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Communic - New Song Online

Norwegian metallers Communic have posted on their MySpace page an edit version of the track 'On Ancient Ground'.
The song comes off the new Communic's album, entitled "Payment Of Existence", which will be release on May 30 via Nuclear Blast Records.
The band adds that you can also find this track on the latest RockHard magazine sampler.

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Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Communic
Posted: 02.05.2008 by White Winter Sun | Comments (7)


Panzerchrist - Update From The Band

Danish metallers Panzerchrist have posted the following clarifying MySpace blog:

"Panzer-Line-Up: Panzergeneral Enevoldsen (bass), J Pump (vocals), Rasmus Henriksen (guitars), Lasse Bak (guitars), Morten Løwe (drums), Karina Bundgaard (keyboards).

We are also announcing that we are changing from being a studio only band, to become a live band too. When we play live, and when the next cd is ready is still very TBA."

Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Panzerchrist
Posted: 29.04.2008 by Thryce | Comments (1)


Benediction - Complete Work On New Album

Benediction have issued the following update:

"Well,thats it. We've recorded everything and now we have to let go of it. It is in the more than capable hands of the producer, Mick 'Ginger Cunt' Kenney of Anaal Nathrakh infamy. If you can imagine the crispness of the grindbastard album with the ferocity of Anaal Nathrakh on a disc then you will get the idea of what is to come. A lot of beer, football, hospitals, pubs, curries, kebabs, kitkats and crisps went into the making of "Killing Music"!

Thanks to everyone who popped in on the recording sessions to give support and drink our free beer! We look forward to hearing the finished product once mick has weaved his ginger magic on our baby."

Killing Music tracklisting:

01. Hells Gate
02. Cold, Deathless, Unrepentant
03. Killing Music
04. Dripping With Disgust
05. Dissembler
06. Rats In The Mask (Controlopolis)
07. Betrayer
08. Immaculate Facade
09. They Bleed
10. Frozen Heart
11. The Grey Man
12. As Her Skin Weeps
13. They Must Die Screaming
14. Seeing Through My Eyes (Broken Bones cover)
15. Largactyl (Amebix cover)

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Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Benediction
Posted: 27.04.2008 by SlaytallicA | Comments (5)


Crises - Upcoming Album Update

Crises has posted some news of their upcoming album:

The title of our new upcoming album will be "Coral Dreams". Musically it's much closer to our old progressive days than it's predecessor "Summerworks". Not only because of our singer Domink Eckert - which gives Crises his voice since 2006 - the songs are once again more melodic and a bit more complex.

The rap parts which many fans weren't to happy with have finally become a thing of the past. Moreover we took songs from our progressive past like "Choices", "The Blame" or "End Of A Rainbow" back into our regular set. Some of them will be released as bonus tracks.

Also the new CD will have a few unreleased songs from our days with Douglas Engelbrecht (2002-2004) like "Strange", "Fighting With Myself" or "Cubical". Some songs from our "Summerworks" album have been completely rewritten and have new titles, like "Stormy Weather" and "When You Were Mine" (formally known as "Everything" and "Footprints").

The playlist is as it follows:
01. The Chase
02. Faker
03. Coral Dreams
04. All Against Me
05. Flesh & Bone
06. When You Were Mine
07. The Blame Remake
08. Fighting With Myself
09. Strange
10. Cubical
11. Gone With The Wind

Music samples of the new album can be found here

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Source: crises.de
Band profile: Crises
Posted: 24.04.2008 by DreamWeaver | Comments (0)


Slagmaur - Domfeldt Demo Available Again

Inferna Profundus Records will release a digipack version of Slagmaur's original Domfeldt demo. This was posted on their website:

"Domfeldt, the original demo from Norwegian black metallers SLAGMAUR, is to be re-released in Digipack format by Inferna Profundus Records in co-operation with Nocturnal Woodlands Productions during the summer. The re-release has been licensed to the label by Nekk Brekk Productions, Slagmaur's own label, after the band kept receiving requests for the now hard-to find original. The Digipack version will have completely new artwork, once again created by Norwegian artist Robert Høyem, and the guest track from Aptorian Demon, that featured on the original version, will be replaced by a Slagmaur track that was left off the first recording, and that has never been heard before. A completely new track, written by Lt. Wardr especially for the release will also be included.

