The band posted the following update on their website:

"OK, folks. Guess it´s time to check in and give an update on what´s going on in the Red Harvest camp.

First of all:
Red Harvest are proud to announce that we have joined forces with Season Of Mist in our quest for world domination. We have already started writing new material and we´re pretty sure that Season Of Mist will be a great partner to help us spread total paranoia and destructive thoughts to the globe.
We would like to thank Nocturnal Art for the support and for believing in Red Harvest.

Tour:
Red Harvest will be on tour with Arcturus October 1. - 14. Tour details in the Live section"

The upcoming shows for Red Harvest are as follow:

MAY 2005
20. Sandnes (NO) - Tribute
27. Strømmen (NO) - Roots

JULY 2005
2. Germany - With Full Force Festival 2005
OCTOBER 2005
European tour w/ Arcturus :

1. Malmö (SE) - KB
2. Hamburg (DE) - Markthalle
3. TBA
4. Paris (FR) - La Locomotive
5. London (UK) - Underworld
6. Nottingham (UK) - Rock City
7. Haarlem (NL) - Patronaat
8. Arnhem (NL) - Goudvishal
9. Tilburg (NL) - 013
10. TBA
11. Munchen (DE) - Backstage
12. Praha (CH) - Rock Cafe
13. Vienna (AU) - Planet Music
14. Codeville (IT) - Thunder roadhouse

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Source:	redharvest.com
Band profile:	Red Harvest

GRAND MAGUS' US distributor, Candlelight Records, has put up an mp3 of the first track from the band's forthcoming album, Wolf's Return.

Check out the new track, 'Kingslayer', at this location .

In related news, Candlelight have set June 14th as the release date for Wolf's Return. The album will include the following tracklisting: 'Kingslayer', 'Nine', 'Blodörn', 'Wolf's Return', 'Blood Oath', 'Järnbörd', 'Repay In Kind', 'Hämnd', 'Ashes', 'Light Hate' and 'Wolf's Return Part II'.

http://www.bravewords.com

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Grand Magus

The video of "Is It Not Sound" from the upcoming Ulver album "Blood Inside" is now availbe for download HERE .

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Ulver

The videos of "The Hunting" and "March of Mephisto" (both from the latest "The Black Halo") have been added to the Real Music Guide. Go here to check the videos:
http://music.guide.real.com/archive'search=kamelot&type=artist

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Kamelot

Polterchrist inform that Dan Loughry is no longer a part of the band. Dan left on amicable terms. There are no hard feelings.

Dan's replacement on guitar is Ed Drozdowski. He is also currently the bassist for MORTAL DECAY (Unique Leader Records). Ed is a former member of INSATANITY, BODY PART TROPHY CASE and PYREXIA. He is an outstanding guitarist, and will fit POLTERCHRIST's mold perfectly.

http://www.season-of-mist.com

Joost Van Den Broek, After Forever´s keyboardist, has already started recording his special guest on the debut album of Sagitta, named "Ohm". Former member of Sun Caged, Joost has already worked with Arjen Lucassen on the projects Ayreon and Star One. Influenced by Derek Sherinian, Steve Vai, Ayreon/Star One, Muse, Jamiroquai and Devin Townsend Sagitta fans can wait for a surprising work of this 22 year-old keyboardist , who has been playing since he was 11.

Philip Colodetti, "Ohm"´s producer, is in Germany to keep up the recordings of Joost, who will also take part in the CD´s orchestration, expected to be released next semester with very special guests. Despite the delay on the recordings - "Ohm" was expected to be released this semester - but the band musicians aren´t worried about it, they just wanna it the way they´ve planned. According to Alex Neves, the bassist, the delay on the recordings were also due to the scheduling of the special guests on this debut album of Sagitta.

It´s also important to remember that Cede Dupont, Freedom Call and Symphorce´s guitar player, came to Brazil last year especially to record his part and yet jammed with Sagitta at Blackmore Bar, in São Paulo (SP). The expectation is huge and the band hasn´t been on the stage for a long time to concentrate on this CD. "We can hardly wait to come back to the stages, and I miss the fans a lot", says Alex Neves.

