Welcome to Part V of Mr. Roger’s Return To The Hood – words from Ill Nino’s percussionist Roger Vasquez…It is Friday, December 21st, a mere 4 days before Christmas. Ill Nino is back in NY from their first ever tour of Europe…which means that Roger is back in the hood. So, how was this virgin European experience? Roger’s words are as follows: “Cheers, ya? This is Roger, ya? I’m back in the hood, kickin it live, very happy to be back in the homeland. Although, on the real, Europe has become our second home. In my eyes, everything about Europe was memorable, much like the first time I masturbated – I didn’t know what to expect, but in the end it was all good in the hood, if ya know what I mean… Yo, I wanna drop a big up to Machine Head, those are our true brothers. They gave us mad respect and the knowledge & guidance they showed us was the shit. It will definitely never be forgotten – much love to those brothers. The fans were totally the shit, they were fuckin each other up at shows, much like the Christmas parties at my house when mom brings out pernil and pastelitos…you know that shit is gonna get dogged up. No doubt. All in all, everything about Europe was a memorable moment, BUT, one of the craziest shit to happen to me and my brothers (Ill Nino) was the crazy ass plane ride from Newark to Germany. The Airport – For one, we get to Newark airport straight from the previous show in Detroit, which by the way ruled. Now Newark ain’t the happiest airport in the world right now, know what I’m sayin’? And to have Ill Nino walkin up in there was like bringin hookers to church for confession…It ain’t gonna happen (by the way, Ill Nino don’t like flyin’). After security checks, anal cavity checks, dental checks & bounced checks, they finally decided to let us up in on this bitch. So we’re all loungin’ in the plane, gettin our drink on, waiting for the take-off of what would come to be known as the flight from hell (by the way, Ill Nino don’t like flyin’). The Weather – Did I mention there was a big ass rain storm up in this mother? Shit, Moses could’ve parted the seas with all the water that was droppin’. No doubt. We was lookin at each other wonderin how the hell did we get into this one? Much like when a crack deala gets his cream cropped, you know the brotha is gonna be crazy mad…and this storm was indeed a crack deala (by the way, did I mention Ill Nino don’t like flyin’?). Take-Off – We were in the air not just 2 minutes when this dildo with wings starts vibrating all over the place (turbulence). It was like this bitch just got brand new Energizer batteries, I mean it was squirmin’, and the rain was makin her wet. The Flight – “Make mine a double…as a matter of fact, make everyone’s a double” I was shittin bricks, cement, mortar, you know what I’m sayin…this plane shook for almost 2 hours straight – Mother Nature was pushing all the right buttons on this bitch, and she was squealin. No doubt. After all that craziness, they started servin us food (plane food). It was like eatin G.G. Allin’s underwear…it was not righteous. I passed on the grub. I passed out, all drunk n’ shit. When I woke up, I was in Germany (schiezer). Praise the almighty god Ozzy, we made it down. Europe, thanks once again for the great times and the hospitality – it was well worth the trip. To the Roadrunner staff in Europe, you guys are the shit. And to Machine Head, thanks once again for this experience…can’t wait to see you guys again and share a brown-eye. Next, we’re back out with Kittie. So look out for the madness. Peace in the middle east, Roger ‘Babaloo’ Vasquez” Roger, thanks once again for the update. For the rest of you, know that Ill Nino’s stay at home was brief, as they are back out on the road already with Kittie and Chimaira and come March will be hitting the road with Drowning Pool.

