It’s Monday…wake up…hit up our DOWNLOADS section for a new cut from Soulfly’s upcoming 3. Download it, turn up the speakers, turn off the phone. We’ll let the song speak for itself. Get your ears around this… we present to you the first cut from the new Soulfly album ‘3’… download yourself this MP3 of Enterfaith in the Downloads section. WIsh You Were Here Promo Trip – May ’02 What happened during the UK stop? Besides some interviews for future features with magazines, and some radio hookups, we sent one of our street teamers, Gavin Lewis, off to Max’s hotel for a face-to-face. What do we mean? Simply, we got a whole bunch of questions in from our teamers, and sent Gavin interview Max and get the answers. Cool, no? Mikey Likes Japan A few months back when Roadrunner Japan A&R Rep Kaori was visiting the NYC Roadrunner office, the wheels were in motion. These wheels we speak of were Kaori’s idea to have Soulfly guitarist Mikey Doling produce the upcoming release from Bat Cave, a Roadrunner act in Japan. Remember Kaori? Remember Bat Cave? Mikey is producing Bat Cave’s upcoming release. Did You Know? Mikey’s previous production credits include the Lynn Strait tribute, and demos for Hemlock. True. This week, we bring you more words from our US Controller Neil, and his conversation with Marcelo of Soulfly… “I spoke today with Soulfly bassist Marcelo Dias. Marcelo reports that he’s really pleased with the band’s latest effort “3”, which will be instores this summer. After overcoming some hurdles on the first two records, Marcelo indicates “We’re more mature together now. This record everything came together.” They road tested new cuts “Last Of The Mohicans”, “Interfaith”, & “Downstroy” on their recent tour with Static X. Marcelo says, “The crowds are loving them. They’re heavier, with more hooks” than ever before. Marcelo is eagerly anticipating hearing the final mix of the record, which was just completed by Terry Date. Terry is a Roadrunner veteran, having previously mixed Slipknot’s “Iowa” and Machine Head’s “The Burning Red”.” …thanks for the time and the line Marcelo & Neil…

An earlier report straight from the mouth of Monte, Soulfly’s A&R man. “They are in the studio as we speak, and have a about 5 songs tracked so far, plus a few cover songs. Roy Mayorga is officially back in the band and is out there with them. The only 2 song titles I have are “Downstroy” and “Enterfaith”. They are recording at Chaton Studios in Phoenix, with Max producing and Otto “Rusty” D’Agnolo engineering. They should be done in approx. 5 weeks. It is not yet know who will mix the LP.” Remember that 3 song demo we told you that Max was working on? Well, it’s complete and in house and the cause of some new excitement here at Roadrunner… As told, it was produced by Max Cavalera himself. Greg Hall (ex-Sacred Reich) guested on the drums and Danny Marianino (from the Phoenix band Northside Kings) added some guitar and bass tracks. Recording took place at Chaton Studios in Phoenix, with Otto “Rusty” D’Agnolo engineering. Rusty has a long history with Max, having recorded the legendary Nailbomb album Pointblank back in 1994, as well as the Sabbath cover “Under The Sun” that appeared on the LP Nativity In Black II last year. Here’s a quick rundown on the songs: 1. “Downstroy” – a future Soulfly classic with a driving riff on the verse that is reminiscent of “Eye For An Eye” with a “Chaos A.D.”-era guitar tuning. 2. “Enterfaith” – a more “Primitive”-style track with a monster hook and some adventurous vocals by Max. 3. “I Will Refuse” – a ferocious cover of the Pailhead song. Max played all instruments on this one, cepting for the drums. A while ago we wrote that Max Cavalera, founder of Soulfly, was heading into the studio to start some preliminary stuff stuff on his own for the recording of the upcoming Soulfly release. Also, that he may be producing the effort himself. Well, we have been true to our word. Max has recorded the better portions of three songs, all in demo fashion. Two of the tracks are originals and the third being a cover track of a song called “I Will Refuse” by Pailhead. Word is that these initial demos Max is doing are sick (in a good way). “I cannot even begin to tell you how sick they are,” exclaimed someone close to the project. As hinted earlier, Max is looking at possibly producing the new effort on his own, which is the main reason for recording these three demos – so Max can go in and get a feel of the studio. interesting fact – the same guy whom engineered the Nailbomb effort, Otto D’Agnolo, is doing the same in the studio with Max right now. Vocals for the three tracks were said to be completed Oct 3, with mixing taking place over the last couple days of this week. Doubt we’ll be able to share these demos with you, but that is what is goin’ on right now… Oh, did you know that back in August Max jammed with a band called The Cremains? Word is they are a Navajo Indian band. At a Navajo Indian Reservation in Tuba City, Arizona, in the USA, Max joined them on stage for “Roots” and “Boom”. Did you go to the UK Ozzfest in May 2001? See our exclusive photos of live Slipknot & Soulfly, plus the Soulfly Signing Session at the Kerrang! tent! Can you see yourself in any of them? You might remember a previous mention that the film “Driven” – written by, produced by, and starring Sylvester Stallone – will be using Junkie XL’s track “Legion”. Did we mention Sylvester Stallone is in the movie? Well, now the trailer for this film will be using Junkie XL’s “Def Beat” along with Soulfly’s track “Bleed”, off their self titled debut release. The trailer for the film “The Forsaken” by Sony Screen Gems will be using Coal Chamber’s “Loco” and Soulfly’s “Mulambo”. Marcello, bassist of Soulfly, sat down for an interview with emuse-ic after sound check at the Newport Music Hall in Ohio, USA. Half of the text relaying Marcello’s answers are actually links which you can click on to hear Marcello speak the answers himself. Well worth a peak. Check it out HERE (www.emuseic.com/April_2/Soulfly_page1.html).