Log in: www.sagittametal.com

-Sagitta Newsletter-

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After Forever

Cornerstone has completed the mixes for the up and coming Cornerstone Live album that the band recorded on several dates on their debut tour of Europe January and Febuary 2005.

The album will be called "CORNERSTONE, IN CONCERT" and will be released firstly in Japan on YAMAHA COMMUNICATIONS on July 6th, and in Europe July 11th on MASSACRE RECORDS.

Included in the package will be a video clip of some live and backstage footage from the bands private videos.

The band are currently laying down ideas for the next studio album to be released in the spring 2006.

http://www.cornerstonemusic.dk

Paul Gilbert will return to the front of the guitar-battlefield with his new studio album "Space Ship One". 14 Brand new vintage Gilbert-style hard rock songs laden with tons of scary guitars.
The album is expected to be released in June.

The album will be followed by his new concert DVD "Space Ship Live" Next to the 16 main concert songs there are lots of extra guitar solos, rare acoustic versions, and killer alternate takes. 12 extra songs altogether for a total of 28 songs! The DVD features Linus of Hollywood on bass, and Marco Minnemann on drums.

Paul will appear on the Bath Festival in the UK on the 23rd of August and a short European tour will follow; dates to be announced soon.

http://www.mascot-provogue.com

The band launch the new site http://www.ivorytower.de on 18.04.2005

The new album from the band is ready, and it's entitled "It", the band is currently looking for labels "for a possible release". There is a sample of the song "Piece of Mind", click here to listen to the song.

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A sample of the song "Parasychic, Paranoid" from the upcoming album "Dreams Of Death" is avaible for download on the Crash Music site, Check the song here .

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Flotsam And Jetsam

NAILBOMB will release a specially low-priced DVD called Live At Dynamo on July 4th. It features a full raw live recording of Nailbomb's second (and last) show at the Dynamo Festival in Eindhoven Holland on June 3rd, 1995. Joining guitarist/vocalists Max Cavalera (SOULFLY/ex-SEPULTURA) and Alex Newport (ex-FUDGE TUNNEL) on the day in a constantly changing line-up on the day were Igor Cavalera (drums - Sepultura), Evan Seinfeld (bass - BIOHAZARD), Dave Edwardson (bass - NERUOSIS),D.H. Peligro (drums - DEAD KENNEDEYS), Scott Doom (bass - DOOM), Rhys Fulber (keyboards - FRONT LINE ASSEMBELY) and Barry C Schneider (drums - TRIBE AFTER TRIBE). The set includes almost all of the Point Blank album plus a ferocious cover of DEAD KENNEDEYS's 'Police Truck'.

Full tracklisting is as follows: 'Wasting Away', 'Guerrilias', 'Cockroaches', 'Vai Toma No Cu', 'Sum Of Your Achievements', 'Religious Cancer', 'Police Truck', 'Exploitation', 'World Of Shit', 'Blind And Lost', 'Sick Life'.

(Thanks SMN)

http://www.bravewords.com

The band that recently announced the departure of Stian, have now a new session guitarist, Aros posted a message about this matter:

"Greetz.

Some news...
We have gotten ourselves a new guitarist, session guitarist.
He will work with us and basically be there for us when we will do gigs in the future.
His name is Dreggen!

Hexaeon is still under production, this has been a slow proccess and it's sad to say it is still going slow...I will keep you updated as things
progress, they ARE, but not so very fast as we all want it to.

Sorry for this, I know U all wanna hear Hexaeon, we too want it out and we wanna start making new songs too...after all...this album was recorded last summer...

Ok, laters all...

Thx for the patience, give us a bit more...pleez!

Ares"

Source:	members.home.nl
Band profile:	Aeternus

NAPALM DEATH guitarist Mitch Harris spoke to Australia's Themetalforge.com recently about the status of guitarist Jesse Pintado.

