The gothic/power metal band, After Forever have posted this on their myspace profile:
"In March 2007 the new album of After Forever will be released in Europe! Keep checking www.afterforever.com for up to date info about the album and it's release in your country!" the exact date, and the name of the album, or cover art are still in the making.

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	After Forever

In a message (in French) posted at the band website, Anorexia Nervosa guitarist Stefan Bayle has announced that he has put the band in "stand-by" mode, fearing the group become "some sort of parody" of itself.

The decision comes following a failed search to secure a new vocalist for the band, following former singer Hreidmarr's departure from the group.

Although unable to predict when the band may resurface, Stefan hesitates to call this a split.

See Stefan's message at this location.

(Original source: http://bravewords.com)

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Source:	mother-anorexia.com
Band profile:	Anorexia Nervosa

Having recently re-signed with Dynamic Arts Records, Finnish death metal/thrash act Deathchain check in with the following update:

"We've been forced to cancel our show at Gloria (in) Helsinki, Finland (on November 25th).
(Guitarist) B. Undertaker is suffering from heart infection and bronchitis and the doctor's orders where loud and clear: He must rest and take it very fucking easy.
This is something we don't wanna fuck around with and we have no choice but to cancel the show.
It's a fucked up situation, but playing the show under these circumstances is just not worth the risk. We are truly sorry for this and we hope that everyone understands the seriousness of the matter."

Production on the band's third album has already begun under the title "Cult Of Death". Release of the upcoming album has been scheduled for May, 2007.

On the upcoming album Deathchain dwells into the darker sound of death/thrash metal. Some titles from the forthcoming album: 'Incantations Of Shub-Niggurath', 'Serpent Of The Deep', 'Deathammer', 'In The Crypt Of Vengeance ja Witchstorm'.

Dynamic Arts Records have released the previous albums Deadmeat Disciples (2003) and Deathrash Assault (2005).

Source:	deathchain.com
Band profile:	Deathchain

Finnish melodic death/thrash metallers Mors Principium Est have finalized the track listing for their third album, "Liberation = Termination", due in early 2007 via Listenable Records. The follow-up to "The Unborn" was recorded at Astia Studio in Finland and was mastered at Imperial Mastering in Concord, California.

"Liberation = Termination" track listing:

01. Orsus
02. The Oppressed Will Rise
03. The Animal Within
04. Finality
05. Cleansing Rain
06. Forgotten
07. Sinners Defeat
08. The Distance Between
09. It Is Done
10. Terminal Liberation
11. Lost Beyond Retrieval

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Mors Principium Est

Sweden's Therion have issued the following update:

"So, time to announce the singer that will be touring with Therion for 2007! She is called Lori Lewis and is from Minneapolis, USA. She is the singer of Aesma Daeva (a band that actually supported Therion on one of the shows on the US/Canada tour 2005). Thanx to John (Prassas) from the band for the recomendation and for lending her to us!"

Therion's upcoming album "Gothic Kabbalah" will be released on 12 January 2007.

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Source:	megatherion.com
Band profile:	Therion
Event:	Therion: European Tour

Season of Mist has set a February 19, 2007 European release date for the third full-length album (which will include eight songs of darkest Metal Magic) from Swedish black metallers Watain. A European tour will follow.

According to a press release, "Those who experienced Watain on stage can witness of a blood-soaked, rusty metallic machinery embodying every aspect of the traditional Satanic black metal cult, re-living and taking further the sinister legacy of Venom, Hellhammer and Mayhem. But believe us when we say 'you have seen nothing yet!'"

You can find a sample of "Storm of the Antichrist" at the band's official website here.

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Source:	season-of-mist.com
Band profile:	Watain

Season Of Mist has set a January 22, 2007 European release date for the new album from legendary Greek death metallers Rotting Christ, entitled "Theogonia". The track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. The Sign of prime Creation
02. Keravnos Kivernitos
03. Enuma Elish
04. Gaia Tellus
05. Helios Hyperion
06. Nemecic
07. He, the Aethyr
08. Phobos' Synagogue
09. Rege Diabolicus
10. Threnody

Download the song "Enuma Elish" at this location.

Rotting Christ will embark on an extensive European tour in February 2007 beginning with the third edition of The Domination Tour.

The band also stated, that the tour announced for November of 2006 in the US will be postponned to March of 2007, due to bureaucratic problems with obtainng visas. As soon as the first dates are confirmed for this tour, they will be posted on the band's official website.

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Source:	season-of-mist.com
Band profile:	Rotting Christ

Celtic Frost's new video clip for the song, "A Dying God Coming Into Human Flesh", is to be featured as part of the program of the 42nd edition of the renown Solothurn Film Festival in Switzerland, January 22 to 28, 2007. The clip will be shown in the category "Sound & Stories".
"A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh" was taken from Celtic Frost's first album in 14 years, "Monotheist", and the clip was directed by Jessie Fischer (no relation to Celtic Frost's Tom Gabriel Fischer), and filmed in Zurich, Switzerland, in mid-August 2006.