US Radio Update: Without being officially released to radio, “BOTHER” has also become the #1 requested song in both Detroit and Philidelphia, beating out EMINEM’s “Without Me” by a 2-1 vote. It should also be noted that Des Moines’ LAZER 1033 (KAZR), was among the first to add “BOTHER” to its play lists. Nice. Many a first-time happening this weekend in Des Moines, IOWA. Where to start…ah, yes – Stone Sour (featuring Corey Taylor and Jim Root of Slipknot) and downthesun will be playing their first ever show together (see end of update for show details)…in fact, it is the first show for either band while on Roadrunner Records. …this will be Stone Sour’s first time playing live under the name Stone Sour in this here the new millennium (first show played under the name Stone Sour since 1997, to be exact)…the band has been practicing for this weekend’s show in the basement of Corey’s home – back when Stone Sour first formed in 1992, they first used to practice in the basement of Corey’s grandmother’s house, back when Corey used to work at the Adult Emporium on 14th Street (Corey’s first job? Don’t know)…Rock… …for downthesun, this will be the first time a live show of their’s will be videotaped (Slipknot’s Clown is directing the effort)…that videotape will most likely serve as the first time YOU get to see live footage of the band, as this footage could very well be used as an early video for one of their songs…this will be the first and last time you will ever get the opportunity to buy a certain downthesun t-shirt (the band printed up 84 shirts of a design for this show, one time only, never to be printed again)…Roll… show details: Sunday, June 23rd Toad Hollar 1820 East Army Post Rd. Des Moines IA, 50320 doors at 6:00pm 1st Band at 8:00pm (Index Case and On A Pale Horse also appear) another first: this will be the first time for either band hitting the stage at Toad Hollar – neither has ever played there before. famous parting words: “If you’re not there, I feel very, very, sorry for you” – Corey Taylor, 06.21.2002 Corey Is Bothered… In stores now is the soundtrack to the motion picture Spider-Man. In case you don’t already know, there is a song on the soundtrack titled “Bother”. “Bother”, as written and performed by Slipknot’s Corey Taylor. How did this come to be? What is the song all about? What does the song sound like? Interview with Corey Taylor: “Bother”, Spider-Man, and more (May 9th, 2002): Roadrunner: Have you seen the movie Spider-Man yet? Corey : I haven’t had a chance to yet, man. I’m freakin’ out, I’ve been waiting for this movie to come out since ’93 when James Cameron was going to direct it. The movie I’ve been waiting for most of my life hits, and I’m in the studio workingí¢ä‰åŒ_but I’m probably going to see it tonight. Roadrunner: Very cool, what are you in the studio working on right now? Corey: Well, I’m working on my side project that was entitled Superego, but now I think we’re gonna call it Closure. Roadrunner : I was going to ask you a bit about your side project. How many people are involved in it? You andí¢ä‰åŒ_ Corey : Jim from Slipknot is in it. Two of the guys from Stone Sour, the band I was in before Slipknot. Actually, Jim was in Stone Sour as well. And a friend of mine who I’ve been working with for like 13 years plays guitar. Roadrunner: How many songs do you guys have down? Corey: We have 16 songs, including “Bother”. Roadrunner: So, “Bother”, the recording and writing, that was purely you, right? Corey: Yeah. Roadrunner: “Biggest Spider-Man freak of all time”, you have been quoted as saying. When did this all start? What is the attraction? Corey : It started when I was a kid – my mom actually kept a lot of comic books around. She just kind of had them stacked all over the place. As a kid, we were really poor so I didn’t have a lot to read, but I was an avid reader. So I’d start picking up these comic books and reading them. I discovered Spider-Man and just fell in love with the character. Everybody likes to talk about his sense of responsibility, and that he’s cursed with these powersí¢ä‰åŒ_what I liked was that he would just talk shit the whole time he was fighting the enemies. He didn’t take any of it seriously – he’s staring into the face of danger and he’s just like ‘Guess what? If it’s gonna happen it’s gonna happen, I’m gonna win, and that’s just the way it goes.’ I really looked up to that, ya know? Roadrunner: “Bother”, this was written what, seven years ago you’ve said? Corey: Yeah, about seven years ago. I wrote it on the dashboard of my friend’s car as I was moving back from Denver, back to Des Moines. I wrote the lyrics in about six minutes. When I finally got home I grabbed the guitar because I didn’t want to lose it, and I worked the music out. It was basically just something that I would play once in a while just for myself. And then when I was doing the demos for this side project, I went in and recorded it – just on a whim, real quick, real barebones, me and a guitar. It fell into the hands of Denise Louiso at Sony. She heard it, she flipped outí¢ä‰åŒ_it just kind of went from there. Roadrunner: What’s the song about? Corey: The song is just about the time I was moving back from Denver – I just felt really broken down because I moved to Denver to try to move forward with my music. I just got to the point where it was like ‘nothing is going to happen for me in Des Moines.’ Ya know, how ironic is that? I moved out to Denver and found out it was the same way all over the place. It was actually worse in Denver because at the time nobody gave a shit about original music, it was all cover bands out there. I was so used to being able to do what I wanted in Des Moines. I actually fractured my arm at a party and I lost my job out there so I was literally living off bottles and cans. It got to the point where I had to move back, just no way it was working for me out there. So I move back to Des Moines and that song, I had been toying with the idea of that song for a while. And I just hit the dash lights and wrote it down in like 5-6 minutes, and I just kept humming it the whole way home. Roadrunner: Obviously, you had no end use in mind for this song at the time, correct? Corey: No, no, not at all, man. Ya know, I have forty or fifty songs just like that, all acoustic. I write that stuff for me. It was just one of those songs where if I never get to do anything with it, at least I have a recording of it. So it just turned into that, and through the grace of God it ended up in somebody’s hands. It’s funny how fate works. Roadrunner: The whole Spider-Man soundtrack, did you actually pursue that or did it just happen? Corey: You know what, I’d been telling my ex-manager to get me on the soundtrack for a year. As soon as I found out it was happening, I was like ‘look, I don’t care what you do, I don’t care what you say, you need to get me on that soundtrackí¢ä‰åŒ_’ Roadrunner: You wanted that song on it in particular. Corey: Oh, absolutely. If there was any song that was going to be on there, it was going to be that one. Roadrunner: And why was it “Bother” over any of the other 40 songs you have written acoustically? Corey: Just for the fact that if you read the lyrics, it’s all about following your path in life even though you know it’s not the path that you want, and it’s not the path you really have in mind. And it kind of fits along with the whole Spider-Man theme, ya know? If you look at his powers, it’s a blessing and a curse – he’s cursed to fulfill his own destiny because of this, and yes he gets to help people and what not, but at the same time he has to live with all this stuff going on in his life and really deal with the downside of everything. So the lyrics, the feel of it really fit in with what is going on in the movie, I believe. Roadrunner: Very well put, very well put. Couple more questions. The side project, how often you guys playing right now? Corey: Actually, we just got done recording the album. We’re just trying to get it mixed and mastered and all that stuff. Roadrunner: You recorded all sixteen songs? Corey: Yeah. Roadrunner: What do people have to look forward to hearing, sound wise? Corey: It’s really good – It’s real melodic, it’s more hard rock, but it’s still heavy, by all meansí¢ä‰åŒ_.it’s really heavy. But at the same time it’s nowhere near as heavy as Slipknot is. This is more of like Metallica meets Alice In Chains. It’s really good stuff and I hope people dig it. Roadrunner: As for Slipknot, dvd is in the works right now, and you’ll be playing some upcoming shows in Europe, so festivalsí¢ä‰åŒ_ Corey: Yeah, some festivals in Augustí¢ä‰åŒ_ Roadrunner: Other future Slipknot plans in the works right now? Corey: We (Slipknot) are gonna get together next year and start working on a new album. For right now, this side project is pretty much my only priority. Roadrunner: You see this project touring this year. Corey: Yeah, absolutely. Should be doing America this year. We thank Corey for his time. Stone Sour… more info coming soon….

