Robert Englund and Ken Kirzinger in "Freddy Vs. Jason"
Photo: James Dittiger

The horror-flick fan's dream come true, "Freddy Vs. Jason" not only looks scary, it sounds equally frightening.

New and previously unreleased tunes from Slipknot and Ill Nino, and a collaboration between Mike Patton and Sepultura lead the charge on the film's soundtrack, which is slated for release August 5, according to a Roadrunner Records spokesperson.

Slipknot's "Snap" was recorded during the sessions that yielded 1999's eponymous breakthrough LP but never saw the light of day until now, while Ill Nino's "How Can I Live" will serve as the soundtrack's single, and also appear on the band's second album, Confession, due September 30. A video for the song will be shot July 8 in Los Angeles.

Former Faith No More and current Fantômas singer Mike Patton recorded "The Waste" with Brazilian metalheads Sepultura during their sessions for 1998's Against, the band's first album without founding singer Max Cavalera.

Rare tracks on the LP include Chimaira's "Army of Me" and Stone Sour's "Inside the Cynic," both of which had only been available as imports. Former Coal Chamber frontman Dez Fafara's new band, Devildriver, makes its debut with "Swinging the Dead," which is also expected to appear on the group's first LP, expected this fall.

The "Freddy Vs. Jason" soundtrack will also be available in three versions: one for "Friday the 13th" fans, with Jason only on the cover; one for "A Nightmare on Elm Street" fans, featuring Freddy's burnt-up mug; and a third with both on the cover.

"Freddy Vs. Jason," which features Destiny's Child's Kelly Rowland as one of the female leads, hits theaters August 15 (see "Kelly Rowland Takes On Freddy Krueger, Jason Voorhees").

Track list for the "Freddy Vs. Jason" soundtrack, according to Roadrunner Records:

• Ill Nino - "How Can I Live"
• Spineshank - "Beginning of the End"
• Chimaira - "Army of Me"
• Type O Negative - "(We Were) Electrocute"
• Slipknot - "Snap"
• Stone Sour - "Inside the Cynic"
• Devildriver - "Swinging the Dead"
• Killswitch Engage - "Darkness Falls"
• Sepultura with Mike Patton - "The Waste"
• The Blank Theory - "Middle of Nowhere"
• Hatebreed - "Condemned Until Rebirth"
• Mushroomhead - "Sun Doesn't Rise"
• Motograter - "Down"
• Shadows Fall - "Deadworld"
• In Flames - "Trigger"
• Lamb of God - "11th Hour"

For a full-length feature on the movie, check out "Freddy Vs. Jason: A Match Made In Hell."

• Slipknot
• Sepultura
• Stone Sour
• Hatebreed
• Mushroomhead

Death's Chuck Schuldiner
Photo: MTV

The heavy metal community is uniting to help save one of its own. Death metal forefather Chuck Schuldiner, of the band Death, has been battling a malignant brain tumor for two years, and is currently undergoing expensive experimental treatments in an effort to save his life. So, various artists — including Korn, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Kid Rock and Slipknot — are auctioning off memorabilia on Allbeat.com to help Schuldiner's family pay his medical bills (see "Benefit Auction To Aid Death Frontman Battling Tumor"). Since the auction began on June 1, Allbeat.com has received total bids of over $1,000. Among the items for which bids have been placed are a Fear Factory Obsolete gold record, which is currently bidding at $600, and various items from Chimaira, including a package of signed merchandise and a working laminate pass, which is going for over $300. On their upcoming tour with Spineshank, Chimaira will encourage fans to place contributions to Schuldiner in a metal box by the band's merchandise booth.

