Hailing from Eastern Pennsylvania, Roadrunner Records has just inked a deal with the band SINCH. The band formed back in late 1994 while still in high school, and over their past 6+ years of existence, the four piece lineup has remained untouched! “I have known the band for several years and watching their evolution has been an amazing experience,” tells the man responsible for bringing SINCH to Roadrunner, Paul Conroy. What does “Sinch” mean? Here’s a few words from the guys themselves… “The word “sinch” means to “pull tight” or to “tighten” as you would a knot. We were not aware of this meaning when the name was chosen for the band. Prior to joining the Roadrunner family, the band released two full length albums, “The Strychnine” and “Diatribe”. More recently, a 6-song EP titled “Project: Bluebird” has been sold on a limited basis at some US shows. It contains 5 new songs and a newly recorded version of “Pain” which appeared on the album “Diatribe.” Want to hear some Sinch? Check out MUSIC for a track from them that was re-recorded just this past week with producer Eddie Wohl and Scrap 60 Productions. The track is titled ‘The Silent Acquiescence Of Millions’. We hope you enjoy – tell us what you think! And in case you frequent mp3.com and were wondering about the band ‘Sinch’ on there… The RR-signed Sinch say “We recently discovered that there *are* a few other bands going under the name Sinch. The two we know of are from Chicago, IL and Chorpus Christy, TX. The Sinch from Texas have informed us that they’re undergoing a name change, so that’s one less we have to worry about. But there could be more. There is a DJ Sinch, but we think that sounds kinda cool, so we’re leaving him alone. If you hear of any more please let us know.” To learn more about the band…check out their website at www.sinch.net.

CLUB NIGHTS! Giveaways include Roadrage CDs, posters, keyrings plus chance to win a Roadrage DVD and pair of tix to the local gig! October: Saturday 5th – Nottingham Rock City Friday 11th – Bristol Asylum @ Cooler Nightclub AND Bradford Rio’s Saturday 12th – Birmingham XL’s AND Newcastle Arena Monday 14th – Newcastle ‘Lost Resort’ @ Stage Door (U18’s 6.30-9.30pm) Saturday 26th – London Subverse @ Subterrania (All Ages – 2-7pm) November: Saturday 16th – Glasgow Cathouse Under 18’s & Over 18’s Tuesday 19th – London Metros AND Brighton Gloucester Thursday 21st – Southend Kursaal Friday 22nd – London Electric Ballroom AND Belfast The Venue Saturday 23rd – Manchester Jilly’s

