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10.31.2008

DEATH METAL AND TAMPA: RR UNITED CONCERT CLIP

MetalInjection.net has posted a brand new exclusive Roadrunner United Concert DVD clip. Watch now!

Ah Tampa, Florida. To some, an utter hell hole. To others, one of the prime centers of death metal. And to another set of people, both. Whatever your feelings, check out Glen Benton performing Obituary's "The End Complete," some of your favorite bands talking about how cool Glen is, and a little discussion on death metal and Tampa. Pick up the Roadrunner United DVD on December 9th, 2008.

You can watch all the clips rolled out so far right here and visit often to see the new ones as they come out.

Check back next week for new exclusive clips posted at Nonelouder.com, FYE, and more!

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10.20.2008

ANNIHILATOR: BMOUTH PREMIERES NEW RR UNITED CLIP

Blabbermouth.net today premiered the second of over two dozen clips coming ahead of the Roadrunner United Concert DVD release. Read the full story and watch the video here. Interviews with Corey Taylor, Joey Jordison, Killswitch Engage, Andreas Kisser, James Murphy, and Jeff Waters are intercut with footage of the "Allison Hell" performance.

The Roadrunner United Concert DVD is in stores December 9th, 2008.

Tags: Annihilator, Death, Disincarnate, Killswitch Engage, Murderdolls, Obituary, ROADRUNNER UNITED THE CONCERT, Sepultura, Slipknot, Stone Sour, allison hell, concert dvd, premiere, video
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10.18.2008

OBITUARY GOES INSANE

Green Jelly is a blast from my teenage years. I don't think I've seen that video in ages and ages. Also nice to see Obituary and Trivium up on the list.

Since you're here to talk about videos, you might want to check out our new video section. You can rate our videos, comment on them, look at weekly, monthly, or all time charts, and discover videos you forgot about. Go to the Roadrunner video page.
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TUNE INTO MTV2 ALL NEXT WEEK & HELP US CELEBRATE

HEADBANGERS BALL'S 20TH ANNIVERSARY!

DIVINE HERESY - BLEED THE FILTH (Headbangers Ball Exclusive premiere)
ARCHITECTS - ALWAYS
ALL THAT REMAINS - TWO WEEKS
THE HUMAN ABSTRACT - PROCESSIONS OF THE FATES
TRIVIUM - DOWN FROM THE SKY
*GREEN JELLY - THREE LITTLE PIGS
UNEARTH - MY WILL BE DONE (Headbangers Ball debut)
TOXIC HOLOCAUST - WILD DOGS
EVERGREY - BROKEN WINGS
*OBITUARY - INSANE
KINGDOM OF SORROW - LEAD THE GHOSTS ASTRAY

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1. BRADLEY SAID...

Decent playlist this week. I'd like to see the new Unearth vid and the Divine Heresy vid with the new singer. That is if HBB ACTUALLY comes on at its scheduled time this week. I swear those fuckers at MTV wouldn't know music if it slapped them across the face. Seems like HBB is only coming on at 11 every other week now. Then the opposite weeks they are airing it at the prime-time of 2am, you know, when everyone is up watching tv. I'd like them to pull that shit with their "sucka free" bullshit. Someone would be gangbanged out in front of MTV studios if they pulled that shit. All I am saying is play at least 1 fucking hour at a reasonable time per week. That is it. That leaves 6 days and 23 hours to play the same old lame ass real world/road rules, jackass, cops wannabes, dating, reality bullshit. Fuck you MTV up your ass as far as it will go.

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2. MANUEL SAID...

MTV should play the Ball every week at the same hour. I want to see Evergrey, Unearth, Trivium, Divine Heresy, hell yeah!!

October 18, 10:37 AM

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3. BRANDON SAID...

MTV needs to stop screwing us metal heads over. They need to make the ball 2 hours again. I'm stoked on Evergrey and Divine Heresy. This will be a good episode.

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4. HELLCIUS SAID...

ROADRUN LOST ONE OF THE BEST BAND ON THEIR CARER AND ONE OF THE BEST DEATH METAL LEGENDS!!!! THEY KEEP FUKING BRUTAL METAL YET!! THE NEW ALBUM IS TOTALLY BRUTAL!!!! ALL I CAN SAY IS: ROADRUN TAKE IN ITS OWN ASS LEAVING OBITUARY BEHIND!!!!

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5. MANUEL SAID...

The new album of Evergrey "Torn" is one of the best of 2008.

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6. MR. HAPPY SAID...

Yawn.

October 27, 6:43 PM

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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!

