Cruachan's upcoming album will be called "The Morrigan's Call." The track list reads as following:

01. Shelob
02. The Brown Bull Of Cooley
03. Coffin Ships
04. The Great Hunger
05. The Old Woman In The Woods
06. Ungoliant
07. The Morrigan's Call
08. Teir Abhail Ru
09. Wolfe Tone
10. The Very Wild Rover
11. CuChulainn
12. Diarmuid and Grainne

Source:	cruachan.cjb.net
Band profile:	Cruachan

Mar, 21st, 2006

"Materia" is due to be released April 17th, on Peaceville Records.

MATERIA TRACKLIST:

1. Verne
2. Memoria Stoica / Vetro
3. Reason
4. Aquamarine
5. Jules
6. Geppetto
7. Commedia
8. The Promise (Arcadia/Duran Duran cover)
9. Materia
10. Croma
11. Nothijngrad

A sample of the song "Aquamarine" can be found on the website,
or by following this direct link: http://www.novembre.co.uk/aquamarine.mp3

Source:	novembre.co.uk
Band profile:	Novembre

06.March.2006:

Trail of Tears will enter Soundsuite Studio in Marseille, France on June 25th with producer Terje Refsnes to start recording the as-yet-untitled fifth album. The band expect to spend six weeks tracking the effort for a late 2006 release via Napalm Records.

Comments vocalist Ronny Thorsen: "It will be a bigger-sounding album, for sure more orchestrated and symphonic. We are extremely satisfied with the pre-productions we have done and have strong faith in the material! We are also looking forward to work with Terje Refsnes again for the first time since 2002's 'A New Dimension of Might' album."

Source:	trailoftears.no
Band profile:	Trail Of Tears

Update:

The recording of the Ave End follow-up is now complete. Germany's own LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE's latest work is called "Filthy Notes for Frozen Hearts" and was produced by none other than John Fryer (HIM, Depeche Mode, Paradise Lost, Cradle of Filth), who had this to say: "...this album has an inmense potential to become very successful?even more successful than HIM with Razorblade Romance". The videoclip to the band's first single, "Again It's Over" has also been completed.

Source:	napalmrecords.com
Band profile:	Lacrimas Profundere

New EP "Legend Land"!
07.03.2006

The saga continues! Continuing the successful journey of "Vinland Saga", Leaves' Eyes have recorded a mini album presenting five brand-new exclusive tracks! The EP, called "Legend Land", will be released for the price of a single at the end of April/beginning of May 2006 in connection with the up-coming tours. The tracks are: "Legend Land", "Skraelings", "Viking's Word", "The Crossing", "Lyset". Alex Krull explains: "At first we'd planned to release a single from the "Vinland Saga" album, however, we decided to record a complete EP with brand new and exclusive songs. This is our way of saying thankyou to our fans and their great support. The past tours were amazing! As we will tour a lot this year it will take a while until we have finished our next full-length album. These five powerful and atmospheric tracks developed out of a couple of new brilliant ideas. Liv Kristine adds: "The new songs sound fantastic. They are very strong. We had a wonderful time continuing our work with the Viking concept and making further discoveries." This can only mean one thing: the adventurous journey continues!

Source:	leaveseyes.com
Band profile:	Leaves' Eyes

First WALTARI song posted online
The first song from the upcoming WALTARI album "Blood Sample" (out on April 24th) is online. "Not Enough" was released as a Single in Finland and hit the Single charts on 3. Now it's the first song uploaded to Waltari's brand new Myspace profile.

Finnish crossover inventors WALTARI are celebrating their 20th year of existence with "Blood Sample". Main topic of the album is a musical travel through Europe - and through the wide continent on the musical atlas Waltari created over the past years. Be sure to be surprised and expect everything!

SHELTER tracklisting revealed
1.Meant To Be
2.Built To Resist
3.Eternal
4.First Priority
5.Back To Vrindavan
6.My Chance To Live
7.Amend
8.Return To Eden
9.In Defense Of Reality
10.Lotus-like
11.Authenticity

Of course you can still hear or download the title track "Eternal", a brand new SHELTER song, on their Myspace page. You don't need to be a member to hear this song, just go to the link and wait for the song to start automatically...
All vocals, musical arrangements and lyrics are done by Ray Cappo, Ken Olden played guitar and bass on the record and Dave Dicenso drummed on the album.

VANISHING POINT to re-release first album
It's considered as a "classic" in the prog metal scene and it was hard to get for years:
We are excited to announce the long awaited re-release of Vanishing Point's first album "In Thought" complete with bonus video clips and the studio sessions re-mixed and re-mastered! It is not hard to see why "In Thought" is regarded as some of the most melodically accomplished albums of that time.
Check it out by yourself now that you have the chance to!

