Members of Mayhem and their crew were arrested Monday morning after allegedly destroying a hotel room in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

The group performed Sunday night at the Hall Of Fame venue in Tilburg and had booked rooms for the night at Hotel Central.

A hotel employee arrived the next morning to find the hotel room to be a complete mess. Plants were thrown out onto the street, mirrors, a sink and bathroom curtains were torn apart and demolished. The beds and television were destroyed and walls were dirty and stained.

Damage was estimated at at least 5000 euros (approximately $7480).

The nine men, aged 21 to 45 years, hail from The Netherlands, Norway, Finland and France. The suspects are currently being held at a local jail and will not be released until they have reimbursed the hotel for repair costs.


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Source:	nos.nl
Band profile:	Mayhem

The "Decibel Presents: Monsters Of Death Tour" show on November 14th, 2009 will be streamed live online at this location from The Rave in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Performances will include headliners Vader, Decrepit Birth, Warbringer, The Amenta, Swashbuckle, and Augury.

The free, live stream will begin at 4 pm Pacific / 5 pm Mountain / 6 pm Central / 7 pm Eastern.

To access the free live concert stream:

1) Go to http://www.theravelive.com/webcast
2) Click on the "Free Signup" button at the upper right of the page
3) Choose the "Fan" option and fill out the information
4) Sign in on November 14th and click on the "Live Webcast" tab and you're ready to see the show

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Source:	theravelive.com
Band profile:	Vader

Two of doom metal's most acclaimed acts will team up for a two week U.S. tour this winter as the legendary Pentagram joins forces with celebrated "True Heavy Metal" band The Gates Of Slumber. The 11 city tour will launch on January 15, 2010 in Springfield, VA.

The pairing of Pentagram and The Gates Of Slumber aligns 2 generations of doom metal majesty and will undoubtedly be a tremendous treat for both long time loyalists and wide-eyed newcomers alike. Formed in 1971, Pentagram has a long and storied history that continues to play out almost 40 years later. Let by wildly charismatic vocalist Bobby Liebling, the band has forged an indelible mark in the "Heavy Metal Rock and Roll" pantheon and continues to influence scores of modern day acts. The Gates Of Slumber has emerged as one of modern day metal's most critically acclaimed bands whose decidedly throwback sound both pays homage to and builds upon "Heavy Metal" in its truest form. The band has been hailed as "a breath of fresh air within the doom/true metal underground" and its latest studio album Hymns of Blood & Thunder (Rise Above) is in stores now.

01/15 Springfield, VA Jaxx
01/16 Philadelphia, PA Polaris
01/17 New York, NY BB King Blues Club
01/18 Richmond, VA The Hat Factory
01/21 New Orleans, LA The Howlin's Wolf
01/23 Atlanta, GA The Masquerade
01/26 Des Moines, IA Vaudeville Mews
01/27 Madison, WI High Noon
01/28 Cleveland, OH Peabody's
01/29 Detroit, MI Blondie's
01/30 Chicago, IL Empty Bottle

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Source:	metalblade.com
Band profile:	The Gates Of Slumber
Event:	The Gates Of Slumber + Pentagram

Official press release

Sweden's Armageddon are the melodic metal project of Arch Enemy guitarist Chris Amott and Embrace the Mystery & Three finally sees their second (Embrace the Mystery) and third (Three) albums getting a proper and domestic release outside of Japan, where they originally came out back in the years 2000 and 2002, respectively. Embrace the Mystery & Three will be released as 2CD set with upgraded artwork, several bonus tracks and liner notes on November 16th, 2009 in Europe and on January 26th in North America via Century Media Records.

Chris Amott comments the release as follows: "It is with great pleasure that I announce the first time ever release of these albums in Europe and the US! Any fan of melodic hard rock and shred guitar playing should check this out - Embrace the Mystery and Three feature many great instrumental performances and epic songs! These two albums were recorded in 2000 and 2002 and have until only been available in Japan. I put a lot of work into these recordings at the time, so I am glad to see them come out!"

