Did You Know? November 20th was opening night for Nickelback and their 11 date tour run in Europe. First stop, das Sporthalle nach Hamburg, Germany. Ist gut, ja? Coming to the UK from this Saturday, Nov 23rd. And as for the point of this news update, Nickelback have received an American Music Awards nomination in the Pop/Rock category for “Favorite Band, Duo or Group” alongside Creed and Linkin Park. The American Music Awards will be hosted by the Osbournes, and be held on Monday, January 13, 2003 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, CA. And yes, this award will be televised. Congratulations to team Nickelback.

What’s the latest word from Spineshank in the studio? Drummer Tommy Decker tells the following: I just wanted to let you guys know what has been going on lately. We have been working 12 hours a day and things are moving along. We have 17 drum & bass tracks done. We should be done tracking in about 3 weeks. Mike is doing about a song a day, and the tracks are coming out awesome. We just started working on loops and weird sounds today, although most of the songs are gonna stay pretty raw and “live.” We are really concerned with making this album “rock”…like I have said before, most of the shit coming out lately is just that, shit! Im sick of bands mellowing out for radio. These new songs are definitely energetic, pissed off and heavy! – TOMMY

Chimaira will start recording their new record – titled The Impossibility Of Reason – on November 25th with producer/frontman of Sw1tched, Ben Schigel. Ben is responsible for producing Chimaira’s EP This Present Darkness. Frontman Mark Hunter is eager to work with Ben again, saying, “working with Ben is what this band needs. We get to create something we want with someone who knows us inside out, and we get to deliver a record that our fans will love sonically. Not only do we love the sounds we get out his studio, but all of our fans love the recordings of our demos, and our EP, so this just makes sense. The record has a very old school vibe and we can’t wait to start tracking it.” Old school? Mark continues, “and I don’t mean 1995 old school, we are talking 1982-1992, when metal was good, fast, and loaded with ripping solos.” Chimaira also plan on videotaping the entire recording process…Godspeed. And the other good news? Chimaira just launched a new website, an online studio documentary…It is already filled with loads of great studio shit, and they have yet to officially start recording. Keep an eye on this site, starting now – www.Chimaira.com.

Many Happy Birthday wishes going out to Nickelback’s Chad Kroeger today. We hope you have a fabulous day! Some of you also knew it was Chad’s birthday today… and we thought we’d share one such Happy Birthday email we received today with you. Dear Chad. I do hope you had a good time and a good rest on your birthday. I’m so looking forward to the M.E.N. U.K. gig that I’m almost at the point of exploding!!! You know that Nickelback have ‘older’ ‘more mature’ fans so why not give us a shout out at the gig ‘GIVE IT UP FOR THE JUBILEE GIRLS’ Happy birthday!! Love from Edna XXXX Thanks for the email Edna.. and all the rest of you who emailed in your Birthday greetings. Let us not forget to mention that it is Static of Anyone’s birthday as well! Static is spending tonight in Louisiana, USA, on tour… acting as tour manager in fact. Static, have a truly fantabulous day… Happy Birthday.

Slipknot’s New York DVD Premiere. Quite a spectacle it was. Did you check out the first video installment showing what you missed yet? We now present Part 2 HERE.

The previously mentioned competition to suggest cover songs for the Murderdolls at their upcoming December dates will run this Tuesday on the Radio 1 Rock Show. Also in that show a very special Jerry Cantrell Acoustic session will be broadcast. Enjoy.

Watch Slipknot’s new DVD ‘Disasterpieces’ on the big screen and win yourself a DVD player and loadsa ‘Knot goodies at our exclusive club nights! At each club night one lucky winner will take home the following prizes: Heretic Anthem (live) enhanced CD sampler inc DVD trailer Roadrage DVD Slipknot promo Disasterpieces badge Slipknot poster Slipknot ‘Welcome to our Neighbourhood’ video and all the Slipknot singles to date! All these winners will go into a grand prize draw to win a brand new DVD player! Plus 500 people at each night will get a promo ‘Disasterpieces’ badge and sticker, and another 100 will win a free promo Disasterpieces poster! The list of club nights is as follows: Thursday 21st November Birmingham ‘Academy’ Thursday 21st November Cardiff ‘Metros’ Friday 22nd November Lincoln ‘Sugercubes’ Friday 22nd November Nottingham ‘Speakeasy’ Friday 22nd November Bradford ‘Rios’ Friday 22nd November Newcastle ‘Arena’ Friday 22nd November Leeds ‘University’ Friday 22nd November Bristol ‘Cooler’ Friday 22nd November Plymouth ‘Legends’ Saturday 23rd November Sheffield ‘Corporation’ Saturday 23rd November Norwich ‘Zoom’ Saturday 23rd November Leicester ‘Lamplighters’ Saturday 23rd November Liverpool ‘Krazyhouse’ Saturday 23rd November Southhampton ‘Nexus’ Saturday 23rd November Edinburgh ‘The Mission’ Sunday 24th November London ‘Camden Underworld’ – One off Roadrunner Co-Promotion prior to midnight Virgin Megastore opening inc live bands! Monday 25th November Ipswich ‘Kartouche’ Wednesday 27th November Glasgow ‘New Flesh’ Thursday 28th November Southend ‘Kursall’ Saturday 30th November Wolves ‘Civic’ Saturday 30th November London ‘Subterrania’ Saturday 30th November Manchester ‘Rock Kitchen’ If you wanted even more reason to go, the Slipknot DVD will be screened in full at each club night.

For those of you who won’t have an invite to the DVD Premiere… here’s another way you can see the entire Slipknot DVD ‘Disasterpieces’ on the big screen. On November 24th, get yourself down to the Camden Underworld, London. It’s a mere fiver to get in, 퉌£4 with one of our flyers making their way around the streets of London over the next week (which handily also have a 퉌£2 off voucher for the DVD at Virgin). Plus it’s an all ages night. The DVD will be screened in it’s entirety, plus we’re sending BOX LOADS of Slipknot & Roadrunner goodies over for giveaways on the night – including keyrings, patches, t-shirts, DVDs, necklaces, posters, stickers, CDs, the list goes on. Not only that, you get a live set from the fabulous Ten Masked Men (yes, those guys who do metal covers of Britney Spears, Ricky Martin, Blue, and personal favourite Salt n’ Pepa’s Push It etc) and a very special guest! As for what to do after the club night, a short ride down the Northern tube line will take you to the Virgin Megastore at 14-16 Oxford Street for the special midnight opening where you can pick up your own copy of the DVD and get your mits on more free Slipknot goodies! And if that wasn’t enough, you might even get to meet some lovely Roadrunner staff propping up the bar too.

Each year, only one song gets the distinguished honour of being called “Song of the Year,” according to to the US Billboard Monitor. This award goes to the song that receives the most spins during the year across all radio formats in the USA. As we are writing about this, obviously we have a reason – someone in the Roadrunner family is taking the prize. That being said, one guess as to which song in the Roadrunner repertoire will be receiving the “Song of the Year” award… Nickelback, “How You Remind Me” Yet another notch on the belt for this band and their accomplishments with the Silver Side Up release. Congratulations.

… in case you didn’t know, MTV2’s ‘Gonzo’ is repeated the next day, so the awesome Slipknot DVD Premiere competition will run again tomorrow between 12 – 2pm.