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10.06.2008

NEW SITE CHANGES!

You may have noticed that over the past few months quiet changes have been made to the site. First we gave you new artist pages. Check out your favorite and you'll find widgets, videos, music, and much more. Plus they look great.

A few weeks back we also updated our Artists page. You'll see highlighted artists up top in blue. These change as artists are updated with news, video, and music. This is a great page to make your first port-of-call after the news section!

Today we've relaunched three other pages. Music and Video are all new. You can now embed all of our music and video posted to the site in your blog, web site, or MySpace/Facebook profiles. At the right of these pages you'll see charts driven by what YOU do on our site. You can also leave comments at all songs and videos, rate them, and favorite them in our new profile system (more on that in a sec).

The Releases page has gotten a huge makeover. Every album now has its own home page where you can see the available tracks, rate it, leave a review, or comment on others' reviews. Snazzy huh?

Finally, we just launched our new profile pages. If you're a subscriber to our email newsletters, you can log in, add your own picture, keep track of the latest updates on our site (and partner sites), follow your favorite videos and music, and tell us what bands you want to hear about.

Of course, many of these new features require that you be a member of the site to use them, so please join today!

We are, of course, in a beta phase and need your help to make the site work the best for YOU. If you see any problems or want to suggest changes to the new features, please send an email to webmaster@roadrunnerrecords.com with "NEW SITE REPORT" in the subject line. If you receive an error, please be as detailed as possible, including what page you were on, what browser you are using, and copy any error message you receive into the body of the email.

Please feel free to leave comments here below!

Cheers!

Jeremy Rosen

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07.16.2008

GHOSTS, DRUMMERS, AND THE FIRST SLIPKNOT ALBUM

Some guy wrote in to our website email account the other day promoting his book about the paranormal and I almost lost it. No, actually I did lose it. Check out my response to him and more in the new Mail Bag. I also help an out-of-work guitarist find a job.

Another person was quite worried that perhaps Roadrunner founder Cees Wessels was no more, but Amy set that guy straight in Ask Amy. Of course there are the usual raft of proposals (sexual, romantic, and both), dumb questions, and smart questions as well.

New Slipknot artwork and a bunch of other band photos and images have been uploaded to the Fan Art section.

Mike Patton for President! Okay, Mike Patton's not on the list, but put forth your Roadrunner candidate for president in this week's poll.

The Forum this week asks: What's your favorite metal site?

And finally don't forget that we're running Tyler Connolly from Theory of a Deadman's advice column, Tell Tyler, in our Ask the Artist section. Read about bad girlfriends now.

Tags: DevilDriver, Dream Theater, Machine Head, Megadeth, Slipknot, Type O Negative, ask amy, bad girlfriend, fan art, in the pit, mail bag, metal sites, poll
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03.10.2007

GHOSTS OF THE FAMILY

Tune into this week's Headbangers Ball, which airs at 10pm EST, Saturday night on MTV2, to watch Roadrunner videos of both recent (Slipknot, Trivium, 36 Crazyfists) and classic (Type O negative, King Diamond) vintage - plus many others. Here's the complete playlist:

Mushroomhead - Simple Survival
The Human Abstract - Crossing The Rubicon
Nevermore- Born
Sevendust - Driven
Sevendust - Denial
Dir En Gray - Clever Sleazoid
Type O Negative - Black No. 1
Slipknot - The Blister Exists
Exodus - The Toxic Waltz
Trivium - Anthem
36 Crazyfists - I'll Go Until My Heart Stops
Priestess - I Am The Night, Colour Me Black
Firewind - Falling To Pieces
Gojira - To Sirius
All That Remains - The Air I Breathe
Iron Maiden - The Trooper
Into Eternity - Severe Emotional Distress
King Diamond - The Family Ghost
Brand New Sin - Motormeth

Tags: 36 Crazyfists, King Diamond, Slipknot, Trivium, Type O Negative
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09.08.2006

ROADRUNNERTUBE

The Dresden Dolls have launched their official YouTube Channel. Please sign up HERE to receive updates as new videos are added. They've got 2 new clips from the Pukkelpop festival and will be adding some footage from Lollapalooza very soon.

Roadrunner's got a YouTube page of its very own and it's your frequently updated fix of the newest videos like Black Label Society's "Concrete Jungle" and Hatebreed's "Defeatist" as well as classics like Type O Negative's "I Don't Wanna Be Me." Get your Roadrunner fix HERE.

