We’re pleased to announced 2 new Stone Sour tour dates, following on from their appearance at the Download Festival. The dates are as follows: LIMERICK Date: June 3 Venue: Dolans Warehouse Price: 22.00 euro Web: www.dolans.ie Ph: 0035361314483 DUBLIN Date:June 4 Venue: The Village Price: 25.00 euro Web: www.mcd.ie / www.ticketmaster.ie / www.thevillagevenue.com Ph: 1890925100

Hot from the RR US Press Office…. ALBUM #1 MOST ADDED ACROSS THE BOARD ON METAL RADIO CHARTS! VIDEO FOR “DOWN AGAIN” LANDS AT #6 ON CVC CHARTS PRISONERS REQUEST NEW ALBUM ON LOCAL RADIO STATION! New York, NY: CHIMAIRA’s new album The Impossibility Of Reason is making a huge splash at metal radio and video outlets. CHIMAIRA is everywhere on the eve of The Impossibility Of Reason’s May 12 release. The album claimed top add honors at metal radio, crushing the competition with a closed metal fist, as it scored #1 Most Added at CMJ and FMQB’s metal charts. The Impossibility Of Reason not only stole top add honors across the board. The album also debuted in FMQB’s Top 10 and CMJ’s Top 20 airplay charts, respectively. A community radio station, WIKB, in Iron River, MI, even received a letter from an inmate at a local prison, requesting that new CHIMAIRA songs be played on the station’s Saturday night metal program. Apparently, CHIMAIRA helps ease the monotony and struggle of incarceration. In other CHIMAIRA metal domination news, the band’s video for “Down Again,” which was lensed by Paul Brown, made a huge leap on the CVC Rock/AlternativeVideo Chart, landing in the plum position of #6 (above platinum-sellers Staind, Linkin Park & Godsmack). CHIMAIRA continues to terrorize audiences as it tours with Lamb Of God, Eighteen Visions, and Atreyu. The band heads to Europe next month with labelmates Spineshank and upon its return to the States, will hit the road again with In Flames and Soilwork. NEW CHIMAIRA ALBUM OUT ON MONDAY.

Junkie XL has done a remix of ‘Blue Pill, Red Pill’ for the new Matrix film ‘Reloaded’. This track contains samples out of the Matrix movie (take the blue pill, take the red pill)! This floorfiller is only available on very limited promo 12″ out on Warner Bros. Movie Company to promote the film (just 200 copies!). Not only that Junkie XL has done some musical cues for The Matrix project! Apart from Dave Gahan appearing vocally on the track ‘Reload’, on the forthcoming Junkie XL album, Junkie XL has done a remix for the new Dave Gahan single ‘Sticky Floors’ which is being released to support his new solo album.

If you want to cast your vote in the Metal Hammer Awards, you can now do so online, instead of by text message. Go on, send in some votes for the Murderdolls, and Stone Sour HERE. All who vote are entered into a draw to win tickets to the Awards Show!

Yep, that’s right… it’s a hat-trick! This week’s dance charts for Junkie XL’s forthcoming single ‘Catch Up To My Step’ are as follows… #1 – RM Club Chart #1 – DMC Club Chart #1 – DMC Mainstream Chart #2 – RM Pop-Tip Chart Previous chart positions: #1 – BUZZ CHARTS #6 – RM Cool Cuts Junkie XL ‘Catch Up To My Step’ is released on May 26th. Collecting playlists: The Box, The Amp (10/05), MTV Dance (A List), XFM (A List), Ministry Of Sound 퉌© List), Music Choice ‘Hit List’ (B List), SBN (B-List), 2XS Sheffield (A-List), West FM Ayr (B-List), Power FM 퉌© List), BBC 6 Music (B List), Capital Disney (B-List), Lochbroom FM (B List). And here’s who to tune into to hear it on radio: Radio 1 – Seb Fontaine, Pete Tong, Mary Anne Hobbs, Annie Nightingale, Vicky Marsden Capital FM – Ali B, Justin Wilkes ‘Tune Of The Week’ KISS FM – Andy Morris & Tall Paul, Graham Gold. as well as… BBC Stornoway, Beat 106, SRH Network, BRMB, Cool FM, Delta FM, Essex FM, Fusion Oxford, Galaxy 105, Galay 102.2, Invicta FM Kent, Juice 107.6, Lochbroom FM, Moray Firth, Radio City, SBN, TFM, 2FM, Vibe FM, Viking FM & West FM, BBC N.Ireland, Island FM. Rock FM… the list goes on… And for things to read – reviews & features upcoming in all the major Pop and music mags: BBM (Front Cover), DJ (Front Cover), Bang, Burn It Blue, CD:UK, Daily Record, FHM, Front, Hot Press, Jack, Loaded, M8, Marie Claire, Maxim, Mixmag, Muzik, NME, Penthouse, Playlouder, Progressive Sounds, Radar, Sneak, TOTPs, TV Hits, Uncut, Update, X-Ray.