Originally formed in Halmstad, Sweden in 1997, Armageddon was launched as a melodic death metal act with their debut album Crossing the Rubicon released via the now defunct W.A.R. Records label in Europe and Toy's Factory in Japan. Next to guitarist and mastermind Chris Amott, the album also featured drummer Peter Wildoer (Darkane, Majestic, now also in Pestilence) and bassist Martin Bengtsson, who both then moved on to join Arch Enemy, recording, releasing and touring Arch Enemy's 1998 Stigmata release. Chris revisited Armageddon with 2000's Embrace the Mystery album, once again released in Japan on Toy's Factory but never available internationally. This album presented a rather melodic and traditional metal approach and featured Last Tribe member Rickard Bengtsson on vocals, Dick Lövgren on bass (now member of Meshuggah but previously tour-bassist for bands like Eucharist, Arch Enemy or In Flames) as well as Arch Enemy drummer Daniel Erlandsson (also previously active with Eucharist and In Flames and with the re-united Carcass these days). Following the album's release Armageddon supported In Flames and The Haunted on a Japanese tour, which remain the only live-performances for the band until now. In 2002 Armageddon released their third and so far last album exclusively in Japan again. Simply entitled Three, it showcases Armageddon as a three-piece with Chris Amott handling all vocal duties next to playing guitar as well as Daniel Erlandsson on drums and new bassist Tobias Gustafsson (Eucharist).

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Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Arch Enemy

Spanish extreme metallers Noctem present their new video for "Across Heracles Towards" off their debut album Divinity. Divinity was released a couple of months ago through NoiseHead Records. The album features guest appearances by Christos Antoniou (Septicflesh, Chaostar) and Leal (Forever Slave). The clip was directed by Miguel Angel Font Bisier (HT Producciones).

WARNING: video may not be suitable for minors and work environments.

Divinity cover art] tracklist:

01. Atlas Death
02. In The Path Of Heleim
03. Realms In Decay
04. The Sanctuary
05. The Call Of Oricalco's Horn
06. Across Heracles Towards
07. In The Aeons Of Time
08. Necropolis Of Esthar's Ruins
09. Divinity
10. Religious Plagues
11. Under Seas Of Silence

(The video can also be watched over at this location.)

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Prophecy Productions press release

Our specialists for gothic horror, The Vision Bleak, will embark on a ten-date tour of Europe alongside Alcest in April 2010. While The Vision Bleak are credited as being an excellent live band, this is the first tour for Alcest in the group's history. Both acts will present material from their respective new albums scheduled for release in spring 2010.

Set Sail To Mystery Tour (featuring The Vision Bleak, Alcest and Fjoergyn)

01.04.2010 - DE - Berlin / K17
02.04.2010 - CZ - Prag / Exit Chmelnice
03.04.2010 - AT - Wien / Escape
04.04.2010 - IT - Lonato del Garda / Olden Live Club
05.04.2010 - DE - Würzburg / Posthalle
06.04.2010 - FR - Paris / Glazart
07.04.2010 - UK - London / Purple Turtle
08.04.2010 - DE - Essen / Turock
09.04.2010 - NL - Leeuwarden / Romein
10.04.2010 - BE - Vosselaar / Biebob

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Source:	prophecyproductions.de
Band profile:	The Vision Bleak
Event:	Set Sail To Mystery Tour

Pulverised Records welcomes the latest old-school thrash addition to the roster: Hungarian thrashers Morbid Carnage.

Morbid Carnage recently completed their first full-length album Night Assassins, seven tracks of raw, intense and catchy thrash metal in the worship of the 80s golden years.

The street release date for Night Assassins will be announced soon.

Pulverised Records A&R Manager Calvin states: "Morbid Carnage definitely know their thrash metal; all the necessary ingredients to make a good old-fashioned thrash song work effectively and the overall vibe on Night Assassins is just totally immense. This is a straight-forward, no-holds-barred pure onslaught of retro-thrash at its finest!"

Comments Morbid Carnage's bass player Janos Horvath (aka Necrofaust): "It is our honour to be signed to Pulverised Records as the label has really some great bands and most importantly, a very positive attitude. We are sure that Pulverised Records will spread our first full-length album (recorded in the summer of this year) to the old-school souls of ripping thrash metal maniacs around the world!"

