From the official page of the Finnish folk band Tenhi:

Tenhi has almost finished the recordings for the upcoming full-length album which ought to be released in February-March 2005. It promises to be an intense and strong album which will take the Tenhi saga into even further spheres. The album is once again recorded at UTUstudio and will be released by Prophecy. Tenhi has also extended the original three longplay album record deal with one additional longplay album.

http://www.tenhi.com/

The EP "Trashed, Lost & Strungout" will be released October 18th in the following countries:

Germany
Finland
Japan
The Netherlands
Sweden
Norway
Great Britain
Canada
Belgium
Denmark
Greece
Italy
Brazil

More territories will follow as soon as they are 100% confirmed!

EP will include two new COB songs "Trashed, Lost and Strungout" and "Knuckleduster", two coversongs (Alice Cooper's "Bed Of Nails" and Andrew WK's "She is Beautiful").

The single with one new song (Trashed, Lost & Strungout) and Andrew WK cover will be released in Finland on August 25th.

More Info soon, about also the DVD version of the ep!

Source:	cobhc.com
Band profile:	Children Of Bodom

THE AMENTA SHOOT VIDEO FOR EREBUS !

THE AMENTA have began pre production for the video clip for Erebus - taken from their debut album "Occasus". Taking the reigns are Steff and Dalibor from Entropy films, directors critically acclaimed feature film - 'Zero Tolerance Squad' - winner of the awards for Best Director and Best Film as well as other awards at the Fifth Planet Indie Film Festival.

The Amenta's debut album "Occasus" has been receiving excellent reviews already.
Metal Heart Magazine - 9/10
Grind Zone Magazine - 9/10
Rock Tribune Magazine - 89/100
Eternal Terror Webzine - 5.5 / 6
Lords of Winter Webzine - 8.5 / 10
Metalstorm.ee Webzine - 9/10

Occasus will be released on August 30 in Europe and Australia etc.; and in October in North America.

SCARVE TO PLAY X MASS FEST

After a series of very succesful festival shows at FURY FEST, GRASPOP, DOUR fest, SCARVE have begun working on the bonus DVD to be added to the 'Translucence' debut album re-release due in 2005.
Drummer extraordinaire Dirk Verbeuren has started working on the drum patterns for the upcoming SOILWORK album to be recorded in Sept 2004. SCARVE are also currently in negociation for a European tour as well.

MORS PRINCIPIUM EST NEW ALBUM NEWS !

MORS PRINCIPIUM EST 's new album tentatively entitled 'THE UNBORN' will be recorded in Tico-Tico studio in Finland during the 4 weeks of November 2004. Mastering will take place at Finnvox studios in December 2004 . The cover-art for the album will be done by Mattias Norèn (www.progart.com). The band gave us a little insight about the new material on this new album :
"In comparison to "Inhumanity" the new album will take a step towards heavier and somewhat darker atmosphere still containing the overall
melodic grasp of music presented. The album is full of diversity and the songs have a slightly more modern approach as in form of sampling and the use of computer programming among Mikkos traditional drumwork.
As for the rhythm and soloparts twin-guitars will have the main role and the keyboard continues to colour the backround without being introduced as a soloinstrument on this album either.
Villes growling has developed since inhumanity and some serious voice control will be heard, also some clean vocals are used but the weight is kept on Villes throat. Overall, the album shall be an overall solid example of the fact that the "melodic deathmetal" as a sceneis still pretty far from it's possible expiration date"

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OFFICIAL STATEMENT: STEFAN SAYS GOODBYE!
After 6 years as the vocalist of Morifade, Stefan now has decided to leave his position in the band!
His own statement follows:

"Due to personal reasons I have decided that my days in Morifade are over. I would like to thank the guys in the band, it´s been a wonderful journey! Best of luck in the future! I would also like to thank my family and friends for their support and understanding through the years. But above all my thanks goes out to all the fans around the world for your everlasting support and devotion. Thank you for some truly unforgettable moments!"