Other items being auctioned to benefit Schuldiner include a Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death) CD autographed by Marilyn Manson; autographed photos and rare vinyl LPs from Pantera; autographed photos and CDs from Spineshank and Godhead; hockey jerseys from Godsmack, Kid Rock and Disturbed; baseball jerseys from the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Korn; and the microphone Rob Halford used to record Resurrection. Allbeat.com has also received commitments for yet-unnamed contributions from Papa Roach, Crazy Town and Slipknot. "I'm gonna try to find something from my personal collection that maybe nobody can find," Slipknot vocalist Corey Taylor said. "When I found out Chuck had cancer I was freaking. Chuck's music was really important to me growing up. It was really intricate and interesting. So I wanna auction something that's really cool that can hopefully bring in top dollar." The money couldn't come at a better time. Schuldiner's tumor continues to grow and it's pressing against his cerebellum, a condition which is frequently fatal. Last week, surgeons in New York decided it was too risky to operate. Instead, they're treating the tumor with an experimental drug called Zin Cristine, which will hopefully attack the cancer without killing healthy brain cells, Schuldiner's publicist said. If the drug shrinks the tumor enough so that it's no longer pressing against his cerebellum, doctors will later attempt laser surgery. The brain scans Schuldiner had to undergo before doctors would even begin the treatment cost $11,000, and the Zin Cristine sessions are $10,000 each month. Having already paid over $200,000 in the past two years, his family has run out of cash, and since his condition is pre-existing, his medical insurance company refuses to cover him. "There is something terribly wrong when a country as great as America will let their citizens die for lack of insurance or money," Schuldiner's family said in a statement. "[We are] aware every time [he needs treatment] that if we do not get the money, he will die." For now, it looks like Allbeat.com is helping to give Schuldiner a fighting chance. "It's amazing to watch people go beyond the call of duty to help out a fellow musician," co-founder Thom Hazaert said. "I've really put everything else in my life on hold to focus on this, and it's great to see that it's starting to really make an impact."

• Death
• Korn
• Kid Rock
• Slipknot
• Marilyn Manson

System of a Down
Photo: Sony/Columbia

System of a Down, Monster Magnet and Buckcherry will headline Des Moines, Iowa's inaugural Big Ass BBQ on May 27.

The festival is sponsored by Lazer 103.3 (KAZR-FM). The rock station, along with syndicated jock Mancow, had hosted a festival called the Lazer Luau in past summers, but the location and name were changed this year.

The Big Ass BBQ, which will also feature Days of the New, Kittie, Spineshank, Skrape and From Zero, will be held at Waterworks Park.

• System of a Down
• Monster Magnet
• Buckcherry
• Days of the New
• Kittie

After wrapping up its current run opening up for Papa Roach, (hed) pe is set to launch its own headlining tour with Spineshank and Slaves On Dope.

The band's stint with Papa Roach ends on September 15, and the following night (hed) pe will meet with its new tourmates in Spartanburg, South Carolina to launch its own trek.

After making the rounds on Ozzfest in 1999, (hed) pe spent this summer on the road with the Tattoo The Earth tour before hooking up with Papa Roach. The roadwork seems to be paying off, as (hed) pe's latest effort, "Broke," will debut at number 63 on next week's "Billboard" album chart.

While (hed) pe will continue to push "Broke" on the road, Spineshank will be touring to drum up advance buzz for "The Height Of Callousness," which hits stores on October 10. The band spent at least a small portion of the summer playing the Tattoo The Earth tour as well before leaving the tour to shoot a new video and a part in an upcoming Lou Diamond Phillips movie (see "Spineshank Readies Film, Video, Album").

For Slaves On Dope, the tour gives the band the chance to take its music to the people before the release of its upcoming first effort for the Sharon Osbourne-owned Divine Recordings.

If you're up for it, here's where you can catch (hed) pe, Spineshank, and Slaves On Dope (venues and additional dates have yet to be confirmed):

• 9/16 - Spartanburg, SC
• 9/18 - St. Louis, MO
• 9/19 - Des Moines, IA
• 9/21 - Colorado Springs, CO
• 9/22 - Albuquerque, NM
• 9/24 - Las Vegas, NV
• 9/25 - San Diego, CA
• 9/26 - San Jose, CA
• 9/27 - Sacramento, CA
• 9/29 - Portland, OR
• 9/30 - Seattle, WA

• (hed) pe
• Slaves on Dope
• Spineshank

After dropping off the Tattoo The Earth tour earlier this summer, the men of Spineshank have been mighty busy wrapping up a new album and stepping in front of the cameras.