Tags: Black Label Society, Dresden Dolls, Hatebreed, Type O Negative
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08.21.2006

BEST OF THE REST

You wanted the best, you got the best and now you get to *see* the best, too! Follow the links to see the artwork for the next installments in Roadrunner's Best-Of series and while you're at it, see what songs made the cut!

THE BEST OF FEAR FACTORY
1. Martyr
2. Scapegoat
3. Scumgrief
4. Demanufacture
5. Self-Bias Resistor
6. Zero Signal
7. Replica
8. Shock
9. Edgecrusher
10. Resurrection
11. Cars
12. Linchpin

THE BEST OF Ill NINO
1. What Comes Around
2. Unreal
3. God Save Us
4. If You Still Hate Me
5. Liar
6. This Time's For Real
6. How Can I Live
8. Cleansing
9. Te Amo. I Hate You
10. What You Deserve
11. This Is War
12. Turns To Gray
13. Corazon of Mine

THE BEST OF SEPULTURA
1. Troops Of Doom
2. Beneath The Remains
3. Inner Self
4. Arise
5. Dead Embryonic Cells
6. Desperate Cry
7. Refuse/Resist
8. Territory
9. Slave New World
10. Biotech Is Godzilla
11. Roots Bloody Roots
12. Attitude
13. Ratamahatta

THE BEST OF TYPE O NEGATIVE
1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
2. Christian Woman
3. Black No. 1
4. Too Late: Frozen
5. Love You To Death
6. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Everyone I Love Is Dead
9. Everything Dies
10. Highway Star
11. I Don't Wanna Be Me
12. Life Is Killing Me

All four titles will be in stores and available for download on September 12th.

Tags: Fear Factory, Ill Nino, Sepultura, Type O Negative
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The world we live in is marked by disorder and chaos. Few things, if any, are certain. But then there is Type O Negative, the Brooklyn band whose been making a glorious, doom-caked racket for over a decade. With a sense of humor blacker than the clothing that the individual band members wear and a profound distaste and disgust for both humanity and political correctness, Type O Negative never changes with the times - the times change with them. Marked by sharp wit and bouts of gloom 'n depression, Type O Negative continues to reward its listeners with what they have come to love and what they have to expect from the Brooklyn doom squad: A nihilistic world view, anthems of sex and death, and a blinding torch of well-placed hate.

It is Type O Negative's gothically tinged metal, reared on a steady diet of Bauhaus and Sisters Of Mercy, which never takes itself too seriously, that has garnered them critical and commercial success. 1993's Bloody Kisses was the first album to achieve Gold and Platinum status in the Roadrunner Records catalog. It's successor, 1996's October Rust, also went Gold, thus solidifying Type O's roots in the sediment of metal. Through it all, bassist/frontman Peter Steele still reminisces about his days as an employee of the NYC Parks Department, still lives in the same basement apartment in Brooklyn, still drives the same car, and still wolfs down TV dinners. And he and his cohorts still make bittersweet, head down hard rock.

Life Is Killing Me is Type O's fifth full-length record, and its first batch of new material since 1999's World Coming Down. In between this opus and World Coming Down, Type O released The Least Worst Of compilation to tide over fans over. Steele is a towering hulk of a man - his biceps could crush your skull like a walnut and he is someone whose fist you would not want to meet the business end of. But when he speaks in that trademark, so-deadpan-he-must-sleep-in-a-coffin delivery, through a thick New York accent, it's like a pearl of wisdom handed down from a man who has lived through it all, seen the seediest underbelly of the human psyche, and survived. Regarding the new album, the aptly named Steele remarks, “When we were writing Life Is Killing Me, I knew I didn't want it to sound like World Coming Down, because I was having quite a few personal problems at the time that album was being recorded and mixed. Because I had distanced myself from the process, too many cooks spoiled the broth. No one was happy and I am the least happy of all. However, failure is not failure if you learn from it and I took an active part in this album. I hope it turns out to be somewhere between Bloody Kisses and October Rust. Because I was wrapped up in my old bullshit during the execution of World Coming Down, I feel that I owe, not just the band, but our fans, some sort of an apology. I am working on trying not to be so selfish, and I am doing the best I can.” Since Bloody Kisses and October Rust are true fan favorites, Steele's hope that Life Is Killing Me will redeem him in fan's eyes should become a reality.

