Did you pick up the issue of Rocksound magazine recently that had the unreleased Stone Sour song ‘Inside The Cynic’ on it’s covermount CD? We’ve had several emails in asking us for the lyrics to this track, so direct from top A&R dude Monte Conner, here they are for your kareoke pleasure: INSIDE THE CYNIC I hear my poisons in the multitude Why was I damned a human deemed too rude? Somewhere between the madness and my mind I live with lesions called the human kind I wander aimlessly amongst the herd Infesting shadows, I am undeterred I give opinion cuz you give no peace They say we manifest the new disease MY HEAD EXPLODES! MY SOUL BERATES! ERRATIC BONDS, THEY SCAR MY FACE! I WON’T – EXIST! I WON’T – PERSIST! (Solo: Jim) I cast a weary gaze into the crowd 10,000 reasons dropped into my mouth My theoretix can’t begin to live So I have nothing more than life to give MY HEAD EXPLODES! MY SOUL BERATES! ERRATIC BONDS, THEY SCAR MY FACE! I WON’T – EXIST! I WON’T – PERSIST! See the lies you’ve given me This is not what I should be You say your truth isn’t mine Everything – everything – everything – everything you say’s a lieí¢ä‰åŒ_ MY HEAD EXPLODES! MY SOUL BERATES! ERRATIC BONDS, THEY SCAR MY FACE! I WON’T – EXIST! I WON’T – PERSIST! I won’tí¢ä‰åŒ_ exist, I won’tí¢ä‰åŒ_ persist I won’tí¢ä‰åŒ_ exist, I won’tí¢ä‰åŒ_ persist

Visited www.CoalChamber.com lately? Dez recently posted the following message: “Hello Coal Chamber kids. This is Dez and I got some great news for anybody that’s into Coal Chamber stuff. It has come to my attention that Roadrunner Records would like to put out a b-sides album using b-sides from the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Coal Chamber albums as well as some unreleased material that has never been heard. Yesterday (02/03), Meegs Rascon and I were on the phone discussing how we can best help Roadrunner to approach this. I myself, have numerous unheard tracks as well as over 100 live shows recorded to DAT. We in Coal Chamber would definitely like to see some live stuff on this album, as Coal Chamber has always been a live band first. We would like all of you to write into the site and tell us what you would want to hear on this b-sides. In other words, we want your ideas so we can best serve all the people who listen to our music. In other news, while I am working on my project Deathride, and Meegs is working on a side project of his own, we have jointly come together and spoken about another Coal Chamber album. Meegs has already written 3-4 new tracks and Nadja will begin going over to Meegs’ house next week to lay her bass tracks. So you never know…there might be something in the works quicker than we think. There’s room in this world for a lot of music, and it looks like you’re going to be getting a lot of music from us. By the way, Coal Chamber’s new drummer is exceptional. That’s it for now…haven’t written a message in a while on this site. Hope everyone is doing well. Keep listening to heavy music, and keep your ears tuned towards Roadrunner Records.”

Stone Sour is currently a couple days into their first ever European tour. Last night, it was Madrid, Spain. Tonight, it’s Barcelona. Their current tour of Europe will keep them abroad until the end of the month. While you wait for the band to tour the UK from February 19th, did you know that their latest video – “Inhale” – is complete? The video should be up here on the Roadrunner site by the end of the week. Do note, very cool video, and will be well worth your time to download – some very, very classic shots of Corey, Jim, and the rest of Stone Sour. No shit. And one final note, on those UK dates… the London Astoria show is utterly sold out.

Get busy packing, get busy mixing… This Thursday (Feb 5) Chimaira’s Mark Hunter, Rob Arnold, and Jim LaMarca will be boarding a plane en route to London – They are to arrive at 9am on Friday. Then, it’s one day in London for the boys before making the drive to Lincolnshire to start mixing their upcoming The Impossibility Of Reason release with Colin Richardson. The album will be mixed at the Chapel in Lincolnshire. Onward and Upward, …from the new album, it has been confirmed that “Down Again” will be the cut which will be put to video. Details on the shoot not yet confirmed, but the new video should be in house by release of the album…BUT, you will not have to wait that long to see new Chimaira video footage – keep an eye out for a 4 part video series from the making of the album starting the end of this month (kudos to Todd Bell on this front). What are the band planning to do on their day in London? Mark muses, “I am thinking, we get off the plane, go through customs, jump in a cab to our hotel, check in, take a quick nap/shower etc… hail a cab to RR UK, meet everyone, then I will tell your boss that you all have to have the rest of the day off for a day of sight seeing and a night of warm beer.”

