Canadian metal band Into Eternity have scheduled a series of shows around their Gigantour performances. Premiering songs from their forthcoming October 3rd release, The Scattering Of Ashes, the band have two headlining shows booked prior to Gigantour's start and on their Gigantour off-dates. Additionally the band will be performing with Overkill in Portland, as follows:

Into Eternity 08/30 The Distrikt - Regina, SK, Canada

Gigantour 2006 Off Dates 09/07:

Sep. 07 - Sabala's - Portland, OR (with Overkill)
Sep. 12 - Bulldogz - Glendale, AZ
Sep. 18 - Sanctuary - San Antonio, TX
Sep. 20 - The Muse - Nashville, TN
Sep. 26 - The Embassy - London, ON
Oct. 01 - Peabody's Down Under - Cleveland, O

Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Into Eternity

A video clip of Ozzy Osbourne and Black Label Society's frontman Zakk Wylde has been posted online via guitarplayertv.com, warming up with his instrument. You can watch it here.

A video clip of Black Label Society performing 'Stillborn' live in paris (France) in 2005 has been posted online here. Also you can find videos of Suicide Messiah and In This River. The three videos come off the band's new DVD,'The European Invasion - Doom Troopin' (August,22 @ Eagle Vision). You can find more informations as a e-card for the release here.

A video clip of Black Label Society frontman talking about the new album, 'Shot To Hell' has been posted online at TheShowBuzz.com (scroll a little bit downwards).

In other news, Black Label Society's 'Shot To Hell' cover is scheduled for release on September 12 through Roadrunner Records. Two songs "Concrete Jungle" and "Black Mass Reverends" from this album are available for streaming, here.

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Black Label Society

According to this article written on La Musica, Fear Factory has concelled its previously announced south American tour due to scheduling difficulties.

The trek was slated to kick off tonight (Thursday, August 24) in San Jose, Costa Rica and make stops in Argentina, Chile, Venezuela and Ecuador. It is not currently confirmed if the band's scheduled dates in Mexico (Sept. 2 in Mexico City and Sept. 3 in Guadalajara) will be affected by the cancellation.

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Fear Factory

Official press release :

Gothic metal pioneers Paradise Lost and Century Media Records are proud to announce the band's worldwide signing to the record label. In a career that has spanned over 17 years, Paradise Lost have sold a staggering two million albums worldwide.

European Label Manager Antje Lange commented on the signing, "We feel very honored to welcome Paradise Lost to The Century Family. Paradise Lost are an extremely influential band with the creative potential for a very bright future. As their new record label, we look forward to working to expand their global fan base."

After reviewing several offers, Paradise Lost chose to sign to Century Media worldwide. Vocalist Nick Holmes states, "It's great to be on a label with so many metal bands and such a heritage. This worldwide deal will give us a chance to have a crack at the U.S."

GUN/Sony/BMG in Europe and Abacus Recordings in the U.K. and the U.S released the band's last album "Paradise Lost." Century Media Records will be re-releasing the album in the U.K. and U.S.

Currently in pre-production with producer Rhys Fulber for their as of yet unnamed 11th album, the band will embark on a U.K. tour with Opeth in November. After the live dates, the band is planning to record their new album in Bradford, Lincolnshire and Canada in late November/December with a release tentatively scheduled for spring 2007.

Source:	paradiselost.co.uk
Band profile:	Paradise Lost

Swedish metallers Entombed have issued the following update:

"The 'When In Sodom' EP was extremely well received, more than any other Entombed record, boosting both interest and sales in Europe, so we thank each and every one who got their hands on a copy.

"'When In Sodom' is yet to be released in Scandinavia,(September 18) and USA, (November 14) to coincide with the west coast dates with Grave and Dismember, 1-16 December. We need to get those extra kicks in to pave the way before we unleash the highly anticipated full length studio album ? 'Serpent Saints'. In the meantime, Entombed will tour Scandinavia and USA on the EP; in November the mighty Masters Of Death tour will pulverize Europe, and then we will launch the masterpiece in February/March 2007. It will be worth the wait!"