Ill Nino’s debut album is called ‘Revolution Revolucion’ and is available to buy now! Ron St. Germain (311) produced it. The CD is available for around 퉌£11.99 from the following stores: HMV, Virgin, MVC, Andys and all good Indie stores. Or get it with those Xmas vouchers from Great Aunt Mary. “Both startingly aggressive and yet also effortlessly commercial” – Kerrang! “Ill Nino have rapidly sliced out a bloody, angry niche as one of the most ferocious of the nu-breed” – Metal Hammer “Angry album of the month” – RockSound “Ill Nino bring styles together styles with brutal and brilliant effect” – The Times 4/5 The tracklisting is: “God Save Us” click to hear streaming version or click here to download an MP3 “If You Still Hate Me” click to hear streaming version “Unreal” “Nothing’s Clear” “What Comes Around” Click HERE to download the free MP3. “Liar” “Rumba” “Predisposed” “I Am Loco” “No Murder” “Rip Out Your Eyes” “Revolution/Revolucion” “With You”

You can now request the video for Seek ‘N’ Strike on Kerrang! TV – selection # 709. DOWNLOAD TEAMER INTERVIEW On short notice and no warning, we called up one of our street teamers, Gavin Lewis, and sent him off to meet Max & Gloria at a London hotel during their last promo visit here. With him he took a minidisc recorder and a bunch of questions, submitted by other teamers, as well as his own! Why? To do an interview of course! To download the MP3 of the interview (approx 10mb), just go to the MUSIC page. If that’s a little on the large size for you, worry not, for we shall be adding a streaming version of this shortly. And if that still doesn’t cut it with ya, we’ll be adding a written transcript shortly after that. Enjoy. And thanks for the help Gavin! COME AND GET IT: OUT NOW: The band’s third album is called simply “3”. Available for around 퉌£12.99 (digipack) & 퉌£11.99 (CD) from the following shops: HMV – 퉌£2 off with ‘Download 2002’ discount card + free ‘Download 2002’ sampler, Virgin/VShop – available as part of the current ‘2 for 퉌£22’ offer, MVC, Sanity, Andys, and indies – free poster at selected stores. Check the new album out for yourself in our MUSIC section, you will find (in RealAudio Streaming format, of course) a 1 hour, 17 minute stream…that there stream is Soulfly 3. Don’t say we never gave ya anything. Enjoy. The tracklisting is: 1. Downstroy (4:24) 2. Seek ‘N’ Strike (4:27) 3. Enterfaith (4:46) 4. One (5:21) 5. L.O.T.M.(2:35) 6. Brasil (4:56) 7. Tree Of Pain (8:19) 8. One Nation (3:42) 9. 9-11-01(1:00) 10. Call To Arms (1:23) 11. Four Elements (4:20) 12. Soulfly III (5:00) 13. Sangue De Bairro (2:18) 14. Zumbi (2:37) Digipack – bonus tracks 15. I Will Refuse (4:06) 16. Under The Sun (5:45) 17. Eye For An Eye (live at Ozzfest 2000) (4:07) 18. Pain (live at Ozzfest 2000) (5:00)

UK Tour Reports.. Manchester – The first UK show ever for Ill Nino! Lots of anticipation therefore, and the band are anxious to play well and not disappoint. And the crowd goes wild… not only during the set, but when the band appear at the merchandise stand afterwards to sign some stuff and hang out with the people at the show. We hear they were literally mobbed! The band were happily overwhelmed and would have stayed there all night if they hadn’t been taken off to RockWorld for a few post-show beverages. Ill Nino have a massive amount of energy on stage, and don’t stand still for a minute. Marc Rizzo (guitar) demonstrates to the UK for the first time how it is possible to kick your feet up head-height, repeatedly, while still playing guitar. “Really fuckin’ excellent” was how we heard the show described. London Did you catch the band at their recent London Brixton show with Machine Head? If you did, then you may already know that the band spent near enough 2 hours hanging out at the merch stand chatting to anyone and everyone, and signing many an autograph to boot. They must of made some new friends, coz they sold out of every single piece of merchandise they had with them, and some fans were still clamouring for more… some of the band have shorter hair having not escaped from fans bearing scissors… New band bud Felicity (Flic) who skipped watching the Head to keep hanging with the Ninos was declaring she was going to marry more than one person in the band, putting Roger (Mr. Return To The Hood) in the Best Man position, and myself as bridesmaid… you heard it here first. Bodies were bared, and duly signed, and photos were taken as evidence. You’ll be able to see these photos and live ones from the set up here soon. Not wanting to disappoint anyone, the band stayed in the lobby signing and posing for photos even as the show ended and thousands piled out… and upon spotting the Nino guys hanging around, the flood of people out the venue slowed to a crawl as more fans joined the merry throng! So much so, security were overheard wishing the band hadn’t been so good, so they could go home! When all managed to make the after show party, some band