Spineshank’s hotly-anticipated 3rd album ‘Self Destructive Pattern’ is released on Monday July 14th. Available as a limited edtion enhanced slipcase CD it will retail for around 퉌£11.99 from the following stores: HMV – 퉌£2 off with your ‘Download 2003’ discount card. Click HERE to order your FREE card. VIRGIN – 퉌£2 off with voucher in this week’s Kerrang! ROADRAGE STORES – Free logo patch while stocks last. Click HERE for details of your nearest store. Plus SANITY, MVC & MUSIC ZONE.

If you’re desperate to get your hands on the Murderdolls fab new version of ‘White Wedding’, then the wait is almost over. Released on Monday 14th July, the ‘White Wedding’ single is available as a limited edition digipack CD for only 퉌£1.99 from HMV, Virgin, Sanity and all good Indie Stores. Also, look out for a fab competition to win Joey’s mirrored guitar exclusively on this site from July 14th.

Over the next few days, we’ll be bringing you daily reports from Spineshank’s Tommy Decker. Tommy talks about every track on the new album ‘Self-Destructive Pattern’ (out on Monday) – what he likes, what he doesn’t like, how it was written, how it was recorded, and the end result. Today, tracks 1 & 2. 1. Violent Mood Swings This song is one of my favorite songs on the record and the only song that we even considered opening with. The best way to open up a record is with some anger and energy and this song definitely has that! We recorded the vocals on this 9 times!! We kept trying different approaches and none of them felt right. We had actually mixed the song and then decided that we wanted to do it once more. Jonny wasn’t too happy about this, but his anger worked. He did one pass, screaming at the top of his lungs and it was done. We still fuck with him and tell him that we’re gonna recall the song and sing it again. Good times. 2. Slavery This song is easily one the heaviest songs we have ever done. Definitely a live song, it’s got a good groove and it’s really fast. This was the very last song we wrote for the record and it was a bitch to write! Mike and I fought a lot while putting it together. We knew what we wanted but just couldn’t get the parts to work together. The lyrics didn’t even get done until the day Jonny sang it. It was a challenge but it was well worth it. more to come…

SOULFLY have been forced to postpone their previously announced tour of Russia due to last weekend’s suicide bombing at a rock concert in Moscow that resulted in the deaths of 14 people. A letter from the Russian police to the tour’s organizers requesting the cancellation of the dates reads as follows: “Considering the rising amount of mass riots among spectators during concerts and other big events which involve big gatherings of people, we insistently ask you to stop organization and promotion of the concerts and tours in the summer period, including the tour of the band SOULFLY that you have planned for July 2003. Otherwise we will not be able to guarantee safety of spectators and band members. Should you not follow the directions of this letter, the event will be cancelled.” SOULFLY are currently on tour in Europe, playing 10,000-25,000 seat festivals, with support at various dates coming from the likes of BURNING SPEAR and HATEBREED. The band will also open for CYPRESS HILL at two festival dates in Australia. In other news, SOULFLY have been invited to perform at the biggest show in Colombia’s history. 100,000 people are expected to attend the concert at a city park. The mayor’s office reportedly requested SOULFLY’s participation in the event because of Max’s status as “the only (and biggest) rock star ever to come from South America,” according to a press release. In other SOULFLY-related news, Christina Newport, daughter of SOULFLY manager and Max’s wife, Gloria Cavalera, will marry Bojan Stojanovic of Belgrade, Serbia on July 20 in a Serbian Orthodox ceremony in Belgrade (where the couple have been residing for several months). Max’s family will be attend the wedding, which will culminate at a reception in the mountains at a nearby resort. Christina is an employee of Oasis Management (SOULFLY’s management company) as an assistant manager, and Bojan is the product manager for Universal Records, the Balkans division. blabbermouth

