Danish progressive power metallers Anubis Gate are currently working on a new album. The band entered the studio last Friday to begin recording its new album for a late 2010 release.

Vocalist/producer Jacob Hansen issued the following update today: "Morten Sørensen (drums), Kim Olesen (guitars/keys) and I went into the studio this Friday to track drums for our new album.

Morten started off by laying down some of the heaviest and best drums I have ever heard him do, so I'm confident that the new album will have a pretty strong rhythm section! Furthermore, it was great to hear the new songs slowly come to life, which they always do when we track drums to the demo vocals, guitars and keys. It suddenly starts to make sense. The songs seem a bit darker to me, and I like that...

For the gear freaks out there, we tracked drums on a Yamaha Maple Custom Definitive kit with 10, 12, 14 and 16" toms, 20" kick and Mapex Black Panther Maple snare. It sounded fantastic!

More news to come as we start to put on more layers!"

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Just last week, we announced the tour dates for the Lawless States Of Heretika Tour featuring Behemoth, Watain, Withered and Black Anvil. But then this weekend, the news came out that Behemoth frontman Nergal was taken to a hospital where he was diagnosed with "a serious illness" requiring a "multi-stage treatment". All upcoming Behemoth dates were immediately cancelled.

In regards to the future of the Lawless States Of Heretika Tour, Watain has now issued the following statement:

"As some of you might have heard, Behemoth have been forced to cancel their USA tour. To put an end to rumors and speculations regarding how this affects Watains touring plans, know this; THERE IS NO ESCAPE, WE ARE COMING. Exact dates and further information will be posted soon."

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Ayreon/Guilt Machine mastermind Arjen Anthony Lucassen has revealed more details regarding a new Star One album.

The successor of 2002's Space Metal will be entitled Victims Of The Modern Age. In a video message Lucassen announced the new album is finished and slated for a release somewhere in late October 2010.

Watch the clip below and catch a glimpse of the cover artwork as well as a short teaser of Victims Of The Modern Age. Stay tuned for more updates!


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Mexican blackened death Metal band Evilheart have released their first video ever. The "Storm Of Annihilation" clip was directed by Pedro Rendón.

The song is the title-track of the band's latest album which was released at the end of 2007. Evilheart are currently working on their new album 50 Years. The band will work again with producer Brian Elliott (Mana Studios) and graphic designer Niklas Sundin (Cabin Fever Media). Evilheart are still looking for a label to work with for the upcoming album.

More info about the band on MySpace.


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Does waiting for Heaven's Venom - the new album of Kataklysm, to be released August 13th - seems unbearable? Then you have the chance to check out some fresh "Northern Hyperblast" one week prior to the official release! MySpace Germany is hosting this exclusive pre-listening today, Friday, August 6th, so just go to http://www.myspace.com/kataklysm to check out Heaven's Venom right now.

All details can be retrieved here.

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US Post-Metal/Post-Rock act Gifts From Enola are streaming their self-titled new album online. You can check it out at this location.

The accompanying press release says: "Gifts From Enola have created an album that finally and perfectly captures the intensity of their live show and expands upon all of their past ideas ten-fold. Or maybe they've simply taken past ideas to their logical extremes, destroyed them, and birthed brand new ideas from their ashes. Either way, the band continues to evolve at an astonishing rate and further pushes their sonic spectrum into an unclassifiable area that is all at once hard to explain, but impossibly easy to listen to. And we don't mean that in the "easy-listening" genre of music sense either. If anything, the band has become more technical and heavier than even the heaviest parts of From Fathoms (their critically acclaimed 2009 release), not in a "breakdown-and-beat-you-over-the-head" sort of way, but more in the album's overall sound.

With more attention to dynamics than ever before, and a recording that truly demonstrates a band approaching a creative zenith, the new Gifts From Enola album is a lock to defy expectations and raise the creative bar yet again. Easily staying ahead of the pack by pushing themselves to color outside any preset guidelines laid down before them, the band has never intentionally shunned convention - but simply write music with their collective heart on their sleeve.

The album was mixed and mastered by Moving Mountains guitarist/vocalist Gregory Dunn with artwork handled by Three Bears Design. This marks the bands third full length release, following up Loyal Eyes Betrayed The Mind (2006, The Mylene Sheath) and From Fathoms (2009, The Mylene Sheath), as well as a split CD with Seattle, WA's You.May.Die.In.The.Desert (2008, Differential). Gifts From Enola is a band through flirting with their potential, as this album proves, this is band that has fearlessly reached the next level."

Here's the link to the stream again.

Gifts From Enola cover art] tracklist:

01. Lionized
02. Dime And Suture
03. Alagoas
04. Grime And Glass
05. Rearview

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Tampa, FL metal band Catalysis recently unleashed their new EP Denial Through Faith via HR Entertainment. Denial Through Faith was recorded at famed Mana Studios in St. Pete, FL with Brian Elliott handling the engineering duties.

