The following update has been posted on the band's official website:

"After more then 7 years, 4 albums(1999 "Negative Prevails", 2000"Bedtime for Mercy", 2002"Necrospective", 2004"Livid Corruption" ) and a couple of compilations, Natron officially part ways with their label Holy Records.

"Our deal still included an option but - some discussions later - we all thought better to anticipate the expiration of the contract as cooperation didn't satisfy both parts anymore.We thank Holy Records for helping somehow Natron to spread their music in the underground through the past years.

"Beside planning tours/gigs ( we're going to update the gig section really soon!), we're currently demoing new songs and planning to release a new album within the summer/fall 2006....in the meanwhile we're looking for a new label as well,stay tuned!"

Source:	natron.it
Band profile:	Natron

ATROCITY fans watch out! Additionally to the work on the follower to "Werk 80", ATROCITY are already busy with their next project: the first DVD of the band will be released in 2006! To present you the best possible retrospective of the more than 20-year-long band history ATROCITY need your support. Send them all the dates of concerts you visited, especially those in the first years of the band. They also ask you to send photos, videos etc. of their live gigs. The best stuff will be featured on the DVD!

Your ATROCITY stuff to:
info@atrocity.de
Mastersound Entertainment
c/o Atrocity History
Schorndorfer Straße 25
70736 Fellbach
Germany

Source:	atrocity.de
Band profile:	Atrocity

Century Media Records has announced the signing of German black metal hopefuls DARK FORTRESS. The group's fourth full-length CD, "Séance", will be released in Europe on January 30, 2006 and will feature the artwork by Travis Smith (NEVERMORE, KATATONIA, OPETH).

"Séance" track listing:

01. Ghastly Indoctrination (7:39)
02. CataWomb (6:41)
03. Requiem Grotesque (6:50)
04. While They Sleep (7:11)
05. To Harvest The Artefacts Of Mockery (4:11)
06. Poltergeist (5:56)
07. Revolution:Vanity (5:14)
08. Incide (5:20)
09. Shardfigures (6:22)
10. Insomnia (6:34)

Total playing time: 62:05 minutes

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Dark Fortress

Sweden's KATATONIA have set "The Great Cold Distance" as the title of their seventh full-length album, due on March 13, 2006 via Peaceville Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Viva Emptiness" was recorded at Fascination Street studios in the outskirts of Örebro, Sweden and was mastered at the Cutting Room in Stockholm.

"The Great Cold Distance" track listing:

01. Leaders
02. Deliberation
03. Soil's Song
04. My Twin
05. Consternation
06. Follower
07. Rusted
08. Increase
09. July
10. In The White
11. The Itch
12. Journey Through Pressure

A single, "My Twin", will precede the album on February 13. The single, which will be available for paid download on February 6, will feature the following track listing:

01. My Twin (Single Edit)
02. My Twin (Opium Dub)
03. Displaced
04. Dissolving Bonds

Download an audio sample of "My Twin" and view the album/single artwork (plus new band photo) at http://www.katatonia.com .

Read more ››

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Katatonia

OSI (Office Of Strategic Influence), the project featuring Fates Warning guitarist Jim Matheos, ex-Dream Theater keyboardist Kevin Moore and Dream Theater drummer Mike Portnoy, have posted the following message on their official web site:

"Jim, Kevin and Mike were at Carriage House Studios in Connecticut on November 18-20 tracking drums for the forthcoming OSI album. Jim and Kevin are now tracking guitars and vocals, and mixing will take place in January. More information will be posted on this site (track listing, release dates, etc.) as it becomes available."

Initially Mike Portnoy looks like he wasn't going to be involved - he said "Initially I wasn't going to partake in the album and had passed on the offer, but I guess the moral of the story is, 'Never say never,'".

Source:	osiband.com
Band profile:	OSI

Fatal Force, project formed by Torben Enevoldsen (Section A), Mats Levén (Ex-Abstrakt Algebra, Ex Malmsteen, At Vance) and Daniel Flores(Zool, Tears of Anger, Mind's Eye), completed their debut album.

The Tracklist is the following:

Everyone
Domino
No Question
Caveman
Nothing Is Forever
Far Away
Let Me Know
Out Of Fuel
Eye To Eye
Insanity
The Only One

Source:

torbenenevoldsen.com

US doom band started writting a new album, their follow up to "The Pale Hunt Departure". Paul Kuhr commented: "We are currently in the writing process of the new CD, and early plans are to begin recording in April 2006. The new material is a huge step forward in song writing, not only separating our sound from our peers, but digging deep into our roots of early Chicago death metal. Faster, heavier, and relentless. It will be quite difficult to label us in the 'doom' category after this release."

The band also was confirmed for the Heathen Crusade Metalfest.

Source:	theendrecords.com
Band profile:	Novembers Doom

An update was posted at Marty Friedman's website, He, together with Paul Gibert, will appear on a special DVD of Young Guitar magazine. Also it reports that "Marty is making progress on his upcoming solo album. Engineer/co-producer Allen Isaacs (Sex Machine Guns, Mayo Okamoto) is in Los Angeles editing the first batch of tracks. Recording will commence in Tokyo in December."