In other side, the band's new album was recorded at Soundland studio in Upplands Väsby, Sweden. The CD is the group's first without the contributions of guitarist Uffe Cederlund, who left the band in September 2005.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Entombed

Folk Metallers Tyr will be releasing a new album next month. The album will be entitled 'Ragnarok' and will be released on 22nd September (10th October for the US). It was recorded at Hansen studios in Ribe, Denmark. The band has said the the album is a concept album.

Here is the track listing for the album:

01. The Beginning
02. The Hammer Of Thor
03. Envy
04. Brothers Bane
05. The Burning
06. The Ride To Hel
07. Torsteins Kvæði
08. Grímur Á Miðalnesi
09. Wings of Time
10. The Rage Of The Skullgaffer
11. The Hunt
12. Victory
13. Lord of Lies
14. Gjallarhorni
15. Ragnarok
16. The End
17. Valkyries Flight*
18. Valhalla*

*Bonus track available on digipak version

The album cover artwork can be seen here

A sample song from the album can be downloaded (from the Napalm Records site) here

Here is a small comment by Tyr: "We are very pleased with the result and we think that it is our best work to date. Can't wait to release it and to play it live on tour."

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Source:	tyr.net
Band profile:	Týr

Revolution Music has just uploaded a new audio interview with Kelly Shaefer of the technical metallers Atheist. The interview talks about the band's European reunion tour, how the music scene has evolved and his upcoming projects. It's all about 13 minutes of chat that can be downloaded here.

Otherwise, a video clip of Atheist bassist Tony Choy falling through an unsecured part of the large outdoor stage at Italy's Evolution Festival on July 16, 2006 has been posted online at YouTube.com.

Atheist kicked off their summer European tour run July 14 at England's Bloodstock Festival. The band's first live appearances in over 13 years were greeted with rabid enthusiasm as the group blazed through classics like "Unquestionable Presence" and "Piece of Time".

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Atheist

Australian Black Metal band Destroyer 666 have announced that they will be touring the USA this September/October. The tour will be called their 'American Assault' tour. The band will be playing with Demonicon, Anal Blast, Scorched Earth, Sol Negro, Morbosidad, Coffin Texts and Sadistic Intent (not all at once) over the seven dates.

Here are the dates for the tour:

Sep. 29th - NYC (NY) Metal Kingdom with T.Holocaust
Sep. 30th - Houston (TX)
Oct. 1st - St. Paul (MN) Station-4 with Demonicon and Anal Blast
Oct. 2nd - Chicago (IL)
Oct. 3rd - Seattle (WA) The FunHouse with Scorched Earth and Sol Negro
Oct. 4th - San Francisco (CA) The Elbow Room with Morbosidad
Oct. 5th - Los Angeles (CA) Safari Sams with Coffin Texts and Sadistic Intent

Source:	destroyer666.net
Band profile:	Deströyer 666

Hapless rock legend Ozzy Osbourne has been voted Britain's silliest celebrity. The former Black Sabbath frontman has taken the coveted top spot from Tory toff Boris Johnson. The list, compiled from a survey of more than 2,000 people, contains some of the usual suspects: Jade Goody, John Prescott, Prince Philip, etc.

Source:	itv.com
Band profile:	Ozzy Osbourne

Progressive metal outfit, Symphony X is continuing work on 'Paradise Lost', set to be released before the end of the year. The following statement has been posted via the group's website:

"It would appear that one of the early drafts of the cd cover has been leaked to at least one website; the band hasn't had a chance to okay any final artwork, so what you see floating around out there is NOT the final cd cover art.

Jason is done recording his parts, and the rhythm tracks and other guitar parts should be done by next week. The band's aiming to have the music ready for mixing by mid September; MJR says that things are moving right along, and kept our conversation short so that he could get back to it.

More news when there's more to share..."

In other news, Symphony X was obliged to cancel many European festival appearances suit of their bassist's health.