Quoted guitarist Shawn Brandon: "This CD in terms of songs and sound takes us to the next level".

The entire EP is now streaming at the band's MySpace over at this location.

Denial Through Faith tracklist:

01. Darkest Days
02. Revolution
03. Fires Of Redemption
04. Inside Conspiracy

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Eluveitie and Korpiklaani will be hitting Europe in October.

Eluveitie - who have been touring the world in support of Everything Remains As It Never Was since February - commented on this tour as follows: "And yet another leg of our massive Everything Remains World Tour has been confirmed. This upcoming October we will join our Finnish friends in Korpiklaani on a co-headlining run through Europe that will roll through 23 cities in 12 countries!

And if that wasn't enough already we've got a very special support band for you: godnr.universe!, the brand new (and never before seen live) side project of Eluveitie's most beautiful assets, Anna & Meri (who will be joined by Ivo & Merlin in their live line-up). Go check them out on MySpace."

Confirmed dates are as follows:

Oct. 08 - Torun, Poland - Od Nowa
Oct. 09 - Lodz, Poland - Dekompresja
Oct. 10 - Krakow, Poland - Studio
Oct. 11 - Bratislava, Slovakia - Majestic
Oct. 12 - Budapest, Hungary - Wigwam
Oct. 13 - Sofia, Bulgaria - Blue Box Club
Oct. 14 - Zagreb, Croatia - Mochvara
Oct. 15 - Klagenfurt, Austria - Volxhaus
Oct. 16 - Passau, Germany - Metal Invasion (Festival)
Oct. 17 - Zlin, Czech Republic - Masters Of Rock Cafe
Oct. 18 - Dornbirn, Austria - Conrad Sohm
Oct. 19 - Milan, Italy - Magazzini Generali
Oct. 20 - France -
Oct. 21 - Barcelona, Spain - Salamandra
Oct. 22 - Navarra, Spain - SSala Totem
Oct. 23 - La Coruna, Spain - SOla Greeen
Oct. 24 - Madrid, Spain - SHeinekken
Oct. 25 - Toulouse, France - Phare
Oct. 26 - Lyon, France - Ninkasi Kao
Oct. 27 - Nantes, France - Olimpic
Oct. 28 -
Oct. 29 - Colmar, France -
Oct. 30 - Paris, France - Trabendo

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Former members of Delain, After Forever and Epica and the current Autumn guitarist, have joined forced in a new band, which they called Hangover Hero. The Dutch outfit recently recorded a promo at the Gate Studio (Avantasia, Kamelot) in Wolfsburg, Germany. The band is currently looking for a label.

One of those recorded promotional songs, "Play In A Band!" is available for your listening pleasure at this location. Find out more about Hangover Hero on MySpace.

Hangover Hero line-up:

Ronald Landa (ex-Delain): vocals, guitar
Ad Sluijter (ex-Epica): guitar
André Borgman (ex-After Forever): drums
Mats van der Valk (Autumn): bass

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Watain will be co-headlining the Lawless States Of Heretika Tour, a North American trek starting November, with Behemoth, Withered and Black Anvil.

Comments the band: "The time has come to announce the first US leg of the Lawless Darkness tour. When the darkness of November falls, Watain will cross the Atlantic to set the North American shores aflame again... The tour will be done together with Polish veterans Behemoth and it shall go under the name of Lawless States Of Heretika.

This will be Watain's first US tour for Lawless Darkness, and the first time with a complete lineup, with E doing vocals only. The dates are all confirmed, the doomed cities are below."

Lawless States Of Heretika Tour feat. Behemoth, Watain, Withered and Black Anvil.

11/03 - Quebec, QC @ Imperial de Quebec (no Watain)
11/04 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
11/05 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House
11/06 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Mr. Small's Theater
11/07 - Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge
11/08 - Saint Paul, MN @ Station 4
11/09 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada Theater
11/10 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
11/12 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
11/13 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
11/14 - Vancouver, BC @ Rickshaw Theatre
11/16 - Orangevale, CA @ The Boardwalk
11/17 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
11/18 - West Hollywood, CA @ House of Blues
11/19 - Ramona, CA @ Ramona Mainstage
11/20 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre
11/21 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
11/22 - Dallas, TX @ The Palladium Showroom
11/23 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live
11/24 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
11/26 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
11/27 - Fort Lauderdale, FL @ Revolution
11/28 - Orlando, FL @ Firestone
11/30 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
12/01 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's
12/02 - New York, NY @ Irving Plaza
12/03 - Philadelphia, PA @ Trocadero
12/04 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place

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A couple of days ago, we informed you about the newest music video of With Abandon, the experimental Metalcore/Deathcore outfit featuring ex-War From A Harlots Mouth vocalist Steffen Winopal. "It's Mercy, Compassion And Forgiveness I Lack. Not Rationality!" was one of the two new promo tracks the band recently recorded.

