Just posted: more live photos of the July 12th Murderdolls and Stone Sour show at the London Brixton Academy show than you can shake a stick at. Check em out: STONE SOUR PHOTO GALLERY. MURDERDOLLS PHOTO GALLERY.

Did you check out the STORE today yet? We’ve just put a buncha cool items on sale and marked down the prices. One such item is a special Stone Sour & Murderdolls double sided huge poster – originally only available to stores, but yours for just 퉌£2… a nice tour souvenir if you ask us. Numbers are limited, so don’t hang about if you want one. Oh, and we added a few new bits too for those Fear Factory, Chimaira & Spineshank fans out there.

Did you pick it up yet? ‘Self-Destructive Pattern’ is IN STORES NOW (with a free logo patch from ‘Roadrage’ stores too doncha know). Here’s what Terroriser had to say about them: “However you brand them, make sure the words excellent and distinctive head your label.” Two more tracks, detailed by the one and only Tommy Decker, Spineshank’s drummer. 7. Self-Destructive Pattern “This song started off as a 2 minute “almost death metal” song but got worked into what you hear now. Lyrically I was in a really bad place mentally. We had been writing the record for a long time and still werent done. I felt like we were destroying ourselves (hence the title) and there was no way out. This song was written out of that frustration. It stays really hard throughout the entire song with a really cool chorus that sort of reminded me of Alice In Chains. Mike came up with some very different harmonies for the chorus that give it that “eerie” vibe. Rob did some of the best screaming he has ever done on this song.” 8. Tear Me Down “This is another example of a song that just came together very quickly. It’s got a lot of energy and Jonny came up with some great melodies and harmonies in the chorus. “ more to come…

Type O Negative’s hilarious new video for ‘I Don’t Wanna Be Me’ is now available on Kerrang! TV as selection number 305. Not only that, if you pick up today’s new issue of Kerrang! it’s been awarded Video Of The Week! Let us know which character from the video you like best & why… Marilyn, Britney, Michael, maybe even Elton? Who knows, maybe we’ll send you something.

We’ve seen a few message board postings about the new Murderdolls White Wedding single CD, claiming the sound on the video doesn’t work when you play it in your computer. Shock horror. So we undertook some testing here in the office, and none of the CDs are defective, so please don’t take them back to your local shop. The reason is simple. You have an out of date version of Quicktime on your computer. Once you download the latest version, the CD works fine. You can get the download free HERE.

Murderdoll Acey Slade under the spotlight. Name: Acey Date of birth: December 15th Favourite tour story: Just the experience of going to Japan and Europe. Watching Eric puke, or anyone in the band puke is fun. Yourself in five words? Creepy, creepy, creepy, creepy, creepy. Must have album: Manic Street Preachers – Holy Bible. Did you know? Acey was in London for a couple days after the last Murderdolls/Stone Sour show at Brixton, and took in the Manic Street Preachers special show at HMV last night. Famous dinner guest: Hannibal Lector. I hear his fillet of sole is amazing. Wisest words: ‘Carpe Diem’. Or ‘just because I cannot see it, does not mean I can’t believe it’. Alternative career: The Pumpkin King of Halloween Town. Something about yourself: I become more sure everyday that Jack Skellington and Emily are real people living in my head.

As this is being written, cranking from the RR conference room one can hear Ill Nino’s upcoming album, Confessions. Members from the band are in the room, a token A&R nerd & marketing nerd (meant in the nicest possible way), and a couple press people from outside publications…record reviewin’ and interviewin’… So what’s been going on in camp Ill Nino? This past Thursday (July 10) at Universal Studios in Los Angeles, they shot their latest video – the video being for “How Can I Live” which will be released on the Freddy vs Jason soundtrack come August 11th, and then again on the band’s upcoming second release this autumn. What was the shoot like? Check for yourself – 35 pics from Thursday’s shoot can now be found in Ill Nino’s PHOTO GALLERY.

Ring, ring goes the phone. It’s Dez Fafara. What’s he doing? “Fuckin’ partying, I just finished….I’m outta my mind right now.” Dez elaborates as follows: “I just finished my vocals, and I’m out of my mind. There are thank you cards, congratulation cards…and scotch flowing. Evan has approximately 15 more minutes of guitars, and then it’s done. We are listening to Testament’s The Gathering, “3 Days In Darkness” while waiting for our A&R guy Kevin Estrada, who is bringing up early 80’s Metallica live shows on DVD…with Cliff.” “We have decided on a permanent title for the album, that title is ‘Straight To Hell’. Next stop, tour, tour, tour.” Minutes later, Kevin Estrada himself called. “DUDE, the relief,” Kevin tells. “I can’t believe this (that recording is complete), it’s like I just had a child, like a porcupine just popped out of me.” As for Kevin’s thoughts on the album title ‘Straight To Hell’, he casually says, “that’s been my life every morning…” DevilDriver ‘Straight To Hell’ coming this Autumn

Please put this on the site. I’m Richard Cahill and this is a review for the Manchester gig for Stone Sour & Murderdolls. Happy to oblige – thanks for emailing Richard. What can I say, two of the three bands tore shit up. Elviss weren’t great and received more than enough abuse, but they did well to keep their cool as long as they did. Anyway, then was the return of Corey Taylor and friends to Manchester. Wow! The guitar riffs ripped through the intense atmosphere and woke everyone up. The pit had begun and from this point forward wouldn’t stop till the show had ended. The mellow guitaring of Bother mixed in with Metallica’s Sanitarium provided good support for the thundering distortion of Get Inside and Choose. Classics such as Inhale and Monolith were played well. What a sight though when Corey fell and nearly broke his arm and said “you fuckers think that was funny”.. “yes” we all shouted and Corey’s response was simply “fukin assholes.” If I remember correctly they finished with Tumult and this left me falling down, god I was exhausted but I had to begin recuperating for the Murderdolls set! When the lights went and Murderdolls crept upon the stage a wave of cheers awakened any sleeping parents in the crowd. They opened with Dawn Of The Dead. Other songs included 197666, Let’s Go To War, People Hate Me and Love At First Fright. White Wedding got everyone jumping around and chanting the words like they’d known the Murderdolls for their whole life. The set had everything, Joey in his scarlet wig, Wednesday with his ‘FUCK’ umbrella and Ghoul with his thumping drumming. The solos were crushing and wiped any problems you had from your mind. There were alot of younger kids there which shows that metal bands and the Murderdolls are really taking the UK by storm. It was to my surprise that Acey got naked, not a sight I was planning on seeing. It was love at first fright when I got to spend the night with my very own b-movie scream queen (kiz,wat a night hey!) Everyone going to Murderdolls concerts in near future better get ready to have a slice of that murder pie. What a night. The Murderdolls and Stone Sour came, saw and conquered once again.

As we promised in the WHITE WEDDING E-CARD Murderdoll Joey Jordison’s guitar & more is up for grabs in FREE SHIT. You’ve got until 10pm on Saturday July 19th to enter to win it. New single ‘White Wedding’, featuring unreleased tracks & video, is out now for 퉌£1.99.