members instead of diving into the free bar were still trying to do interviews (not easy in a room full of party people with a free bar to exploit) with foreign fans – now there’s dedication! As for exploiting the free bar, we hear rumours of a security guard, a headlock, and a band member, but what’s an aftershow without a little rock ‘n’ roll… Wolverhampton How was the show? Mindee, the RR rep out on the road at Wolverhampton was only in a state to say “it was just really fuckin’ good!” The band were again mobbed at the merch stand to sign anything and everything, and we hear reports of numerous lucky girlies keeping our boys company in their dressing room post show. It’s a hard life. We spoke to a happy Laz earlier today about how the tour is going so far, and all he had to say was “it’s been really incredible, such a great time. It’s been consistantly great, although of course every show is different, and we’ve had no negative response yet. We’ve been very very lucky at the reaction we’ve received over here. A lotta fun, a lotta madness.” As the band have been touring in the US with Machine Head already, the 2 bands are pretty tight, hanging out with eachother at the shows – so much so that Adam Duce (Machine Head guitarist) even tagged along on the Ill Nino meet & greet with the RR competition winners and roadcrew! Keep an eye on the Machine Head news page as well as here for more tour stories along the road… Glasgow Having travelled up to Glasgow overnight in the tour bus from Wolverhampton, the band slept most of the long journey! Although we have heard that Jardel has been making use of the Playstation on the bus after the shows, and a several hour trip is plenty of time to get some good practise in before your bandmates wake up and challenge you again. After load-in of all the band’s kit, much of the afternoon was spent doing regional radio interviews, with the likes of Oban FM & Caithness FM stations. Congratulate them on their good taste in wanting to feature Ill Nino in their shows. Squeeze in a soundcheck and a meet & greet with the Roadrunner street & e-teamers and website competition winners and it’s time to eat and play a show! Did you know at the end of the set each night, Ill Nino pay tribute to one of their inspirations, and do a blistering cover of Soulfly’s Eye For An Eye? It’s gone down a storm every night, and tonight was no exception. Guess there are a few Soulfly fans up in bonny Scotland too. Nottingham So keen were the band to play tonight, they came on 5 minutes early so they could play for that little bit longer! Seems like there are lots of Nino fans in Nottingham, judging by the number of Revolution t-shirts we saw along the crowd barrier at the front. Lots of faces who knew all the lyrics to all the songs singing along too. Suffice to say, the band loved every minute of it. With the aftershow taking place in the venue at the downstairs bar The Rig, it wasn’t long at all before all the band were found mingling with new friends, swopping bracelets, signing stuff, sinking a few drinks. With a 2-for-1 offer on Stella Artois, it would have been rude not to. With 3 Roadrunner staff there to queue at the bar, a merry evening was had by all, despite the bar running out of tequila! The double shots of lemon schnapps though, it must be said, did bring a tear to one percussionist’s eye. The infamous Machine Head Brown Eye drinks were circulating too, resulting in more than one sore head in the morning! Yes, a lotta fun was had in Nottingham. Newport The last show of the Machine Head tour for Ill Nino. Everyone is in fine humour, albeit starting to look a little tired, all the travelling and touring catching up finally. As we reported on the Machine Head news page, we heard the band made the most of the venue being a leisure centre, and spent all their spare time goofing off in the swimming pool, the jacuzzi, and bombing down the water slide! Joined by Machine Head, our waterbabies were having such fun, they were still in there when the doors opened, and some rather surprised fans were greeted by some semi-naked, dripping wet band members hightailing it back to the dressing rooms double quick! If you were up front in the pit for Machine Head, you may have been landed upon by one of the Nino guys, for the band indulged in a little crowd-diving from the side of the stage while the Head were playing. After the show, everyone just hung out backstage, drinking some beers, swopping merch, and saying goodbye to new friends made this trip. Cue lots of hugging and email address swopping. The band are now off to Belgium for a couple of days of press, before heading home for the Christmas break. Ten days of rest & relaxation before they head back out on the road again in the US with Kittie. They send their best wishes to everyone for a very Merry Christmas and promise to come back soon! Check back here soon for photos from the shows and friends they made along the way!