Currently on the Roadrunner release schedule is an album by the name of Hatefiles, a collection of Fear Factory b-sides and remixes made over their 10+ year career. Well, currently scheduled for an April 7th release date, you will soon be hearing the Fear Factory you probably never heard. Track listing for Fear Factory Hatefiles is as follows: 1. Terminate 2. Frequency 3. Demolition Racer 4. Machine Debaser 5. Invisible Wounds (The Suture Mix) 6. Edgecrusher (Urban Assault Mix) 7. Descent (Falling Deeper Mix) 8. Body Hammer (Colin Richardson Mix) 9. Zero Signal (Colin Richardson Mix) 10. Resurrection (T.L.A. Big Rock Mix) 11. Cars (Numanoid Mix) 12. Dark Bodies (demo) 13. Replica (live) 14. Cyberdyne 15. Refueled 16. Transgenic 17. Manic Cure 18 New Breed (Spoetnik Mix)

At 3pm UK time this Friday (that’s tomorrow, 10am EST), we’ll be calling Josh Silver of Type O Negative at home in New York for a quick chat about the new album and who knows what else. Got any questions you’d like to know the answer to? Send ’em to us at rrguest@roadrunnerrecords.co.uk

“What’s up everyone? Well we are finally coming over to the UK!!! Unfortunately it is not to plays gigs yet 🙁 We are coming over to work with producer/mixing legend Colin Richardson. Colin will be mixing our new record “The Impossibility of Reason”. You have heard how great he can make a record sound, and who knows the world of metal better then him. If we have ever made a good choice in our career, this was the one for sure. We are very excited to get over there and play this year which WILL HAPPEN I assure you! So be patient with us, and till then…smoke acid. Mark Hunter Mark, Jim, & Rob will be hitting the UK in the next couple of weeks… let the mixing begin.

Fresh from A&R dude Ron Burman comes this update on Double Drive’s forthcoming album ‘Blue In The Face’. “It was produced & mixed mostly by Michael Barbiero and John Kurzweg produced a few trax & mixed a couple. It sounds great! Imprint is the 1st. single… we go to radio in early March & the record comes out here end of April. Exploring tour options as we speak, but we’re expecting big things from these guys. There will be 11 tracks on the album. 1)11-59 2)Imprint 3)Hollow Body 4)Million People 5)I Don’t Care 6)Freight Train 7)Track Number Seven 8)Even Out 9)Inside Out 10)The Hand 11)Big Shove more to come…

The latest from Chimaira camp? Words exchanged with vocalist Mark Hunter grace us with the following update: “All in all, life is good in the world of Chimaira,” Mark begins. “We FINALLY decided on a mixer for this record – we will be working with producer/mixing legend Colin Richardson. He has done some great records, and when you hear the live Machine Head CD that he just mixed, you will understand that this was an EASY choice for us.” The band received Colin’s test mix today, and according to Mark, “it immediately put a huge smile on our faces. We knew this was our guy.” So what now? Rob (guitar), Jim (bass), and Mark will be flying over here to the UK to assist Colin in one of the final stages of the recording process – mixing…to bring the vision (more accurately, sound) of The Impossibility Of Reason home. The boys will be rocking out to the new songs and mixing… “We are really proud of the new record, and can’t wait for you all to get the chance to experience what we are right now,” enthuses Mark. “Now we just need to bust ass, put the final touches on everything and get the fuck back out on the road!” All in all, life is good in the world of Chimaira. Oh, and Mark has one final stop for you to hit amongst your internet travels: Sick of what the metal scene has become lately, Mark highly recommends you all watch the short film titled ‘Heavy Metal Parking Lot – 1986’ (click on that link to go to the page where your feature presentation awaits). See what happened when Judas Priest rolled into town on May 5, 1986. Mark leaves us with the following: “Get back into the swing of things. Grow your hair, come to concerts plastered, play air guitar, sport a cool mustache, and mosh in the fucking parking lots!!!”

doubleDrive spent this past New Year’s Eve playing a show at The Bay in Chattanooga, Tennessee. What of it? For the New Year show, all three members of the band NOT behind the drum kit (Donnie, Troy, Josh) launched flames off their guitars (bass, in Josh’s case) to the grand delight of the crowd. “Cheesy flames, only went about eight feet. But hey, if you can launch flames off the neck of your guitar, that’s pretty cool,” explains frontman Donnie. Ever wonder how one launches flames from a guitar? Sure ya have. Want Donnie to tell the secret? Sure ya do: “Basically, it’s off flash paper. Fill a cylinder with cotton flash paper and you use a couple AA batteries to make it hot like a car cigarette lighter. Hit the chord, press the button, poof – you have flames.” Now you know. Onward and upward: At the show, Big Red (see previous doubleDrive updates) – hot off the Danzig tour – was the man behind the mixing board for the night. Surely the sound was tight, tight like a truck (whatever the hell that is supposed to mean). Rock was also on hand handling the guitar tech duties. Did You Know? Rock actually handles guitar tech duties for Disturbed on tour. True. But we digress…Donnie makes it clear he thanks for Big Red and Rock for working the show. “Good friends, family and New Year.” Speaking of which, it must be noted that Big Red was kicked out of the hotel later that night. “It was totally a scene from Cops, I was looking for a camera,” laughs Donnie. He then goes onto explain something about security being sent up to their room for a fifth time that night…“It was great. Around 7:30am we decided it was New Year enough already.” Getting ready for the release of Blue In The Face, doubleDrive is currently looking at tour opportunities. “Led Zeppelin…Robert Plant called me. We’re old buddies,” muses Donnie. Seriously, there should be doubleDrive US tour news on the near horizon. “I just wanna get out and tear across the damn country…and leave a trail of fire.” more to come…