Steele admits he did not set out to write out an album that replicated Type O's past works. “That style of songwriting is still in me and I like the songs from those albums, whereas I am less fond of World Coming Down, since it reminds me of things I was involved in at the time.” Steele further reveals that staple Type O issues of “self pity,” “hatred,” “drugs and death,” “religion,” and “the usual” are all a part of the lyrical tapestry of Life Is Killing Me. He contends that the album is less depressing than its predecessor, with less dirges and different songwriting styles. He elaborates, “There are three types of songwriting: one is hardcore/punk, almost like party punk. The other is the older style of goth-metal that we have always done. The third is a combo of '60s and '80s type of songwriting.” He concludes, with tongue planted firmly in cheek, that “Life Is Killing Me is a sonic legacy of past mistakes.”

Self-deprecation aside, Steele is forthright and open when discussing his latest creations (or mistakes, depending on who you ask in the band). Regarding specific songs on the album, Type O chose to cover a song from 'Hedwig And The Angry Inch' musical, to illustrate its infamous sense of humor. “It's about a transvestite who goes in for sex change and the doctors fuck it up. I thought it would be fun to play it live, because we sped it up a little to make more punky.” The song “I Like Goils” is Steele's response to homosexuals who try to pick him up. “Whether a man or woman finds me attractive, I take it as a compliment, although I am more flattered when it's a woman. Thanks for the invite, but I like girls.' The song is punky and I am sure that it's going to be misconstrued, so we're going to be prepared.” It's apparent that Type O likes to stir up a little shit, and is always ready for the backlash, and equipped with more ammunition than its opponents. Remember, this is the band who, back in the day, answered a crowd's taunts of “You suck!” with “You paid 15 American dollars to get in. Who's the real asshole here?” Indeed, its wit is Type O's strongest suit of armor.

“Nettie” centers around Steele's mother, while “Todd's Ship Gods (Above All Things)” is about his father. “How Could She?' finds Steele asking all of his favorite female TV characters, cartoon or human, a question. “I mention every single one from Edith Bunker to Judy Jetson, all who I encountered when sitting in front of the TV, eating a TV dinner.” 'A Dish Better Served Coldly' is self-described revenge anthem.

Type O continues the time honored tradition of producing its own albums at Systems Two in its homestead of Brooklyn, in the interest of avoiding “outside tentacles.” Both Steele and keyboardist Josh Silver helmed Life Is Killing Me. “I want to hear what is going on in my ears, what I hear in my head,” says Steele. “I am not talking about the 'voices' I hear. I am talking about getting as close to my goal as possible. Within this band, the four guys are married to each other and the cap is always left off the toothpaste. We don't need a fifth clown coming in. At 41 years old, having been in bands for 30 years right now, I know how to get what I want, musically. Lastly and leastly, there is financial incentive for producing my flesh ourselves, and not just because we can walk away with chump change, but because anyone we'd like to hire would cost half a million dollars. There goes all my drug money for the year. That can't happen.”

Steele doesn't cite any new influences on Life Is Killing Me. Other than calling himself an audio plagiarist, Steele admits he still listens to the same music that he always has, such as “early '70s metal, psychadelic '60s, '90s trans-dance shoegazer stuff. It's the basic inspiration comes from my feelings. I'm on a constant search for new and interesting ideas, which I am not usually successful at.” When you've got the word “negative” in your band name, it's not surprising that such an attitude pervades Type O.

Life Is Killing Me is more grist for the Type O Negative mill, further championing the band's lifelong subscription to the attitude that the glass is not only half empty, but broken and laced with cyanide. Life Is Killing Me's alchemy of sludge metal and chilling gothic imagery and conventions is just what fans and critics have come to expect and to rely on in this chaotic, undefined world. Life maybe killing Type O slowly, but the band is alive and kicking with new material for the time being. Thankfully.

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Format: CD
Release Date: 09.26.2006

The Best Of Type O Negative

Perhaps the creepiest band to crawl out of the bowels of Brooklyn, NY, Type O Negative can arguably be considered the band that put Roadrunner on the map.

Peter Steele's dramatic baritone singing tongue-in-cheek lyrics about death and despair over electronic chaos and bottom-heavy guitars proved to be the band's signature and you can hear the greatest of their orchestrations on The Best Of Type O Negative. &quotBlack No. 1," &quotChristian Woman" and &quotEveryone I Love Is Dead" are among some of the band's finest. You can find all of those and more on The Best Of Type O Negative, which hits stores September 26th.

