SWISS CONCERT

Threshold are planning to release a new live fan club album recorded last year at the Z7 in Pratteln, Switzerland during the Subsurface tour. The album is expected to be a double CD featuring the following setlist:

1. Mission Profile
2. Ground Control
3. Freaks
4. Into The Light
5. Echoes Of Life
6. Long Way Home
7. Opium
8. The Art Of Reason
9. Pressure
10. The Ravages Of Time
11. Light And Space
12. Flags And Footprints (encore)
13. Fragmentation (encore)

This will be Threshold's 5th fan club CD release, following the very popular Replica CD released in 2004. You can buy Replica and other band merchandise at http://shop.thresh.net.

GERMAN FESTIVAL

Threshold will be back on stage next month at the Rock Hard Festival in Germany. The Festival takes place from 13-15 May, with Threshold performing on Sunday 15 May alongside bands including Masterplan, Overkill, Sentenced and Accept. See http://www.rockhardfestival.de for more details.

OTHER PROJECTS

Keyboard player Richard West is currently recording solos for a progressive supergoup headed up by Michael Harris (guitar, guitar synth, keyboards) with Enchant vocalist Ted Leonard and Haji's Kitchen rhythm section Rob Stankiewicz and Derek Blakely. More guest appearances may also be included, and the album is due to be mixed next month.

Guitarist Karl Groom is currently at Thin Ice Studios starting production on the new album by power metallers Dragon Force, following the success of their previous album Sonic Firestorm. The band line-up will include Bal Sagoth's drummer Dave Mackintosh, and is due to be mixed in July or August.

Threshold also hope to mix their latest live album at Thin Ice Studios sometime over the next couple of months.

- THRESHOLD NEWSLETTER

Band profile:

Threshold

Crowbar join forces with Candlelight to release their first studio album in over three years!
"Life's Blood For The Downtrodden" was produced by the working team of Warren Riker (Down) and Rex Brown (Pantera). Brown also handled the bass duties on the album, which marks a return to the group's recording line-up of drummer Craig Nunenmacher (Black Label Society). Upon completion, it will be Crowbar's first studio album in over three years.

European Tour:
June
24 - (NL) Haarlem, Patronaat (with Born From Pain, Koroded, Redrum Inc)
25 - (D) Köln, Underground(with Koroded, Redrum Inc)
26 - (D) Herne, Pressure Fest (with Ignite, Hatebreed, and more)
27 - (NL) Tilburg, 013 (with Born From Pain, Koroded, Redrum Inc)
28 - (D) Hamburg, Markthalle
29 - (D) Salzgitter, Forellenhof (with Koroded, Redrum Inc)
30 - (D) Bielefeld, TBC (with Hidden Hand)
July
01 - (D) Aalen, Rock It
02 - (D) Würzburg - Bahnhof
05 - (D) Berlin, Knaak

http://www.candlelightrecords.co.uk

Band profile:

Crowbar

KAYSER, the new Swedish band featuring Spice (ex-SPIRITUAL BEGGARS), Mattias Svensson (THE DEFACED), Bob Ruben (ex-THE MUSHROOM RIVER BAND) and Fredrik Finnander (ex-AEON), have completed work on their debut album, "Kaiserhof", due on June 13 via Scarlet Records.

"Kaiserhof" was recorded at Caesar studios (SOILWORK, THE DEFACED) and features a sound best described as "a mutation of BLACK SABBATH/MEGADETH/SLAYER with dips from different good bowls of classic and modern metal," according to a press release.

"Originating from the pens of Spice and Svensson, KAYSER enforces the pillars of metal with absolute authority," the press release continues. "Focus always lies on the song, easily identifiable through the supreme vocals by Spice, though the emotional and musical expressions stretch from heavy introvert pounding to pure hate driven ferocity."

"Kayserhof" track listing:

01. 1919
02. Lost Cause
03. Good Citizen
04. Noble is Your Blood
05. 7 Days to Sink
06. Like a Drunk Christ
07. Cemented Lies
08. The Waltz
09. Rafflesia
10. Perfect

http://www.blabbermouth.net

Band profile:

Spiritual Beggars

APPLY AS A SESSION SINGER

Lost Horizon is primarily looking for a session singer, or stand-in singer if you will, for performing on gigs and festivals around Europe this year.

