The following dates have been announced as part of the Scorpions Humanity-Hour1 world tour:

October 31st, 2007 Tokyo Japan
November 10th, 2007 Sibiu Romania
November 28th, 2007 Bordeaux France
November 29th, 2007 Toulouse France
November 30th, 2007 Clermont-Ferrand France
December 4th, 2007 Lisbon Portugal
December 6th, 2007 Guimaraes Portugal
December 12th, 2007 Shillong India
December 14th, 2007 Bombay/Mumbai India
December 16th, 2007 Bangalore India

The band have also posted the following warning banner: "'Regarding the tourdates of the Scorpions Humanity-Hour1 world tour: It is the booking agents policy to publish Scorpions concert dates only when all contracts are signed. Please don´t send us questions regarding dates posted on other websites, all 100% confirmed dates will be posted here immediately.''

Source:	the-scorpions.com
Band profile:	Scorpions
Event:	Scorpions: Humanity-Hour1 World Tour

The following blog was posted on the British Funeral Doomster's MySpace Page:

''As you will have noticed, we have been quite slow with updates lately so I thought I will kickstart some more activity here. First the band news:

We are in the process of recording a two-song promo to send to labels for feedback. It will consist of two ultra epic, lengthy tracks that, although they retain the typical Pantheist flavour, will be more evolved in terms of atmosphere and execution. We hope to have a finished product by the end of this year. Any interested labels that would like to release a future classic in the dark doom genre and lose a lot of money along the way can contact us via the website or this myspace site for a copy of the promo.

For the rest, the band routine has not changed much and as usual includes band members moving abroad or joining other bands. However, rest assured that when the time is there, we will deliver a slab of ridiculously heavy modern doom to crush funereal bedroom projects and atavistic retro hippies alike.

Furthermore, to create some more animosity and controversy, I have decided to follow the example of my good friend Mr Greaves from CBP and occassionally indulge in embarassing yet satisfying rants against everyone and everything, but no one in particular. The frequency will depend on my (nowaydays pretty grumpy) mood, so watch this space...''

Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Pantheïst

The following news was posted on German Power Metal band Stormwarrior's MySpace:

"New Warrior: After the successful gigs at the Magic Circle Festival and the Wacken Open Air we are proud to anounce that Yenz Leonhardt will be the new full member on the bass of Stormwarrior. Velkommen i bandet, DK Rocker!"

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Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Stormwarrior

The following was posted on the US Prog band's official website a few weeks ago:

''Some more good news - we've finally found a new bass player to take up the low end duties vacated by the passing of our friend, Mr. John Lally.

Ben Bond is a 5 and 6 string bassist, formerly of the prog outfit Twilight Machine and currently holding down the duties on the low end for the local band "Into the Arena". Ben has been rehearsing with us most of this month and will be making his first live appearance with us on Saturday evening October 27, 2007 (see Shows page) We hope to see you there!

Speaking of which, some slightly bad news....We have had to cancel the scheduled Friday night October 26 show due to the various things that have happened with the band since May. We regret having to do this but there is only so much we can accomplish at one time - especially when working with a a new member of the band. Better luck next time, eh?

However, we hope you all can make it to the Saturday night show instead!!!

We will be spending part of the coming winter months writing and recording new material for the next CD. We have ideas and partial songs already sketched out! It's going to be fun, as always!''

Source:	persephonesdream.com
Band profile:	Persephone's Dream

The following was posted at November's Doom's offical home page :

''A third and final show has been added in Europe this November. This performance will be held on November 12th at Rockconcern De Rots, Antwerp Belgium. To build off the special evening of November 10th, where the band will shoot their first ever live DVD in Vosselaar, the show in Antwerp will be entirely acoustic, also a first for the band."

"There's always a list of songs in our catalog people ask to hear live, and we decided to try something a bit different, and play a different sort of set for the band," comments singer Paul Kuhr. "We will be performing the entire set, acoustically, and playing a large amount of songs we have never performed live before. We wanted to make our short trip to Europe a special one, and with all the focus being on the DVD shoot, this acoustic evening will be a great time for us, also giving the fans something unique from the band."

Source:	novembersdoom.com
Band profile:	Novembers Doom
Event:	Dark Metal Fest

The Equinox Ov The Gods have updated their website with the following announcement:

The Equinox ov the Gods signs a deal with Burning Star Records. After a time of negotiations the Equinox ov the Gods have reached an agreement and signed a deal with the Greek indie metal label Burning Star Records!

