Anaal Nathrakh have posted two new tracks from their upcoming album "In The Constellation Of The Black Widow", called "More Of Fire Than Blood" and "The Lucifer Effect", on their MySpace.

"In The Constellation Of The Black Widow" will be released on June 29th through Candlelight Records.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Anaal Nathrakh

Within Temptation have announced the following:

"After receiving great responses on our sold out theatre tour in 2008, we decided to do a rerun of this tour, so you'll still have the opportunity to attend these special seated concerts. During these shows we will be playing a lot of our songs in an acoustic version and we'll have special lighting and visual effects. The tour will cover 17 shows in The Netherlands and Belgium.

These will be our first live shows after a long period of writing and recording. We are already looking forward to see you again!"

03-04-2010 - Stadsschouwburg Middelburg, Middelburg, The Netherlands.
07-04-2010 - Twentse Schouwburg, Enschede, The Netherlands
08-04-2010 - Philharmonie, Haarlem, The Netherlands
09-04-2010 - Stadsschouwburg Sittard-Geleen, Sittard, The Netherlands
11-04-2010 - De Oosterpoort, Groningen, The Netherlands
12-04-2010 - Nieuwe Luxor Theater, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
13-04-2010 - Stadsschouwburg Orpheus, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
14-04-2010 - Theater Heerlen, Heerlen, The Netherlands
16-04-2010 - Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
17-04-2010 - Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
18-04-2010 - Theater aan de Parade, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
20-04-2010 - Vredenburg, Leidsche Rijn, Utrecht, The Netherlands
21-04-2010 - Stadsgehoorzaal Leiden, Leiden, The Netherlands
23-04-2010 - Concertgebouw de Vereeniging, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
24-04-2010 - Theater De Meenthe, Steenwijk, The Netherlands
26-04-2010 - Koningklijk Theater Carré, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
28-04-2010 - Koningin Elisabethzaal, Antwerpen, Belgium

Source:	within-temptation.com
Band profile:	Within Temptation
Event:	Within Temptation: Theater Tour 2010

The newest album from The Project Hate MCMXCIX, entitled "The Lustrate Process" will be released on July 6th. The album features the following guest musicians: Mike Wead (King Diamond, Mercyful Fate - guitar solos), Pär Fransson (solos), Henry Pyykkö (solos), Martin van Drunen (Pestilence, Asphyx, Hail Of Bullets- vocals), Christian Älvestam (Scar Symmetry, Miseration - vocals), Lars-Göran Petrov (Entombed - vocals), Johan Hegg (Amon Amarth - vocals) and Robban Eriksson (vocals).

The album was mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, Örebro, Sweden, 2009, and produced by Lord K. Philipson.

Here are the "The Lustrate Process" cover art and tracklist:

01. Descend Into The Pits Of Eternal Possession
02. You Come To Me Through Hell
03. See The Filth Become Flames In This Furnace
04. Our Wrath Will Rain Down From The Sky
05. The Locust Principles
06. Arise To His World Of Infamy
07. The Burial Of Gods

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Source:	theprojecthate.net
Band profile:	The Project Hate MCMXCIX

Official press release

Talk about a mind-blowing line-up. Slayer and Megadeth - two of the bands that defined the thrash/metal genre - will perform together for the first time in more than 15 years when they co-headline four shows in Canada in late June. The tour, dubbed "Canadian Carnage," will also feature Machine Head and Suicide Silence, and will see Megadeth and Slayer each closing two of the four shows. Tickets will go on sale Saturday, May 2, and will be available at all Ticketmaster outlets and at Ticketmaster online.

