Destruction, Rotting Christ, Firewind, Wastefall and Silent Rage have been confirmed for the Metal Healing Festival, set to take place July 20-22 in Greece.
The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): Destruction, Ektomorf, Firewind, Mystic Prophecy, Nightrage, Rotting Christ, Silent Rage, The Haunted, To/Die/For, Wastefall.

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Source:	metalbolt.com
Band profile:	Destruction
Event:	Metal Healing Festival

After the very successful "Metal Crusaders" - North America tour Destruction will return with a headling performance to the USA and Canada in January 2007!
Confirmed "Thrash Till Death Over North America Tour" dates are as follows:

UPDATED on 20-10-06]
Jan. 20 - Seattle WA @ Showbox
Jan. 21 - Santa Ana, CA @ Galaxy Theater
Jan. 23 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
Jan. 25 - Salt Lake City, UT @ TBA
Jan. 26 - Denver, CO @ Hubba's House Of Rock
Jan. 27 - Omaha, NE @ Sokol Auditorium
Jan. 28 - Minneapolis, MN @ First Avenue
Jan. 29 - Chicago, IL @ TBA
Jan. 30 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's
Jan. 31 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
Feb. 01 - Toronto, ONT @ The Opera House
Feb. 02 - Quebec City, QUE @ L' Imperial
Feb. 03 - Montreal, QUE @ Foufounes Electriques
Feb. 04 - Boston, MA @ Middle East
Feb. 05 - New York City, NY @ Rebel
Feb. 06 - Philadelphia, PA @ First Unitarian Church
Feb. 07 - Baltimore, MD @ Sonar
Feb. 09 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Feb. 10 - Ft Lauderdale, FL @ TBA
Feb. 11 - Orlando, FL @ Back Booth
Feb. 13 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
Feb. 14 - Houston, TX @ Meridian
Feb. 15 - El Paso, TX @ Chic's
Feb. 16 - Phoenix, AZ @ Clubhouse
Feb. 17 - Hollywood, CA @ Key Club

Source:	destruction.de
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German Thrashers Destruction have announced that they will be releasing a 'Best Of' album in early 2007. The album will be called 'Best Of Classix'. Destruction will enter the studio this month to record the album. More information is to be announced soon.

Also, dates for Destruction's 'Thrash Inferno 2006' European tour have been finalised. The tour will include Destruction, Dead Head, Legion Of The Damned and Izegrim.

The complete list of dates looks like this:

08.09.2006 - NL - Burgerweeshuis - Deventer
09.09.2006 - NL -Dynamo Club - Eindhoven
10.09.2006 - NL -Patronaat - Haarlem
12.09.2006 - Pol - Warsaw, Progresja Club
30.09.2006 - Spain - Alcala de Henares, Rockzinante Excalibur Metalfest
07.10.2006 - DK - Aalborg, Aalborg Metal Fest
02.12.2006 - Portugal - Lisboa, Thrashmania 2006 /Corrois-Almada
29/30.12.2006- CH - Pratteln, Z7 - End of Days Festival

Source:	destruction.de
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Due difficulties with some venues, the UK tour in September has to be postponed. The band is real sad about that decision and will work on new dates ASAP. Here is the statement of the britsh promoter Pan Satyrcos:

"Some of the venues (those run by the Academy Music Group) bought the financial terms of the shows into dispute at the last second. In order to protect the financial interest of the band and avoid a loss that would have been the logical consequence of these lowered fees, we felt it best to cancel this tour in September. A lot of work and planning had gone into this, and we are very sorry and apologise to all who bought their tickets in advance, and those coming down on the day."

Hopefully, these shows will be rescheduled for early 2007 at different locations.

Source:	destruction.de
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Destruction have posted the following message on their website :

"Destruction is unfortunatly unable to play the remaining shows of the South America tour due to huge organisational problems and transportion issues. Therefore the dates in Cordoba & Rosario (Argentina)and Asuncion (Paraguay) are canceled. Destruction will try to play a second show in Sao Paulo on the weekend instead, an official statement of Destructions Booking Agency and more details will follow as soon as possible."

