Members:
- King Diamond - vocals
- Hank Sherman - guitar
- Michael Denner - guitar
- Timi Hansen - bass
- Kim Ruzz - drums

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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Trick or treat, suckas!

It's that time of year again. Time for candy to run like water, the smell of rotten eggs in the street and the beginning of preparations to fight through the zombie apocalypse...ok, that last part may be a bit far fetched, but zombies still are a Halloween staple, so enjoy this ghoulish day. Happy Halloween!!

Halloween wouldn't be complete with some treats in the goody bag, right? Well have we got some treats for you.

Opeth's Ghost Reveries (Special Edition) and DevilDriver's The Fury Of Our Maker's Hand (Special Edition) are in stores NOW, so go grab a copy or 6 and hand them out to the kids at the door.

The equally spooky Thornography by Cradle Of Filth is also in stores and makes a great soundtrack for zombie slaying.

Finally, the masters of horror, Mercyful Fate have stepped into the digital age, issuing its albums, including the groundbreaking Melissa and its follow-up, Don't Break The Oath onto your favorite online music store!

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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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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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Roadrunner Records has put together a groundbreaking record to mark the label's 25th Anniversary. Roadrunner United The All-Star Sessions is IN STORES NOW and it  is a master-class in hard rock/metal.

'Captains' Joey Jordison ( Slipknot ), Dino Cazares (ex- Fear Factory/Brujeria ), Robert Flynn ( Machine Head ) and Matthew Heafy ( Trivium ) play on the songs they have written and have also assembled a unique team of artists to appear on each track. I n cluding contributions from such metal luminaries as Corey Taylor, Paul Gray and Jim Root of Slipknot, Howard Jones and Mike D. from Killswitch Engage, Peter Steele and Josh Silver from Type O Negative, Dez Fafara of DevilDriver/Coal Chamber fame, Mark Hunter of Chimaira, King Diamond and members of Opeth, Machine Head, Fear Factory, Trivium, Sepultura, Soulfly, Deicide, Life of Agony and many, MANY more - this is an album in which the whole is even greater than the sum of it's parts.

If you are a fan of METAL - be it black, death, thrash, trad, 'core or whatever the hell you want to call it - pick this album up because it is truly a testament to 25 years of the best metal has to offer all on one CD. Also includes an hour long bonus DVD on the making of the album.

Click here to preview music from the album, in stores now.

YOU COULD WIN A ROADRUNNER LOADED APPLE IPOD
How well do you know your Roadrunner history? In celebration of this landmark release, we are holding a Roadrunner Trivia Contest, and the top 4 winners of the contest will recieve brand-new Apple iPods with engraved signatures of all 4 captains, as well as the entire Roadrunner discography loaded onto it! So, what are you waiting for, start playing today.

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We are but two days away from hearing the first music off the upcoming Roadrunner United The All Star Sessions release. This first track titled "The Dagger" comes from captain Robert Flynn, and will be mastered tomorrow. As for the team Robert assembled for this track?

On vocals is Howard Jones (Killswitch Engage). On bass is Christian Olde Wolbers (Fear Factory). Rhythm guitar duties were handled by captain Flynn and Jordan Whelan (Still Remains, currently on tour - check TOUR section for details). Drums are being handled by none other than Andols Herrick (ex-Chimaira), and on the lead guitar, Jeff Waters (Annihilator).

More to come...music online this Friday...

Roadrunner United The All Star Sessions in store October 11th

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Come the end of this week, you will be hearing the first sounds from the upcoming Roadrunner United The All Star Sessions release (CLICK HERE for details on this release).

The first song you will be hearing is titled "The Dagger," and it is one of the four tracks on the release coming from captain Robert Flynn. More details to come as the week progresses...with the song going online this Friday (9/2).

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ROADRUNNER UNITED ? THE ALL-STAR SESSIONS,
57 ARTISTS, 45 BANDS, 19 TRACKS, 4 TEAM CAPTAINS? 1 GROUNDBREAKING ALBUM


New York, NY - Roadrunner Records has put together a groundbreaking record to mark the label's 25th Anniversary. The group is called Roadrunner United and the album titled The All-Star Sessions. This full length release, in stores on October 11, 2005, is a 'master-class' in hard rock/metal. Boasting 57 artists from 45 of Roadrunner's past and present bands, the album will contain original tracks that are collaborations between numerous Roadrunner stars.

Four central musicians were originally chosen to produce and write the songs. Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Dino Cazares (ex-Fear Factory/Brujeria), Robert Flynn (Machine Head) and Matthew Heafy (Trivium). These four musicians play on the songs they have written and have also assembled a unique team of artists to appear on each track. In order to cover as wide a spectrum as possible, no musician has played for more than one writer/producer and each song features a different vocalist.

In addition to these stellar teams of musicians, there will also be special additional tracks from ex-Roadrunner artist, Josh Silver - Type O Negative's longtime producer / keyboardist. In the spirit of the project, Silver has included Roadrunner artists on his tracks as well? Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt appears on the Silver-written ?Roads.?

