According to blabbermouth.net, Swedish metal band Dreamland will enter Andy La Rocque's (King Diamond) Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden this fall to begin recording their new album for a March 2009 release via Dockyard 1.

The band's latest CD, "Eye for an Eye", was recorded at Joacim Cans' (Hammerfall) Moonshine Studio and Andy La Rocque's old studio, Los Angered Recording, where the album was also mixed. According to the group, the effort follows the melodic-yet-heavy style of their first release, "Future's Calling" (2005) "but also surprise the listener here 'n' there."

Dreamland last year saw both of its full-length albums released in the U.S. via Ryko Distribution / Locomotive / Dockyard 1.

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Dreamland

A new track from the Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone is available for free download by subscribing to the Peaceville Records mailing list at this location .

Darkthrone will release its new album, "Dark Thrones And Black Flags" on October 20 through Peaceville. The follow-up to 2007's acclaimed "F.O.A.D." LP will be made available in three formats: a regular edition in super jewel case; a vinyl edition; and a special edition in a slipcased super jewel case package with exclusive new video footage featuring Darkthrone in the studio ? "Fucking Around Version 1" and "Fucking Around Version 2." All info here.

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Source:	burningshed.com
Band profile:	Darkthrone

World management is truly excited to announce that Thrash legends Kreator are coming to North America in 2009. The band will have a new release on January 13, 2009 entitled "Hordes of Chaos".

Kreator's Mille Petrozza had this to say about the upcoming tour and album: "The new album is recorded and mixed and I'm really looking forward to getting some feedback from our worldwide legion of supporters and friends. I promise that you will not be disappointed! "Hordes of Chaos" is our most intense album so far! Collin Richardson did an amazing job mixing this monster. Kreator is very excited to come to the USA and Canada again to play for all our fans overseas! This will be a killer tour and we're expecting total chaos at the shows. We're honored to have such a great bands as Exodus on the bill, they have been - and still are - a huge inspiration for us. It'll also be cool to see Belphegor and Warbringer every night. It's been way too long since we've been among North American metal hordes!"

Kreator - Hordes Of Chaos North America Tour 2009
With special guest Exodus, Belphegor, Warbringer and Epicurean:

Apr. 07 - Sonar - Baltimore MD
Apr. 08 - Nokia Theatre - New York NY
Apr. 09 - Trocadero - Philadelphia PA
Apr. 10 - Palladium - Worcester MA
Apr. 11 - Medley - Montreal QUE
Apr. 13 - Imperial - Quebec QUE
Apr. 14 - Opera House - Toronto ONT
Apr. 15 - Peabody's - Cleveland OH
Apr. 16 - Rave - Millwaukee WI
Apr. 17 - House Of Blues - Chicago IL
Apr. 18 - The Rock - Maplewood MN
Apr. 19 - Garrick Centre - Winnipeg MB
Apr. 20 - The Distrikt - Regina SK
Apr. 21 - Warehouse - Calgary AL
Apr. 22 - Starlite Room - Edmonton AL
Apr. 24 - Plaza Club - Vancouver BC
Apr. 25 - Sugar - Victoria BC
Apr. 26 - El Corazon - Seattle WA
Apr. 27 - Hawthorne Theatre - Portland OR
Apr. 28 - Slims - San Francisco CA
Apr. 30 - House Of Blues - Las Vegas NV
May 01 - House Of Blues - San Diego, CA
May 02 - House Of Blues - West Hollywood CA
May 04 - Gator's - Farmington, NM
May 05 - Bluebird Theater - Denver CO
May 06 - Diamond Ballroom - Oklahoma City OK
May 07 - Ridglea Theater - Ft Worth TX
May 08 - Scout Bar - San Antonio TX
May 09 - Scout Bar - Houston TX
May 11 - The Garage - St. Petersburg FL
May 12 - Culture Room - Ft Lauderdale, FL
May 13 - Masquerade - Atlanta GA
May 14 - Headliner - Louisville KY
May 15 - Orange Peel - Ashville NC
May 16 - Volume 11 - Raleigh NC
May 17 - Jaxx - West Springfield VA

Tickets onslae exclusively through Enter The Vault from Oct 4 untill Oct 31, then the tour goes on sale also through all normal ticketing outlets.

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Source:	kreator-terrorzone.de
Band profile:	Kreator
Event:	Hordes Of Chaos N. American Tour

September 2, 2008

The news came straight from Tommy that Darkseed have decided to officially reform.

Harald Winkler (formerly on drums) has returned to Darkseed to handle vocals for the upcoming reunion show! [note: The Helion Festival which occured October 4th).

And on top of that, Darkseed will be entering the studio soon to work on a new album. More details will be posted as they become available!

