Swallow The Sun have posted their video for the song "Doomed To Walk The Earth" on YouTube at this location.

The track comes off the band's third album, entitled "Hope", which was released on February 7th, 2007 via Spinefarm Records. The album was recorded at Seawolf Studios in Helsinki and was mastered at Finnvox studios with Minerva Pappi.

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Source:	swallowthesun.net
Band profile:	Swallow The Sun

The video for the song 'Lost In Space' from Edguy frontman Tobias Sammet's Avantasia project was posted online at this location.

Also an eight-minute EPK (Electronic Press Kit) for the forthcoming six-track albums from Avantasia "Lost In Space Part 1" and "Lost In Space Part 2" is available at this location.

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Source:	tobiassammet.com
Band profile:	Avantasia

According to Sirenia's official website:

"Due to musical disagreements singer Monika Pedersen and Sirenia has decided to part ways, here is Monika's statement:

"After much consideration I have chosen to leave Sirenia, but I will continue with music. The reason is, that we have too many musical differences, and I don't feel like it's the right band for me. I have had a great time in the band, lots of good experiences and only wish the best for the band in the future. I want to send a big "Thank You" to all the fans for your support - you haven't heard the last of me!"

As a result of these circumstances Sirenia will have to pull out of the planned European tour with Therion. The show in Athens will be postponed until may 2008. You have our apologies for this, Sirenia will be back on the road next year. We will use the coming months to find a new singer, as well as composing music for our next album."

Read more about the impact of Sirenia pulling out of the Adulruna Rediviva Tour in the News Archive.

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Source:	mortenveland.com
Band profile:	Sirenia

Reunited Norwegian Black Metallers Immortal will conquer Australia and New Zealand in March 2008!

Confirmed dates for the "Blashyrkh In Oz Tour" are as follows:

March 10 - Melbourne, AUS @ Billboard
March 13 - Perth, AUS @ The Capitol Theatre
March 14 - Adelaide, AUS @ Fowler's Live
March 15 - Sydney, AUS @ The Metro Theatre
March 20 - Auckland, NZ @ Transmission Room
March 21 - Wellington, NZ @ SFBH

A short comment by the band goes as follows: "See you down under, the battle rages on!". A poster for the tour can be found here.

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Source:	immortalofficial.com
Band profile:	Immortal
Event:	Immortal - Blashyrkh In Oz Tour

The full tracklist for the new Ayreon double disc release "01011001" has been announced. It is as follows:

CD1 - Y:

01. Age Of Shadows (incl. "We Are Forever')
02. Comatose
03. Liquid Eternity
04. Connect The Dots
05. Beneath The Waves
(a) Beneath The Waves
(b) Face The Facts
(c) But A Memory...
(d) World Without Walls
(e) Reality Bleeds
06. Newborn Race
(a) The Incentive
(b) The Vision
(c) The Procedure
(d) Another Life
(e) Newborn Race
(f) The Conclusion
07. Ride The Comet
08. Web Of Lies

Disc 2 - Earth:

01. The Fifth Extinction
(a) Glimmer of Hope
(b) World of Tomorrow Dreams
(c) Collision Course
(d) From the Ashes
(e) Glimmer of Hope (reprise)
02. Waking Dreams
03. The Truth Is In Here
04. Unnatural Selection
05. River of Time
06. E=MC2
07. The Sixth Extinction
(a) Echoes On The Wind
(b) Radioactive Grave
(c) 2085
(d) To The Planet Of Red
(e) Spirit On The Wind
(f) Complete The Circle

The album is now finished and will be in stores end of January 2008. More information (including soundclips, complete list of musicians, different release dates) is available at this location.

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Source:	ayreon.com
Band profile:	Ayreon

The new Saxon video for the song 'I've Got To Rock (To Stay Alive)' featuring Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), Angry Anderson (Rose Tattoo) and Andi Deris (Helloween) is online now at this location (Real Media).

The song 'I've Got To Rock (To Stay Alive)' comes from the album "The Inner Sanctum" which was released on March 5th 2007 via SPV Records.

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Source:	saxon747.com
Band profile:	Saxon

Gamma Ray's video for the song 'Into The Storm' has been posted at this location (Real Media).

The track comes off the German band's new album, "Land Of The Free II" due in Europe on November 19 (November 16 in Germany, January in US) via SPV Records. More info and audio samples are available at this location.

