08.May.2006:
Thyrane no more (1994-2006)

19.May.2006
Thyrane will not be performing farewell shows (nor any other shows).


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Emeth will do the belgium "Reticulated" release show at the Gentse Beesten show july 15th 2006. A few weeks later Emeth will be gearing up for a devastating show in Tel Aviv Israel around 10 august 2006. Where we will share the stage with Whorecore & Aborted. After a short break we start playing again around autumn at several european fests & shows. With the possible highlight of playing a string of dates in Greece which shall finish at the Athens Death Fest!!

Source:	emeth.be
Band profile:	Emeth

Terrorizer announced the release date for their new album "Darker Days Ahead". It will be released on 21 August 2006.

The tracklist of the album is the following:

1. Inevitable (1:03)
2. Darker Days Ahead (3:46)
3. Crematorium (3:54)
4. Fallout (3:48)
5. Doomed Forever (3:23)
6. Mayhem (3:57)
7. Blind Army (3:06)
8. Nightmare (3:42)
9. Legacy Of Brutality (2:25)
10. Dead Shall Rise V.06 (3:32)
11. Victim Of Greed (4:11)
12. Ghost Train (2:35)

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Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Terrorizer

From Grave's official website:

"Now you can download an edit version of the opening track BURN from the upcoming album "As Rapture Comes" The track is only available here and on the Century Media websites. Check it out now and spread the word"

Click here to download the song

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Source:	grave.se
Band profile:	Grave

Cannibal Corpse - have lined up the following dates in Australia/New Zealand:

Oct. 03 - The Hifi Bar - Melbourne, AUS
Oct. 04 - The Gaelic Club - Sydney, AUS
Oct. 05 - The Arena - Brisbane, AUS
Oct. 06 - 420 - Auckland, NZ
Oct. 07 - Indigo Bar - Wellington, NZ
Oct. 09 - Fowlers Live - Adelaide, AUS
Oct. 10 - Club Capitol - Perth, AUS

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Cannibal Corpse

Guitarist Erik Rutan (Hate Eternal) will be rejoining Morbid Angel for the band's upcoming European summer festival tour. "This will certainly be an exciting event with the 'Domination' lineup together for the first time in 10 years!" the band write in a statement. "We look forward to seeing you all on tour."

Upcoming Morbid Angel European tour dates:

Aug. 05 - Wacken Open Air - Wacken, GER
Aug. 07 - Monsters Of Rock Festival - Kavarna, BUL
Aug. 11 - Traun - Spinnerei, AUT
Aug. 12 - Brutal Assault Festival - Svojsice, CZR
Aug. 14 - Planet Music - Vienna, AUT
Aug. 15 - Sziget Festival - Budapest, HUN
Aug. 16 - Skc - Belgrade, SER
Aug. 18 - Summer Breeze Festival - Dinkelsbuehl-Sinbronn, GER
Aug. 19 - CC De Fabriek - Sint-Lievens Houtem, BEL
Aug. 20 - 013 - Tilburg, NETH
Aug. 22 - Mean Fiddler - London, UK
Aug. 24 - Hole In The Sky Festival - Bergen, NOR
Aug. 26 - Up From The Ground Open Air - Gemunden Am Main, GER

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Morbid Angel

Death metallers Suffocation have completed work on their "Live In Quebec" CD, to be made available through their online store next week.

The band recently finished recording their new self titled-album, due in early September via Relapse Records. A US tour with Fear Factory, Hypocrisy and Decapitated is to follow afterwards.

Source:	metal-temple.com
Band profile:	Suffocation

Irish folk metallers Cruachan have signed a deal with Germany's AFM Records. After having been released from their former label Black Lotus Records in May of this year, the band tried finding a new label to release their fifth album "The Morrigan's Call" (preview of the album cover artwork can be viewed here). A low quality preview MP3 can be downloaded here.

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Source:	cruachan.cjb.net
Band profile:	Cruachan

Quoted from their official website :
"YSB is working on the new trax' demo recordings for the forthcoming new album. Titles already on tapes are "R.E.D.", "World Wide Weird", "Burn Baby, Burn!", "The Heretik Club (Far Away...), and "The Delicate Paranoïa of a Starving Spirit".
Some other new songs are being completed and should definitely surprise most of you! Rather different than "My Swan Song" the new LP will be a step further in YSB's musical exploration. Wait and see...

The Band is nowaday very busy but still prepares its coming live shows. We are open to every live gig proposal, feel free to contact us if needed."

Source:	yourshapelessbeauty.net
Band profile:	Your Shapeless Beauty

Dismember announced that they will be going on their first North American tour in 6 years. Touring with them will be Vital Remains, Grave, Demiricous, and Withered. Here is the list of stops on the tour :

Sep 30th Bedford (US) Mark's Place

Oct 1st New York (US) B.B. King Blues Club

Oct 2nd Springfield (US) Jaxx

Oct 4th Ft Lauderdale (US) Culture Room

Oct 5th St. Petersburg (US) The State Theater

Oct 6th Marietta (US) Swayzes

Oct 7th St. Louis (US) Creepy Crawl

Oct 9th St. Paul (US) Station 4

Oct 10th Chicago (US) Abbey Pub

Oct 11th Cleveland (US) The Agora Ballroom

Oct 12th Saratoga Springs (US) Backstreet Billiards

Oct 13th Boston (US) The Middle East

Oct 14th Montreal (CA) Le Medley

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Source:	dismember.se
Band profile:	Dismember

Swedish thrash titans The Haunted have just completed the recording process for the highly anticipated follow-up to 2004's critically acclaimed rEVOLVEr album. The new effort was recorded in Denmark at Antfarm Studios with renowned producer Tue Madsen (Himsa, Kataklysm) and it looks to be their most accomplished work to date. The group spent months working on the new material pushing themselves to create something unique that combines certain elements of their previous efforts, while ultimately forging ahead in new, unexplored directions. An announcement in regards to the title of the new album and its release date will follow over the next few weeks.

