Posted on the Dream Theater official site:

The band will release Chaos In Motion 2007/2008, which documents their "Chaos In Motion" world tour, which kicked off June 3, 2007 at the Monsters of Rock Festival in Milan, Italy and concluded almost a year to the day later on June 4, 2008 in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It's essentially a travelogue of their most recent touring experience and it hits shelves on September 23. Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 will be available in two configurations: as a double DVD set and as five disc collector's set which includes two DVDs and three CDs, containing 14 live tracks featured in the DVD set and expanded artwork.

The Chaos in Motion Tour was a trek that found the band traversing the globe, playing 115 shows in 105 cities in 35 countries on five continents to hundreds of thousands of fans. It also included the first annual Progressive Nation Tour, an idea that the band had kicked around for a few years and finally launched into action this past spring.

The official content and tracklisting for the DVD are as follows and are subject to change:

Double DVD Set
Disc One:

"Around The World In 180 Minutes" Live Concert Footage

01. Intro/Also Sprach Zarathustra
02. Constant Motion
03. Panic Attack
04. Blind Faith
05. Surrounded
06. The Dark Eternal Night
07. Keyboard Solo
08. Lines In The Sand
09. Scarred
10. Forsaken
11. The Ministry Of Lost Souls
12. Take The Time
13. In The Presence Of Enemies
14. Medley: I. Trial Of Tears II. Finally Free III. Learning To Live IV. In The Name Of God V. Octavarium

Disc Two:

"Behind The Chaos On The Road" Documentary
Promo Videos: Constant Motion, Forsaken, Forsaken (In Studio), The Dark Eternal Night (In Studio)
Live Screen Projection Films: The Dark Eternal Night (N.A.D.S), The Ministry Of Lost Souls, In The Presence Of Enemies Pt. 2
"Mike Portnoy Stage Tour"
"Mike Portnoy Backstage Tour"
Photo Gallery
Deluxe Collector's Edition 5-Disc Set
Chaos In Motion 2007/2008 Double DVD Set PLUS
- 3 CD's containing the live 14 tracks featured in the DVD set
- Expanded artwork and more

A trailer for the DVD can be viewed at this location.

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Source:	dreamtheater.net
Band profile:	Dream Theater

Release dates for Amon Amarth's new album "Twilight Of The Thunder God" have been posted. The album will be released the 17th of September in Sweden, 19th of September in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy and the 22nd of September in the rest of Europe. North America and rest of the world's release date is September 30.

The album was recorded at Fascination Street Studio in Örebro, Sweden and will include such song titles as "Guardians Of Asgaard", "Live For The Kill" and "Tattered Banners And Bloody Flags".

Source:	amonamarth.com
Band profile:	Amon Amarth

Nige Rockett , from UK metallers Onslaught, has issued the following update:

"Hi Ladies / Gentlemen

Hope everyone is doing good...?

Just to let you all know, Onslaught will now begin work on writing the follow up album to last years thrash assault "Killing Peace".......First track was written and completed early last year, but now over the next few months we will forge ahead to write the remaining slabs of 666% Pure Thrash....We have a choice of 3 titles for the new album and all of the basic song outlines are firmly in place...

We're all real excited about making this album, we have our own studio set-up and a whole new outlook on how to make this next record a screaming fucking monster...!!!! with Andy Rosser-Davies now in the band there's gonna be lots of fresh input and a slightly different slant to the 'Slaught'...He's a very aggressive player, very much like me, so the musical violence is gonna be increased considerably...with serious amounts of shredding.......!!!!!

We'll keep you all updated as we progress with each song and all other album related info...
Take care.
Nige"

Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Onslaught

Vocalist Stéphane Paré, drummer Yanic Bercier and bassist Dominic "Forest" Lapointe have announced their departure from Quo Vadis.

''As of today, July 13th, we are officially leaving the band for various reasons. As for the shows that are already booked, we are still going to perform as agreed, on a professional basis.

This decision is the hardest for drummer Yanic Bercier as he has been in the band since day one, 15 years ago. As for vocalist Stéphane Paré, he was in the band for more than 5 1/2 years.

