Details of the upcoming new Visions Of Atlantis album have been announced. The album will be entitled 'Trinity'. The album cover artwork has also been posted online. Artist Anthony Clarrksson who has designed cover artwork for Blind Guardian, Hypocrisy and Exodus before has done the artwork for Trinity. You can see the cover here.

Trinity will be released in March next year.

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Source:	visionsofatlantis.com
Band profile:	Visions Of Atlantis

Swedish melodic power metallers Hammerfall have cancelled their Finnish headlining shows (originally scheduled for early January) in order to allow singer Joacim Cans enough time to recover from an operation which he is due to undergo in December.
Here goes the statement of the band:
"After a couple of months of serious vocal problems, my doctor finally tracked down the root of all evil. On my right vocal cord he found a polyp that affected both my speaking and singing voice. Lately I have lost almost one octave of my natural (high) range and I can promise you that it's been very frustrating. So, next week it's time for my doctor's magic hands to sharpen the scalpel and do surgery on 'my precious' cords. After the surgery I have to shut up for at least seven days ? gonna be hard! ? followed by some professional vocal training in order to build up the strength again. The tour will start as planned in Denmark on January 18, but unfortunatelly the shows in Finland have been postponed to a later date and all promotional work including me have been cancelled."

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Source:	hammerfall.net
Band profile:	HammerFall
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Swedish death metallers Dismember have cancelled their previously announced West Coast tour with Grave. Here goes the statement of the band:
"The US tour is cancelled due to financial reasons. The band is really sorry for this and has already started working on a new US tour for the spring of 2007 to make up for the lost dates. More info will come soon."

The trek, which was originally slated to be headlined by Entombed, was scheduled to kick off December 1 in Hollywood, California.

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Source:	dismember.se
Band profile:	Dismember
Event:	Dismember & Grave: West Coast Tour [CANCELLED]

Italian gothic metal band Theatres Des Vampires will release a new double CD, "Desire Of Damnation (The Addiction Tour)", in February 2007 via Plastic Head/Blackend Records. The set will include a CD with the audio version of the recently released DVD (Plastic Head Video) and a separate disc with four new studio songs, three remixes, one special version of a medley featuring "Vampyrica" (2001) and "Suicide Vampire" (2002), performed by the tenor voice Franco Carta (Vampyre Dionysus) and arranged and directed by composer Stefano Lazzoni.
To promote this new album, Theatres Des Vampires will play several shows all around Europe next year. A release party will be held on Saturday, February 3, 2007 at Slimelight in London.

Source:	theatres-des-vampires.com
Band profile:	Theatres Des Vampires

According to a post on Macbeth's official website, the band is currently writing their new album. The songs are 90% done and the band will enter the studio next month in order to start recording. Macbeth's 4th album is scheduled for release in spring 2007.

Source:	macbeth.it
Band profile:	Macbeth

Portuguese gothic metal act Moonspell will issue a special-edition CD/DVD version of their latest album, "Memorial", on December 4 in Portugal.
Regarding this event, the band has issued some details concerning the release (in Portuguese) at the band's official website.

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Source:	blog.moonspell.com
Band profile:	Moonspell

Swedish thrashers The Haunted have been confirmed as main support for Killswitch Engage on their European tour, set to take place January-February 2007.
As a result, The Haunted will be forced to postpone the majority of its previously announced European headline dates. "Don't worry, we're not canceling ? just postponing," the band says in a statement. "Look out for new headline dates later in 2007."

Dates and locations are as follow:

Jan. 07 - Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
Jan. 08 - Glasgow, SCO @ Barrowlands
Jan. 10 - Dublin, IRE @ Ambassador Theatre
Jan. 11 - Manchester, UK @ Academy
Jan. 12 - Birmingham, UK @ Academy
Jan. 13 - London, UK @ Brixton Academy
Jan. 14 - Bristol, UK @ Academy
Jan. 16 - Paris, FRA @ Elysee Montmartre
Jan. 17 - Utrecht, NL @ Tivoli
Jan. 18 - Antwerpen, BEL @ Hof Ter Lo
Jan. 19 - Herford, GER @ X
Jan. 20 - Hamburg, GER @ Große Freiheit 36
Jan. 25 - Berlin, GER @ Postbahnhof
Jan. 26 - Chemnitz, GER @ Südbahnhof
Jan. 27 - Wiesbaden, GER @ Schlachthof
Jan. 28 - Köln, GER @ Live Music Hall
Jan. 29 - Stuttgart, GER @ Longhorn LKA
Jan. 31 - München, GER @ Backstage
Feb. 01 - Zürich, SWI @ Rohstofflager
Feb. 02 - Milan, ITA @ Transilvania
Feb. 03 - Linz, AUS @ Posthof

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	The Haunted
Event:	Killswitch Engage: European Tour

Folk Doom metal band Silent Scream Of Godless Elegy (Czech Republic) have posted a live video of 'Tanczylabym' online, taken during their Master Of Rock open-air 2006 performance. The song comes off the band's 2006 EP release "Osamelí".
You can download it here or watch it via YouTube here.

