Legendary death metallers Dying Fetus have entered the studio to record their as-yet-untitled new full-length album.

Dying Fetus have recently been joined by new drummer Duane Timlin to begin recording the follow-up to 2003's "Stop At Nothing" at Hit & Run Studios in Rockville, MD. Advance song titles include: 'Parasites Of Catastrophe', 'Unadulterated Hatred', 'Raping The System' and 'The Ancient Rivalry'. The band (John Gallagher - Guitars / Vocals, Mike Kimbell - Guitar, Sean Beasley - Bass, and Timlin on drums) will complete recording by winter for an early 2007 release through Relapse Records.

Additionally, Dying Fetus have been announced as the main support band on the upcoming Cannibal Corpse North American tour with Necrophagist and Unmerciful. A complete listing of tour dates can be found here with more to be announced soon.

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Source:	dyingfetus.com
Band profile:	Dying Fetus

Neurotic Records have made the video clip of Visceral Bleeding's 'Disgust The Vile' available on their official YouTube channel. 'Disgust The Vile' is one of the two video clips that will end up on the forthcoming full length album, titled "Absorbing The Disarray." Click hereto go to the Neurotic Records YouTube channel.

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Source:	neurotic-records.com
Band profile:	Visceral Bleeding

Swedish Death Metallers Grave have posted the following update :

"After careful consideration our drummer Pelle has decided to leave the band due to personal reasons and also the increasement of touring that we will engage in the coming months and hopefully years to come.

Pelle has been a very important part of the band and has played a big part in Grave's sound on the albums he appeared on. We wish him all the best with his other projects and life in general.

For the upcoming tours we have drafted Ronnie Bergerståhl (ex-Bastards, Julie Laughs Nomore, Amaran, Centinex). Rehearsals are going great and we welcome Ronnie in the band. His first live appearance with Grave will be when we kick off the first leg of the 2006 US tour at Sep 30.

More info on Ronnie will be up soon..."

For a full list of tour dates (USA in October and December and Europe in November), click here.

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Source:	grave.se
Band profile:	Grave

A new song from Borknagar entitled 'Earth Imagery' has been posted online here. The track comes off the band's upcoming acoustic album "Origin" which will be released on October 30th through Century Media in Europe.

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Source:	www2.centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Borknagar

Official press release :

Spain's Locomotive Records will release worldwide the new album ("Burden Of Truth") from progressive/power metal masters Circle II Circle on October 10th.
"Burden Of Truth"'s captivating concept is taken from "The Da Vinci Code" by Dan Brown and "Holy Blood Holy Grail" by Michael Baigent, Richard Leight and Henry Lincoln. Both novels theorize that Jesus Christ married Mary Magdalene, and their children's descendents prospered in France.
This "holy bloodline" has fascinated Circle II Circle singer/songwriter Zak Stevens for years. "Just imagine," he says, "that through years of research tracing back through your family tree, you uncover a secret religious society that reveals to you that you are, in fact, one of the direct descendants of Jesus!"
Circle II Circle - vocalist Stevens, guitarists Andy Lee and Evan Christopher, bassist Mitch Stewart and drummer Tom Drennan - is prepared for whatever controversy this hot-button topic engenders. The release date is the 699th anniversary of the day in 1307 when members of The Knights Templar were arrested and banished in France for espousing such beliefs.
"Fifty million fans have read these books," explains Stevens, "and I'm sure they have had some of the same feelings and questions I've had, so the band and I decided to explore our thoughts and share them with our fans. There's definitely some dark stuff on this record but if you really dig deep, you'll see that there's a very positive outcome."

The record was finished - believe it or not - on 6/6/06. The first single will be 'Revelations'. A tour is set for Europe and the U.S. later this fall.

The tracklisting is as follows :
01. Who Am I To Be
02. Matter Of Time
03. Heal You
04. Revelations
05. This Is Your Reality
06. Evermore
07. The Black
08. Messiah
09. Sentenced
10. Burden Of Truth
11. Live As One
12. Into The Wind
13. Burden Of Truth

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Source:	circle2circle.net
Band profile:	Circle II Circle

Former Nightwish vocalist Tarja Turunen has been working on a new solo Christmas album at Finnvox Studios. The album will be called "Henkäys Ikuisuudesta" and will contain the following songs (in no particualr order):

Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
Marian Poika
You Would Have Loved This
Mökit Nukkuu Lumiset
En Etsi Valtaa, Loistoa
Happy New Year
Walking In The Air
Kuin Henkäys Ikuisuutta
Jo Joutuu Ilta
Varpunen Jouluaamuna
Jouluyö, Juhlayö
The Eyes Of A Child
Magnificat Anima Mea: Quia Respexit
Ave Maria

'You Would Have Loved This' will be the first single. The single's cover art can be found here.

The single will be available in Finland next October 11th and the album "Henkäys Ikuisuudesta" will be out on November 8th.

A full studio report and some pictures can be found here.

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Source:	tarjaturunen.com
Band profile:	Tarja

Guitarist Hjalmar Nielsen has decided to leave Swedish Black Metal formation Lord Belial. According to a statement from Hjalmar: "There are absolutely no hard feelings involved in my decision and I just hope the best for the guys as they are great people and good friends."

Following to the depart, guitarist Niclas "Pepa" Andersson has rejoined the fold. In this way the band has all his original members again.

Lord Belial's seventh studio album entitled "Revelation" is expected to receive a late 2006 release through Regain Records.

Full statements and all other info can be found at http://www.lordbelial.com.