The vinyl edition of Skrekk Lich Kunstler, their second full-length, will be released later this year on the Lux Infernum label. With a gatefold cover, it is anticipated that the vinyl version will be a very limited collectors edition, although no details are available at this time. The band has started work on their next release Von Rov Shelter which should be ready late 2008, early 2009, and a label is currently being sought.

Tracks from both 'Domfeldt' and 'Skrekk Lich Kunstler', together with tracks from other releases can be heard on Slagmaur's Myspace."

Official Slagmaur website
Official Inferna Profundus Records website

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Source: inferna-profundus.net
Posted: 22.04.2008 by Lucas | Comments (1)


Loits - Announce A Home Video Contest

Loits is glad to announce a home video contest.

You can choose any of Loits' singles to make your home video and the band makes no restrictions to your imagination or your artistic visions. Just feel free to use any you like. Anyone can participate at the contest and the band is glad to give you some advice if needed. The winner will be chosen by the band itself. The winning video will be present on Loits' DVD which is going to be released on September 5th 2008.

Loits will award the winner with ten brand-new DVDs and Lasering music store certificate for 2 500 EEK (160 EUR).

See Delfi for detailed information. The contest ends on May 30th 2008. The winner(s) will be announced at the latest on June 2nd 2008.

So get ready and start filming!
http://video.delfi.ee/contests

Source: Nailboard newsletter

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Band profile: Loits
Posted: 21.04.2008 by Ivor | Comments (0)


Sinister - To Release Compilation Of Early Material

Sinister has posted the following update regarding the release of a new compilation album:

"Goregiastic Records is very proud to announce the upcoming release of Sinister's "The Blood Past" CD featuring a complete collection of all the early, long-time out-of-print band material released during the 1990-1992 period. This magnificent release will include their 2 EP's from 1990, the 1990 and 1991 demos, the split EP with Monastery from 1991 plus special bonus tracks! As that was not enough, the release will be packed with a comprehensive booklet including all the ep's and demo covers, tons of pics, liner notes, recordings info and more!

Expect a masterful cover artwork by none other than cult underground artist Chris Moyen (Incantation, Blasphemy, Vital Remains, Mortician, Sarcofago, etc) that is sure to capture the true essence of the early band stages and then translate into artwork!"

The compilation has a tentative release date of mid-2008.

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Source: sinister-hailthebeast.com
Band profile: Sinister
Posted: 21.04.2008 by SlaytallicA | Comments (1)


Primordial - Some Updates From The Band

Vocalist Alan "Nemtheanga" Averill has posted some updates on the band's website:

Forgive me father it's been months since my last confession...

I have been lazy, accept my apologies. It's about time I posted a new message on the site and let you all know whats happening on Planet Satan.

The gigs have now started coming a few every couple of weeks. The Ragnarok Festival in Lichtenfels was a triumph for us, our first show in Germany for the new album and nearly 5000 people there to give praise to the Old Gods. We also shot a dvd, it remains to be seen whether we can use it but this is something we are going to be looking at over the coming months. Tomahawk festival the following day in Osnabruck was not quite the success of the previous day and we arrived very late due to a day when everything that could go wrong did !. The show was excellent and we played possibly the best we have done since the album came out but it seems like quite a few of you thought we had cancelled and headed home after Turisas. Next time

We returned to Greece last weekend and it was indeed glorious. I am going to write a full tour report about the weekends mayhem very soon but suffice is to say we had twice as many people almost then we did when we played for Gathering. Our friends in Mael Mórdha went down a storm and both Agnes Vein in Thessaloniki and Dead Congregation in Athens were both excellent.

The less said perhaps about our show in Katowice, Poland the better. While not being "bad" although thats a relative term we returned home chastened and with hopefully a little the wiser. Playing before noon simply sucks and especially when you are before Immolation!.

We have a break now but Sweden Rock looms large. It's going to be very interesting !. I'll tell you how David Coverdale and I get on swopping vocal tips.

Our Wacken stage time was announced to admittedly some disappointment. 11 am on one of the bigger stages on Friday. We had hoped for a later slot but that's the way the dice rolls in Wacken and it's not like it was back in 98 when we first played where the first bands played to literally less then 1000 people. it should be packed, but there is something disconcerting about putting on the greasepaint at 10 am. With a bit of luck I can sit drinking with Watain stinking out the backstage from noon on !. Stinking up the day.

The picture disc of TTND is going to be out through Metal Blade next month so keep an eye out for it on their e-store and in shops. It looks amazing and will look very nice on my wall beside Twilight of the Gods thank you very much !.

