Shane Embury (Napalm Death's bassist) commented concerning the plans of the bands: "we will rehearse our 17th and final track for our new album,then practise like crazed lunatics before heading into the studio on the 13th of may to start recording our 12th full length album."

Source:	enemyofthemusicbusiness.com
Band profile:	Napalm Death

Italian Black-Thrash band Necrodeath is ready to release their upcoming album via Scarlet Records on 17 of April 2006. The album will be entitled "100% Hell" here you can check the cover art and the tracklist is as follow:

1. February 5th, 1984
2. Forever Slaves
3. War Paint:
4. Master Of Morphine
5. The Wave
6. Theoretical And Artificial
7. Identity Crisis
8. Beautiful-Brutal World
9. Hyperbole
10. 100% Hell

An Mp3 of the song Forever Slaves can be downloaded here.

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Source:

scarletrecords.it & necrodeath.net

The final line-up for next year's Maryland Deathfest, which will take place May 27th and 28th @ the Sonar in Baltimore, has been revealed:

Dismember - Sweden
Vital Remains - Rhode Island
Haemorrhage - Spain
Pungent Stench - Austria
Necrophagist - Germany
Demilich - Finland
Unholy Grave - Japan
Machetazo - Spain
Butcher Abc - Japan
Disfear - Sweden
Severe Torture - Netherlands
Anata - Sweden
Sanitys Dawn - Germany
Rompeprop - Netherlands
Cliteater - Netherlands
Skinless - New York
Gorgasm - Illinois
Embalmer - Ohio
Yacoepsae - Germany
Wtn - Singapore
Engorged - Oregon
Burnt By The Sun - New Jersey
Municipal Waste - Virginia
Cenotaph - Turkey
Mucupurulent - Germany
Total Fucking Destruction - Pesnnsylvania
Mesrine - Canada
Catheter - Colorado
Beneath The Massacre - Canada
Electro Quarterstaff - Canada
Quills - Maryland
Embryonic Cryptopathia - Massachusetts

Tickets will go on sale January 5th. More information on the festival can be found in the following link:
http://www.supremebrutality.com/

Side-Note: this fest seems to be a little less mainstream than the previous shows, but this time the bands are way more brutal and the main genre is Goregrind, be prepared for a really sickening experience, so the lucky ones who are able to assist, do not hesitate.

Source:

smnnews.com

This is a message from Mark Osegueda, frontman of Death Angel, posted on the band's website:

"Hey Guys!! It's Mark here. Thank you for all the support. You guys Fucking rule!!! Just letting you know that I have a new band. Don't get me wrong. I still sing for Death Angel. But while there is this bit of down time. I needed to keep busy. So new is this band that we don't even have a name yet. But I'm lovin it. And it's fun as hell playing again. Probably won't start playing out till early next year. The Music is more straight ahead Balls out rock. (Mc5/ The Bronx) short punchy songs. Very in your face!! For those of you from the Bay Area. The band consists of a couple of guys from Lica-sto, a guy from Tres Pistolas, a guy who was in The Sick, and The OOzies, and a guy from Death Angel!!(me). We have like 6 songs, and more keep coming fast. I'll keep you all posted. But I assure you this does not mean Death Angel is dead. I can't wait to be on stage again with them. But Music is my life, and I can only stay still for so long!! I also can't wait to play out with these guys. It's F*cking Fun man!! Until then, I'll keep you posted. I miss every one of you beautiful mother fucker's.
See you soon. But never soon enough for me."

Source:	deathangel.com
Band profile:	Death Angel

Two bands have dropped off next year's Maryland Death Fest, scheduled to take place May 27th and 28th 2006 at The Sonar in Baltimore, MD. Those bands are Fistfuck and Frightmare. The following explanation has been posted on the Maryland Death Fest website:

"A band member in Fistfuck had a personal matter come up and won't be able to travel to the US next May. It is not the bands fault, nor is it ours. The band has stated they will play shows in the US as soon as it is possible again.

Also, although Frightmare was the first band we confirmed for MDF IV, they have canceled. Now they don't want to make their appearance exclusive to MDF and that's the only explanation we can provide you. As frustrating as this for us, that's all we're going to say. "

The following five bands have been added, in addition to replacing Frightmare And Fistfuck:

Cliteater (Netherlands)
Rompeprop (Netherlands)
Burnt By The Sun (New Jersey)
Mucupurulent (Germany)
Embalmer (Ohio)

They join the following list of previously confirmed bands:

Demilich (Finland)
Necrophagist (Germany)
Machetazo (Spain)
Butcher Abc (Japan)
Sanity's Dawn (Germany)
Gorgasm (Illinois)
Municipal Waste (Virginia)
Yacoepsae (Germany)
Engorged (Oregon)
Cenotaph (Turkey)
Beneath The Massacre (Canada)
Electro Quarterstaff (Canada)
Total Fucking Destruction (Pennsylvania)

NAPALM DEATH guitarist Mitch Harris spoke to Australia's Themetalforge.com recently about the status of guitarist Jesse Pintado.