Stay tuned for more news on Darkseed's future and upcoming work!

- Don

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Darkseed

Most of our releases can now be downloaded for free either in MP3 or FLAC format. Downloads also include the images used for the booklet and inlays of the CD releases. NULLL releases extreme doom, ambient, drone and some noise albums and has currently almost 40 available albums.

http://nulll-void.com/nulll/ Check the individual releases pages or visit the store to get a list of all available releases for download.
Or go here : http://nulll-void.com/nulll/records/mp3.htm

Future releases will from now on be available both as CDr in jewelcase and as free download.

2 Until Death Overtakes Me albums 'Prelude To Monolith' and 'Symphony III - Monolith' have been rereleased as download only (for now) and there are 4 new releases coming up : one funeral doom, two ambient and one drone doom album. Not all albums can be downloaded yet, i'm in the process of talking to the artists and bands to see if they're interested in having their stuff netreleased.

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"The Roundhouse Tapes", the long-awaited new DVD from Opeth, will be released on October 27 in Europe and November 11 in the U.S. via Peaceville Records.

"The Roundhouse Tapes" set contains the critically acclaimed Opeth performance from the Camden Roundhouse, London, UK in 2006 and sees the band in scintillating form playing a selection of classics from their illustrious career.

A mini-site featuring a trailer for the DVD, info on the release, downloads and more is now online at this location .

1,000 copies of the special edition of the DVD, packaged in a deluxe rigid digibook inside a hard slipcase, includes postcards of each band member, an exclusive art booklet featuring the work of Travis Smith (renowned Opeth sleeve designer) and "The Roundhouse Tapes" booklet, is also available to pre-order from the mini-site.

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Source:	peaceville.com
Band profile:	Opeth

Sepultura guitarist Andreas Kisser has uploaded a couple of new songs from his forthcoming solo album, "Hubris I & II." The songs are entitled "Vivaldi", "God's Laugh", "Page" and "Eu Humano" and you can check them out by heading to Kisser's official Myspace page .

"Hubris I & II" Cover Art] is scheduled for an October 6th release and contains the following tracklisting:

Hubris I

01. Protest!
02. Euphoria
03. Desperation
04. Eu Humani
05. The Forum
06. Virgulândia
07. God's Laugh
08. R.H.E.T.
09. Em Busca Do Ouro
10. Lava Sky
11. A Million Judas Iscariotes

Hubris II

01. Sad Soil
02. Worlds Apart
03. Breast Feeding
04. Page
05. Domenicana
06. Vivaldi
07. 0120
08. Armonia
09. Hubris
10. Mythos
11. O Mais Querido

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Sepultura

The Japanese bonus track from the latest album "Korven Kuningas" called "Kipakka" is now available for streaming online over at the official Korpiklaani MySpace.

A comment from the band reads as follows: "We got several requests to put our instrumental "Kipakka" on our MySpace, since this bonustrack only appears on our Japanese albums. Finally the message came through the misty haze caused by all beers, and here it is! And in the process we got the right mood and also replaced "Northern Fall" by "Metsämies". There we stopped to take another beer, and well, the mood was so cool that we forgot about replacing the rest."

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Korpiklaani

Novembers Doom have posted the following explanation regarding their cancellation of the North American tour with Rotting Christ:

"It is with much regret that we must announce our departure from the Rotting Christ tour in January, 2009. A serious medical issue arose with a member of the band, making us unable to tour during that time. While this unfortunately prevents us from participating in the tour, thankfully it has come to light now rather than at the last minute, leaving 3 months time for the promoter to find a suitable replacement for us. We wish the very best for Rotting Christ, and Epicurean, and hope their tour has great success!

Our apologies to our fans who were looking forward to seeing us. This is our greatest regret, and we assure you, we'll do our best to play for you later in 2009."

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Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Novembers Doom
Event:	Rotting Christ: Lucifer Over America Tour

Subway To Sally´s Michael Simon has posted the following short news update:

"Busy times these days! I am on the train from Potsdam to Bamberg right now. The past week we worked hard on new songs for our next album due April 3rd. The tracks mostly done already and will be recorded in November. On Friday we went to try our new stage outfits, on Saturday we went to the meeting of our fanclub in Gelsenkirchen and got right back to Berlin after that. There we will rehearse and kick off our tour in October! ...we're really looking forward to this!"

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Subway To Sally

Belarus-based metal band Posthumous Blasphemer are finishing the recordings of the new upcoming album "Fracture The Worship". The album is expected to be released somewhere this October.