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08.07.2008

HEAR ABOUT MUSIC FROM A LEGENDARY PRODUCER

WFLM Radio & The VM Undergroud show finally got to speak with legendary death metal producer Scott Burns. They discuss the past and what he's doing now. Scott worked with many great death metal bands in the late 80's and 90's such as Sepultura, Malevolent Creation, Gorguts, Deicide, Obituary and much more.

Take a Listen Here.

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As hard as it is to fathom, Florida death metal pioneers, Obituary, owe a lot to melodic hard rock goofball Andrew WK. The band had been on indefinite hiatus since 1997 and by the middle of 2002 playing together again was the furthest thing on their minds. Singer John Tardy was working at a computer company, guitarist Trevor Peres was in Catastrophic, guitarist Allen West was in Lowbrow, bassist Frank Watkins was hawking mortgages, and drummer Donald Tardy was playing live with Andrew WK. Then, before an Ozzfest gig in West Palm Beach, Andrew WK called John and Frank and invited them to play a few songs onstage with him.

"We hooked up to practice a couple songs and we remembered how fun it was to play together," John says. "That's all it took. We ended up doing a couple shows that were really well received, and things just snowballed from there."

In early 2004, Obituary finally decided to start working on their sixth studio record. Often, when bands haven't been together for years, writing sessions are initially strained or unproductive and it takes a while for the musicians to get back on their creative feet. Obituary had no such problem.

"It was really like putting on an old pair of shoes," John says. "It didn't seem like it had been six years at all, it was more like the blink of an eye. Some of us had longer beards than we used to have but everything felt the same. After about five minutes together, we were totally back at 100 percent."

One listen to the band's new album, Frozen In Time, and it's clear that Obituary have returned with the same force and fortitude they had in the early '90s. "On the Floor" opens with an incisive, churning riff, thunderous beats and bloodcurdling vocals before shifting into a chugging, bone-splintering breakdown, "Blindsided" rides a gradually ascending hate groove to a destination just south of Hell, and "Back Inside" fuses colossal crunch with pummeling double-bass drumming to create a deadly mosh pit firestorm.

"When I sit and listen to it, I hear some songs that sound like they might have come off of our Slowly We Rot record and others that sound like they might have come off of World Demise," John says. "Then there are others that are unique to us and different than what we've done in the past. So it's really well rounded, and at the same time, it's the heaviest thing we've ever done."

Obituary spent three months writing the album and practiced the songs until they could play them blindfolded. Then, they took a trip down memory lane, coaxing veteran metal producer Scott Burns out of retirement and working with him at their old stomping ground, Morrisound studios in Tampa, Florida. They also worked with producer Mark Prator at his Tampa ProTools Studio, Red Room Recorders.

"That was incredible because we've watched Mark grow up through the years," John says. "On our second record, he was emptying garbage cans at the studio, and now he has his own studio. And being back with Scott was amazing. We've known him so long and he has an instinct for what Obituary should sound like."

From start to finish, Frozen In Time was created without any major trauma or turbulence. In fact, one of the biggest challenges for Obituary happened after they finished in the studio and were trying to come up with a name for the record. They considered titling it after one of the album tracks, but decided that no single cut could adequately represent the album. They thought about naming it something that would reference to their reunification after seven long years. Finally, they decided they were best off with Frozen In Time.

“After six years of inactivity, it's like we awakened out of hibernation just as heavy as we were before. It was like our sound was frozen in time, ” John says. “This album isn't a new beginning, it's just what we've always done - just newer and better.”

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Format: CD
Release Date: 01.29.2008

The Best of Obituary

If you're a true metalhead, the name Obituary isn't new to you. They made some of vilest and darkest music there ever will be and was once the definitive death metal band.

Tracks:

1. Internal Bleeding
2. 'Til Death
3. Slowly We Rot [ listen/comment ]
4. Cause Of Death
5. Chopped In Half
6. Turned Inside Out
7. The End Complete
8. I'm In Pain
9. Don't Care
10. Final Thoughts
11. Kill For Me
12. Threatening Skies
13. On The Floor

Format: CD
Release Date: 07.19.2005

Frozen In Time

In early 2004, Obituary finally decided to start working on their sixth studio record. Often, when bands haven't been together for years, writing sessions are initially strained or unproductive and it takes a while for the musicians to get back on their creative feet. Obituary had no such problem. One listen to the band's new album, Frozen In Time, and it's clear that Obituary have returned with the same force and fortitude they had in the early '90s. "On the Floor" opens with an incisive, churning riff, thunderous beats and bloodcurdling vocals before shifting into a chugging, bone-splintering breakdown, "Blindsided" rides a gradually ascending hate groove to a destination just south of Hell, and "Back Inside" fuses colossal crunch with pummeling double-bass drumming to create a deadly mosh pit firestorm. From start to finish, Frozen In Time was created without any major trauma or turbulence. In fact, one of the biggest challenges for Obituary happened after they finished in the studio and were trying to come up with a name for the record. They considered titling it after one of the album tracks, but decided that no single cut could adequately represent the album. They thought about naming it something that would reference to their reunification after seven long years. Finally, they decided they were best off with Frozen In Time.

