Devildriver re-signs with Roadrunner records
Santa Barbara, California's Devildriver, the band fronted by former Coal Chamber singer Dez Fafara, has re-signed with Roadrunner Records after previously issuing three full-length albums through the label. In addition, the band has secured a new management company in the shape of Davis Entertainment Group.Devildriver has commenced work on the follow-up to 2007's "The Last Kind Words", which has sold 70,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan. That CD shifted a little more than 14,000 copies during its first week of release to debut at No. 48 on The Billboard 200 chart. This figure represented around a 40 percent increase over the opening-week number of 2005's "The Fury of Our Maker's Hand", which premiered at No. 177 with sales of 10,400.
Fan-filmed video footage of Devildriver performing the song "Clouds Over California" on December 13, 2008 at Circo Volador in Mexico City, Mexico can be viewed below. Pat Lachman (Damageplan, Halford) was filling in for bassist John Miller, who was undergoing eye surgery and was unable to make the gig.
Devildriver drummer John Boecklin sat out the band's appearance at the one-day Ozzfest in early August due to the fact that he was getting married the next day. Filling in for Boecklin at Ozzfest was Daath's Kevin Talley, who has previously recorded and/or toured with Dying Fetus, Chimaira, The Black Dahlia Murder, The Red Chord, Hate Eternal, M.O.D., Misery Index and Suffocation.