Prophecy Productions signed the young american group TODESBONDEN.

"The concept for the band is to create music that is simple, emotionally moving, speaks from the heart and has echoes fromother time periods and other worlds" says Laurie Ann Haus, singer of TODESBONDEN. The versatile singer, however, doesn't like to rake her brain just to be able to categorize her music. She rather goes to various musical treasure chambers in search of deeply haunting and fascinating melodies. Inspired by her personal interests and a musical training covering numerous musical fields and guided by an extraordinarily audacious
intuition, Laurie Ann Haus combines influences from the Renaissance, World music, Celtic Folk, Mediaeval, sorrowful and intense (Doom) Metal sounds, and classicism to a unique variant of dark emotional music.

In terms of instruments, the vocal artist wouldn't mind a treasure chamber full of them, but even with the small means which the American trio had for the recording of their demo, the musicians were able to move small mountains and delight listeners all around the globe. The combination of dark, classic, heavy guitar riffs, emotional violins, atmospheric piano and percussion creates a fantastic framework for Laurie's boundless vocals that have earned her many comparisons to Lisa Gerrard.
Info www.todesbonden.net

Band profile:

Todesbonden

# EMBRACING - CD 2005 - Neptune (Not signed with any new label yet)

The third album with Embracing is under production, it will be called "Neptune" and is to be recorded in
MORNINGDEW MEDIA during January-February 2005. I have also decided to stick to the clean vocals for this album.
It will probably be 8-9 tracks with our musical direction close to Symphony X, Pain Of Salvation & Meshuggah.
A few of the confirmed titles are:

Neptune
Knowledge of Gelhein
Three wishes
Charade without any colors
First breath alive
The gambler
Black love

Mattias Holmgren: Vocals, drums, keyboards
Ronnie Björnström: Electric guitars and acoustic guitars
Peter Uvén: Fretless bass, 5-6 stringed bass, Contrabass

A teaser (pre-production recordin) for the album can be found at:
www.morningdewmedia.com/music/album/neptune.mp3

More information and studio-logg can be found at EMBRACING homepage: www.embracing.net

# AZURE - CD 2005 - King of stars - Bearer of Dark (2:nd album is to be released by KARMAGEDDON MEDIA early 2005)

Frontfigure Robban Kanto and I recorded the album in September 2004 during 2 weeks in my studio Morningdew Media.
Robban Kanto: Vocals, guitars
Mattias Holmgren: Drums, backing vocals, keyboards

Guestmusicians: Nils Norberg (Nocturnal Rites), Ronnie Björnström (Embracing), Peter Uvén (Embracing), Ulph Johansson (ex. Embracing)
The music is fantasy inspired black/death metal, a great mix of Death, Opeth etc.
Releasedate will be confirmed at the Karmageddon homepage soon.
More info regarding AZURE can be found at www.midark.net
The new webpage will be online this week.

# Studio MORNINGDEW MEDIA (Umeå) is open for bookings 2005.

A new digital studio with experianced producer and technician in most music genres; metal, progressive metal, progg rock, pop etc.
Some of the equipment in place: Pearl Master Drumkit, Mesa Boogie Triaxxis amplifier, Fender Cyber Delux amplifier,
Ibanez guitars, EX-5 Yamaha keyboard etc.
If you lack a musician in your band we also have professional studio musicians at hand for your conveniance.
We also do CD mastring, cover, layout & webdesign work.
Prices, sound samples, pictures and additional info can be found at:

www.morningdewmedia.com

Phone for booking: +46 - 70 - 349 37 76
E-mail: info@morningdewmedia.com

Adress:
MORNINGDEW MEDIA
Brännölandet 14
913 35 Holmsund
Sweden

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Finnish metalband "End Of You" from Helsinki-city has signed a major record deal with Finnish Spinefarm Records.

For more infos, check End Of You homepage: http://www.endofyou.net

or, Spinefarm Records: http://www.spinefarm.fi

Band profile:

End Of You

Elend founders Iskandar Hasnawi and Renaud Tschirner will be the guests of
www.schwarzes-leipzig.com for an online chat of approx.1 hour on Monday, January 24, 20.00 CET.
Questions can be asked in German, French or English.