"It feels exciting as well as inspiring to work with a label that shows qualities as rare as realism in combination with vision and ambition. These guys knows what they are doing and this makes us, in turn, very confident with this cooperation. Another chapter will be added to our Liber Umbrarum in a near future..."

Source:	equotg.com
Band profile:	The Equinox Ov The Gods

The following message was posted on the band's website:

''Hello Everybody

Looks like we had left this space a bit forgotten for a while?

But there is a good reason for that, and it is that we have been locked in our rehearsal room writing and arranging new music for our upcoming album. Besides that we hadn't that much to tell you ? it is such a paradox that the most exciting part of being a band (the process of giving shape to the new songs) is the one you have the less to talk about.

It would have been no fun to make news updates such as "well, this week we have been rehearsing", and then, the week after something like "ok, this week we have been also rehearsing", so we preferred just to stay quiet and concentrate on the music.

We have also dumped some new songs as always, so the process is not a quick one for us ? in other words, it seems like we always have to take a couple centuries to write a damn album ? hoho.

We stopped our live activities for some time due to Claudio becoming a father (Congratulations to him and Ivania for their beautiful daughter Beatriz) so, for obvious reasons, he wanted to be at home as much as possible.

However, we'll be hitting the stages again next week, as we will be playing with the great band Twilight Mist, who are releasing their demo. The gig will take place in Santiago (Oxido Bar) this Saturday (May, 26). For further details check the "Gigs" section of this site.''

Source:	poemaarcanus.cl
Band profile:	Poema Arcanus

Exclusive news was posted on the Italian Doom Metal band's website:

Herr Morbid entered the german Dark Metal legends Bethlehem as the new guitar player!! This is the announcement, directly from the Official Bethlehem MySpace: "We proudly present our new guitarist known as "Herr Morbid" of Forgotten Tomb. Bartsch and Morbid soon will start writing a new Bethlehem longplayer for 2008 which more will follow the dark path again, containing some more sick and disturbing ideas like once done on the 90s albums. All other informations who else will play on this record are given to a later date and arent relevant yet. First we have to collect some song ideas, so please dont bother bout possible vocal rumours or other useless things spred around in the underground at the moment. Thank you." Be prepared!!!

After the successful gigs in Finland, the band is ready to hit the road again. October the 13th will see the 4 bastards invading Spain for the first time, headlining the second day of the "Satan Lives Fest II" (see flyer on the right). Spanish fanatics, don't miss this gig!! Visit the Tour-section for more details.

New album of the band will be tentatively titled "Under Saturn Retrograde", and it will include something like 7 or 8 songs. As recently reported by Herr Morbid, 5 songs have been already written, and the general sound of the album has been defined "Extremely obscure and uncompromising. The people who talked shit about us because of 'Negative Megalomania' will have to eat their shit back, 100% guaranteed." . The album should be recorded in Spring 2008, and released in Summer/Autumn 2008, most probably still on Avantgarde Music.

The band is still organizing gigs all around Europe, so if you're a professional organizer and you want to book the band for 1 or more gigs, now you can write at this new address: NOSPAMbooking@forgottentomb.com (remove NOSPAM before writing).

1 new gig confirmed for January 2008. The band will join Hate-Grindcore legends Cripple Bastards for a special show in Torino, Italy. More details in the Tour section.

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Source:	forgottentomb.com
Band profile:	Forgotten Tomb

The following statement was posted by frontman Herr Morbid on Forgotten Tomb's official homepage:

"It looks like the german media (in particular: Legacy Magazine) are trying to boycott Forgotten Tomb without reserve. Not only they refused to interview the band and review "Negative Megalomania", but they refused to include the advertisement for our new album in their fucking magazines too. The nazi-paranoia going on in the german Metal scene is nothing new, but I think this time they're really going beyond any reasonable measure. Starting from the idea that ALL Black Metal bands are automatically Nazi and basing their paranoia on completely unreliable sources, these magazines are trying to boycott our band in every possible way. It seems like the band won't be able to play live-shows in Germany too, due to this fucking Anti-FT Propaganda.
After explaining the band's point of view on such topics in the clearest way possible, it seems like those people are still ignoring the fact that FT can't be labelled as a "Nazi" band. So, with this post, we're asking to all our german fans to boycott the german Metal magazines, since they're trying to boycott our band.
I think all this story is completely pathetic, especially when I see Legacy Magazine putting up Type O Negative's Peter Steele on the front-cover of their current issue (all german Metalheads will remember the controversial battle of Peter Steele against the german media and left-winged activists in the middle of '90s, due to the same reasons that led me to write this post).
So, if you support our band, boycott those fucking magazines. We know most of the magazines get money from the national Publishers Associations to be printed, and that's probably the real reason why all this mess happened. They fear that covering a "suspected Nazi" band, they could have problems from the government and lose money, heh.
We don't care if our fans are right-winged, left-winged, anarchists or whatever, FT is an unpolitical band and we don't care about people's personal political belief, unlike the german media.
Thanx for support to all our german fans! We'll be back in Germany with a vengeance, promised."

Source:	forgottentomb.com
Band profile:	Forgotten Tomb

Swedish Heavy Metal/Thrash band Morgana Lafey will release a new album in March 2007, according to a message posted atband's website:

So what's new?

Well, we will release a new album in march 2007. What do we have to do?
The album is recorded, so that is not a problem. And the name of the album is not a problem... anymore, so that is nothing to worry about.

By the way, the album title is "Primal Chaos".

And as a "sorry that we suck at updating our website" we have a few late christmas presents for you!!

TRACKLIST:

1. Delusions
2. Make A Wish
3. The Rush Of Possession
4. Depression
5. Caught In The Treadwheel
6. Reflections Of War
7. Face Of Fear
8. Where I Rule
9. In Shadows I Reign
10. Aberration Of Mind
11. Vultures Devouring
12. Over And Over Again

The band has also posted 2 new samples from the upcoming album online. You can hear them here: http://www.morganalefay.se/media/media.htm

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Source:	morganalefay.se
Band profile:	Morgana Lefay

A new song from Spanish Dark Moor's forthcoming new album "Tarot" has been posted online at the band's official MySpace. The song is called 'The Chariot'.

"Tarot", features "an intriguing concept about the major arcanes of the tarot, going deep in the meaning of each arcane and the esoteric halo that surrounds it."

Production duties were handled by renowed producer Luigi Stefanini (Rhapsody Of Fire, Vision Divine and others).

The album will be out in late February/early March.

You can check out 'The Chariot' at http://www.myspace.com/theofficialdarkmoor

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Dark Moor

Finland's Tarot, featuring bassist Marco Hietala (Nightwish, ex-Sinergy) have updated the Video section of their website to include their new clip, for the track 'Ashes To The Stars'. Check it out here.

'Ashes To The Stars' is featured on Tarot's new album, "Crows Fly Black", which was released in Finland on October 27th.

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Source:	wingsofdarkness.net
Band profile:	Tarot

Folk Doom metal band Silent Scream Of Godless Elegy (Czech Republic) have posted a live video of 'Tanczylabym' online, taken during their Master Of Rock open-air 2006 performance. The song comes off the band's 2006 EP release "Osamelí".
You can download it here or watch it via YouTube here.

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Source:	ssoge.com
Band profile:	Silent Stream Of Godless Elegy

German Heavy metallers Grave Digger have put two new songs from their upcoming album "Liberty Or Death" online at their unofficial MySpace.
The songs are called 'Liberty Or Death' and 'Ocean Of Blood' and are the first two songs of the album, which will be released on 12 January 2007. More info about the album here.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Grave Digger

Finnish black metal act Catamenia have announced eight German and one French tour dates in mid-February. Adorned Brood will take care of warming up the audience as support act.

Confirmed dates are as follows:
17/02/2007 Hamburg, Germany - Ballroom
18/02/2007 Oberhausen, Germany - Helvete
19/02/2007 Paris, France - Mains D'oeuvres
20/02/2007 Bonn, Germany - Klangstation
21/02/2007 Freiburg, Germany - Crash
22/02/2007 Aalen, Germany - Rock It
23/02/2007 Zwickau, Germany - Battle-Zone
24/02/2007 Berlin, Germany - Knaack

Catamenia's "Bringing The Cold To Poland" live DVD, will be released this month in Europe and worldwide in early 2007. All info about this DVD on http://www.catamenia.net.

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Source:	catamenia.net
Band profile:	Catamenia
Event:	Catamenia + Adorned Brood: Heldentour 2007