Mortal Love, a Gothic Metal band from Norway, will release a new album called "Forever Will Be Gone". This will be their third studio album and it'll be on stores on 22nd September 2006. The following hasbeen posted on their official "My Space" page:
"Our new album, the third and final chapter in our trilogy, will be released on September 22nd!!! A new web site will co-incide with the release of the album."

A teaser of one of the song can be found at there official web site http://www.mortallove.com. More info will be announced soon!

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Mortal Love

Suffocation's new full-length album "Suffocation" is available in its entirety for online listening courtesy of AOL Music's 'Full CD Listening Party.' Click here to listen. The album will be released today, on 19 September.

You can also hear Alice In Chains' "The Essential" (released 5 September) here, and Janes Addiction's "Best Of..." CD (release date today (19 September) here.

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Source:	music.aol.com
Band profile:	Suffocation

The legendary pimps of gore, Gut have posted two new songs over at their official MySpace page :

"Fisted On The Dancefloor" taken from their upcoming split EP with XXX Maniak. Release : January 2007 on Relapse.

"Hooker Ballett" taken from their split EP with Gonorreah Pussy. Release : October 2006 on Last House On The Right.

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Veteran Heavy Metal band W.A.S.P. have posted some new tour dates online. The dates add to W.A.S.P.'s already extensive European tour. This part of the tour will happen at the end of this year. All these dates are with the band 'Jaded'.

Here are the new dates:

18/11/06 - Ireland, Dublin @ Tripod
19/11/06 - Ireland, Belfast @ Spring & Airbrake
20/11/06 - Ireland, Belfast @ Spring & Airbrake
23/11/06 - Spain, Alicante @ Nave 8
24/11/06 - Spain, Madrid @ Macumba
25/11/06 - Spain, Santiago De Compostela @ Capitol
26/11/06 - Spain, Bergara @ Jam
27/11/06 - Spain, Barcelona @ Razzmatazz
01/12/06 - Portugal, Lisbon @ T.B.A.
02/12/06 - Spain, Seville @ T.B.A.

A full list of dates can be found here.

In other W.A.S.P. news, the band have posted a recently performed live track of a new song online. The song is called 'Mercy' and is expected to appear on their upcoming album "Dominator". This live version was recorded during their Bulgaria show of their current European tour. You can download it by visiting W.A.S.P.'s offical forum.

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Source:	waspnation.com
Band profile:	W.A.S.P.

Therion's official website has been updated with the following :

"We are giving it another shot! A series of videos is now available for downloads. The quality is not the best in the world, but at least it is something. If this doesn't kill the server we will hopefully be able to put up more videos with better quality. So go on over to the Download section and grab them."

As previously reported, the recordings of the band's new album have been completed and the mixing is now in progress. The band "estimate to have the album done by the end of the month." It is set to be released on January 16th.

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Source:	megatherion.com
Band profile:	Therion

A video and audio footage of Swedish melodic death metallers Dark Tranquillity performing a new song, entitled 'Where Death Is Most Alive', live at the Manning Bar in Sydney on Sunday, September 17, have been posted online at PyroMusic website. You can check it all out here.

Upcoming Dark Tranquillity tour dates :
http://www.darktranquillity.com/tour/index.html

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Source:	pyromusic.net
Band profile:	Dark Tranquillity

Black Metal band Dark Funeral have posted the live video to their reasonably new song 'Atrum Regina' online. The clip was filmed in Paris, France on 17th March this year at La Locomotive. It was produced by Escape Productions. The video was edited by Magnus Gillberg. The song 'Atrum Regina' comes from Dark Funeral's most recent album "Attera Totus Sanctus".

The clip can be downloaded from Dark Funeral's official website. Or you can simply view it/download it by clicking here.

Check out the band's current tour schedule at this location.

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Source:	darkfuneral.se
Band profile:	Dark Funeral

Italian melodic power metallers Vision Divine, the brainchild of ex-Labyrinth mastermind Olaf Thörsen, have posted the following message on their official web site :

"We are sorry and shocked for what just happened. Without any , and even worse, after many promises from third parties who were managing the tour, we discovered just now, once arrived in the USA, that the Latin tour won't take place because of too many problems with flight tickets and many other things that are even impossible to be explained. We are simply shocked and surprised by seeing how things have been managed. We feel ripped off as surely should feel those who already bought tickets to our shows. We are also gonna sue somebody for what happened, but this won't change the mess.

"In many years of career we never got into something like this, and there are not so many words we can tell right now. We will play ProgPower fest, which to be a completely professional situation where everything turned out to be exactly as planned, and then we will go back to Italy, as there is no way at all to make the rest of the shows take place, not even after some telephone callw we had in which we tried to do our best as band in order to make things go on. We really pushed to make shows not being cancelled, and we were also disposed to renounce too many things originally promised. We even offered to pay hotels by ourselves just to respect all those people waiting for us and to give a chance to those who were not responsible about this to go on, but no way. promoter totally disappeared, and once we arrived in the USA, we also found that there are no flight tickets ready to bring us to the rest of the countries.

"Sorry once again, that's all we can tell right now. Whining or complaining won't make things change, unfortunately."

