Finntroll will support German thrashers Sodom on the following European dates in December:

Dec. 26 - (NL) Amsterdam - Melkweg
Dec. 27 - (D) Osnabrück-Georgsmarienhütte - Eventcenter B 51
Dec. 28 - (D) Bochum - Zeche
Dec. 29 - (B) Antwerp - Hof Ter Loo
Dec. 30 - (D) Karlsruhe - Substage
Dec. 31 - (CH) Pratteln - Z7

As previously reported, Finntroll is scheduled to enter the studio in late September to begin recording the follow-up to 2004's "Nattfödd", tentatively due in early 2007. The upcoming CD will mark the band's first release with new singer Vreth, who replaced previous frontman Tapio Wilska this past spring.

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Source:	kissthis.com
Band profile:	Sodom
Event:	Finntroll & Sodom: European Tour

Guitarist Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal) will be rejoining Morbid Angel for the band's upcoming European summer festival tour. "This will certainly be an exciting event with the 'Domination' lineup together for the first time in 10 years!" the band write in a statement. "We look forward to seeing you all on tour."

Upcoming Morbid Angel European tour dates:

Aug. 05 - Wacken Open Air - Wacken, GER
Aug. 07 - Monsters Of Rock Festival - Kavarna, BUL
Aug. 11 - Traun - Spinnerei, AUT
Aug. 12 - Brutal Assault Festival - Svojsice, CZR
Aug. 14 - Planet Music - Vienna, AUT
Aug. 15 - Sziget Festival - Budapest, HUN
Aug. 16 - Skc - Belgrade, SER
Aug. 18 - Summer Breeze Festival - Dinkelsbuehl-Sinbronn, GER
Aug. 19 - CC De Fabriek - Sint-Lievens Houtem, BEL
Aug. 20 - 013 - Tilburg, NETH
Aug. 22 - Mean Fiddler - London, UK
Aug. 24 - Hole In The Sky Festival - Bergen, NOR
Aug. 26 - Up From The Ground Open Air - Gemunden Am Main, GER

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Morbid Angel

August 16 Wermelskirchen (D) AJZ Bahndamm ( w/ Skinless (US), Spawn Of Possession (SWE), Obscura (D))
August 17 Gent (B) Frontline ( w/ Obscura (D), Fleshmould (B) + more)
August 18 Rotterdam (NL) Baroeg (w/ Obscura (D),Dawn Of Disease (D), + support)
August 19 Muotathal (CH) Mountains Of Death Open Air (w/Cephalic Carnage, Disavowed, Wasteform, Fleshless, Obscura and many)
August 20 Munich (D) Metropolis ( w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US))
August 21 Vienna (A) Planet Music ( w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US), Days Of Loss (A), Dark Deception (A))
August 22 Prague (CZ) Matrix (w/ Obscura (D) + more)
August 23 Hamburg (D) Marx (w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US))
August 24 Berlin (D) Knaack (w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US))
August 25 Gemuenden/Main, GERMANY Up From The Ground Open Air (w/Obituary, Morbid Angel, Sinister, Gorefest, Dismember, Obscura and many more)
August 26 Rijssel (NL) Els Rock Open Air (w/ Holy Moses (D) and more)

Source:	smnnews.com
Band profile:	Suffocation

Masters of Death tour 2006

In November, Europe will face the most brutal bill that has ever shared the same stage': Grave, Dismember, Entombed, Unleashed will team up to bring a night of the best metal Sweden has ever had to offer. The package is an idea that all four bands has planned and prepared in the past months and finally they are doing it. Dates and more info will be announced shortly.

Source:	grave.se
Band profile:	Grave

Catamenia + Winterhorde + support

More dates will be announced when they are confirmed.

14/10/2006 Maribor, Slovenia
13/10/2006 Zagreb, Croatia
12/10/2006 Osijek, Croatia
11/10/2006 Sofia, Bulgaria
10/10/2006 Bucharest, Romania - Bucharest Metal Night
09/10/2006 Galati, Romania - Hellraiser Metal Meeting # 3
07/10/2006 Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Maximum Rock Festival

Source:	catamenia.net
Band profile:	Catamenia

Cryptopsy will be touring through Europe starting in August. Here are the gig dates:

11.08.06 - Party Sans Festival, Germany

12.08.06 - The Ghostfest, Leeds, UK
13.08.06 - Nottingham, UK @ RockCity
14.08.06 - Liverpool, UK @ Roadkill 350
15.08.06 - Cork, Ireland @ An Cruiscin Lan
16.08.06 - Dublin, Ireland @ Temple Music Bar
17.08.06 - Glasgow, UK @ Barfly
18.08.06 - Birmingham, UK @ Edward No. 8
19.08.06 - London, UK @ The Underworld
20.08.06 - Brighton, UK @ Concorde 2

