Metal news

You can check out a new song entitled "Riot Act" from Exodus online over at the band's official MySpace page.
The track comes off the band's forthcoming new album "The Atrocity Exhibition: Exhibit A", which will be released on October 23rd through Nuclear Blast Records.

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Exodus

Technical Death Metal whirlwind Decapitated issue a limited edition version of their dramatic "Winds Of Creation" debut album on October 8, complete with bonus DVD.

Originally issued back in 2000, the album sent shock waves through the scene for its focused and tight arrangement, relentless aggression and supreme musicianship. Eyebrows were further raised when it was discovered that the band were barely out of their teens. Live shows backed the hype, and Decapitated's place among the forerunners of the emerging new generation of Death Metal bands was assured.
The limited edition reissue contains a full 10 track live show filmed in December 2004 at Nottingham Rescue Rooms, featuring the original Winds of Creation line up including vocalist Sauron. Filmed on several cameras with great audio quality, the DVD ably demonstrates just why Decapitated are considered among the elite Death Metal hierarchy. And advance preview of the DVD is available here.
The band have made massive commercial leaps with subsequent albums Nihility, The Negation and Organic Hallucinosis, but Winds of Creation retains a special place in the heart of the many of the bands fans, and on newer bands such as Job for A Cowboy.

The full tracklisting for the "Winds of Creation" [cover art] limited edition is as follows:

Tracklisting CD:
01. Winds of Creation
02. Blessed
03. The First Damned
04. Way to Salvation
05. The Eye of Horus
06. Human?s Dust
07. Nine Steps
08. Dance Macabre
09. Mandatory Suicide

Tracklisting bonus DVD: (Live At Rescue Rooms, Nottingham, 20/12/04)
01. The Fury
02. Three-Dimensional Defect
03. Lying and Weak
04. Winds of Creation
05. Nihility (Anti-Human Manifesto)
06. The Negation
07. Perfect Dehumanisation (The Answer?)
08. Sensual Sickness
09. Spheres of Madness
10. Mother War

Source:	earache.com
Band profile:	Decapitated

Official Neurotic Records press release:

Kronos, a death metal quintet hailing from France, influenced by Greek mythology signed to Neurotic Records. After following the band during their first two full length album, the band only really got our attention when they recently released "The Helenic Terror". After briefly negotiating with the band they signed a recording agreement with Neurotic Records. The band expects to deliver their first album for Neurotic Records in 2009.

Ruud Lemmen of Neurotic Records added: "It will be great to work with Kronos. This band have impressed us for awhile now, and this seems like a great band to develop as much as possible."

Mike Saccoman of Kronos (drums) adds: "We are very proud and honoured to sign to a record company such as Neurotic Record. For us, this is simply the best European Death metal label which houses a lot of amazing bands! It's a real opportunity for us to be able to climb up on the ladder worldwide after many years of hard work and dedication. So, we would like to thank Ruud Lemmen and everybody at Neurotic Records crew for trusting in us. We hope for a great cooperation and we'll put in the hard work together to promote our extreme music on this earth!"

Source:	neurotic-records.com
Band profile:	Kronos

The video for the Municipal Waste track 'Headbanger Face Rip' has been banned by You Tube. Filmed by the legendary 80s cult splatter/horror independent film company Troma Entertainment, the 'gore version' of the recording has been deemed by You Tube to have content which is inappropriate.

This banned version of the track features the legendary Troma style blood, guts and gore seen in many of their genre-defining B-movie style shock flicks, which fit well with Municipal Waste's outrageous party attitude. Fans who still want to watch this controversial version of the track can still view it online here and the TV-friendly recording can still be viewed on YouTube here.

Municipal Waste's "The Art Of Partying" is out now worldwide.

Source:	earache.com
Band profile:	Municipal Waste

FINAL MONSTROUSLY MASSIVE MAMMOTH MIX!!!

We just received the master disc with the final mixes from Sweden!

Well, Mr Swanö most certainly lived up to our expectations by delivering a mix that crushes every living thing in a 50 mile radius! And we thought our rough mixes were pretty heavy... Now we truly sound like a Tiger Tank rolling from the speakers and into your living room on an unstoppable course of doom, death and destruction!

We decided to upload two songs from our 2007 promo right away. One of them has been made downloadable.

