More tour dates have been announced for Cannibal Corpse's headlining North American tour with Dying Fetus, Necrophagist and Unmerciful:

Nov. 10 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
Nov. 11 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
Nov. 12 - New Haven, CT @ Toad's Place
Nov. 13 - Ashbury Park, NJ @ The Stone Pony
Nov. 14 - Montreal, QC @ Le Medley
Nov. 15 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Nov. 16 - Buffalo, NY @ The Buffalo Icon
Nov. 17 - Detroit, MI @ Harpo's
Nov. 18 - Milwaukee, WI @ The Eagles Club
Nov. 19 - St. Paul, MN @ Station 4
Nov. 20 - Lawrence, KS @ The Granada
Nov. 21 - Englewood, CO @ Gothic Theatre
Nov. 22 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon Theater
Nov. 24 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
Nov. 25 - Portland, OR @ Roseland
Nov. 26 - San Francisco, CA @ Slim's
Nov. 27 - Los Angeles, CA @ House of Blues
Nov. 28 - Santa Ana, CA @ Galaxay Theatre
Nov. 29 - Tempe, AZ @ Marquee Theatre w/ Job For A Cowboy
Dec. 01 - Austin, TX @ Emo's
Dec. 02 - Houston, TX @ Java Jazz
Dec. 03 - Dallas, TX @ Gypsy Ballroom
Dec. 04 - Memphis. TN @ The Complex
Dec. 05 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade
Dec. 06 - Lake Buena Vista, FL @ House of Blues
Dec. 07 - Ft Lauderdale, FL @ Culture Room

Source:	cannibalcorpse.net
Band profile:	Cannibal Corpse

The English Doom/Death Metallers have just announced the release of a new My Dying Bride album, and details such as track lists, etc, but now the artwork for the new album 'A Line Of Deathless Kings' has been posted online. You can view the artwork here.

Also, My Dying Bride have announced that they will be releasing the track 'Deeper Down' as a single. It will contain the song, a special edited version, another new track 'The Child of Eternity' and a live version of 'A Kiss To Remember'. The cover artwork for the single, can be viewed here.

The release dates for the single and album have also been announced. The single will be released on September the 18th, 2006 and the album on October the 9th, 2006.

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Source:	mydyingbride.org
Band profile:	My Dying Bride

Six Feet Under, Gorefest, Cataract and Krisiun will team up for the X-Mas Festivals European tour, set to begin in early December. Confirmed dates so far are as follows:

Dec. 2006
08 - D - Berlin @ Fritz
09 - D - Engeldorf (Leipzig) @ Hellraiser
10 - A - Wien @ Planet Music
11 - D - Munchen @ Backstage
12 - CH - Pratteln @ Z7
13 - D - Ludwigsburg @ Rockfabrik
14 - D - Frankfurt @ Batchkapp
15 - FR - Strasbourg @ La Laiterie
16 - BL - Antwerpen @ Hof Ter Loo
17 - NL - Tilburg @ 013
18 - D - Essen @ Zeche Carl
19 - FR - Paris @ La Locomotive

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Six Feet Under

A video of the song 'Death Walking Terror' from the album 'Kill' has been posted online at Yahoo! Music.

Cannibal Corpse bassist Alex Webster previously told MTV.com about the song choice for the new album.

"Every one of our songs has some kind of violent or dark imagery in it, but we have to look for songs that are a little less graphic. We only have a couple of songs on each record where the lyrics aren't more or less R-rated for violence. We have to carefully choose what songs we do videos for, because otherwise it won't make it passed the censors. The song 'Murder Worship', I think all of us would have liked to have done a video for that. But there's no way, with the decapitated heads and all."

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Cannibal Corpse

Industrial metal legend, Mortiis, has announced a supporting slot for fall US tour dates with fellow envelope pushing industrially inclined act, the Genitorturers. This marks Mortiis' return to the US and is sure to be an all-out visual and aural assault. The classic Mortiis albums, 'Fodt Til A Herske', 'Crypt of a Wizard', and 'The Stargate' have recently been reissued.