Few bands come close to matching the intensity that Slayer brings to its live shows, having been named "Best Live Band" by numerous media outlets including Revolver, SPIN, and Metal Hammer. Slayer - guitarists Kerry King and Jeff Hanneman, vocalist/bassist Tom Araya and drummer Dave Lombardo - is currently in Los Angeles recording its as yet untitled tenth studio album with Greg Fidelman producing and Rick Rubin executive producing. Fans were given an early taste of the brutal new Slayer material when "Psychopathy Red," a song inspired by the heinous Russian serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who confessed to savagely murdering 56 children, was recorded last October and then leaked online. Attendees of "Canadian Carnage" will be treated to Slayer performing "Psychopathy Red" live on stage. Plans are to release the new album in July, in tandem with the Mayhem Festival tour Slayer is co-headlining with Marilyn Manson.

With over 20 million albums sold worldwide, the icon that is Megadeth culminated earlier this month, with Dave Mustaine's acceptance of the highly coveted "Golden God" accolade and the band's headline performance at the inaugural Revolver Golden Gods Awards in Los Angeles. Megadeth - lead guitarist/lead vocalist Dave Mustaine, lead and rhythm guitarist Chris Broderick, bassist James Lomenzo and drummer Shawn Drover - is currently recording their 12th studio album in Los Angeles with Andy Sneap. The disc is scheduled for release later this summer to coincide with a full scale world tour. Known for their ferocious live show, Megadeth will once again bring this intensity to their loyal throng of Canadian followers.

Bay Area titans Machine Head add to the carnage as main support. Machine Head - vocalist/guitarist Robb Flynn, guitarist Phil Demmel, bassist/backing vocalist Adam Duce and drummer Dave McClain - are currently touring in support of their critically-acclaimed and Grammy nominated "The Blackening". Since its release, the band has been awarded both Best Album at the Metal Hammer Awards and Album of the Year at Kerrang's annual ceremony that same year. And with a fan base so rabid, they've actually been banned from certain U.S. venues, Machine Head will bring with them the relentless stage show they are renowned for.

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Source:	megadeth.com
Band profile:	Megadeth
Event:	Slayer + Megadeth: Canadian Carnage Tour

Edge Of Serenity have welcomed bassist Mark Brekelmans to their ranks:

"We are proud to anounce that bassist Mark Brekelmans (ex-Xystus) joined Edge Of Serenity. With Mark aboard, Edge Of Serenity completes its line up, and will introduce its debut album "The Chaos Theory" on May 5th. Shows will follow, dates will be anounched in the following months."

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Edge Of Serenity

Cannibal Corpse have just announced the dates for their "European Plague Tour" to take place in autumn. Direct support comes from American Death Metallers Dying Fetus. On the mainland the package will be completed by Evocation and Obscura, while Trigger The Bloodshed and Annotations Of An Autopsy will support the bands in the UK.

The tour dates are as follows:

02/10/09 - DE - Oberhausen - Death Feast Ultimate
03/10/09 - DE - Lichtenfels - Way Of Darkness Festival
04/10/09 - CH - Pratteln - Z7
05/10/09 - DE - Saarbrücken - Garage
06/10/09 - BE - Vosselaar - Biebob
07/10/09 - FR - Paris - La Locomotive
09/10/09 - ES - Barcelona - Razzmatazz 2
10/10/09 - ES - Madrid - Heineken
11/10/09 - ES - Bilbao - Rock Star
12/10/09 - FR - Lyon - Transbordeur
13/10/09 - IT - Milan - Alcatraz
14/10/09 - IT - Rome - Alpheus
16/10/09 - GR - Athens - Gagarin 205
17/10/09 - GR - Thessaloniki - Principal Club Theatre
18/10/09 - RS - Belgrade - SKC
19/10/09 - SK - Bratislava - DK Dubravka
20/10/09 - PL - Cracow - Studio
21/10/09 - DE - Berlin - Columbia Club
23/10/09 - DE - München - Backstage
24/10/09 - AT - Linz - Posthof
25/10/09 - DE - Ludwigsburg - Rockfabrik
26/10/09 - NL - Dordrecht - Bibelot
27/10/09 - NL - Zwolle - Hedon
28/10/09 - UK - Colchester - Arts Centre
29/10/09 - UK - London - Koko
30/10/09 - UK - Sheffield - Corporation
31/10/09 - UK - Glasgow - ABC
01/11/09 - UK - Leamington Spa - Assembly

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Source:	metalblade.com
Band profile:	Cannibal Corpse
Event:	Cannibal Corpse: European Plague Tour

Listenable Records press release

French technical death metal virtuosi Gorod have inked a deal with Listenable Records. Their new album "Process Of A New Decline" sets a landmark in the bands career and will turn many heads in the metal community, rest assured!

