“The Murderdolls are perfect. In the same way that The Undertones or Tatu or The Cheekygirls or Take That or The Petshopboys or The Sex Pistols or Junior Senior or Nirvana or Mud or Kylie are perfect. For there is nothing that could be added or subtracted that would in any way improve the basic idea of a gang of 4 ft tall Marilyn Manson Mini-Me horrorgoths banging out 4/4 balls-to-the-slaughterhouse-wall glam-metal with lyrics about necrophilia, death, disease and suicide. And why bands that dress like tramps and bang on about being depressed should be taken out and made to dig their own graves and then shot in the back of the neck. Get over it! Take some Prozac! Buy a puppy! Die! BANG!” Written by Steven Wells, you can read the complete Playlouder’s Murderdolls interview with Joey HERE.

Pure and simple, new Ill Nino art for forthcoming album ‘Confession’ posted HERE.

Calling all SPINESHANK fans… Tune into Scuzz TV for ‘Smothered’ is #3 in the video chart. Nice eh? Speaking of Scuzz, calling all TYPE O NEGATIVE fans… Johnny Kelly’s interview piece ‘Big Tools & G Strings’ is now running on Scuzz TV. And you can watch TWO TON videos – I Don’t Wanna Be Me & My Girlfriend’s Girlfriend (who needs Tatu). Check it out. Calling all MURDERDOLLS fans… White Wedding is now up for selection on Q TV. No longer does #192 get you directory enquiries… now on Q it gets you the Murderdolls. Calling all STONE SOUR fans… Check out Kerrang! magazine for a special 3-page On The Road feature with the band. And there’s a feature in the new Ice too.

We present an exerpt from Dani Filth’s (Cradle Of Filth) tour diary from the US Ozzfest… Why? Read on… “Marysville, Ca. – Wednesday 9th July. Very hot day and I’m starting to get a bit of a tan (yuk!). Ozzy cancelled but I wasn’t told why. The show went on successfully anyway with Korn headlining. We just got to play a little later. I got up real early to catch Killswitch’s 9.30am set and played a naughty trick on Adam D. by swapping his water for Newcastle Brown ale while he wasn’t watching. He just drank it down and used the bottle as a guitar slide! Damn he’s more rock than most on this tour! We had a very solid show and even got “Ebonyí¢ä‰åŒ_” in the set for good measure. The keys tried to die ‘cos of the sun but we pulled it off. Another good Ozzfest day.” Thanks to Sin Metal.

Posted up in the STORE a mere 5 minutes ago. Exclusive to this website. Very limited. Highly collectable. Murderdolls ‘White Wedding’ limited edition 7″ vinyl picture disc. And even a coupla signed things if you are really quick. First come, first serve.

Did you know? In this country there’s a radio system called Fasttrax, allowing record companies to simultaneously deliver new music to lots of radio stations across the whole country. Cool eh? Why are we telling you this? The brand new Nickelback single ‘Someday’ will become available to over 200 radio stations in the UK via Fastrax at mid-day on Wednesday 30th July. So, if you want to hear the new single, get ready to request… that’s mid-day on Wednesday 30th July. In other ‘Back news, if you haven’t picked up Silver Side Up and the Live At Home DVD yet, now’s your chance. Out on Monday is a special Nickelback combo CD + DVD package… available from Monday July 28th for around 퉌£13.99 from HMV, VIRGIN, MVC, SANITY & all good INDIE stores.

Coming August 11th is the soundtrack to the upcoming movie Freddy Vs Jason (movie release date is August 15th). On this soundtrack, you will find 20 tracks, 9 of which were never released in the UK (14 in the US many of those so new or rare they were NEVER released ANYWHERE). Want to hear it? Check out the following online eplayer at www.roadrunnerrecords.com/FreddyVsJason.

What’s the latest from the world of DevilDriver? Dez Fafara checks in with the following update: “Now that the DevilDriver album is complete, we will be receiving mixes from numerous individuals to determine who will be mixing the album. We are excited to hear these mixes, and cannot wait for everything to move forward. We are also very pleased and proud to announce that a good friend of mine – the world renown tattoo artist, the infamous and dark, Paul Booth – will be doing the artwork for the album, and is also working on band logos as well. “Again, the album title is Straight To Hell. I have been asked many times if there is a theme to this album, and yes, there is a theme – If anybody is familiar with the story of FAUST, the album would be somewhere along the lines of that. Everyone sells their soul for something, we have sold our soul for our art. There will be 12 songs on the album, and we are looking for an October release…however, that hasn’t yet been finalized. “We are looking forward to bringing you something different, unique, something not heard before. This art has many influences, and we’d like to paint a very vivid picture in your mind. Influences such as black metal, death metal, and hardcore thrash, as well as strict heavy metal groove have all been put together into the picture. If you want to check out a little something, we have a song called “Swinging The Dead” on the upcoming Freddy Vs Jason soundtrack, you can go to www.roadrunnerrecords.com/FreddyVsJason to check it out. “Also, please check out our new message board – www.devildriver.com/forum. Please feel free to post any questions you might have…I will be answering a bunch on Monday morning. “Until then, I hope everybody has a great week and weekend. As for me, I’m on the way down to my local record store to buy the new Superjoint Ritual album…I’m looking forward to sitting on my couch and listening to the whole thing in its entirety.” “As always, hail the night…” -Dez Fafara

The time has come. The new Ill Nino album – titled Confession – is completely complete (mixed, mastered, in the bag). Only thing left is to await the delivery of their latest video for inclusion in the release. Hell, we even have a track listing, as follows: 1. Te Amo…I Hate You 2. 2 (Vaya Con Dios) 3. How Can I Live 4. Unframed 5. Cleansing 6. This Time’s For Real 7. Lifeless…Life… 8. Numb 9. Have You Ever Felt? 10. When It Cuts 11. Letting Go 12. All The Right Words 13. ReBirth For new music from Ill Nino, check out their MUSIC page – an MP3 download of “How Can I Live” and a RealAudio stream of “Te Amo, I Hate You” are up…

For the past few weeks, Chimaira has been on tour with In Flames, Soilwork, and Unearth. For this upcoming week, Chimaira will find themselves headlining a handful of dates en route to joining up with the US Ozzfest tour on July 31 in Noblesville, Indiana. So how has the summer tour schedule been treating the band so far? Chimaira frontman Mark Hunter gives the following update: “Where do I begin? Let’s just say that this has been the best tour we have done to date. Ya, I know I say that all the time, but fuck it. In Flames treated us like gold, we had a blast with Soilwork, and Unearth rocked the house. We had a good time on this tour because there were only 2 days off, and every show was crazy PACKED! We hope to meet up with In Flames and Soilwork and Unearth real soon. For our friends in the USA, we will see you all summer on Ozzfest, and our friends in the UK, look out, we are coming back fuckers! Cheers Mark over and out”