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

Six Feet Under has some confirmed tour dates for the fall. They will be touring with Krisiun, Decapitated, Abysmal Dawn, and Cattle Decapitation.

Dates are as follows:

09/12/06-Culture Room Ft, Lauderdale, FL

09/13/06-State Theatre, St Petersburg, FL

09/21/06-Key Club, Los Angeles, CA

09/22/06-Showcase Theatre, Corona, CA

10/01/06-The Rock, Papillion, NE

10/03/06- The Pearl Room, Mokena, IL

10/05/06-Peabody's Downunder, Cleveland, OH

10/08/06-B.B. King's New York City, NY

More dates to be scheduled

Source:	ticketmaster.com
Band profile:	Six Feet Under

Inhuman Rampage Tour Second Strike
Special Guest & Support to be announced.

Wednesday 29th November 2006 -- Leas Cliff Hall -- Folkestone, UK
Thursday 30th November 2006 -- Guildhall -- Southampton, UK
Friday 1st December 2006 -- University -- Leeds, UK
Saturday 2nd December 2006 -- Rock City -- Nottingham, UK
Monday 4th December 2006 -- University Students Union -- Cardiff, UK
Tuesday 5th December 2006 -- Academy -- Birmingham, UK
Thursday 7th December 2006 -- Octagon -- Sheffield, UK
Friday 8th December 2006 -- Academy -- Manchester, UK
Saturday 9th December 2006 -- Barrowlands -- Glasgow, UK
Monday 11th December 2006 -- UEA -- Norwich, UK
Tuesday 12th December 2006 -- Academy -- Bristol, UK
Wednesday 13th December 2006 -- Astoria -- London, UK

Source:	dragonforce.com
Band profile:	DragonForce

August 16 Wermelskirchen (D) AJZ Bahndamm ( w/ Skinless (US), Spawn Of Possession (SWE), Obscura (D))
August 17 Gent (B) Frontline ( w/ Obscura (D), Fleshmould (B) + more)
August 18 Rotterdam (NL) Baroeg (w/ Obscura (D),Dawn Of Disease (D), + support)
August 19 Muotathal (CH) Mountains Of Death Open Air (w/Cephalic Carnage, Disavowed, Wasteform, Fleshless, Obscura and many)
August 20 Munich (D) Metropolis ( w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US))
August 21 Vienna (A) Planet Music ( w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US), Days Of Loss (A), Dark Deception (A))
August 22 Prague (CZ) Matrix (w/ Obscura (D) + more)
August 23 Hamburg (D) Marx (w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US))
August 24 Berlin (D) Knaack (w/ Obscura (D), Wasteform (US))
August 25 Gemuenden/Main, GERMANY Up From The Ground Open Air (w/Obituary, Morbid Angel, Sinister, Gorefest, Dismember, Obscura and many more)
August 26 Rijssel (NL) Els Rock Open Air (w/ Holy Moses (D) and more)

Source:	smnnews.com
Band profile:	Suffocation

King Diamond have finished recording the drums, bass and rhythm guitars for their upcoming album, tentatively due in early 2007. The follow-up to 2003's "The Puppet Master" will contain 13 tracks (including an intro), five of which were written by the band's guitarist Andy La Rocque. Frontman King Diamond will soon begin writing the lyrics for the album, which is being recorded in Dallas, Texas and at Los Angered Recording (owned by La Rocque) in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	King Diamond

American Power/Thrash Metallers Nevermore have decided to release their first ever DVD. They plan to film their August 25th, 2006 live performance at Studio Seven in Seattle, Washington. The DVD will be released sometime in 2007. No title for the DVD or other similar details have been announced.

In other news, Nevermore will be planning on making a new album towards the end of this year. The band will be supporting Disturbed in tours in August/September this year, and after that they plan to start writting the follow up to last year's album 'This Godless Endeavour'.

Source:	metal-temple.com
Band profile:	Nevermore

Firewind have posted a new song from their upcoming album 'Allegiance' on their Myspace account. You can now check out the new single "Falling To Pieces". Follow this link: http://www.myspace.com/firewind.

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Band profile:

Firewind

"Sentenced - Buried Alive", a unique concert film filmed at the last ever Sentenced gig in Oulu's Club Teatria and a part of a DVD release due to hit the shops in this fall will be presented at the Oulu Music Video Festival, Finland, on Saturday 9 September, 2006 at 15 p.m. in the main hall of Youth and Culture Centre NUKU.

Source:	omvf.net
Band profile:	Sentenced
Event:	Sentenced - Buried Alive Presentation

This year, all the unlucky Metalheads who cannot be at Dessel (Belgium) for the Graspop Metal Meeting 2006 can watch interviews and direct live! on a really cool new "Graspop TV".

The next show today (23/06/06) will be:

- Lacuna Coil: 21h35 - 22h45 (GMT +1)

Don't miss it !

The link of the streaming TV is here =>

http://www.graspop.be/pages/index.php?taal=en (just click on "Open The Live Stream NL or FR") and enjoy !

Source:	graspop.be
Event:	Graspop Metal Meeting 2006

You can check out a new song from Grave, entitled "Burn," here. The track comes off their upcoming new album, 'As Rapture Comes', which is due out July 25th through Century Media.

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Source:	www2.centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Grave

Lifeforce Records has officially announced the signing of Swedish/Greek melodic death metal band, Nightrage. Comments Lifeforce president Stefan Luedicke: "I'm very happy about the signing of Nightrage, a band I've been a fan of since their first release "Sweet Vengeance" on Century Media, but I'm sure their Lifeforce Records debut will easily kill their previous releases."