Stéphane Paré

Label Manager for Disconcert Music
Ex singer of Quo Vadis"

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Quo Vadis

The French progressive neo-classical metal band Adagio announced on May 11 that the bass, guitars, drums, and vocals for their upcoming album "Archangels in Black" have been recorded. They promised that Kevin Codfert would record his keyboard and piano parts the following week. The name of the European Label that Archangels in Black will be released through will be announced in the upcoming weeks and a French Headline Tour is already in talks for November 2008.
Before this tour, some gigs have already been confirmed:

21 June - Reunion Island (close to Madagascar) + Stephan and Eric's Masterclass.
3 July - Castle Festival in Serbia
25 July - Blue Beach Festival in Châteauneuf les Martigues (close to Marseille).

There will also be a video for the song "Fear Circus" from the upcoming album. Adagio states that the clip, directed by Olivier Cossu, will be more like a short horror movie rather than a traditional music video. Behind the scenes pictures can be seen here.

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Source:	adagio-online.com
Band profile:	Adagio

Pyramaze has been announced as the support for Volbeat on the Danish leg of the band's European tour. The tour will be in support of Volbeat's new upcoming album "Guitar Gangsters And Cadillac Blood". The full extensive list of dates can be seen here.

Pyramaze will play the following dates:

05.11.08 - Store Vega, Copenhagen, Denmark
06.11.08 - Gimle, Roskilde, Denmark
07.11.08 - Train, Århus, Denmark
08.11.08 - Tobakken, Esbjerg, Denmark
09.11.08 - Tønder Kulturhus, Tønder, Denmark

Pyramaze's Michael Kammeyer comments: "We are very pleased that we have been invited on to the Volbeat tour. They are currently the biggest and best selling heavy metal band in Denmark, and we are proud that we have been invited personally by the band to be their special guest".

Volbeat's Michael Poulsen comments: "I was knocked over when i heard Pyramaze's new album, which contains one of my favourite metal singers, Matt Barlow (Iced Earth). In fact I dare to claim that this is Denmark's best metal release since Mercyful Fate. Great melodies and a singer, who can easily be placed on the heavy metal throne and wait for his crown. This band has absolutely earned respect and attention. It's cool to be able to bring some "old rats", who have been a part of the metal scene for a long time. Unfortunately Matt is no longer in Pyramaze, but the music stands strong enough on it's own and a new singer is currently being auditioned".

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Source:	pyramaze.com
Band profile:	Pyramaze

In support of their new album "The Premonition", Firewind will return to European stages for a headlining tour. Not all the dates have been confirmed yet, but a list of announced dates so far can be seen below. For the Spanish and French shows, the band will be supported by Germany's Brainstorm and Finland's Kiuas. More dates will be announced very soon as will information about purchasing tickets.

Here is a list of the dates:

12.11.08 - Lyon, France @ Marche Gare
13.11.08 - Toulouse, France @ Havanna
14.11.08 - Bilbao, Spain @ Santana 27
15.11.08 - Vigo, Spain @ A
16.11.08 - Madrid, Spain @ Ritmo & Compas
17.11.08 - Hospitalet/Barcelona, Spain @ Salamandra
19.11.08 - Paris, France @ La Locomotive
20.11.08 - Colmar, France @ Grillen
21.11.08 - Milan, Italy @ Zoe (special guest: Kiuas)

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Firewind

Details about a special edition box for the new upcoming Metallica album "Death Magnetic" have been announced. The box, which will be in the shape of a coffin, will contain the full album, demos from the album, a making-of DVD, a t-shirt, a flag, guitar picks, a poster and a credit card with a code to redeem a free download of a special European show happening in September. This bonus edition will be released on the same day as the normal album and will only be available online via www.metallica.com, www.metclub.com and www.missionmetallica.com.

Metallica have also said that the artwork for Death Magnetic is nearly done too, so they have said to expect new updates soon.

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Source:	metallica.com
Band profile:	Metallica

Vomitory will be hitting the road again for a European tour this coming September. Countries included in the tour are Denmark, Germany, France and the UK among others. Incantation will be the support band for the tour.

