Deicide will return to Australia and New Zealand for the first time in 12 years in support of its latest full-length release, "The Stench of Redemption". The following dates have been announced:

Dec. 11 - Per - Heat Nightclub
Dec. 12 - Adelaide, HQ Nightclub
Dec. 13 - Melbourne, The Hi Fi Bar
Dec. 14 - Sydney, The Gaelic Club
Dec. 15 - Auckland, The Studio
Dec. 16 - Christchurch, The Civic
Dec. 17 - Brisbane, The Arena

Source:	hailmetal.com
Band profile:	Deicide

Canadian Death Metallers Cryptopsy have announced a tour of North America. The tour will go all through October this year, and will cover Canada and the USA. The tour will continue to be in support of Cryptopsy's latest album 'Once Was Not'.

Here is a list of dates:

04/10/06 - Ottawa, On @ Maverick's
05/10/06 - Hamilton, On @ Absinthe
06/10/06 - Rouyn Noranda, QUE @ Petit Théatre du vieux Noranda
07/10/06 - Toronto, On @The Opera House
08/10/06 - London, On @ Embassy
09/10/06 - Sudbury, On @ Jubilee Centre
11/10/06 - Thunder Bay, On @ Kilroy's
12/10/06 - Winnipeg, Man @ Royal Albert
13/10/06 - Regina, Sask @ Exchange
14/10/06 - Edmonton, Alb @ The Moad Hall
16/10/06 - Victoria, BC @ Sugar NightClub
17/10/06 - Vancouver, BC @ The Lamplighter
19/10/06 - Calgary, Alb @ The Stetson
21/10/06 - Minneapolis, MN @ Quest Club
22/10/06 - Mokena, Ill @ The Pearl Room
23/10/06 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's

Source:	cryptopsy.net
Band profile:	Cryptopsy

Long-defunct Florida-based band Cynic has confirmed plans to embark a reunion tour in the spring/summer of 2007, beginning with possible U.S. warm-up performances and culminating in a number of festival appearances across Europe.

Reunion lineup:

Paul Masvidal - Vocals / Guitar
Sean Reinert - Drums / Keys
Tony Teegarden - Vocals / Keyboards
Chris Kringel - Bass
Santiago Dobles - Guitar

Concerts dates will be posted in the near future.

Source:	cynicalsphere.com
Band profile:	Cynic

More details about Death Metal band Obituary's upcoming DVD have been announced. The DVD now has the title of 'Frozen Alive'. The band has spent the last week in The RedRoom with Mark Prator mixing the audio part of the DVD. The DVD is now also to be expected to be released around December 2006-January 2007. It's a recording of the band's show in Poland on the 24th August and it will be Obituary's first ever DVD.

Here is a comment by vocallist John Tardy:

"So far it sounds pretty heavy and I am really getting excited. I still can't believe we have waited this long to do one but, that is just the way it worked out".

Source:	obituary.cc
Band profile:	Obituary

Dutch female-fronted symphonic metal outfit After Forever has entered the studio to begin recording its new album, tentatively due next year via an as-yet-undetermined label. A brand new video shot in the recording studio has been posted online here .

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Source:	afterforever.com
Band profile:	After Forever

Moonsorrow, Arch Enemy and Tankard have all just been confirmed for this years Arnhem Metal Meeting. The festival will take place on Saturday 9th December this year at Musis Sacrum in Arnhem, Holland. More bands are said to be announced soon.

Here is the list of bands announced so far:

Aeternus
Ancient Rites
Antaeus
Arch Enemy
Immolation
Melechesh
Moonsorrow
Necrophobic
Skyforger
Tankard
Thronar

Source:	arnhemmetalmeeting.nl
Band profile:	Moonsorrow

More dates for Power Metal band Edguy's South American tour have been announced. Originally, only three dates were confirmed, but a larger lineup of seven shows will now happen. Edguy have also said the even more South American appearances should happen as the booking for further dates in other countries and cities is in progress.

Here is a full list of the so far confirmed dates:

01 Nov 2006 - Estadio Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile
03 Nov 2006 - Credicard Hall, Sao Paulo, Brazil
04 Nov 2006 - Claro Hall, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
05 Nov 2006 - Master Hall, Curitiba, Brazil
07 Nov 2006 - Opinião, Porto Alegre, Brazil
18 Nov 2006 - Monterrey Metal Fest, Monterrey, Mexico
19 Nov 2006 - TBA, Mexico City, Mexico

In other Edguy news, the band, along with Brainstorm and Mercenary have been confirmed for next year's 'Bang Your Head!!!' festival. The festival will take place on 22-23 June, 2007 at Messegelände in Balingen, Germany. More acts for the festival are said to be announced soon.

Source:	edguy.net
Band profile:	Edguy

New album!

The recording sessions for the new album are completed and we are now in the middle of the mixing process. We are on schedule, so the album will be completed by the 1st of October. The title of the upcoming album is: 'Nine Destinies and a Downfall.' It will be released early next year, more info coming soon.