Stefan's decision to leave the band did not come as a chock to us when he broke the news a couple of months ago, we had felt this coming for about a year and a half.
We thank Stefan for his long time in Morifade and wishes him the best of luck in the future!

All this means that right now we are searching for a new vocalist and we have several singers waiting to be auditioning for the band, in the meantime, ALL SINGERS are welcome to send us demos and info about themselves if you are interested to be the leadvocalist in Morifade!
Send your stuff to:
MORIFADE
P.O. Box 54
590 50 Vikingstad
SWEDEN

Taken from : www.morifade.com

After the colombian tour, the argentinian heavy metalers enter in the studio to the recording of the new album, it will be recorde in Buenos Aires, in a study closed, exclusive to the band.
The album is expect to be out in november, and it will be produced by guitarrist Walter Giardino.

Band profile:

Rata Blanca

Acording to Magnament coordinator of Judas Priest, they will be not doing more shows this year in order to finnish the new album, that have is expect to be out at: 28/12/2004. They're also working on a new World Tour in early 2005.

www.judaspriest.com

Band profile:

Judas Priest

Steve Tucker have decide to leave the band, David Vincent will be in charged of the vocals and bass, here is a message from Steve:

"After many problems and much discussion with the people around me, the people I trust. I have decided it is necessary for me to step away from Morbid Angel. It has been a long trip with a lot of great shows and I have made many friends along the way. The Morbid Angel fans that not only excepted me ,but reveled in my being a part of the band, have been the greatest thing about my time in Morbid Angel, they are the reason I came back to the band.

There are many reasons for me leaving the band, personal reasons, musical reasons and very logical reasons. All of which will stay between me and the band . Morbid Angel existed many years before I came along and will for many more I am sure.

I have enjoyed playing with some great musicians and touring with some great bands and meeting some incredible people all over the world. To all these people I say "Thank You" and we will meet again.

I am not done with the music business by any means, I will now be moving into other areas of the business, things I have always enjoyed, but didn't have time for. I will be moving into much more recording ,production and management, so any bands interested in working with me, feel free to contact me at hewhosleeps@hotmail.com .

Again ,Thank you to all of the fans for 8 years of making my hour and a half of stage time so brilliant!!! Tucker"

And in other hand the shows that were programed to south america have been changed to september

Band profile:

Morbid Angel

Interesting news from Prophecy Records website:

"GREEN CARNATION - Trilogy - LP box

GREEN CARNATION are inviting their fans to a special treat with their beautiful box set: "The Trilogy" contains all three of GREEN CARNATION's albums on heavy vinyl and with luxurious gatefold covers in a deluxe box. Especially the covers to ?Journey To The End Of The Night" and ?Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" finally show to their advantage in this format. We follow the Norwegians' musical voyage from their debut album ?Journey To The End Of The Night" via the second release ?Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" to their most recent work, ?A Blessing In Disguise". While ?Journey To The End Of The Night" (on which Tchort was helped by Vibeke from Tristania and the Botteri twins from In The Woods ?) was very much located in the Psychedelic Doom Metal area, ?Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" features a blending of heavy doom guitars, orchestral arrangements and Progressive Rock influences. Finally, ?A Blessing In Disguise" reveals the melancholic Hard Rock side of GREEN CARNATION. In addition to these three albums, "The Trilogy" includes five previously unreleased acoustic versions of some tracks from the ?A Blessing In Disguise" album. In Europe, this box set is limited to 333 hand-numbered copies".