A ROADRAGE DVD is available exclusively NOW via Virgin/V.Shops for a mere 퉌£7.99 or utterly free if you buy 3 RR CD’s for 퉌£20 or 5 for 퉌£30. The tracklisting of the DVD is: 1. Murderdolls ‘Dead In Hollywood’ 2. Stone Sour ‘Get Inside’ 3. Slipknot ‘Left Behind (Director’s Cut)’ 4. Soulfly ‘Seek’N’Strike’ 5. Killswitch Engage ‘My Last Serenade’ 6. Ill Nino ‘What Comes Around’ 7. Coal Chamber ‘Fiend’ 8. Spineshank ‘New Disease’ 9. Five Pointe O ‘Double X Minus’ 10. 36 Crazyfists ‘Slit Wrist Theory’ 11. Fear Factory ‘Replica’ 12. Machine Head ‘Crashing Around You’ 13. Sepultura ‘Territory’ 14. Life of Agony “Through and Through” 15. Type O Negative ‘Black #1’ 16. Dry Kill Logic ‘Nightmare’ 17. Nickelback ‘How You Remind Me’ 18. Sinch ‘Something More’ 19. Jerry Cantrell ‘Anger Rising’ 20. Anyone ‘Don’t Wake Me’ Titles included in the 3 for 퉌£20 and 5 for 퉌£30 deal include: Anyone – Anyone, Coal Chamber – Coal Chamber, Chamber Music, Fear Factory – Demanufacture, Obselete, Digimortal, Machine Head – Supercharger, The Burning Red, The More Things Change, Burn My Eyes, Nickelback – Curb, The State, Queens Of The Stone Age – Queens Of The Stone Age, Sepultura – Chaos AD (US Edition), Roots, Against, Nation, Roots Of Sepultura, Slipknot – Iowa, Slipknot, Soulfly – Primitive, Soulfly, Spineshank – Strictly Diesel, Height Of Callousness, Type O Negative – Bloody Kisses, October Rust, World Coming Down, Five Pointe O – Untitled, Killswitch Engage – Alive Or Just Breathing?, 36 Crazyfists – Bitterness The Star. The full list of participating Virgin/VShops stores is as follows: Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Birkenhead Birmingham Blanchardstown Bluewater Bradford Brent Cross Brighton Bristol Bromley Camberley Cambridge Camden Cardiff Carlisle Cheltenham Chester Colchester Cork Coventry Crawley Crewe Cribbs Causeway Croydon Derby Derry Dublin Dundee Edinburgh Exeter Falkirk Gatwick North Gatwick South Glasgow Argyle Glasgow Buchanan Grimsby Harlow Harrow Hastings Heathrow T1 Heathrow T2 Hemel Hempstead Hull Ipswich Kings Road Kingston Leeds Leicester Liffey Valley Liverpool Maidenhead Manchester Manchester Airport Merry Hill Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newcastle Northampton Norwich Nottingham Oxford Oxford St Perth Peterborough Piccadilly Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Romford Salisbury Sheffield Shrewsbury Slough Southampton Southend Stevenage Stirling Sutton Sutton Coldfield Swindon Tallaght Taunton Telford Walsall Warrington Watford Wimbledon Woking York Brixton Colchester Hounslow Notting Hill Reading Aldershot Ashford Ayr Bangor Barnet Bedford Bishops Stortford Bishopsgate Bognor Regis Braintree Brentwood Bristol Bromsgrove Burton on Trent Cambridge Chatham Chelmsford Chichester Chiswick Cirencester Clapham Covent Garden Crouch End Dalston Darlington Dartford Dudley Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Ham Eltham Enfield Epsom Farnborough Fleet Folkestone Gatwick Airside Gosport Gravesend Hammersmith Hatfield Haywards Heath Hempstead Valley Hereford High Wycombe Holloway Road Huddersfield Huntingdon Ilford Islington Keighley Kensington High St Kettering Kilburn Leamington Spa Letchworth Lewisham Lowestoft Maidstone Muswell Hill Newton Abbott North Finchley Nuneaton Oxford Poultry Putney Queensway Redhill Rugby Solihull South Shields Southgate Stafford Strattford on Avon Streatham Surrey Quays Tamworth Thurrock Tonbridge Torquay Victoria Street Walthamstow Welwyn Garden City Wilmslow Windsor Witney Wood Green Woolwich Yeovil Aberdeen Canterbury Edinburgh Cameron Toll.

MORE ROADRAGE DISCOUNT – Selected Roadrunner titles are now available for 퉌£7.99 each or 2 for 퉌£15 from MVC stores. They include: Fear Factory Demanufacture, Fear Factory Obsolete, Fear Factory Digimortal, Coal Chamber Coal Chamber, Coal Chamber Chamber Music, Machine Head Supercharger, Machine Head Burning Red, Machine Head More Things Change, Machine Head Burn My Eyes, Nickelback The State, Nickelback Curb, Queens of the Stone Age Queens of the Stone Age, Sepultura Chaos AD (US Edition), Sepultura Roots, Sepultura Against, Sepultura Nation, Slipknot Iowa, Slipknot Slipknot, Soulfly Primitive, Soulfly Soulfly, Spineshank Strictly Diesel, Spineshank Height of Callousness, Type O Negative Bloody Kisses, Type O Negative October Rust, and Type O Negative World Coming Down. The full list of participating MVC stores is as follows: ANDOVER ASHTON BARNSLEY BASILDON BASINGSTOKE BATH BEDFORD BEXLEYHEATH BIRKENHEAD BOURNEMOUTH BRACKNEL BRIGHTON BROMLEY BROUGHTON PARK BURNLEY BURY CAMBERLEY CARDIFF CARMARTHEN CHELTENHAM CHESTER CH’FIELD CHICHESTER CHISWICK COLCHESTER COVENTRY CWMBRAN DERBY DURHAM EASTBOURNE EXETER FALKIRK FAREHAM GLENROTHES GLOUCESTER GUILDFORD HARROW HASTINGS HORSHAM HOUNSLOW HOVE HUDDERSFIELD HULL HUNTINGDON INVERNESS KENDAL KIRKALDY LONDON BRIDGE LEAMINGTON LEICESTER LINCOLN LIVINGSTONE LLANELLI MAIDENHEAD MAIDSTONE MIDDLEBROOK NEWBURY NEWCASTLE NEWPORT NOTTINGHAM PENZANCE PERTH PETERBOROUGH PLYMOUTH POOLE REDHILL ROMFORD SALISBURY SHREWSBURY SOUTHEND SOUTHPORT STAINES STAR CITY STOCKTON SUTTON TAUNTON UXBRIDGE WALSALL WATFORD WELWYN WEYMOUTH WINCHESTER WOLVERHAMPTON WORTHING WREXHAM. EVEN MORE ROADRAGE DISCOUNT – All these Roadrunner CD titles are also available for as low as 퉌£6.99 from the following participating Indie stores: Aberdeen – One Up Banbury – Record Savings Barnsley – Casa Disco Barnstaple – S’n’V, solo music Blackburn – Reidys Bournemouth -Essential Music Bridgend – Hitman Music Brighton – Rounder Broadstairs – Soundhouse Burton on Trent – More Than Music Bury – Vibes Cardiff – Spillers clydebank – west end records Derby – More Than Music, Reveal Diss – Revolution Doncaster – Track Dudley – S T Records Durham – Concepts Eastbourne – Powerplay Edinburgh – Avalanche, CODA Elgin – Sound n Vision Exeter – Solo Music Glasgow – Avalanche Glenrothes – CODA Leicester – Rockaboom Leeds – Crash Lichfield – Tudor Tunes Livingston – CODA Melton Mowbray – Pendulum Newcastle-Upon-Tyne – Windows Newport – Hitman Music Northampton – Spinadisc Nottingham – Selectadisc Nuneaton – What Records Plymouth – Different Class Retford – Pendulum Rugby – Spinadisc Salisbury – Solo Music Southampton – Essential Music Sutton Ashfield – Disckits Truro – Solo Music Walsall – Sundown Wolverhampton – Highway 61 Yate – Kays York – Track Music Zone – All Stores.