The coming weeks we'll be giving you the chance to compile your own 4 track HoB CD by making one song at a time downloadable. At the end of this cycle we'll also be providing a link to some very cool artwork to complete the package.

So keep checking out www.myspace.com/hailoffuckenbullets

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Hail Of Bullets

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

"Dear Friends,

After all it's time for some good news again. Savage Circus is happy to present our new official drummer, Mr. Mike Terrana. Known from great bands like Axel Rudi Pell, Rage, Yngwie J. Malmsteen and Masterplan not only to the metal community, Mike is a versatile artist with a very unique style of his own. Exactly this style along with his great character makes the mighty troll a perfect match. Mike, welcome aboard!

But that's not all! After being our unofficial bass guitarist for over a year it is more than due to make Jens Leonhardt an official member too. This has been in our heads for a long time, but being lazy bastards we never came up with an announcement. Jens is known from playing with or in bands like Lacrimosa, Kingdome Come, Stormwarrior and Iron Savior. Needless to say that Jens is a great person. Jens, welcome aboard officially!

Now with the completion of the Circus we are ready for action again. Work on the new record runs at full throttle and release is scheduled for early 2008 followed by various live performances.

All of us are totally happy about this great line up, which already brings so much energy to the band.

All the best to you!

Cheers,
Savage Circus"

And so as things stand, the current line-up of the band is as follows:

Jens Carlsson: Lead Vocals
Emil Norberg: Guitar
Piet Sielck: Guitar & Backing Vocals
Jens Leonhardt: Bass Guitar & Backing Vocals
Mike Terrana: Drums & Percussion

Source:	savagecircus.de
Band profile:	Savage Circus

Nightwish have confirmed a tour of the U.K. and Ireland in 2008 in support for their forthcoming album "Dark Passion Play". These will be the first shows in the U.K. with new singer Anette Olzon.

The dates are as follows:

Mar. 25 - Astoria - London, England
Mar. 29 - Carling Academy - Birmingham, England
Mar. 30 - Carling Academy - Newcastle, England
Mar. 31 - ABC1 - Glasgow, Scotland
Apr. 02 - Mandela Hall - Belfast, Northern Ireland
Apr. 03 - Vicar Street - Dublin, Ireland
Apr. 04 - Academy 2 - Manchester, England

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish
Event:	Nightwish: European Passion Play Tour

The following message has been posted on the official Ensiferum website:

"Ensiferum is finally crossing over the Atlantic Ocean to Canada and will do a small Eastern Canadian tour in November 2007."

"Additionally there will be an European tour "Tour Towards Victory"(Part II) in December 2007, which is a follow-up to the tour made last spring."

The Canadian dates are as follows:

Nov. 06 - Théatre Plaza - Montreal, Quebec
Nov. 08 - Cabaret du Capitole - Quebec City, Quebec
Nov. 09 - Trash Bar - Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec
Nov. 10 - The Metal Bar - Toronto, Ontario
Nov. 11 - The Underground - Hamilton, Ontario
Nov. 12 - Jubilee Hall - Sudbury, Ontario

Source:	ensiferum.com
Band profile:	Ensiferum
Event:	Ensiferum: Canadian Tour

As indicate on their webshop, The Gathering will issue the "A Noise Severe" 2-DVD and 2-CD sets on October 31. Both releases contain recordings of the group's March 24, 2007 performance at the 4,000-capacity theatre Teatro Caupolicán in Santiago, Chile. The track listing is as follows:

"A Noise Severe" 2-DVD set (cover artwork here):

DVD 1 (live concert recorded in DTS 5.1, at the Teatro Caupolicán in Santiago, Chile on March 24, 2007):

01. Shortest Day
02. In Between
03. Liberty Bell
04. Probably Built In The Fifties
05. Even The Spirits Are Afraid
06. Saturnine
07. Monsters
08. Alone
09. A Noise Severe
10. Leaves
11. Eléanor
12. In Motion #I
13. Waking Hour
14. On Most Surfaces
15. Strange Machines
16. Adrenaline
17. Third Chance
18. Black Light District
19. Travel

DVD 2 (bonus material):

* Home-made a film about the studio album "Home"
* The three winning videos of the "Alone" contest
* "Forgotten" video
* "Box" and "Waking Hour" projection clip
* Edison "Thank You" videoclip
* The making of "A Noise Severe"

"A Noise Severe" 2-CD set (cover artwork here):

CD 1:

01. Shortest Day
02. In Between
03. Liberty Bell
04. Probably Built In The Fifties
05. Even The Spirits Are Afraid
06. Saturnine
07. Monsters
08. Alone
09. A Noise Severe
10. Leaves
11. Eléanor
12. In Motion #I

CD 2:

01. Waking Hour
02. On Most Surfaces
03. Strange Machines
04. Adrenaline
05. Third Chance
06. Black Light District
07. Travel

You can order the "A Noise Severe" 2-DVD and 2-CD sets, by clicking here (all info here).