Source:	prophecy.cd
Band profile:	Green Carnation

From the official site:
Metal Blade have confirmed that they will release FATES WARNING's new album, FWX, on October 5th.
FWX was recorded in Stamford, Connecticut at Carriage House and will include the following song titles:
1. Left Here
2. Simple Human
3. River Wide Ocean Deep
4. Another Perfect Day
5. Heal Me
6. Sequence # 7
7. Crawl
8. A Handful Of Doubt
9. Stranger (With A Familiar Face)
10. Wish
www.fateswarning.com

Band profile:

Fates Warning

The following message was sent by Michael Håkansson to the official site of the band:

"Greetings Clan members,
On the 9th of October we will record our first Live DVD here in Gothenburg. We will for sure make this is a night to remember. It will be the most glorious thing in Evergrey history and we feel that we want to have all of you there to help us make this night perfect. So all of you people from outside of Sweden who want to attend at this special night, send an email to me with the subject DVD and you will be put on a special guestlist for the show.
Stay Grey and we'll see you on October 9th!!!"

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

Guitarist Christofer Malmström of Swedish thrashers DARKANE has posted the following message on his web site:

"It's going to be a busy autumn. Finally it seems like Peter's hands are healed and we can start the serious work on our upcoming album. All songs are written but never rehearsed and we are going to start rehearsing two new songs. A few days ago we did a show at a festival in the area where we live and it turned out very good! I would say all of us did a great performance considering that we haven't played together since November last year. The recording of the new album will start ASAP.

"The recording of my solo project will probably start in a few months or so. Ryan is busy with his DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND and other projects but will start recording as soon as he has learned the songs and is ready to go. It will be released next year anyway."

DARKANE's last studio album, "Expanding Senses", was released in 2002 through Nuclear Blast Records.

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Band profile:

Darkane

Finnish death metallers DEATH DU JOUR have completed work on their debut album, "Fragments of Perdition", due in September through Golden Lake Productions. The follow-up to the "Gamashinoch" EP was recorded at Pop-Studio with producer Mika Haapasalo. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Grace by Chalice of Anger
02. Fragments of Perdition
03. Embittering Cicatricies
04. Harlot Deliverance (mp3)
05. Weakmeat Vortex
06. Satire of Caustic Lunacy
07. Triangle Gallows (mp3)
08. Dogma - The Suffering

DEATH DU JOUR and fellow Finns HATEFORM will support GODHATE and INSISION on their upcoming "Deathkampen 2" Finnish mini-tour in October. The dates are as follows:

Oct. 19 - Helsinki, FIN @ Semifinaali
Oct. 20 - TBA, FIN @ TBA
Oct. 21 - Joensuu, FIN @ Marks
Oct. 22 - Imatra, FIN @ Woodoo
Oct. 23 - Turku, FIN @ Bar Shadow

They plan to enter in the studios on August and released the album in early 2005, this are some worlds of the drummer Craing Nielsen:

"leaps and bounds heavier than the last four records combined, definitely a return to the bands roots but still with some ambient surprises that break up all the speed riffing. There seems to be an inspired vibe going on in the writing process that is taking on a life of its own."

Also the band it's going to take part on the "Thrash Domination 04", this are the confrimed dates:

Sep. 24 - Osaka, JPN @ Namba Hatch
Sep. 25 - Tokyo, JPN @ Club Citta
Sep. 26 - Tokyo, JPN @ Club Citta

Band profile:

Flotsam And Jetsam

"The Empire are entering Studio 13 August 1st to begin recording their 4th Cd "METHOD OF EXECUTION" & will consist of 15 new songs of their own brand of pure extreme Southern Florida style Death Metal. "METHOD OF EXECUTION" is due to be released early '2005' through Olympic/Century Media."

http://metalasylum.com/divine/

The band that recently decide not to continue, because of the loss of Valfar(founder and singer of the band), will do one last concert on his honour:

"Friday the 3rd of September there will be a last Windir concert. The concert will be at Rockefeller Arena in Oslo, Norway. The 3rd of September would have been Valfars 26th birthday, and we would like to honour his memory by doing one last show. Sture will be doing most of the Windir vocals. We are also glad to announce that 3 bands will be joining us this night. ENSLAVED, FINNTROLL & MINDGRINDER will be doing shows in honour of Valfar."

www.windir.no

Band profile:

Windir