“What Comes Around” – we are bringing out another Ill Nino track for free download from their Revolution…Revolucion debut. “What Comes Around” was the song in-progress throughout the writing and recording of Revolution…Revolucion. It originally started life as a more straightforward groove-metal track with Cristian scat-singing in Spanish over Marc’s acoustic guitar line. The original verses were much more straightforward with the original choruses being completely different in melody and lyric. It was during recording that the verses took on their current approach with a much stronger and more intimate performance from Cris. The chorus always remained an issue: neither the band or A&R being particularly satisfied with it. Cris probably spent two months brainstorming over what only came together when the band re-cut some vocals with the Scrap 60 guys. Eddie Wohl always referred to the chorus as “the Staind chorus.” The finished song was a surprise for everyone from the band to the record company. No one ever pegged it as the single from the onset of recording. That was always either “Unreal” or “Nothing’s Clear”. Well, “What Comes Around” indeed! Check out MUSIC for the MP3. Here’s a few early words from Mike Gitter, the A&R guy who signed them to RR, about their live show – and now they’ve been here you know this to be true… “When Ill Nino hits the stage they are a pummeling for both the eyes and ears. Driving it all is Chavarri, big arms a blur and a huge smile on his face from start to finish. Beside him, percussionist Roger Vasquez, who I recognize from his former band, Hispanic insurrectionists, Ricanstruction, is making the rhythms extra spicy. Guitarist Marc Rizzo is all flying kicks, confidence and muscle while Brazilian transplant Jardel Paisante beats the guitar like a long lost Cavalera brother. I’m surprised to see an old friend and longtime NYC scene dude, Laz Pina taking up the bass chores and stomping around as he wrings out the low end. And in the middle of it all, Cris Machado has grown into a fantastic live presence. Dreadlocks flying, aggro and melody in dos lenguas erupting from his mouth. From the kick-in call to revolucion of “Rumba” straight to a cover of Soulfly’s “Eye for an Eye”, the crowd is Ill Nino’s for the taking. And they take. And the crowd is suitably beaten by the end of the taking.” “I’m blown away by the end of their set.” NEW VIDEO – Here it is, your first chance to see the first Ill Nino video. “God Save Us” was shot in the course of a couple hours in a high school gymnasium in Southern California. Director Darren Doane (Pennywise, FAR) scammed the location, the guys stopped in and the Rumba was on! The spectacle you are about to watch took place one fine day in late June. Check out the brand new video for God Save Us in the VIDEO section. Check out the Ill Nino official website at www.illnino.com! Play our brand new cool Ill Nino game ‘Ill Pac Mano’ in the In The Pit Games area!

Did you catch Soulfly in London or Wolverhampton recently? Check out our live photos from the London show in the Soulfly gallery. Earlier this week, Soulfly returned home from a string of festival and headline tour dates in Europe. Bassist Marcello Rapp, via phone back home in San Francisco, describes the experience as follows – “attitude, awesome, aggressive, sweaty, kick-ass.” Next up, a U.S. tour with Slayer which starts on August 3rd. Now, before any of this touring business started, Soulfly shot a video. Remember? Ahhh, yeah…well, finally have it up online for you to see. But first, a couple words on this piece. This video, for the track “Seek N Strike,” was shot out in the desert plains of Arizona back on June 1st. More specifically, the video was shot on the area surrounding the Cavalera ranch. True. The day, HOT. “It was a hot day, that day. Thing I remember most was it being 110, 115 degrees that day,” recalls Marcello about the shoot. “Literally boiled our brains shooting this video.” But, it was all worth it. “Grateful to see the results…very pleased with the results,” concludes Marcello. Check it out for yourself, a Quicktime stream of “Seek N Strike” can be found in the VIDEO section. You can also request this video on Kerrang! TV – sel # 709.

Bring It.. to Wolverhampton and London. “No more motherfuckin Hootie and the Blowfish,” shouts Max. It is July 11th, the aftermath. The previous 2 nights have seen Soulfly play shows in Wolverhampton and London.. their first UK shows since Roy rejoined the band and new album ‘3’ was released. Much of the daytime pre-show was spent doing various interviews, although in London most of the band managed to sneak off for a couple hours shopping around the local areas… those queueing round the side of the Kentish Town Forum may have seen Mikey & co return with an assortment of bags! What else? After hanging out with some Roadrunner teamers, the band & crew retire to the tourbus, where we discover that Marcelo and Mikey are big Ali G fans, throwing out a few “booyakashas” themselves while watching Ali G videos…. to a soundtrack of AC/DC. “Angus Young is the King!” exclaims Mikey, with a look defying anyone to disagree. Despite a few technical hiccups preventing Roy from hearing much music during the set in Wolverhampton, Marcelo says the both shows were “fuckin’ amazing! The whole place was jumping, everywhere you looked everyone was bouncing!” They brush off the problems stating, “that’s just a real rock ‘n’ roll show…” London’s set list involved: Downstroy, Seek n Strike, No Hope = No Fear, Jump Da Fuck Up/Bring It, Roots, Beriumbau/Tribe, Attitude, Tree Of Pain (with guest appearance by Richie, Dana’s brother), Refuse, Last Of The Mohicans, Fire/Umba (drums), Quilombo, Back To The Primitive, No, and Eye For An Eye. All too soon the show is over and the crew are loading out… straight after, the band are driving through the night to Paris.. leaving us with promises to return later in the year. H82K2 tour with Slayer Soulfly are soon to hit the road with Slayer and In Flames across the USA & Canada – the tour runs from August 3 into September!