Two brand new songs entitled "Warlust" and "Night Assassins", taken off from the debut full-length album Night Assassins, can be heard on Morbid Carnage's official MySpace page.

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Tonight we dine in HellFest. Get your tickets while they're hot!

Hellfest Open Air, set to take place June 18-20 in Clisson, France, is still a few more months away. But tickets are selling fast! Hellfest Productions are offering a special ticket price on a 3day pass. Order now via Digitick.com and save 20% on the final ticket price. Instead of ?125 you'll only pay ?99... if you hurry up! Tickets are limited and there are only 100 promotional tickets left. You'll go to hell if you miss it! The special offer ends on November 28th, coincidentally the same day as the new line-up announcement. Keep an eye on Metal Storm - you'll hear it here first.

Hellfest 2010 promises to kick some serious ass once again, with confirmed bands like Immortal, Twisted Sister, Suffocation, Bloodbath, Sepultura, Dark Funeral, Arch Enemy, Behemoth, Count Raven, Negură Bunget, Atheist, Kampfar and many, many more to be announced (including several special acts). Do you want to be a part of it? Get your tickets NOW, and stay tuned for more updates.

Update 04/11/09: The offer is sold out! New tickets with new price will be avalaible the 29 of November 2009.

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Source:	hellfest.fr
Event:	Hellfest Open Air 2010

Magnus Rosén (ex-Hammerfall, ex-Jorn, X-World/5) is the new bass player of Revolution Renaissance. The band is currently writing new material for a 2010 release.

A few weeks ago, Revolution Renaissance signed a 3-album deal with Napalm Records. With their strong promotional capabilities and a separate office in the USA, the band is expecting to get much better exposure than with the Age of Aquarius album and also finally do touring.

In the meantime Revolution Renaissance also parted ways with bass player Justin Biggs and the keyboard player Michael Khalilov. According to the band: "During the recordings of Age of Aquarius it became evident to everybody that RR was not the right band for the guys. Justin is more of a thrash guy and Mike expected the music to be something totally different. Out of these reasons the decision has been made that it is better to go separate ways. Both are great guys and the remaining members Timo Tolkki, Gus Monsanto and Bruno Agra wish them well and best of luck on their musical endeavours."

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Source:	revolution-renaissance.net
Band profile:	Revolution Renaissance

Trees Of Eternity came into being when Juha Raivio (Swallow The Sun) and Sweden based singer Aleah got together in the latter part of 2008 to work on a song for the upcoming Swallow The Sun album New Moon. The plan was to to feature Aleah's vocals on part of a song already prepared by Juha, but when they instead began to experiment with a vocal line Aleah had written for the occasion the session quickly headed off in a new direction and the project took on a life on its own.

During summer and autumn 2009 the band worked on completing the demo productions for a four song promo, now available for listening on the band's MySpace page.

01. My Requiem
02. Black Ocean
03. A Million Tears
04. Sinking Ships

While label negotiations take place, work on songs for the album will continue, and samples will be added to this page as work progresses.

The full line-up for the final version of Trees Of Eternity is not yet in place, but so far plans are to include Tobias Sidegård (Necrophobic) on bass and Mike Hellmaker (Maleficio) as second guitarist. Current drums are programmed only for demo purposes!

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French metallers Silent Fall (previously known as Winterland) have revealed the tracklist of their upcoming album, Otherwise. The band's debut, which was recorded at The Wildpath Studio, features the following tracklist:

01. Who Is The Fool?
02. Kill For Life
03. Haunted Sights
04. Forever And Ever
05. One Cold Winter Night
06. I Wish
07. Play With Fire
08. World Of Secrets
09. This Could Have Been
10. Tears Of Fate
11. On The Top Of The World

There will also be a bonus song called "Heroes". A special version of "Who Is The Fool?" will also be released only on the internet.

Marjolaine Bernard (Wildpath) will appear as a guest vocalist on "This Could Have Been" and a guitar solo realized by Stephan Forté (Adagio) will appear on "World Of Secrets".