With this new record, Gorod have cleverly spiced their diamond-cutting technicality with supercharged pinball machine melodies and fluttering sting ray guitar solos against a backdrop of grooves and bonkers bass playing, not to mention tighter, radioactive songwriting sure to burrow its way into permanent memory. Considering how slippery and complicated Gorod sounds on paper, it's immediately refreshing to be reminded that death metal can be catchy, brainy, and fun all at the same time "Process Of A New Decline" is sure to be one of the best technical death metal albums you've heard in quite some time!

Source:	listenable.net
Band profile:	Gorod

Edenbridge have announced the addition of guitarist Dominik Sebastian and bassist Simon Holzknecht to the group's ranks:

"We would like to welcome 2 new band members!

Dominik Sebastian, also known from the band Thirdmoon, has already played guitar on the whole "MyEarthDream" Tour and has proved to be a great guy and musician and got on well with us. Dominik of course can also be heard on Edenbridge´s new live album "LiveEarthDream".
Simon Holzknecht, to many also known from his other band Serenity, is our new bass player! Simon is our youngest band member with only 22 years and is absolutely smashing on his instrument !

A cordial welcome, guys!"

Next Monday, on May 4 the new Edenbridge live album "LiveEarthDream" will be released.

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Source:	edenbridge.org
Band profile:	Edenbridge

Maddening Media announced the following post on their site:

"It is with great pride and excitement that we announce the arrival of the Finnish Ikuinen Kaamos in the Maddening Media family. With the help of a dark progressive metal, Ikuinen Kaamos embed dismal melancholy in their songs of epic grandeur, spiralling the listener to a timeless sphere of emotions.

Ikuinen Kaamos will start the first recording sessions for their forthcoming album "Fall Of Icons" on May 17th. The release is scheduled for autumn 2009.

To shorten the waiting, we offer you their latest EP "Closure" both as stream and as a high-resolution download (320 kbps) for free. Click here."

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Source:	maddening-media.de
Band profile:	Ikuinen Kaamos

Kamelot reportedly will enter the studio this June 2009 to record the follow-up to the blockbust CD "Ghost Opera" which spawned 4 high incredible videos, 100+ concerts in more than 22 countries and many sold out shows. Once again enlisting producers Sascha Paeth and Miro, the band plans to use studios in Germany, Norway and the USA for this next massive production. Kamelot's final concerts of 2009 will take place this Summer, including an appearance at the Sonisphere Festival with Metallica in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.

To smack your chops even more Kamelot's video producers ICode have uploaded the HD versions of the videos "Ghost Opera", "The Human Stain" and "Rule The World". Click here for access.

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Source:	kamelot.com
Band profile:	Kamelot

As posted on the Profound Lore Records website, Brooklyn, NY avant-doom juggernaut Bloody Panda will see its new full-length masterpiece released via Profound Lore Records this summer. Following the band's impressive debut full-length, "Pheromone," the band is putting the finishing touches on 60-plus minutes of cerebral, epic, and haunting hymnals; a no-training-wheels cinematic plunge into the unending nightmare that began four years ago with the band's debut release (a split with fellow east coast experimentalists Kayo Dot). Once again featuring the ghostly, death-defying wails of siren Yoshiko Ohara, the new Bloody Panda opus is a monstrous cry from the depths. Almost like if film directors Takashi Miike and Michaelangelo Antonioni had a bastard horror-film child and raised him in Indonesia or Estonia, Bloody Panda's forthcoming release would likely be the soundscape. More news surrounding Bloody Panda impending.

