"Seance", the upcoming album of the band, is finally recorded now. At the moment guitarist and producer V.Santura is doing the mix of the album and as soon as the band has decided which label they will sign to (in the beginning of November), "Séance" will be mastered by Alex Krull in the Mastersound Studios.

The whole layout has been also completed now by mastermind Travis Smith himself, so that you can expect something special again.

http://www.thetruedarkfortress.com

Band profile:

Dark Fortress

Dream Theater's Singer James Labrie posted the following message on his official forum:

"Hi Everyone,

Yes the rumor is true. I have been in contact with Dirk Ulrich and we have agreed to do this album which will be incredible to say the least.
I do know who the other singer is but won't say at this point. I will wait until everything is official and all legalities have been dealt with.
All I can say is this individual is very well known and one of the top opera stars of today.

Great seeing you out on tour. We are having a blast and the shows have been fantastic.

See you around.

Cheers,"

James.

Source:	jameslabrie.com
Band profile:	Dream Theater

The band have already started the songwriting of the new album, so far the band have wrote 6 songs. They will have to take a little break because of guitarist Marcel Schoenen will be undergoing a surgery. The possibly release of the new album is planed for Autumn 2006.

In other news the band posted pictures from the Wacken and Summerbreeze performances at the gallery.

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Source:	suidakra.com
Band profile:	Suidakra

The following message can be found in the band's site.

"Tomorrow Jon and Urban come to Örebro. We are going to kickstart a new little project, which will include Jesper in the future, but this weekend its just us three.

Yes, it's all ex-Nasum members in this project, and yes, there will be a great amount of grinding done, but no - this is not Nasum part 2, this is just a couple of friends who happen to like playing together catching up and making some music at the same time.

I'll tell you more when there is something more to tell, this weekend we'll just write some songs I guess and see what happens. A recording is planed sometime, but nothing more than that.

I've been looking forward to this weekend many many weeks now so I am very excited about all this."

Source:	nasum.com
Band profile:	Nasum

The recordings for the next Vanden Plas album "Christ 0" will finally start mid october in the Bazement Studios (where the band already recorded "Beyond Daylight"). The band will probably record 9 songs, plus one bonus track. Out of the nine selected songs, 4 are written by Stephan, 3 by Günter and 2 by Andy. As usual, Andy was also responsible for all the lyrics. As stated before, "Christ 0" will be a concept album based on Alexandre Dumas' "Monte Cristo". No exact release date has been confirmed yet, but it is likely to come out around March/April 2006.

Source:	vandenplas.de
Band profile:	Vanden Plas

The World Below + Isole tour, is cancelled! Mikael Danielsson, the vocalist & bassist of World Below, has left the band with immediate notice. It's impossible to find a replacement with such short notice. Here is a statement from Jonas Kjellgren, the mainman in World Below:

Statement:
"Sad but true Mikael Danielsson has left the band today, why? I don't really know and I don't care either that's just the way it is...Per Nilsson left the band about one month ago. Now it's only Ronnie and me left and we won't be able to do any gigs in a while until we get a serious line-up. In the future I will handle both guitar and vocal-duties, so we will just add a bass-player to the line-up and continue as a three-piece!! World Below won't stop until I'm dead, and that's no bullshit, that's just the way it is ok!"
Cheers!!!
/Jonas

The fact that Per Nilsson left the band doesn't/didn't cause any problems as all upcoming shows - including the tour - were going to happen with the help of a session guitarist.

http://www.worldbelow.tk

The upcoming Amorphis album will be entitled "Eclipse" and the tracklist is the following:

1. Two Moons
2. House Of Sleep
3. Leaves Scar
4. Born From Fire
5. Under A Soil And Black Stone
6. Perkele (The God Of Fire)
7. The Smoke
8. Same Flesh
9. Brother Moon
10. Empty Opening

Esa Holopainen commented: "We just had pre-listening session at Nuclear Blast office and feedback seem to be really positive. I quess we have to organize another session for finnish reporters but I'm not sure if we have enough money to cover their drinks. Finnish reporters are extremely thirsty. But still, more they drink, better they like the album! Way to go!"

Source:	amorphis.net
Band profile:	Amorphis

To celebrate 15 year of Blood and Iron Marduk will unleash upon mankind a live album recorded in Warsaw/Poland on the recent Deathmarch tour. The album features 17 songs and will be a limited edition Cd of 10 000 copies worldwide. Also to be able as a strictly limited edition of 500 copies on double Lp. Release date will be presented soon. click here to check out the album cover. Those shows that were cancelled on the last tour will be rescheduled in february together with some additional dates. The dates will be posted very soon.

http://www.marduk.nu

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Marduk

INDUSTRIAL ICON AL JOURGENSEN OF MINISTRY
LAUNCHES 13TH PLANET RECORDS

13th Planet Website Unveiled on Halloween 2005
www.thirteenthplanet.com

Debut release of the new Revolting Cocks coming on Valentines Day 2006
All new Ministry album to follow in April 2006

Industrial rock pioneer Al Jourgensen ventures into the record label business with the launch of 13th Planet Records, the new home of Ministry and Revolting Cocks. The imprint/boutique label is a joint venture with Megaforce Records for the U.S. and Canadian markets, distributed through Sony/RED. Missi Callazzo, Vice President of Megaforce, excitedly relates, "It's great to be working with Ministry again. We had platinum success during 'Psalm 69' days and Ministry remains an iconic and pioneering band. There is nobody better than Al Jourgensen releasing terror and greatness as he continues to challenge the status quo.".