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Former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno will appear on the forthcoming DESTRUCTION album. He will be adding his vocals to the track 'The Alliance Of Hellhoundz'. No details are available at this time.

The new Destruction album will be released through AFM Records, the band's first with the label.

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The band is currently in the studio recording the new album "Inventor of evil" that will be mixed by Peter Tätgtren. The album is schedule to be release at 15 August in Europe (in the rest of the world will be a bit later).

The band is expecting to have some guests on the album. It seems like the ex-guitarist Harry will be doing some apparence on the album. Also the band is preparing a song "dealing with more unity and tolerance in the 'szene'!" and this would include "many 'well-known' Metalsingers from all exiting styles". More news to come.

Source:	destruction.de
Band profile:	Destruction

The german thrashers decided to sign with the label AFM Records, here is the statement from the frontam of the band:

"We would like to bring the speculations and rumours about a label chance of DESTRUCTION to an end!"

"After four terrific and successful years with NUCLEAR BLAST, the decision to work with a new label wasn´t easy at all"

"We would like to thank Markus Staiger and his Team for the great friendship and the fantastic work! They had a big participation of the positiv progress of our reunion!"

"AFM RECORDS is the new partner of our trust! The contracts will get signed within the next days! The new album will be released via AFM/ Soulfood here in Centre Europe and thru other distribution partners of the label worldwide, a little later this summer!"

"The pre-production is running at full blast. Because of the intense worldwide touring, it feels that the band never sounded tighter and more motivated than at this present moment!"

"Watch out for the new riffmonster that will write Thrash Metal history! And that´s a fuckin´ promise!"
Cheers!

SCHMIER, MIKE and MARC

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The North American release date of DESTRUCTION's "Live Discharge - 20 Years Of Total Destruction" DVD has been pushed back to May 18. No reason was given for the delay.

As previously reported, the DVD features four and a half hours of live, backstage and historical footage and the Japan-only CD release "Alive Devastation". The collectors' digipack will be limited to 666 copies. Preview clips of two tracks are currently available online: "Live Without Sense" (recorded at the Z7 Club in Pratteln, Switzerland, .MPG, Windows Media), "Machinery Of Lies" (.MPG, Windows Media).

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Veteran German thrashers DESTRUCTION have posted a trailer for their upcoming live DVD, "Live Discharge - 20 Years Of Total Destruction", due on March 8. Check it out here: http://www.destruction.de/index.php's_id=7&lang=en

As previously reported, the DVD will come with a bonus CD featuring the "Alive Devastation" Japan-only release from 2003.

DESTRUCTION will hold a DVD-release party on March 12 at the House of Rock "Atlantis" in Herboldsheim (near Freiburg), Germany. The group will play a full "best of 20 years" live set, including all the classic and new band anthems, according to a posting on DESTRUCTION's web site. Also scheduled are various competitions, a DVD preview, a signing session and "a lot of booze!"

Taken from Blabblermouth.net

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DESTRUCTION frontman Marcel "Schmier" Schirmer recently gave the group's official web site more information about the German thrash metal band's upcoming live DVD, "Live Discharge - 20 Years Of Total Destruction".

According to Schmier, "this DVD features DESTRUCTION material from all eras including myself on vocals. The fans themselves did vote for those tunes, so we hope your favorite is not missing out. We did try to catch that energy of a thrash show rather than just recording the most perfect, clean and flawless concert. This is also one of the reasons why you will find three different events in our LIVE section . . . Together with the backstage and 'on the road' footage you will get a nice extra look behind the curtain of a DESTRUCTION show.

"This is ain't fake! We are living our music to the max and you will surely have your 'nice' entertaining moments.

"The bonus material includes our two first ever video clips: 'Desecrators' and 'The Ravenous Beast', an Australia tour special done by the OZ Metal Warriors, an intense interview - history, some leftovers from other shows (like older cuts with Sven on the drums) and of corpse some very old, glorious footage from the '80s!"

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