Source:	sirenia.no
Band profile:	Sirenia

As we have changed of French distributor, the debut album "Wordless Hope" from the French Doom Metal band was postponed. Now, it will be out in October instead of September. Besides that, Inborn Suffering is booked to play in the most important European Doom Festival, "Dutch Doom Day 5", on October 28/29 in Holland together with other bands like Reverend Bizarre, Saturnus, etc. Get more details about the festival at http://www.baroeg.nl/ddd.

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Source:

soundriotrecords.com

Helloween will release their new single "Light the Universe" on November 13 via SPV Records (November 10 in Germany). The title cut is said to be the first-ever duet in the band's history, which also features an appearance by Blackmore's Night singer Candice Night.

Tracks to be included on the new single are "Light The Universe" (featuring Candice Night), "If I Could Fly" (Live From Sao Paulo), and "Revolution" (previously unreleased in Europe), along with the video clip for "Light The Universe".

In addition to the single version of "Light the Universe", this four-track single offers bonus material in the form of a video for the title track, directed by Alexander Diezinger (Negative, L'ame Immortelle, Exilia) at Veldenstein Castle in southern Germany, the track "Revolution" (penned by bassist Markus Großkopf, recorded for Japan and previously unreleased in Europe), as well as an appetizer for the band's upcoming live album — a stage version of "If I Could Fly", recorded in Sao Paulo in March 2006.

Scheduled for release in February 2007, Helloween's new double live DVD and CD will be available in two versions (standard and limited edition), with tracks recorded in Sofia, Tokyo and Sao Paulo, among others.

Source:	helloween.org
Band profile:	Helloween

"Archangels In Black" will be the name of the new Adagio album! Stephan Forté has already composed almost all songs and annouced that the album will feature 9 songs + 1 Japanese Bonus track.

The band have annouced that the compositions are the ultimate balance between melodic and extreme metal and can be considered as a more brutal vision of "Underworld"

Recording sessions will start at the beggining of October.

Source:	adagio-online.com
Band profile:	Adagio

Well here it goes as it is said I didn't change a thing:

'It seems that this is doomed to be the 'Murphy's law' cd, where anything that could go wrong, will/has gone wrong. Due to technical problems, first with the studio computers, and then with the failure and subsequent replacement/installation of somewhat-hard-to-find parts in MJR's amps, the band's about 2 weeks behind where they'd hoped to be progress-wise at this point. This has thrown off the projected date for getting the cd out and mixed, so they've had to push back the date for that by about a month in accordance with what dates were available to them.

Currently MJR is getting his guitar parts finished, & after that Mike LePond will finish up his bass parts, and then Russ will enter the studio to work on recording the vocals. Mike asked me to extend the band's appreciation to the fans for their patience, & at this point, is anticipating a release date after the new year; I have no doubt that it will be well worth the wait.'
Jax

Source:	symphonyx.com
Band profile:	Symphony X

Power Metal band Hammerfall's record company Nuclear Blast have posted the official video to Hammerfall's new song 'Natural High' online. The song 'Natural High' comes from Hammerfall's upcoming album entitled "Threshold". It's the first official video from the album as well. 'Natural High' is also the first single from the album.
Nuclear Blast's Europe division have also posted a nine minute video interview online. The interview was done during the production of the video.

Click here to watch 'Natural High' video.
Click here to watch the video interview.

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	HammerFall

All the dates for Australian Black/Death Metal band Destroyer 666's 'Wolves Over America' Tour have been finalised. Some venues have changed and dates have been moved, and some new shows have been added.

Destroyer 666's final list of dates for their American tour now looks like this:

Sep. 29th - NYC (NY) @ Metal Kingdom
Sep. 30th - Austin (TX) @ Room 710
Oct. 1st - St. Paul (MN) @ Station-4
Oct. 2nd - Chicago (IL) @ The Double Door
Oct. 3rd - Seattle (WA) @ The FunHouse
Oct. 4th - San Francisco (CA) @ The Elbow Room
Oct. 5th - Los Angeles (CA) @ The Westchester
Oct. 6th - Houston (TX) @ FBI ROCKS #2
Oct. 7th - Washington DC @ JAXX

Source:	destroyer666.net
Band profile:	Deströyer 666

Today (September 25) Folk Metallers Finntroll will be entering Sonic Pump studios to start recording the follow up to their 2004 album Nattfödd" and their fifth release. This album will be the first that Finntroll has done with new vocallist Vreth, as he replaced old vocallist Tapio Wilska a few months ago. Finntroll have also said that they will be touring a lot next year and they will be doing shows to support their new album.

Here is a comment from the band's website: "We will be touring heavily next year. Keep harrassing your local promoter & club owner to make sure there's going to be Finntroll performing right in your home town then".

The as yet untitled new album will be released early next year.

Source:	finntroll.net
Band profile:	Finntroll