To watch the video clip, go to YouTube.

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Source:	celticfrost.com
Band profile:	Celtic Frost

The Canadian death metallers have posted the following message on their official web site:

"All the planets have aligned... The time has come to undertake one of the longest tour runs in our career, that will take the Kataklysm machine in over twenty two countries in five months, visiting three continents and playing - if we're still alive and not too abused after over a hundred shows in the first half of 2007. We started rehersing a long, effective and killer set list with absolutely no filler tracks. We will also be visiting some songs that we haven't played in awhile from five or six albums ago. We promise an explosive show like you haven't seen before from Kataklysm. We look forward to revisiting our old friends and playing the new countries that are planned and shaking the hands of our fans who have waited to see Kataklysm for so long. We come prepared, the question is... Are you??

All the best to everyone and enjoy your holidays. See ya next year!"
-Maurizio

Kataklysm has confirmed:

- January 2007: "Road to Devastation tour"
Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Slovenia, Holland, Belgium, Hungary, Italy, Denmark, Czech Republic

- February/March 2007: "Trendkiller tour"
USA & Canada (coast to coast)

- April 2007: "Devastation Down Under"
Australia & New Zealand

-May 2007: "Road to Devastation II"
UK, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Finland, Norway, France

Kataklysm is undergoing negotiations at the moment and is expected to also include the following next year: Iceland, Russia & South America

Source:	kataklysm.net
Band profile:	Kataklysm
Event:	Kataklysm: The Road To Devastation Tour

Tankard , Legion Of The Damned, Desaster and Dryrot are among the confirmed bands for the Winterbreath festival, set to take place January 5-6, 2007 at Hauptsmoorhalle in Strullendorf (near Bamberg), Germany. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order): Alaska Fire, Debauchery, Delirium Tremens, Desaster, Dryrot, Emeth, Free Key Bit Chess, Hatred, Jack Slater, Legion of the Damned, Midwinter, Neocosmic, Schlachtschüssel, Sheepheads, Silent Decay, Skeleton, Sniper, Soylvybe, Tankard, Thora

For more information (in German), visit www.winterbreath.de.

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Source:	winterbreath.de
Band profile:	Tankard
Event:	Winterbreath Festival

Nick Douglas, the bassist for Doro, has recorded his first solo effort. "Through The Pane" will be released in European shops on November 27 through Painkiller Records. A release party will be held on November 27 at the Hard Rock Cafe in Cologne, Germany beginning at 9:00 p.m.

For more information, visit www.myspace.com/nickdouglasmusic.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Doro

Amon Amarth and Powermad have been confirmed for next year's installment of the Bang Your Head!!! festival, set to take place June 22-23, 2007 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. Here is the festival's billing (Alphabetical order) :

Amon Amarth
Brainstorm
Edguy
Evergrey
Finntroll
Girlschool
Mercenary
Mystic Prophecy
Nazareth
Powermad
Praying Mantis
Steelheart
Thunder

Source:	bang-your-head.de
Band profile:	Amon Amarth
Event:	Bang Your Head!!! 2007

On Saturday January 13, LL-Metal organises LL-Metal Fest at La Louvière, Belgium. Bands playing on the festival billing are Dagoba, Aborted, Mystica, Lyzanxia, Unleash The Fury, Valkyre, Innerfire, Outcast and Suicide Of Demons.
More info about LL-Metal Fest can be found here.

On Friday December 22, a pre-listening metal party will be held at Taverne Du Théatre (Place Communal, La Louvière) with of course music from all bands playing at the LL-Metal Fest some weeks later. The event starts at 6pm. Entrance is totally free, plus there are also a lot of gifts to win!

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Source:	ll-metal.com
Event:	LL-Metal Fest: Pre-Listening Metal Party

Vader and Belphegor 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. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (alphabetical order):

Belphegor
Bewitched
Disaster K.F.W.
Haemorhage
Melechesh
Taake
Vader

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

German technical death metallers, Necrophagist will embark on a Headlining Tour throughout Europe starting February 2007. Direct support duties will be taken over by Misery Index, Coldworker (Ex-Nasum) and Burning Skies. The first dates of the Carving Europe's Epitaph Tour Vol. II are as follows:

Feb. 08 - DE - Trier @ Exhaus
Feb. 10 - DE - Essen @ Turock, Essen Death Feast
Feb. 11 - DE - Flensburg @ Roxy
Feb. 14 - SE - Stockholm @ Klubben
Feb. 15 - SE - Gothenburg @ Musikens Hus
Feb. 16 - DE - Berlin @ K17
Feb. 17 - DE - Leipzig @ Conne Island
Feb. 20 - AT - Wien @ Arena
Feb. 21 - DE - Muenchen @ Feierwerk
Feb. 22 - IT - Roncade @ New Age Club
Feb. 23 - CH - Oberentfelden @ Boroem Poem Poem

Source:	necrophagist.de
Band profile:	Necrophagist
Event:	Necrophagist: Carving Europe's Epitaph Tour