Roadrunner United


Roadrunner United was a project organized by American heavy metal record label Roadrunner Records to celebrate its 25th anniversary. It culminated in an album released worldwide on October 11, 2005, entitled The All-Star Sessions. Four "team captains" were chosen to lead 57 artists from 45 past and present Roadrunner bands, and produce and oversee the album's 18 tracks: then-Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison, Trivium frontman and guitarist Matt Heafy, Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares, and Machine Head frontman and guitarist Robb Flynn. The project was the brainchild of Roadrunner UK general manager Mark Palmer and Roadrunner USA VP of A&R Monte Conner. The album project was coordinated by Lora Richardson and was mixed by Colin Richardson and Andy Sneap. The All-Star Sessions spawned one single and music video. The DVD included with the CD purchase is a documentary of the "Making Of" the songs. It features the sessions of the four team captains making their songs.
On October 13, 2008, Roadrunner Records announced that a two-disc DVD of a release party-concert, featuring songs from the album performed live, would be released on December 9, 2008. The DVD features the full concert and a documentary.
The project design was inspired by association football, particularly the three European football clubs; Manchester United, the primary inspiration behind the project's name and most part of the logo, Real Madrid, and AC Milan.

''The All-Star Sessions''

Track listing

– Denotes the captain for the song.

Personnel

Team Captains

The following were the primary songwriters/producers for the album and were referred to as the 'Team Captains', each getting to select the musicians they wanted for each song.
  • File:RobbFlynn2012.jpg|thumb|right|Robb Flynn, guitarist and vocalist for Machine HeadRobb Flynn – co-lead vocals, keyboards, rhythm guitar, production
  • File:Dino Cazares - Elbriot 2018 01.jpg|thumb|right|Dino Cazares, guitarist for Fear FactoryDino Cazares – rhythm guitar, production
  • File:Soundwave Murderdolls.jpg|thumb|Joey Jordison, former drummer of SlipknotJoey Jordison – bass, drums, production File:Trivium - Reload Festival 2017 10.jpg|thumb|right|Matt Heafy, vocalist and guitarist for Trivium
  • Matt Heafy – lead vocals, backing vocals, acoustic guitar, lead and rhythm guitar, production

    Vocalists

  • Howard Jones –
  • Mark Hunter
  • Glen Benton
  • King Diamond ¨
  • Matt Heafy
  • Keith Caputo
  • Max Cavalera
  • Dani Filth
  • Corey Taylor
  • Daryl Palumbo
  • Dez Fafara
  • Mikael Åkerfeldt
  • Jesse Leach
  • Kyle Thomas
  • Michale Graves
  • Tim Williams
  • Cristian Machado
  • Peter Steele

    Guitarists

  • Jordan Whelan – rhythm
  • Jeff Waters – lead
  • Andreas Kisser – lead co-lead
  • Matt DeVries – rhythm
  • Rob Barrett – rhythm, co-lead
  • James Murphy – lead, intro lead
  • Corey Beaulieu – rhythm & lead
  • Logan Mader – harmonics
  • Matt Baumbach – rhythm, lead
  • Tom Niemeyer – rhythm
  • Acey Slade – rhythm
  • Jim Root – lead
  • Justin Hagberg – rhythm
  • Josh Rand – rhythm
  • Andy LaRocque – co-lead
  • Mike Sarkisyan – co-lead
  • Steve Holt – rhythm & acoustic

    Bassists

  • Christian Olde Wolbers
  • Paul Gray
  • Steve Di Giorgio
  • Mike D'Antonio
  • Nadja Peulen
  • Sean Malone
  • Marcelo Dias
  • Dave Pybus

    Drummers

  • Andols Herrick
  • Joey Jordison
  • Roy Mayorga
  • Dave Chavarri
  • Mike Smith
  • Johnny Kelly
  • Dave McClain

    Keyboards/Programming

  • Rhys Fulber
  • Junkie XL
  • Josh Silver, backing vocals
  • Peter Steele

    Engineers

  • Matt Sepanic
  • Jason Suecof
  • Roy Mayorga
  • Mark Keaton

    Charts

''Roadrunner United: The Concert''

A concert celebrating the project, album and anniversary took place on Thursday December 15, 2005, at the Nokia Theater in New York City. The concert featured multiple musicians both past and present from Roadrunner bands, as well as musicians that did not originally perform on the All-Star Sessions album. The set list consisted of some of the most popular and famous songs released by Roadrunner Records as well as some of the original songs from the project's album. The 'core band', who performed on the majority of the songs, was Dino Cazares, Adam Duce, Paul Gray, Joey Jordison, Andreas Kisser, and Roy Mayorga.

Set list