What do you know? Know that DevilDriver is on the road with Superjoint Ritual. Know that DevilDriver’s self titled debut album is hitting stores in but a week, Oct. 27th. Know that you can hear the full album we speak of now, check out www.devildriver.com/album. And last, know that Dez has an update for y’all from the road. It is as follows: How’s everybody doing? We just did three shows, and then a day off. The first show in Columbus, OH was off the hook. It was good to see people pittin’, and everyone hanging out afterwards talking to the band. Columbus, we’ll be back soon. The next night was Detroit (Harpos). I’ve played this venue before, but I’ve never seen a pit like that night in Detroit. Much respect to everyone that came out to see us in Detroit, especially the 6 or 7 of Detroit’s finest who showed up off duty and brought us a bottle of Jack Daniels. Talk about feeling welcome, DevilDriver felt right at home in Detroit. Phil from Superjoint Ritual has been giving us huge shout-outs every night. I want to personally say thank you to him, and much respect. Every night when we get off stage we sit and watch SJR, they are tight as fuck. The next night was Flint, MI at The Machine Shop. It’s a great club, the promoters and crew there treated us amazing. The show that night was incredible. In Flint we definitely had to win the crowd over, but by the 3rd song, they all had their hands in the air and the place was pittin’. Tonight we’ll be playing at The Vogue in Indianapolis. I’m already pacing back and forth waiting for tonight’s show. The tour so far has been amazing, all the members of all the bands are just hanging out, drinking, and having a good time. I’ll try to do daily dairies here forward, just had to slide into this first week of touring first. By mid next week, DevilDriver will be hoping to post some live footage up for you. By the way, the tour is called A Lethal Dose Of American Touring 2003. It’s great to be respected by a band that we respect so much…as far as I’m concerned, SJR is one of the best metal bands out there keeping heavy shit alive, and we’re doing our best to follow suit. I also want to personally thank all the street team members who have been coming out to meet the band, and help spread the word for DevilDriver. THANK YOU. Hey Cleveland, Chicago, we’re coming in a few days. Hope you guys are ready, cuz we’re fuckin’ ready. And to those of you in Milwaukee, we’ll see you at The Rave for a metal-fuckin’-throwdown. The killer debut album from DevilDriver is released on Monday Oct 27th and will be available on CD for around 퉌£11.99 from the following retailers: HMV – 퉌£2 off with your ‘Download 2003’ discount card. Order your FREE card here. VIRGIN MVC MUSIC ZONE OFFICIAL ‘ROADRAGE’ STORES – Free ‘New Shit’ sampler CD when you buy the album from one of these stores.

All is good in DevilDriver land. This morning, the brand new video for ‘I Could Care Less’ arrived in the RR UK office. Shot in LA earlier this month with PR Brown and Dez directing, it is rather cool indeed… and features a ton of band footage. Watch out for it hitting your TV screen soon, and right here online soon after. Last Thursday, October 16th, marked the first date of the new DevilDriver tour… tearing up towns across the US with Superjoint Ritual. First show was in Columbus, Ohio, and we hear it was a R.I.O.T. Next Monday, October 27th, the new album ‘DevilDriver’ hits stores in towns across the UK. Dez Fafara is back… Harder. Faster. Heavier. Darker. Be sure to check it out.

Due out early November on Nitrus Records, the soundtrack to the remade Texas Chainsaw Massacre movie contains tracks from both Hatebreed and 40 Below Summer. The tracklisting is set to be: 1. PANTERA – “Immortally Insane” 2. HATEBREED – “Below The Bottom” 3. SOIL – “Pride” 4. STATIC-X – “Deliver Me” 5. MUSHROOMHEAD – “43” 6. SEETHER – “Pig” 7. NOTHINGFACE – “Down In Flames” 8. 40 BELOW SUMMER – “Self-Medicate” 9. MOTOGRATER – “Suffocate” 10. SHADOWS FALL – “Destroyer Of Senses” 11. MESHUGGAH – “Rational Gaze” 12. FEAR FACTORY – “Archetype” (Remix) 13. MORBID ANGEL – “Enshrined By Grace” 14. INDEX CASE – “Listen” 15. FINGER ELEVEN – “Stay In Shadow” 16. LAMB OF GOD – “Ruin” 17. SWORN ENEMY – “As Real As It Gets” 18. CORETEZ – “Five Months” Point to note #1: Coretez features Roger Vasquez & Marc Rizzo, ex-members of Roadrunner act Ill Nino. Point to note #2: Fear Factory’s ‘Archetype’ (FF’s first new song without Dino Cazares to be released), was self-produced at the band’s recording studio and was remixed by programmer/engineer Steve Tushar (Korn). Steve toured with FF back in 1996. Check out audio samples HERE. note: windows media streaming format.