Marios Ilipoulos, guitarist/songwriter, speaking on behalf of Nightrage: "We are proud about the signing with Lifeforce Records, this is really exciting for us and we feel that we will continue deliver our craft through a really nice partner like Lifeforce Records, who are into the music we are doing and together we can achieve really great things."

Nightrage will record their as-of-yet untitled Lifeforce Records debut later this year at Studio Fredman, and the album will be released in early-2007.

Source:	lambgoat.com
Band profile:	Nightrage

Influential extreme metallers Brutal Truth have scheduled a reunion show on September 3 at the Double Door in Chicago, IL as part of the second annual Electric City Rockfest. Also appearing on the bill are Pig Destroyer. More information is available at www.doubledoor.com.

With regards to how the reunion came about, Brutal Truth bassist Danny Lilker (also of Nuclear Assault and Anthrax fame) recently wrote in his regular column in the U.K.'s Zero Tolerance magazine, "A couple of members of the classic New Orleans sludgecore band EyeHateGod lost everything they owned as well as their homes in the hurricane. The band has reached out to the scene and asked if there was any way that some bands could cover EHG songs for a benefit album to help these guys get back on their feet again. They also made a special request to see if there was any way in hell that Brutal Truth, who've been disbanded since 1998, could somehow reunite to contribute a song, since that would certainly provoke some extra interest in the album.

"So, for a damn good reason, Brutal Truth has recorded a version of the EHG song 'Sister Fucker'. The original song appears on the 'Take As Needed For Pain' album and is split into two parts, which we recorded as one long song. It was just a matter of Gurn and Rich coming up here to Rochester where our friends in Sulaco graciously consented to letting us borrow their jam room for the purpose of learning, rehearsing and recording the song. A friend of Rich's came up with him and recorded it, it was then sent to Kevin out in Chicago where he tracked his vocals and mixed it, and it will soon appear on the album that will be released on Emetic Records. And in case you're wondering, yes, it's faster than the original!

"Now, I suppose by now some of you might be saying, 'Well? Is that it? You guys planning any shows?' Well, since we all live in different cities now, and we went to the trouble to get together to learn a fairly easy song, we kinda shrugged and said 'Let's see if we can play any of our shit!' Weed was smoked. And it appears that we still have that chemistry that made us what we were, so although there are no confirmed shows at the moment , I will say that it is certainly in the realm of possibility that there will be at least one live show, and what happens then remains to be seen."

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Brutal Truth
Event:	Brutal Truth Reunion Show + Pig Destroyer

Circle Of Dead Children has officially parted ways with drummer Mike Bartek, who has been with the group since 2003. His departure was apparently on less than stellar terms. The band is on an indefinite hiatus until a replacement can be found. Interested candidates should contact the band here.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Circle Of Dead Children

Winds' guitarist Carl August Tidemann recently posted a message on the Winds' forum stating that he has now completed the solo-guitar recordings for the upcoming album. The rhythm guitars were already completed last year and the recent completion of the solos now concludes all the guitar recordings for the fourth Winds album.

Winds - comprised of singer Lars Eric Si (Khold), guitarist Carl August Tidemann (Arcturus), keyboardist Andy Winter (Age Of Silence) and Jan Axel Von Blomberg (Arcturus, Mayhem) - have also confirmed recent suspicions of a guest performance by Dan Swano (Edge of Sanity, Nightingale).

As explained by Andy Winter: "Dan recorded his parts at his own studio in Sweden. We sent him the tracks we wanted him to sing on, along with a few words of what we were looking for. He then came back with some, according to him ''suggestions,' but they were great performances that we intend to keep, and they will surely add to this record in a very positive way."

As previously reported, Winds has already confirmed guest appearances from Agnete M. Kirkevaag (Madder Mortem, Frantic Bleep), Lars A. Nedland (Borknagar, Solefald), and Oystein Moe (Ulver, Tritonus) for their upcoming album, the follow-up to 2004's creative The Imaginary Direction of Time (on The End Records)

The band will be taking a small break over the summer, but will continue finishing up the recordings and eventually mix the new album sometime in the fall.

Source:	winds.ws
Band profile:	Winds

Canadian progressive death metallers Into Eternity have posted the following update:

"Things are going well these days in the Into Eternity camp. The recording of our fourth album was recently completed at the end of May. Now we are looking forward to Andy Sneap putting all of his talent into mixing the new disc. That will take place around June 23/06. The band is excited for everyone to hear the new material.

Right now Mattias Norén is working on the CD packaging. I've seen the cover and it looks really amazing. Mattias always does a great job. Last week we finished a photo shoot with Cortney Bodnar. The pics turned out well and now it's up to Mattias to bring every thing to life.

We've been listening to a rough mix of the songs that the studio gave us. So far, I think it is a mix between Dead Or Dreaming and Buried In Oblivion. For this album we kept some things a bit more stripped down. Now we won't have 5 vocal harmonies going at once. The band decided that we want to sound more like we do live, so we stuck to 2 part vocal harmonies. It still sounds killer though and I'm sure people will dig the new melodies. Stu did a great job singing on this album. He has 5 different voices that he can change back and forth from. Wait to you hear some of the notes he hits!"

Source:	intoeternity.net
Band profile:	Into Eternity