According to Earache Records, one of Sweden's largest online music stores, Ginza.se, has barred the sale of Deicide's latest album, "The Stench of Redemption", citing the blasphemous CD sleeve art, controversial lyrical subject matter and the fact that Deicide mainman Glen Benton has an upside-down cross branded into the center of his forehead as their reasoning. This has consequently led to Ginza.se taking the unprecedented step of removing all traces of previous Deicide releases from their online store aswell.

This action follows quickly on from the news that U.K. TV channel Scuzz TV have also refused to play the video for Deicide's "Homage For Satan" due to its ? in their view ? offensive content.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Deicide

Los Angeles thrashers Slayer have cancelled their previously announced appearance at the third edition of the Monterrey Metal Fest, previously set to take place Saturday, September 23, 2006 at the Coca Cola Auditorium in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Slayer, who were scheduled to headline the event, cited "personal reasons" as the cause of the cancellation.
As a reaction the festival was set back, most likely until November. A new headliner and the exact date will be announced soon.

This year's Monterrey Metal Fest is being billed as "Hell and Heaven United" due to the fact that the festival will include appearances by reunited Christian hard rockers Stryper and Satanic death metallers Deicide. The concert, which promises to be the "biggest and baddest version yet", will feature eight of the biggest names in heavy metal music from all over the world on the main stage and 12 up-and-coming international and Mexican bands on the second stage.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Slayer
Event:	Monterrey Metal Fest

Roadrunner Records will release 4 best of records in September for Sepultura, Fear Factory, Type O Negative and Ill Nino. All four titles will be in stores and available for download on September 12th. Tracklists and covers are as follows

The Best Of Sepultura
1. Troops Of Doom
2. Beneath The Remains
3. Inner Self
4. Arise
5. Dead Embryonic Cells
6. Desperate Cry
7. Refuse/Resist
8. Territory
9. Slave New World
10. Biotech Is Godzilla
11. Roots Bloody Roots
12. Attitude
13. Ratamahatta

The Best Of Fear Factory
1. Martyr
2. Scapegoat
3. Scumgrief
4. Demanufacture
5. Self-Bias Resistor
6. Zero Signal
7. Replica
8. Shock
9. Edgecrusher
10. Resurrection
11. Cars
12. Linchpin

The Best Of Type O Negative
1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
2. Christian Woman
3. Black No. 1
4. Too Late: Frozen
5. Love You To Death
6. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Everyone I Love Is Dead
9. Everything Dies
10. Highway Star
11. I Don't Wanna Be Me
12. Life Is Killing Me

The Best Of Ill Nino
1. What Comes Around
2. Unreal
3. God Save Us
4. If You Still Hate Me
5. Liar
6. This Time's For Real
6. How Can I Live
8. Cleansing
9. Te Amo. I Hate You
10. What You Deserve
11. This Is War
12. Turns To Gray
13. Corazon of Mine

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Sepultura

According to livedaily.com, several updates have been added to the second annual Gigantour 2006. The trek now will get underway Sept. 6 in Boise and will not get to San Diego until Sep. 9. So as a result, the previously "officially" announced Sept. 9 show in San Luis Obispo, Canada is no longer on the schedule. Meanwhile, new stops have been added in Oklahoma City, OK; Boston; and Atlantic City, NJ.

Moreover, the second stage will not figure the three outfits, Into Eternity, Sanctity and The Smashup for the Phoenix, Oklahoma City and Boston stops. Those three bands as well as Overkill will not perform at the Las Vegas show, which is set to take place at the House of Blues.

Gigantour 2006 features main-stage acts Megadeth, Lamb Of God, Opeth, Arch Enemy. Here are the dates:

06.09.2006 - USA, Boise, ID
08.09.2006 - USA, Oakland, CA
09.09.2006 - USA, San Diego, CA
10.09.2006 - USA, San Bernardino, CA
12.09.2006 - USA, Las Vegas, NV
13.09.2006 - USA, Phoenix, AZ
15.09.2006 - USA, Salt Lake City, UT
16.09.2006 - USA, Denver, CO
17.09.2006 - USA, Albuquerque, NM
19.09.2006 - USA, Oklahoma City, OK
21.09.2006 - USA, Milwaukee, WI
22.09.2006 - USA, Chicago, IL
23.09.2006 - USA, Columbus, OH
24.09.2006 - USA, Detroit, MI
25.09.2006 - CAN, Toronto, ON
27.09.2006 - CAN, Montreal, QC
28.09.2006 - USA, Uniondale, NY
29.09.2006 - USA, Boston, MA
30.09.2006 - USA, Holmdel, NJ
01.10.2006 - USA, Atlantic City, NJ
03.10.2006 - USA, TBD
05.10.2006 - USA, TBD
06.10.2006 - USA, Tampa, FL
07.10.2006 - USA, Orlando, FL
08.10.2006 - USA, Sunrise, FL
21.10.2006 - AUS, Brisbane
22.10.2006 - AUS, Sydney
24.10.2006 - AUS, Melbourne

Click on the event link for exact locations.

Source:	livedaily.com
Band profile:	Megadeth
Event:	Gigantour 2006

Polish death metallers Vader have issued these following instructions on their website:

"Get Smart! - our Italian promoter has just informed us about two location changes. We will be playing on 20/10 - Colle Val D'Elsa (Sonar Club) and 21.10 - Este (Sottosopra). More info about Italian dates and Get Smart! can be found on www.getsmartagency.com. We would like to apologize for all inconveniences caused by these changes. Below you can find the proper dates and venues for Italian leg of Blitzkrieg 4 featuring Vader, God Dethroned, Severe Torture and Goddamned X. Please, update your bookmarks."

