The Band formed by Overkill members, that had release their debut album by theirself initially, have now a deal with Listenable Records as they say on their official website:

"It's Official!!! We have signed on with Listenable Records in France. "Acts of Insanity" release date for all of Eastern and Western Europe, along with Asia and Australia is scheduled for Feb. 2 2005. The release will follow up with a european tour. The details are being worked out now, as soon as we recieve the info, we will pass it on to you."

http://www.speedkillhate.com

Band profile:

Overkill

"You're hearing it here first, Swarmers! The Hollow is shaking up the music biz again. The band has just announced that they will be releasing a new 5-song EP titled "Ab Gehenna" that will ONLY be available via download. No CDs, no retail...period. Starting in December, you will be able to buy this EP online at thehollow.ca and in the Swarm Store.

As if that weren't enough turmoil, The Hollow also announced that they will be launching their digital-only EP in style by offering it for download at an iPod Download Station in merch booths on their December cross-Canada tour."

www.swarmtheory.com

Posted on official site www.megatherion.com by webmaster on 26.11.2004:

As all good things must come to an end, for some time now I have been feeling that my time with this page is almost over. Due to many personal reasons, mainly me being overworked with other, more proffitable jobs (Hey, you gotta eat, right? The Therion page isn't really an employer.), I simply don't have the time nor the initiative to do stuff on this page, after I spend 15 hours a day in front of a computer screen. So I have decided to do the only proper thing, and that is to formally quit the Megatherion Intelligence Page project. I will do so in a matter of days, as I still have a lot of unsorted mail to sort (and forward to appropriate persons) and to add quite a lot of pictures from the gigs (thanx a lot for sending them people, they are great!) to add to the photo section.

As of today, this page has no webmaster but it's looking for one! If there's a Therion fan(atic) out there who is willing to work for free for the next couple of years, 1-2 hours a day, has appropriate linux/webdesign/php/perl/mysql/whatever needed knowledge and skills, and wants to seriously take over this page into his/her care, please send your inquires to: therionsociety.NOSP@M.bredband.net. Before you freak out with "Me! Me! I wanna do it!", do have in mind that Chris may already have someone else in mind, and if he doesn't there is really a lot of work to be done. It's not a simple job, but if you're applying then you already know that. Page currently has NO user interfaces, everything has to be edited manualy directly in Mysql, etc, etc, and whoever takes the job will have to build something and brng the page out of the stone age.

Well. What's there else to say? Please don't mail me any more with the site problems/pics/interview requests, I will deal with the ones currently in queue, but no new ones. Also I'll be removing my email address from the appropriate webmaster mailto links, they are now all replaced by the therionsociety one (it's the address of the TS administration, and acts as temporary headquarters until someone is hired). If you really need to contact me, try ivo.NOSP@M.element.hr.

Bye everyone, it's been my privilege and honour to be the webmaster of this glorious band for the last seven and a half years, I wish both Therion and the regular visitors of this page (and it's forums) all the best luck in the future.

Band profile:

Therion

After 10 years of history Theatres des Vampires have split from the singer Alexander.
This happened in the recent days.
After 3 months of discussions and a formal stop of activities, Theatres des Vampires was forced to stop the collaboration with the singer Alexander.
The singer during the last year suffered for a badly and distructive form of jelousy against some members of the band as Scarlet (the well know she singer of the band) and Fabian the keyboard player and main compositor of the band.
This caused major problems and a virtually impossible continuing of activities of the band in this kind of situation.
The band fronts 2 options, or disband the band or fire out who has been the problem in the last months.
And the decision is taken.
Theatres des Vampires, in according with the official Management Tim Fraser and the label Plastic Head decided to stop the collaboration with the singer Alexander and at today are searching for a new singer to replace him.
For the moment all activities of the band are freezed while searching for the new singer.
For news and extra information you can get in touch at the same address as always:
info@theatres-des-vampires.com
Soon on-line you will find more recent news and updates about the situation at:
www.theatres-des-vampires.com
or
www.theatres-des-vampires.net

Band profile:

Theatres Des Vampires

MORS PRINCIPIUM EST ANNOUNCE TRACKLISTING TO THEIR NEW ALBUM 'UNBORN' :

" The overall sound of the album became really massive compared to our debut album 'Inhumanity' and the production is very futuristic and top-notch because we had time to record a lot of extra stuff in our own studio. To mention few bands that the album might sound like, I would go with a mix of AT THE GATES, CARCASS, and EVANESCENCE for some parts . Even blastbeat is heard from time to time, and Ville's vocal parts turned out to be something else, his voice has really developed to more serious deathmetal growling." Jori / MPE.

