Three cheers for 36 Crazyfists, whose new video for ‘Bloodwork’ has just been playlisted by MTV2! You can tune in and check it out from Friday, plus you can spot them in the Txt, Drugs, & Rock N Roll zone on Friday from 3-5, & 6-9pm!

Camden, New Jersey – OZZFEST 2004, circa August 26th (i.e. last week). A bit of a human interest piece for you on this fine summer day. Press release from YJ Stinger Extreme Energy Drink as follows: Camden, New Jersey- OZZFEST 2004, presented by YJ Stinger Extreme Energy Drink, rocked the Tweeter Center Thursday, August 26th! At this show, many of the bands recorded a video message of support to First Lt. Alfred Concha of the 25th Infantry and his troops who are now stationed in Iraq. First Lt. Concha’s girlfriend, Vincenia Annvzzi from Andover Township New Jersey, met him while he was on leave and began a wonderful relationship. They correspond regularly to and from Iraq by email and occasionally by phone. Alfred and the troops are big fans of the bands on Ozzfest (Slipknot, Lamb of God, Hatebreed and Otep among others). With that in mind, YJ Stinger (Ozzfest’s presenting sponsor based in Ms. Annvzzi’s hometown) arranged to send these bands’ greetings to the troops. Ozzfest is the first concert Vincenia has ever attended. Once there, she was able to meet with the bands, get photos, autographs and record video messages to Lt. Concha and the troops, which will be made into DVDs and sent out to them in Iraq. Last month in South Jersey, YJ Stinger Spokesman Joseph R Gannascoli (Vito from HBO’s Hit series “The Sopranos”) recorded a similar video message to First Lt. Alfred Concha and his men while at an appearance at Club Stingers in Long Branch, NJ. for a couple pics from the day, check out the Slipknot photo gallery…and see our TOUR section for all upcoming Slipknot dates.

Please make note: Monday, the Resident Evil: Apocalypse soundtrack was released. (polite applause) Do make sure to check it out, and to check out the movie once it is released in October. The soundtrack features music from five Roadrunner acts – Slipknot, Killswitch Engage, DevilDriver, Cradle Of Filth, and 36 Crazyfists (and you can hear 2 tracks in the movie, and 2 more at the end). Track listing for the soundtrack is as follows: 1. Slipknot – Vermilion 2. The Used – Just A Little 3. The Cure – Us Or Them 4. A Perfect Circle – The Outsider (Resident Renholder Mix) 5. Lacuna Coil – Swamped 6. Killswitch Engage – The End Of Heartache 7. Rammstein – Mein Teil 8. DevilDriver – Digging Up The Corpses 9. Cradle Of Filth – Nymphetamine 10. CKY – Escape From Hellview 11. Deftones – The Chauffeur 12. HIM – Join Me In Death 13. Nightwish – Nemo 14. Thrice – Under A Killing Moon 15. 36 Crazyfists – Bloodwork 16. Cold – End Of The World (acoustic) 17. Rob Zombie – Girl On Fire (Renholder’s Apocalypse Mix) 18. Massive Attack – Future Proof check out www.roadrun.com/apocalypse to hear the soundtrack now

Do you wanna read some funny as Trustkill stuff? You can keep up with all your TK favourite bands directly with their online journals – all located HERE. Yup, we just sniggered at a few ourselves… particularly like those Ozzfest snapshots in Throwdown’s diary.

Have you noticed a problem with the Throwdown website lately? The band recently posted the below note to their Trustkill online journal… “As many of you may or may not have noticed, our website, www.xthrowdownx.com, has been down for a couple weeks. Some dickface at the old host company is sort of holding our domain for ransom. To all of you non-dorks, that means shit ain’t workin right and it’ll be another couple weeks. Til then… FOR TOUR DATES…. Check out www.trustkillshows.com or www.trustkill.com/bands/tours (in case you were unaware that this site had other features besides the journals) TO ORDER OUR SWEET ASS MERCH…. www.MerchNow.com (and look for THROWDOWN there) We promise we’ll have this problem fixed soon and you’ll be able to view a whole new revamped site. Hold tight and chill the fuck out til that happens, though, alright titcakes?”