For more info, including technical details:
http://www.elend-music.org/

The coverart for the first single "Forever After" from the album "Paradise Lost" is now available. The Single will be released on February 14th.

"Forever After" will also feature backing vocals from Heather Thompson (Tapping the vein) and Leah Randi.

Follow the link to see the cover:
http://www.paradiselost.co.uk/whats_new_news_english_details.asp?id=261

Band profile:

Paradise Lost

In a chat last Tuesday Skyclad's singer Kevin "Armchair Enthusiast" Ridley revealed the following news:

- Skyclad are currently booking gigs for a tour in Europe in March/April
- To promote the tour and the last two albums Demolition Records will release a 6-Track-EP soon (with 2 tracks from "A Semblance Of Normality", 2 from "No Daylights Nor Heeltaps" and 2 unreleased songs)
- Kevin is working on a solo album that includes guest appearances of all Skyclad members

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Source:	p095.ezboard.com
Band profile:	Skyclad

U.D.O. confirmed to play at BANG YOUR HEAD!!! 10th anniversary festival

The official band-lineup of the German BANG YOUR HEAD!!!-festival 2005 is
all set up: U.D.O., the band of ACCEPT-singer Udo Dirkschneider, is the 22nd
and final band confirmed to play at the event that will take place at the
Messegelände of Balingen on the 24th and 25th of June.

BANG YOUR HEAD!!! 2005 will be the 10th BANG YOUR HEAD!!! in a row and is
therefore themed "The Best of Ten Years". To celebrate this anniversary, the
festival's organizers invited the most popular acts of all former events.
Alongside 22 bands that have rocked the festival's stage before, another
well-known very special guest will be invited as surprise act.

The list of artists set to perform at the BANG YOUR HEAD!!!-festival 2005 at
Balingen, Germany, 24th/25th of June:

TWISTED SISTER
MOTÖRHEAD
DIO
SAXON
DORO
SEBASTIAN BACH
U.D.O.
GAMMA RAY
NEVERMORE
KROKUS
AXEL RUDI PELL
DESTRUCTION
VIRGIN STEELE
AMON AMARTH
TANKARD
CANDLEMASS
JAG PANZER
EXCITER
MORGANA LEFAY
NASTY SAVAGE
VICIOUS RUMORS
DEMON

+ 1 very special guest

All further details about the BANG YOUR HEAD!!! may be found at the
BYH!!!-homepage at http://www.bang-your-head.de.

Tickets are availaible at ticket-hotline (+49-74 57-9 13 93) and via
homepage http://www.bang-your-head.de/. Prices are 59, - Euro (plus
shipping) at presales. Tickets are limited to a number of 20000. By this it
the organisators want to ensure that the special and relaxed atmosphere of
the event won't suffer.

The new album consist of 9 grinding songs.
The portion of music served by Bony and his band is very mature and breaks the rules the band established and followed themselves before. It is much different from Devilyn's previous recordings, and turns out to be a revelation.

BONY: After few years, reborn we return with the album that starts new chapter in band's history. After all that time i can say i managed to recreate devilyn with with people who perfectly understand my conception, i managed to bring all my visions to life. I think it's exactly what i wanted devilyn's music to be like, and i find this material to be the best of all our albums.
Words like dynamics, brutality, intensity, technique are not enough to describe "11". For me - it is like turning to different space of death metal. First of all, everything is now clear and much more understandable. We made a lot of changes in sound. Drums are very strong and clear, and Domin plays very fast. Guitars are really heavy and clear as well, due to Erian's feel and Cyprian's professionalism. The technique skills of Michal are very high and all the lyrics Tolovy wrote are easy to hear. We are fully satisfied with all we did during such a short recording session. We are proud this album is our own masterpiece.

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The band decide to part ways with the bassit and the drummer here are the details:

"for various reasons we have decided to part ways with kevin falk and jason roe... there's no bad blood between anyone, and we wish them all the best in the their future endeavors. -we have acquired percussionist extraordinaire blake richardson (glass casket)... and the bass situation should be figured out in the next few weeks."