1. Pure
2. The Harmony Remains
3. Parasites of Paradise
4. Two Steps Away
5. Altered State of Consciousness
6. Spirit-Conception
7. The Unborn
8. Fragile Flesh
9. Pressure
10. The Glass Womb

New signee : /SPEED/KILLHATE/

/SPEED/KILLHATE/ have joined LISTENABLE roster. this very talented and energetic brutal 80's flavoured metal/ thrashcore band features no other than OVERKILL members Dave Linsk (guitar), Derek Tailer (guitar), and Tim Mallare (drums), and Mario Frasca(Vocals - ex ANGER on ANGER). The group's debut album, "Acts of Insanity", will be released in all of Eastern and Western Europe, along with Asia and Australia, on February 2, 2005. A European tour will follow. the album wil be available in limited edition slipcase. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Walls of Hate
02. Setting Me Off
03. Violence Breeds
04. Enemy
05. Won't See Fear
06. Face the Pain
07. Revelation At War
08. Not For Me
09. Repent

for more infos : www.speedkillhate.com

SCARVE JAPANESE FAN SITE !

Raging scarvers from Japan now have a site written in their language for more suitable irradiation : http://scarve.pupilia.net . Thanks for support !
SCARVE have recently played with PUNGENT STENCH in Spain and did an excellent impression at the Aarlborg fest in Denmark (ILL DISPOSEd, DARKANE, MNEMIC..) (photo : conkrete.com). The band is also recording a show in Paris on the 11th of December for a DVD bonus to be added to the re-release of their debut album 'Translucence' on LISTENABLE records in March / April 2005.

ENTER THE ARCHAIC ABBATOIR !!

Belgian gorehounds ABORTED are about to enter the studio for their 4th fullength album, tentatively entitled 'The Archaic Abattoir'. This December with producer Tue Madsen (the haunted, mnemic, ill disposed, etc). The band claims to be recording their most mature & balanced effort so far, going from the most extreme to the most catchy & varied songs in ABORTED history. Among a re-worked version of 'Gestated Rabidity' (off the haematobic EP), other songtitles passed around are 'The Inertia', 'A Cold Logistic Slaughter', 'The Archaic Abattoir', 'Parturient Homicidal Craving' and more to come along a concept story. A special limited edition is said to be planned as well...

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"Since a couple of days Peavy, Victor and Mike are on European tour again, celebrating their band anniversary together with their fans. Peavy writes a tour diary, which you will find at the "Live" section together with live photos from the shows. Every 3-4 days we will update the report".

Also, in the beginning of February 2005 Rage will play 2 concerts in Japan.
05.02.2005 J Osaka Club-Quattro
06.02.2005 J Tokyo Club-Quattro

For more info, check out their website:
http://www.rage-on.de/

Band profile:

Rage

FINNISH METAL EXPO - Helsinki, Kaapelitehdas, January 28-29.2005

- Finnish Metal Expo gathers consumers, musicians and businesses under the same roof
- Hilselinko seeks for the most interesting new metal talent in Finland
- International Metal Meeting is a professional event for the industry

Among the bands announced for live shows are the following:
Tarot
Sonata Arctica
Mnemic (DEN)
Finntroll
Machine Men
Total Devastation
Callisto
Godsplague
Pain Confessor
Purity
Hevein
The Scourger

For more info, visit the official page of the event:
http://www.fme.fi

In a update on their website we found that "The third album Difference is now mixed and mastered", also it was previously posted the tracklist of the album, that is as follow:

Lost souls
Wings of Icaros
New life
Lucid times
the Mirror
World*s child
Sail away
Fly
Secret door
We are one
Green fields
Powerplay (Bonus)

http://www.dreamtale.net

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Band profile:

Dreamtale

"BOLT THROWER have found a replacement for the recently departed Dave Ingram.

The band is very happy to announce that original vocalist Karl Willetts has rejoined them as a full-time member.

Karl said, "It's fantastic to be a part of the mighty BOLT THROWER again. It feels great to be back with the guys, I can't wait to get my teeth into the new songs and get back on the road again. I've got some unfinished business to attend to...!"

