Sideburn have added one of their new songs "Shapes" to the MySpace player.

Guitarist Morgan Zocek added: "Last week we sent out some new material to a lot of labels, and we already have been contacted by a couple of really welknown labels who have shown great interest in our new material. So stay tuned for updates."

A few weeks ago, the band announced the following:

"We have now finished the recording and mixing of our new album "The Demons Dance" in XTC Studios (Stockholm) once again with Ulf Wahlberg as Co Producer (mastering will be completed in the nextcoming week). The recording and mixing took place between the end of January to the beginning of April. We have had a great and inspiring time in the studio and the end result is amazing (can't wait to show the new material to the world)."

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Sideburn

"Deep Unknown", the new video from Stratovarius has been released.

"Deep Unknown" will appear on the forthcoming Stratovarius album, "Polaris". "Polaris" will be available in Europe on May 21 via the band's new label partner Edel under the new imprint earMUSIC outside of Asia and the band's longtime record company in Asia, JVC

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Source:	metalfromfinland.com
Band profile:	Stratovarius

Abramis Brama have issued the following update:

"Yes folk's, thing are actually happening in this end! The releasedate for our new album "Smakar Söndag" has officially been set to 13th of May. The album contains 11 songs of fresh bream. On the 20th of May we will have a releaseparty including one hell of a live-gig on Pub Anchor, Sveavägen 90, Stockholm, Sweden. Our first gig in Stockholm for about a year and a half so expect new songs, old songs, singalongs andwhatnot and testosteroneswinging, footstomping music. Did I mention that the day after is a holiday so you can drink strong lemonade and stay up very late if needed? Well, now you know."

Here's the tracklist of "Smakar Söndag" cover art]:

01. Kylan Kommer Inifrån
02. Sista Morgonljuset
03. Smakar Söndag
04. N.E.J.
05. Långsamt
06. Vägskäl
07. Enkel Resa
08. Med Ont Försåt
09. Öga För Öga
10. Förbjuden Frukt
11. Kommer Hem

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Abramis Brama

Czech heavy metal band Motorband are about to release their new album called 'Heart of the Machine' on 15 June. It will be the band's first album in English.
The album is available on the band's myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/motorbandd

'Heart of the Machine' cover art and tracklisting:

01. Heart of the Machine
02. The Best of You
03. Turn the Hourglass
04. Cannibal in My Head
05. I'm Rocking Hero
06. Don't Make Me Cry
07. Heartbroken
08. Higher Than Eagles Fly
09. Turn Me On
10. Tell Me Why
11. If You Want It
12. I'm Going to Fly
13. Hi Di Ho
14. Amore Vittoria

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Motorband

Ashes You Leave have issued the following update: "As you already know, due to technical problems, the release of our new album "Songs For The Lost" is slightly delayed. While we wait for the confirmation of the new release date, we decided to make more of our new songs available for streaming."

The songs are called "The Feast", "Taints" and also "Stranded" was available for streaming online. All songs can be found here.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Ashes You Leave

The Hammerfall show from Dock's in Hamburg on Monday, March 23rd will be broadcasted live, both on the Nuclear Blast and Hammerfall websites. The show starts at 22:00 CET.

Hammerfall are currently touring Europe with Sabaton and Bullet.

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Source:	hammerfall.net
Band profile:	HammerFall
Event:	Hammerfall: European Tour

Metallica's second Stockholm show at March 8th has been cancelled due to James Hetfield falling ill and receiving medical attention at the hospital. The show will be re-scheduled for May 4, 2009.

A message from Hetfield reads as follows:

"James here, alive, at about 80% but getting better. I want to say sorry for missing the second Stockholm gig on Sunday due to illness. The cause/diagnosis at the hospital was narrowed down to either a 24hr virus or a bad oyster... yes, hate to admit, an oyster could have taken me down.

I acknowledge and apologize for any inconvenience this has caused fans who had travelled near and far for the show. I had done everything possible to make it, and was at the point of falling if I stood up. On a lighter note since my illness, the support band 'Swedish Oyster Cult' will be thrown off the tour."

In the meantime the band posted the following statement:

"Oysters be damned, we're coming back to Stockholm, Sweden! Those of you who were at Globen on Sunday, March 8 know that unfortunately James was ill that day and we were unable to perform. That show has now been re-scheduled for May 4, so hold on to your tickets and we're hoping that you can make it back... we'll be there!