Canadian rockers NICKELBACK return to the UK for some teaser shows this December. The band, whose already gold-certified opus, ‘The Long Road,’ debuted in the album charts at No.5 last week, have also been enjoying Top 10 success with the first single from the album, entitled ‘Someday.’ Dubbed “the biggest non-rap record of the yearí¢ä‰åŒ_a perfect ear-scorching 10” by Billboard Magazine, NICKELBACK’s new album looks set to imitate the success of its 7-million selling predecessor ‘Silver Side Up.’ Dates run as follows: 7th Dec – LONDON Brixton Academy 8th Dec – LONDON Brixton Academy 9th Dec – MANCHESTER Apollo Tickets are priced at 퉌£22.50 (London) and 퉌£21 (Manchester) and are on sale now from box offices and all usual agents. You can also buy online from www.gigsandtours.com Expect further arena dates in 2004.

While you’re online this weekend, take a moment to check out the second batch of photos posted from the Roadrage tour – more pics from Portsmouth, and a few from Nottingham. You can see them all up in the CHIMAIRA, ILL NINO, and SPINESHANK galleries. Also up in the CHIMAIRA gallery, you can see a few photos of some of the guys while they were over in London on a promo trip earlier this year… just your usual night out on the town snapshots(!) And if you want more than photos, it’s nothing to do with Roadrage, but check out In The Pit for cool e-cards for 40 Below Summer and Hatebreed… not to mention a couple of cool competitions.

Murderdolls…Halloween… Murderdolls…Halloween… Murderdolls…Halloween… Of course, the Murderdolls must play such a date, right? Makes sense, yes? Gotta happen, eh? Well, word is…word is that the Murderdolls will be playing this Halloween with Danzig at the San Bernadino, Ca Orange Pavilion this year, relays Mdolls guitarist Acey Slade. Speaking of Acey…2 years ago at this time (on Halloween), he was opening for Alice Cooper. True. Less than 2 weeks ago he was playing with Hanoi Rocks in London. True. To Halloween. As Acey says, “rock like fuck.”

Check out this review just in of Roadrage in Sweden… thanks for writing to us Johan! “Hi! I saw Roadrage 2003 Wednesday, Oct 8th and it was a kickass show. It was in Stockholm Sweden btw and it had everything I want in a show!! 3 of my absolute favourite bands, I mean Chimaira, Ill Nino and Spineshank, it can퉌Çt go wrong. The whole croud was insane for all the acts and I have to say that the coolest moment was when Chimaira’s singer asked the crowed to split in half and when he counted to three we all went insane! He called himself metal-moses and it was awesome! Chimaira was my favourite band of all the three and I wasn퉌Çt disappointed! I have to say that Pure Hatred is one of my favourite songs with them and it was great… anyway I was in the pit through all the three shows, I like it there the most, it’s where I get my aggressions out.. and no one (mostly) gets hurt.. I like it.. full energy for about 3 hours (?) I think.. it’s the best.. and one of the things I like most is that those bands aren퉌Çt that big (don퉌Çt get me wrong.. they’re big but not too big) and you can tell that they are really thankful for what they do, great contact with the audience.. It was the second time I saw Ill Nino and this time it was better I think. Last time I saw them they were opening for P.O.D, but as I said, this time it was better..don퉌Çt know why really.. If it퉌Çs something I miss it’s stagediving but maby they aren퉌Çt allowed to…too bad. Anyways great show and I can퉌Çt wait for next years tour and the bands that are coming!!” Johan, Stockholm Sweden

Got an email in this morning from Jeff… singer of hot new band Red Tape (hailing from Sacramento, California). “Hey! What’s up? Just wanted to let you know I’m working on a full update for you! I’ve been super busy with some other stuff – but it’s all good… we’re FINALLY heading out on a few tours & the album cover art is almost done… all that stuff. So I’ll try to hit you back within the next week with a nice big update! Thanks for the feedback on our site about the MP3s of us you’ve heard. Glad you like the demos! I laugh at that shit now after hearing the REAL CD – it’s waaaaay better ) We should be done mastering it soon! See ya!” Jeff/Red Tape In other Red Tape news, the band have confirmed the title for their debut album will be ‘Radioactivist’.

Banned already?! Check out Chimaira’s new video for awesome song ‘Pure Hatred’. You can see it on Kerrang TV’s “Banned” section – selection #930.

SOULFLY mainman Max Cavalera will participate in a special jam in Serbia next month. The concert, dubbed “Eye For An Eye”, will take place on Friday, November 7 at SKC in Belgrade, and will feature Max alongside some of the most popular and most respected musicians from Serbia and Montenegro: Boban (RITAM NEREDA, backing vocals, guitar), Kojot (EYESBURN, bass, vocals), Alek (EYESBURN, drums) and Nino (EYESBURN, guitar). Also appearing on the bill will be legendary Belgrade hardcore band HITMAN, Bulgarian heavy/punk thrashers VENDETTA and the first local “elektro metal” band X-CENTAR. Tickets are available from the SKC box office and are priced at 600 dinars. The first band is scheduled to take the stage at 9:00 p.m. As previously reported, Cavalera will be recording a track with the aforementioned EYESBURN, a Serbian ska-metal band, for inclusion on SOULFLY’s next studio album, tentatively due in early 2004 through Roadrunner Records. Also making a guest appearance on CD is former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, who is expected to appear on four songs on the as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2002’s “3”. (Thanks: Olja Hrustic) www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net