Last night in Augusta, Georgia, doubleDrive hit Crossroads Bar on their current tour with Finger 11 and Echo 7. Before moving forward, let’s look back. Some random notes from the band on the past couple of weeks are as follows: Mt. Clemens, MI – first night of RA tour. Had a jam session in the lobby for radio cats on air in Detroit. Carolyn Stone – a DJ from Detroit – wants to do vox on a hard song next time we’re in town. Chicago Heights, IL – missed Jell-O wrestling by one night…their big weekly event. Would have been fun. Edgerton, WI – packed house. Venue is right on the river, shot off fireworks on the water – shooting for the boats, did not hit him. Got obliterated with RA (good supply of Crown Royal and such on their bus). Northampton, MA – great show. Packed house. Let’s see…what happened that night? Jessie Moss opened for us, we enjoyed the visuals…a lot. Hit a bar next door and had drinks with a bunch of people from the show. Hartford, CT – benefit show for the Rhode Island victims. With fans and family members of some of the victims (along with some other bands), we had an acoustic sing along in the dressing room. Various songs. It worked into ‘what songs do you know?’ with Fred Coury and Stephen Percy. We headlined, and had an all star jam afterwards – “Immigrant Song,” “You’ve Got Another Thing Coming,” “Whole Lotta Rosie,” and “Round And Round” were some of the songs played. A thanks to Kevin Wilson for the effort. Portsmouth, NH – Muddy Rivers (see upcoming Road Chow review), great bbq. Small, but intense crowd. Cool video stuff in the venue, hat goes off to production dude at the venue. Orono, ME – James from Manmade God shooting fireworks in a state where illegal, and drinking in the parking lot. Donnie threw an apple in the air as high as could, however it landed right behind a bouncer, missed head by inches (but did spray on him)…lucky he didn’t kick Donnie’s ass. Bouncer was smiling by the end. We live to throw apples another day. Albany, NY – Debbie’s Deli (see upcoming Road Chow review). If you go Albany for any reason, you must go. First show with Finger 11. Excellent band, good guys. The club people were cool, the pizza was awesome. Farmingdale, NY – friends from Roadrunner were out – Kaso and Elias. Troy voted the staff one of the most beautiful bar staffs. doubleDrive shirts handed out that night, and they were tight that evening. Troy won water bottle toss into trash cans over Echo 7…along with all the prestige that brings. Ortley Beach, NJ – Troy touched the water, Donnie never touched the sand. We were there literally three hours, in & out. Some fans that drove four hours to see us, missed the show (it was an early one)…but they were rewarded nonetheless. Today, we pick back up, looking forward to getting back in the groove…ain’t no smooties in Augusta.

Were you in Nottingham yesterday afternoon/evening? Perhaps you went to the Stone Sour instore signing session at Virgin? And then onto the Murderdolls & Stone Sour show at Rock City in the evening? Whether you did or not, check out some ‘interesting’ photos from Nottingham… Stone Sour at the instore, and both bands in the evening. Thanks going out to Roy Pirie for sharing the photos… yes, even the signed “adult toy” one (check out Corey’s reaction). You can see all of them in the STONE SOUR PHOTO GALLERY and the MURDERDOLLS PHOTO GALLERY. Enjoy. The Murderdolls & Stone Sour play Birmingham tonight. For full tour dates, check out the TOUR section. You can also win tickets to the London show right now in FREE SHIT.

the following is brought to you from Dez Fafara in regards to new project DevilDriver: “Today is Tuesday, July 8th…as of today, I am officially done singing songs. There are 12 tracks for the album, along with an extra track entitled “Digging Up The Corpses.” The extra track will only be available on the digipak which will be in Europe. We will spend Tuesday thru Friday going through the songs with a fine tooth comb. Friday will be our finishing date. This is everything I’ve ever dreamed of…the album is brutal in every sense of the word, and I can’t get enough of it. It has an ever present hook and is built on integrity. “After Friday, mixing/mastering/and all the other great things start happening. Next week we will be meeting with photographers and video directors, and the band will be getting together to start practicing for the upcoming tour. “I’d like to thank everybody at my record label – Roadrunner Records – for a valiant effort. We’re gonna be bringing them the finest product ever…and no that’s not just a kiss-ass, my label supports heavy ass music, and that makes me appreciative.” -Dez Fafara

The Murderdolls are back in the press again (did they ever leave?). Check out their cover feature on Kerrang!, and also pick up the new issue of Total Guitar (out July 8th) for the guitar tab to White Wedding! Oh yes, and they have a rather nice 4-page feature with Joey & Acey too.

The first single from the new as-yet-untitled Nickelback album will be called ‘Someday’. ‘Someday’ is tentatively set for a September release, shortly before the release of the new album, but you’ll be able to hear it on the radio even sooner! Radio mixes for ‘Someday’ are currently underway, and the band are due to be shooting a video for the track this week. In other Nickelback news, the guys are hosting an international media day in Vancouver in the near future, in order to do some promotion for the new record!

The latest creation in the Type O Negative video library has been added online. Check out our VIDEO section for “I Don’t Wanna Be Me,” the video for the song off their latest release, Life Is Killing Me. Classic.