The tour, called the Tortured Souls Tour 2006, info is as follow:

Aug. 2006
31 - Clicks - Baton Rouge, LA

Sep. 2006
01 - Granada Theater - Dallas, TX
02 - Engine Room - Houston, TX
03 - Redrum - Austin, TX
04 - Club 101 - El Paso, TX
06 - Fat Cats - Modesto, CA
07 - DNA Lounge - San Francisco, CA
08 - The Whiskey - Hollywood, CA
09 - TBA - Las Vegas, NV
10 - TBA - Salt Lake City, UT
12 - Bluebird Theater - Denver, CA
13 - Club 108 - Omaha, NE
14 - Station 4 - St. Paul, MN
15 - I-Rock - Detroit, MI
16 - Mr. Smalls Funhouse - Pittsburgh, PA
17 - Agora Theater - Cleveland, OH
18 - Icon - Buffalo, NY
19 - Webster Theater - Hartford, CT
20 - CBGBs - New York, NY
21 - Club Mate (formerly Thunderdome) - Baltimore, MD
22 - Ground Zero - Spartanburg, SC
23 - Masquerade - Atlanta, GA

Source:	earache.com
Band profile:	Mortiis

Amon Amarth, Wintersun and Týr will be teaming up this November/December for a tour of Europe.

Here is a list of dates for the tour:

Nov. 2006
02 - D Frankfurt, Batschkapp
03 - D - Osnabrück, B 51
04 - D - Lichtenfells, Festhalle
05 - IT - Milano, Alcatraz
06 - CH - Pratteln, Z7
08 - HR - Zagreb, Boogaloo
09 - SI - Ljubljana, VPK
10 - AT - Linz, Posthof
11 - AT - Wien, Planet Music
12 - HU - Budapest, Wigwam
14 - PL - Wroclaw, WZ
15 - D - Berlin, Columbia Club
16 - D - Halle, Easy Schorre
17 - D - Erfurt, Club Centrum
18 - D - Kaufbeuren, All Kart Halle
19 - D - Stuttgart, LKA
20 - FR - Paris, Elysee Montmarte
22 - UK - Bradford, Rio
23 - UK - London, Underworld
24 - BE - Hof Ter Lo, Antwerp
25 - NL - Weert, Bosuil
26 - D - Bochum, Zeche
28 - D - Köln, Live Music Hall
29 - D - Hamburg, Markthalle
30 - SE - Göteborg, Sticky Fingers

Dec. 2006
01 - NO - Oslo, Garage
02 - SE - Stockholm, Klubben

Source:	tyr.net
Band profile:	Amon Amarth
Event:	Amon Amarth, Wintersun & Týr: European Tour

Power Metallers Mob Rules have completed the work on their newest album. The album will be entitled Ethnolution A.D. and will be produced by Markus Teske. It will be released on the 20th October for people in Germany, and the 23rd October for everyone else.

Here is the track listing for the album:

01. Ethnolution A.D.
a. Prologue
b. Unholy War
c. Ashes to Ashes
d. Fuel to the Fire
02. Veil of Death
03. The Last Farewell
04. Day and a Lifetime
05. River of Pain
06. Ain't the One
07. New Horizon
08. With Sparrows
09. Better Morning

The artwork for the album can be seen here

Here is a comment by the band: "It´s done, the latest album. 'Ethnolution A.D.' will surprise all of our fans. Get ready for the 20th October, drop anything from phone to work and join both: The party and the release of Ethnolution A.D."

A more detailed description of the new album can be viewed at Mob Rules' official website.

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Source:	mobrules.de
Band profile:	Mob Rules

Connect-Europe.com have posted audio samples of all 10 tracks from Iron Maiden's forthcoming album, "A Matter Of Life And Death", online!! Go to this location to check them out.

"A Matter Of Life And Death" will be released on 28 August 2006

EDIT : apparently it only works properly with Internet Explorer :

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Source:	connect-europe.com
Band profile:	Iron Maiden

The finnish band Lordi are to be honored with a cola named after themselves. The bands frontman Mr.Lordi has designed 5 different labels for the cola. There are one label featuring each member and one of the whole band.
"The Lordi phenomenon has brought togeheter the whole nation" says Ritva Sinisalo from the brewery Olvi Group.

Lordi Cola is due to go on sale next month in Finland.

Source:	metalcentral.net
Band profile:	Lordi

The following message has been posted on Helloween's official web site :

"Due to unforeseen logistical and organizational problems, the German melodic metal act Helloween unfortunately has to call off the planned USA shows and the BW & BN festival in Montreal. Despite good advance ticket sales (where pre sales already where available), North American organizers of the tour could not guarantee an economical and adequate routing of the tour. Therefore a consequent cancellation 2 months before tour start seemed the band management to be the fairest for fans and promoters at this point.

The band apologizes for this cancellation but under these circumstances they could not guarantee a proper show for their fans. Instead Helloween will include the North American market on their next 2007/2008 world tour to present their full show under best possible conditions."

