In the meantime the recording of the new album is finished! The next step is to create the final mix, which will probably take a few weeks.

The title of the album is not yet decided, but at the moment it is called "Farewell". It will contain the following songs:

1 - Rivendell
2 - The Fall Of Gil-Galad
3 - The Old Walking Song
4 - Eärendil
5 - A Drinking Song
6 - Back To Lands We Once Did Know

http://listen.to/rivendell

Michael Haas and Bernhard Gittenberger finish the mixing work for last remaining chapters of the upcoming Angizia album ?Ein Toter fährt gern Ringelspiel". The release date of this extensive theatrical work is planned for December 2004, but it's uncertain at the moment how much time the final layout conception and the manufacture of the CDs will take. Angizia will inform you in time.

It's done - ?Ein Toter fährt gern Ringelspiel" was bounced to CD.

www.angizia.com

"Home after his first-ever trip to the U.S., special guest appearance at Atlanta's ProgPower USA V, and performances in South America Timo Kotipelto sends his regards to his fans worldwide, "The gigs in Argentina and Brazil were superb! The response from the fans was so awesome. A lot of people knew my songs and we had lots of fun on stage. The funny thing was that our bass player's last name Porra (Lauri Porra) is a swear word in Brazil and means something like sperm! So the people were shouting his name very loud when I introduced him.

The whole trip to Atlanta ProgPower V and to South-America was such an enjoyable journey for me. I hope to get back to play some shows in the U.S. with my band, and also to headline a tour in South America in the near future. Thanks to all cool people I met over there!"

Keyboardist Jens Johansson (Stratovarius, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen) who stepped-in in the eleventh hour to perform with the band, said the following regarding the band's South American shows, "It was really nice performing with my new friends from the band Kotipelto this past week. The audiences in South America are always a lot of fun so it was my pleasure to help Timo out when his regular keyboard player Janne pooped out due to tour with CoB - ha ha. The last gig in Sao Paulo in front of 7,000 crazy Brazilian fans was a nice finish of the Latin American leg, and as I have never been to Cordoba, Argentina before that was also really interesting. Next this mini-tour takes us of all places to Finland."

Kotipelto, whose newest album Coldness was released earlier this year by Century Media Records, will be performing 6 dates in the next two weeks in the artist's native country Finland. More information on the performances can be found here. In addition, the band will be playing in Helsinki, Finland with Nightwish December 26th at the sold-out post-Christmas show".

http://www.centurymedia.com/

Band profile:

Kotipelto

From the official website of the Dutch band:

"There where a lot of rumours going on lately but now its official the guys are back together again. After 6 and a half years they are jamming together again. "After a few minutes we stood there all with a big smile on our face like "fucking hell we rocked" it felt great playing together again."
They have rehearsed a few times now the first day they played a few old songs but the second day they already started to write new songs! Three songs are already recorded and the guys are listening to them at home and playing around with them. Jan Chris said that at least one of the new songs is faster than everything they ever did. He insures us that the next record will be a hard and dark album, and he means very hard!
When we will see this new album.... well no hurries. In October they are going into the studio again to record some more but they don't follow deadlines anymore. They do it when they want to and don't want to feel that pressure anymore".

http://www.gorefest.nl/

According to Blabbermouth.net, the Canadian band set the title of the new album as "Alien". The release of the album is scheduled for March 2005, through Century Media Records.

"It took drummer Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel, ex-Death) only three days in late August to pound through 11 tracks at the Armoury in Vancouver before the band moved on to Greenhouse Studios (also in Vancouver) to record the guitars and vocals. The remaining work is being done in SYL mainman Devin Townsend's studio in Maple Ridge (suburb of Vancouver). Songtitles set to appear on the CD include:

01. Imperial
02. Skeksis
03. Shitstorm
04. Love?
05. Shine
06. Possessions
07. Landscape
08. Zen
09. What's New, Pussycat? (Tom Jones cover)

SYL will release their first-ever DVD, entitled "For Those Aboot To Rock (Live at the Commodore)", on November 15 through Century Media Records. The disc features a full set from the band's sold-out hometown show at The Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver recorded earlier this year, plus some "hilarious" backstage antics and video clips. The DVD will be available for the price of a regular CD".

Source:	roadrun.com
Band profile:	Strapping Young Lad

"Over the weekend Orphaned Land played for over 1,000 people in a Shuni Fortress for over two and a half hours. They performed both an acoustic and an electric set, and played tracks from all three of their albums (track list below). The band was impressed to see the crowd respond overwhelmingly to tracks from their Century Media debut, 2004's "Mabool". Vocalist Kobi Farhi commented on their enthusiastic performance: "I was in ecstasy! I was singing the first half of the first song in the electric set, when I realized that the microphone was on the other side of the stage. I couldn't understand why I couldn't hear myself; it became the joke of the show . The crowed threw loads of candy at us (as Jewish usually do in Bar Mitzvah since it was Orphaned Land's Bar Mitzvah). In the acoustic set we were dressed in white clothing and then for the electric we changed into black, the switch of the vibes was so perfect!" The band brought along six female singers to perform the choral arrangements for "Building the Ark", a cellist, and other guest musicians. Pictures from the extended performance can be viewed here.

