INDUSTRIAL ICON AL JOURGENSEN OF MINISTRY
LAUNCHES 13TH PLANET RECORDS

13th Planet Website Unveiled on Halloween 2005
www.thirteenthplanet.com

Debut release of the new Revolting Cocks coming on Valentines Day 2006
All new Ministry album to follow in April 2006

Industrial rock pioneer Al Jourgensen ventures into the record label business with the launch of 13th Planet Records, the new home of Ministry and Revolting Cocks. The imprint/boutique label is a joint venture with Megaforce Records for the U.S. and Canadian markets, distributed through Sony/RED. Missi Callazzo, Vice President of Megaforce, excitedly relates, "It's great to be working with Ministry again. We had platinum success during 'Psalm 69' days and Ministry remains an iconic and pioneering band. There is nobody better than Al Jourgensen releasing terror and greatness as he continues to challenge the status quo.".

With the recent release of Ministry's 25th anniversary collection Rantology marking the completion of his contractual agreement with Sanctuary Records, Mr. Jourgensen and Sanctuary amicably parted ways. The Sanctuary catalog of Ministry releases includes Sphinctour, Animositisomina, the critically acclaimed Houses of the Molé.

Jourgensen essentially returns to his roots with his latest endeavor. Al spearheaded the Chicago based Waxtrax! imprint throughout the late 80's and 90's bringing forth the release of such notable alter-ego ventures as Revolting Cocks, Pailhead, 1000 Homo DJ's, Acid Horse, PTP, and Lard. Jourgensen explains "Being clean for three years, I decided it was time for me to get back in the saddle and create an independent and autonomous outlet for Ministry and other side projects again. I am looking forward to developing 13th Planet Records into a successful, prolific, and creatively rewarding artist run label."

13th Planet Records unveils its new website www.thirteenthplanet.com on October 31, 2005. The site will host news, music, tour information, and merchandise for all things Ministry, Revolting Cocks and Jourgensen's side-projects.

13th Planet unleases its debut release Revolting Cocks: Cocked and Loaded February 14, 2006. Produced by Al Jourgensen, the CD features the contributions of guest artists Jello Biafra (Dead Kennedys), Gibby Haynes (Butt Hole Surfers), Rick Nielsen (Cheap Trick), Billy Gibbons (ZZ Top), Stevie Banch (Spyder Baby) and Phildo Owen (Skatenigs) and Robin Zander (Cheap Trick). The anticipated new Ministry album, Rio Grande Blood will follow with an April 2006 release. Also produced by Ministry founder Jourgensen, the new album features Tommy Victor (Prong) and Paul Raven (Killing Joke).

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Ministry

Morphia is looking for a new guitar-player. Recently both Erik (bass) and Roger (guitar) left the band due to personal reasons. Vocalist Jasper will handle the bass in the future, so only a new guitarplayer has to be found. If you live in The Netherlands, know how to play your guitar well and are willing to join Morphia on tours and new cd's, get in touch with the band: info@morphia.nl .

http://www.fear-dark.com

The following message was posted by Jan Bünning(bassist) on the band official website:

"As fans keep asking us just some words to our plans for the near future. At present we rehearse for our next headliner shows our newest member - drummer Christian Gripp - still has to learn songs so we have a longer setlist.

When we have played our next show we will start to write new songs for our next record we plan to record in late winter / early spring 2006 with a possible release date just before summer or late summer. We also have to take a look at the shows we recorded for our first DVD release. All in all we recorded four shows - WACKEN 2004, METAL BASH 2005, our MARKTHALLE SHOW in Hamburg and also our performance at the KEEP IT TRUE in the beginning of this year. Furthermore we have lot of bootleg shows record with just one camera we could include as bonus. It´s a lot of work to sort out the good from the bad but we hope we know something more soon. We don´t have any precise release date yet but we hope we are ready in the beginning of 2006 with it.

We also try to get some shows for festivals and single shows next year. If anybody is interested in booking us just drop us a line at gigs@paragon-legions.com .