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Source:	visiondivine.com
Band profile:	Vision Divine

More dates have been released for Children Of Bodom's headlining North American tour which is believed to also feature Amon Amarth, Sanctity, and Gojira :

November 29 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
November 30 - Rochester, NY @ Water Street Music Hall
December 01 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
December 02 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Rave
December 04 - Dallas, TX @ Gypsy Tea Room
December 06 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
December 08 - San Diego, CA @ SOMA
December 09 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern LG
December 11 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
December 12 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theatre
December 13 - Minneapolis, MN @ Quest Club
December 15 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club
December 16 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
December 17 - New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre
December 18 - Montreal, QC @ Metropolis

Source:	cobhc.com
Band profile:	Children Of Bodom

Belphegor, Unleashed, Krisiun and Hatesphere will team up for a North American tour beginning in early February. Tentative dates so far are as follows:

Feb. 07 - Mark's Place - Bedford, NH
Feb. 08 - BB Kings - New York, NY
Feb. 09 - The Chance - Poughkeepsie, NY
Feb. 10 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH
Feb. 11 - The Pearl Room - Molena, IL
Feb. 12 - Station 4 - St. Paul, MN
Feb. 15 - Studio Seven - Seattle, WA
Feb. 16 - Roseland Grill - Portland, OR
Feb. 17 - The Pound - San Francisco, CA
Feb. 20 - The Clubhouse - Tempe, AZ
Feb. 21 - Launch Pad - Albuquerque, NM
Mar. 02 - Jaxx - West Springfield, VA
Mar. 05 - The Opera House - Toronto, ON

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Source:	belphegor.at
Band profile:	Belphegor

Newly signed to Armageddon Music, German black metallers Sycronomica are releasing their new album "Gate" on November 17. The CD was recorded at Hellion Studios in Munich, Germany in July.

"Gate" clocks in at around 50 minutes and features the following tracklisting:
01. Preludium II
02. Beyond The Gate Of Light
03. Für Die Ewigkeit
04. In The Distance...
05. Von Ende Und Anfang
06. To The Rivers End
07. Farewell Olden World
08. Unleashed From Ancient Chains
09. Nachtwanderung
10. The Nightly Forces

A release party is planned for November 25th at Titanic City in Munich. Details will be revealed soon.

Upcoming Sycronomica live dates include:

November
17 - Filderstadt, Germany at United We Stand Festival
25 - Munich, Germany at Titanic City (album release party)

March
30 - Lichtenfels, Germany at Ragnarök Festival (Stadthalle)

Source:	sycronomica.de
Band profile:	Sycronomica

Twisted Sister's cover version of 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus' (written by Jimmy Boyd and released as a single in 1953) has been posted online at the band's official MySpace page here.
The track is part of the band's festive CD "A Twisted Christmas" which is due October 17th via Razor & Tie Records.

"A Twisted Christmas" (cover art) features the following tracklisting :
01. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
02. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
03. White Christmas
04. I'll Be Home For Christmas (featuring Lita Ford)
05. Silver Bells
06. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause
07. Let It Snow
08. Deck The Halls
09. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
10. Heavy Metal Christmas (The Twelve Days Of Christmas)

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Source:	twistedsister.com
Band profile:	Twisted Sister

Swedish power metallers Hammerfall go on the road again in the beginning of next year. More dates will be announced as they get booked, but here's what's confirmed as of now:

At The Threshold of... Europe 2007 :
Jan. 18 - Stora Vega - Köpenhamn, DK
Jan. 19 - Scandinavium - Göteborg, SWE
Jan. 20 - Arenan - Stockholm, SWE
Jan. 21 - Rockefeller - Oslo, NOR
Jan. 23 - Docks - Hamburg, GER
Jan. 24 - O13 - Tilburg, NETH
Jan. 25 - Hof Ter Lo - Antwerpen, BEL
Jan. 26 - Stadthalle Langen - Langen, GER
Jan. 27 - Live Music Hall - Köln, GER
Jan. 28 - Turbinenhalle - Oberhausen, GER
Jan. 30 - Halle Gartlage - Osnabrück, GER
Jan. 31 - Filharmonie - Filderstadt, GER
Feb. 02 - Jako Arena - Bamberg, GER
Feb. 03 - All Karthalle - Kaufbeuren, GER
Feb. 04 - Z7 - Pratteln, SWI
Feb. 06 - Elysée Montmartre - Paris, FRA
Feb. 07 - Le Transbordeur - Lyon, FRA
Feb. 09 - Joy Eslava - Madrid, SPA
Feb. 10 - Santana 27 - Bilbao, SPA
Feb. 11 - Razzmatazz - Barcelona, SPA
Feb. 13 - Alcatrazz - Milano, ITA
Feb. 14 - Backstage - München, GER
Feb. 15 - Planet Music - Wien, AUT
Feb. 16 - Petöfi Hall - Budapest, HUN
Feb. 17 - SKC - Belgrad, SER

Hammerfall's upcoming album "Threshold" will be released on 20 October 2006.

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Source:	hammerfall.net
Band profile:	HammerFall

Finland's Nightwish has issued the following update via their homepage :

"Today (Friday, September 15), Nightwish enters the studio to begin recording the new album. Jukka starts the process by recording the drum parts in the next 5-6 days. Then guitars, bass and demo keyboards, followed by orchestral/choir recordings. After those, the final synths and vocals will be recorded. The whole process will last six months minimum, so we should have the final master copy in our hands sometime during the spring."

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Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

Therion mainman Christofer Johnsson has posted the following message on the band's official website :

"We're happy to announce that the recordings have been finished and that the mix of the album is in progress. We estimate to have the album done by the end of the month and the release is scheduled for January 16th"

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Source:	megatherion.com
Band profile:	Therion