You all know that Sepultura’s last concert EVER with Max Cavalera (December 16, 1996 at Brixton Academy in London) is out now as a double live CD. Under a Pale Grey Sky is the title of this beast. So, what exactly is in a name? The title Under a Pale Grey Sky comes directly from Max Cavalera himself, it is in reference to a classic line from the chorus of the song ‘Arise’ – “Under a pale gray sky we shall arise”. Now you know, fully. Here is the confirmed track listing: Sepultura – Under A Pale Grey Sky Disc One: 1. Itsari (intro) 2. Roots Bloody Roots 3. Spit 4. Territory 5. Breed Apart 6. Attitude 7. Cut-Throat 8. Troops Of Doom 9. Beneath The Remains/Mass Hypnosis 10. Born Stubborn 11. Desperate Cry 12. Necromancer 13. Dusted 14. Endangered Species Disc Two: 1. We Who Are Not As Others 2. Straighthate 3. Dictatorsh*t 4. Refuse/Resist 5. Arise/Dead Embryonic Cells 6. Slave New World 7. Biotech Is Godzilla 8. Inner Self 9. Policia (Titas) 10. We Gotta Know (Cro-Mags) 11. Kaiowas 12. Ratamahatta 13. Orgasmatron (Motorhead)

I – Chaos DVD A collaboration of Sepultura’s previous three VHS releases, Chaos DVD is out now! What to expect? Check it: From the Under Seige VHS, released around the 1991 Arise CD, a one hour live performance from Zeleste in Barcelona, Spain on May 31, 1991. Rock. From the Third World Chaos VHS, released around the 1995 Chaos A.D. CD, live performances from the Donnington Festival, Red Rocks and Brazilian Festivals, along with the videos for “Slave New World,” “Refuse/Resist,” “Territory,” “Arise” and “Dead Embryonic Cells.” Shim. From the We Are What We Are VHS, released around the 1997 Roots CD, videos for “Roots Bloody Roots,” “Ratamahatta” and “Attitude.” Sham. II – Under A Pale Grey Sky Huh? The title for the upcoming live Sepultura CD has been confirmed, Under A Pale Grey Sky. This CD is in fact the last-ever performance of the classic Sepultura line-up featuring Max Cavalera (guitar/vocals), Igor Cavalera (drums), Andreas Kisser (guitar) and Paulo Pinto Jr. (bass). This historic show took place at Brixton Academy in London on December 16th, 1996. “Sounds unbelievable” tells the man behind The Production Gospel According To Dave. He also tells it will be a double CD, featuring most all songs from Sepultura’s set that last evening. taken from blabbermouth.net: SEPULTURA performed in front of a crowd of over 10,000 in S퀌£o Jos퀌© dos Campos, Brazil last Sunday night and were joined by BIOHAZARD guitarist Billy Graziadei (whose wife is Brazilian) for renditions of MOTORHEAD’s “Iron Fist” and TITAS’ “Pol퀌_cia”. Pictures taken at the gig can be viewed at this location. Shot live on March 13th, 2001, we present to you Sep’s performance of the track “Sepulnation” off NATION. Footage was shot on the American Metro Channel’s Studio Y program, in the New York tri-state area – check out the video section. On May 11th, at the Sepultura concert at Elycee Montmartre in Paris, Jason Arnopp of Kerrang! interviewed the band. Plus, ‘behind the scenes’ footage was shot along with some songs from the performance that night. Lastly, footage from the Paris in-store earlier in the day also was filmed. Put all the above together, and you get the promotional Sepultura International EPK 2001. THEY CAME, THEY SAW, THEY CONQUERED See the show at the Astoria on May 9th 2001 with Hatebreed? Miss it and miss out? See our live photo special from the show in the gallery. Nation is out now on CD and Ltd Ed digipack CD including 5 bonus tracks. It is available for 퉌£12.99 (digi) and 퉌£11.99 (CD) from the following: HMV, Virgin, V.Shop/Our Price, MVC – Andys, and all good indies.

