Stourbridge, England - March 15th, 2006 - Publisher Metro 3D a Leading Value Price video games publisher with the games developer Data Design Interactive
are pleased to announce a joint partnership with leading independent record label Earache Records in the creation of Earache Extreme Metal Racing for
Playstation2, PC and PSP all formats are due for shipping in 7th July 2006.

EARACHE EXTREME METAL RACING was created by 17 year old Gothic metaller SKY NASH and all started as a possible way to not only keep her amused but potentially to dissuade her from following her overworked father into a gaming career.

SKY, then just 15 was given a huge responsibility to design her own (tongue in cheek) game. By the end of the first week, she had created a Gothic-looking game, complete with drafted levels and an awesome soundtrack. 12 months on and with professional development courtesy of Sam King and Mike Rooker (art), Mark Gemmell (production), Karl White and Julian Salter (Programming) at DDI, aimed to appeal to Goth / Rock music fans the world-over, Metro 3D have created EARACHE EXTREME METAL RACING - a monster of a game.

Stewart Green MD of Metro 3D says
"We like to have a lot of work experience placements, its good community spirit and internally you usually get too close to a project to be objective, so a new view point on our games progress is refreshing and
generally works out for a better balanced game. In a very male dominated industry you tend to think in stereotypes so when I heard that Sky, our latest girl on work experience had some design ideas to improve an offoad racing game. I initially thought I was going to hear 'make it pink with rainbows' but I was very pleasantly surprised to hear she thought we needed
the ability to mow down zombies, more carnage with chainsaws and metal spikes, and it just had to have an extreme thumping heavy metal sound track. And so Extreme Metal Racing was born. No more coffee making, for Sky, she was flat out for the following 2 weeks, on levels, vehicles and extreme vehicle carnage. We are a small independent development and publishing
studio, and being spontaneously creative, with a great idea, wherever it came from, is what we are all about. The game is frantic, mad as hell fun, oh and in the end there was some pink . on the headless corpse bride! We have been working with Sky for the past year and the school has already booked her back for next year - to work on the sequel."

Ashley Mortimer, Marketing Manager, Earache Records says "Earache prides itself on innovation. As an independent label we've been on the cutting edge of unique and groundbreaking music for 15 years and we
relish every opportunity, particularly a new or unusual one. We don't know of any other labels who have released their own game and the cross-marketing
possibilities are really exciting. Culturally we don't think music and gaming are so far apart, many music fans play computer games, nearly all gamers listen to music so we have teamed up with DDI and Metro3D to produce Earache Extreme Metal Racing. Your car shreds the opposition, the soundtrack shreds your ears - what a great combination!"

About Earache Records:
Earache Records is reknown for kick-starting the worldwide Extreme Metal scene, which originated during the late 80's from the Nottingham, UK apartment of label founder Digby Pearson. Digby discovered and released the first band that popularized and was synonymous with the Extreme Metal scene-Napalm Death. This was followed by the release of such extreme music
luminaries and genre-defining acts as Carcass, Morbid Angel, Godflesh, Entombed and Cathedral. In more recent years the new wave of Extreme Metal artists on the label have included Mortiis, Decapitated, The Berzerker and Deicide. For almost 20 years Earache has maintained its reputation for releasing groundbreaking original acts and is rightly proud of its status as
one of the few truly independent record labels still in the Industry.


EARACHE ARTISTS ALREADY CONFIRMED AS RACING 'TEAMS' INCLUDE:

Mortiis
Deicide
Morbid Angel
Akercocke
Decapitated
Biomechanical
Municipal Waste
The Berzerker
Linea 77
Society 1


Additionally, the soundtrack of the game will feature over 30 additional tracks including Napalm Death, At The Gates, Cathedral, The Haunted, Hate Eternal, Cult Of Luna, Beecher, Urkraft, Anata, Mistress, Severe Torture and many others.