The italian band was in studio in July making the recording for the new album, and should be in studio again in September. The band is not worried for the time: "we are confident to be able to mix the album by the end of September, so there will be the chance for Dragonheart Records to release the album before the end of the year."

The yet untitled album will have some of these song titles: The Burn - Princess Of The Wolves - Bitter Crop - Hot Lead, Cold Steel - Field Of Heroes - Bloody Mary - Best Place For A Knife - Windchaser - Triumph Of The Darksword - Lure Of The Temptress - Monkeys In Sunday Best - Puzzle2

They will keep their sound but will have some new elements as "some very fast parts, some folk-like insers, some orchestration here and there and very probably the participation of a female voice".

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Mesmerize

Sadly the singer has to leave beacuse of health problems, here are a few worlds from the band:
"Dave has been suffering with health and personal problems for a while now and he has decided that it would be best if he left the band to concentrate on his recovery. We would like to thank him for the 6 years he dedicated to the band and we wish him all the very best for the future."

The band has planned to enter the studio, but this will be delayed until they found a replacement.

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Bolt Thrower

Acording to the info on the Black Sabbath fan page (that works as the official), there is a tentative release date for a new Geezer album, that Geezer has been working (not constantly) since 1997, the tentative date is 18/01/2005.

www.black-sabbath.com

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Geezer

While the recordings are finished Behemoth give us a little taste of what will be their new album "Demigod".
A enthusiastic Nergal talks about the new work and about the new sound, he said: "the sound has never been so intense and fresh. Bergstrand brought a lot of new ideas into our music and I'm more than sure that "Demigod" gained new dimension... It's the new beginning for us. "Demigod" with all its might and splendor rises above anything we've done before"... He also describe the album as more extreme: ""Demigod" is a way more extreme record than "ZOS KIA CULTUS" but on the other hand it contains more classic influences"

to listen to the sound clips go here:
http://www.behemoth.metalkings.com/sounds.html

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Behemoth

New material is being written for the next album which will hit the streets around October/November next year on Season Of Mist

http://www.thetruemayhem.com/

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Mayhem

Patrik Mennander is not longer on the band because of time problems, the band and the singer parted ways in a good way, Patrick will be play one last gig at 29 of October. The replacement will be Tomi Mykkänen of Evemaster, but as only as a session vocalist for the forthcoming tours. Also the bassist Miika Kokkola will not join the tour because of "personal reasons", for him will be Timo Honkanen of Elderthrones (and Battlelore's webmaster) also as session player for the tour.

The germans have set the release date for the upcoming album "Never-Ending" to 25/10/2004.

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Mystic Prophecy

The band are currently making recording for their new album, that is plan to be out at early 2005, the new line up of the band is: Cronos on bass and vocals, Antton on the drums and Mykus(ex-Cathedral, and also played in Cronos solo project) on the guitars (that is the new member), to see pics of new line up go here:
http://www.venomslegions.com/venom_mmiv_photos.htm

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Venom

Falconer have found a new bassist, it is Magnus Linhardt, who aparently used to play in the death unsigned band "The Choir of Vengeance". Also the band is working in new material.

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Falconer

The band just completed the recordings of the bass, drums and guitar for the new album. The vocals will be recorded soon, the album (apparently to be out in November / December) will be followed by a World Tour, the "DEATHMARCH2004/2005" tour, which will star on December.

Also a date will be placed at the Headbangers Ballrom-Hamburg, Germany on the 19th of September.

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Marduk

These are Stephan's explanations about an album (the band has already made 15 song with 10 to select forthe new album) and a musical:

"First we wanted to do an album called "Monte Cristo" which should have been kind of a rock musical. But after a while we realized that it would be very hard to find a good solution regarding the songwriting. If the songs are too hard, no one in the theater-scene would listen to them. If they are too soft, our fans could be a bit irritated. At the end we felt limited in both ways. So we decided to make a regular Vanden Plas album (based on Monte Cristo) and a musical (called Monte Cristo). This way we are free to write some heavy stuff and in the same way we are free to write theater-like songs which aren´t heavy at all. That´s the best solution for us, and hopefully nobody will be disappointed!

The musical will star different singers. Hopefully it will be played at a theater someday, but right now I don't even know if it will ever be recorded because that would be a big challenge. We just started the songwriting of
the musical, and if you think about what is neccessary to create a musical, you can imagine that it will take a longer time to realize that.
Anyway, for the moment our regular CD is the most important thing, we have to finish that first."

On the other hand Andy Kuntz's solo album "Abydos" that has been released on 30/08/2004 has entered in the last german Rock Hard Magazine Top ten.
To check sound samples of this album go here:
http://www.insideout.de/indexx.php?arg=AQcSBEtBQUyPAQ

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Vanden Plas

More labels movements, in this case is Morbid Angel that part ways with Earache. They will be checking new offers by the interested labels, they plan to decide about it in the next months because they plan a release for 2005, this are few worlds from Morbid Angel:

"We wish Earache continued success in selling our catalogue and have an obvious professional vested interest in this. We wish to thank all of the Earache employees past and present for their work on Morbid Angel's releases. We are looking forward with excitement to the future."

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Morbid Angel

The band explains the reason of the separation:

"We have parted ways with NAPALM Records very amicably... We will never forget what this label has done for us so far... giving us the breath for a second birth in 1999... NAPALM RECORDS being actually focusing into a completely different music style from what we offer, we simply decided all together that it would be better for us to find a more suitable label for what we have to offer..."

The band is looking for a record deal.

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Nightmare

SYL is back in studio on Aug 17th, more info to come about the new recording on hevydevy and on the SYL site. To finish, the Strapping young lad "for Those Aboot To Rock" (DVD) will be released in Europe on Nov. 2nd 2004 (same release date for the US). We will keep you updated, we will probably have some of the DVD available on the site.

www.devintownsend.com

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Strapping Young Lad

the upcoming album called "The Ballads III" is ready and here is the final track list:

1. Don't Say Goodbye
2. Forever Angel (Acoustic)
3. The Temple Of The King
4. Heartbreaker
5. The Line
6. Sea Of Evil
7. The Curse Of The Chains
8. All The Rest Of My Life
9. Forever Angel
10. The Temple Of The Holy
11. Under The Gun

the album is planed to be release on 25/10/2004.

There is also planned the release of a single before of the album, but not confirm yet.