22.08.06 - Bladel n/Eindhoven, HOL @ Pazzop
23.08.06 - Bremen, GER @ SchlachthofMagazinkeller
24.08.06 - GER @ tba
25.08.06 - Malmoe, SWE @ Molle 2
26.08.06 - Linkoping, SWE @ Skylten
27.08.06 - Stockholm, SWE @ Debaser
29.08.06 - Helsinki, FIN @ Nosturi
30.08.06 - Turku, FIN @ Klubi
31.08.06 - Jyvaskyla, FIN @ Lutakko
01.09.06 - Oulu, FIN @ Teatria
02.09.06 - Umea, SWE @ Midnight
03.09.06 - Gavle SWE @ Monster
04.09.06 - Oslo, NOR @ Betong
05.09.06 - Gotheborg, SWE @ Musikens Hus
06.09.06 - Aarhus, DEN @ Train
07.09.06 - Kolding, DEN @ Godset
08.09.06 - Roskilde, DEN @ Gimle
09.09.06 - Kopenhagen, DEN @ The Rock
10.09.06 - Leeuwarden, HOL @ Het Podium

Source:	cryptopsy.net
Band profile:	Cryptopsy

Veteran NWOBH-metallists Saxon have announced an (extensive!) European tour schedule for 2007 and also some for this year, including the Live 'n' Louder Festival (Mexico, Brazil, Argentina).

Here are the 2006 dates:

18.06.2006 - Monsters of Rock - Festival - Zaragoza, Spain
24.06.2006 - Hellfest - Nantes, France
25.06.2006 - Graspop Metal Meeting - Dessel, Belguim
07.07.2006 - Ruisrock - Turku, Finland
08.07.2006 - Rock Sound Festival - Huttwil, Switzerland
16.07.2006 - Evolution Fest - Brescia, Italy
21.07.2006 - Earthshaker Fest - Kreuth, Germany
22.07.2006 - Festival - Villalba, Spain
29.07.2006 - Metalway Festival - Jerez, Spain
04.08.2006 - Monsters Of Rock Festival - Varna, Bulgaria
07.10.2006 - Palacio De Los Deportes - Live 'n' Louder Festival - Mexico City, Mexico
12.10.2006 - River Plate Stadium - Live 'n' Louder Festival - Buenos Aires, Argentina
14.10.2006 - Caninde - Live 'n' Louder Festival - Sao Paulo, Brazil
18.11.2006 - Zaal Maeckeblijde - Poperinge, Belgium

And here are 2007 dates:

28.02.2007 - Garage - Glasgow, UK
02.03.2007 - Spring & Airbrake - Belfast, UK
03.03.2007 - Temple Bar Music Centre - Dublin, Ireland
04.03.2007 - Academy 2 - Manchaster, UK
06.03.2007 - Civic Hall - Wolverhampton, UK
07.03.2007 - Rock City - Nottingham, UK
08.03.2007 - Coal Exchange - Cardiff, UK
09.03.2007 - Astoria - London, UK
10.03.2007 - Hof Ter Lo - Antwerpen, Belguim
11.03.2007 - Paradiso - Amsterdam, The Netherlands
13.03.2007 - LMH - Köln, Germany
14.03.2007 - Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle, Germany
15.03.2007 - Markthalle - Hamburg, Germany
16.03.2007 - Huxleys Neue Welt - Berlin, Germany
17.03.2007 - Werk 2 - Leipzig, Germany
18.03.2007 - Stadthalle - Lichtenfels, Germany
20.03.2007 - Longhorn / LKA - Stuttgart, Germany
21.03.2007 - Z7 - Pratteln, Switzerland
22.03.2007 - Havana Cafe - Toulouse, France
23.03.2007 - TBA, Spain
24.03.2007 - TBA, Spain
25.03.2007 - TBA, Spain
26.03.2007 - TBA, Spain
27.03.2007 - TBA, Spain
29.03.2007 - Transbordeur - Lyon, France
30.03.2007 - Elysee Montmartre - Paris, France
12.04.2007 - Garage - Saarbrücken, Germany
13.04.2007 - Stadthalle - Langen, Germany
14.04.2007 - Große Elser Halle - München, Germany
15.04.2007 - Alcatraz - Mailand, Italy
17.04.2007 - Alpheus - Rome, Italy
20.04.2007 - TBA - Athens, Greece
21.04.2007 - Idrogeios - Thessaloniki, Greece
22.04.2007 - TBA - Sofia, Bulgaria
24.04.2007 - SKC - Beograd, Serbia
25.04.2007 - Boogaloo Club - Zagreb, Croatia

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Source:	saxon747.com
Band profile:	Saxon

Cephalic Carnage will team up with Darkest Hour and Dead To Fall for an extensive European tour that also includes a number of festival appearances.