Acoustic Set:

01. Rainbow
02. The Evil Urge
03. Mercy
04. Medley: Aldiar Al Mukadisa, A'salk, Joy
05. The Beloved's Cry
06. Building The Ark
07. A Never Ending Way
08. El Meod Na'ala

Electric Set:

01. Mabool
02. Find Your Self, Discover God
03. Birth Of The Three
04. Seasons Unite
05. The Sahara's Storm
06. Ocean Land
07. Halo Dies
08. Of Temptation Born
09. Above You All
10. Norra El Norra
11. Kiss Of Babylon
12. Ornaments Of Gold"

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Source:	roadrun.com
Band profile:	Orphaned Land

Lacrimas Profundere posted online the video from "Ave End" track on their official homepage.
Also, the band finished the work for another video, which will be released in November.

http://www.lacrimas.com/

Band profile:

Lacrimas Profundere

"Poema Arcanvs will on Saturday, October 9, enter the studio to record their new album "Teluric Manifesto".
No release date will be set yet, but we expect it to be ready just in the beginning of 2005..."

http://aftermath-music.com/
http://www.poemaarcanus.cl/

Band profile:

Poema Arcanus

The folkish metal band from chile have set 31 of October 2004 as the official release date to their debut album "Sounds of Pain". There will be a availble a digipack version of the album, for information of how to get the album visit their official website: http://www.uaral.cl/

Band profile:

Uaral

Here is a statement made by Michael Amott, from the official website of the band:

"Although there's been little to no activity here at spiritualbeggars.com over the last few weeks, interesting things ARE happening in the Beggars camp! First off, we mixed the new album with Fredrik Nordström (he was assisted by Patrik J. Sten), and the result is truly great! We had a lot of fun during the mix, and we did it all in 5 days! A very good mix with a cool atmosphere!
We have also mastered the album with Göran Finnberg, he has mastered the last couple of Spiritual Beggars albums, he really knows the Spiritual Beggars sound very well and he made this thing shine - it sounds wonderful now!
A special mention needs to go out to Rickard Bengtsson in Slaughterhouse Studio, who also put a lot into the making of this new Spiritual Beggars record - cheers mate!
The album artwork is also very close to being completed. We have Niklas Sundin from "Cabin Fever Media" working on this - and it's looking really?eh, RED! It all ties in with the overall feel of the album, the title, the music? We'll be posting artwork samples here within a few weeks I am sure.
Next week the band will be getting together for a photo shoot - promotional shots that will appear around the release of the record.
Licensing deals are being negotiated right now for this album and our future releases - I am hoping well have something to announce soon about that.
That's it for now, more news to follow?

Michael Amott"

Source:	spiritualbeggars.com
Band profile:	Spiritual Beggars

14 October DEVILYN began record session to newest album entitled "11". Session be holds in Bialystok studio Hertz where wil be registered all parties of instruments. On new publishing album will find itself about 8 - 9 track. It brings itself it will be decidedly onto this that this material different from earlier production of group, works are very different and simultaneously fast and aggressive. Devilyn have new shape and form of which never did not have and this thanks new musicians, which fit in ideally into conceptions to which it aims Bonys and they influenced significantly onto musical content of this of album, no less yet he became kept style which Devilyn worked out himself through years. It stays only to wait to end of year because then CD should hit to shops expenditure of Conquer Records.

Source:

conquerec.com

Blind Stare is a young talented band from Turku (Finland), their music can be described as a combination of Melodic Death Metal with Keyboards, Black/Death vocals & orchestral arrangements.
The band will record their debut album on X-Mas 2004/January 2005 to be released in April/May 2005.

Source:

Arise Records Newsletter.

"Isengard have announced the addition of singer Morgan J. Johansson (ex-Crystal Blue) to the group's ranks.
Morgan is 36 years old and hails from Örebro, Sweden. After his Crystal Blue stint, he did a few tours with different cover bands around Scandinavia.
"Morgan has a ton of experience," stated Isengard bassist Ted Lundin. "Even though it's not this kind of music, he will be valuable resource for Isengard and it will be very interesting working with him."
"I never thought that an AOR singer would suit to our music until I heard Morgan," added guitarist Ronnie Andréson. "He has a voice that can take Isengard's music to a whole new level."
isengard, who are currently unsigned, will begin writing new material for their next recording. Several gigs in Sweden are also planned".

Source:

roadrun.com

From the band homepage:

"Sirenia will tour Europe together with Tiamat, Theatre of Tragedy and Pain. The tour will take place in december and january, tourdates will be added as soon as they are available. Stay tuned!"

http://www.sirenia.no/

Band profile:

Sirenia

Ha Ha!! The time has finally arrived!!!! Today(03/10) we enter the studio to record our fourth album "Vredens Tid"(The age of wrath). It will be released 28th april 2005. We will try to keep you all informed of how things develop in the studio.

Cheers
The band

http://www.manegarm.com/