Here is the full list of dates:

6th Sept - Arscholio Open Air, Stavenhagen, Germany
7th Sept - TBA, Denmark
8th Sept - TBA, Denmark/Sweden
9th Sept - TBA, Denmark
10th Sept - Marx, Hamburg, Germany
11th Sept - K17, Berlin, Germany
12th Sept - Morbide Festspiele, Bischofswerda, Germany
13th Sept - Festung, Bitterfeld, Germany
14th Sept - Kade, Zaandam, Netherlands
15th Sept - TBA, Germany/Netherlands
16th Sept - TBA, United Kingdom
17th Sept - TBA, United Kingdom
18th Sept - TBA, United Kingdom
19th Sept - BE, Vosselaar - Biebob
20th Sept - TBA, Paris, France
21st Sept - TBA, Toulouse, France
22nd Sept - TBA, Marseille, France
23rd Sept - TBA, Strasbourg/Nancy, France
24th Sept - TBA
25th Sept - Baroeg, Rotterdam, Netherlands
26th Sept - Romein, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
27th Sept - Essen Death Feast 7/Turock, Essen, Germany

Source:	vomitory.net
Band profile:	Vomitory

Viking/Folk metal band Glittertind has had some setbacks with the release of their new album. Pre-production for seven songs has been completed already and five more will be done by the end of this month and the full production will be done by August. However the recording of the folk instruments, orchestras and choirs had to be be delayed until September. The mixing for these will take place in October/November.

Here is a comment from the band:

"We are making some huge arrangements and we had to re-schedule the production to reach our quality mark for these recordings. A new temporary release-date is set to March 2009 and there will be no more delays after this."

Source:	glittertind.net
Band profile:	Glittertind

Death Metallers Benediction will be releasing a 7" split EP with their mates in Wolfbrigade. Both bands will have two unreleased tracks on the EP. There will be a regular version of the EP available, limited to 2000 copies, and a picture disc version limited to 500 copies. It will be released by Feto Records.

Here is the tracklist for the split EP:

Benediction
01. Hell's Gate
02. Largactyl

Wolfbrigade
03. War From Within
04. The Enemy: Reality

Here is a comment from Benediction regarding the track "Largactyl":

"This version of "Largactyl" will be a different version to the one on the "Killing Music" album. We have a new guest on lead vocals. He is an innovator of the crust/punk/metal scene but you will have to wait until the release to find out who it is!".

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Benediction

Swedish metallers Andromeda have announced the release date of their long awaited fourth studio album "The Immunity Zone". The album will be out in the USA on the 16th of September. More release dates for the rest of the world are said to be posted soon. More information about the album is also expected to follow.

Source:	andromedaonline.com
Band profile:	Andromeda

Taken from the band's official website:

"On September 1st 2008, Danish Metal & Rollers Volbeat will release their third studio album Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood on Mascot Records. The album features 14 new tracks, including a Social Distortion cover as a bonus track on all editions. Seven of the songs share a common lyrical theme which will be continued on future records. The artwork is also based on this storyline. The album was recorded in Hansen Studios of Jacob Hansen, who also produced the two previous records.

Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood will be fore-fronted by the single of "Maybellene I Hofteholder" which will be released for download a few weeks before the release of the album."

The album cover artwork for Guitar Gangsters & Cadillac Blood can be seen here.

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Source:	volbeat.dk
Band profile:	Volbeat

Randy Blythe (Lamb Of God) guest appearance on Gojira new album!

Gojira are currently in the studio finishing the recording of their upcoming album 'The Way of All flesh'. Randy Blythe (singer) of American metal kings Lamb Of God has kindly offered to guest on one song entitled 'Adoration for None'.

Gojira much awaited fourth album "The Way of All Flesh" will be released on October the 13th through Listenable Records.

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Source:	listenable.net
Band profile:	Gojira

Finland's Celesty have posted the following update on the band's official site :

"It's only two weeks and then starts Celesty's 4th album recordings and this time with Samu Oittinen in Fantom Studio. It's the third time when we do the album with Samu and the whole band is very exited to work again with him. We have done lots of work during this year with our new songs and it's going to be most challenging album in Celesty's history ever.

Upcoming album will be wider than ever before including the booklet. All the main characters will be introduced with pictures and there also will be an updated map of "The Land Of The Cryon", so album contains more visual theme than earlier. ToxicAngel will design the album cover. Because of the cover idea and Toxic's style I'm sure it's going to be an elegant cover "

Source:	celesty.net
Band profile:	Celesty