Acording to Magnament coordinator of Judas Priest, they will be not doing more shows this year in order to finnish the new album, that have is expect to be out at: 28/12/2004. They're also working on a new World Tour in early 2005.

www.judaspriest.com

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Judas Priest

Steve Tucker have decide to leave the band, David Vincent will be in charged of the vocals and bass, here is a message from Steve:

"After many problems and much discussion with the people around me, the people I trust. I have decided it is necessary for me to step away from Morbid Angel. It has been a long trip with a lot of great shows and I have made many friends along the way. The Morbid Angel fans that not only excepted me ,but reveled in my being a part of the band, have been the greatest thing about my time in Morbid Angel, they are the reason I came back to the band.

There are many reasons for me leaving the band, personal reasons, musical reasons and very logical reasons. All of which will stay between me and the band . Morbid Angel existed many years before I came along and will for many more I am sure.

I have enjoyed playing with some great musicians and touring with some great bands and meeting some incredible people all over the world. To all these people I say "Thank You" and we will meet again.

I am not done with the music business by any means, I will now be moving into other areas of the business, things I have always enjoyed, but didn't have time for. I will be moving into much more recording ,production and management, so any bands interested in working with me, feel free to contact me at hewhosleeps@hotmail.com .

Again ,Thank you to all of the fans for 8 years of making my hour and a half of stage time so brilliant!!! Tucker"

And in other hand the shows that were programed to south america have been changed to september

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Morbid Angel

The grindcore band has finished the works on "Shift" that will be release in october, 2004. Nasum will include two new members in this release, they are: bassist Jon Lindqvist and guitarist Urban Skytt.

The band describes the album as: "a very fast and aggressive album with some of the fastest parts ever recorded by NASUM, but as usual, there is room for groove and nuances. In other words: classic NASUM grindcore."

After the release the band plans a tour of four weeks over Europe.

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Nasum

They plan to enter in the studios on August and released the album in early 2005, this are some worlds of the drummer Craing Nielsen:

"leaps and bounds heavier than the last four records combined, definitely a return to the bands roots but still with some ambient surprises that break up all the speed riffing. There seems to be an inspired vibe going on in the writing process that is taking on a life of its own."

Also the band it's going to take part on the "Thrash Domination 04", this are the confrimed dates:

Sep. 24 - Osaka, JPN @ Namba Hatch
Sep. 25 - Tokyo, JPN @ Club Citta
Sep. 26 - Tokyo, JPN @ Club Citta

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Flotsam And Jetsam

"The Empire are entering Studio 13 August 1st to begin recording their 4th Cd "METHOD OF EXECUTION" & will consist of 15 new songs of their own brand of pure extreme Southern Florida style Death Metal. "METHOD OF EXECUTION" is due to be released early '2005' through Olympic/Century Media."

http://metalasylum.com/divine/

The pagans metalers are going to released a new EP, still with no released date, but you can check some sound samples here: http://www.odroerir-fix.de/liedgut.htm and the cover art: http://www.odroerir-fix.de/coverep.gif

The band that recently decide not to continue, because of the loss of Valfar(founder and singer of the band), will do one last concert on his honour:

"Friday the 3rd of September there will be a last Windir concert. The concert will be at Rockefeller Arena in Oslo, Norway. The 3rd of September would have been Valfars 26th birthday, and we would like to honour his memory by doing one last show. Sture will be doing most of the Windir vocals. We are also glad to announce that 3 bands will be joining us this night. ENSLAVED, FINNTROLL & MINDGRINDER will be doing shows in honour of Valfar."

www.windir.no

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Windir

"Dream Theater's "LIVE AT BUDOKAN" will be released on October 5th 2004.
It will be available as both a 2 DVD set and a 3 CD set."

www.dreamtheater.com

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Dream Theater

the swedish progressive doomers are back with a new album called "IIII - The album of labour", the released is set to 11/08/2004 through Rivel Records.

you can see the cover art in : http://www.venidomine.com/ also there are some sound clips at: http://www.venidomine.com/IIII%20the%20album.html

"Wow! I can't believe that this site is actually working! First off, thank you for your patience. If you have been waiting for me sorry it took a little while. I have been learning as I go along and, even though I have had fun, it has been a lot of work. I would like to thank Paul Poyntz and Trevor Peres for all their help. You guys rule! Trevor designed our other Official Web Site: slowlywerot.net. Don't ask why we have two websites we just do because we want to. Keep on checking in with us because I have a lot of plans for this site and it will keep changing and updating with the more I learn about Web Design.