Interested singers can apply to this by recording themselves on an instrumental version of a Lost Horizon song.

Read more and download instrumental song-version(s) here (http://www.oncelosthorizon.com/latar/new_singer.html ) .

http://www.oncelosthorizon.com

Band profile:

Lost Horizon

The wait is over! Known for his work with Agent Steel, Bruce Hall has been announced as the band's new vocalist! He's been rehearsing with the band and everything sounds great!
The band also anounce they are no longer managed by Intromental Management, so direct any inquiries to our 'Contact' page!

Check the Band Section for news on the current line-up and also see the Photos Page for pics of the group during rehearsals!

http://www.steelprophet.net

Band profile:

Steel Prophet

Thomen Stauch posted an statement about his new and main project "Savage Circus", here you have a fragment:

"Hi friends,

I hope the shock about my departure from the band wasn't too much, but I'm sure time will heal these wounds.

As I mentioned before in the forum, over the last two years I have been working on two different formations: the Modern Metal Project with Bjoern (Soilwork) and Savage Circus. Since leaving Blind Guardian, Savage Circus has become my main project.

Here a few personal words to introduce you to Salvage Circus ?

Have fun

Thomen"

to read the complete statement go to: http://www.thomen.de/sc_englisch.htm

Source:	thomen.de
Band profile:	Blind Guardian

The upcoming album will be entitled "Undoing Ruin" and it's schedule to be release on June 28th. The mixing of the album is done and will be mastered.

The cover art of the album was posted by the band, and you can see it here .

In other news "Wyvern Custom Guitars is currently in negotiations with Darkest Hour to build Mike Schleibaum, and Paul Burnette signature series custom guitars and basses, details coming soon!"

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Source:	darkesthour.cc
Band profile:	Darkest Hour

Russell Allen - singer of Symphony X - has finally completed the recording of the vocal tracks of the highly anticipated album with the singer of Masterplan, Jorn Lande.

The record - which has a working title of "The Battle" - is going to be mixed during April by Anders "Theo" Theander (Pain of Salvation, Last Tribe) at the Roastinghouse Studios in Sweden.

The label has planned to release the album right after the summer.

http://www.frontiers.it

Band profile:

Symphony X

Mortification are busy in the rehersal room putting together material for their 13th studio release. The band is working on late 80's, early 90's sounding Death/Thrash Metal. Expect something in a similar vein to the Self-Titled album. There will be a few musical surprises as always, but the plan is not to experiment too much with the vocals, rather keep them as straight forward Death Metal as possible.

Please keep the band in your prayers.

Blessings,

The Metal Messenger.

http://www.soundmass.com/rowe/

Band profile:

Mortification

The NWOBHM band posted the following message concerning their new album:

"BLITZKRIEG are delighted to announce that work on the follow up album to 2002's "Absolute Power" has now been completed and is currently being mixed and mastered ready for release on the 4th July through Metal Nation records.
The new album is to be entitled "SINS and GREED" and features new bass player Paul Brewis who replaced Andy Galloway in early 2004, and Ken Johnson's first studio album following his performance on "Absolutely Live"
Recorded at Trinity Heights Studios in Newcastle Upon Tyne (UK) the track listing will be as follows -

1 - HELL EXPRESS - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt / Paul Brewis / Phil Brewis
2 - EXCESSIVE FORCE - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt
3 - STANDING STILL - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt
4 - RISE - Paul Nesbitt
5 - TRAITORS GATE - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt / Paul Brewis / Phil Brewis
6 - ESCAPE FROM THE VILLAGE - Brian Ross / Ken Johnson / Phil Brewis
7 - EYES OF THE WORLD - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt
8 - CALM WATERS - Paul Nesbitt
9 - DESOLATION ANGEL - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt / Paul Brewis
10 - SILENT SCREAM - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt
11 - JECKYL & HYDE - Brian Ross / Paul Nesbitt / Paul Brewis / Phil Brewis
12 - HELL BENT FOR LEATHER - Tipton

BLITZKRIEG have confirmed a warm up show as guest headliners on the Deliverance / Humanity tour at Fibbers in York (UK) on the 15th May, this will be followed by dates in Europe and the US later in the year - dates will be confirmed once known."