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Source:	ssoge.com
Band profile:	Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy

German Heavy metallers Grave Digger have put two new songs from their upcoming album "Liberty Or Death" online at their unofficial MySpace.
The songs are called 'Liberty Or Death' and 'Ocean Of Blood' and are the first two songs of the album, which will be released on 12 January 2007. More info about the album here.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Grave Digger

Germany's Majesty have signed with Magic Circle Music, home to Manowar and Rhapsody Of Fire. The label has issued the following statement through their newsletter:

"Magic Circle Music announced that they have signed German heavy metal act Majesty to an exclusive management agreement. Majesty was formed in 1997 and has released five albums, with 2006's Hellforces being the most recent release. Fronted by vocalist/songwriter Tarek Maghary, the current Majesty line-up comprises guitarists Christian Münzner and Björn Daigger, bassist Marcus Bielenberg and drummer Michael Gräter.

Majesty is a talented and most promising addition to the Magic Circle Music client roster. The world's premier true heavy metal label continues to grow!

For more information, please visit http://www.majesty-metal.de and http://www.magiccirclemusic.com"

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Source:	magiccirclemusic.com
Band profile:	Majesty

Norway's Trail Of Tears have issued the following message on their official website:

"Everything has an end... Trail Of Tears - 1996-2006

It is with great regret that we announce that Jonathan, Kjell, Runar and Kjetil yesterday (November 28th, 2006) left Trail of Tears.

The decision was taken with immediate effect, and thus the band does not longer exist. Trail of Tears will therefore have to cancel all forthcoming shows, including the Xmas Metalfest tour dates in December, and we sincerely appologize for any inconvenience this might lead to.

We would like to thank everybody that has supported the band from the start 10 years ago, and of course especially our loyal fans all over the world.

There was no longer the neccessary desire and energy left in the band to continue. And everything has an end.

Yours sincerely, Jonathan Perez, Kjell Hagen, Runar Hansen, Kjetil Nordhus."

(Thanks Twilight for the remark in the Shoutbox)

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Source:	trailoftears.no
Band profile:	Trail Of Tears

Sweden's In Flames have been confirmed for the Desert Rock 2007 festival, set to take place March 9-10, 2007 at the Dubai Country Club in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The festival billing is shaping up as follows:

March 9, 2007:

In Flames
Children Of Bodom
The Prodigy

March 10, 2007:

Incubas
Prime Circle

More bands will be announced, including the headliners for both days. A total of 10 acts are expected to perform over the two days.

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	In Flames
Event:	Desert Rock Festival

Rage, Communic, Demenzia and L.O.S.T. have been confirmed for the Metal Healing Festival, set to take place July 20-22 in Greece. The festival billing is shaping up as follows (alphabetical order):

Communic
Demenzia
Destruction
Ektomorf
Firewind
L.O.S.T.
Mystic Prophecy
Naer Mataron
Nightrage
Orphaned Land
Primordial
Rage
Rotting Christ
Silent Rage
The Haunted
To/Die/For
Wastefall

For more information, visit Metal Bolt website.

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Polish death metallers Vader have posted the following message on their official web site:

"As you might know, in 2007 Vader won't appear on any regular European tour. Instead of this, the band is going to play on some summer festivals. The band's appearance at Wacken Open Air (Germany), Kaltenbach Festival (Austria) and Party.San (Germany) have been already confirmed. Apart from that, at the beginning of March Vaderis going to play a short tour of Japan (together with Brutal Truth). Afterwards panzermachine will appear on their first Australian tour (which is pre-scheduled to take place in April or June) and play the tour in Russia, Belorus, the Ukraine and Baltic countries. At the beginning of September Vader kick off the second part of Polish Blitzkrieg 4 Tour, invading such places like Rzeszów, Bialystok, Zielona Góra, Poznan and many more.

"In 2008 Vader will celebrate the 25th anniversary. On that occasion in March 2007 the band will enter Hertz Studio to re-record 25 best songs from their entire discography. These songs will be released on band's special jubilee album. The release will also feature tons of DVD bonuses like archival recordings, live shows, videoclips and some other specials. Jaroslaw Szubrycht, well-known Polish journalist (who has recently finished a book about Slayer) will write a biography of Vader. More details will follow soon."

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Source:	vader.pl
Band profile:	Vader

Battlelore have revealed the following tracklisting for their forthcoming album, "Evernight", due out February, 2007 via Napalm Records:
01. House Of Heroes
02. Ocean's Elysium
03. Summon The Wolves
04. We Are The Legions
05. Into The New World
06. Longing Horizon
07. Mask Of Flies
08. The Cloak And The Dagger
09. Beneath The Waves

Guitarist/founder Jyri Vahvanen recently commented about Evernight: "The new album includes ten tracks of pure Tolkien metal with more bombastic and epic songs than before. And, as usual, there's going to be limited edition digipack-CD with bonus material."

Source:	battlelore.net
Band profile:	Battlelore