Agonizer is releasing their second full length album on the 4th of March via Häive Productions. The sound of the Visions Of The Blind is described as "rough, dynamic and massive." The album includes 13 tracks and 58 minutes of music. Check out the first details available below.

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Hello everyone.

This is Pasi writing the news. As in Pasi the vocalist of Agonizer. I write this news to announce that from now on I will be the ex-vocalist of Agonizer. I will be as forthcoming as possible for my reasons to leaving. After you read this please don't go bugging the band or myself asking why this happened.

A little over a year ago at Spinefeast festival I had a strong lack of motivation to be a singer and also disbelief in my own skills and wether they are good enough. I discussed it with my wife and also with the rest of the band and decided that I would give this band a real effort for a while and then see what happens.

This winter that feeling of failure came again probably as a result of my over growing problems with my throat. My voice would just not function as it used to. Regardless my problems being real or just psychological I started to loose the motivation and started to wonder about continuing. I have always enjoyed making songs and playing them to the audience, but I never enjoyed the fame side of the band as I am a bit of a recluse if you will. Also, my daughter was born in the spring and it just pushed everything else aside, including the band. Together these things influenced the need to talk with the other members about my future in the band. I told them that I would like to resign from this band and concentrate on my personal life and daughter to the fullest.

We had one gig that I enjoyed as much as ever before and will not forget it. That made me question if I was making the right desicion. However other band members thought that since the new record was almost ready to be recorded it would be better to have a new vocalist that would have the necessary motivation to continue the work on the band after the recording itself was done. So Joni called me and told me that they have decided to look for a new singer and to my own relief I realised that they were right.

So I hereby resign as the vocalist of Agonizer. They will be looking for a new replacement and it is my wish that Agonizer will find someone really good so that I myself can enjoy the metal scene from the audience side. I also hope that someday I will be able to travel again with the band or perhaps as a driver or some other more alcohol spiced job. I also wish good luck and success to the band and thank all the fans for these years that I have had. They have been amazing and memorable.

- Pasi Kärkkäinen

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After many years of hard work the Finnish metal band Agonizer has finally got a record deal with Spinefarm Records. Their début album "Birth/The End" is due to be released on the 1st of August, 2007 through Spikefarm.

Here is it's tracklist:
01. Prisoner
02. Harmless Hero
03. Everyone Of Us
04. Hazardous
05. Prophecy
06. Sleepless
07. Black Sun
08. The Birth And The End

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After many years of waiting, finnish melodic metal band Agonizer will finally step into the Astia-Studio in Lappeenranta, Finland, to record their debut album on September the 18th. The album will be recorded in a period of two weeks and it should be ready by the beginning of November. The name of the album and the song order are still in consideration but the songs are the following ones:

Prisoner
Harmless Hero
Everyone Of Us
Indifferent
Prophecy
Sleepless
Black Sun
Birth
The End

The album length will be about 40 minutes and it will be a self-release.

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Agonizer have been chosen to represent Finland in the Wacken Open Air metal festival's yearly "Wacken Metal Battle" band competition.

The Finnish jury, lead by Sauli Vuoti, the founder of the Finnish metal magazine Inferno, selected Agonizer to represent Finland in this year's competition after going through almost 200 demos.

"Agonizer simply had the best songs and I could see them recording an album in the near future," Vuoti said. Agonizer's unique style combines Scandinavian rock/metal in the vein of Sentenced with traditional heavy metal elements. "We have also seen Agonizer live, and they really blew the place to pieces!" Vuoti explained. Other bands which Vuoti thought highly of included Republic Of Desire and Dauntless.

Agonizer get to play at this years Wacken festival among participants from most European countries. The winner is rewarded with a worldwide record contract with German record label Armageddon Music. Doom metal band Vanguard, also from Finland, won the competition last year.

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Agonizer's keyboardist Mika Heinonen has left the band the reason being lack of interest. Agonizer want to point out that there are no arguments or disagreements involved in Mika's departure, and he has promised to help the band re-produce the old songs. For now Agonizer are not looking for a new keyboardist but will continue with 5 band members. The rumours are that future Agonizer material will be more heavier than what we are used to hearing from them. Also the band announces that session drummer Atte Palokangas is now a perm member of Agonizer.

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