You can also watch a preview clip of "Shortest Day" taken from the "A Noise Severe" 2-DVD set at this location or on YouTube here.

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Source:	shop.gathering.nl
Band profile:	The Gathering

Irish Doom Metal outfit Mourning Beloveth have updated their website with the following update:

"Again some time has passed since the previous update and we have been busy writing the new album. We are set to record in Studio E in Germany from October 1st to 14th, bring it home and then master it. Four songs complete at the moment and 3 more in the pipeline, titles include 'The Burning Man', 'Primeval Rush' and 'The Sickness'. Another labyrinthine journey through some torturous doom as the album should have a running time over an hour.

We have had the pictures from Bamberg up for some time but no report and believe me it is probably better we didn't report...everything was great for the gig, sold out venue, some great support bands and loads of beer..thats where the problem started for one or two members, suffice to say we didn't cover ourselves in glory and so we agreed with the organisers to make up for our drunken performance by playing at this years Way of Darkness festival on the 5th and 6th of October www.wod-festival.de. We should be on stage mid afternoon on Saturday and we will save the drunkenness for afterwards. December should see us play Greece again but we are not cpnfirmed yet so watch this space. As regards touring plans are forming through our booking agent and previous bass player, Adrian through Lugga Productions www.luggamusic.com and we should be heading out for a week at the end of March.

We are now on my space too http://www.myspace.com/mourningbeloveth and we will add photos to it of all our upcoming shows for those to lazy to go to the website.

As for merchandise we still have some AMC shirts with tour dates on the back. Hopefully we will have a re print of all AMC merch by the end of the summer.'

Source:	mourningbeloveth.com
Band profile:	Mourning Beloveth

Danish Thrashers Hatesphere have issued the following statement on their official website:

"Heinz [Henrik Jacobsen] is no longer part of HateSphere. The decision was made long time ago, and we have therefore known it for a long time. There is no bad blood in the split - Heinz simply don't like the touring part of music anymore - so we want to thank him for a great time in the band and wish him the best of luck in the future.
No need to worry as we have found a more than fitting replacement. Jakob [Nyholm] from fellow Danish metallers, Dawn of Demise + Koldborn, is taking over the guitar duty in the band emidiately. We have known Jakob for a long time, and we are looking forward to finally hitting the big stages with him! Welcome to the band!
Your first chances to see him in action will be on our upcoming tours with Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir. Jakob has already played a show in Essen(DE) with us - watch the video here. /Hatesphere

Heinz' official statement:
At the 25th of August I played my last show with Hatesphere at the Elsrock Festival in Holland. The reason that Im leaving Hatesphere after 5+ years of hard work and boozin' fun on the road is simply that its time for me to try new things in life. It was probably one of the hardest decisions I ever took, but I know that this is the right choice for me and the band. Life is all about being true to yourself and do what you love doing right now.
My time in Hatesphere has given me so many great moments with the guys in the band and all the people who belive in us and came to our shows during the past 5 years. So a big cheers and thank you to all the bands I've toured with, all you fans who came out to join the party with us, but most of all to my friends Bredahl, Pepe, Mixen, Gyldenøhr, Mikael, Dennis, Mads, Tue, Rasmus and Tolderen for all the good times we´ve shared on the road and in the studio. /Heinz"

Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

Montreal Extreme Avantgarde Metallers Unexpect have updated their website with the following announcement:

"Times are good! Our tentacles are in extension process?and it has nothing to do with Viking bowling or the elasticity of lunar trees?

We just got signed on a new label named Ascendance Records for Europe. Under license, "In A Flesh Aquarium" will finally be available all across the European territory for the first time. The initial 2,000 copies of the album will be presented in a limited edition double CD slipcase, the bonus CD featuring the "We, Invaders" EP and a completely exclusive instrumental track. The release date has been scheduled for this fall.