Also the band is writting material for a new album.

http://betweentheburiedandme.com/newsite/

The german thrashers decided to sign with the label AFM Records, here is the statement from the frontam of the band:

"We would like to bring the speculations and rumours about a label chance of DESTRUCTION to an end!"

"After four terrific and successful years with NUCLEAR BLAST, the decision to work with a new label wasn´t easy at all"

"We would like to thank Markus Staiger and his Team for the great friendship and the fantastic work! They had a big participation of the positiv progress of our reunion!"

"AFM RECORDS is the new partner of our trust! The contracts will get signed within the next days! The new album will be released via AFM/ Soulfood here in Centre Europe and thru other distribution partners of the label worldwide, a little later this summer!"

"The pre-production is running at full blast. Because of the intense worldwide touring, it feels that the band never sounded tighter and more motivated than at this present moment!"

"Watch out for the new riffmonster that will write Thrash Metal history! And that´s a fuckin´ promise!"
Cheers!

SCHMIER, MIKE and MARC

http://www.destruction.de

Band profile:

Destruction

The death metal band have found the replace of Sherwood Webber who leave the band in novembre, the new singer is Jason Keyser who plays in Detriment and is Joy Keyser's brother (who is the bassist of the band). The band have some gigs to attend in march.

blabbermouth.net

The gothic band from the Netherlands have decide to broke up, this was what they said on their website:

"The rumors about the break up of To Elysium are true. After two studio albums we decided to continue our musical roads separated."

http://www.toelysium.com

As it was reported in the John Petrucci website, the album is ready and the release date will be post there, the album is expect to be release soon, here is the tracklist:

01. Jaws of Life
02. Glasgow Kiss
03. Tunnel Vision
04. Wishful Thinking
05. Damage Control
06. Curve
07. Lost Without You
08. Animate-Inanimate

and Here you can see the cover art.

http://www.johnpetrucci.com

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Band profile:

Dream Theater

Be A Video Droogie!

Megadeth is shooting their new video for "Of Mice and Men" in Los Angeles on Thursday, January 20 and Dave Mustaine wants his Droogies in the Los Angeles area to be there! If you have what it takes, email OfMiceAndMenVideoContest@sanctuarygroup.com to win this once in a lifetime opportunity! The winners will have the exact details e-mailed to them on Tuesday, January 18. You must be 18 years or older to attend.

(taken from www.megadeth.com)

Band profile:

Megadeth

After spending about 2 months in different studios the new album is finally finished. Its total running time is 49:53 and the following titles are included:

1. May Today Become the Day
2. Ever-Frost
3. We Are But Falling Leaves
4. Her Last 5 Minutes
5. Where Waters Fall Frozen
6. Despair-Ridden Hearts
7. Vengeance Is Mine
8. A Long Way To Nowhere
9. Consider Us Dead
10. Lower The Flags
11. Drain Me
12. Karu
13. End Of The Road.

The album was recorded mainly at Finnvox and Tonebox studios (both in Finland), and mixed & mastered at Finnvox. The man on the producer chair was again Hiili Hiilesmaa, who also produced our 2 previous albums "Crimson" and "The Cold White Light".

What you can expect is a variation of different kinds of songs, and for sure some surprises. In addition to the traditional instruments we used everything from scissors, zippers, compressed air and spoons to harmonicas and a children choir? but not to worry: as far as I understand anything anymore, we still have managed to maintain a sense of style.

The general feel and overall sound are more aggressive than on our latest few albums, but there are also songs that are based more on emotion and atmosphere. Lyrical themes include death (surprise, surprise?), life, loss, love, unity, disappointment and revenge, but only to start with. Overall there's perhaps more depth in the lyrics, as well as in the music, than ever before. I think some, if not all songs will definitely take a dozen spins before fully "opening" to the listener.

Well, enough words. This was the most intense, stressful, emotional and rewarding album session I have ever gone through. We are proud of what we have done and eager to hand it over to you for listening. That will be in April.

Until then, take care.

/Lopakka

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Source:	The Official Homepage]
Band profile:	Sentenced