News for immediate release!!!

Metal Mind Productions is very proud to announce that on 29th of May 2006 the label will release a new Anathema DVD - "A Moment in Time".

The main part of DVD was recorded in Poland at the famous Metal Mania Festival 2006 (the biggest hard rock/metal festival in Eastern Europe). The set list included their best songs plus a cover of Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". The guest performance was done by a string quartet. Bonus material - live video footage, video clips, documentary. DVD will be available also in a limited edition with bonus audio
CD.

The artwork to "A Moment In Time" DVD was done by Travis Smith famous for his artworks for Anathema, Skinlab, Nevermore, Devin Townsend, Riverside and others.

Anathema has a cult status on the world's rock music scene. Coming out of underground metal scene they easily transformed in to the best alternative rock outfit. Every day brings them new followers around the world. Friday, 29th April is their last day of very succesful UK & Ireland tour supporting HIM. The best is yet to come for Anathema.

ANATHEMA - A MOMENT IN TIME

DVD Cat. Nr: MMP DVD 0075
DVD+CD limited digipack edition Cat. Nr: MMP DVD 0076

Label: Metal Mind Records

Distribution: Metal Mind Productions

Format: DVD-5, NTSC, Region 0

Genre: Alternative rock

DVD total running time: approx. 100 minutes
DVD+CD total running time: approx. 180 minutes

TRACK LIST:

Metalmania 2006 - Live:

01. Shroud of False
02. Fragile Dreams
03. Balance
04. Closer
05. Lost Control
06. Empty
07. Natural Disaster
08. Inner Silence
09. One Last Goodbye
10. Judgement
11. Panic
12. Flying
13. Angelica
14. Comfortably Numb

+ bonus features (tbc soon)

LINE-UP

Vincent - vocals, guitar, vocoder
Danny - guitar, vocals, keyboards
Jamie - bass
Les - keyboards
John - drums

WEBSITE

http://www.anathema.ws

More information to follow soon!!!

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Band profile:	Anathema

Finland's eurovision song contest participant Lordi's performance jeopardized because of outrageous pyrotechnics bill - Tuska Open Air Metal Festival to the rescue

Scandinavia's premier metal festival, Tuska Open Air Metal Festival taking place in Kaisaniemi, Helsinki, Finland, during 30.6.-2.7. has decided to take action in assisting Finland's controversial Eurovision song contest participant, Lordi, with unrealistic pyrotechnics expenses.

Although Lordi representing Finland in the Eurovision song contest raised very blunt opinions from the start, things took a serious turn for the worse when Finnish National Radio received a cost estimate for the pyrotechnics required in Lordi's show. The German company who has the exclusive right in providing the special effects for the contest, presented the Finns with an estimate which is in no way compatible with the tariffs of past years, the final amount climbing to tens of thousands of Euros. Currently the Finnish National Radio (YLE) is pondering the option of pulling out of the contest altogether.

Tuska-Festival is no stranger when it comes to struggling with tariffs, therefore Tuska-organization is deeply concerned with the current situation. Pyrotechnics are a vital part of Lordi's show and performing without them makes no sense.

Tuska-Festival promoter Jouni Markkanen pointed out that if public funds aren't sufficient to put on a proper show, let's get the money elsewhere. Therefore Tuska-Festival will pay the first 5000 Euros of the pyrotechnic costs.

This is also intended as a challenge for others working within the music industry to do their share. Even smaller amounts help.

Tuska-Festival is Scandinavia's premier metal festival. This festival takes place right in the center of Helsinki, 2006 edition being the ninth consecutive annual Tuska-Festival. This year's line-up features the likes of Venom, Celtic Frost and Sonata Arctica along with 28 other metal artists. Lordi appeared at Tuska in 2003.