So we have a lot of work in front of us - but METAL is the LAW!"

Jan / PARAGON

Source:	paragon-legions.com
Band profile:	Paragon

The Swedish band featuring former Lost Horizon members had posted the track list and cover art for their debut album "The Call" to be release at 21/10/2005 in Japan.

The tracklist is as follow:

01 Heed Hades
02 I Am Alive
03 Last drop of Blood
04 Ashes
05 Enemy
06 Salvation
07 Tears of prodigy
08 The other side
09 Hypnosis
10 Moments
11 The permanent end celebration
12 Nothing
13 The flight*

* Promo track (only Japan)

To see the cover art click here.

As previously announced you can preview the album here.

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heedonline.com

The following message by Crhis Impelliteri was posted on the official Impelliteri's fan club site:

"I am currently writing and recording music with my new Los Angeles based metal band. This will be the first official band I have actually joined. The music is definitely metal; and yes there are lots of Impellitteri shredding solos! ; however, the difference between my new band and Impellitteri is the fact that I am just the lead guitarist as opposed to the leader of the group.
Furthermore, I am excited to be part of this new band to see if we can build something special for the metal community. If all goes well we should have some new music by next summer and the official name of the band."

Source:

rapture.net

Korpiklaani will start recording their 3rd album on 15th of November at Fantom studio. The album will be named "Tales Along This Road". The exact release date isn't confirmed yet, but a rough guess is that it might be out in March or April. The album will be produced by Samu Oittinen, who also produced the Voice Of Wilderness -album.

http://www.korpiklaani.com

Band profile:

Korpiklaani

Season of Mist announced the latest adquisition to their roster, well-know Greek band Rotting Christ that are currently touring through Europe:

Oct 18th, Munchen DE TBA
Oct 19th, Prague CZ Black Pes
Oct 20th, Ostrava CZ Tancirna
Oct 21th, Leipzig DE Hellraiser
Oct 22th, Berlin DE K-17
Oct 23th, Poznan PL Eskulap
Oct 26th, Gomel BY TBA
Oct 27th, Sankt-Peterburg RU TBA
Oct 29th, Moscow RU TBA
Oct 30th, Tomsk RU TBA
Nov 1st, Krasnodar RU TBA
Nov 2nd, Rostov-on-dov RU TBA
Nov 3rd, Jaroslavl RU TBA
Nov 04th, Kiev UK TBA

Also a tour in the US should be announced in the near future.

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Source:	season-of-mist.com
Band profile:	Rotting Christ

The band posted the following update in its website:

"We're happy to annouce that metal legend Dan Swanö (Edge Of Sanity, Bloodbath, Pan Thy Monium) will be contributing back-up vocals on the new Enforsaken album, Sinner's Intuition. We're all very excited to be working with him, as all of us have been huge fans for years. We (finally!) start the recording sessions for the album next week in Wisconsin with Chris Djuricic @ Studio One. Album artwork is currenty being finished up by Travis Smith, and things are looking good. The new album is currently scheduled for a Jan/Feb 2006 release on Crash Music. Check back soon for updates!"

Source:	enforsaken.com
Band profile:	Enforsaken

KRUX, the Swedish band featuring CANDLEMASS mainman/bassist Leif Edling, ex-YNGWIE MALMSTEEN singer Mats Levén, ENTOMBED drummer Peter Stjärnvind, guitarist Jörgen Sandstrom (also in THE PROJECT HATE, ex-ENTOMBED/GRAVE), and current ARCH ENEMY guitarist Fredrik Åkesson, recently entered Studioland studio in Upplands Väsby, Sweden to record a three-song demo of material to be included on the band's forthcoming sophomore album. The tracks currently being recorded are (working titles): "Lex Lucifero", "The Big Empty" and "Devil Sun". If all goes well, KRUX will return to Studioland in late December to begin recording their second full-length effort, tentatively due in early 2006 via an as-yet-undetermined label.