Secondly, it feels really good to be back writing new music and playing some shows here and there. We are playing only a few shows right now until the new CD is done. We hope to be recording it near the end of the year and hope for a release sometime early 2005! The shows we are playing are really fun for us because we are playing a lot of old songs we normally don't play live as well as some other stuff. Hopefully we will see you on the road so you can see what I mean.

I am not one to go on for too long, but I just want to say thank you to all of you for the support over the years and we hope to see you out on the road.. Please keep in touch at fans@obituary.cc. We try to answer as many emails as we can but occasionally the mailbox gets filled up. If this happens please try again some other time and we will do our best to keep up because we would really like to hear from you.

Thank you"

John Tardy

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Obituary

The swedish viking are going to released two new cds the first "vargaresa (wolfjourney)-the beginning" is coming out at 28 november of 2004, this consist of the 2 demos "vargaresa" and "ur nattvindar" (from the winds of night), and the other will be their 4th album called "vredens tid" (the age of wrath) the will come out at 28 april of 2005

check the cover art at: http://www.displeasedrecords.com/images/137-200.jpg

Angizia are mixing the 3rd and last chapter of their upcoming album "Ein Toter fährt gern Ringelspiel" the album is plan to be released in autumn 2004, the album will be limited to 1000 copys only

New Arckanum cd "Kaos Svarta Mar" (split with Svartsym) is already out through Carnal Records, some sound clips are avaible on the arckanum website: http://www.arckanum.se/alzkyns.htm

the songs are the following:
Hæxhamar - (Translation: Witchhammer), Eldkniver - (Translation: The flaming sword), Ætergap - (Translation: The venomous jaws), Frana (Anti-Cosmic Version) - (Translation: Resurrection), Spitælsker - (Translation: Leprous).

You can check the artwork at http://www.arckanum.se/kaossvartamar1.htm

News taken from the extol website:

"On Monday the 2nd of August we enter Toproom Studio to record our fourth full-length album, bearing the working-title GLORIANA. As many of you may know, this is the same studio we used for SYNERGY and so we´re once again looking forward to work with Herr Børge Finstad. The new material demands a different sound approach than the detailed SYNERGY concept. In order to create a heavier and more atmospheric Extol sound, we will bring the recorded material from Toproom to Antfarm Studio (the Haunted, Heaven Shall Burn, Hatesphere) in Aarhus, Denmark to mix it there. We will do our best to keep you updated on the recording-process the next couple of weeks, posting pictures and news on the Extol website.

We are aware that many of you have been dying to know who the new guitarists are...well...you have not been waiting in vain, but we ask you to have just a little more patience with us. Complete line-up and BRAND NEW band-pictures will be revealed shortly after the New York photo-shoot....we promise!!!

-peter, david and john-"

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Extol

The spanish band is recording some covers and some new versions of oldier songs, and the album also contain some cover that were recorded on the past but haven't come out. Jorge Salán will be the 3rd guitarrist since Carlitos haven't recovered totally. Carlitos recorded the covers made in the past. some of the tracks will be: Bellfast(bonney M), Guilty of Love(whitesnake) that will come out with the name "Dame tu Amor", Lady Black(Uriah Heep) that will be call "Dama Negra" and the metal version of La rosa de los tiempos.

The format of this release will be book-cd, that also includes a dvd with Mago de oz playing from the studio and an interview. The album will be called Belfast and it's an anticiaption to their Gaia II.

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Mägo De Oz