Additional Information:

http://www.tuska-festival.fi
http://www.yle.fi/eurovision

Source:	Tuska Festival
Band profile:	Lordi

Every Time I Die is giving you the chance to win all the equipment they'll be using on this summer's Warped Tour. Enter now through June 7 and youcould win all this:

* VHT New Deliverance D120H guitar head and D412 guitar cabinet
* ESP/LTD L Viper 50 guitar
* ESP/LTD LB 154 4-string red bass
* QR series 5-piece drum kit
* Gibraltar 9600 cymbal/drum stands and drum seat
* Sabian full set of X520 cymbals
* 1 bass amp
* Randall RH150G3 150W head and R412CXM 320W guitar cabinet

The best part? The band will bring the winner on stage at a show this summer and give them everything...even the cowbell!

Direct link to the contest:

https://secure.fye.com/sweepstakes.aspx?loc=62015

Preferred retail link for their most recent album =]

http://shop.fye.com/product.aspx'sku=63996728&loc=62015

http://shop.fye.com/product.aspx'sku=63996728

Official site:

http://www.everytimeidie.com

Every Time I Die on Vans Warped Tour 2006:

6/16 Germain Amphitheater, Columbus, OH
6/17 Marcus Amphitheatre, Milwaukee,WI
6/18 Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome, Minneapolis, MN
6/19 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Bonner Springs,KS
6/21 Starwood Amphitheatre, Antioch, TN
6/22 Jacksonville Fairgrounds, Jacksonville, FL
6/24 Bicentennial Park, Miami, FL
6/25 Tinker Field, Orlando, FL
6/26 Exchange Park Fairgrounds, Ladson, SC
6/28 HiFi Buys Amphitheatre, Atlanta, GA
6/30 Reliant Center, Houston, TX
7/2 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Selma, TX
7/6 Coors Amphitheatre, Chula Vista, CA
7/7 Los Angeles County Fairgrounds, Pomona,CA
7/8 Pier 30/32, San Francisco,CA
7/9 Selland Arena, Fresno, CA
7/11 Seaside Park, Ventura, CA
7/12 Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles, CA
7/13 Sleep Train Amphitheatre, Marysville, CA
7/15 Gorge Amphitheatre, George, WA
7/22 Utah State Fairpark, Salt Lake City, UT
7/23 Invesco Field at Mile High, Denver, CO
7/25 UMB Bank Pavilion, Maryland Heights, MO
7/26 Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati,OH
7/27 Post-Gazette Pavilion at Star Lake, Burgettstown, PA
7/28 Verizon Wireless Music Center, Noblesville, IN
7/29 Comerica Park, Detroit, MI
7/30 Tweeter Center Chicago, Tinley Park, IL
8/01 Darien Lake - Performing Arts Center, Darien Center, NY
8/02 Fitchburg Airport, Fitchburg, MA
8/03 Tweeter Center, Camden, NJ
8/04 Toyota Pavilion, Scranton, PA
8/05 Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Uniondale, NY
8/06 Englishtown Raceway, OLD BRIDGE, NJ
8/08 Verizon Wireless Amphitheatre, Charlotte, NC
8/09 Verizon Wireless Virginia Beach Amphitheater, Virginia Beach, VA
8/11 Tower City Amphitheatre, Cleveland, OH

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Angtoria to record video for title track "God Has A Plan For Us All"

Angtoria will soon start filming their first music video as a part of the
worldwide promotion for their album due to be released on Listenable Records
April 27th.
The video will be filmed during 3 days at two different locations, and
director of the video is an upcoming and very talented swedish director who
has previously won awards for his work, Måns Berthas.
On April 19th Sarah, Dave Pybus (CoF) and Toni Davey (Dani's wife and album
cover model), will fly to Sweden to join Chris and Tommy and a yet to be
revealed drummer to shoot the video for the title track "God Has A Plan For
Us All".