The tracklisting of the band's fourth full-length "Fracture The Worship" Cover Art], is as follows:

01. Revival of Сontempt
02. Sermons of Enthralment
03. Remains Devouring Consciousness
04. Flagellation for Rescue
05. Doomed Flesh Tortures
06. Inconsistent Doctrine of Expiation
07. Disfigured Faces of Pontifexes
08. Poisonous Сompassion

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Posthumous Blasphemer

Anglo-Chilean thrash masters Criminal are proud to announce their signing of a new recording deal with Germany's Massacre Records. The band will enter the studio in September to record its sixth studio album for an early 2009 release. The follow-up to 05's "Sicario" will be released in a limited edition package including a bonus DVD.

Vocalist/guitarist Anton Reisenegger states: "It's great to be on a label like Massacre, that has carved its niche in today's vercrowded market through hard work and dedication. We are looking forward to a long and productive collaboration.

"I have nothing but good things to say about the staff at Metal Blade Europe," the frontman comments on the band's former label, "but the company's priorities were clearly somewhere else, so it made no sense for us to continue working together. I honestly wish them all the best for the future."

Formed in the early 90s in Santiago de Chile by ex-Pentagram mastermind Reisenegger and guitar virtuoso Rodrigo Contreras, Criminal were combining elements of thrash, hardcore and death metal long before the term "metalcore" was even thought of. The band enjoyed a meteoric rise to the forefront of the South American metal scene, including five-digit album sales, shows with the likes of Kreator, Sepultura and Slayer and a nomination for Best Rock Video at the MTV Latino Video Music Awards, but was faced with severe personal and business problems around the turn of the decade. Reisenegger and Contreras then decided to relocate to the UK, regrouping in a half-Chilean, half-British line-up. Since then, the band has played on major European festivals such as Wacken and Summer Breeze, as well as support shows with bands such as Chimaira, Six Feet Under, Brujeria and Lamb Of God.

Criminal's latest studio offering, "Sicario", was hailed by the press as one of the finest thrash metal releases of 2005 and was voted into the Top Ten Albums of the Year by the readers of Terrorizer magazine. At the same time, the band's status in their home country remains unbroken, as evidenced by a four-page feature in the Chilean edition of Rolling Stone magazine and a recent show supporting Megadeth in front of over 14,000 metalheads.

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Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Criminal

Goatwhore, the New Orleans-based band featuring vocalist L. Ben Falgoust II (Soilent Green) and guitarist Sammy Duet (Acid Bath, Crowbar), is currently writing material for their follow up to "A Haunting Curse".

According to Duet, "We are well into it. I won't go in the whole, 'This one is gonna be the heaviest one yet, blah blah blah,' but it's gonna be pretty damn heavy. I am really happy with what we have written so far."

He continues, "If all goes to plan, we will enter Mana Studios in early February. Hopefully we will do some shows before then. Other than that, I'm just sitting on my ass being bored. I miss being on tour, but I guess you have to take what you can get."

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Source:	metalblade.com
Band profile:	Goatwhore

The Swedish death/thrashers Arise are now preparing for the definitive comeback after three years of silence with the fourth album entitled "The Reckoning". This album will be the definite comeback of Arise and will be released February/March 2009 through Regain Records. The new album will feature the following guestmusicians: Jonas Kjellgren (Scar Symmetry, ex-Carnal Forge etc), Mikael Stanne (Dark Tranquillity) and Jake Fredén (Nostradameus).

Arise are often described as an crossover between At The Gates, Hypocrisy and Carcass and are responsible for the 3 albums "The Godly Work Of Art", "Kings Of The Cloned Generation" and "The Beautiful New World" released through Spinefarm/Universal Records. They have along toured with Vader also performed with bands like Morbid Angel, Entombed, Exodus, The Crown and Hatesphere to name a few.

Listen to a brand new song "No memory Of Light" from the upcoming album which will be released early 2009 at http://www.myspace.com/ariseonline or http://www.ariseonline.com.

Stay tuned for more information about the upcoming release of Arise.

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Source:	regainrecords.com
Band profile:	Arise

Finnish metallers Amoral have posted the following message:

"Just a quick update on what's going on in the Amoral world... we're hard at work on the material for the fourth album, with a few songs ready and a bunch more in the works. So far so good! The songs are coming to us pretty easily and we're very happy with them, hopefully you guys will be too.

As for the singer situation, we've received tons of applications from singers all over the world. We've listened to each and every one of you, and now have a couple of strong candidates. Hopefully we'll be able to make the important announcement in the near future. Thanks for everyone who applied for the job, it was nice to see so many interested in joining this band!"

Vocalist Niko Kalliojärvi recently announced his departure from Amoral in order to focus on other projects. He made his final appearance with the band at the Thrashia Läpi Yön festival at Tammela, Finland on August 23.

Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Amoral