Ascendance Records is a new label funded by Lee Barrett (founder of Candlelight Records; former member of Extreme Noise Terror, currently in To-Mera) and A&R'd by Sam Grant (writer, promoter, broadcaster, interviewer for Sonic Cathedral online).

?and don't forget that we still need your support to win the title of Best Metal Album Of The Year at the GAMIQ awards 2007. You have until August 31 to vote on this website.
On another note, Chaoth is now endorsed by Eden Cabs and Amps. ...and there's a couple more shows that were added.

?now I'll go back in my lamp?"

Source:	unexpect.com
Band profile:	Unexpect

Intronaut has announced the departure of guitarist/vocalist Leon del Muerte, who has left the group to focus on resurrecting his Murder Construct project, in addition to bass duties for Phobia. Taking his spot in Intronaut is Dave Timnick. According to the band, "Dave is a very talented and proficient musician, we're stoked. In addition to being a great guitar player, he is also a skilled percussionist and has studied tabla with Aloke Dutta. We can't wait to get things going with this revamped lineup!"

Meanwhile, del Muerte has the following to say:

"I had a lot of fun playing and learning new things with Intronaut and got to tour with some great bands and made a lot of new friends. Ultimately, I feel I've just strayed too far from my roots and could not hold back the other members of the band with my single-minded desire to grind. Peace, bitches!"

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Intronaut

Official Willowtip Records press release:

"Impaled, purveyors of backwards-thinking medicine, have put their John Hancock on a contract with Willowtip Records, purveyors of forward-thinking metal. Following Willowtip's recent deal for European distribution, the new Impaled record will be made available in the Old World via Candlelight Records.

After touring worldwide to support their previous album on Century Media Records, "Death After Life," Impaled have been hard at work writing and recording a follow-up record. The deal with Willowtip comes at a fortuitous juncture, just in time for the album to be released during Impaled's tenth year anniversary as a band.

"I'd like to say the new record is sicker and more brutal than the last, but I can't. Fact is, it goes beyond that. The new record is way way sickerer and way way way way way more brutaller," said bassist Ross Sewage on the subject of Impaled's latest recording.

Regarding the new deal with Willowtip Records, Sewage stated, "Impaled is looking forward to working with the Willowtip empire. We will murder our enemies, burn their crops, loot their stores, stampede their women and rape their cattle."

Jason Tipton, president and C.E.O. of Willowtip, Inc., has added, "We are honored to be working with the goretet known as Impaled and are thrilled to celebrate their 10th anniversary. We urge everyone in kingdoms worldwide not to purchase the traditional gifts of tin or aluminum for this 10th anniversary celebration, but instead to purchase the new album from Impaled, which will be in stores throughout Europe November 5th and in North America November 6th."

The new album from Impaled, entitled "The Last Gasp," will be their fourth full-length recording."

Source:	willowtip.com
Band profile:	Impaled

According to his official website, guitarist Steve Smyth has officially parted ways with Nevermore, citing personal and business differences.

"All things find their end eventually, and at this time I wish to make it clear that this was mutually agreed between the band and myself," Steve said in a statement.

"I will continue on with other aspects of my music career, including the upcoming release of The Esseness Project, an all-instrumental album in the vein of progressive rock that is now finished and being prepared for release."

He continued, "After a year and four months of being out of the touring scene due to ill health and then a kidney transplant, I have finally been given a full health clearance by my doctors to go back on the road, and I am now ready to return to the stage.

"I am proud and extremely honored to have been a guest of Uli Jon Roth at his Sky Academy concert series this past weekend, August 24th and 25th , in L.A. What an awesome experience! To jam with one of the greatest, as well as several other incredible guitarists and musicians who have been big influences on my playing over the years, and to make new friends as well, the whole thing was just incredible. Many thanks to Uli for inviting me, it was truly an honor!

"I am now embarking on a six-week of tour of Europe with my friends from the Danish thrash metal band, SPV recording artists Hatesphere, first supporting Behemoth in Poland, and then joining the Dimmu Borgir tour. I have been a fan of Hatesphere and friends with the band since 2003, when they opened for Testament at a festival we played together, and absolutely look forward to getting out with them and together, crushing Europe!"

Source:	stevesmyth.com
Band profile:	Nevermore