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Source: primordialweb.com
Band profile: Primordial
Posted: 21.04.2008 by Bararey | Comments (3)


Equilibrium - Samples Of Upcoming Album

Germany's Equilibrium have posted a sample medly of their upcoming album "Sagas" at this location. The album's realase date will be 20th June.
More album details to follow.

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Source: myspace.com
Band profile: Equilibrium
Posted: 20.04.2008 by FeskarN | Comments (16)


Venom - New Album Samples Available

British metallers Venom have posted streaming audio samples of eight songs from their forthcoming album, entitled "Hell". You can check out the following tracks at this location:

- Hell
- Straight To Hell
- Stab U In The Back
- The Power & The Glory
- USA for Satan
- Evil Perfection
- Hand Of God
- Dirge

The album is believed to be released in May of 2008.

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Source: venomslegions.com
Band profile: Venom
Posted: 20.04.2008 by White Winter Sun | Comments (6)


Power And Glory - Power Metal Compilation

On May, 2, 2008, the metal compilation "Power And Glory - The Best Power Metal Hymns - Vol. 1" cover] will be released through AFM Records. Besides AFM Bands like Circle II Circle, Axxis, Headhunter and Jon Oliva's Pain, this sampler will also contain lots of "non AFM bands" like Helloween, Nightwish and Gamma Ray.

01. Nightwish - Bye Bye Beautiful
02. Helloween - As Long As I Fall
03. Jon Oliva's Pain - Adding The Cost
04. HammerFall - Last Man Standing
05. Saint Deamon - My Heart
06. Headhunter - Silverskull
07. Rage - Carved In Stone
08. Primal Fear - Face The Emptiness
09. Ross The Boss - We Will Kill
10. Brainstorm - Fire Walk With Me
11. Sonata Arctica - Paid In Full
12. Axxis - Doom Of Destiny
13. Neverland - To Lose The Sun
14. Gamma Ray - Real World
15. Circle II Circle - Every Last Thing
16. X-World/5 - Cyber Christ
17. Mystic Prophecy - Satanic Curses
18. Tragedian - Conquerors (Unsigned Heroes)

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Source: afm-records.de
Posted: 09.04.2008 by Thryce | Comments (44)


Celtic Frost - Tom Gabriel Fischer Leaves The Band (UPDATED)

A very brief statement was posted on Celtic Frost's website states the following:

"Celtic Frost singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer has left Celtic Frost due to the irresolvable, severe erosion of the personal basis so urgently required to collaborate within a band so unique, volatile, and ambitious."

UPDATED on 11 April (thanks to SlaytallicA):

Celtic Frost singer and guitarist Tom Gabriel Fischer talks about his departure from the band. Here's his statement:

"I am devastated beyond description, and I am infinitely disappointed. As the one member of Celtic Frost who is exposed most dramatically to the feedback by our audiences and the media, I feel troubled and humiliated about being unable to honor the enormous goodwill extended to Celtic Frost during the past few years and meet the justified expectations of our fans.

I have always seen the Monotheist album as a mere beginning, and a tame one at that. My mind and spirit are full of energy, creativity, and ideas. Celtic Frost had become the unreserved focus of my life for the second time. I was looking forward immeasurably to working on the next Celtic Frost album. To me, it needed to be darker, heavier, and more experimental than Monotheist.

And yet, Celtic Frost consisted of three individuals, and I was only one of them. In the end I had to concede to myself that there was no other option.

My friendship with and respect for Martin Eric Ain remain unaffected. Moreover, I am in the process of assessing my options to eventually complete, record, and release some of the ideas I originally created for Celtic Frost and the planned next album in the course of the past few years, and to take our distinctive music out on the road again.

There is no way back."

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Source: celticfrost.com
Band profile: Celtic Frost
Posted: 09.04.2008 by Bararey | Comments (55)


Castle Festival 2008 - Line Up Completed

Finally, the Castle Festival 2008 line up is completed! The open-air festival is set to take place from July 1st - 5th in Smederevo Fortress, Serbia.

