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

Chimaira, The New Wave Of American Heavy Metal? One listen of their upcoming album and surely you’ll agree (psst, you can listen to the whole thing HERE). Here’s another one…how about, Chimaira, The New Ambassadors of Roadrunner Records? Read below, and apparently this one is true too. Words in italics courtesy of a 3am phone call somewhere in Portland from Mark, Chimaira’s singer… tales from the scene of the crimes. Chimaira is currently on the road with Lamb Of God out there in the USA… but that’s not the only band they’re with… “Lamb Of God. Cool guys. They like to drink and headbang like us…” Monday, May 5, the band was in Portland, Oregon. What was the Portland situation? Bear-ca-bobs with 36 Crazyfists. Chimaira had a hang last night in Portland with the guys from 36 Crazyfists (currently working on pre-production of their new album). As for the ‘bear-ca-bobs,’ that would be a shish-ca-bob made by 36 CF bassist Mick Whitney (he is affectionately called ‘bear’). We took 36 out on their first tour ever. We spent 2 months on the road with these guys, so we are great friends! We’ve been doing some partying with these guys and the Lamb Of God guys tonight. We went to this stripclub, the broads were real real nasty! Actually, I think I have to go real soon, some of the strippers are on the tour bus and I have to go round up the rest of the guys….” Go back in time three days to L.A. (May 2), and Chimaira was keeping company with Dino from Fear Factory, Meegs from Coal Chamber, and the boys from Spineshank. “Ah man, I woke up that morning still drunk from the Pomona, California show when we got drunk with Kerry King from Slayer… and Spineshank were at that show too. This show was just Drunken Debauchery Part 2. I was vomiting profusely before we played, just trying to get it all out of my system!” Fast forward two days to this past Sunday (May 4), and it was a night with Machine Head’s Robert Flynn and Dave McClain. “We got Rob up on stage with us to do our song ‘Severed’. That was cool. And then we had Dave on drums, I sang and played guitar, Rob sang and we covered ‘Davidian’. That was awesome, everyone went fuckin’ nuts! And then we all got drunk again… just picking up where we left off… the night before we played Vegas, and all there is to do in Vegas is drink, and gamble…” Furthermore, this past Thursday (May 1) in Pomona, it was a night with Slayer’s Mr. Kerry King. All right, so Kerry and Slayer are not on Roadrunner Records, but you see where we are going with this… “That night: Drunken Debauchery Part 1. Spineshank hung out that night too. They have warned us there won’t be one sober night in the whole UK tour.” The Five Degrees Of Roadrunner, indeed. “The shows have been great, but the aftershows have been even greater! We’ve got 17 shows left on this US tour, and we just can’t turn it down when our friends come out. We’ve been very ‘pissed’ as you would say!! Life is good. Tonight we’ve just been watching the Slipknot DVD, and now we’ve seen all the London crowd in that, we just can’t wait to come over and make our mark on the UK. We’re ready to destroy!” Hey, now it’s your turn to see Chimaira, check our TOUR section for all upcoming Chimaira dates.

Dez Fafara and company – collectively known as Deathride – are in the midst of recording their debut release. Along the way, they are taking loads and loads of pics. Curious to see the latest? Sure you are. Courtesy of director Joe Lynch, we have Deathride, The Making Of…Part II up in our VIDEO section. Go on now…Check it out. Much love from Deathride.

What to do when it rains all bank holiay weekend and you’re sat indoors surfing the web…. Check out our FREE SHIT section.. we’ve got an absolute ton of competitions to keep you busy all weekend looking for the answers so you can win yourself some really cool shit. Loads. Have a great 3 days… normal service will be resumed on Tuesday.

Just a note: The track formerly known as ‘Sleepy Policeman’ featuring Peter Tosh on the forthcoming Junkie XL album, will hence forth be known as ‘Don’t Wake Up Policeman’. Let sleeping policemen lie we say.