Meet the ABANDONED
So, you're out tonight or tomorrow in the area of Germany called "Ruhrpott"?! Meet our Hessian crazyness of ABANDONED: Tonight, friday March 17th they are gonna raise hell at Pennylane in Dortmund and do the DJ on the "Breakingthesilence-Party", tomorrow on Saturday March 18 they are at the Matrix/Bochum and annoy the dj until good ol' Thrash Metal is gonna be played again.
Have a beer with them. They don't bite - as long as the guitars are fucking down-picking with screaming solos and all the stuff YOU love, too!

LAKE OF TEARS confirmed for Lebanon "Middle East Rock Bash"
LAKE OF TEARS are confirmed to play at "Middle East Rock Bash - Battle for the Crown" on Saturday, 8th of July 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon. The ticketprices will be between 20-30$ (VIP between 50-60$)

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Special Shred-a-licious Edition Headway Festival 2006

This year's edition of Headway Festival will take place on April 1st in P60, Amstelveen, Netherlands. The organization will bring you a unique alternative edition: a largely instrumental line-up. Guitar heroes, bass monsters, drummin' beasts and other virtuosi will let their instruments do the talking for you in a fabulous SPECIAL SHRED-A-LICIOUS EDITION. The festival will be enclosed between two coupled progconcerts of AFTER FOREVER and VANDEN PLAS.

Line-up
Instrumental music boring? Not with this bill! The special edition with speedy stringpluckers and other masterly musicians will be full of show, different styles and amusement. The line-up for the actual festivalday will be embellished with big names:

JONAS HELLBORG (SWE)
MATTIAS IA EKLUNDH (SWE)
MARCEL COENEN (NET)
JOOP WOLTERS (NET)
DENNIS LEEFLANG (NET)
ROB VAN DER LOO (NET)
7FOR4 (GER), with Wolfgang Zenk (ex-Sieges Even)
PLUG-IN (FRA), with Fanalo and Elmobo (Ron Thal / Bumblefoot)
DARK HARVEST (ICE)

Such a gathering of so many topmusicians will of course call for a smashing climaxing conclusion: a mighty JAM SESSION including extra guestmusicians. Whether this succeeds? Keep your eye on our website for extra news about Headway Festival 2006 Special Shred-a-licious Edition!

Tickets
Friday 31/3 ? 15.00 After Forever, Orpheo
Saturday 1/4 ? 17.50 Special Shred-a-licious Edition
Sunday 2/4 ? 17.50 VandenPlas, Sphere of Souls (? 15,00 presale)
Combitickets ? 30,00 for two days, ? 42,50 for three days

Tickets are available through Ticketservice (ticketservice.nl or 0900-3001250, ?0.99/m) and through Uitlijn (aub.nl or 0900-0191, ?0.40/m). Foreign fans will soon be able to order their tickets through headwayfestival.com (Paypal). Go to p60.nl for local sellingpoints.

Source:

headwayfestival.com

Uli and Dirk are no longer a part of BURDEN OF GRIEF.

After some personal problems during the last months we unfortunately had no other choice to make
this very hard decision. We regret much that it had come so far, but under these conditions we saw no more future for BURDEN OF GRIEF. We wish both all the best !!!

But we are pleased to be able to present you our new line-up. New guitar-player will be Johannes 'Joe' Rudolph (from GUTLOCK) and new bass-player will be Florian Bauer (from TWILIGHT PROPHECIES). The first rehearsals went very promising and we are planning to enter the studio around August/September '06. Due to the working on the next record we will play just a very few shows this year.

--- BURDEN OF GRIEF SHOWS '06 ---
29|07|2006 (GER) OBERSINN - Eisenwahn Open Air (w/ Eisregen,...)
30|09|2006 (GER) KÖLN - Büze Ehrenfeld
to be continued...

--- BURDEN OF GRIEF MERCHANDISE ---

At last we want to remind you to visit our shop.
We've got some very last copies of:

'Fields Of Salvation' US-version (incl. bonustrack)
'Fields Of Salvation' T-Shirts (L and XL)
New BURDEN OF GRIEF - Logo patches

For further info check out : www.BURDENOFGRIEF.de

Source:	Underclass
Band profile:	Burden Of Grief

Inborn Suffering (Melancolic doom death act from Paris) has been signed to Portuguese extreme label Sound Riot Records.

They will release their debut album "Wordless Hope" late summer of 2006.

View their site for more details : http://www.inborn-suffering.tk

Source:

Inborn Suffering

02.March.2006
Hell-o everybody
Yes, we´re still alive and walking among the dead. We know we haven´t updated this site that often in the last few months, and we know that for some suspicious, distrusting minds this could seem as if nothing happens in the FT camp - but you´re all wrong. The work on the new album is in good progress and if the devil is with us the album will definetely be released within 2006. Until then we decided to let you participate in the carthatic agony of writing an album by dropping some personal notes and comments on the progress of our work in form of a diary. If you´re lost, sleepless or just have nothing better to do - feel free to act as a voyeur and go on reading.

