Members:
- King Diamond - vocals
- Andy LaRocque - lead guitar
- Mikkey Dee - drums
- Timi Hansen - bass
- Michael Denner - lead guitar

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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So two dudes record themselves driving around in their car singing a King Diamond song. King Diamond responds! Check out Blabbermouth to see the King Diamond tribute and response.

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You don't need to tune cable, but if you did, you should tune in to MTV 2 on April 5th at 11PM Eastern for your dose of Headbangers Ball. Visit Headbangers Blog for tons of metal-related news each week.

SATURDAY'S VIDEOS:

JOB FOR A COWBOY - ALTERED FROM CATECHIZATION
FIREWIND - MERCENARY MAN (Headbangers Ball EXCLUSIVE premiere)
DEMON HUNTER - CARRY ME DOWN
**CROWBAR - DEAD SUN
FOREVER IN TERROR - THE CHOSEN ONE (Headbangers Ball EXCLUSIVE premiere)
BEHEMOTH - PROMETHERION
CEPHALIC CARNAGE - ENDLESS CYCLE OF VIOLENCE
HIMSA - BIG TIMBER
HATE ETERNAL - BRINGER OF STORMS
SWORN ENEMY - A PLACE OF SOLACE
3 INCHES OF BLOOD - TRIAL OF CHAMPIONS
*THE HAUNTED - NO COMPROMISE
DOWN - ON MARCH THE SAINTS
OH, SLEEPER - VICES LIKE VIPERS
THE AUTUMN OFFERING - SILENCE AND GOODBYE (Headbangers Ball EXCLUSIVE premiere)
SAVIOURS - NARCOTIC SEA
**GOJIRA - TO SIRIUS
HATESPHERE - DRINKING WITH THE KING OF THE DEAD
KING DIAMOND - GIVE ME YOUR SOUL
SYMPHONY X - SET THE WORLD ON FIRE

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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

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Blabbermouth reports that Mercyful Fate was presented with the "honor award" at the Danish Metal Awards 2006, which were held on Saturday, November 18 at Amager Bio in Copenhagen, Denmark. Original members Michael Denner (guitar), Hank Shermann (guitar), Timi "Grabber" Hansen (bass) and Kim Ruzz (drums) appeared in public together for the first time in 22 years to accept the award. Vocalist King Diamond was unable to attend the event due to the fact that he is currently working on a new King Diamond album in Dallas, Texas.

Visit your digital retailer of choice right now and you'll be able to replace those dusty vinyl albums or sticky CDs with 1983's groundbreaking debut Melissa, 1984's brilliant follow-up and swansong Don't Break the Oath, 1987's early recordings collection, The Beginning, and 1992's vault-clearing rarities set, Return of the Vampire.

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Here's a little heavy metal history you'll need to get into your iPods: Mercyful Fate's massively influential - and still utterly unique - studio albums are now available for download for the first time!

Visit your digital retailer of choice right now and you'll be able to replace those dusty vinyl albums or sticky CDs with 1983's groundbreaking debut Melissa, 1984's brilliant follow-up and swansong Don't Break the Oath, 1987's early recordings collection, The Beginning, and 1992's vault-clearing rarities set, Return of the Vampire.

What better way to kick off Halloween?

 

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ANUS.COM reports that members of the American Nihilist Underground Society - an organization known for its extensive and elitist Dark Legions metal archives - last week returned a long-lost artifact of heavy metal history to its rightful owner.

The "Melissa" skull, which was once owned by King Diamond, was stolen at a Mercyful Fate show in Holland in the mid 1980s. The skull was said to be that of a witch who suffered at the hands of Judeo-Christianity before finding its way to King Diamond. Prior to the theft, the skull often accompanied King Diamond on shows and inspired multiple Mercyful Fate and King Diamond songs one of which was chosen as the title for Mercyful Fate's debut album.

The ANUS member who recovered Melissa declined to give his real name, but opted to give his ANUS screen name of "Penisbird". To read his story, in a slightly edited and abridged version, click HERE.

In other news, King Diamond is the latest metal musician to lend his voice to the cartoon series "Metalocalypse". King Diamond recorded his part on Monday, August 21 and reportedly "kicked ass."

For other King Diamond goodness, click HERE.

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Believe it or not, there were as many people who thought we were April Fooling about the launch of our new Bulletin Board as did the Avril Lavigne gag!

Yeah, yeah, we know a RR BB upgrade was long overdue, but what do y'all take us for? Never mind, don't answer, just get on over there and sign up already, will ya?

You may also have noticed we have an outrageous number of incredible contests (free iPod, free PSP, free V-Cast cellphone, etc.) going on in our Free Shit section, so if you feel lucky (well do ya...punk?) sign up now!

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King Diamond will be lending his inimitable voice to acclaimed director Kevin Smith's next movie, The Passion of the Clerks, which is a sequel to the 1994 independent classic Clerks, and is due to arrive in theaters later this year.

The movie is set 10 years later, but Dante and Randall are still spending time together, sitting around work, not working.

"Welcome Home," from 1988's gothic masterpiece "Them" is the song in question - no word yet on whether Jay and Silent Bob will launch into fits of air guitar or burst into a joint chorus of "GRANDMAAAAAA!"

IGN's FilmForce is featuring a clip, and stay tuned to RoadrunnerRecords.com for more news about this perfect marriage made in hell.

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We have a new page for you to bookmark alongside our main hub here at RoadRunnerRecords.com...

Our newly revamped and relaunched official home on MySpace - come take a look at www.myspace.com/roadrunnerrecords.

Once there, you can join our network of friends, make new ones to talk music and whatever else you please with, and enjoy everything from pictures, to banners, to videos and jukeboxes, to special promotions and prize giveways for all your favorite Roadrunner artists.

We're looking forward to seeing you there and welcome your feedback to help us make Roadrunner's MySpace page the best that it can be.

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