The ticket that you have for the show originally planned for Sunday will be your entry to the Globen for the May 4th show. If for some reason you cannot join us on that day, please visit the place you purchased the tickets for a full refund.

Again, our sincere apologies to all of you who traveled from near and far to Stockholm. As a minor token of our appreciation, and hopefully to make up for some of your inconvenience, everyone who goes to the May 4 show will receive a free download of that night's show at http://www.livemetallica.com. As you enter the arena that night, you'll be handed a card with instructions on how to get your free mp3 of the show."

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Source:	metallica.com
Band profile:	Metallica
Event:	Metallica: World Magnetic - More European Style Tour

MetalFromFinland is passing the word that Sapattivuosi, the band that plays Black Sabbath songs in Finnish, has announced Marco Hietala (Nightwish, Tarot, Northern Kings) as their new vocalist.

Marco Hietala talks about becoming the vocalist for Sapattivuosi: "I wanted to join Sapattivuosi cause for me it's almost like a cultural act. I mean the songs are perhaps the best in the world and if by doing this I can get even one younger metalhead to go and buy remastered versions of "Heaven and Hell" or "Mob Rules", I consider my job done!"

Sapattivuosi are releasing their new album "Ihmisen Merkki" on April 1st and it contains songs from Black Sabbath albums "Heaven And Hell" and "Mob Rules". The tracklisting for the album is:

01. Pelon Lait (Neon Knights)
02. Maalaistyttö (Country Girl)
03. Uneen Hukkuneet (Children Of The Sea)
04. Tuli Ja Maa (heaven and hell)
05. Laki 666 (Mob Rules)
06. Valtaa (Voodoo)
07. Yö Saa (Die Young)
08. Ihmisen Merkki (The Sign Of The Southern Cross)

More information about Sapattivuosi on http://www.myspace.com/sapattivuosi.

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Source:	metalfromfinland.com
Band profile:	Tarot

Onslaught guitarist Nige Rockett has posted the following update on the band's MySpace:

"Onslaught are coming back to Ireland. We will be visiting all our friends in the North and the South on the weekend of August 28th/29th. Firstly we play Belfast for the first time in 18 years at The Spring & Airbrake on Friday 28th August. Then on Saturday 29th August we head South to play at the Low End Festival in Waterford.

Fuck! It's gonna be a banging weekend, as always when we hit Ireland. It really doesn't seem like 18 years since we last played Belfast, we're really looking forward to getting back there once more, we have so many awesome memories of our previous visits, all of which were totally insane from start to finish. This will be our first time in Waterford - Southern Ireland, which is gonna be real cool and i'm sure we'll be meeting up with lots of our drinking partners down there too haha. Again so many fantastic & crazy memories from our many visits to Dublin, Cork and Sligo. It's always such a great pleasure to play for you Guys / Girls from North & South, long may you invite us back."

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Onslaught

For the first time Amon Amarth will finally go to South America. The band comments: "This is something we've been waiting for and working on for a very long time! We know a lot of our friends and fans have been waiting for this for a very long time but it has not been possible for us to go there until now. All we can say is that it's about time! We will also return once again to Mexico, these dates are confirmed so far:"

05.05 - Buenos Aires, Argentina - The End
07.05 - Santiago de Chile, Chile - Teatro Novedades
08.05 - Montevideo, Uruguay - (Venue to be announced)
10.05 - Sao Paulo, Brazil - Citibank Hall
12.05 - Caracas, Venezuela - (venue to be announced)
14.05 - Bogota, Colombia - Teatro metropol
16.05 - San Jose, Costa Rica - (venue to be announced)
17.05 - Mexico City, Mexico - Circo Volador

Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Amon Amarth
Event:	Amon Amarth

Children Of Bodom keyboardist Janne Wirman is currently working on the fourth album from his Warmen project, tentatively due later in the year. One of the new cover songs the band is working on is Janet Jackson's "Black Cat", featuring a guest appearance by the finnish pop/rock queen Jonna Kosonen. Other guest singers scheduled to appear on the CD include Alexi Laiho and Pasi Rantanen (ex-Thunderstone).

Interviewed in January, Warmen guitarist and Janne's brother Antti Wirman revealed that the album would be heavier than the band's previous output, with more aggressive guitar riffs. There will be just two instrumental tracks, and every song has a different singer. According to Antti, the next Warmen album will be the group's strongest effort to date because it has "the best songs, best vocalists and the best sounds."