Source:	helloween.org
Band profile:	Helloween

Due difficulties with some venues, the UK tour in September has to be postponed. The band is real sad about that decision and will work on new dates ASAP. Here is the statement of the britsh promoter Pan Satyrcos:

"Some of the venues (those run by the Academy Music Group) bought the financial terms of the shows into dispute at the last second. In order to protect the financial interest of the band and avoid a loss that would have been the logical consequence of these lowered fees, we felt it best to cancel this tour in September. A lot of work and planning had gone into this, and we are very sorry and apologise to all who bought their tickets in advance, and those coming down on the day."

Hopefully, these shows will be rescheduled for early 2007 at different locations.

Source:	destruction.de
Band profile:	Destruction

U.K. doom metallers My Dying Bride have set the tentative track listing for their new album. 'A Line of Deathless Kings' is the title of the forthcoming album. Recorded in Academy Studios and mixed at Chapel Studios, the album will feature nine tracks, with the following titles:

01. To Remain Tombless (6:06)
02. L'Amour Detruit (9:08)
03. I Cannot Be Loved (7:04)
04. And I Walk With Them (6:37)
05. Thy Raven Wings (5:22)
06. Love's Intolerable Pain (6:14)
07. One of Beauty's Daughters (5:40)
08. Deeper Down (6:28)
09. The Blood, The Wine, The Roses (8:21)

Source:	mydyingbride.org
Band profile:	My Dying Bride

A couple of new live shows have been announced by Heavy/Power Metal band Dream Evil. They will be playing a show at Scotland's Ragnarok Festival, and they'll also be playing a show in London.

Here are the dates:

Saturday 4th November 2006 - Ragnarok Festival, Scotland
Sunday 5th November 2006 - The Underworld, London, UK

In other Dream Evil news, the band has announced the release dates for it's upcoming album 'United'.

In Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Benelux it will be released on Friday, October 13, 2006. For UK, France, Spain, Denmark, Norway and the rest of Europe, it will be Monday, October 16, 2006. Except Finland, Sweden and Hungary who will get it on Wednesday, October 18, 2006. Italy as well, will get it on October 20, 2006 (this is to be confirmed though). Anyone from the USA can hear it from Tuesday, October 31, 2006.

Source:	dreamevil.se
Band profile:	Dream Evil

Power Metal band Dragonforce have posted the video for their new song 'Operation Ground and Pound' online. The song is taken from their latest album 'Inhuman Rampage' and the song is also their second single from the album. The video can be seen at Youtube right here.

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Source:	dragonforce.com
Band profile:	DragonForce

Swedish heavy metal musician Jon Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on Wednesday, August 16 at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm. He shot himself in the head and was surrounded by lit candles, Expressen reports. Shortly before the ritual suicide, he had sent farewell letters to his father and his girlfriend and explained to a friend, "I'm going away for a long, long time. I'm going to Transylvania."

Sometime between Monday (Aug. 14) and Wednesday, Nödveidt, vocalist and guitarist in the popular Swedish black metal band Dissection, chose to take his own life.

At 7:21 p.m. CET on Wednesday, a police patrol reported to the police communication center in Stockholm that a man had been found dead, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to several of Expressen's sources, the singer had placed an open copy of "The Satanic Bible" in front of him before pulling the trigger.

"He shot himself in the head and lay dead in a ring of lit candles," says a police source.

At 5:44 p.m. on Wednesday, the police received a 911 call from Jon Nödtveidt's family who hadn't been able to establish contact with him for a couple of days.

"They were very concerned," says his legal representative and manager, Per Nordqvist. "His girlfriend and his family called after their fears that something terrible had happened had been bolstered."

The reason for their concern was a farewell letter that Jon Nödveidt had sent to his girlfriend in Germany. His father, Anders Nödtveidt, had also received a postcard asking him to contact a number of people and thank them for everything.

"What it said is personal. I want to keep it to myself," Jon's father says of the postcard's contents.

"I met him in Stockholm just a week and a half ago. Everything seemed great then. I've always had good contact with Jon during his upbringing and throughout his adult life. I don't understand what has happened to make things turn out this way. This weighs even more heavily on us considering everything that has happened. This is very difficult for the entire family."

Jon Nödveidt's father likes the photo in which his son wears a black leather jacket and has asked for that picture to be published.

"It's a good photo. Jon thought so as well," says Anders Nödtveidt.

The suicide is believed to have been planned for a long time.

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Dissection