So who’s who? Here’s a quick run down on the six band members of Ill Nino. Christian Machado (vocals): Ill Nino’s voice. Brazilian-born. Grew up in both Brazil and Venezuela. The son of a Brazilian musician. Great frontman. Speaks Spanish and English fluently with a smattering of Portuguese. Dave Chavarri (drums): Ill Nino’s founder and driving force. Peruvian born. Has played in a number of bands including M.O.D., Pro Pain and more notably, Soulfly. Dave filled in for Soulfly after Roy Mayorga’s departure from the band and continued with them for a couple months, recording a track for the second Black Sabbath tribute record. Great sense of humor. Speaks English and Spanish fluently. Roger Vasquez (Percussion): Hails from Spanish Harlem. Plays the the Congas and Timbales and adds to the general Ill Nino soundclash. Has gigged around the Northeast and toured South America with the intensely political NYC based group, Ricanstruction. Extremely personable. Speaks Spanish and English fluently. A great personality. Marc Rizzo (Guitars): Plays Flamenco (Spanish) guitar like he was born to it. Musically, a key member of the band. 22 years old. Guitar god in waiting. Lazaro Pina (Bassist): Dominican but New York born and bred. Owner of the studio wherein Ill Nino did all pre-production for Revolution…Revolucion, did much of the engineering for the LP, and reads Charles Bukowski books before going to bed at night/morning. Nuff said! Jardel Paisante (Guitars): Brazilian born and relocated to the US only three years ago. Hails from Max Cavalera’s hometown of Belo Horizante (near Rio). Fantastic live presence. Speaks English and Portuguese fluently.” This is the word on Ill Nino according to Mike G.

So, you’ve got your Soulfly homework cut out for you – three times over. One, new Soulfly website. Actually, new address too. Yes, www.SoulflyTribe.com still works like a motherfucker, but in case you have yet to be hipped to the fact, www.Soulfly.com will now take you there too. Check it. Two, and Three, there is a new Soulfly page up which can be seen at www.RoadrunnerRecords.com/3. Why does this count as “two” and “three”? Why because you can check out streams of both “Enterfaith” and “Seek ‘N’ Strike” off the 3 release, silly. Video! “It was so hot, people were puking,” tells Christina from Oasis Management. “I don’t know if you should write that, but it’s true,” she continues. “Mikey actually burnt his hand from picking up his guitar which was laying in the sun. Blistered his thumb.” Now that’s hot… The above, all true. All taken from this past Saturday’s (June 1) Soulfly “Seek ‘N’ Strike” video shoot. Maria Gonzales, Roadrunner Media Relations, was present at the shoot. Her account of the day is as follows: “The video production crew arrived at the location at about 5am to start setting up for the shoot. Things kicked off at around 8am. Lots of band footage was taped during this time because the heat was not so bad, but as the sun began to poke through the clouds the temperature rose to a scorching 110 degrees. This is abnormal for Phoenix this time of year according to the locals, it is usually only 100 degrees. Whatever…hot is hot. Once the first leg of band performance was filmed, it was time to film the “tribe”. At this point we were at the hottest point of the day. The “tribe” consisted of young adolescents with their faces painted in tribal war paint walking through the desert in search of their fearless leader, Max Cavalera and his bandmates. The “tribe” stumble upon the band rocking out the chords of “SEEK ‘N’ STRIKE”. A mosh pit ensues and the when the song is over, the “tribe” jumps up and down in hysterics. The video then takes us to the river bed where Soulfly are joined by their loyal “tribe” for a rainshower. A water truck was brought onto the scene to spray Max and crew with water as they stood up on rocks to celebrate the band’s performance.” All in a day’s work.