Bewitched (Sweden) and Melechesh (Israel/Natherlands) have been confirmed for next year's edition of the Party.San Open Air festival, set to take place August 9-11, 2007 in Bad Berka, Germany. Also scheduled to appear are Taake (Norway), Haemorrhage (Spain) and Disaster KFW (Germany). More acts will be announced soon.

Source:	party-san.net
Band profile:	Melechesh
Event:	Party.San Open Air Festival

Melechesh announced via press release on their website the new member of the band, the drummer Xul (Thanatos, Abode of the Blessed and Liar of Golgotha). Recently the band have splited with Proscritor. The band have already worked with Xul on new material during the year.

Ashmedi commented: "we are very glad to announce the addition of Xul to the Melechesh Djinn union; Xul is a tremendously talented drummer with outstanding technical ability".

Xul talks about being in the band: "I am honored to finally be part of this cult. Playing with Melechesh is an enriching experience both on a musical and on an ideological level".

Source:	melechesh.com
Band profile:	Melechesh

Proscriptor and Melechesh will not be working together on recording the upcoming Melechesh album. This was a mutual decision that had to be taken due to the geographic circumstances and overlapping time schedules.

Proscriptor has been a member of Melechesh since 1999 and has recorded two albums with them: Djinn and Sphynx. Both the Melechesh members and Proscriptor had to take this decision; however, this does not affect their comradeship and possibilities for future cooperation.

"We have nothing but high regards for Proscriptor. He is one of the very few true artists that I know of, a dear friend and we appreciate his talent. But this cross Atlantic distance was becoming quite impractical and limited the creative inputs of both of us. I feel confident that we will cooperate musically again in one way or another, but it was simply impossible to do so for the upcoming Melechesh album. Should time permit though, Proscriptor may provide guest vocals on the upcoming (4th) Melechesh album. One thing is for sure: he certainly deserves the medal of honor" Quoted Melechesh founder Ashmedi.

Osmose Productions/The End Records recently released a double digipack Absu anthology compilation CD 'Mythological Occult Metal 1991-2001.' News on the upcoming Melechesh album will follow.

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In conjunction with MELECHESH's headlining performance at the Northern Lights Festival in Toronto, Canada on June 26, Profound Lore Records, with the express permission of Osmose Productions, will release a limited-edition collector's item MELECHESH 10" vinyl EP, entitled "The Ziggurat Scrolls". The EP, which will first be made available at the festival, will contain the following track listing:

Side A:

01. Tablets Of Fate (new version)
02. A Summoning Of Ifrit And Genii (promo demo '98 version)

Side B:

01. Wardjinn (promo demo '98 version)
02. Of Magick And Reptilians - Instrumental Magick*

* Re-interpretation of two MELECHESH riffs morphed to become an occult ritualistic ambient composition with traditional instruments.

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Melechesh