Nocturnal Art Productions announced the adition of the norwegian band Maangard to their roster .

The first relase with the label will be the re-issue of their debut called "Circling Buzzards" on 2006.

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Melodic metallers Nocturnal Rites have completed work on the follow up to their last album, New World Messiah (2004). Entitled "Grand Illusion", the band's seventh album was recorded and mixed at Toontrack Studio in Umea, Sweden.

The ten track album features guest appearances from Stefan Elmgren (Hammerfall), Jens Johansson (Stratovarius), Henrik Danhage (Evergrey), Kristoffer W. Olivius (Naglfar) and Swedish world champion of cross-country skiing (three times world cup gold), Per Elofsson.

Century Media will release the album on September 19th. The release will include a bonus DVD featuring three videos from New World Messiah, the brand-new 'Fools Never Die' video, a "Making Of Grand Illusion" segment and extra footage from the Demons Of The Opera show.

Grand Illusion will include the following tracklisting: 'Fools Never Die', 'Never Trust', 'Still Alive', 'Something Undefined', 'Our Wasted Days', 'Cuts Like A Knife', 'End Of Our Rope', 'Never Ending', 'One By One', 'Deliverance'.

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Nocturnal Art Productions is now entering into full time collaboration with Candlelight Records on a worldwide basis. The two labels have already been cooperating for several years with Candlelight licensing various Nocturnal Art titles for the North American territory. This new collaboration sees a full on worldwide cooperation with all coming Nocturnal Art titles being marketed through the Candlelight Records network.

Candlelight label manager Edward Christie had the following comment about the collaboration "We are delighted to be working with Samoth and N.A.P. and look forward to building a successful partnership. It was a natural step for both companies as Candlelight look after the N.A.P. releases in the USA and of course we have been working together for a number of years with EMPEROR and ZYKLON."

With this new collaboration, Nocturnal Art has already signed Norwegian extreme metal thrashers SHE SAID DESTROY? a name that has been on many people's tongues recently. They have been an active live unit and have made many impressive live appearances. Vampire Magazine (Holland) quoted the band as "One of the highlights at this years Inferno I would say!!!" on their appearance at the Inferno Festival 2005. Their latest demo Armageddon Anyone? has also made strong impressions on fans and media alike. Metal Hammer Germany declared it demo of the month, and Metal Hammer UK gave it 8 out of 10 points and quoted it as "This is heavy fucking metal, not Paris Fashion Week!". The band is currently in writing mode for their debut album and expects to be recording in the fall.

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The band just posted a video of the song "Avalon" from the album "New World Messiah" on their website, enter here for download it: http://www.nocturnalrites.com/index2.htm

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Nocturnal Rites drummer Owe Lingfall has had a serious accident a couple of days ago, which almost cost him greatly, namely an eye. Today he will have surgery.

According to the other members of the band Owe is a fighter, so they have full confindece that he will recover really fast.

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Posted on the Official Homepage:

Hi all, our smoking new album "New World Messiah" is set for release on March 22nd!!!
Make a big mark in your calendars, people. Life will never be the same again after this glorious day, I tell you.
Our new site will be up in a week or two. We will announce its coming on this very site before this one gets closed down... On the new one you will get to hear NEW SONGS (or bits of them anyway) SEE NEW PHOTOS (we're still as ugly though. maybe even worse) AND SEE CLIPS OF RECORDING MADNESS, EVIL WORSHIP AND WHAT NOT!!!

Also - BIG NEWS -
We will be on tour with EDGUY and Brainstorm April through May. A complete listing of all dates will be found on our new site. This will be the tour of the century, folks. No doubts in my mind. See you soon, /NILS & The Boys

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Swedish melodic metallers NOCTURNAL RITES have reportedly set "New World Messiah" as the title of their follow-up to 2002's "Shadowland", tentatively due in early 2004 through Century Media Records. Working songtitles include "Against the World", "The Icon" and the projected title track. The group's bassist Nils Eriksson had previously described the new material as "pretty much like we've always done... maybe just a tad better."

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