The song is based around child abuse by a religious person, which in turn
leads the girl to madness because of years of mental torture through the
offender getting away with what he has done to her. Putting images to lyrics
like these is quite difficult without getting banned by every tv station,
but we will sure try to portray the lyrics in images as much as possible.
Chris´s young daughter Saga will play the child and Toni will obviously play
the girl as older. This is to show the deterioration from start to finish of
the girls life.

Wish us luck!

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Source:	Angtoria
Band profile:	Angtoria

Wind-up records, 20th century fox and myspace.com announce undiscovered band contest for upcoming feature film john tucker must die

Grand prize winner's song eligible for inclusion in both the movie and soundtrack.

New York, NY - April 5, 2006 - Starting April 6th, unsigned artists will have a shot at their big break by submitting their music for an online contest on the leading social networking and lifestyle portal, MySpace.com. The winning band's song will be eligible for inclusion in the movie and on the soundtrack to John Tucker Must Die. The grand prize winner will be chosen on May 26th by a panel of celebrity judges and music executives. Wind-up Records will award a $10,000 production budget to the winner for professional re-recording, mixing, and mastering of the winning song. The ten finalists will each win a Gibson electric guitar.

In 20th Century Fox's John Tucker Must Die three popular girls from different cliques discover they've all been dating the same school stud when they decide not to get mad but to get even! Despite this ladies man's charm and ever-growing popularity, the girls enlist the inconspicuous new girl to help cook up a clever scheme to ruin his reputation and break his heart. This summer's hottest comedy stars Jesse Metcalfe, Sophia Bush, Brittany Snow, Ashanti, and Jenny McCarthy and opens in theatres on July 28, 2006.

The John Tucker Must Die Undiscovered Band contest (www.myspace.com/johntucker) will be hosted by Stefy Rae of the new band Stefy (www.stefytheband.com). Stefy's Wind-up Records debut will be released on August 29, 2006. Two songs from the female-fronted band Stefy will be in John Tucker Must Die as well as songs from The All-American Rejects, Nada Surf, Ben Lee, OK Go, People In Planes, and Motion City Soundtrack. The soundtrack will be released by Wind-up Records on July 18, 2006.

From April 6th until April 24th, unsigned bands can submit songs for consideration. From these initial submissions, 20 semi-finalists will be chosen by members of the MySpace staff. On May 1st, those 20 bands will rely on the support of their own fan bases, or MySpace 'friends,' to determine the top 10 finalists who will be selected on May 19th. The grand prize winner will be determined by the following panel of judges and announced on May 26th:

Jesse Metcalfe (Actor - star of John Tucker Must Die, "Desperate Housewives")
Betty Thomas (Director - John Tucker Must Die, Howard Stern's Private Parts)

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TRISTWOOD

Extreme Metal band from Austria combining the obscurity and speed of the Black Metal and the brutality of the Death Metal with the abysmal atmosphere of the Industrial, nothing have been as consistent as Tristwood to fusion of the variant of Extreme Metal with formidable precision, perfect symbioses and sophisticated metallic assault! Labeled as Apocalyptic Metal, a soundtrack for the end of the world! Of course, there are a few influences that recall the similarly bombastic of Behemoth, Aborym or yet Nile but they have more to offer. The band has improved a lot since their debut album, both the playing and musically with notable songwriting ability and lyrics well wrote. "The Delphic Doctrine" is a furious onslaught in 42 minutes. Global extermination is set to 21-04-2006!!!

www.myspace.com/tristwood

INBORN SUFFERING

We are proud for have signed Inborn Suffering, this young and talented French band. They play a melodic and dark Doom Metal in the vein of the gods of the English Doom Metal. Their full-length album titled "Wordless Hope" features one hour of very well inspired orchestration in pure melancholy. It is full of beauty, sadness and sorrow where such fantastic symphonies can to be compared with classic albums like Anathema's "The Silent Enigma" and My Dying Bride's "Turn Loose the Swans". There is utterly mournful string arrangements wind around the slow Doom metal as well as some passages of violin, piano and female vocals were added perfectly. Of course, the vocals are deep and expressive grunts but sometimes spoken and sometimes-screamed vocals. This is wonderful masterpiece of Doom Metal like the former days. Wait for this album in middle of 2006. For more info, visit:

www.inborn-suffering.tk

INFERNUM

The Curse album of the Polish Black Metal band Infernum is being distributed by Black Attakk (www.black-attakk.de) in Germany and Austria exclusively! And for those have wanted for an official Infernum´s T-shirt, it will be available through the band soon. For further details, visit:

www.myspace.com/infernumband

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Sound Riot

2002 "Maïeutics", first album of Amartia is released. This is the point of start for the band. Great progressive / Atmospheric album, Amartia is acclaimed by all relevants medias, being compared with The Gathering.

After a complete renewal of line up, Vince (composer / Guitar) gives a new musical orientation to Amartia. More personal, "Marionette", the album to come reveals incredible female vocals parts, by Britta, a new german singer, based on subtle songs. Lots of fine arrangements, keys & guitar duets, fretless bass, Amartia imposes its trademark based on skilled musicians & more, on clever & high emotional songs. Buy this unique limited digipack version which includes one bonus track & multimedia part !

Discover the band through those 2 tracks :
http://amartia.free.fr/graphics/download/mp3/chosen_one.mp3 (edit version)
http://www.thundering-records.com/mp3/amartia_medley.mp3 (medley)

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Thundering Records

First WALTARI song posted online
The first song from the upcoming WALTARI album "Blood Sample" (out on April 24th) is online. "Not Enough" was released as a Single in Finland and hit the Single charts on 3. Now it's the first song uploaded to Waltari's brand new Myspace profile.

Finnish crossover inventors WALTARI are celebrating their 20th year of existence with "Blood Sample". Main topic of the album is a musical travel through Europe - and through the wide continent on the musical atlas Waltari created over the past years. Be sure to be surprised and expect everything!

SHELTER tracklisting revealed
1.Meant To Be
2.Built To Resist
3.Eternal
4.First Priority
5.Back To Vrindavan
6.My Chance To Live
7.Amend
8.Return To Eden
9.In Defense Of Reality
10.Lotus-like
11.Authenticity

Of course you can still hear or download the title track "Eternal", a brand new SHELTER song, on their Myspace page. You don't need to be a member to hear this song, just go to the link and wait for the song to start automatically...
All vocals, musical arrangements and lyrics are done by Ray Cappo, Ken Olden played guitar and bass on the record and Dave Dicenso drummed on the album.

VANISHING POINT to re-release first album
It's considered as a "classic" in the prog metal scene and it was hard to get for years:
We are excited to announce the long awaited re-release of Vanishing Point's first album "In Thought" complete with bonus video clips and the studio sessions re-mixed and re-mastered! It is not hard to see why "In Thought" is regarded as some of the most melodically accomplished albums of that time.
Check it out by yourself now that you have the chance to!

Meet the ABANDONED
So, you're out tonight or tomorrow in the area of Germany called "Ruhrpott"?! Meet our Hessian crazyness of ABANDONED: Tonight, friday March 17th they are gonna raise hell at Pennylane in Dortmund and do the DJ on the "Breakingthesilence-Party", tomorrow on Saturday March 18 they are at the Matrix/Bochum and annoy the dj until good ol' Thrash Metal is gonna be played again.
Have a beer with them. They don't bite - as long as the guitars are fucking down-picking with screaming solos and all the stuff YOU love, too!

LAKE OF TEARS confirmed for Lebanon "Middle East Rock Bash"
LAKE OF TEARS are confirmed to play at "Middle East Rock Bash - Battle for the Crown" on Saturday, 8th of July 2006 in Beirut, Lebanon. The ticketprices will be between 20-30$ (VIP between 50-60$)

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Special Shred-a-licious Edition Headway Festival 2006

This year's edition of Headway Festival will take place on April 1st in P60, Amstelveen, Netherlands. The organization will bring you a unique alternative edition: a largely instrumental line-up. Guitar heroes, bass monsters, drummin' beasts and other virtuosi will let their instruments do the talking for you in a fabulous SPECIAL SHRED-A-LICIOUS EDITION. The festival will be enclosed between two coupled progconcerts of AFTER FOREVER and VANDEN PLAS.