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Source:	gamma-ray.com
Band profile:	Gamma Ray

According to their official website, Belphegor are set to enter Andy Classen´s Stage One Studios in Kassel, Germany on Friday, November 9th to start recording their upcoming album. The recording-process will reach out til middle of January 2008 with 3 intense sessions, so everything can grow and the band can take the best result. In middle of January 08 everything will be recorded-mixed-mastered so the album is finished.

Helmuth comments: "Yeah it's true, since six weeks we've been working our asses off in the rehearsal room and we're already in the pre-production phase. I started the songwriting in May 2006 and directly after the Brazilian tour in September I've bunkered myself with Serpenth and session drummer Torturer into our rehearsal room. Since then we're 100% concentrated in the song-writing process, worked night and day extremely hard on the new tracks. The most of the 9 Compositions/ Arrangements are almost finished"

"Hell yeah, I'm so motivated and it feels extremely good to be creative again. This album is the next logical chapter for the bands development. For me that is not just another moderate Cd, I would go into the deepest fire and give my last drop of blood for this Werk. More shredding, more cold melodies, more dynamics, more epic harmonies, more cyper-blastbeat-terror,....the freakiest, wildest Belphegor opera concerning guitars. Lemme tell you, the 9 soundcollages sound huge, its fucking TNT,....you know its Belphegor" stated Helmuth.

"The Fleischwerk" is scheduled for an European release date in April 11th, 2008, US on April 15th, 2008 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Source:	belphegor.at
Band profile:	Belphegor

The following message was posted on Gorgoroth's official website:

"Continuing on with the new agenda now forged for Gorgoroth, Gaahl and King have enlisted none other than Hellhammer (Mayhem) to join them on battery beginning in 2008.

Gaahl and King are creating a force which will only contain members of a strong and creative energy in honor of the art that is Gorgoroth and their renewed sense of destruction and war! Hellhammer possesses these ideals and he will add another dimension to this new and different beginning.

Please welcome Hellhammer to the battle!"

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Source:	gorgoroth.org
Band profile:	Gorgoroth

Crematory will release their new album, "Pray", on February 1 via Massacre Records.
The production again was taken care of Crematory themselves in the Kohlekeller Studios with the assistance of producer Christian "Kohle" Kohlmannslehner being the bands' long time companion since "Revolution" and "Klagebilder". A dynamic and massive sound of international standard is guaranteed!

The German tour under the motto "Pray Over Germany" starts in May 2008. In the summer the band will play some festivals all over Europe and a tour in various, selected countries will follow during autumn and winter 2008.

"Pray" tracklisting cover]:

01. When Darkness Falls
02. Left The Ground
03. Alone
04. Pray
05. Sleeping Solution
06. Just Words
07. Burning Bridges
08. Have You Ever
09. Remember
10. Say Goodbye

More info can be found here.

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Source:	crematory.de
Band profile:	Crematory

Official press release from the Peaceville Records newsletter:

"Coming November 5th is the new studio album from Italy's atmospheric metal masters, Novembre. Entitled "The Blue", and undoubtedly the band's best work to date, it is an emotional journey of the highest order.

"Taken in tandem with last year's critically acclaimed Materia, The Blue looks set to raise their stock still further" - KERRANG!

The new Novembre mini-site is also now online - including the brand new video track for 'Anaemia' (Directed by Tobias Martinsson), desktop downloads, banners, plus audio previews of songs from the new album. From the site there is also a free mp3 download of the song 'Bluecracy', but only for a limited period. Check out http://www.peaceville.com/novembre.

Novembre will also be supporting Gothic Metal legends Paradise Lost on the following dates:

Friday 30th Nov - Alpheus, Rome, Italy
Sunday 2nd Dec - Garage, Glasgow, UK
Monday 3rd Dec - Academy 3, Manchester UK
Tuesday 4th Dec - Wulfrun Hall, Wolverhampton UK
Wednesday 5th Dec - Islington Academy, London UK

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Source:	peaceville.com
Band profile:	Novembre
Event:	Paradise Lost

The following update was posted on Queensrÿche's official website:

"Rhino just released the official "Take Cover" E-Card. Here's your chance to hear full versions of 'Welcome To The Machine', 'For The Love Of Money' and 'Neon Knights' in their entirety. To view/listen to the E-Card please visit Rhino.com."

"Take Cover" will be released on November 13th, 2007. The line up includes Geoff Tate (vocals), Michael Wilton (guitar), Mike Stone (guitar, background vocals), Eddie Jackson (bass, background vocals), Scott Rockenfield (drums, percussion), album produced by Kenny Nemes & Karen Ahmed.