Peter Dolving (vocals) checks in with the following post studio report: "Oh, the power of the internet and wireless computers. I'm currently sitting on the john writing this report thinking about all you good folks out there, while my kids are watching cartoons in the living room. We just finished a new album and I gotta say, I'm proud as fuck. It's bigger, better, madder and thicker. Hell, that's the weird part with the album business - how the hell to describe what you've just done. Anyway, it rocks. Big time. Really. Per (drums) told me at rehearsals a couple of days ago, 'If I died tomorrow I couldn't be more satisfied so if people don't like it, fuck them.' I couldn't agree more. We started writing around Ozzfest last year, bouncing around ideas, recording anything that came to mind without the old 'more or less metal'-filter, and pretty much knew that we were sick of the whole 900 bpm-chugga-chugga-AAARRRGGGGH-PUKE-end. We wanted to do something we'd just touched upon with our previous four albums. This album is simply more diverse, dynamic and HEAVY AS FUCK. Bands like Trouble, Autopsy, Ganx, Masters Of The Universe, King Crimson and early Metallica have all really had a great influence on us as a band, and I think this album really draws a lot in color from those artists.

"We just completed the recording process and are now putting the artwork together with Manne Andreasson, a bearded wierdo and dear friend or ours. Working with Tue Madsen's been great. The dude is down-to-earth man, and working with someone who's got his shit together like that is a joy. Anders spent six weeks in Denmark getting guitars down while working with Per and Jonas and then helping me out while I was doing vocals. Before we started recording, he was telling us he didn't want to do ANY solos on this record, but in the end we got him to do four really cool pieces. I think we've managed to find an immense sound: the drums are clearer, heavier and less processed, and we've even got acoustic guitars, congas, strings and loads of weird noise manipulations going on. As far as the vocals go, I honestly didn't know I could even sing some of the stuff. I was nervous as fuck when I got down to Tue's studio, and felt like a complete rookie: 'Shit, how the hell am I going to live up to this.' Turns out all I had to do was keep running my miles and warm up like when we're on tour. You can look forward to an album we're proud as fuck of, and we're looking forward to seeing you all again as soon as we head out for tour. It'll be ugly as ever, I'm sure. Stay sick."

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Source:	the-haunted.com
Band profile:	The Haunted

As previously reported via Blabbermouth.net, French Symphonic Power Progressive metallers Adagio have lined-up these tour dates that will take place in various corners in France during the coming months:

Jun. 29 - Paris, FRA @ Elysée Montmartre
Jul. 06 - Tours, FRA @ Maison de l'Etudiant
Jul. 07 - Bellegarde, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 09 - Paris, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 10 - Raismes, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 11 - Le Havre, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 14 - Nantes, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 15 - Poitiers, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 16 - Bilbao, SPA @ TBA
Sep. 18 - Montpellier, FRA @ TBA
Sep. 19 - Salon, FRA @ TBA

Adagio's June 29 concert in Paris will be filmed for an upcoming DVD. Opening guests Misanthrope will play a one-hour show, and Adagio's set will be 90 minutes.
Read more at Blabbermouth.net

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Adagio

Veteran Thrash Metallers have announced some more tour dates to the list for dates this winter/summer. The tour now includes more USA dates, a Korean date and a Canadian date. Here is the full list of dates including the new ones:

U.S.A.:
July 12 Key Club - Hollywood, CA
July 13 Galaxy Theatre - Santa Ana, CA
July 14 Nevada Empire Ballroom - Las Vegas, NV
July 15 Venue of Scottsdale - Scottsdale, AZ
July 16 Reflections - Victorville, CA

Europe:
July 21 Earthshaker Fest - Rieden, Germany
July 22 Metalcamp Fest - Tolmin, Slovenia
July 24 Carling Academy Islington - London, England
July 25 Bradford Rio - Bradford, England
July 26 JB's - Dudley, England
July 28 Metalway Festival - Jerez, Spain
July 29 Metalway Festival - Gernika, Spain

Asia:
August 05 Busan Rock Festival - Busan City, Korea

Canada:
Oct 14 Brave Words 6-Pack Festival, Le Medley - Montreal, Canada

In other Testament news, the band is planning on entering the studio in a few months to start recording their (long awaited) first album for the 21st century. The album is set for release in early 2007. Guitarist Eric Peterson has said that the new album will feature Testament's original lineup.

Source:	testamentlegions.com
Band profile:	Testament

There is a live video of Strapping Young Lad performing "In The Rainy Season" on the UVTV Website: http://uvtv.info/strappingyounglad.php footage was taken in Rochester NY.

Source:	uvtv.info
Band profile:	Strapping Young Lad

17-Sep UK Norwich-Waterfront
18-Sep UK Portsmouth-Wedgewood
19-Sep UK Oxford-Zodiac
20-Sep UK London-Mean Fiddler
21-Sep UK Nottingham-Rockcity
22-Sep UK Glasgow-Cathouse
23-Sep UK Leeds-Cockpit
24-Sep UK Manchester-Academy 3
25-Sep UK Leicester-Charlotte
26-Sep UK Birmingham-Ac 2
27-Sep UK Cardiff-Barfly
28-Sep UK Exeter-Lemongrove

30-Sep TU Ankara-Saklikent
01-Oct TU Istanbul-Studyio Live

Source:	soilwork.org
Band profile:	Soilwork