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Source:	lordbelial.com
Band profile:	Lord Belial

Initial dates for Necrophagist's UK/Ireland tour have been announced. A few more dates will be added, but here's the current itinerary :

10/15 London, UK @ The Underworld
10/17 Manchester, UK @ Satan's Hollow w/ Napalm Death
10/18 Stoke, UK @ The Glebe
10/19 Cork, IRE @ An Cruiscin Lan
10/20 Dublin, IRE @ Voodoo Lounge
10/23 Birmingham, UK @ Edward's No.8
10/24 Newport, UK @ TJ's

Necrophagist will tour the USA with Cannibal Corpse, Dying Fetus and Unmerciful ("Carving North America's Epitaph Vol. II" tou) afterwards. Those dates can be found at the band's official website.

Source:	necrophagist.de
Band profile:	Necrophagist

Suffocation's new full-length album "Suffocation" is available in its entirety for online listening courtesy of AOL Music's 'Full CD Listening Party.' Click here to listen. The album will be released today, on 19 September.

You can also hear Alice In Chains' "The Essential" (released 5 September) here, and Janes Addiction's "Best Of..." CD (release date today (19 September) here.

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Source:	music.aol.com
Band profile:	Suffocation

The legendary pimps of gore, Gut have posted two new songs over at their official MySpace page :

"Fisted On The Dancefloor" taken from their upcoming split EP with XXX Maniak. Release : January 2007 on Relapse.

"Hooker Ballett" taken from their split EP with Gonorreah Pussy. Release : October 2006 on Last House On The Right.

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myspace.com

Therion's official website has been updated with the following :

"We are giving it another shot! A series of videos is now available for downloads. The quality is not the best in the world, but at least it is something. If this doesn't kill the server we will hopefully be able to put up more videos with better quality. So go on over to the Download section and grab them."

As previously reported, the recordings of the band's new album have been completed and the mixing is now in progress. The band "estimate to have the album done by the end of the month." It is set to be released on January 16th.

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Source:	megatherion.com
Band profile:	Therion

Newly signed to Armageddon Music, German black metallers Sycronomica are releasing their new album "Gate" on November 17. The CD was recorded at Hellion Studios in Munich, Germany in July.

"Gate" clocks in at around 50 minutes and features the following tracklisting:
01. Preludium II
02. Beyond The Gate Of Light
03. Für Die Ewigkeit
04. In The Distance...
05. Von Ende Und Anfang
06. To The Rivers End
07. Farewell Olden World
08. Unleashed From Ancient Chains
09. Nachtwanderung
10. The Nightly Forces

A release party is planned for November 25th at Titanic City in Munich. Details will be revealed soon.

Upcoming Sycronomica live dates include:

November
17 - Filderstadt, Germany at United We Stand Festival
25 - Munich, Germany at Titanic City (album release party)

March
30 - Lichtenfels, Germany at Ragnarök Festival (Stadthalle)

Source:	sycronomica.de
Band profile:	Sycronomica

Twisted Sister's cover version of 'I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus' (written by Jimmy Boyd and released as a single in 1953) has been posted online at the band's official MySpace page here.
The track is part of the band's festive CD "A Twisted Christmas" which is due October 17th via Razor & Tie Records.

"A Twisted Christmas" (cover art) features the following tracklisting :
01. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
02. Oh Come All Ye Faithful
03. White Christmas
04. I'll Be Home For Christmas (featuring Lita Ford)
05. Silver Bells
06. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Clause
07. Let It Snow
08. Deck The Halls
09. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
10. Heavy Metal Christmas (The Twelve Days Of Christmas)

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Source:	twistedsister.com
Band profile:	Twisted Sister

Agalloch's video for 'Not Unlike The Waves' is now being streamed at mp3.com.

The video for the song - which is from their new album "Ashes Against The Grain" (on The End Records) - was directed by Nicole Phillips, DP Richard Stark, and camera operators Richard Stark and Juan Mosqueda.

The video - shot in three days with the band in remote areas - calls to mind the work of Ingmar Bergman, Mario Bava, and the German Expressionist movement.

To watch the video for 'Not Unlike The Waves', go here.

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Source:	agalloch.org
Band profile:	Agalloch

Thunderstone are currently working on their fourth studio album at Sonic Pump Studios. Guitarist/producer Nino Laurenne has issued the following update:

"Well, here we are: starting the sessions for Thunderstone's fourth album. And like before, at this point there's no pressure at all, so the atmosphere and the feeling overall is almost bursting through the roof, which is, btw four meters high in the new Sonic Pump Studios! One thing that makes me very enthusiastic to start the recordings is that I've been working over a year in my new studio with several other bands and I know that the place is perfect for music production.

So everything seems to be just perfect...so far :-)

Saturday morning we started to build up the mics around Mirka's drum kit. This time I wanted to hire a professional engineer to record the drums because I wanted to concentrate 110% on producing. And the perfect guy for this job was Jesse Vainio, who actually is more known for making albums with gold/platinum selling mainstream artists in Finland. Since Mirka was working at his day job until 3pm, we started to set up the sounds etc etc. It took around three hours and the whole kit was miked and the overall sound was ok. And of course the final tuning had to happen with Mirka, since he hits like 1000 times harder than me:-))

Also one major thing that we did differently this time is that we used a 16 track 2 inch analog tape recorder. There IS something magical with the analog sound.

Mainly the whole drum session went pretty easily and we were having a great time. The drum sound is probably the best I've ever recorded so far, so I'm really happy and anxious to start play guitars next. We recorded 11 songs + 2 cover songs that I am not going to tell what they are:-)) All I can say that the other one will be quite a surprise. Let's see what our label will say about that;-)

That's all for now. I will write again after the rhythm guitars and the bass are done."

-Nino-

Thunderstone will play ProgPower in Atlanta, GA on September 16th.

Source:	thunderstone.org
Band profile:	Thunderstone