The tour will kick off on June 8 in Karlsruhe, Germany and is scheduled to conclude on July 2 in Tilburg, Netherlands. During the course of the tour, Cephalic Carnage will be making appearances at such high-profile festivals such as the HellFest Open Air, Pressure Fest, Munster Vainstream Rock Festival, Power Fest, Transmitter Fest, Summer Blast Fest and more. A complete listing of tour dates can be found in the tour section.

This is Cephalic Carnage's second European tour in support of their current record Anomalies and follows their most recent North American tour with A Life Once Lost.

Source:	relapse.com
Band profile:	Cephalic Carnage

Sebastian Bach (ex-Skid Row) has posted the following SebastianBlog at his official website:

"Sometimes, in life, you make true friends. A true friend is someone whom you can see and then not see, but when you see them again, it is like no time has passed at all. A true friend is someone whom you can laugh with, talk with, hang out with, rock with, and confide in. Then there is the friend who gives you so much, you can't express in words how much they mean to you. When I look back on my life, I have to say that one of my true friends is Mr. W. Axl Rose.

As everyone now knows, when Guns N' Roses made their triumphant return to New York City a few weeks ago, Axl was cool enough to invite me on stage all four nights to sing with him the Guns N' Roses song of my choice, which happens to be 'My Michelle'. During the NYC shows Axl asked me if I wanted to fly with him to Europe to duet with him in England at Donington and Hammersmith. Of course I said YES and then I mentioned to him the recording of the new CD 'Angel Down' and how much it would mean for our band to open some Guns N' Roses shows. Axl's response was to offer the band the whole European tour.

To say that my mind is blown, or that I am thankful for this opportunity, is so superfluous. I really cannot express how much this means to me. Axl Rose is the most honest, genuine, straight-up, and talented person I have ever met in this business, and for him to give my band the chance to rock in front of all his fans is something I will never forget. He is now singing better than ever! My personal favorite new Guns N' Roses song is 'I.R.S.'. Last night I jammed with him at Rock Am Ring in Germany in front of 70,000 people after a two-day plane journey which put me in four countries in one day! It is gonna be a truly killer summer playing on tour with Guns N' Roses and recording the new CD as well!!!
See ya soon Europe and Japan!"

Upcoming Sebastian Bach tour dates are as follows:

June
4 - Milan, Italy at Gods Of Metal Festival (duet with Axl)
7 - London, UK at Hammersmith Apollo (duet with Axl)
9 - Dublin, Ireland at RDS Arena (duet with Axl)
11 - Donington, UK at Download Festival (duet with Axl)
13 - Prague, Czech Republic at Sazka Arena**
15 - Warszawa, Poland at Stadion Legii**
17 - Burgenland, Austria at NovaRock Pannonia Feilds II**

July
15 - Kavarna, Bulgaria at Rock In Kavarna (w/ W.A.S.P.)
18 - Sheffield, UK at Hallam Fm Arena**

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Source:

sebastianbach.com

Death/Grind Metallers Napalm Death have announced the following tour dates for their Enemy Of God II tour on their official website:

30.06. Roitzschjora - With Full Force (Germany)
01.07. Vigo Meano (Trento) - Metalparty Festival (Italy)
02.07. CUNEO - Nuvolari Festival (Italy)
03.07. Roma - Forte Prenestino (Italy)
05.07. Porto Torres - Campo Sportivo (Italy)
06.07. Palermo - Bier Garten (Italy)
07.07. Cologne - Grind Your Mother II (Italy)
12.08. by Prague - Brutal Assault 2006 (Czech Republic)
14.08. Szczytno - Hunterfestival (Poland)
26.08. Bergen - Ozzfest (Bulgaria)

These are the only confirmed dates, so the band says that if anyone sees any other dates, they haven't been confirmed or aren't happening at all.