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The second album of Polish black metal band Kalot Enbolot will be released in Spring 2010 under the flag of Eastside Records. It will contain seven long, complex and progressive compositions - almost an hour of music. The record named Regnum Dei is concept album telling stories about medieval crusades. Musically Regnum Dei is album which joins together Nordic and Greek black metal influences with some heavy and thrash metal topics. There are a lot of various guitar works and variable vocal parts, some brutal, raw and aggressive, some epic and monumental.

Regnum Dei cover art] tracklist:

01. Infidelis
02. The Great Adversary Listen]
03. Advocati Sancti Sepulchri
04. Jerusalem The Whore
05. Children Of Judas Listen]
06. The Mother Of Demons
07. Figurehead (The Cure cover)

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Finland's new prog/death act, Barren Earth, consisting of former members of Amorphis, plus current members of Swallow The Sun, Moonsorrow and Kreator, have uploaded a new video trailer to their YouTube channel, giving a glimpse into the writing and recording process of the tracks on the band's forthcoming Our Twilight EP. Our Twilight, Barren Earth's debut release, will hit US stores November 17th (Europe 9th, Finland 11th) on Peaceville Records.

Along with the album trailer, the band has uploaded the title track off the new EP to their official MySpace page. An audio sampler, previewing each of the four tracks on Our Twilight, can be heard at this location.

Barren Earth's debut full-length album, containing the extended version of Our Twilight, is slated for an early 2010 release, while the band's first live performance is scheduled for November 19th in their hometown of Helsinki.


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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Barren Earth

Finnish power metallers Ghost Machinery have found a new vocalist and are still in search for a new label.

New frontman of the band is Taage Laiho. He's also a vocalist of a well known Finnish band Kilpi, but also known from his work on two Altaria albums. Taage's vocals can be heard on Divinity and The Fallen Empire albums and he also made an extensive European tour with the band in 2006. Kilpi band just released their 5th album, Pirun Merta, and at the moment Kilpi is touring in Finland.

Ghost Machinery was formed by a Pete Ahonen (Burning Point) in 2002 and they released their debut album, Haunting Remains, in December 2004. It was highly praised in the media all over the world and it gained lots of great reviews as well as huge amount of interviews was made during the time of the release.

It might seem to the public that not much activity, but the band has been very active "beneath" the surface and the guys have been in and out from the studio recording the 2nd album Out For Blood. Also the band is very happy that although Taage is a newest member he was able to put his "mark" on the record. Obviously with his great singing but also lyrically he was very much involved.

Currently the band is putting finishing touches to the Out For Blood album and their plan is to release a single at the end of this year.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Ghost Machinery

Sarah Jezebel Deva (Angtoria, Cradle Of Filth, Therion) will release her solo album A Sign Of Sublime in February 2010 through Rising Records. The drums on the CD were laid down by Max Blunos, formerly of the UK death metal outfit Trigger The Bloodshed. Other guest musicians that appear on the album include keyboard player Martin Powell (Cradle Of Filth, Anathema, My Dying Bride) and bassist Dave Pybus (Cradle Of Filth).

Regarding the musical direction of her solo debut, Sarah said in September: "It's not another Angtoria, it's not Cradle Of Filth what is it? Hell if I know! Haha... it's music! No label, just me and the people I care about doing music. It's not pompous, it's not over the top. I would like to say it's just a mixture of styles and feelings. Some tracks are fast, almost having a black metal edge, some tracks are slow, almost like a movie film score... and well, it just doesn't all sound the same, it's not blast beats from start to finish, it has feeling, and well, that's it!"

A Sign Of Sublime will include a cover version of Meredith Brooks' "Bitch", which is described by Sarah as "slightly more heavy than the original." She adds, "I did it because I love the song! Simple. It's rock! It don't know if we have added anything to the song or taken anything away. Either way, it was fun to do and that's what music is about."

On the topic of her continuing collaboration with Dave Pybus, Sarah says, "I feel lucky to have one of my best friends work with me on this album. He did Angtoria and, of course, Dave and I have worked together many years in Cradle Of Filth and I am just proud to have someone by my side who doesn't put any restrictions on me and doesn't believe in putting restrictions on music. He is open-minded and fun, loyal and very hard-working and we both have the same vision... to enjoy life and playing."

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