A quick email just to inform you all that DARGON is not the drummer of NEHËMAH anymore.
Corven & Sorghal have decided to fired him for personnal reasons and they will continue their work as a duo. (Corven was playing drums at the beginning of the band).
NEHËMAH is searching for a session drummer for the future live shows of the band.

If you are free with a good musical level, you can contact Frank of Adipocere and send to him your candidature which will be passed to NEHËMAH.

Ensiferum's second album "Iron" is in stores now. However, there is no album releasing in some countries so if you cannot find the album, ask it from the distributor or your local record dealer.

Ensiferum hasn't yet found a new singer-guitarist, but Petri Lindroos (Norther) has been negotiating with the band if he'd stay as a regular member in the band. It is certain though that Petri is doing the Ensiferum concerts this year.

Source:	ensiferum.com
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The spanish heavy band have set the 27 of sepetember 2004 as the release date of their new album "Apocalipsis".

The album will include 11 tracks and also a DVD with 6 live songs and an interview. Immediately after the release of the album the band will start a tour through Latin America, and after they will be performing in Spain during January 2005.

www.tierra-santa.net

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Tierra Santa

Founded back in 1983, the German oldschool thrash metal band Necronomicon has released an album after 9 years that will take you right back to the 80s. The album called Construction of Evil is nothing real innovative, but who cares, it's thrash. The old-school thrash fanatics will be very well pleased with this release.

Tracklist:
1. Stormbringer
2. Fiction
3. Hard pain
4. From hell
5. Alight
6. Paralizer
7. Bone daddy
8. Hills of dead
9. Fireball
10. Terrorist attack
11. Insanity
12. Possessed again
13. Hard pain (livetrack)
14. Insanity (livetrack)
15. Terrorist attack (videotrack)

Line-up:
- Freddy-guitars,vocals
- Axel-drums
- Mac-bass, backing vocals
- Jogi-guitars, backing vocals

Links:
http://www.necronomicon-online.de
http://www.remedyrecords.de

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Necronomicon

A 8 tracks album of previously unreleased Iommi material with singer Glen Hughes will be release through Sanctuary Records at 28 of september the title will be: "The 1996 DEP Sessions".

The track list is a follow:

Gone
From Another World
Don't You Tell Me
Don't Drag The River
Fine
Time Is The Healer
I'm Not The Same Man
It Falls Through Me

You can see the covert art at:

http://www.iommi.com/images/The%201996%20DEP%20Sessions%20Final%20Cover%20web.jpg

For more info go to:

www.iommi.com

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Black Sabbath

Sweden's Dark Tranquillity will be issuing a new EP, entitled "Lost to Apathy", on November 15 through Century Media Records. For the price of a regular single, the fans will get the following tracks and bonus features:

01. Lost to Apathy
02. Derivation TNB
03. The Endless Feed (Chaos Seed Remix)
04. Undo Control (live)
05. Lost to Apathy (video clip directed by Roger Johansson)
06. D.T. Screensaver

This single will serve to whet the fans' appetites for the group's seventh full-length offering, slated for worldwide release early next year.

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Dark Tranquillity

TYPE O NEGATIVE's management has issued a statement regarding the postponement of the band's fall 2004 U.S. tour. It reads as follows:
"During a recent medical exam, undisclosed anomalies were discovered and it was suggested that Peter Steele, lead singer, bassist and songwriter, undergo further tests.
"As a firm timetable for the tests and the subsequent results is indeterminable, it has been decided to postpone the fall tour to a later date when there will be no foreseeable conflicts with scheduling.
"In the meantime, TYPE O NEGATIVE continues to work on the forthcoming release, the first for new label SPV, due in 2005."
Amorphis were supposed to go on the road along with Type O.

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Type O Negative

"Hi everyone,

We are happy to announce further details of the next Quo Vadis record. First of all the title of the album is "Defiant Imagination". You may have heard rumors of the title being "To The Bitter End", however, we felt that the artwork that was chosen for this album, featured on top of the page, embodied the sound and feel of the record perfectly. It also fit with our secondary choice of title "Defiant Imagination". Great thanks to the artist (Skydancer) who has granted us the rights to use this amazing image. The album should be available in stores in Canada by early November via Fusion3/Skyscraper. Below is the track listing:

1. Silence Calls The Storm

2. In Contempt

3. Break The Cycle

4. Tunnel Effect

5. To The Bitter End

6. In Articulo Mortis

7. Fate's Descent

8. Dead Man's Diary

9. Ego Intuo et Servo Te

Finally we will be shooting a video for "In Contempt" starting the morning of Saturday September 18 before our show in Greenfield Park at another location. We will then rush to the show, and continue shooting on Sunday morning! The video should be available in conjunction with the album release. Hopefully we'll be able to post some screen shots for you soon.

Stay tuned for more details."

The Quo Vadis crew.

www.quovadis.qc.ca

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Italian "pagan metal" band ELVENKING have been rejoined by singer Damnagoras.

Damnagoras left the band in August 2002 due to "health reasons" and was replaced by Kleid.

More information on Damnagoras' return to the band will be made available in the next few days.

http://www.blabbermouth.net

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Elvenking

Acording to a Statement post on the official exodus forum Steve Squievel, and clered that the tour is postponed(and not cancelled) here is the post:

"As recently released EXODUS have had quite a major
line-up change with the firing of lead singer, Steve
"Zetro" Souza and due to complications with
replacement singers EXODUS have had no choice but to
postpone the current dates for South America until the
band can return in late October with touring singer,
Steve Esquivel, of Skinlab.