"Take Cover" tracklisting cover]:

01. Innuendo
02. Bullet The Blue Sky
03. Synchronicity II
04. For What It's Worth
05. Welcome To The Machine
06. Red Rain
07. Neon Knights
08. Almost Cut My Hair
09. Heaven On Their Minds
10. For The Love Of Money
11. Odissea

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Source:	queensryche.com
Band profile:	Queensrÿche

The following update was posted on Soulfly's official website:

"Soulfly entered the Porch Studios on September 12th to begin recording their next full length album, the followup to 2005's "Dark Ages", and here is the first studio update since the process has begun.

After recording up until the end of September, the band was able to complete nearly all of the basic tracking for the recording - including the majority of drum, bass, rhythm guitar, and lead guitar tracks. Working titles for some of the 13 songs which were tracked include 'Burndown', 'Enemy Ghost', 'Axis Of Wrath', and 'Blood, Fire, War, Hate'. For the time being, Soulfly has put recording at the Porch with engineer Tim Lau on hold; ever since they left the studio on September 29th, Max has been traveling throughout Egypt and Siberia with recording devices, and when he returns he will begin to mold the samples, noises, and music that he collects during his travels into the framework of the songs which he jammed out with Marc, Bobby, and Joe last month. Vocals and percussion have only been completed on a handful of songs, but Soulfly plans to go back to the Porch before the end of the year to complete tracking. After that, Andy Sneap will be doing the mixing on this one! As of now, you can expect the next album to be ready for release by early summer of 2008.

We leave you today with some photos from the band's last weekend of September in Florida! Keep coming back for recording, mixing, and promotional updates straight from the guys in the band until the release next summer!"

Check out some photos from the recording studio at this location.

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Source:	soulflyweb.com
Band profile:	Soulfly

Nightwish kicked off its current US tour on October 15 at Jaxx in West Springfield, Virginia. The band revealed via their website the details of their upcoming spring 2008 North American run, which is scheduled to kick off in early May 2008.

Confirmed dates are as follows:

May 05 - Sayreville, NJ @ Starland Ballroom
May 06 - Hartford, CT @ Webster Theatre
May 07 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ Chance Theater
May 09 - Quebec City, QUE @ Centre De Foire
May 11 - London, ONT @ Cowboy's
May 14 - Winnipeg, MB @ Garrick Centre
May 15 - Regina, SK @ The Drink
May 16 - Edmonton, AL @ Starlite Room
May 17 - Calgary, AL @ MacEwan Hall Ballroom
May 19 - Victoria, BC @ Sugar
May 20 - Vancouver, BC @ Croatian Cultural Centre
May 22 - Orangevale, CA @ The Boardwalk
May 23 - San Diego, CA @ House of Blues
May 24 - Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
May 26 - Denver, CO @ Ogden Theater
May 27 - Lawrence, KS @ Granada
May 28 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's
May 30 - Louisville, KY @ Headliner's Music Hall
May 31 - Mokena, IL @ The Pearl Room

Tickets are available exclusively through EnterTheVault.com until November 26, 2007. They will go on sale through all normal ticketing agents after that date.

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Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish
Event:	Nightwish: N. American Tour [CANCELLED]

The following update was posted on Battlelore's MySpace page:

"Hellos all! Thanks for reading my blurbs and keep those comments coming.

First of all, we have been working on the new songs lately and at the moment we actually have some 10 songs in very good "skeleton-phase". Looks extremely positive so far. The music is getting a few steps back in our history and a few steps forward to the future... At the moment it seems that there will be bigger, more epic parts in the vein of "Sword's Song" but also more harder, heavier parts in the vein of "Evernight". I'm quite sure that you fans won't be disappointed with this one. The album should be out sometime in June/July/August 2008.

We have some more gigs coming up. For all you cool North-Americans I must say that still no good news for you. We would love to come "over the deep waters" and play for all of you but it's really not up to us. You need to buy more albums and ask from the local organizers for us.... maybe someday then.

Finally we have a few more Finnish gigs coming up. Seems that our homeland is finally starting to get our idea... Our first UK gig in a long time is also confirmed to be in late February 2008 in Swansea, Wales. There is a big possibility for more UK gigs this coming December as we've been talking about a small tour around the middle December and that one should have some 5 or so UK dates. We'll keep you informed.

Ok, I think this is for the news for now. Have fun, have some beer, enjoy the life!"

Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Battlelore