With the recent release of Ministry's 25th anniversary collection Rantology marking the completion of his contractual agreement with Sanctuary Records, Mr. Jourgensen and Sanctuary amicably parted ways. The Sanctuary catalog of Ministry releases includes Sphinctour, Animositisomina, the critically acclaimed Houses of the Molé.

Jourgensen essentially returns to his roots with his latest endeavor. Al spearheaded the Chicago based Waxtrax! imprint throughout the late 80's and 90's bringing forth the release of such notable alter-ego ventures as Revolting Cocks, Pailhead, 1000 Homo DJ's, Acid Horse, PTP, and Lard. Jourgensen explains "Being clean for three years, I decided it was time for me to get back in the saddle and create an independent and autonomous outlet for Ministry and other side projects again. I am looking forward to developing 13th Planet Records into a successful, prolific, and creatively rewarding artist run label."

13th Planet Records unveils its new website www.thirteenthplanet.com on October 31, 2005. The site will host news, music, tour information, and merchandise for all things Ministry, Revolting Cocks and Jourgensen's side-projects.

13th Planet unleases its debut release Revolting Cocks: Cocked and Loaded February 14, 2006. Produced by Al Jourgensen, the CD features the contributions of guest artists Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Gibby Haynes (Butt Hole Surfers), Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Stevie Banch (Spyder Baby) and Phildo Owen (Skatenigs) and Robin Zander (Cheap Trick). The anticipated new Ministry album, Rio Grande Blood will follow with an April 2006 release. Also produced by Ministry founder Jourgensen, the new album features Tommy Victor (Prong) and Paul Raven (Killing Joke).

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Ministry

Morphia is looking for a new guitar-player. Recently both Erik (bass) and Roger (guitar) left the band due to personal reasons. Vocalist Jasper will handle the bass in the future, so only a new guitarplayer has to be found. If you live in The Netherlands, know how to play your guitar well and are willing to join Morphia on tours and new cd's, get in touch with the band: info@morphia.nl .

http://www.fear-dark.com

The following message was posted by Jan Bünning(bassist) on the band official website:

"As fans keep asking us just some words to our plans for the near future. At present we rehearse for our next headliner shows our newest member - drummer Christian Gripp - still has to learn songs so we have a longer setlist.

When we have played our next show we will start to write new songs for our next record we plan to record in late winter / early spring 2006 with a possible release date just before summer or late summer. We also have to take a look at the shows we recorded for our first DVD release. All in all we recorded four shows - WACKEN 2004, METAL BASH 2005, our MARKTHALLE SHOW in Hamburg and also our performance at the KEEP IT TRUE in the beginning of this year. Furthermore we have lot of bootleg shows record with just one camera we could include as bonus. It´s a lot of work to sort out the good from the bad but we hope we know something more soon. We don´t have any precise release date yet but we hope we are ready in the beginning of 2006 with it.

We also try to get some shows for festivals and single shows next year. If anybody is interested in booking us just drop us a line at gigs@paragon-legions.com .

So we have a lot of work in front of us - but METAL is the LAW!"

Jan / PARAGON

Source:	paragon-legions.com
Band profile:	Paragon

The Swedish band featuring former Lost Horizon members had posted the track list and cover art for their debut album "The Call" to be release at 21/10/2005 in Japan.

The tracklist is as follow:

01 Heed Hades
02 I Am Alive
03 Last drop of Blood
04 Ashes
05 Enemy
06 Salvation
07 Tears of prodigy
08 The other side
09 Hypnosis
10 Moments
11 The permanent end celebration
12 Nothing
13 The flight*

* Promo track (only Japan)

To see the cover art click here.

As previously announced you can preview the album here.

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Source:

heedonline.com

The following message by Crhis Impelliteri was posted on the official Impelliteri's fan club site:

"I am currently writing and recording music with my new Los Angeles based metal band. This will be the first official band I have actually joined. The music is definitely metal; and yes there are lots of Impellitteri shredding solos! ; however, the difference between my new band and Impellitteri is the fact that I am just the lead guitarist as opposed to the leader of the group.
Furthermore, I am excited to be part of this new band to see if we can build something special for the metal community. If all goes well we should have some new music by next summer and the official name of the band."

Source:

rapture.net

Korpiklaani will start recording their 3rd album on 15th of November at Fantom studio. The album will be named "Tales Along This Road". The exact release date isn't confirmed yet, but a rough guess is that it might be out in March or April. The album will be produced by Samu Oittinen, who also produced the Voice Of Wilderness -album.

http://www.korpiklaani.com

Band profile:

Korpiklaani

Orphanage is no more...

Through this message we want to bring you the news that the heavy metal band Orphanage has stopped.

From recent internal discussions it appeared that there was too much irritation and a lack of mutual trust, to be able to make a new Orphanage product, by the high quality standards that the band has been known for throughout the years.

An end has come to 11 years of "Innovative Gregorian Celtic Groovy Melodic Doom Death Metal". We've had a great time. A lot of special moments are in our hearts forever. We were there, YOU were there.

Please send the news to all that have supported us in all these years, in what form whatsoever. Doesn't matter if you read this for the 100th time, just be sure that we ?

. . . want to thank YOU ALL!!!

No Orphanage without you; everyone that visited our concerts, that listened to our music, those who have worked for us, worked together with us, those who have shared the ENERGY with us . . . . forever: THANKS !!!

--- Orphanage ---
http://www.orphanage.nl

Band profile:

Orphanage