Line-up
Instrumental music boring? Not with this bill! The special edition with speedy stringpluckers and other masterly musicians will be full of show, different styles and amusement. The line-up for the actual festivalday will be embellished with big names:

JONAS HELLBORG (SWE)
MATTIAS IA EKLUNDH (SWE)
MARCEL COENEN (NET)
JOOP WOLTERS (NET)
DENNIS LEEFLANG (NET)
ROB VAN DER LOO (NET)
7FOR4 (GER), with Wolfgang Zenk (ex-Sieges Even)
PLUG-IN (FRA), with Fanalo and Elmobo (Ron Thal / Bumblefoot)
DARK HARVEST (ICE)

Such a gathering of so many topmusicians will of course call for a smashing climaxing conclusion: a mighty JAM SESSION including extra guestmusicians. Whether this succeeds? Keep your eye on our website for extra news about Headway Festival 2006 Special Shred-a-licious Edition!

Tickets
Friday 31/3 ? 15.00 After Forever, Orpheo
Saturday 1/4 ? 17.50 Special Shred-a-licious Edition
Sunday 2/4 ? 17.50 VandenPlas, Sphere of Souls (? 15,00 presale)
Combitickets ? 30,00 for two days, ? 42,50 for three days

Tickets are available through Ticketservice (ticketservice.nl or 0900-3001250, ?0.99/m) and through Uitlijn (aub.nl or 0900-0191, ?0.40/m). Foreign fans will soon be able to order their tickets through headwayfestival.com (Paypal). Go to p60.nl for local sellingpoints.

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headwayfestival.com

Uli and Dirk are no longer a part of BURDEN OF GRIEF.

After some personal problems during the last months we unfortunately had no other choice to make
this very hard decision. We regret much that it had come so far, but under these conditions we saw no more future for BURDEN OF GRIEF. We wish both all the best !!!

But we are pleased to be able to present you our new line-up. New guitar-player will be Johannes 'Joe' Rudolph (from GUTLOCK) and new bass-player will be Florian Bauer (from TWILIGHT PROPHECIES). The first rehearsals went very promising and we are planning to enter the studio around August/September '06. Due to the working on the next record we will play just a very few shows this year.

--- BURDEN OF GRIEF SHOWS '06 ---
29|07|2006 (GER) OBERSINN - Eisenwahn Open Air (w/ Eisregen,...)
30|09|2006 (GER) KÖLN - Büze Ehrenfeld
to be continued...

--- BURDEN OF GRIEF MERCHANDISE ---

At last we want to remind you to visit our shop.
We've got some very last copies of:

'Fields Of Salvation' US-version (incl. bonustrack)
'Fields Of Salvation' T-Shirts (L and XL)
New BURDEN OF GRIEF - Logo patches

For further info check out : www.BURDENOFGRIEF.de

Source:	Underclass
Band profile:	Burden Of Grief

Inborn Suffering (Melancolic doom death act from Paris) has been signed to Portuguese extreme label Sound Riot Records.

They will release their debut album "Wordless Hope" late summer of 2006.

View their site for more details : http://www.inborn-suffering.tk

Source:

Inborn Suffering

Finland's Nightwish have posted the following message on their official web site:

"The hassle with the media seems to have died. We've been off tour for some months and we've had a nice and long vacation. It's time to get back to business."

