"Fear Circus", the new video from French metallers Adagio, has been made available online. The video was directed by Olivier Cossu.

"Fear Circus" comes off the new Adagio album, entitled "Archangels In Black", which will be released on on February 2 via Listenable Records.

"Archangels In Black" was mastered at the Cutting Room in Sweden with Björn Engelmann (Rammstein, Meshuggah) and the cover artwork was created by Guilherme Sevens.


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French metallers Adagio have inked a deal with Listenable Records for their release of their new album, "Archangels In Black", tentatively due in February 2009.

According to a press release, "Archangels In Black", first CD to feature Adagio's latest addition, Finnish singer Christian Palin. features an absolutely new portrait of the band, keeping the essence of what makes it's personality but in a more direct and heavier way: "Our respective lives and the band are inseparable, and as a consequence, whichever way we're personally evolving slightly transforms Adagio." The CD was masteted at the Cutting Room in Sweden with Björn Engelmann (Rammstein, Meshuggah). According to guitarist Stéphan Forté, "Björn did an amazing job. The result is heavy as fuck and makes the songs even more powerful! We're a 110% happy with the result."

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The French progressive neo-classical metal band Adagio announced on May 11 that the bass, guitars, drums, and vocals for their upcoming album "Archangels in Black" have been recorded. They promised that Kevin Codfert would record his keyboard and piano parts the following week. The name of the European Label that Archangels in Black will be released through will be announced in the upcoming weeks and a French Headline Tour is already in talks for November 2008.
Before this tour, some gigs have already been confirmed:

21 June - Reunion Island (close to Madagascar) + Stephan and Eric's Masterclass.
3 July - Castle Festival in Serbia
25 July - Blue Beach Festival in Châteauneuf les Martigues (close to Marseille).

There will also be a video for the song "Fear Circus" from the upcoming album. Adagio states that the clip, directed by Olivier Cossu, will be more like a short horror movie rather than a traditional music video. Behind the scenes pictures can be seen here.

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According to Finland's Imperiumi.net, French neo-classical metallers Adagio have tapped Finnish singer Christian Palin to replace the recently departed Gus Monsanto.

Palin is a member of the Swedish/Finnish combo Essence OF Sorrow and Random Eyes. The latter group just landed the Finnish album chart at position No. 18 with its latest effort, "Invisible".

Palin will make his live debut with Adagio at the Castle festival in Smederevo, Serbia on July 3.

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Vocalist Gus Monsanto has posted the following announcement on his myspace page:

Brazilian singer/guitarist/songwriter Gus Monsanto has parted ways with French prog-metal band Adagio after four years of hard work, which included a successful album and a European tour.

"We parted ways friendly. It has been an overwhelming experience to fill David Readman's shoes and I will take with me the great people I met on the road, the friends I made during this period, the countries I have visited. The road stories and great music I made with Stephan, Franck, Eric and Kevin will not be forgotten. They will carry on as the archangels in black they are, as all of us are Metal Commandos," Monsanto said.

Gus' departure from Adagio will allow him to focus in other hard rock and heavy metal projects.

"There's a lot on my plate right now. June 08th will see the release of "The Lightseekers" CD, which is a really great French hard rock band I have been working with. I also have a spankin' new project called Zyon Vega, with fellow Aquaria members Bruno Agra (drums), Fernando Giovanetti (bass) and Alberto Kury (keyboards), plus Atlantida's guitarist, Alexandre Macedo, who's been pursuing this new chapter with me," Monsanto said.

Samples of Gus' latest efforts are available at this location

In other news, Gus is in advanced talks to join a well-known U.S. hard rock band replacing a world famous vocalist.

"I cannot tell the name of the band or anything else right now but I will disclose details as talks progress," Gus said.

Finally, Gus Monsanto is in the final stages of his first experience as a producer, with Brazilian metal band Skyrion, whose album is due out shortly.

