Ginza.se, one of Sweden's largest online music stores, has dismissed as "completely wrong" a press release issued by Earache Records claiming that "Ginza.se has barred the sale of Deicide's latest album, 'The Stench of Redemption', citing the blasphemous CD sleeve art, controversial lyrical subject matter and the fact that Deicide mainman Glen Benton has an upside-down cross branded into the center of his forehead as their reasoning."

In an e-mail sent to blabbermouth.net earlier today, Nisse Jonson, Ginza.se's Purchase Manager, stated, "This is completely wrong. We don't have any problems regarding Deicide more than that their last productions didn't sell very well in our webshop. Therefore we didn't purchase it in the first place."

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Deicide

Hapless rock legend Ozzy Osbourne has been voted Britain's silliest celebrity. The former Black Sabbath frontman has taken the coveted top spot from Tory toff Boris Johnson. The list, compiled from a survey of more than 2,000 people, contains some of the usual suspects: Jade Goody, John Prescott, Prince Philip, etc.

Source:	itv.com
Band profile:	Ozzy Osbourne

Candlelight Records today confirms October 3 as the US release date of MoRT, the eagerly anticipated new album from French extremists Blut Aus Nord. The album adds to the band's trilogy of albums and growing stateside sales and fanbase.

With MoRT, Blut Aus Nord have crafted an album that is complex, haunting and sure to draw the band continued fan and media applause. A singular composition consisting of eight united chapters, MoRT contains the gruesome soundtrack that has quickly become the trios acclaimed hallmark. Nearly two years in the making, the album incorporates uniquely innovative guitar play (layering similar to early Emperor), a corrosive rhythm section and bitter vocals. Kerrang says it best when calling the bands music, "the sound of underground metal's black heart, twisted beyond all recognition."

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Blut Aus Nord

Candlelight Records today has added 'Carnage' from Entombed's EP 'When In Sodom' set for US release November 14 to the label's official MySpace page. Bring your browser to Candlelight Records on MySpace for your first listen.

Planned just prior to the bands upcoming US dates alongside labelmates/countrymen Dismember, 'When in Sodom' finds its awaited US release before the bands upcoming new full length, 'Serpent Saints', expected early 2007. It is the band's first new material since 2003 with this limited edition EP.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Entombed

Lord Ahriman posted the following on the bands official site:

"It just came to our attention that our scheduled show in Costa Rica on October the 3rd is cancelled. Apparently this is a result by the local promotor's refusal to share our flight costs with the other promoters, which is total bollocks if you ask me. We were totally looking forward to play Costa Rica during this forth coming Latin American tour, but unfortunately it won't happen. We understand that this cancellation will leave A LOT of you people very disappointed. And trust me, we all wish there were something we could do to change the situation, but we can't. We do however hope that there will be another chance for us to play Costa Rica in a not too distant future."

Source:	come.to
Band profile:	Dark Funeral

According to Earache Records, one of Sweden's largest online music stores, Ginza.se, has barred the sale of Deicide's latest album, "The Stench of Redemption", citing the blasphemous CD sleeve art, controversial lyrical subject matter and the fact that Deicide mainman Glen Benton has an upside-down cross branded into the center of his forehead as their reasoning. This has consequently led to Ginza.se taking the unprecedented step of removing all traces of previous Deicide releases from their online store aswell.

This action follows quickly on from the news that U.K. TV channel Scuzz TV have also refused to play the video for Deicide's "Homage For Satan" due to its ? in their view ? offensive content.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Deicide

Los Angeles thrashers Slayer have cancelled their previously announced appearance at the third edition of the Monterrey Metal Fest, previously set to take place Saturday, September 23, 2006 at the Coca Cola Auditorium in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico. Slayer, who were scheduled to headline the event, cited "personal reasons" as the cause of the cancellation.
As a reaction the festival was set back, most likely until November. A new headliner and the exact date will be announced soon.

This year's Monterrey Metal Fest is being billed as "Hell and Heaven United" due to the fact that the festival will include appearances by reunited Christian hard rockers Stryper and Satanic death metallers Deicide. The concert, which promises to be the "biggest and baddest version yet", will feature eight of the biggest names in heavy metal music from all over the world on the main stage and 12 up-and-coming international and Mexican bands on the second stage.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Slayer
Event:	Monterrey Metal Fest

Roadrunner Records will release 4 best of records in September for Sepultura, Fear Factory, Type O Negative and Ill Nino. All four titles will be in stores and available for download on September 12th. Tracklists and covers are as follows

The Best Of Sepultura
1. Troops Of Doom
2. Beneath The Remains
3. Inner Self
4. Arise
5. Dead Embryonic Cells
6. Desperate Cry
7. Refuse/Resist
8. Territory
9. Slave New World
10. Biotech Is Godzilla
11. Roots Bloody Roots
12. Attitude
13. Ratamahatta

The Best Of Fear Factory
1. Martyr
2. Scapegoat
3. Scumgrief
4. Demanufacture
5. Self-Bias Resistor
6. Zero Signal
7. Replica
8. Shock
9. Edgecrusher
10. Resurrection
11. Cars
12. Linchpin

The Best Of Type O Negative
1. Unsuccessfully Coping With The Natural Beauty Of Infidelity
2. Christian Woman
3. Black No. 1
4. Too Late: Frozen
5. Love You To Death
6. My Girlfriend's Girlfriend
7. Cinnamon Girl
8. Everyone I Love Is Dead
9. Everything Dies
10. Highway Star
11. I Don't Wanna Be Me
12. Life Is Killing Me

The Best Of Ill Nino
1. What Comes Around
2. Unreal
3. God Save Us
4. If You Still Hate Me
5. Liar
6. This Time's For Real
6. How Can I Live
8. Cleansing
9. Te Amo. I Hate You
10. What You Deserve
11. This Is War
12. Turns To Gray
13. Corazon of Mine

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Sepultura

Helloween have spent a long day at the castle Veldenstein in the southern part of Germany recently. The castle was the fascinating location for the shoot of the video for the upcoming single "Light The Universe" - the first ever duet in the band's history - with renowned director Alex Diezinger (Negative, L'Ame Immortelle, Exilia) of AVA Studios. Joining the band on the castle like in the recording studio was Blackmore's Night beautiful singer Candice Night.