You can view all our photos from the Carling Weekend Festival at Leeds, 2002 in the Slipknot photo gallery. A good time was had by all.

IS THE BEST BAND PINK FLOYD? Andy King will be airing a “full and very frank” (so he says) interview with Clown from Slipknot on his TotalRock radio show this Sunday 8th September from 9pm-Midnight GMT. TotalRock can be accessed in the UK and Ireland on Sky Digital channel 885, NTL channel 874 and globally at www.totalrock.com! Tune in! YOU SAY.. Hot off our email we thought we’d share some comments from a few hardcore ‘Knot who took the time to write to us. Thanks for writing in, we love getting mail. “AHHHH I’m loosin my tether with it all!! I have been a BIG MaGGoT of SlipKnot for many years now, every since they broke out. SlipKnot means so much to me, sometimes more to me than anything in this Crazy World. I went through some real bad times in recent years, and whenever it really got to me, I’d put on some SlipKnot very loud and it would all go away. Them Sickening Drum Beats, those Evil Guitar Riffs, the Chaotic SCREAMING and Gut Wrenching Sounds.. It all just made me into a different person, a new person. I’ve tried so hard in these years to get to see SlipKnot as many times live as I could. Those guys mean so much to me, they’ve helped me out, and to give my Thanks to them I had their Tribal ‘S’ symbol Tattooed on my left forearm in full view for every single damn person out there to see. Every time I’ve seen them live, I’ve just let it all go. I’d go into the Mosh PiTs, Head Bang like a Crazy Mother Fucker, so much that I would hurt for days after. No matter what those guys have gone through, just like they were for me, I was there for them. When every people rip shit out of me for liking SlipKnot, I tell them to go fuck them selves coz they dont know how much SlipKnot mean to me. Even as I write this I feel like I’m gunna be pysically sick, thats what those 9, SiC MaGGoTs do to me, and I dont want it to ever go away! Sorry to Ramble on like that, but I had one of them Moments when I just had to let it all go and just go Nuts! Thanks for listenin’.” – Will “Hey, Right sorry but i don’t have anything really interesting to say i’m just ‘on one’ and need to TELL SOMEBODY! I’ve just seen some of the new pictures of SLIPKNOT on your message board and FUCKING HELL!!!!! SID’S new image is AMAZING! And Clown’s variation of his old mask is the fucking best ever! This band mean so much to me. I get giddy and excited when i see a new pic or they wear slightly different boiler suits or one of them has a new mask. I think about them everyday and they’ve changed me as a person and a musician. They’ve opened my eyes to all the bullshit a lot of the other bands have to offer. All the rockstar fucking ego. All the money making ideas. The general dishonesty and complacency of the music scene. If it wasn’t for SLIPKNOT and AMEN i think the metal world as we know it would dissolve into a body-bag of decaying, stale, carnage. THANK SWEET BABY JESUS OF NAZARETH we have SLIPKNOT on OUR side! They really are making waves in the music scene and in peoples lives too. I never leave home without my Slipknot CDs. I think about them 24/7. And it doesn’t interrupt my work or my college or my band, it makes me able to cope with them better AND more importantly EXCELL in them. I’m trying to balance a struggling music career and keep my g/f and it’s hard, but i look to CLOWN who managed to beat an alcohol addiction, run a club, keep his welding job, bring up three kids, keep his wife and remain slightly sane. (And survive numerous car crashes. What a man.) He’s beaten life the hard way and i intend too. I went to see them in Manchester in February and i get teary eyes talking about it now. The hairs are up on the back of my neck as i type…but yeah, i cried, shook, moshed, almost collapsed, and stared right into the CLOWN’S EYES! I was in the middle of the floor in the pit slamming away, and i looked up to see Clown on his drums and he was starring right at me as though he’d picked me out and i could see the colour of his eyes through his mask. We looked at each other for ages then turned away. It was the BEST. I’m gonna die remembering that. THE MUSIC SCENE NEEDS SLIPKNOT. I can’t wait for them to split up cuz in a few years time people are gonna look back and think “i wish they were still going….” cuz it’s undetected genius, withe the ‘power triangle’, samples, beer kegs, welding tools, concepts, ideas, insanity and beauty. It’s the perfect and most honest monstrosity anybody has ever created. I’ve also made some predictions about the next Slipknot cycle which you don’t wanna hear but you’re going to anyway. I think the image will be shiney and silvery like the IOWA CD case. I think they will have metallic masks that reflect the stage lights and can be picked out amongst the smoke. I think the boiler suits will be something special and shiney. I think it’s all gonna be about silver. Anyways, thanks for skimming through it or whatever you did 🙂 It’d be kewl if you could pass this onto the Clown or maybe even the band themselves. Thanks and sorries, ~an obsessive and ‘on one’ Cid P.S. am sending Corey my 17yr old Spiderman eggcup and a Spiderman ring i bought him :D”