"He's out of the band," Harris said pointedly. "He didn't actually leave the band. We sent him home. He had some personal issues. We knew that being in the band wasn't the right environment for his current state of mind. So we sent him home to get some help and support from his family and stuff. We waited for two years for him to get his act together. For example, he didn't even play on Order Of The Leech (from 2002) or the covers album (2004's Leaders Not Followers 2). He just kinda disappeared on us and he became unreliable. There were a lot of issues which were holding us back and confusing the issue and we really just wanted to play ball and just get up there and do what we do, and it was really, really affecting the band in a negative way and it was affecting him in a negative way as well as us personally. We thought it would be best. We gave him 200 million chances and he came back after two years, and his condition hadn't improved and we decided to let him go because he just became unreliable. We have a really hard year ahead of us with lots and lots of touring. We thought it would be best for the band, for the album and also for the fans to just let him go which is a shame because we've been through so much. We've achieved so much together and he's been our room mate for years and just living together we've managed to remain good friends. He wishes us all the best as well as we wish him all the best. I can't put it in any more detail than that because it's his own personal kind of deal. It's his own business really. It's a shame,"

Their new album, The Code Is Red?Long Live The Code is the first album of original material that the band have written and recorded as a quartet since the late 1980s. It appears the idea of becoming a quartet was something they were forced to settle into some time ago.

"I do think the album didn't suffer in any way, shape or form," says Harris. "In the end, it was better for the future of the band I think. We've kinda come together as a four piece in a way that there's no turning back now. It's like, we've done what we've done and we're going to live with our decision. There's no point now. I mean, there was talk about getting another guitarist and of course lots of people suggest that. But it's not going to fill Jesse's shoes. It's not going to make up for the fact that he's not there. But at the end of the day, what we're doing now and the way it's written and the way it comes across, it is as solid and as intense as it needs to be. We're just gonna to continue as a four piece. There's just no point in going backwards at this stage. There's too much to be done. We're all much older now and we have lives to lead. The less confusion, the better. We're all totally on the same level so let's just keep it there."

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Napalm Death

Belgium formation AXAMENTA is confirmed for the 10th edition of Graspop Metal Meeting.

The band will play on Friday 24.06 on the newborn Metal Dome Stage (stage for upcoming talent from Holland & Belgium).

Next week the band will enter Jacob Hansen Studio in Denmark to record their new album. The album will be recorded with Jacob Hanssen, known for his work with bands like Mercenary, Invocator & Aborted.

After the recordings in Denmark the band will head to Sweden for the final mix and mastering at the world famous Fredman Studio, all under supervision of producer Fredrik Nördstrom, known for his work with bands like Soilwork, In Flames & Dimmu Borgir.

A release is to be expected in the second half of 2005 on Karmageddon Media.

For more info : www.axamenta.com

-Karmageddon Media Newsletter-

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Axamenta

The band posted the following message concerning the agreement with the label and made some comments on the upcoming album:

We are happy to announce the signing of a new agreement that sees Century Media Records, in conjunction with band leader Mike Amott's Savage Messiah Music label, become the home for our future albums worldwide outside Southeast Asia. We are currently wrapping up work on the new full-length album Doomsday Machine, which is set for a July 26 release in North America (July 25 in Europe).

"We have all been working hard in the studio to make the ultimate metal album," Mike says. "The drums sound totally amazing, as Daniel has excelled himself yet again and the grooves he's created are catchy but powerful as hell. People will be stunned when they hear what he has done."

"I think all great metal needs that killer mix of classic riffs and ripping solos, something that has been a bit of a dying art recently," he continues. "We are doing our best to recreate that mix on this new album, and one thing I can guarantee is that there will be tons of guitar for fans to headbang to. All in all, I am really happy with the songs and I believe we have found the right balance of melody and brutality - the Arch Enemy trademark! Welcome to the Doomsday Machine."

Source:	archenemy.net
Band profile:	Arch Enemy