The "Light The Universe"-single will be released in the beginning of November. The release should coincide with a big TV and radio campaign. The single itself should contain the video as a bonus, a live rendition of the classic "If I Could Fly" and one more interesting bonus track.

Source:	helloween.org
Band profile:	Helloween

Metal Hammer magazine recently hooked up with Ministry's Al Jourgensen and Mike Scaccia for a few glasses of vino before their London performance to talk about Ministry's "friends": writers, junkies, philosophers, occultists, psychedelic drug experimentalists and a whole host of other loonies. But not George W. Bush. Definitely not. Watch the interview here

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Source:	ministrymusic.org
Band profile:	Ministry

Due difficulties with some venues, the UK tour in September has to be postponed. The band is real sad about that decision and will work on new dates ASAP. Here is the statement of the britsh promoter Pan Satyrcos:

"Some of the venues (those run by the Academy Music Group) bought the financial terms of the shows into dispute at the last second. In order to protect the financial interest of the band and avoid a loss that would have been the logical consequence of these lowered fees, we felt it best to cancel this tour in September. A lot of work and planning had gone into this, and we are very sorry and apologise to all who bought their tickets in advance, and those coming down on the day."

Hopefully, these shows will be rescheduled for early 2007 at different locations.

Source:	destruction.de
Band profile:	Destruction

U.K. doom metallers My Dying Bride have set the tentative track listing for their new album. 'A Line of Deathless Kings' is the title of the forthcoming album. Recorded in Academy Studios and mixed at Chapel Studios, the album will feature nine tracks, with the following titles:

01. To Remain Tombless (6:06)
02. L'Amour Detruit (9:08)
03. I Cannot Be Loved (7:04)
04. And I Walk With Them (6:37)
05. Thy Raven Wings (5:22)
06. Love's Intolerable Pain (6:14)
07. One of Beauty's Daughters (5:40)
08. Deeper Down (6:28)
09. The Blood, The Wine, The Roses (8:21)

Source:	mydyingbride.org
Band profile:	My Dying Bride

Swedish heavy metal musician Jon Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on Wednesday, August 16 at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm. He shot himself in the head and was surrounded by lit candles, Expressen reports. Shortly before the ritual suicide, he had sent farewell letters to his father and his girlfriend and explained to a friend, "I'm going away for a long, long time. I'm going to Transylvania."

Sometime between Monday (Aug. 14) and Wednesday, Nödveidt, vocalist and guitarist in the popular Swedish black metal band Dissection, chose to take his own life.

At 7:21 p.m. CET on Wednesday, a police patrol reported to the police communication center in Stockholm that a man had been found dead, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to several of Expressen's sources, the singer had placed an open copy of "The Satanic Bible" in front of him before pulling the trigger.

"He shot himself in the head and lay dead in a ring of lit candles," says a police source.

At 5:44 p.m. on Wednesday, the police received a 911 call from Jon Nödtveidt's family who hadn't been able to establish contact with him for a couple of days.

"They were very concerned," says his legal representative and manager, Per Nordqvist. "His girlfriend and his family called after their fears that something terrible had happened had been bolstered."

The reason for their concern was a farewell letter that Jon Nödveidt had sent to his girlfriend in Germany. His father, Anders Nödtveidt, had also received a postcard asking him to contact a number of people and thank them for everything.

"What it said is personal. I want to keep it to myself," Jon's father says of the postcard's contents.

"I met him in Stockholm just a week and a half ago. Everything seemed great then. I've always had good contact with Jon during his upbringing and throughout his adult life. I don't understand what has happened to make things turn out this way. This weighs even more heavily on us considering everything that has happened. This is very difficult for the entire family."

Jon Nödveidt's father likes the photo in which his son wears a black leather jacket and has asked for that picture to be published.

"It's a good photo. Jon thought so as well," says Anders Nödtveidt.

The suicide is believed to have been planned for a long time.

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Dissection

A track from the album, "Lead to Desolation," is posted on the band and label's official and MySpace sites. The song is from the long-standing death metal outfit's upcoming album, "Primordial Domination", due on September 5 via Ibex Moon Records.

The record - the band's seventh - sticks to Incantation's tried and true recipe for brutal death metal, complemented with more leads and a crushing production.

"We feel very strong about the new material," said guitar/vocalist/founding member John McEntee. "We never seem to run out of unholy dark metal movements."

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Source:	incantation.com
Band profile:	Incantation

Sepultura's video for "Convicted in Life" has been nominated in four categories at MTV's Video Music Awards Brazil 2006: "Best Editing", "Best Direction", "Best Photography" and "Best Art Direction". The awards show takes place in São Paulo on September 28.

The "Convicted in Life" clip was shot over a two-day period in February in São Paulo, Brazil. The video can be viewed at YouTube.com .

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Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Sepultura