"Nightwish is currently and actively looking for a new singer/frontwoman for the band. We need the obvious things: Looks, charisma, courage, and, of course, a big voice. Good grasp of the English language is also very helpful. We don't necessarily need a classically trained vocalist like Tarja Turunen (the former vocalist). We welcome all kinds of styles and voices, natural and trained, from rock and pop to classical, and all that you can find in between. You should however be prepared to sing with a lot of dynamics and versatility. From loud and high to very sensitive stuff."

"You should preferably send us a CD containing 2-3 songs that you consider to be your best work. If you send an album, would you mark out 2-3 most important songs, please? If you record and send NIGHTWISH songs, then the most important thing is your PERSONAL TOUCH. Photographs are needed as well."

"We will look into different applications and all candidates, but doing it this way would save us some time and energy. If you think you have it, just send your stuff to our management, and we'll be happy to take you onboard."

All submissions should be sent to:

KING FOO ENTERTAINMENT LTD OY / EWO
Fredrikinkatu 61 A 7.krs/floor
FIN-00100 Helsinki
Finland

Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

The last new releases of the label Sound Riot:

INFERNUM "The Curse" CD - SRP037 - out in March 17

One of Poland's most highly-respected Black Metal hordes returns! Since the guitarist/vocalist Anextiomarus' reported suicide in 2004, this 2nd full-length album which was completed before their death, has remained unreleased ? until now!

TRISTWOOD "The Delphic Doctrine" CD - SRP038 - out in April 21

Extreme new act coming from Austria combining the brutality and speed of the Black and Death Metal with the abysmal atmosphere of the Industrial. Apocalyptic Metal, a soundtrack for the end of the world!

Source:

Sound Riot

Live concerts
Dynamic Lights will play live in Rome on Tuesday, March 7th 2006 at Locanda Atlantide. They will be supported by two band from Rome, Damage Done and Glassmode.

French Release
Shape has been officially released in France by a new partner of DVS Records, Underclass Music.

French Forum
We are proud to announce that some fans have created a French forum dedicated to the band Dynamic Lights on Magic Fire Music website. Check out the French Forum.
Dynamic Lights want to thank all the French guys that have visited and posted messages in this forum and especially Cedric that have created it.
You can find our usual forum on the Dynamic Lights' Official Forum.

Shape Action Photos
Check out the "Shape Action Photos" page on our website, featuring pictures of Dynamic Lights fans with the Shape CD in their hands. More than forty people already have sent theirs, do you want to be a part of it? Send us your photos along with your name (or nickname) and your country: you'll see them on that page.
You can see the gallery and find informations on the Shape Action Photos page.

Dynamic Lights

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dynamiclights.net

Poison - Best Of: 20 Years of Rock

Poison, one of hard rock's most iconic, enduring and controversial bands, celebrates 20 years in 2006. To commemorate this anniversary milestone and the band's career tally of more than 25 million albums and DVDs sold around the world, Poison and Capitol/EMI Music Catalog Marketing have partnered to release The Best Of Poison: 20 Years Of Rock on April 4. The new 18-track collection packs Poison's biggest hits and fan favorites and will also debut the group's explosive new version of Grand Funk Railroad's "We're An American Band," produced by Don Was (The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan). In May, Poison will hit the road for a major 20th anniversary summer tour sponsored by Live Nation! and presented by VH1 Classic.

Audio Streams

Talk Dirty To Me
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/capi001/poison/talkdirty_v100.asx
http://boss.streamos.com/real/capi001/poison/talkdirty_v100.ram
http://boss.streamos.com/qtime/capi001/poison/talkdirty_v100.mov

Good Time
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/capi001/poison/goodtime_a100.asx
http://boss.streamos.com/real/capi001/poison/goodtime_a100.ram

American Band
http://boss.streamos.com/wmedia/capi001/poison/americanband_a100.asx
http://boss.streamos.com/real/capi001/poison/americanband_a100.ram

Retail Link
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EHQ80K/qid=1140725844/sr=2-2/ref=pd_bbs_b_2_2/102-3829107-1732922's=music&v=glance&n=5174

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