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The Pre-Production of Power/Progressive Metal band Adagio's upcoming album is now complete. Four demo songs for 'Archangels In Black' have been written now and their titles have been released. The four tracks so far are: 'Archangels In Black', 'Undead', 'The Fear Circus' and 'Twilight At Dawn'. Adagio will enter the studio in December to commence the recording of the album and it will be released some time next year.

Here is a comment by guitarist Stephan Forté: "This album is a sort of tribute to dark arts, including horror movies and gothic litterature, it's our own musical representation of what Darkness is. I think the song 'Archangels In Black' would be a cool hymn for all those of us who enjoy sinister arts".

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"Archangels In Black" will be the name of the new Adagio album! Stephan Forté has already composed almost all songs and annouced that the album will feature 9 songs + 1 Japanese Bonus track.

The band have annouced that the compositions are the ultimate balance between melodic and extreme metal and can be considered as a more brutal vision of "Underworld"

Recording sessions will start at the beggining of October.

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As previously reported via Blabbermouth.net, French Symphonic Power Progressive metallers Adagio have lined-up these tour dates that will take place in various corners in France during the coming months:

Jun. 29 - Paris, FRA @ Elysée Montmartre
Jul. 06 - Tours, FRA @ Maison de l'Etudiant
Jul. 07 - Bellegarde, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 09 - Paris, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 10 - Raismes, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 11 - Le Havre, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 14 - Nantes, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 15 - Poitiers, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 16 - Bilbao, SPA @ TBA
Sep. 18 - Montpellier, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 19 - Salon, FRA @ TBA

Adagio's June 29 concert in Paris will be filmed for an upcoming DVD. Opening guests Misanthrope will play a one-hour show, and Adagio's set will be 90 minutes.
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Adagio has just finished the recordings of the new album.

Name of the album is "Dominate", release date is already set for December 16th in Japan through Avalon/Marquee.

The album has been produced by Stephan Forté and Kevin Codfert, mixed at House Of Audio Studios in Germany by Dennis Ward.

"Dominate" complete tracklisting:

1-Fire Forever
2-Arcanas Tenebrae/Dominate
3-Terror Jungle
4-Children Of The Dead Lake
5-R'Lyeh The Dead
6-The Darkitecht
7-Kissing The Crow
8-Fame
9-Undying (Bonus Japan)

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Better later than never.
On the official website of Adagio, the last week, on the 23rd, was posted the following announcement:
Stephan is avalable for guitar lessons in the Parisian region. If you are interested, send an e-mail at stephanforte@hotmail.com

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The band who was recenly without singer, found the new member who was selected by the demos that the band received. He's Gus Monsanto and is from Brazil. The first performance for him will be on 11/09/2004 in Toulouse and on 18/09/2004 in progpower festival in Atlanta, and some other concerts over europe.

After that shows, the band will be concentrating on composition a new album.

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Adagio separates from David Readman

"It's with great regret that we have to announce that David Readman is no longer the singer of Adagio.

Before anything else, I would like to mention that this decision has nothing to do with our personal feelings with David. We've been great friends, we had a lot of fun together but it was clear that a longer collaboration with Bottom Row (David's management) would have killed the band in no time.

I will not go into details, but all I can say, is that each new show, studio album or new project have been subject to really unpleasant negotiations, under the threat of being blocked many times and it was not possible for us to work under such a permanent pressure anymore.

We've done all the possible to keep on working with David, but after few years, we've decided to stop making compromises, and to finally take the best decision for Adagio's future.

We have now to move forward, and so we're looking for a new singer.

As the band has a lot of upcoming things going on like the Prog power fest in Atlanta in September and the recordings of the next album before the end of the year, some auditions will take place very soon.

So, if you're living in Europe, you have a great voice and above all, if you think you have your chances to become the new singer of Adagio, then please send :

- 1 good quality MP3 representative of your voice

- A short bio

- 2 recent pictures

to: adagio.management@wanadoo.fr

All demos will be listened, and if you're selected for an audition, you will receive an e-mail confirmation within one week.

All the e-mails have to be sent before August 10th.

Thanks a lot for your understanding and support

Adagio

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