Source:	symphonyx.com
Band profile:	Symphony X

According to Earache Records, one of Sweden's largest online music stores, Ginza.se, has barred the sale of Deicide's latest album, "The Stench of Redemption", citing the blasphemous CD sleeve art, controversial lyrical subject matter and the fact that Deicide mainman Glen Benton has an upside-down cross branded into the center of his forehead as their reasoning. This has consequently led to Ginza.se taking the unprecedented step of removing all traces of previous Deicide releases from their online store aswell.

This action follows quickly on from the news that U.K. TV channel Scuzz TV have also refused to play the video for Deicide's "Homage For Satan" due to its ? in their view ? offensive content.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Deicide

Los Angeles thrashers Slayer have cancelled their previously announced appearance at the third edition of the Monterrey Metal Fest, previously set to take place Saturday, September 23, 2006 at the Coca Cola Auditorium in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Slayer, who were scheduled to headline the event, cited "personal reasons" as the cause of the cancellation.
As a reaction the festival was set back, most likely until November. A new headliner and the exact date will be announced soon.

This year's Monterrey Metal Fest is being billed as "Hell and Heaven United" due to the fact that the festival will include appearances by reunited Christian hard rockers Stryper and Satanic death metallers Deicide. The concert, which promises to be the "biggest and baddest version yet", will feature eight of the biggest names in heavy metal music from all over the world on the main stage and 12 up-and-coming international and Mexican bands on the second stage.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Slayer
Event:	Monterrey Metal Fest

Roadrunner Records will release 4 best of records in September for Sepultura, Fear Factory, Type O Negative and Ill Nino. All four titles will be in stores and available for download on September 12th. Tracklists and covers are as follows

The Best Of Sepultura
1. Troops Of Doom
2. Beneath The Remains
3. Inner Self
4. Arise
5. Dead Embryonic Cells
6. Desperate Cry
7. Refuse/Resist
8. Territory
9. Slave New World
10. Biotech Is Godzilla
11. Roots Bloody Roots
12. Attitude
13. Ratamahatta

The Best Of Fear Factory
1. Martyr
2. Scapegoat
3. Scumgrief
4. Demanufacture
5. Self-Bias Resistor
6. Zero Signal
7. Replica
8. Shock
9. Edgecrusher
10. Resurrection
11. Cars
12. Linchpin

The Best Of Type O Negative
1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
2. Christian Woman
3. Black No. 1
4. Too Late: Frozen
5. Love You To Death
6. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Everyone I Love Is Dead
9. Everything Dies
10. Highway Star
11. I Don't Wanna Be Me
12. Life Is Killing Me

The Best Of Ill Nino
1. What Comes Around
2. Unreal
3. God Save Us
4. If You Still Hate Me
5. Liar
6. This Time's For Real
6. How Can I Live
8. Cleansing
9. Te Amo. I Hate You
10. What You Deserve
11. This Is War
12. Turns To Gray
13. Corazon of Mine

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Sepultura

Abigor's "Orkblut - The Retaliation" mini-CD, which was originally issued in 1994 via Napalm Records, will be released on vinyl and as a limited-edition picture disc in October through Chaos Sacrum Records.

Audio samples of three instrumental demo tracks that are set to appear on the forthcoming album from the reunited Austrian black metallers, entitled "Fractal Possession", have been made available for streaming on MySpace.

Abigor's current lineup includes mainman Peter Kubik and co-founding member T.T.

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Abigor

A brand new Isis track, Dulcinea, has been made available for streaming at MySpace. The song comes off the group's upcoming album, "In the Absence of Truth", due on October 31 through Ipecac Records.

"In the Absence of Truth" (view cover here) track listing:

01. Wrists of Kings
02. Not In Rivers, But In Drops
03. Dulcinea
04. Over Root And Thorn
05. 1000 Shards
06. All Out of Time, All into Space
07. Holy Tears
08. Firdous E Bareen
09. Garden of Light

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Isis