Source:	profoundlorerecords.com
Band profile:	Bloody Panda

Prophecy Productions press release

Autumnblaze... that does ring a bell, doesn't it? The band who ventured into the realms of alternative rock with their last album "Words Are Not What They Seem" (2004) and then imploded two years later because of internal differences now sees its phoenix-like resurrection - the classic line-up of Eldron, Arisjel, and Schwadorf (The Vision Bleak etc.) has come together again to record a new album.

"Perdition Diaries" is something of a statement, the fruit of a return to the roots of Autumnblaze, and it comes across like a creative eruption. This album is a tribute to 1990's-era dark metal, to a time where the conventions of metal were trampled underfoot and the genre's conceptual chains were irrevocably broken from the inside. Autumnblaze mastermind Eldron puts it more precisely, "Bands such as Paradise Lost, Anathema, Katatonia, My Dying Bride, Dark Tranquillity, or At The Gates are prime examples for an exploration of the human soul, the struggle of the individual against the chasms of life. Away from the metal standards of the 1980's, towards a kind of deeply emotional resistance against the norms. We spit on all those who are blindfolded by their own limitations, and we continue that which was begun in the early nineties!"

In 2009, Autumnblaze have returned to the unvarnished originality of their artistic and creative urge. Intense music enwrought with whipping melodies and full of aggression, and pieces with basic instrumentation filled with a fragile despair - between these musical poles the lyrics unfold their "Perdition Diaries": hopes, dreams, the powerful secrets of music, arrogance, annihilation, loss, and despondency. The personal destinies portrayed here turn into symbols that come alive in the depths of the listener's emotions, weaving their own images there and opening their own unique, sealed-up diaries.

The release of "Perdition Diaries" is set for June 15, 2009. You can get a first glimpse of the album here (m3u) with the song "Brudermord".

"Perdition Diaries" will feature the following cover art and tracklisting:

01. Wir Sind Was Wir Sind
02. Who Are You?
03. I Had To Burn This Fucking Kingdom
04. Haughtiness And Puerile Dreams
05. Brudermord
06. Empty House
07. Neugeburt
08. Ways
09. The Forge
10. Saviour

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Source:	prophecyproductions.de
Band profile:	Autumnblaze

Norwegian black metal band Ragnarok have revealed the tracklist of their upcoming album "Collectors Of The King". According to a posting on the Regain Records website, people can "expect true norwegian Black Metal the way it should be played. Its authentic, true as fuck and old school."

01. Introduction
02. Stabbed by the horns
03. Burning the earth
04. In honour of satan
05. Collectors of the king
06. Eternal Damnation
07. The ancient crown of glory
08. May madness hunt you down
09. Wisdom of perfection
10. Maze of the abyss (bonus track on vinyl version)

Source:	regainrecords.com
Band profile:	Ragnarok

Two new Believer songs from the new album "Gabriel" posted online. "Redshift" and "Medwton" are now streaming on the band's MySpace page.

"Medwton" was the first track to be heard from Gabriel after an early, unmastered version was "leaked" on Bam Margera's radio show. "Redshift" was the first Believer track ever to be written around the bass and drums rather than the guitar and drums. This provided more room to experiment with dynamics and some of the crazy electronic sounds that are found throughout.

Joey, Kurt and Jeff recently joined Dirty Dan in the 105.7 The X studios for an entertaining and informative interview. Listen to all four interview segments on the band's MySpace page -- located in the player directly below "Medwton".

"Gabriel" was released in the USA on 17 March, and on 9 April in Europe.

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Believer

Original news, posted on 20.03.2009

US metallers Warbringer have posted online a new song, entitled "Severed Reality", on their MySpace page.

"Severed Reality" comes off the band's forthcoming album, entitled "Waking Into Nightmares", which will be released on May 19 via Century Media Records. The CD was mixed by Zack Ohren (Suffocation, All Shall Perish).

UPDATE (thanks to 28097)

Warbringer have posted another new song, "Living In A Whirlwind", on their MySpace page.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Warbringer