MAX HITS THE BIG SCREEN… Out now is the film The Mummy II, The Scorpion King, starring pro wrestler The Rock. In the movie, The Rock sells his soul to the devil to become the famed Scorpion King. Now, when The Rock is transformed to the Scorpion King, he has no voice. All he can do is growl (groooowl), grunt (grunt grunt), and make other tribal sort of noises. Well, these noises that you hear coming from The Rock’s voice when he is the Scorpion King are actually coming from the throat of MAX CAVALERA. “Son Song” appears on the Warner Bros. soundtrack album (out now) for the film “Valentine”, a horror/thriller starring Denise Richards. Also on the album are tracks from: Rob Zombie, Disturbed, Static X, Linkin Park, Deftones, Orgy, Marilyn Manson, Amanda Ghost, Professional Murder Music, BT, Filter and Snake River Conspiracy. Did you see the band playing with Glassjaw and Earthtone 9 in Nottingham, Glasgow, and London last year? Have a look at our TOUR PHOTO SPECIAL (www.roadrunnerrecords.co.uk/sfphoto.html)!! The band also took time out to host an instore signing session at Tower Records in Piccadilly, London and you can see photos from this in the photo special! The band’s new video ‘Back To The Primitive’ has also been added to the MTV2 play list – check it out!

About time we gave you something to listen to. Download yourself a free MP3 of song ‘Remnants’ in the MUSIC section. goneblind, the EP. Come Sept 24, in what now seems to be recent tradition for Roadrunner USA (see Sinch, Murderdolls, Stone Sour EP’s) we will be releasing a goneblind EP – but only in the USA once again. This release will contain five tracks, tracks which the band had in the bag when they came to Roadrunner. In fact, the only thing we had to do with these tracks, was mastering. True. Track listing will be as follows: 1) “Remnants” 2) “Rescue Me” 3) “Pass On Through” 4) “American Original” 5) “Ameissen” And now, a bit of a personal note: US Road Crew member DAVE PIEKARSKI from Houston shares the following: Just wanted to pass along a little info on the new RR band goneblind. As you probably know, these guys are from Houston. I know the bass player, Mitch Burman, pretty well. Well, this could be on the main page under news next week – The club the Engine Room, where goneblind is playing, is owned by Mitch Burman, the bass player. A club where may RR acts have played. Such as Spineshank, Dry Kill Logic, Ill Nino, Chimaira and a few other I can’t recall off the top of my head. Put that in your pipe and smoke it!! All true, too, mind you. And FYI, off the top Veronica’s head (RR US tour dept), 36 Crazyfists, Five Pointe O, Coal Chamber, Machine Head, and Fear Factory have also played there. Touche.

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome the hardest working band in the business, goneblind. Hailing from Houston, TX, the band has spent the past three years touring the US – on their own accord and dime.Three years ago also happens to be the same time when Roadrunner A&R Rep Ron Burman started taking notice. At the annual SXSW festival in Austin, TX, Ron saw the band for the first time. Though some songs were in place, Ron tells that at the time something was missing. Fast forward three years, late 2001, to a goneblind show at Arlene Grocery in NYC. “They fuckin’ smoked,” Ron states. “Fuckin’ blew me away.” And so it is, Roadrunner’s latest band in the family, goneblind. John Curry – vocals and guitar Mitch Burman – bass Marc Archer – drums Artie Rincon – guitar Description of the band? Hear for yourself – in our downloads section you will find an MP3 file of their song “Reminder”, a demo recorded back in August 2001 in Orlando, Florida. For you tech guys out there, this demo was recorded on a lil’ Roland 2480. Enjoy. goneblind, welcome aboard. goneblind, one of the newest acts to the Roadrunner family, is hitting the road from July 11-August 3 in the USA. This band, which is no stranger to the wears of the road, is confirmed to play the side stage on the upcoming Jerry Cantrell / Creed tour. The exact lineup for this tour is as follows: Creed headlining, Jerry Cantrell in direct support, and 12 Stones opening. On the side stage, it will be goneblind and another act called Familiar 48.