18.10 - Bologna @ Nuovo Estragon
19.10 - Rome @ Alpheus
20.10 - Colle Val D'elsa (SI) @ Sonar Club (new place!!!)
21.10 - Este (Padova) @ Sottosopra (new place!!!)

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Source:	vader.pl
Band profile:	Vader
Event:	Vader: Blitzkrieg 4 Tour

Abigor's "Orkblut - The Retaliation" mini-CD, which was originally issued in 1994 via Napalm Records, will be released on vinyl and as a limited-edition picture disc in October through Chaos Sacrum Records.

Audio samples of three instrumental demo tracks that are set to appear on the forthcoming album from the reunited Austrian black metallers, entitled "Fractal Possession", have been made available for streaming on MySpace.

Abigor's current lineup includes mainman Peter Kubik and co-founding member T.T.

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Abigor

A brand new Isis track, Dulcinea, has been made available for streaming at MySpace. The song comes off the group's upcoming album, "In the Absence of Truth", due on October 31 through Ipecac Records.

"In the Absence of Truth" (view cover here) track listing:

01. Wrists of Kings
02. Not In Rivers, But In Drops
03. Dulcinea
04. Over Root And Thorn
05. 1000 Shards
06. All Out of Time, All into Space
07. Holy Tears
08. Firdous E Bareen
09. Garden of Light

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Isis

During their headlining appearance on August 15 at Seoul Olympic Main Stadium in Seoul, South Korea, American Thrashers Metallica have played a second new song, tentatively dubbed as "The Other New Song". Click here.

Otherwise, a high quality video of Metallica performing the first new song as part of their recently completed "Escape From The Studio '06" European tour has been posted online at YouTube.com.

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Metallica

The north american tour dates of Deicide, have been recently updated and confirmed. Support at the shows will come from Desolation. So far the following dates have been released:

Oct. 2006
14 - Huntington, WV @ Monkey Bar
15 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
19 - Cleveland, OH @ Peabody's Down Under
20 - Brooklyn, NY @ North Six (Deathtoberfest 2006)
22 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
24 - Quebec City, QC @ L'Anti
25 - Montreal, QC @ Foufounes Electriques
26 - Toronto, ON @ Big Bop
29 - Chicago, IL @ Logan Square Auditorium

Nov.
01 - Topeka, KS @ The Static Barr
03 - Aurora, CO @ Hubba's Pub
07 - Sacramento, CA @ The Kennel Club
08 - Santa Ana, CA @ Galaxy Theatre
10 - West Hollywood, CA @ Whisky A Go Go
11 - Scottsdale, AZ @ The Venue of Scottsdale
12 - El Paso, TX @ Chics

In other hand, Deicide's brand new brutal offering "The Stench of Redemption", is due in stores today (Tuesday, August 22) via Earache Records.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Deicide

Samael have confirmed their first festival appearance for next year. They will perform on the main stage at the 2007 edition of Wacken Open Air. Exact day still has to be announced. The festival takes place every year during the first week of August in the north of Germany. Tickets are already on sale.

Source:	samael.info
Band profile:	Samael

Iron Maiden has posted some "Behind the scenes" material of their new album on their site. Here is the link.

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Source:	ironmaiden.com
Band profile:	Iron Maiden

Helloween have spent a long day at the castle Veldenstein in the southern part of Germany recently. The castle was the fascinating location for the shoot of the video for the upcoming single "Light The Universe" - the first ever duet in the band's history - with renowned director Alex Diezinger (Negative, L'Ame Immortelle, Exilia) of AVA Studios. Joining the band on the castle like in the recording studio was Blackmore's Night beautiful singer Candice Night.

The "Light The Universe"-single will be released in the beginning of November. The release should coincide with a big TV and radio campaign. The single itself should contain the video as a bonus, a live rendition of the classic "If I Could Fly" and one more interesting bonus track.

Source:	helloween.org
Band profile:	Helloween

Metal Hammer magazine recently hooked up with Ministry's Al Jourgensen and Mike Scaccia for a few glasses of vino before their London performance to talk about Ministry's "friends": writers, junkies, philosophers, occultists, psychedelic drug experimentalists and a whole host of other loonies. But not George W. Bush. Definitely not. Watch the interview here

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Source:	ministrymusic.org
Band profile:	Ministry

A live video with Black Label Society is online at http://www.zakkwylde.com/doomtroopin/ this location. The video was shot in Paris 2005, and is on their new DVD, "The European invasion - Doom troopin". The DVD will be realesed 22/8.

The DVD contains:
Paris Chapter:

01. Stoned and Drunk
02. Destruction Overdrive
03. Been A Long Time
04. Funeral Bell
05. Suffering Overdue
06. In This River
07. Suicide Messiah
08. Demise Of Sanity
09. Spread Your Wings
10. Solo Acoustic Jam
11. Spoke In The Wheel
12. Fire It Up
13. Stillborn
14. Genocide Junkies

London Chapter:

01. Been a Long Time
02. Suicide Messiah
03. Stillborn
04. Genocide Junkies

Disc 2: Special Features

Additional Release Material:

* Documentary - Backstage Pass
* Making Of - The making of the "Suicide Messiah" promo video
* Music Videos - Promo videos

Their new CD will be realesed 12/9 and the name of the album is "Shot to hell".

Source:	metalcentral.net
Band profile:	Black Label Society

Deicide will perform on a north American headlining tour in October. Support at the dates will come from Desolation. So far the following dates have been released:

Oct. 15 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
Oct. 20 - Brooklyn, NY @ North Six
Nov. 03 - Aurora, CO @ Hubba's Pub
Nov. 08 - Santa Ana, CA @ Galaxy Theatre

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Deicide