"He's out of the band," Harris said pointedly. "He didn't actually leave the band. We sent him home. He had some personal issues. We knew that being in the band wasn't the right environment for his current state of mind. So we sent him home to get some help and support from his family and stuff. We waited for two years for him to get his act together. For example, he didn't even play on Order Of The Leech (from 2002) or the covers album (2004's Leaders Not Followers 2). He just kinda disappeared on us and he became unreliable. There were a lot of issues which were holding us back and confusing the issue and we really just wanted to play ball and just get up there and do what we do, and it was really, really affecting the band in a negative way and it was affecting him in a negative way as well as us personally. We thought it would be best. We gave him 200 million chances and he came back after two years, and his condition hadn't improved and we decided to let him go because he just became unreliable. We have a really hard year ahead of us with lots and lots of touring. We thought it would be best for the band, for the album and also for the fans to just let him go which is a shame because we've been through so much. We've achieved so much together and he's been our room mate for years and just living together we've managed to remain good friends. He wishes us all the best as well as we wish him all the best. I can't put it in any more detail than that because it's his own personal kind of deal. It's his own business really. It's a shame,"

Their new album, The Code Is Red?Long Live The Code is the first album of original material that the band have written and recorded as a quartet since the late 1980s. It appears the idea of becoming a quartet was something they were forced to settle into some time ago.

"I do think the album didn't suffer in any way, shape or form," says Harris. "In the end, it was better for the future of the band I think. We've kinda come together as a four piece in a way that there's no turning back now. It's like, we've done what we've done and we're going to live with our decision. There's no point now. I mean, there was talk about getting another guitarist and of course lots of people suggest that. But it's not going to fill Jesse's shoes. It's not going to make up for the fact that he's not there. But at the end of the day, what we're doing now and the way it's written and the way it comes across, it is as solid and as intense as it needs to be. We're just gonna to continue as a four piece. There's just no point in going backwards at this stage. There's too much to be done. We're all much older now and we have lives to lead. The less confusion, the better. We're all totally on the same level so let's just keep it there."

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Band profile:

Napalm Death

4-5th of March (Friday, Saturday) - folk/pagan/black/death metal festival in Lithuania, Siauliai

4th of March

Location: Gallery ?Laiptai", Zemaites str. 83
Lounge Bar ?Elitas", Vilniaus str. 237

Price: 00.00

Symposium "The Ancient Balts' Wars and Fights"
Folk Inversion - folk improvisation performed live

Video instaliations

Band D.A.R. (lt) - brutal death

5th of March

Location: Club "Studentu Kampas", P.Visinskio str. 11 (close to the bus and train stations).

Time: 17:45
Price: 10 Lt. (~2,7Euro),.
Beer: 2 Lt. (~0,4 euro)

PRETERNATURAL (lv) - Melodinc death metal
ANDAJA (lt) - Pagan metal
BESTIA (ee) - Epic black metal
DARK DOMINATION (lv) - Black metal art
NAHASH (lt) - Occult black metal
NEGLECTED FIELDS (lv) - Techno death metal

After the festival an afterparty for the whole night.

Location: Lounge bar ELITAS, Vilniaus str. 237
Time: The bar will be opened exactly after the festival and will work all the night.
Price: 00.00
Beer: 2 Lt. (~0,4 euro)

In the afterparty: (metal).

Guests from other towns or countries will not be left freezing outside waiting for the bus or train after festival. Not local people are welcome to the afterparty in the first place.

Official festival wbsite: http://www.gruodas.net

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More details unfold about NAPALM DEATH's upcoming album "The Code Is Red? Long Live The Code" which will hit European shops April 25th:
Word has already spread about guests in the studio who laid down some backing-vocals for the album: Jello Biafra, Jamey Jasta (Hatebreed) and Jeff Walker (Carcass) visited the Godfathers Of Grind during their recording-session in Foel Studios with Russ Russell.
Vocalist Barney Greenway on the new album: "What more can I tell you? Well, it's a ripper - fast, progressive and a nice bit of art-noise. With Jello Biafra, Jamey Jasta and Jeff Carcass along for the ride, we hope it'll take your heads off - or at least get you thinking with them. Cheers."