The new Hopesfall album, “A Types” is finished and off to the printers, and having heard from our Trustkill buddies, word has it this thing sounds and looks phenomenal. Remember this album drops November 1st, we’ll have music for you guys to hear shortly!

Some good news for all you Terror fans over here in Europe. The band look set to confirm a European tour for February 2005 with no less than Agnostic Front. Watch this space for confirmation and dates as they are announced!

Killswitch Engage’s current obsession… “Howdy folks! Just another update for ya… we are currently in Idaho (day off before the show) and its been good to relax. The shows have been great, having an awesome time with 36 CF, 18V and FATA. Couldn’t ask for a better time. Now, let’s address the wave thats sweeping the US nation. THE HORRIBLE DOCTOR BONES. For those who have found the movie, purchased it, viewed it, made it a part of your lives….WE SALUTE YOU! For those who have made shirts, posters, signs, or just showed us your reciepts for future viewing of the greatest piece of film noir this side of the Mississippi, WE SALUTE YOU! For those who want to know the joy of THE HORRIBLE DOCTOR BONES…do what it takes. Make this masterpiece yours and show us the goods at the show. Until then, let the shout ring forth….URBAN PROTECTORS!!” [ed’s note: if you have no idea what they are talking about, you need to visit their site, all will be explained]

Machine Head’s Robert Flynn recently spoke to the guys over at Brave Words & Bloody Knuckles (site HERE)… “We’re doing this tour, then we’re doing an Australian and then a European tour. We’re probably doing more dates at the beginning of next year here in the states. What my game plan and our vision is, which we’re trying to implement here, is we want to do another video, for ‘Days Turn Blue To Gray’. We want to do a third video for ‘Descend The Shades Of Night’. We’re playing the Brixton Academy again in December, and we want to film that for a DVD. And we’re also talking about having more of like a fan-filmed version of this Burn My Eyes show, where we just give a bunch of fans in the audience cameras, and they film it, and we get their perspective and have that as a bonus attachment to the DVD, that we have. And the DVD that’s going to come out, it will be our first DVD. It’s going to be very Through The Ashes Of Empires-centric. It’s going to be focused around that visually and sound-wise. It’s going to be the live show. You know, have that, and have a lot of the standard fuckin’ rock ‘n’ roll shenanigans, fuckin’ stupid beer fuckin’ maniacs, beer bongs, and vodka mania (laughs).” In closing Robert offers a few comments on Through The Ashes Of Empires, which reunites Flynn with his Vio-lence bandmate Phil Demmel. “The whole writing process started out as a three-piece. We had basically, you know, found out that we were unsigned. Ahrue had decided to leave and pursue other things, and the three of us just kind of got together and started asking ourselves a lot of questions like, ‘Why are we doing this? What are you try to get out of this?’ And this was kind of an ongoing conversation we had for a month or two, and at the end of the day, it just kind of became that we really wanted to make music that was going to take the listener on a journey, and not necessarily be aware of songs structure, or having to be verse/chorus, verse/chorus, something/chorus. In a lot of ways, it just kind of freed up everything. We were open to try everything. We knew we wanted to refine what the Machine Head sound was and also try bring new things we had never done, and challenge ourselves as musicians, and try write something that wasn’t going on at the time that people might have been scared to try. So that was kind of the beginning of it. When Phil join the band, probably about four months prior to recording the record… then it became about riffing (laughs). At that point we saw how much more we could do. I mean, we always intended to have another guitar player, but there is just so much more he brought to the band. Him and I had already had a history, and a lot of that was based on trying to follow those classic guitar teams, the King/Hanneman, Downing/Tipton thing. We always tried to model ourselves like that. And that instantly came back in there were harmonies, runs, and riffs just started getting more complex, and we were in the headspace for it.”

Beginning next month, Hatebreed drummer Matt Byrne will be writing drum lessons and exercises for Drum! magazine, available in the USA. Byrne’s contributions will be available in the back of the magazine in the “Practice Pad” section.