Track names from the Jordison team include ?Constitution Down? (with vocals by Kyle Thomas of Floodgate), ?Tired 'N Lonely? (with vocals from Keith Caputo of Life of Agony) and ?Annihilation By The Hand Of God? (with vocals from Glen Benton of Deicide) among others. Flynn's camp has completed songs like ?The Dagger? (with vocals from Howard Jones of Killswitch Engage) and ?The Rich Man? (with vocals from Corey Taylor of Slipknot) among others. ?The End? (with vocals from Matt Heafy of Trivium) and ?The Enemy? (with vocals from Mark Hunter of Chimaira) are some of the team-Cazares product. And tracks from Heafy's sessions include ?The Dawn of a Golden Age? (with vocals from Dani Filth of Cradle of Filth), ?Superheroes? (with vocals from Michale Graves of The Misfits) and ?Blood and Flames? (with vocals from Jesse Leach ? ex-Killswitch Engage singer).

PARTICIPANTS:

Michael ţkerfeldt
Rob Barrett
Matt Baumbach
Corey Beaulieu
Glen Benton
Keith Caputo
Max Cavalera
Dino Cazares
Dave Chavarri
Tyler Connolly
Mike D'Antonio
Steve DiGiorgio
Matt DeVries
Marcelo Dias
Dez Fafara
Dani Filth
Robert Flynn
Rhys Fulber
Michale Graves
Paul Gray
Justin Hagberg
Matthew K. Heafy
Andols Herrick
Tom Holkenberg
Steve Holt
Mark Hunter
Howard Jones
Joey Jordison
Johnny Kelly
King Diamond
Andreas Kisser
Andy LaRocque
Jesse David Leach
Cristian Machado
Logan Mader)
Sean Malone
Roy Mayorga
Dave McClain
James Murphy
Tommy Niemeyer
Daryl Palumbo
Nadja Peulen
Dave Pybus
Josh Rand
Jim Root
Souren ?Mike? Sarkisyan
Josh Silver
Acey Slade
Mike Smith
Peter Steele
Corey Taylor
Kyle Thomas
Jeff Waters
Jordan Whelan
Christian Olde Wolbers
Tim Williams

BANDS REPRESENTED:

3 Inches Of Blood
36 Crazyfists
Annihilator
Brujeria
Carnivore
Chimaira
Coal Chamber
Cradle Of Filth
Cynic
Deicide
DevilDriver
Disincarnate
Exhorder
Fear Factory
Floodgate
Front Line Assembly
Glassjaw
Gruntruck
Ill Nino
Junkie XL
Keith Caputo (solo artist)
Killswitch Engage
King Diamond
Life Of Agony
Machine Head
Malevolent Creation
Mercyful Fate
Misfits
Murderdolls
Nailbomb
Obituary
Opeth
Sadus
Sepultura
Slipknot
Soulfly
Spineshank
Still Remains
Stone Sour
Suffocation
Theory Of A Deadman
Thorn
Trivium
Type O Negative
Vision Of Disorder

much more to come...

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To celebrate our 25th Anniversary, later this year we will be releasing a CD that up until now we have been referring to only as the Roadrunner All Stars. For this historic release, Robert Flynn (Machine Head), Joey Jordison (Slipknot), Dino Cazares (Fear Factory), and Matt Heafy (Trivium) have each written four songs and have assembled their own group of musicians - past and present - that have appeared on RR throughout the years to record 'em. No musician appears on any song more than once (ceptin' for the four team captians), and over 50 musicians will be recording among the 12 songs.

(click HERE for more detail)

SO, WHAT DO WE TITLE THIS RELEASE? We are asking YOU for the answer. Come the end of July, we will be picking a name from your entries. The person coming up with the chosen name will receive a credit in the CD package liner notes, plus all the RR 25th Anniversary related releases:

Sepultura Roots
Fear Factory Demanufacture
Mercyful Fate Melissa
King Diamond Abigail
Coal Chamber Coal Chamber
Soulfly Soulfly
Machine Head Burn My Eyes
Killswitch Engage Alive Or Just Breathing
+ 2 more to be named later

enter your choice at www.roadrunnerrecords.com/freeshit

Good Luck, God Bless Us All...

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Much of the upcoming RR All Stars release has been recording, and steadily everything is falling into place (CLICK HERE for past news on this release). While we are planning some upcoming contests where we play you the music and have you guess who is playing what on each song, consider this a head start (thank team captain Matt Heafy of Trivium for the info below). Matt's 4 songs for this release (which will end up featuring around 50 different musicians in total) shape up as follows:

Southern Rock-ish Stoner Metal Song

Jesse Leach (Seemless, ex-Killswitch Engage) - Vocals
Mike D (KsE) - Bass
Johnny Kelly (Type O Negative) - Drums
Josh Rand (Stone Sour) - Guitar
Matt Heafy - Guitar

Punk Song

Michael Graves (ex-Misfits) - Vox
Sean (Cynic)- Bass
Dave (Ill Nino) - Drums
Matt Heafy - Guitar

Black Metal Song

Mike (Suffocation)- Drums
Sean (Cynic) - Bass
Per Wiberg (Opeth) - Keys
Justin Hagberg (3 Inches of Blood) - Guitar
Dani Filth (Cradle Of Filth) - Vox
Matt Heafy - Guitar

Metal Song

King Diamond - Vocals
Matt Heafy / Corey Beaulieu (Trivium) - Guitars
Mike D. (KsE) - Bass
Dave (Ill Nino) - Drums

25th Anniversary All Stars release coming later this year

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