The now complete line-up of BOLT THROWER - Karl Willetts, Gavin Ward, Barry Thomson, Jo Bench & Martin Kearns - will spend the next few weeks finishing off the new material and plan to go into the studio in the new year."

http://www.metalblade.de/

Band profile:

Bolt Thrower

Guitarist/main songwriter Kari Kainulainen has left the Swedish progressive metallers Amaran. "I have decided to leave Amaran to devote my energy to my new band, Sibliance," Kainulainen writes on the band's web site. "I not not leaving Amaran because of any personal indifferences... Amaran has just been working poorly lately, which has made me frustrated. I can remove by stepping down. Furthemore, I haven't been satisfied what so ever about the situation with Listenable (I guess that's the biggest issue)...

"I wish the Amaran guys all the best and all the best of luck!!!"

Amaran's sophomore effort, "Pristine In Bondage", was released in January through Listenable Records. The follow-up to "A World Depraved" was recorded at Studio Underground in Västerås, Sweden and is the group's first since the departure of bassist Mikael Andersson (he has since been replaced by Julie Laughs No More drummer Ronnie Bergerståhl).

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France's Listenable Records has issued a statement in response to former AMARAN guitarist Kari Kainulainen's assertion that his disssastisfaction with the label was the main reason he chose to leave the band. Listenable's statement reads as follows:

"We feel AMARAN has always been a very promising band and we've always tried to support them as much as possible as well as all the other artists on our roster.

"The band has unfortunately become frustrated because we didn't want them to record the new album so soon like one year after the 'Pristine in Bondage' album release coz we could only release this new album in September 2005 (9 months later) in order to give it the right focus and use our best efforts to possibly put them on tour right after the release, which is quite hard considering the heavy competition in European tours nowadays and also get a release date in coordination with the Japanese company involved in this new album with us.

"We thought a recording period right before the summer was also more suitable to us financially due to the priorities we have coming out first semester 2005. We kept being unaware of this growth of frustration (apparently leading to Kari's departure) until the news was spread today on the 23rd of November.

"We're hoping the fans willl not have misconceptions reading Kari's news and about our work."

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Amaran

LINE-UP's CHANGE FOR AQUILON !

Sébastien has left the role of guitarist to Stéphane Jeannin for personnal reasons.
Stéphane has already played in many different bands and got a solid experience. Beeing an excellent guitar-player, he's bringing more power and cohesion to the Aquilon's music.

The 2 next concerts of the band :
04 décembre - Macon (71) - La Cave a Musique - 21h00 - 9?
11 décembre - Saint Martin D'Hères - L'Art Scène" (80 rue des Taillées-38400)

The band have posted 2 songs from their latest album Fading Beauty on the news section of their official website.

http://www.morphia.nl/

"Well, it's been awhile, but we can finally announce that our longtime friend and former guitarist AARON GUERRA will once again be cranking up the guitar with Tourniquet! As you may remember, it was a mutual parting a couple three years ago, as Aaron was starting a family and so on. We are all now in a position to welcome him back and he is in a position to return - so... let's all give him a "WELCOME BACK AARON". Of course, this means you may have a chance to see Tourniquet live again..."

http://www.tourniquet.net

Band profile:

Tourniquet

"The band return to Thin Ice studios on November 22nd to record 3 new tracks for the Japanese record label. These three songs will feature on the 3rd PQ album...title coming soon!
The remainder of the album will be recorded between January 24th and the end of February 2005.

Power Quest are still searching for a new drummer to join the band. If you are a drummer and you can play in the vein of Dan Zimmerman, Jorg Michael etc then we want to hear from you!
Please contact Steve Williams for more information.

Thanks to everyone who came down to the Underworld show on November 13th! What a night! Extra special thanks to our friend Paolo who filled the drum stool for the night. Awesome performance dude!"

http://www.power-quest.co.uk/

Band profile:

Power Quest

The Neo-folk projet by Kim Larsen put an update on his website:

"The next album 'SONNENHEIM' is being worked on
and will be released by 'Heiðrunar|Myrkrunar' & distributed by Tesco.

After long time requests the Midnight Will 10" EP, originally released by Eis+Licht,
has been re-edited, re-mixed and will be re-released on a MCD at some point in the future.
2 additional tracks was recorded at the same sessions
and will be out on a 7" single titled "HAIL HAIL HAIL".

Exact release dates to be confirmed."

www.ofthewandandthemoon.dk