Source:	enemyofthemusicbusiness.com
Band profile:	Napalm Death

Herman Li from DragonForce checks in for some good and bad news:

'Right! Some of us came back home for two weeks off, a few stayed in Australia for a bit of a holiday. What an amazing first N. American tour weve had! A sold out headlining tour, finally got to meet our fans in the US & Canada and we got to meet loads of cool people!

What more could we have asked for? There were more sold out shows when we arrived in Australia! We would like to thank our fans that have been waiting for a long time, and new fans whove just discovered us for coming out in numbers to our shows. Thanks to our guests on the tour or should we say friends, from the bands Protest the Hero, Sanctity and Black Majesty. These guys kicked serious ass, so check them out!

So, the news has been out about DragonForce playing the main stage on Ozzfest. We are really excited to be touring the US again and be given the opportunity to play in front of our die-hard fans and showcase our skills to a new audience. Despite all the rumours people have read on the internet, we never received an offer to play Gigantour.

Now here comes the bad news. We had to cancel three European festivals that weve been so looking forward to playing. To the fans in the Netherlands, Finland and Spain, sorry but well make it up to you. The World Tour will continue to roll on so see you all soon !

- Herman Li, DragonForce'

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	DragonForce

Suffocation have posted the following message on their website:

"Suffocation regrets to announce that our scheduled European run for June 12th - July 2nd has been cancelled due to the inability of the booking agent to secure the dates needed to fulfill this tour. We apologize to the fans who may have purchased tickets in advance. On a more positive note, Suffocation will be doing a three week tour of Europe in August that is already confirmed and will be posted shortly. Regarding the new release you've all be waiting for, we are currently in the studio recording it and all is going as planned. We have hired the services of Tattoo Artist JonZig to complete the new album cover and the new Suffocation symbol. We are thrilled with the results so far and guarantee you will be too."

Source:	suffocation.us
Band profile:	Suffocation

ProgPower Europe organizers have announced that this year's lineup is complete.
The organizers wrote in a statement: "We have negotiated with several bands, not all the bands were available for this year so we have decided to go for the best options possible. This means that we will have two headliners for Saturday 30 September, both the Dutch amazing newcomer Textures as well als Danish Mercenary will play for 1 hour and 15 minutes. Riverside will end this year's edition of the festival witha 2 hour show. Besides Textures, the following bands complete the line-up: Dreamscape, Ephel Duath and Voyager."

The final line-up for ProgPower Europe 2006 is as follows:

Friday, September 29 (free pre-party): Dreamscape, Zero Gravity

Saturday, September 30: Mercenary, Textures, Scar Symmetry, Ephel Duath, Chaoswave, Another Messiah.

Sunday, October 1: Riverside, Communic, Dark Suns, Voyager, Nova Art, Pantommind

Source:	progpower.com
Event:	ProgPower Europe

World Management and Symphony X would like to announce that the European Festivals for June in Sweden and Spain will unfortunately have to be cancelled due to severe illness. We Hope that Michael Lepond's surgery will go well and wish him a speedy and full recovery. We would like to let all the fans know that we will be back on tour fall 2006 around release of the band's next record.

Please read the post below from Michael Lepond:

"To whom it may concern. I have been diagnosed with Crohn's disease (an Inflammatory Bowel disorder) This has caused an obstruction in my small intestine, making it impossible to digest solid foods.Currently, I am hospitalized where they can feed me through an I.V. unit supplemented with a liquid diet. But, there is some good news The doctors tell me, that with a surgical procedure, they will have me back to 100% in about 6 weeks. And, although it is a chronic disease, this procedure will make it much easier to control its effects in the future. I want to thank the band, the crew, the fans and everyone else involved for your understanding and support during this tough time. You will all make my healing process much easier and I'll be back on the bass in no time.

Michael Lepond

Source:	swedenrock.com
Band profile:	Symphony X

Dutch death metallers Severe Torture have been confirmed for the European leg of the Blitzkrieg 4 Tour 2006 which is due to begin in September 2006

The band has steadily gained a reputation as one of the current resurgent death metal scene's leading lights. Their unrelenting brutality and technicality have earned them the respect of fans worldwide.

Prior to this Severe Torture will join Earache label mates Municipal Waste and Anata and a host of extreme talent at this years Maryland Deathfest.

Set to take place May 27-28, 2006 at the Sonar in Baltimore, USA other heavyweights already announced include Dismember, Vital Remains and Pungent Stench .

More information on the festival can be found at this location
http://www.supremebrutality.com/fest/newcontent.html/
http://www.supremebrutality.com/fest/

Fall Of The Despised, is available now through Earache Records.

Source:	Earache Records; US Publicist
Band profile:	Severe Torture