Top Link Productions did a phenomenal job creating a
successful tour for EXODUS fulfilling all of their
obligations and providing the band with a great run of
dates. Therefore EXODUS would like to extend their
deepest apologies to Top Link Productions, local
promoters, booking agents and all EXODUS fans planning
to attend.

Please keep checking EXODUS' website
www.ExodusAttack.com for the rescheduled dates. Below
are the dates that are currently postponed."

http://www.exodusattack.com/phpBB/

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Exodus

Kostas Panagiotou, the member of the funeral-doom metal band Pantheist, posted yesterday (September the 16th) an interesting message on the doom-metal.com site. Here it is:

"Firebox Records has established a new sub-label 'Firedoom Music' to separate
their catalogue into more coherent sections. This is mostly done in order to
give artists on both labels the distribution and promotion they deserve.

The basic differences between the labels are:

FIREBOX RECORDS - The flagship of the company. Under the 'Firebox Records'
name the label will be releasing more "mainstream oriented" albums with full
promotional support.
Most of these bands will also gig and tour regularly.
Bands: Swallow The Sun, Total Devastation, Grave Flowers, Shadow Cut, The Eternal etc.
New signing: Fall of The Leafe (Finland)

FIREDOOM MUSIC - The finest of the underground (doom) metal. Under this
name the label will be releasing the more underground-oriented bands with
promotional support that is more geared towards that area. Bands: Aarni, Mar De Grises, Umbra Nihil, Until Death Overtakes Me, Woods of Belial, Tyranny.
New signing: Forest of Shadows (Sweden)".

www.doom-metal.com

There is a statement posted it on their official website:

"We have now finished 11 new songs which will compose our first full-lenght album that the band will record in October/November 2004 in his personal studio.
We'll also play in Bari, at Stop Over Pub, 24th September at Total Metal Festival with Eldritch, Marshall, Panic Cell, The Scavenger and more?
After this gig the band will rehearse the new songs and will play only mini festivals: probably the first one in October in Slovenia.
More details will be available as soon as we have them!
Last but not least we ask you to vote your favourite "Death Never Dies" song with an e-mail to info@golemneverdies.it, containing the title of the song and (if you want) a short comment. If you are lucky you can win an exclusive GoleM t-shirt and a copy of our new promo "Death in Progress..."

See ya Metalheads!"

Domenico and GoleM

www.golemneverdies.it

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Golem (ITA)

New drummer in Amaran is: Pär Hjulström. Also the band anounced that "We'll concentrate all our energy into the songwriting of the next album which will be recorded next year, it'll be a new killer - That's a promise!!! ".

http://www.amaran.net/

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Amaran

Bassist James MacDonough recently spoke to the Iced Earth fan site http://www.iced-realm.de/ about his departure from Iced Earth and his new gig as the bassist for Megadeth. Several extractions from the interview follow:

Iced-Realm.de: How did you get the gig with Megadeth?

James MacDonough: "I knew the album was recorded at the beginning of the year and the guy that did the bass tracks was a session player named Jimmy Sloas, I didn't know if he was going to do the tour or not and e-mailed Dave (Mustaine, Megadeth mainman) about the position. I got a response a couple of days later that started the communication going. He told me this could be a very good thing and would keep me on a short list. Dave McRobb, Megadeth's webmaster got the ball rolling and was feeling people out for both the guitarist and the bassist position. The next thing I knew I was on a conference call with Dave and Dave, he told what he planned and what he expected of the person that would fill those shoes. I quickly knew that I had formed two very good friendships and the ball kept rolling. I videotaped myself playing a couple of Megadeth tunes and within a couple of days got a call from Dave Mustaine saying that he wanted me for the position."

Iced-Realm.de: Were there any auditions? If so, how did they go down?

James MacDonough: "The audition was not only about being able to play the tunes but had alot to do with personality and chemistry with each other, and of course enthusiasm and sincerity."

Iced-Realm.de: Have there already been any rehearsals with Megadeth?

James MacDonough: "Not as of yet, I'll be going out to work with (Megadeth drummer) Nick Menza for a week then going to full rehearsals, the tour will start on October 26'th in San Diego."

Iced-Realm.de: How is working with Dave? He's known to have quite some ego, as does Jon (Schaffer, Iced Earth mainman). Do they have anything in common/what are the differences?

James MacDonough: "Dave has made me feel like a band member already, he's shown me a lot of personal and professional respect. I haven't experienced any ego whatsoever as many perceive from him. Dave's very straightforward, speaks his mind, knows what he wants, and expects the best that you can give, and sometimes that's misconstrued as arrogance. I call it professionalism. Sure, there's opinionated people out there , but when you ask for the opinion, well, you're going to get it. If you want to know the difference between the two, it's like apples and oranges, two totally different people. Both are professional but have different ways of dealing with people and friends. I have posted something on Megadeth.com. I have a forum there called 'The Deep End' that might answer additional questions on some of these topics."

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Megadeth

Solitude Aeternus have just come out with an official website www.eternalsolitude.com.

The band is in the beginning stages of recording its sixth album "Alone" to be released by Massacre Records
(http://massacre-records.com/bands/bands.asp?bands=SOLITUDE+AETURNUS).

You could find a DEMO of "Waiting for the Light" on the new website which will be on the new album.

Band profile:

Solitude Aeturnus