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Source:	metalfromfinland.com
Band profile:	Warmen

French heavy metal squad Lonewolf have started pre-production of the brand new, fourth studio album. Some of the special guests that will take part in the recordings are Majk Moti (ex-Running Wild) and Jan Bünning (ex-Paragon). The yet untitled release will be recorded this summer, produced by Bart Gabriel (Crystal Viper, Metalucifer, Sabbat), and mixed & mastered by the Grammy nominated Andy La Rocque (King Diamond, Hammerfall, Evergrey) in the Sonic Train Studios in Varberg, Sweden.

Lonewolf was formed in 1992, and except several demo tapes and singles, released three studio albums that estabilished their position in the heavy metal underground. Their sound continue the classic legacy of the German heavy metal acts such as Running Wild, Grave Digger, Accept and Paragon. More information to be found at http://www.myspace.com/metalonewolf.

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Lonewolf

Finntroll have issued the following update on their website:

"You may have noticed that there aren't any shows booked for us so far, but this doesn't mean that we won't play at all this year. We just decided after the Heidenfest-tour that we will have half a year off from playing and be concentrating on writing a new and the best Finntroll-album so far, also working on the DVD is a priority.

We have now got the chance to start from a clean slate and so we will do. All gigs will be handled by ourselves for the time being, which means that if you have a festival/show/tour that you want us to play on, please be kind send your request. Every offer will be considered!

We're also announcing our first festival for this year: 6.6.2009 (FIN) Sauna Open Air, Tampere."

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Source:	finntroll.net
Band profile:	Finntroll

The new promotional video for "Robot" - from the latest Blaze Bayley album "The Man Who Would Not Die" has been made available on YouTube. The clip was directed by Kris McManus and serves as a little preview for the upcoming live Blaze Bayley DVD "Live In Z7".


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Source:	blazebayley.net
Band profile:	Blaze Bayley

Original news, posted on 18.02.2009

Jens Pohl, the webmaster for German metal legends Running Wild, has issued the following update: "it's been already almost four years since "the revivalry - a tribute to Running Wild" hit the light. Soon after that, its success began to grow progressively and it significantly led to the idea that a tribute album brought to a different level should come out, especially by bringing cover songs from the newer albums by Running Wild. And this time it is going to be like this!".

The second, yet-untitled tribute album will contain exclusively cover songs from "The Rivalry" (1998), "Victory" (2000), "The Brotherhood" (2002) and "Rogues En Yogue" (2005) and is scheduled to be released tentatively in fall this year. The artwork will be done by romanian graphic artist Costin Chioreanu, who worked for bands like Absu, Centinex, Demonical, Negură Bunget, Thunderstorm and many others. One of the first confirmed bands, who will be part of this album is Crystal Viper, who will record its own version of the "Libertalia" song."

UPDATE (thanks to 5933)

"ReUnation - A Tribute To Running Wild" will be released in autumn 2009 by the well-known Hamburg-based label Remedy Records. The complete track listing - in alphabetical order - is as follows:

5TH Sonic Brigade, Sweden - "Angel Of Mercy"
Chinchilla, Germany - "Conquistadores"
Crystal Viper, Poland - "Libertalia"
Custard, Germany - "Under Jolly Roger"
Deadlock, Germany - "When Time Runs Out"
Esenia, Spain - "Resurrection"
Evertale, Germany - "Blazon Stone"
Fate, Denmark - "Soul Vampires"
Halor, Hungary - "Little Big Horn"
Heavenly, France - "Masquerade"
Hellish War, Brazil - "Return Of The Gods"
José Juan Gallego, Spain - "Draw The Line"
Magica, Romania - "Victory"
Motorjesus, Germany - "The Rivalry"
Orden Organ, Germany - "The Battle Of Waterloo"
Overtures, Italy - "Pirate Song"
Powerwolf, Romania / Germany - "Riding The Storm"
Ravage, USA - "Fight The Fire Of Hate"
Satanochio, Romania - "Siberian Winter"
Seven Seas, Germany - "Detonator"
Skiltron, Argentina - "Ballad Of William Kidd"
Solemnity, Germany - "Dr. Horror"
Suidakra, Germany - "Marooned"
Thunderblast, Colombia - "Timeriders"

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Running Wild