对于金属乐迷来说Roadrunner Records是如雷贯耳的名字，可以称得上是重金属流派中的最佳厂牌。不过Roadrunner从1980年成立以来，也和许多老厂牌一样饱受诟病：他们越来越只对主流风格感兴趣，更乐意发展潮流乐队，而底下的经典老乐队忽视和冷待。于是像Obituary, Death, Pestilence等老兵不是因为受到忽视而离开就是被厂牌抛弃。在部分人眼里这可能是“聪明”的做法，无论如何，他们现在旗下的艺人充斥着来自世界各地的金属大牌。但即便是金属文化的中流砥柱也不得不对金钱妥协，2006年，华纳的部分收购就是一个兆头，2010年，华纳宣布收购剩余股份。而在今年4月26日，更悲剧的事情发生，华纳宣布大幅消减Roadrunner在全球的业务，厂牌在UK和加拿大的分部都被关闭，而荷兰的办公室也即将被扫地关门。

本来Roadrunner作为一个主流的金属厂牌就不那么被资深金属党们看好，Sumerian的创始人Ash Advilsen最近更是公开在Facebook上表示：“我这些心爱的厂牌Ferret, Trustkill，现在又轮到Roadrunner，一个个都被主流厂牌同化和拆散。这也是为什么我将永远不会卖掉自己厂牌的原因，对我来说家人、朋友才是最重要的，而不是银行里的那些数字……”但如此的“没落”也是让金属党们不愿意看到，甚至有些愤怒的。1998年就签约Roadrunner旗下Slipknot更是有话要说，打击乐手，6号小丑M.Shawn Cranhan就公开发表了他的态度，可以说是剖心泣血:

“Today is a sad day. It has been brought to my attention that many Roadrunner offices around the world have been closed permanently. This means to us, Slipknot, in my opinion that a lot of our very close friends and comrades will no longer be around to help the art and business known as the Slipknot family.

“今天是一个让人伤心的日子。我得知许多Roadrunner在全球各地的办公室都将被永久关闭。对我们，活结来说，意味着众多挚友，同伴，都不再能为我们活结家族的事业而尽力。

This is very disheartening because our whole career has consisted of being involved with this personal family. This comes as very shocking news and in my opinion only, this is completely unwarranted and unacceptable. Money should not dictate art. Art should dictate money.

这个消息让我十分沮丧且震惊，要知道我们的家族以及整个事业都是靠这些人的帮助才逐渐发展起来的。对我个人来说，这是完全不合理且无法接受的消息。金钱不应该主宰艺术。艺术应该主宰金钱。

It only proves that the business side of things dominates the art side of things and again in my opinion art is what changes the world. Everyone who no longer works with Slipknot will be greatly missed and as far as I’m concerned things will never ever be the same.

这只是证明了产业中商业的部分支配了艺术的部分，而我认为艺术才是能改变世界的东西。我会非常想念所有离开活结的同伴们，就我而言，再也无法回到从前。

I personally will not let anybody new into the vision of art because the art has been supported by so many from the beginning of my career to now. Things will never ever be the same. My heart hurts for my friends all around the world and for their families and I know that all things that are meant to be will come back around.

我个人将不会纵容任何新出现的人物进入我们的艺术愿景，因为我们的作品是被至始至终参与我事业的人支持着的。这一切都无法回头。我为我遍布全世界的朋友们以及他们的家庭而心痛不已，我也相信所有本该拥有的东西迟早会回到我们身边。

All I can say at this point from the bottom of my heart is THANK YOU for everything you have ever done for our band Slipknot, our families, and other bands who have been trying to live out their dreams. I’m sorry and we love you all. The music industry as a whole will always continue to fail but the love for art and music will always be on an up rise.

当下我的内心深处唯一能说的就是感谢，感谢你们为活结所作的一切，感谢你们为我们的家庭，以及其他为了实现梦想而努力的乐队们的帮助。我非常遗憾，我们爱你们。音乐产业作为总体将会不断衰退，而人们音乐的热爱则会不断增加。

And because of this art will always need people who understand it. Now that the wheel is being expected to change everyone should know outside the family that the wheel known as Slipknot will become bigger, stronger, and more dangerous than ever.

正因如此，艺术需要理解她的人。现在这个叫做活结的车轮将会改变，这个车轮会变大，变强，变得具备从未有过的危险性。

It will have no sympathy and no forgiveness and will roll over all the wrongdoing. This is simply unbelievable to me. In fact it is everything that is wrong with the world today. You will all stay in my mind and my soul and my art and I will continue to reach out and remain as close as possible to as many of you as possible as I can.

这个车轮将不会同情不会原谅，碾过所有的错事。这个消息对我来说简直难以置信。事实上这正代表了当今世界上所有错误的根源。你们都将会留在我的脑海里，我的灵魂里，我的艺术创作里，我会一直尽我所能和所有的朋友保持密切联系。

The experiences that I have had with you over the years have been part of the dream and have made the dream a reality, something that I have dreamt of since I was a child. Thank you for pushing me as hard as you have over the years so that I could be the best that I can be for our culture.

这些年和你们在一起的时光就像是我梦想的一部分，并让我的梦想成为了现实—— 我儿时就有的梦想。感谢你们这么多年来一直督促我，使得我能在我们的文化中尽可能地做到最棒。

As you know I want my dream to be aligned with people who believe as passionately as we do and will continue to every step of the way. Things will never be the same from this day on and I am tired of things always changing in this business because of politics and people that have not taken the time to fulfill the duty to understand us as an art form representing a culture that is one of a kind and more importantly as people with families ourselves.

我希望我的梦想是和那些与活结一样抱有激情和信念的人一起实现，我们也会将一步步继续走下去。我受够了因为政策以及那些不理解创作，不履行职责，不懂艺术形式才最能代表文化的那帮人而改变我们的事业。他们不知道（比金钱）更重要的是和家人朋友聚集在一起。

I also know how important these people who no longer will be working with Slipknot and Roadrunner are and how much of a difference they made to the most important people of all – the fans. I believe the fans should also be able to voice their opinion as well if the industry is going to continue making the decisions they have based on my life, our art, and our fans.

我同样也知道，这些人的离去对于我们最重要的人——歌迷，将有多么大的改变。我相信，如果这个产业打算继续主宰我们的生活，我们的艺术，和我们的歌迷，你们也应该大声说出自己看法。

Please feel obligated to voice that opinion on our page and give the respect to those who have helped with the vision of Slipknot. Again I am very very very sorry. You are in my thoughts and prayers now forever. I will always consider you close friends and I will make every attempt to stay in touch with as many of you as possible.

请责无旁贷地将你的看法留在我们页面，并对那些帮助过我们活结的人致以敬意。再一次，我感到非常非常地遗憾。我会永远记住你们并为你们祈祷。我将永远把你们视作亲友并且尽可能多地联系你们。

And if I had my way we would align our forces for our culture to continue what is most important and that is the art and philosophy of Slipknot.

如果我能做到，我将努力用音乐的本质，和活结的艺术创作与哲理来将我们的文化继续下去。

Thank you for everything from the bottom of my heart. Your friend, your brother – The Clown.

从内心深处感谢你们所付出的一切。你的朋友，你的兄弟 —— 小丑。

This is not the end.”

这不会是结束。”

文：心碎的伪金属头Jin