One of the three guests is planned to join the band during their two exclusive pre-listening shows - who? See with your own eyes and hear with your own ears!
22. January 05 (D) Bochum - Matrix *
http://www.matrix-bochum.de
24. January 05 (UK) London - Underworld **
http://www.theunderworldcamden.co.uk

Booking: MAD Tourbooking http://www.mad-tourbooking.de
(* with HEAVEN SHALL BURN, MAROON, Do Or Die, End Of Days,
presales EUR 12,00, early show! 18:15-22:30h!)
(** with Mistress, Cephalic Carnage, presales GBP 12,00)

http://www.enemyofthemusicbusiness.com

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Source:	centurymedia.de
Band profile:	Napalm Death

Italian Black-Thrash Metal kings will deliver a Best of Album titled '20 Years Of Noise (1985 - 2005) celebrating 20 years of carrer! The CD, released also in a digipack limited version, will feature as bonus material a BLACK SABBATH cover and the legendary demo 'The Shining Pentagram', a real cult-tape in the 80's underground, a must for maniac tape traders around the world! All the songs will be re-mastered, including the songs featured into 'The Shining Pentagram'. '20 Years Of Noise' will be released in late March 2005. The band is also working on new material for the next studio album! The cult is still alive and will be bloody as hell!

http://www.scarletrecords.it/

PANDEMIA - www.pandemia-deathmetal.com
The third Pandemia's long-length, named "Riven", has been completely recorded and mixed, and before Christmas eve is going to be mastered to see an early release along Latin America in January through Hurling Metal in Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay, and by Hybrid Music in Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. We also just confirmed that Rawforce Productions will put it out in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Central America.
Visit www.deathrowproductions.com to take a look at the South American tour 2005 dates, which will hit dozens of town during two months in the road! There are more shows that will be announced in the following weeks, so keep checking it in order to witness what will be the longest tour ever done by a metal music act in the continent!

REQUIEM AETERNAM - www.requiem-aeternam.com
Last December 21st showed the band debut gig in the US at the legendary NYC's CBGB, without any doubt it was a great death metal night at one of the world's rock n roll temples. It was also the first concert with the new line-up, which now features Jose Romero (guitars and vocals), Maciej Kupiszewski (bass) and the ex Immolation Alex Hernandez (drums)... The show was filmed and is going to be used for the "Wisdom" video clip.
Rawforce Productions has postponed the "Philosopher" South American release to January 15th, due to printing delays.
"... heavy but precise black metal menace and the blend of intense melody and intense metalness all work together to produce one of the more creative and accessible pieces of metal around ...", "Philosopher" review published by Fishcom Collective Webzine.

THORNAFIRE - www.thornafire.cl
The debut album is taking its final shape in Santiago's Sade Studios with Juan Pablo Donoso's production, their new drummer.
"Exacerbated Gnostic Manifestation" will be released by Ibex Moon Records in February/March; as part of the promotion, we are already planning a Chilean tour and some shows in Brazil for next South American autumn/winter.

From: Death Row Productions Newsletter.
URL: http://www.deathrowproductions.com

According to Queen's official website Queenonline:

QOL can confirm the rumours and now endorse both Roger and Brian's comments in regards to the Queen + Paul Rodgers Tour.

The tour is official and will take place in the Spring of 2005 across mainland Europe and the UK. The show will consist of both Queen and Paul Rodgers material.

Full details of venues and dates are to be confirmed very soon. Tickets will be made available here on www.queenonline.com so make sure you are signed up to the database.

www.queenonline-com

PANDEMIA - www.pandemia-deathmetal.com
In three weeks the Czech death metal gods will start recording their third album, which is going to be named "Riven" and its release is expected for January 2005. About next year's plans, their new South American tour is already confirmed. It will begin on February 4th and it's expected to finish on April 3rd, after more than 50 shows all around the continent! The whole date-list will be announce in the near future.
Pandemia's new full length will be licenced by Hurling Metal in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay and Bolivia and through Hybrid Music in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela. During the following weeks we will confirm the labels that will work "Riven" in Chile and Brazil.