Tracks:

1. Redneck Stomp
2. On The Floor
3. Insane
4. Blindsided
5. Back Inside
6. Mindset
7. Stand Alone
8. Slow Death
9. Denied
10. Lockjaw [ listen/comment ]

Format: CD
Release Date: 01.27.2004

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The End Complete/World Demise

It is easy, in time, to reflect on a particular era or "scene" and pick out the best bands that time contributed to music. The figurehead of late-80's death metal scene was undoubtedly Obituary, a band that gave new life to a cliched genre. While many of their peers were still fascinated by the fastest playing, Obituary preferred a slower pace with lyrics that avoided the overly-satanic material death metal bands had previously focused on in favor of a stronger sense of realism.

The End Complete and World Demise were Obituary's two most inspired and focused albums, and we consider it an honor to re-release them as part of Roadrunner's Two From the Vault series.

Tracks:

Disc: 1
1. I'm in Pain
2. Back to One
3. Dead Silence
4. In the End of Life
5. Sickness
6. Corrosive
7. Killing Time
8. End Complete
9. Rotting Ways
10. I'm in Pain [Live][*]
11. Killing Time [Live][*]

Disc: 2
1. Don't Care
2. World Demise
3. Burned In
4. Redefine
5. Paralyzing
6. Lost
7. Solid State
8. Splattered
9. Final Thoughts
10. Boiling Point
11. Set in Stone
12. Kill for Me
13. Killing Victims Found [*]
14. Infected [Live][*]
15. Godly Beings [Live][*]
16. Body Bag [Live][*]

Format: CD
Release Date: 09.01.2003

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Slowly We Rot/Cause of Death

Obituary were the aural equivalent of rotting flesh. Never has there been a band that were that heavy, and it'd be tough for anyone to start one now. If you're looking for any sort of solace or comfort, you won't find it on Slowly We Rot or Cause of Death. Be warned, these albums are for those that are true metal at heart.

Tracks:

Disc: 1
1. Internal Bleeding
2. Godly Beings
3. 'Til Death
4. Slowly We Rot [ listen/comment ]
5. Immortal Visions
6. Gates to Hell
7. Words of Evil
8. Suffocation
9. Intoxicated
10. Deadly Intentions
11. Bloodsoaked
12. Stinkupuss
13. Find the Arise [*][Demo Version]
14. Like the Dead [*][Demo Version]

Disc: 2
1. Infected
2. Body Bag
3. Chopped in Half
4. Circle of the Tyrants
5. Dying
6. Find the Arise
7. Cause of Death
8. Memories Remain
9. Turned Inside Out
10. Infected [*][Demo Version]
11. Memories Remain [*][Demo Version]
12. Chopped in Half [*][Demo Version]

Format: CD
Release Date: 01.23.2001

Anthology

One of the most influential and groundbreaking bands in the death metal scene. Obituary belted out hyper-speed guitar riffing, complex arrangements and guttural screams to create a bleak and violent soundscape that helped define a genre! 'Anthology' returns Obituary to the spotlight - a musical retrospective of their ten year career as death metal masters!

Tracks:

1. Find The Arise (demo)
2. 'Til Death
3. Internal Bleeding
4. Intoxicated
5. Slowly We Rot [ listen/comment ]
6. Cause Of Death
7. Dying
8. Chopped In Half
9. Turned Inside Out
10. Back To One
11. The End Complete
12. I'm In Pain
13. Kill For Me
14. Final Thoughts
15. Don't Care
16. Threatening Skies
17. By The Light
18. Back From The Dead
19. Buried Alive* (Previously Unavailable)
20. Boiling Point (212* Sporadic Mix)* (Previously Unavailable)

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DEATH METAL AND TAMPA: RR UNITED CONCERT CLIP

1. ADRIAN SAID...

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ANNIHILATOR: BMOUTH PREMIERES NEW RR UNITED CLIP

1. CHRIS SAID...

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2. MR. HAPPY SAID...

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3. 666 MAGGOT SAID...

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