The Dirty Americans are keeping busy this summer, as we now have three brand new US dates to add to the schedule… July 23rd Big House 510 E. Midland St Bay City, MI 21 and over welcome Dirty Americans headline, also appearing Miscreants and Tension Head Tickets: $5 July 28th Club North 1359 Plainfield Grand Rapids, MI 18 and over welcome Dirty Americans headline, also appearing The Rockit King & The Cheesetones Tickets: $5 July 31st Beachland Ballroom 15711 Waterloo Rd Cleveland, OH All Ages welcome Dirty Americans headline, also appearing TMR, Asylum, Autonomy, 2ndHalf & The Firmary Tickets: $7

We are thrilled to announce that Roadrunner Records has struck up a special deal with the good folks over at TRUSTKILL Records, home to a killer rosta of fine acts including Hopesfall, Nora, Walls of Jericho & Bleeding Through and more! Roadrunner will in future handle the majority of Trustkill releases in all territories excluding the US, with our first UK release kicking off in October. The Trustkill partnership follows a similar union with US labels Ferret Music and Razor & Tie bringing you cool bands like Every Time I Die, Scarlet, Zao, Twelve Tribes, 40 Below Summer etc. For a taster of Ferret & Trustkill bands, check out these following UK dates featuring Hopesfall, Nora and Scarlet. 9th August, London Underworld 10th August, Leeds Joseph Well 11th August, Manchester Night & Day 12th August, Glasgow King Tuts 13th August, Liverpool Union 14th August, Nottingham Rock City 15th August, Sheffield Corporation 16th August, Oxford Zodiac 17th August, Cardiff Barfly For more information on Trustkill, check out their site HERE.

Roadrunner Records is proud to announce that we will be releasing the brand new album ‘1-800 Vindication’ by Danish death metal titans Illdisposed on October 4. The band recently have moved the mixing process of their new album, “1-800 Vindication”, to the Antfarm Studio in Aarhus, Denmark, with producer Tue Madsen at the helm. Here’s a statement from guitarist Jakob Batten: “After all we were very satisfied about Ziggy’s job as producer. The mixing process just went ahead too slowly and in the end we felt that it needed 20% of power and some ‘air’ before we were completely satisfied about it. We handed it over to Tue Thursday last week, and now we have the mix we wanted. It will be sent to Roadrunner later this week.” The track listing of ‘1-800 Vindication’ is as follows: 1. I Believe In Me 2. Dark 3. Now We’re History 4. When You Scream 5. Jeff 6. In Search Of Souls 7. Still Sane 8. You Against The World 9. No More Time 10. The Final Step For more info, stay tuned to the ILLDISPOSED artist page.

Slipknot are confirmed to replace David Bowie at Roskilde tonight. The guys will now be doing 2 shows this evening í¢ä‰åäóì Full Force in Germany AND Roskilde! Slipknot played the T-Mobile Park in Prague last night. Immediately after the concert they packed up their gear and jumped on the bus to travel the 1,600 kilometres to Roskilde. And as if that wasn’t enough, tonight, immediately after their Roskilde gig, the band will jump on a plane to go to the Full Force Festival in Leipzig where they will be playing tonight also at 1:00.

If we had to guess, we’d venture to think that if you are on this site, you are aware of the band Cradle Of Filth. Whether you are aware or not that they are now a Roadrunner Records artist, let alone know of their storied 10 year past since the band’s 1994 debut, is another story. That being said, we have a story for you to read – check out Cradle Of Filth’s BIO and educate yourself. NEW MUSIC from Cradle’s debut Roadrunner Release coming soon…

Who Would You Most Like To Meet And Why? Ricky (Drummer, Chimaira): “I would like to meet myself so I could see what I’m doing wrong. As far as heroes, I would say: My Nightshade, my Mom and Dad, Deen Custronova, Nebosja Novacovic, Angus Young, Eddie Van Halen.” Joel (Guitarist, Killswitch Engage): “Wilford Brimley. Any man with such an amazing mustache has to possess great wisdom. Right on, man. Quaker Oats Rule!”

FEAR FACTORY will be headlining this year’s Mind Over Matter Open Air Festival on July 22 at Arena in Vienna, Austria. Also set to appear are TRISTANIA, SCHANDMAUL, MNEMIC and CRUSADE. In other news, FEAR FACTORY singer Burton C. Bell recently spoke to the East Coast Romper about the songwriting process for the follow-up to this year’s “Archetype”. “Actually at this time, we are writing on the road,” Bell said. “This past tour, this past Jager Tour, [guitarist] Christian and [drummer] Raymond actually started busting out riffs and Byron was getting like into the loop of how we work. This European Tour that we’re about to do, we just invested in a new G4 power plug and put logic into it, so we’ll be able to record while on the road. Asked if he thinks they are going to find it easier to write on the road, Burton said, “I think we’ll do fine, there’s so much down time on the road, ya know, after the show we’re still awake and we’re driving around, ya know, you can either sit there and write songs, sleep or read or whatever but writing songs seems easy, it’s a good communal thing, we all sit in the back lounge, we just sit there and listen to music and listen to each other write music and smoke out or whatever (laughing) It’s like friends hanging out.” blabbermouth.net

Machine Head are pleased to announce their return to the UK shores late Nov/early Dec for an 11-date pre-Christmas tour. Support is TBC. Full dates are as follows: 22nd Nov – Plymouth Pavillions 23rd Nov – Southampton Guildhall 24th Nov – Bristol Academy 26th Nov – Manchester Academy 27th Nov – Glasgow Barrowlands 29th Nov – Newcastle University 30th Nov – Leeds Metropolitan University 1st Dec – Nottingham Rock City 3rd Dec – Birmingham Academy 4th Dec – Cardiff University 5th Dec – London Brixton Academy

The cameras will be rolling in July. There are four upcoming Roadrunner videos set (or about to be set) to be taped in July (or very early August). As follows: 36 Crazyfists – On July 6th in NYC’s Chinatown, the 2nd video from 36 CF’s latest release – A Snow Capped Romance – will be shot. The track, “Bloodwork.” Video should be complete, approved, and in house come August 1st. Killswitch Engage – Supposedly at some point in the next 10 days, the 2nd video from KsE’s latest release – The End Of Heartache – will be shot. The track, “The End Of Heartache.” An August 1st in house is targeted. 3 Inches Of Blood – That is right…a 3 Inches Of Blood video is in the works. When/where it will be shot is still to be determined. In fact, the song has yet to be determined. But we do expect a finished video in house around mid-August. Cradle Of Filth – In either LA or the UK, at some point in most likely early August, Cradle Of Filth’s first video for Roadrunner Records will be shot. Song is tbd, but the video should be in house come late August.

Hatebreed has checked in from Europe. Here are a few updates for you. Hatebreed’s set time on Ozzfest will be at 3:10 everyday on the second stage right before Slipknot. Hatebreed will be signing at the Jager Booth after their performances all summer long! Hatebreed will be cutting their European tour short due to various issues that need to be resolved at home before the band leaves for Ozzfest. The shows from July 3rd – 7th have been canceled. The band would like to apologize to all the fans in Bulgaria, Turkey, Greece and Norway but promise to schedule make up shows soon. In other news, Hatebreed’s new video for “Live For This” is done and will begin airing in July.