The Murderdolls will be performing a special one-off show at Madame JoJo’s in London’s West End on June 2nd. The band will be onstage at midnight. There are only 180 tickets available for this show, and they are on sale now from WAYAHEAD’S WEBSITE. In addition to this special date, the Murderdolls have also confirmed 2 additional one-offs. You can catch them at: * Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms – June 2nd BUY TIX HERE * Cardiff University – July 7th

Tuesday (May 6) in downtown L.A. at a place called Ye Ole’ Abandoned House, Spineshank shot the latest piece in their video library. The video is for a track from their forthcoming Self Destructive Pattern release, that track being “Smothered.” How did it go? “Really, really well…looks amazing! Incredible! It was soooo good! The video is gonna be awesome,” exclaims an unnamed press person from the house of Roadrunner…but then again, that’s a press cat’s job. But seriously, all was said with real conviction, and the band was completely psyched for the shoot. And speaking of real, at the end of the video, the band destroys the room they are playing in. Did You Know? They destroyed the room with such conviction, that they actually broke through a wall into the next room. Now that’s-a-fuckin-real! And for your last bit of real for the day, check out Spineshank’s PHOTO GALLERY for a few pics from the video yesterday’s video shoot at Ye Ole’ Abandoned House. Spineshank Self Destructive Pattern coming this summer

Do you want a free 8-track Roadrunner sampler CD of brand new music for absolutely nothing? Of course you do! New Shit Volume 6 is here…. head on over into the FREE SHIT section to find out more. But the deadline is this Thursday, so get a move on!

Looking for the latest titbits in print about Junkie XL? Let us help you out… below are just a few of the current writings worth checking out since our last update. – reviews of the new single in Top Of The Pops magazine, CD:UK magazine, and DJ magazine, as well as music industry trade mag Music Week. – web features on the sites of BurnItBlue, Playlouder, and Progressive Sounds. You can see the video for Catch Up To My Step on Sky TV channel The Amp on the Music:Response show tonight and tomorrow’s show from 9pm. The video will also be added to the channel’s votable playlist from Saturday 10th May! More great Junkie XL news: the video has just been moved up to the A-list playlist on MTV Dance. And it’s on the A-list on radio station XFM! Coming next week more than a dozen new press cuts… it just keeps on coming.

Don’t take our word for it – here’s what Kerrang! had to say about the new Chimaira album… Chimaira The Impossibility Of Reason Roadrunner KKKK REASONS TO BE FEARFUL Ohio’s heaviest join the new metal revolution Two years ago, Chimaira’s ‘Pass Out Of Existence’ album teetered precariously on the fence between full-on metallic aggression and the thematic angst of nu-metal its brutal, futuristic sheen and intense, airtight riffs placing the band firmly at the extreme end of modern metal like an inspired, 21st century re-write of pre-‘Demanufacture’ Fear Factory. Certainly, the better tracks on the album should have alerted us to the arrival of a uniquely potent force, but even the prickly vehemence of ‘Sp lit’, with its seething, hateful lyrics (“You destroy me every time you little c**t*”), failed to make any real impact in the UK. In fact, this was a blessing in disguise, because two years on Chimaira sound 100 per cent reborn a genuine, big-balls-and-bloody-knuckles metal band who display and instinctive grasp of the fact that Metallica, Slayer and Alice In Chains at their respective peaks were ten times harder, heavier and cooler than any nu-metal band. Although less intrinsically traditional than either Killswitch Engage or Shadows Fall, Chimaira are approaching metal in a similar way Andols Herrick’s vicious double-bass drum attack, Mark Hunter’s raw vocals and Rob Arnold’s searing, belligerent solos all betray an appreciation of thrash and death metal that sits perfectly comfortably with the band’s occasionally baggy-trousered, nu-centric tendencies. Even on a song like ‘Pure Hatred’, that ripples with the scowling misanthropy that Slipknot have long since trademarked, Chimaira have the fluid agility and hyper-conscious precision that only sincere students of underground metal are capable of pulling off. Whether it’s the menacing, Layne Stayley-esque harmonies of ‘Pictures In The Gold Room’, the dissonant, snarling assault of ‘Power Trip’ or the pained howl of “I will crawl on broken knees” that gives ‘Crawl’ its intensely satisfying hook, ‘The Impossibility Of Reason’ is utterly convincing, fiercely intelligent and very f**king heavy indeed. DOM LAWSON