roadrunner family Still Remains. Well, now that you’ve gone that far, perhaps you are willing to go a bit further…check out the band’s page at myspace.com. There you can find a bit more history on the band, find your way to some more music on the band, and even see what fellow nerds have to say on the band (and we mean that in the nicest possible way, of course!).