REQUIEM AETERNAM - www.requiem-aeternam.com
The Uruguayan band that now is relocated in New York City is just waiting for the release of their long time awaited second album "Philosopher", which will come out on December 1st through ICorp in the US and Canada, and then on the 15th by Rawforce Productions in South America, except in Argentina where it will be issued via Orion Entertainment.
RA's "Philosopher" features Alex Hernández (Immolation) as new drummer, and was recorded and mixed at New Jersey's Big Blue Meenie studios and then mastered at Bionic Mastering... places that had been used for well known artist like Iggy Pop, Foo Fighters and Overkill among others.
This is one of the first reviews the new album has gotten: "...it is relatively impossible to predict what will follow after that riff or refrain, and unless you listened to the album for five-six times, you can't be sure you know the music well..." Ad Arma Webzine.

THORNAFIRE - www.thornafire.cl
The promotional demo recorded this year, "Sin and Flesh Devotion", got the attention of some labels... but Incantation's leader John McEntee's Ibex Moon Records is the one that picked up these brutal Chileans. The debut album "Exacerbated Gnostic Manifestation" is expected to be recorded in December for being released early next year.
"Here we got a band, that simply kick's ass..." Diabolous Webzine.

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For staying updated about our latest news, keep checking
www.deathrowproductions.com

Source:

The newsletter.

Napalm Death's Barney Greenway (vocals) has sent the following message to the band's fans:

"We are currently in Foel Studios in Mid Wales (the middle of nowhere), which is actually owned by Dave Anderson who was the original bass player for Hawkwind (before Lemmy even), which rocks, of course. Everything is working out really well, and we have tried a few different methods of working here, which have really helped my voice. I am using the microphone as I would live, which helps to really get the full roar going. Guitars are sounding heavy as anything, and as we have given ourselves just about the right time in the studio- as per usual - it helps to keep us on our toes so everything sounds pretty vital. Shane is doing his usual tractor impressions with the bass, which is nice. We're currently at a race to the finish, so everything is starting to shape up properly with the only distraction being the mist that hangs over the valley most mornings...and the sheep! A few titles for you as we chalk 'em off..."Instruments Of Persuasion", "Morale", "Striding Purposefully Backwards", "Climate Controllers", "Sold Short", plus of course the title track "The Code Is Red...Long Live The Code". More later. Cheers."

Napalm Death will be releasing their Century Media Records debut, Leaders Not Followers: Part 2, on October 5th. Fans can expect to see the band late October through November with Cannibal Corpse, Kataklysm, and Goatwhore.

www.centurymedia.com

Band profile:

Napalm Death

Napalm Death recording new album

British grindcore pioneers Napalm Death are currently preparing to record their forthcoming studio album. Commenting on why the band chose to record in Wales, vocalist Barney Greenway had this to say: "The studio is called Foel Studios in the town of Foel, North Wales (Porcupine Tree, Ozric Tentacles), and is owned by the original bass player in Hawkwind. We decided to record here because it's pretty isolated out in the countryside, so there are minimal distractions. We feel that good use of studio time is pivotal and where as some bands might sit around taking things easy for periods, we really work intensively. In the studio, it's actually better to be slightly stressed and on edge for us because it's a good way to capture that kind of on the edge live vibe, which in turn gives us the extra thrust. Personally, I'm never happy with a verse of vocals if I think that I can squeeze a last drop of rawness out of my voice. Sometimes I probably attack things too much, but intensity is the key for me. I like to think we've done enough trips to the studio now to know what we're doing, yet you can never be entirely prepared for the unexpected where, say, the desk might burst into flames or something. Russ Russell will be producing, as he's a very trustworthy man at the knobs for us now as well as being a mate. We're confident he'll do a great job on the new stuff, which is sounding spectacularly savage ? a good mix of the very best bits from the last two albums."

For more info about the album, look here:
http://www.centurymedia.com/bands/Current/napalmdeath.htm

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Napalm Death

Finnish death metallers DEATH DU JOUR have completed work on their debut album, "Fragments of Perdition", due in September through Golden Lake Productions. The follow-up to the "Gamashinoch" EP was recorded at Pop-Studio with producer Mika Haapasalo. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Grace by Chalice of Anger
02. Fragments of Perdition
03. Embittering Cicatricies
04. Harlot Deliverance (mp3)
05. Weakmeat Vortex
06. Satire of Caustic Lunacy
07. Triangle Gallows (mp3)
08. Dogma - The Suffering

DEATH DU JOUR and fellow Finns HATEFORM will support GODHATE and INSISION on their upcoming "Deathkampen 2" Finnish mini-tour in October. The dates are as follows:

Oct. 19 - Helsinki, FIN @ Semifinaali
Oct. 20 - TBA, FIN @ TBA
Oct. 21 - Joensuu, FIN @ Marks
Oct. 22 - Imatra, FIN @ Woodoo
Oct. 23 - Turku, FIN @ Bar Shadow