Morbid Angel, Symphony X and Gorgoroth are the last headliners. With these announcements, main stage lineup for this year is completed! The full lineup is:

69 Eyes (FI), Adagio (FR), Agonize (B&H), Alister (SER), Amon Amarth (SWE), Apocalypse (SER), At The Gates (SWE), Avantasia (GER), Bombarder (B&H), Boneyard (SER), Brutal Truth (USA), Casketgarden (HU), Carcass (UK), Cavalera Conspiracy (BRA), Consecration (SER), Cradle Of Filth (UK), DecontrolleD (SER), Dedicated For Life (MK), Dismember (SWE), Downstroy (SER), Draconic (SER), Ensiferum (FI), Evergrey (SWE), Expedition Delta (SER), Forever Storm (SER), Good Eye Closed (SER), Gorgoroth (NOR), Helloween (DE), Hetera (SER), InnerWish (GRE), Judas Priest (UK), Korpiklaani (FI), Lordi (FI), Manticora (DK), Monument (B&H), Morbid Angel (USA), Negura Bunget (RO), Nightfall (SER), Nuclear Assault (USA), Rising Dream (CRO), Saturnus (DK), Secret Sphere (IT), Silent Kingdom (B&H), Sodom (DE), Soilwork (SWE), Sybreed (CH), Symphony X (USA), System Error (SER), The Exploited (UK), Toxicdeath (B&H), Triumfall (SER), Týr (FO), Usud (CRO), Victim Yield (MK)

More MS info at this link. All info at this location.

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Source: castlefestival.org
Event: Castle Festival - CANCELLED!
Posted: 08.04.2008 by Unknown user | Comments (15)


Farmakon, Distorted - New USA Releases Due Out From Candlelight's Cult Series

Candlelight Records have announced that Tuesday, April 29 is the US release date for new releases from Finland's Farmakon - "Robin", and Israel's Distorted - "Voices From Within". These two new studio efforts coincide with Candlelight's progressing cult series taking otherwise unheard European bands and delivering them across the pond to the good old US of A. This is a specially-priced product line that Candlelight conceived of, to help in introducing up-and-coming international artists to the potential American audiences. The series services artists of various sub-genres and aims towards providing a "fan-base for which the artists can grow and connect." Basically, a clever marketing trick. The good point, however, is the possible marriage of these otherwise unheard of bands to the US audience.

New tracks from both albums by Farmakon and Distorted have been posted on Candlelight USA's MySpace page since April 1!

Tampere-based Farmakon saw the release of their debut album ("A Warm Glimpse", Earache) back in 2003. Quickly making waves through prog metal circles the band make their long-awaited return. The new album "Robin" witnesses the band experimenting with darker sounds and their trademark twists. Released late least year in Europe, US fans now can enjoy "Robin".

Track List for "Robin":

01. Time-Tables
02. Coma September'
03. Sixty-Nine
04. Faint Light
05. Recondite
06. Wings
07. A Temporary Death
08. Helpless
09. Monster
10. Outro

Distorted are a band of keen curiosity. The Bat-Yam quartet's dual-vocal attack is articulated by their precise musicianship and classic metal composition. The band made their first appearance outside their native country October 2007 as part of the Metal Female Voices Festival performing alongside Leaves' Eyes, Epica, After Forever and more. The band will appeal to fans of Within Temptation, Madder Mortem, How Like A Winter, The Foreshadowing and more.

Track List for "Voices From Within":

01. One Last Breath
02. What Remains
03. Voices From Within
04. Fading
05. A Soft Whisper
06. Reveal My Path
07. Escaping The Mind-Grid
08. Obscure
09. Theom
10. Consistent Duality
11. Letting Go

Candlelight Cult series includes release from Furze, Mithras, Pantheon-I (featuring members of 1349), Throne Of Katarsis, and others.

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Source: candlelightrecordsusa.com
Band profile: Farmakon
Posted: 07.04.2008 by Nox Lux | Comments (0)


Iced Earth - Audio Samples From New Single Online

Iced Earth have posted audio clips from all four songs appearing on the band's forthcoming single, "I Walk Among You" at the band's official MySpace page. The single marks longtime frontman Matt Barlow's triumphant return to the band, and is sure to leave people yearning for more. "I Walk Among You" will precede the band's forthcoming full-length follow-up to "Framing Armageddon - Something Wicked Part I" in the Fall of 2008.

The tracklisting and release dates for "I Walk Among You" are as follow:

01. I Walk Alone
02. Setian Massacre
03. The Clouding
04. A Charge to Keep (exclusive iTunes track)

Germany : June 13, 2008
Europe : June 16, 2008
USA/Canada : June 17, 2008

Iced Earth kick-off a heavy dose of touring in 2008 on May 2 when they headline Chicago Powerfest in Mokena, Illinois.

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Source: blog.myspace.com
Band profile: Iced Earth
Posted: 06.04.2008 by SteTech | Comments (11)