For more info go to: http://www.martyfriedman.com

Belgian Black Metal pioneers Ancient Rites are heading back to the studio to record their long awaited follow-up to 2001's "Dim Carcosa".

"They are also pleased to announce that Ancient Rites have found a new record label in Season of Mist, also the home of bands like the legendary Mayhem, Rotting Christ and Arcturus. Needless to say the band is really happy with both the new label and heading back to the Spacelab studio in Germany."

Ancient Rites started recording the new album on November 21st, 2005, under the guidance and supervision of veteran AR producers Oliver Phillips and Christian Moos.

The album will most likely be released before the summer of 2006, after which Ancient Rites, now a septet since the return of former members Domingo Smets and Raf Jansen last year, will once again play live to spread their new music. Concerts all over Europe and the U.K. are being negotiated and arranged as we speak, so expect the band to be out there in full blast next year.

http://www.season-of-mist.com

Band profile:

Ancient Rites

The band inked a deal with UK label Candlelight Records.

The Band entered the studio to record a new, album entitled "As Everything Is A Tragedy", that is planed to be released in early 2006.

Source:

candlelightrecords.co.uk

Seminal avant-garde metal pioneers CELTIC FROST have been confirmed for next year's Wacken Open Air, set to take place August 3-5, 2006 in Wacken, Germany. The reunited band will perform a 90-minute "best of" set (including new songs) on August 4 on the "Blackstage." The festival billing is now shaping up as follows (in alphabetical order):

CELTIC FROST
CHILDREN OF BODOM
DIE APOKALYPTISCHEN REITER
EMPEROR
FINNTROLL
IN EXTREMO
NEVERMORE
SOILWORK
SUBWAY TO SALLY

As previously reported, CELTIC FROST have set "Dark Matter Manifest" as the tentative title of their first album in 13 years. The culmination of some three and a half years of songwriting and recording work, the album was largely produced by the band themselves and financed by their own production company, with additional assistance from HYPOCRISY/PAIN mastermind Peter Tägtgren during the final recording and mixing sessions at Horus Sound Studio in Hanover, Germany. Negotiations with a variety of labels are currently underway, and the album is scheduled for a release in early 2006. Original CELTIC FROST members Tom Gabriel Fischer (voice and guitars) and Martin Eric Ain (bass) are joined by Erol Unala (guitar) and Franco Sesa (drums). The band are now managed by Antje Lange for The A Label in Berlin, Germany.

Sources: http://www.blabbermouth.net & http://www.wacken.com

Band profile:

Celtic Frost

The great label "Onslaught Records" (http://www.onslaughter.net/) just signed an Italian band in the direction of releasing their second Full Length album called "Decorations Of Pantheon".

The band is "Perfidy Biblical", a blasphemous Death Metal band located in Rome, This album will be released soon (maybe February 2006) and it's already making a lot of noise in the metal scene.

Metal Storm will follow this topic closely; soon you'll have more info available?wait for the Review too.

Check the band's sites:
http://www.geocities.com/perfidybiblical/
http://www.perfidybiblical.net/
http://www.myspace.com/perfidybiblical/

Finland's WALTARI have inked a deal with Dockyard 1, the new company formed by Dirk Putzke, Christine Stephan (both ex-Sanctuary/Noise Records) and Piet Sielck (IRON SAVIOR). The band's new album, "Blood Sample" (view cover at http://www.waltarimusic.com/all/bloodsample/bloodsample320.gif), is scheduled for release in March 2006.

Source:

blabbermouth.net

Aarni is currently working in the Skepticism cover song, for a tribute album to be release by Foreshadow Productions/Red Stream. After this Aarni will start the works on the follow up album to "Bathos". The songs for the new album are expected to be "longer, heavier, generally slower and more introverted & ambient than on Bathos. Also more beautiful and grotesque." The album is expected to be out sometime in 2006.

In other news the 2001 & 2002 demos have been re-mastered and will be released together in one album. The differences in this new release are that "the general volume level is higher and the mix is more dynamic".

Source:	aarni.info
Band profile:	Aarni

INBORN SUFFERING has just finished its first album entitled "WORDLESS HOPE"... more than one hour of doom/death in made line our first demo left last April & always available...

this album contains 8 titles, including one instrumental & the 3 titles of the demo in different versions this album was recorded & mixed between May & September 2005, by Andrew (heol telwen, the arrs, black god, bran barr, carnal lust, etc) in Hybreed Studio in Fontenay s/bois (France)...

Tracklist:
01. THE AGONY WITHIN
02. INBORN SUFFERING
03. AS I CLOSE MY EYES
04. STYGIAN DARKNESS
05. THIS IS WHO WE ARE
06. WORDLESS HOPE (instru)
07. MONOLITH
08. THORN OF DECEIT

...Taken from the Paris gig , april 14th (with Mourning Beloveth, Mar De Grises, Ataraxie)

enjoy:

http://62.193.235.178/video/INBORN_SUFFERING_stygian_darkness.wmv

mp3+pictures live, studio & promo on our website!

Tshirts & demos too

http://www.inborn-suffering.tk

Source:

Inborn Suffering