Tracks:

1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
2. Christian Woman [ listen/comment ]
3. Black No. 1
4. Too Late: Frozen
5. Love You To Death [ listen/comment ]
6. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Everyone I Love Is Dead [ listen/comment ]
9. Everything Dies
10. Highway Star
11. I Don't Wanna Be Me
12. Life Is Killing Me

Format: CD
Release Date: 06.17.2003

Life Is Killing Me

The world we live in is marked by disorder and chaos. Few things are certain. One of the only things that you can set your watch to in this world is Type O Negative. And they are back.

Same glorious, doom-caked music...same sense of humor blacker than the clothing that they wear...same profound distaste and disgust for both humanity and political correctness...and it's fantastic.

Life Is Killing Me, the band's first studio album in four years, contains all the best of what you've come to love about Type O. Their brilliance in crafting songs never ceases to amaze. Their distinct sound that is unmistakably Type O never ceases to amaze. Simply put, amazing.

Bands that stay true to their craft always get better with time. Consider Type O Negative the gospel.

Tracks:

1. Uncle Freddy Died?
2. I Don’t Wanna Be Me
3. Life Is Killing Me
4. Anesthesia
5. The Dream Is Dead
6. Todd’s Ship Gods (Above All Things)
7. (We Were) Electrocute
8. Less Than Zero (<0)
9. ...A Dish Better
Served Coldly
10. Loud And Queer
11. I Like Goils
12. How Could She?
13. Nettie
14. Angry Inch
15. IYDKMIGTHTKY (Gimme That)

Format: CD
Release Date: 10.31.2000

The Least Worst OF...

Called "...the decade's best American doom-metal band," by the Village Voice, Type O Negative have a rich history of general negativity and cathedrals of sound they call CDs. Slow Deep and Hard, The Origin of the Feces, Bloody Kisses, October Rust and World Coming Down have all solidified the Brooklyn four-piece's place in Aggro-Rock's "hall of fame". Their unique combination of dark, moody, heavy music with melody and their unorthodox lyrics smack of the influence of their heroes - Black Sabbath and The Beatles, among others. THE LEAST WORST OF Includes all of their hits in full, gloomy glory, plus 5 new tracks & the band's favorites!

Tracks:

1. The Misinterpretation Of Silence And Its Disastrous Consequences
2. Everyone I Love Is Dead [ listen/comment ]
3. Black No. 1
4. It's Never Enough
5. Love You To Death [ listen/comment ]
6. Black Sabbath
7. Christian Woman [ listen/comment ]
8. 12 Black Rainbows
9. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
10. Hey Pete
11. Everything Dies
12. Cinnamon Girl
13. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
14. Stay Out Of My Dreams

Format: CD
Release Date: 09.21.1999

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World Coming Down

Tracks:

1. Skip It
2. White Slavery
3. Sinus
4. Everyone I Love Is Dead [ listen/comment ]
5. Who Will Save The Sane?
6. Liver
7. World Coming Down
8. Creepy Green Light
9. Everything Dies
10. Lung
11. Pyretta Blaze
12. All Hallows Eve
13. Day Tripper

Format: CD
Release Date: 08.20.1996

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October Rust

Tracks:

1. Bad Ground
2. (no title) 'October Rust' Track 2 (spoken word intro)
3. Love You To Death [ listen/comment ]
4. Be My Druidess
5. Green Man
6. Red Water (Christmas Mourning)
7. My Grilfriends Girlfriend
8. Die With Me
9. Burnt Flowers Fallen
10. In Praise Of Bacchus
11. Cinnamon Girl
12. The Glorious Liberation Of The People's Technocratic Republic Of Vinnland By The Combined Forces Of The United Territories Of Europa
13. Wolf Moon [ listen/comment ] (including Zoanthropic Paranoia)
14. Haunted
15. (no title) 'October Rust' Track 15 (spoken word outro)

Format: CD
Release Date: 08.17.1993

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Bloody Kisses

Tracks:

1. Machine Screw
2. Christian Woman [ listen/comment ]: Body Of Christ (Corpus Christi)/To Love God/J.C. Looks Like Me
3. Black No.1 (Little Miss Scare All)
4. Fay Wray Come Out And Play
5. Kill All The White People
6. Summer Breeze [ listen/comment ]
7. Set Me On Fire
8. Dark Side Of The Womb
9. We Hate Everyone
10. Bloody Kisses (A Death In The Family)
11. 3.0.I.F
12. Too Late: Frozen
13. Blood & Fire
14. Can't Lose You