The Morning After Belfast. Ah yes, the show last night Aug 27th.. totally kick ass we hear, but of course, as expected. Read on for a review sent in by James McCullough, trusty Roadrunner street teamer. “Holy good fuckin shit what a show. After standing around for about 45 mins the lights went out and the intro of 515 kicked in the whole arena starts screaming and chanting Slipknot, the band slowly took the stage and kicked into People=Shit which sounded just brutal, especially with Chris and Shawn providing some back-up screaming, even the kids in the stands were going nuts. Crowd favourites were probably My Plague during the chorus of which you could barely hear Corey singing due to everyone in the crowd joining in, also for the crowd sang the start of the Wait and Bleed before the band started. Heretic Anthem got the crowd going with the 666 chant with Corey saying Belfast was one the craziest crowds they’ve ever had I’d have to agree with more people screaming, moshing and going mental than any other Slipknot gig I’ve been to before. Sid was one mental guy swinging round Shawn’s (who’s gone back to his old style clown mask) drum riser then jumping off which he had already pissed on and thrown up over. During Spit It Out Corey made everyone sit down and explained how to pass the mental test which consisted off everyone jumping the fuck up when told so and everyone did jump the fuck up. For me the highlights of the night were defiantly the twisted Purity, which is just an incredible song, and New Abortion which being one of my favourite songs I thought sounded extra mind-blowing. To end it all off the Slipknot anthem Surfacing which drove the already exhausted crowd into one final frenzy. In Two Words Fuckin Amazin.” Awesome. Word has it that Belfast got to hear People=Shit, Liberate, Disaster Piece, Purity, My Plague, Eyeless, Spit It Out, Eeyore, Left Behind, Get This, New Abortion, Wait and Bleed, Sic, & Surfacing. So, following on from storming shows at Reading, Leeds, and Glasgow.. Belfast tonight.. what’s next for the Knot? The band are off to Germany for a remaining couple of shows, and then it’s back home to the USA. Craig tells, “just a short run, only a few dates. We’ve just gotten into it again and now it’s time to go home!” You can catch them in Germany at: 29th August – Wiesen Festival 31st August – Off Limits Festival, Georg-Melches Stadium, Essen 1st September – Off Limits Festival, Festwiese, Leipzig

Congratulations! Slipknot have been nominated for an almighty THREE Kerrang! Awards namely: Best Video (for My Plague) – against Tenacious D, Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park, & Foo Fighters. Best Band In The World – against Sum 41, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Linkin Park, & Nickelback. Best International Live Act – against Incubus, System Of A Down, Rammstein, & New Found Glory. The K’s take place at the Hilton Hotel on the prestigious Park Lane in London on Tuesday 27th August and we’re sure a riotous time will be had by all in attendance. The same night the band play Belfast.. we’re sure it’ll be a knock out show. Best of luck guys.. we’ll have a drink or ten in your honour. Interview the ‘Knot. Be sure to check out the Session in Scotland BBC Radio website – for they will be hosting a webchat with our guys very soon. You can send in your questions in advance. PRESS! Be sure to check out the ‘Clown’ issue of Bizarre magazine, out any day now… what a surprise, it has an interview with Clown in it. And the Sept issue of FHM (out in August) has Corey taking their ‘Bloke Test’! RADIO! Tune in to Total Rock, and Music Choice.. both have My Plague on the A playlist! It’s even been picking up some plays on XFM, and Radio 1. What else can we tell you? Check out the downthesun news page… Clown did the artwork for their forthcoming album as well as executive producing it.