The Roadrunner Allstars took the stage Thursday night (December 15) at the Nokia Theater in New York City in perhaps the biggest metal event ever held. Members of Slipknot joined with members from bands spanning the Roadrunner label's 25 year history to celebrate its quarter century birthday and to promote the new album, Roadrunner United: The All-Star Sessions.
The event drew a wide variety of celebrities from American Idol runner-up
Bo Bice to
Max Weinberg drummer for Conan O'Brien's late night show and the E-Street Band. One of the highlights was
Ville Valo of HIM, who wasn't even on the collection, taking the microphone to sing the classic Type O Negative song, "Black No. 1." Valo described why he accepted the offer.
"That's one of the milestones, I think in that kind of music, and one of the milestones musically for the whole Roadrunner thing. So they knew I've got the baritone so they wanted me to do that song, and I'm real glad being here."
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HIM ON PERFORMING BLACK NO. 1 ORIGINALLY DONE BY TYPE O NEGATIVE
One of the captains for the project, Machinehead's Robert Flynn, talked about the competition between him, Slipknot's Joey Jordison, Dino Cazares, and Matt Heafy for vocalists to sing their original Roadrunner Allstars songs.
"I basically started envisioning who I wanted, but there was no guarantee that I was going to get the singer that I wanted. All the captains were writing for who ever they [wanted, so people picked the same guys. It was great for the singers. They just went, 'Oh, your song sucks. I'll take you! (laughs) going to go with I wanted, I envisioned Howard, Max from Sepulture and Tim Williams from V.O.D. and Corey Taylor from Slipknot."
MACHINEHEAD'S ROBERT FLYNN ON WHAT IT WAS LIKE BEING A TEAM CAPTAIN
The All-Star metal band featured several variations of members who had only played together for the album. The parings featured songs from Slipknot, Biohazard and several original tracks from the
Roadrunner United album.
A set list is as follows:
Biohazard's "Punishment"
Madball's "Set It Off"
Life Of Agony's "River Runs Red"
Obituary's "The End Complete"
Mercyful Fate's "Curse Of The Pharoahs"
King Diamond's "Abigail"
Annihilator's "Alison Hell"
Deicide's "Dead By Dawn"
Trivium's "Pull Harder On The Strings Of Your Martyr"
Killswitch Engage's "My Last Seranade"
Type O Negative's "Black No. 1"
Fear Factory's "Replica"
Chimaira's "Pure Hatred"
Roadrunner United's "Tired And Lonely" (Keith Caputo - vocals; Matt Baumbach - lead guitar; Acey Slade - rhythm guitar; Nadja Puelen - bass; Joey Jordison - drums)
Stone Sour's "Bother"
Roadrunner United's "The Rich Man" (Corey Taylor - vocals; Robert Flynn - lead guitar; Jordan Whelan - rhythm guitar; Paul Gray - bass; Andols Herrick - drums)
Roadrunner United's "The Dagger" (Howard Jones / Robert Flynn - vocals; Andreas Kisser / Jeff Waters - lead guitar; Jordan Whelan - rhythm guitar; Adam Duce - bass; Andols Herrick - drums)
Roadrunner United's "The End" (Matthew K Heafy - vocals; Logan Mader - lead guitar; Dino Cazares - rhythm guitar; Nadja Puelen - bass; Roy Mayorga - drums; Rob Caggiano - keyboards)
Soulfly's "Eye For An Eye"
Sepultura's "Refuse/Resist"
Slipknot's "Surfacing"
Machine Head's "Davidian"
Slipknot's "Sic"
Sepultura's "Roots Bloody Roots"
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