Spineshank's sophomore effort, "The Height Of Callousness," will hit stores on October 10, and the band will team with director Nathan Cox (Disturbed, Coal Chamber) this weekend to shoot the clip for the first single, "Synthetic." The video is said to feature a "futuristic pod" that houses a mad scientist and his equally mad laboratory.

The shoot will be the band's second of late, having wrapped filming on an upcoming Lou Diamond Phillips movie earlier this week. The L.A. outfit plays the house band in "Knight Club," according to Roadrunner Records.

These undertakings, as well as rehearsals for their upcoming tour in support of "The Height Of Callousness," prompted the band to leave the Tattoo The Earth trek, according to Roadrunner. Spineshank is now focused on the daunting task of bringing what label reps are calling the more "technologically advanced" sound of "The Height Of Callousness" to the road this fall.

For the follow-up to 1998's "Strictly Diesel," the band turned to producer Gggarth Richardson (Rage Against The Machine, Kittie), who worked with the band in a Vancouver studio before Scott Humphrey (Rob Zombie, Methods Of Mayhem) came on board to mix the album.

• Spineshank

• Fear Factory
• Coal Chamber
• System of a Down
• Spineshank

Sepultura, Biohazard, Spineshank, Napalm Death, Earth Crisis, Meshuggah, and thousands of their closest friends will descend on Asbury Park, New Jersey next month for a two-day event being billed as the March Metal Meltdown. Enslaved, Grim Reaper, Blitzkrieg, Candiria, Puya, Gorguts, and about 100 other bands will head to Asbury Park's Paramount Theater and Convention Hall on March 12 and 13 for the festival.

The testosterone factor will be upped even further with a slate of professional wrestling that will see Scorpio take on "Fabulous Freebird" Michael P.S. Hayes and The Pitbulls will square off against Ace Darling and Devon Storm in something called an Asbury Park Street Fight. The Human Oddities' Giant Silva, the Heavenly Bodies' Dr. Tom Pritchard, "Latin Oragon" Julio Sanchez, "Super Bad" Steve Bradley, Jersey All Pro Champ Billy Real, Trent Acid, "King of the Death Match" Ian Rotten, and Billy Joe Eaton will also be adding to the mayhem.

As if that's not enough, organizers have also locked in adult film stars Brittany O'Connell, Tera Heart, Micky Lynn, and Jasmin St. Claire (who will act as the show's MC) for the Meltdown.

Here's how the band line-up looks so far:

March 12 - Dimmu Borgir, Hypocrisy, Amorphis, Internal Bleeding, Earth Crisis, Iced Earth, In Ruins, The Step Kings, Dying Fetus, Solus, Dehumanized, Grey Skys Falling, Cross Thread, Stretcher, October Thorns, Chaos Theory, Skinless, NJ Bloodline

March 13 - Sepultura, Biohazard, Meshuggah, Enslaved, Napalm Death, Grim Reaper, Raven, Jess Cox (Tygers of Pan Tang), Blitzkrieg, Sweet Savage, Anvil, Riot, Vicious Rumors, Candiria, Puya, Whiplash, Spineshank, One Minute Silence, Hatebreed, Vader, Gorguts, Madball, Cryptopsy, Bloodfeast, Slaughter House, Bloodstorm, Vital Remains, Fallen Christ, Sarcophagus, Dying Breed, Infusion, Myself Am Hell, Obliviaxe, Shango, Long Winter's Stare, Disarray, Wykked Wytch, E-Town Concrete, Redline, Dirty Brown Eye, Monster X, Dead By Morning, Divine Empire, Darkmoon, Impaler, Grim Reality, Garden of Shadows, Evilution, Scrape On, Eternal Suffering, Anal Blast, Disfigured

• Biohazard
• Sepultura
• Spineshank

Spineshank live at The Birch Hill in Old Bridge, NJ September 25, 2003

• Spineshank