Also a sample of the song "Hell Express" was posted, you can download it here .

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Source:

blitzed-alive.com

MANOWAR is proud to announce the upcoming release of their newest video, Hell On Earth IV, which contains 2 video discs and 1 audio disc for a total of 4 1/2 hours of total viewing time.

More details on the availability to be confirmed soon on their official website.

MAIN DISC:

- Highlights of the entire 2002 "Warriors Of The World" tour
- 1 hour and 30 minutes of main program
- 6 bonus songs equaling 30 minutes of additional material
- 11 full live songs
- Subtitles in 12 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish)
- 5.1 surround sound mix
- Private behind the scenes footage
- A true visual tribute to the fans
- Highlighting concerts in 35 cities throughout Europe
- Shot with 70 camera angles
- Commentary track with all band members
- Director Neil Johnson's commentary track
- Personal commentary track by Joey DeMaio
- New artwork by fantasy art legend Ken Kelly

BONUS DISC:

- 1 hour of behind the scenes footage
- 1 hour of complete TV shows featuring MANOWAR (incl. TV-total, Olli Pocher, VIVA Comet and Popkomm Gala)
- Special commentary track featuring director Neil Johnson and Joey DeMaio
- Subtitles in 12 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish)
- 30 minute hidden easter egg with special commentary track by editor and director

AUDIO DISC:

- Contains brand new audio track by MANOWAR (taken from their forthcoming album)

Source:	manowar.com
Band profile:	Manowar

Lilitu is proud to announce new Bassist, Noah Martin as a permanent fixture in the band. Hailing from Virginia Beach and being only 20 years old, he plays like a pro! In other news, the band is making plans to tour this spring as well as shooting a video for the title track, "The Delores Lesion". SXSW was a great show and Austin TX kicked ass. It was a great pleasure to represent out label and meet the important people. Moving forward...

http://www.lilitu.ws

Band profile:

Lilitu

Finnish Power metal band Dreamtale's vocalist Jarkko Ahola left the band because he wants to fully concentrate on his main band Teräsbetoni. He posted following announcement on band's website:

Dear friends of the band,

I am sad to announce that I have to step aside from Dreamtale. My time is totally taken by another band called Teräsbetoni. Therefore I think it's not fair for the rest of the band, that they can't do what they do the best: play live shows. So, in this situation it's better for all of us someone else to take my place in this great band. I wish the best for all of you - the band and you readers. It has all been my pleasure.

And it's possible that we will playing together again, someday...

- J.Ahola

Source:	dreamtale.net
Band profile:	Dreamtale

To all of the fans(and not) of Solitude Aeturnus, who were asking what's up with the band, the band decided to post two new demo clips from the upcoming album "Alone", to listen to the songs enter on http://www.eternalsolitude.com/pages/01_news.html or http://www.eternalsolitude.com/pages/05a_audio.html .

Source:	eternalsolitude.com
Band profile:	Solitude Aeturnus

NUCLEAR BLAST is proud to announce that reunited Dutch Death Metal legends GOREFEST have signed a multi-album deal. Expect new music towards the end of the year.
On their website, GOREFEST comment: "It's turning out to be a pretty amazing year for us, first of all getting together again and now getting back to the world's leading metal label! And it sure feels good!"

During the Nineties, GOREFEST had released four albums via NUCLEAR BLAST ("False", "The Eindhoven Insanity - Live At The Dynamo", "Erase", and "Soul Survivor"). The quartet disbanded in 1998.

The band is "currently writing songs for that seems to become a very heavy new album" and will hit the festival circuit this summer? The GOREFEST story is far from over.

http://www.nuclearblast.de