Now the band has also uploaded the other song, called "It's Calendar Time! Calendar Time For Buddy!". Curious to find out how that sounds like? Check out the band on MySpace. The music video can still be watched here.

With Abandon are in the middle of the songwriting process for their first full-length release, the follow-up to the 2009 EP Maturation - available for FREE download here.

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UK Thrashers Onslaught have announced that Danish producer Jacob Hansen will be handling the production and mixing duties on the upcoming studio album due for release later this year. The album will be recorded and mixed at Hansen Studio in Ribe, Denmark starting on August 16th.

Guitarist Nige Rockett comments: "We're so stoked to be working with Jacob Hansen on the new album, Jacob has done some stunning work in the past, his production skills are really gonna suit the style of the new album, his mixes are so heavy and lively which is exactly what we are looking for. It'll be real cool to capture the live energy of the band in these recordings.

Drummer Steve Grice and vocalist Sy Keeler are leaving for the studio immediately after our appearance at Bloodstock Festival, where we should be, if all goes to plan, debuting a track entitled "Born For War" taken from the new album. It's a violent beast, very fast and heavy with lots of twists and turns."

Producer Jacob Hansen said the following about the recordings: "This is one of the more exciting productions this year for me! Since their very first albums (Power From Hell + The Force), which made quite an impression on me back in my teenage years, I've loved this dark and heavy band. Working with these guys is gonna be awesome!"

An audio sample of the pre-production of the song "Born For War" can be heard at the band's MySpace profile.

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Candlelight Records confirms October 26 as the North American release date for The Isolationist, the new album from Krieg.

Recorded at Volume Studios in Chicago, the nearly hour-long album will challenge the listener with its primitive yet complex sound. It is Krieg's sixth full-length recording, and the first since 2006's Blue Miasma.

Working with producer Sanford Parker (Nachtmystium, Pelican, Yakuza), The Isolationist finds Krieg further experimenting with sound. The rage and dissonance fans have come to expect from the New Jersey band emerges even more frenzied making the journey through this album far more intense than on previous efforts.

Vocalist Imperial admits: "The Isolationist presents Krieg at it's most evolved yet primal state thus far in fifteen years of causing problems for people's hearing. It is my ugliest and most personal child, going deep into the darkest places in my own history on earth. I'm a fucked up wreck, and this record shows that."

The Isolationist features performances from guitarist Joseph Van Fossen (Noctuary), bassist Wrest (Leviathan), and drummer Chris Grigg (Woe). "It was an intense process, considering everyone only had a few days in and out due to their own hellish schedules. I was fortunate to work with dedicated artists who each brought their own identity to the project and a good understanding behind the meaning of the record."

Krieg has been an integral part of the American black metal scene since forming in 1995. In addition to their full-length albums, including 2003's acclaimed The Black House (which Terrorizer Magazine noted it as "one of the ten most important American black metal records"), Krieg has recorded and released numerous demos, split and live recordings. Fans tally more than 40 individual items as part of the band's creative efforts. In addition to Krieg, vocalist Imperial has several other band projects including N.i.l., Apothecary.Sound.Lodge and his doom band March Into the Sea. He is also a member of Twilight which features members of Nachtmystium, Leviathan, The Atlas Moth, Isis, Minsk and more.

The Isolationist cover art] tracklist:

01. No Future
02. Photographs from an Asylum
03. All Paths to God
04. Ambergeist
05. Depakote
06. Religion III
07. Blue of Noon
08. Decaying Inhalations
09. An the Stars Fell On
10. Remission
11. Dead Windows

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Band profile:	Krieg

Ever wondered what happened to ex-Anthrax singer Dan Nelson?

For one, he's the new singer of a band called BlackGates, apparently. But more importantly, he recently recorded some material together with Life Of Agony guitarist Joey Z., Arsis guitarist James Malone and Aunt Hildegard drummer Crock LaRock.

Comments Nelson: "This is not a band, but a bunch of songs written with some friends that we recorded in my garage studio."

The songs are called "Burden's Crown", "Troll", "You", "Task At Hand", "New Damnation" and "New Found Noose", and are all available for streaming at this location. Check it out and let us know what you think.

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Band profile:	Anthrax

Leaves' Eyes vocalist Liv Kristine has premiered her new video "Skintight", available below. The clip was directed and produced by Patric Ullaeus. The song is taken from Liv Kristine's new solo album Skintight, out on Napalm Records at the end of the month. All album details were reported earlier at this location.

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