Roadrunner Records
Roadrunner Records is a record label focused on heavy metal, hard rock, and rock music, founded in 1980 and currently operated as part of Warner Music Group. The label signs, releases, and markets music for artists including Slipknot, Gojira, Trivium, and Turnstile, and also sells artist and label merchandise through its website.www.roadrunnerrecords.com
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Sep 21, 2026
David EllefsonHOST
I was working at PV at the time.
David EllefsonHOST
You guys were on Roadrunner.
David EllefsonHOST
Every, every seemed like every cool thing happened on Roadrunner records back in those days.
David EllefsonHOST
Everything from you to Slipknot, Nickelback was a client of mine, like everything.
David EllefsonHOST
Right.
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Wednesday 13GUEST
We've never, ever made that happen.
Wednesday 13GUEST
But I've did several conventions with him over the years.
Wednesday 13GUEST
And I've known Corey for years because when Murder Dolls in 2003, because we were both on Roadrunner, the label wanted to unite us because they were like, oh, we can almost make Slipknot with both of these bands if we put them on tour.
JimHOST
I've been, well, I was on the rat run last week.
JimHOST
I was also like, I'm trying to, with the Roadrunner doc being where it is, I was like, you know what? I'll keep threatening to do it.
JimHOST
I'm going to do some more freelance work.
JimHOST
I have to video stuff.
JimHOST
I'm all right.
JimHOST
The show reel as well.
JimHOST
A lot of it is the Roadrunner doc trailer, but I can't use any Roadrunner music.
JimHOST
So I've just put some 80s synth, some royalty-free 80s synth and made it work.
Chris AikenHOST
Okay.
Burton C. BellGUEST
A good friend of mine, Rob Weldon, who I used to work with back in the 90s, he used to work for Roadrunner in the 90s here in LA.
Burton C. BellGUEST
And so he was part of the obsolete thing.
Burton C. BellGUEST
So we stayed in contact over the years.
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Burton C. BellGUEST
But I think what I'm preparing over the next two years, I'm going to be preparing people for what's going to be happening.
Burton C. BellGUEST
Okay.
Burton C. BellGUEST
I guarantee you Roadrunner or whoever has the masters to it is going to definitely promote obsolete at this point.
Chris AikenHOST
Sure.
Loren KozlowskiHOST
I believe the last record was their last one with
Matt NaasHOST
Roadrunner.
Loren KozlowskiHOST
Roadrunner, yeah.
Loren KozlowskiHOST
And they had had some disparaging things to say about Roadrunner when they left.
Loren KozlowskiHOST
So this is them doing...
Loren KozlowskiHOST
This is another one to keep in mind.
Carl SeversonGUEST
And he had come out to my spot in Jersey City.
Carl SeversonGUEST
And I think this was, I still worked at Roadrunner at the time.
Carl SeversonGUEST
And I remember, you know, he was in my office, which was this tiny second bedroom in my small shitty apartment.
Carl SeversonGUEST
And he was standing behind me while I was doing something.
Carl SeversonGUEST
You know, he just started fucking me forward.
Carl SeversonGUEST
He's like, really? You're a record label.
Carl SeversonGUEST
Have you listened to our record in stereo? I was like, yeah, I listened to it at Roadrunner on the really nice stereo.
Carl SeversonGUEST
Yeah, there
Mark LewisGUEST
I mean, did some of it was some of that stuff.
Mark LewisGUEST
Did Monty have a hand in some of the later ones? Was it like was there Roadrunner crossover and some of that stuff?
Brian SlagelHOST
Yeah, absolutely.
Brian SlagelHOST
I mean, they were they were signed to Roadrunner.
Brian SlagelHOST
Eventually, Roadrunner was doing different versions of things.
Brian SlagelHOST
But King was definitely and we did the same thing pretty much with his with the King Diamond.
Brian SlagelHOST
solo band too is you know he wanted the original stuff no remasterings none of that so so it's interesting because i haven't listened to that record for a minute and the last few times i had i was listening to one of the remastered versions of it so going back to again do my research for this which you know i do i do research believe it or not sometimes to go back and listen to it again especially in headphones was like oh okay i remember this being like the original original original version of
BevoHOST
I always thought it was
ChibsHOST
crazy because Nickelback signed to Roadrunner back in the day.
ChibsHOST
Their first album came out on Roadrunner.
ChibsHOST
It was like they had Nickelback and Slipknot.
ChibsHOST
Yeah, that is nuts.
Kyle SetterGUEST
and so we were uh talking with solid state metal blade records um wow my memory could be wrong.
Kyle SetterGUEST
I think Roadrunner is kind of interested maybe.
Kyle SetterGUEST
And then I think they backed out.
Kyle SetterGUEST
Um, but it was like, it was interesting for us.
Kyle SetterGUEST
And like, so all these like celebrities hanging out there and I'm just like 19, 20 year old me, like, dude, this is wild, you know? Yeah, totally.
Kyle SetterGUEST
Um, And I remember at the time, Tim called me.
Kyle SetterGUEST
He's like, hey, man, Roadrunner, they want to start like a kind of like a unique band.
Kyle SetterGUEST
They want to pull band members from certain people and they want you to be a part of it as a singer.
Mistress CarrieHOST
It's the first full-fledged recording with drummer Eloy Casagrande and serves as the first music on the band's new label Sickest Records.
Mistress CarrieHOST
The band launched a joint venture in partnership with Roadrunner Records and Atlantic.
Mistress CarrieHOST
Taylor said in a new interview the song pummels he said quote I mean it's absolutely a pummeling experience like it's got these great moments of hyperactivity and then complete flex it's like we've got everyone by their hair and we're just going go go go we're definitely exploring the realm that we've kind of been in for a long time and bringing in elements that we've never done before People are going to be like when they hear it, there's no way that's Slipknot.
Mistress CarrieHOST
There's no actual way that is Slipknot.
Scott PenfoldHOST
They called him instead, and there's no label.
Scott PenfoldHOST
They finished their Roadrunner contract with The End So Far.
Scott PenfoldHOST
Twenty-eight years, seven albums done.
Scott PenfoldHOST
Nobody knows how this one's coming out.
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