KRUX, who are currently unsigned, released their self-titled debut album in 2002 via Holland's Mascot Records. A live DVD containing the band's entire performance from May 18, 2003 at Kägelbanan in Stockholm, Sweden, plus a promo video for the track "Black Room" and an interview, was issued in 2003.

http://www.roadrun.com/blabbermouth.net

Band profile:

Krux

The following was posted in the band's official website:

8 years after it all started, we decided that now is the time to throw in the towel. It was fun, and we would like to thank all the people who have supported us along the way. Vehemence was and is a huge part of our lives, but at this point its time to start fresh. The death of Vehemence has since spawned 3 new bands from its ex members. Abigail Williams featuring Mark, Andy and Bjorn of Vehemence (www.myspace.com/abigailwilliams), He Who Binds Himself featuring Nathan (www.myspace.com/hewhobindshimself), and as John stated "I'm looking for members for a new band and I am also available for touring. Currently I'm also affiliated with several other side projects which I will release soon."

We still have a batch of new shirts coming this year, as well as a new remixed version of our first self released disc entitled The Thoughts From Which I Hide, that will be available exclusively at www.vehemence.com. Vehemence may do shows every now and then, but will not be a full time band. Just keep checking our website as that will still be up and running.

Any comments for the band can be left at www.myspace.com/vehemence

Source:	vehemence.com
Band profile:	Vehemence

The band finished the recording of the final demos and will enter in the studio in the near future to record the drums. The band have been working on this album for about 2 years, period in which the band have had many changes.

To hear some samples from the demos the band finished go to: http://www.myspace.com/thenewathens

Source:

symphonicmetalband.com

The Following message was posted in the Queensryche official site:

"Reiner Design Concepts, the art direction company that did all the artwork for Operation: Mindcrime, has been signed back on for Mindcrime II. Production has already begun and we expect artwork by the end of the year. On a similar note... Geoff Tate confirmed the fact that Mindcrime II will NOT be the name of the album once released. More to come!"

Source:	queensryche.com
Band profile:	Queensrÿche

NEGATIVA, Steeve Hurdle's new band (ex-GORGUTS, PURULENCE), has completed it's lineup: Steeve on vocals/guitar, Luc Lemay (ex- Gorguts) on vocals/guitar, Dominique Lapointe on bass (QUO VADIS, AUGURY, ATHERETIC) and Etienne Gallo (Augury) on drums.

A website is under construction and shirts will be available from GWN soon.

The band should enter the studio in the winter for a promo recording. It's all speculation right now but Negativa might be touring with TOWARDS DARKNESS and PAROXYSM in the spring of 2006. More on this as things develop.

http://www.bravewords.com

The following message was posted in the official Beyond Twilight website:

"In just 3 weeks Finn has finished the writings for a complete symphony. Working intensively day and night Finn has created what will be the most complex and personal writings in the history of Beyond Twilight. Not only writing a complete symphony but also recording all of the keyboards and classical orchestrations and arrangements on top of this - probably the most far out project done by him. At first the idea was to do an EP with cover tracks but the time was just not right for it. Still supposed to do an EP Finn wrote 2 tracks for it but decided to trash them and the idea of doing an EP. He had too much to get off his chest in the wake of what has happened recently. He wants to tell in music instead of words what is going on in his mind. So there you go a complete symphony - something very unique and special to look forward to for any Beyond Twilight fan. The recordings of the rock orchestrations will start tomorrow. Stay tuned!"

http://www.beyondtwilight.dk

Band profile:

Beyond Twilight

The following message was posted on the official band's site by Dan Lundberg:

"Hello all and sorry for the lack of updates. Since the "Posthumous" mastering I've hardly had the time to sit down and give the GENESIS OF PAIN project the attention is deserves. Last week I finally took the time to start up the writing process again and I hope there will be no more interruptions from now on. The plan is to finish recording music for 5 tracks and after that focus on trying out and recording vocal parts. More updates to come in a near future. Until then, take care!"

Source:

genesisofpain.com