PRIMITIVE is out now! Full tracklisting is as follows: Back To The Primitive Pain – with Chino Moreno (Deftones) + Grady Avenell (Will Haven) Bring It Terrorist – with Tom Araya (Slayer) Mulambo Son Song – with Sean Lennon Boom Jumpdafuckup – with Corey Taylor (Slipknot) Soulfly II Prophet Flyhigh In Memory Of…

PRIMITIVE is out now! Full tracklisting is as follows: Back To The Primitive Pain – with Chino Moreno (Deftones) + Grady Avenell (Will Haven) Bring It Terrorist – with Tom Araya (Slayer) Mulambo Son Song – with Sean Lennon Boom Jumpdafuckup – with Corey Taylor (Slipknot) Soulfly II Prophet Flyhigh In Memory Of…

The Glassjaw camp have released an mp3 of one of the songs they have been recording, “Bartender”. Glassjaw’s upcoming release, titled Worship And Tribute, is currently due out in the UK on Warners sometime later this year, though you may find it on import from the US in some stores already. Due to ill health, the band have recently postponed their UK shows but hope to reschedule them in the near future. Some new song titles for ya… “Cosmopolitan Bloodloss”, “Midwestern Stylings”, “Tip Your Bartender” and “Must Have Run All Day”. Glassjaw has re-released their independent debut titled Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (what came before their amazing Roadrunner debut Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence). The band is currently selling it online HERE. Have yet to hear it myself, however with it carrying the name ‘GLASSJAW’, surely it must be good shit. So, tell us about the new songs? “Typical Glassjaw bullshit. Strung out acoustic jam-relaxed- codeine songs to total all-out war! There’s a lot of us finding ourselves going on. On the last record there was a lot of influence from Todd and my last band, Sons of Abraham. The material we’re writing now is very, very much Glassjaw – whatever that means. “We met with Ross Robinson last week while he was in town mastering Slipknot. It was great to see him. We’re looking forward to getting more chairs thrown at us in the studio this time!” Want to see the video for Siberian Kiss? Click here. This video was culled from a series of shows around the New York/New Jersey area on Glassjaw’s Fall tour with power metal leviathans, Shadows Fall. It was done on less than a shoestring by the band’s pal, Steve Pedulla: geetartist with NJ weepy-core heroes, Thursday. It shows you what fifty bucks, a couple of falaffel sandwiches and a whole buncha gumption will get you. While cleaning out the Roadrunner Vaults recently, we discovered a few paragraphs from Daryl Palumbo’s diary about Glassjaw’s tour with the Deftones last year. We also found a stash of tour photos taken by the band and crew themselves – unedited. Being nosy types, we decided to post them up so you could all read them… Did you catch the band supporting Soulfly in the UK in Nottingham, Glasgow, and London? Have a look at our TOUR PHOTO SPECIAL!! The band also took time out to host an instore signing session at Tower Records in Piccadilly, London signing everything from guitar plaster casts to giant pairs of underwear (clean we hope)! The photographic evidence is up in the gallery. Glassjaw are a band that comes out of the New York underground comprised of old vets and fresh faces making a sound that’s brutally direct yet soaringly melodic. Produced by Ross Robinson, Glassjaw’s Roadrunner/IAM debut touches upon the extremities of beauty and horror…tied directly into the psyche of 20 year old frontman Daryl Palumbo. Think brutality of the Deftones or the Bad Brains, the lushness of Radiohead and the lyrical introspection of vintage Elvis Costello. The Glassjaw debut album ‘Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Silence’ is available now in all good record shops for 퉌£11.99. If you want to check out Glassjaw’s site, have a look at www.glassjaw.com