Let me give you some facts first to give you an update of what´s going on actually. In the last few weeks we were working hard on some songs we´re really in love with. Yesterday Helen came over to track some vocals which sound quite different from what you might know from her, but definetely add a new dimension to the FT sound. It´s maybe too early to reveal any songtitles yet, but we´ll add more and more details with every update. Oh, and for all of you, who might ask us about a general schedule - I can reveal that our plan is to enter the studio in June/July and probably you all can enjoy some new stuff then later this year, sounds like a plan, doesn´t it?

Ok, more news and personal notes from some of us will follow in irregular updates during the next weeks - until then - praise the lord satán! ;-)

goodnight.
ben.

Source:	flowingtears.de
Band profile:	Flowing Tears

MADDER MORTEM - DESIDERATA

"My Name Is Silence" download only EP available shortly featuring exclusive extra tracks.

"Desiderata" album will be available from April 24th (March 27th in Norway).

Video available for download for the song "My Name Is Silence" at http://www.peaceville.com or by following this direct link: http://snapper.simbiotic.co.uk/vids/04.mov

Source:	peaceville.com
Band profile:	Madder Mortem

Finland's Nightwish have posted the following message on their official web site:

"The hassle with the media seems to have died. We've been off tour for some months and we've had a nice and long vacation. It's time to get back to business."

"Nightwish is currently and actively looking for a new singer/frontwoman for the band. We need the obvious things: Looks, charisma, courage, and, of course, a big voice. Good grasp of the English language is also very helpful. We don't necessarily need a classically trained vocalist like Tarja Turunen (the former vocalist). We welcome all kinds of styles and voices, natural and trained, from rock and pop to classical, and all that you can find in between. You should however be prepared to sing with a lot of dynamics and versatility. From loud and high to very sensitive stuff."

"You should preferably send us a CD containing 2-3 songs that you consider to be your best work. If you send an album, would you mark out 2-3 most important songs, please? If you record and send NIGHTWISH songs, then the most important thing is your PERSONAL TOUCH. Photographs are needed as well."

"We will look into different applications and all candidates, but doing it this way would save us some time and energy. If you think you have it, just send your stuff to our management, and we'll be happy to take you onboard."

All submissions should be sent to:

KING FOO ENTERTAINMENT LTD OY / EWO
Fredrikinkatu 61 A 7.krs/floor
FIN-00100 Helsinki
Finland

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

Joe Comeau, ex-vocalist of Annihilator, Liege Lord and Overkill, has joined Swedish prog power metallers Tad Morose, after former singer Urban Breed has left after 10 years in the band in December 2005. Joe Comeau posted the following statement on the band's official website:

"What can I say? Obviously I am very honored to be the new vocalist for the great Tad Morose! I would first like to thank all the Tad guys for bringing me on board. Work has already begun on awesome new Tad Morose material and I am psyched as hell to move ahead on creating a killer new CD with these guys. I am also looking forward to our upcoming shows so I can meet all the Tad faithful and friends alike! Make sure you come and have a drink with us. See ya soon! Cheers, Joe Comeau."

Source:	tadmorose.com
Band profile:	Tad Morose

OM have recorded and mixed their new album "Conference of the Birds" which is slated for release in March 2006 on Holy Mountain. The album will be released on both LP and CD formats. The record was engineered by Billy Anderson (Melvins, Neurosis, Fantomas). A split 7" with Six Organs of Admittance has also been completed and will be released by Holy Mountain. Finally, OM have completed material for a forthcoming split 10" with Current 93. This will be released on vinyl by Neurot Recordings and on CD by Durtro Jnana in early spring 2006.

http://www.holymountain.com/om/

Band profile:

Om

Ipeca Recordings reveal the release date of Peeping Tom self title album due to 30 May 2006.

Peeping Tom is a projet by Mike Patton (Ex-Faith No More, Ex-Mr. Bungle, Fantomas) in which he has been working the last 6 years. The album will count with many guests.

The tracklist and the guests are the following:

1) Five Seconds (featuring Odd Nosdam)
2) Mojo (featuring Rahzel and Dan the Automator)
3) Don't Even Trip (featuring Amon Tobin)
4) Getaway (featuring Kool Keith)
5) Your Neighborhood Spaceman (featuring Jel and Odd Nosdam)
6) Kill The DJ (featuring Massive Attack)
7) Caipirinha (featuring Bebel Gilberto)
8) Celebrity Death Match (featuring Kid Koala)
9) How U Feelin? (featuring Doseone)
10) Sucker (featuring Norah Jones)
11) We're Not Alone (featuring Dub Trio)

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Source:

ipecac.com