Spineshank is elbow deep in getting together their third release.How go things? Words from drummer Tommy Decker are as follows: What’s up everybody!! I know its been an EXTREMELY long time since we posted on the status of the new album, and I would like to apologize for keeping you all in the dark. We are ready and eager to record. We have over 20 songs and I think they’re the best we’ve ever written. I don’t want to let too many titles leak cuz we always end up changing them last minute. We’ve brought some new elements to the Spineshank sound but its not a very far departure from The Height Of Callousness. I think the songs are written better and there’s more variety from one song to the next. We will probably be planning a small tour right after we’re done recording, just to “knock all the rust off” and try a few new songs live. (its been WAY too long since we’ve played!!!) After that we will probably do some shows outside of the U.S. (too early to be sure of where and when yet) and then hit the states for a “real” tour. As far as the record goes, we’re still unsure as to how many songs will be on it, somewhere between 12 and 14 though. We still have a few titles that we’re considering. I wish I could tell you more but all these little details seem to fall into place at the last minute in the studio (in the wonderfully backward world of s.s). My main reason for posting is too let you all know that we will be recording and getting this record out as soon as we can. I hope you all understand why it took so long. We wanted to put out a record that we can be proud of, and that YOU can be proud of. You guys have stuck with us and waited for a long time and the least we can do is give you a record worth the wait. Well I’m out, (got more songs to write) talk to you all soon. Tommy p.s. keep posting on the message board we read it almost everyday. July 12th, time enough to catch a few words online with Rob. RR: Hey, how’s life in the land of the ‘Shank? Rob: Hey! What’s up… everything is going cool. How ’bout yourself? RR: Pretty good, just got back from holiday in Australia myself. Rob: Very cool.. good to hear. Damn I need a vacation. RR: So you guys are working non-stop? Where would you go? Rob: Yup. I don’t know.. maybe the desert. I love hot weather, can’t get enough of it. It’s gonna be about 80 today, only thing I don’t like is it’s been really humid, but I can deal with it! RR: Nicer than here ya know. In the studio every day? You must be sick of the sight of eachother by now! How much longer you got left? Rob: Yeah, except for weekends. Writing wise hopefully not too much longer. Actually everybody is still in one piece and getting along – that’s definitely a good thing… no-one has torn another person apart! RR: How many songs you done now? Rob: We have about 7 definitely done, the others aren’t finished yet. RR: You think fans of Height Of Callousness will dig the new album? Rob: Fuck yeah, they better! I’m sure they will. RR: Hey, check out the individual biogs we did when you have a minute – you remember doing this a while back? Rob: Oh yeah, I saw that already – came out cool! RR: Checking up on me and what I write about ya eh? Rob: Yup (laughs). We were laughing about how everybody’s fav tour story had to do with being drunk! I wonder why. (laughs harder) RR: Speaking of drinks… been a while since you were here with Dry Kill Logic. That tour was fun huh?! Rob: Right on! Can’t wait to get back there.. it was the first time I didn’t get a brutal cold when we were there… last time I actually had fun! RR: Poison of choice? Rob: Beer… Budweiser. RR: Cool. So what are you up to this weekend on your 2 days off? Rob: Drinking. That’s about it. Drinking, the story of my life (laughs).

Five Pointe O Did you know? Yes, it’s random birthday fact time. Did you know that Casey (keyboards) and Eric (guitar) have the same birthday but a year apart? Both born on September 6th – Casey in 1975, Eric in 1974. Did you know that besides having the same birthday, Casey and Eric are related? They are cousins. All true. Something even more random? Sean (bass) was born 2 years, 2 months, and 2 days before Tony (drums). Sean’s birthday: May 26, 1980 Tony’s birthday: July 28, 1982. Which brings us to Sharon (guitar) and Daniel (vocals). Rivalling Casey & Eric, did you know that Daniel was born almost exactly a year after Sharon? There’s only 5 days in it. August 15 (Daniel) vs. August 20 (Sharon). And Sharon has the same birthday as yours truly. We shit you not. With timing like that, we bet their live set is t-i-g-h-t. “Unbelievable”…”Insane”…”Biggest in-store ever at Crows Nest”…just a few words heard during Five Pointe O’s in-store appearance/performance at the Crows Nest in Crest Hill, Illinois this past Friday (June 7). Roadrunner US sales regional Scott tells that over 1,000 people came out to meet and welcome back the band from their past few months on the road with Mushroomhead (see, this is what you would call a hometown appearance for the band). “If you’ve ever seen the Minor Threat home video of their live show at the 9:30 Club, then you’ll have an idea of what the crowd was like at this show,” explains Scot. After signing goods and what not for a couple hours, Five Pointe O took the stage (actually, out back in the car park) at 8:15pm, just as the sun was going down. Scott tells, “it made for an amazing backdrop to a set that was the tightest, most out of control, rocking effort I’ve ever seen them give…all you could see was bodies, sweat, and more bodies.” Five Pointe O, welcome home. Now don’t get too comfortable, ya hear…your upcoming summer US tour run with Coal Chamber starts July 5th.