Black Metallers Marduk have posted a trailer for thier upcoming DVD on their official website. The DVD is entitled 'Blood Puke Salvation' and contains over 90 minutes of live footage from the band's Tilburg, Holland and Antwerpen, Belgium shows among other things. The DVD will be released on the 25th September.

Click here to view the trailer.

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Source:	marduk.nu
Band profile:	Marduk

Nevermore have had to cancel their showing in Bochum, Germany where they were going to film a live DVD. The reason behind the cancellation was because vocalist Warrel Dane surprisingly suffered from a virus. On the morning of September 12th, 2006 (the day of the show) he felt sick and he ended up having to see a doctor at a hospital in Dortmund, Germany.

Here is a comment by Nevermore's management/booking agency:

"Unfortunately we had been informed by the doctor in charge relatively late (around 17:30h) that Warrel was not able to do the show and as the doctor insisted on keeping Warrel at the hospital, we could not do anything else but make the artist's health priority.

Together with band and the local venue (Zeche in Bochum), we agreed to re-do this show on October 11, 2006, Continental Concerts indicated this at the entrance of the venue as soon as we had made this decision.

Of course, all fans can return their tickets wherever they bought them. Nevermore and Continental Concerts are very sorry that we had to cancel this show. We hope and expect Warrel to be able to leave the hospital today to do the shows with Disturbed as well as further headliner shows and after that adequately recompense as many fans as possible at the end of the tour in Bochum on October 11, 2006".

Here is a comment by Nevermore drummer Van Williams:

"Hello everyone, Van here, just wanted to let everyone know that we are very sorry we were unable to do the DVD show. Warrel had to go to the hospital in the morning of that day and doctors have kept him there due to him having pneumonia. We wanted nothing more and were all looking forward to this show with our fans. We realize many of you have travelled far to be with us and Warrel most of all wanted the show to happen. We will update you as soon as we can on his condition. Thanks for sticking with us and more news as soon as we have it. Cheers Van".

Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Nevermore

Bassist Glenn Barry from Power Metal band Kamelot will be absent from some shows on the band's North American tour. Barry and his wife Kristin will be expecting their second child around the time of the tour, so for that reason he will be away. Royal Anguish bassist Sean Tibbets will be filling in for Barry on the select shows of the first leg of the tour.

In other Kamelot news, two more supports for the band's North American tour have been announced. Aghora and Wolff Pack will join Cryptic Vision, Ben Jackson and Jon Drenning and Dana Burnell from Crimson Glory as supports for Kamelot.

Source:	kamelot.com
Band profile:	Kamelot

Death Metal/Grindcore band Napalm Death have added another date to their North American tour. It's a show with Napalm Death and Exodus only (rather than the bigger list of bands for all the other US shows). It will be on the 25th September at The Static Bar in Topeaka, KS, USA.

In other Napalm Death news, the band has just released a new e-card. The e-card is posted on the band's record label Century Media's website. On the e-card you can listen to the new song 'When All Is Said And Done', view details on the new album 'Smear Campaign' like track lists, different album versions, different covers, album release dates, etc.

You can view the e-card here.

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Source:	enemyofthemusicbusiness.com
Band profile:	Napalm Death

Because of the first Cannibal Corpse show in Sydney being sold out so quickly, and so much interest being showed, Cannibal Corpse have announced a second appearance to Sydney. The second show will be on Sunday 8th October at the Gaelic Club, Sydney. As well as that, it will be all ages.

Here is a posting on Cannibal Corpse's official website: "Due to tickets all but sold out for the first show in Sydney & with an overwhelming request by fans, Soundworks Touring is excited to announce that a second date in Sydney has been added to the Cannibal Corpse tour of Australia, with the inclusion of an all ages section. This is the only extra show the band will be performing".

Information about purchasing tickets, all the dates, etc can be seen here.

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Source:	cannibalcorpse.net
Band profile:	Cannibal Corpse

Last week Power/Progressive Metal band Angra shot the video to their new song 'The Course Of Nature'. The song will be the first single off Angra's upcoming album 'Aurora Consurgens' (which will be released in October). The video was filmed in São Paulo, Brazil and was directed by Carina Zaratin. Naomi Ohno from Burrn! Magazine attended the shooting. She interviewed the whole band for her magazine, and for the program for Loud Park Festival '06 where Angra will be playing (in October).

By visiting www.angra.net you can see a still shot of the band in their video.

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Source:	angra.net
Band profile:	Angra

Lauren Harris, daughter of Iron Maiden bassist Steve Harris has been announced to be opening for Iron Maiden, when the veteran Heavy Metallers tour in Denmark. The original support band for Iron Maiden was going to be Trivium, but they've not been able to make it to the two sold out Danish shows.

Source:	maidenfans.com
Band profile:	Iron Maiden

Arch Enemy frontwoman/vocalist Angela Gossow has posted the following message on the band's official website:

"Hey, Just checking in quickly from the Gigantour. Its all going great, Dave Mustaine greeted everybody in person the first day - a wonderful gesture which certainly sets the tone for this tour: Nice people, relaxed and friendly backstage atmosphere + KICK ASS METAL! It's a brilliant line-up and well worth getting your lazy butt off the couch! So get moving and bang that head that doesn't bang!".

Arch Enemy has also announced that they will have signing sessions at the end of every show that they play at on the Gigantour tour.

Source:	archenemy.net
Band profile:	Arch Enemy

Machine Head guitarist Robert Flynn has posted the following studio update on the band's official website:

"WOO - HOO!! We have guitar tone!!! And I'm not talking your average chugga-chugga metal tone, I'm talking face-peeling, ear-shredding savagery... fuck yeah!!! Hetfield eat your heart out! Woo-hoo! Can't wait to get tracking on some tunes tomorrow.

This last week we did some Duce and Demmel scratch tracks for reference when Adam and I sing... I threw on some vocals, some of which may or may not be keepers... had Adam come in for vocals and harmonies and MAN, he is sounding KILLER, we may have some keepers even though they were just for practice. We took a couple days off for the holiday too, drank a bunch'a beers, it was nice, cleared the head".

Also, Machine Head have posted some photos of them during the recording sessions in Sharkbite studios. Click here to view them. The band has also said that they will be posting video footage of themselves in the studio soon.

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Source:	machinehead1.com
Band profile:	Machine Head

Anaal Nathrakh guitarist/drummer Mick Kenney and Napalm Death bassist Shane Embury have just set up a new label together. They will use the label to mainly release material of their own. The label is called 'Feto Records'. The first thing Feto Records will release will be Lock Up's (Shane Embury, Thomas Lindberg, Nick Barker and Jesse Pintado as an ex-member) new record 'Live In Japan'. As well as that, Kenney's debut album 'Exploder'.

Source:	blabbermouth.net
Band profile:	Anaal Nathrakh

Italian Doom/Death Metallers Novembre will be supporting Lacuna Coil, when they tour in Italy. Lacuna Coil will be visiting Italy as part of their extensive European tour. There will be two Italian dates, and Novembre will be appearing at both.

Here are the Novembre/Lacuna Coil dates:

Sep. 24 - Palacisalfa, Rome, Italy
Sep. 25 - Auditorium, Florence, Italy

Source:	novembre.co.uk
Band profile:	Novembre

Wintersun's first self-titled 2004 album 'Wintersun' will be re-issued as a Special Tour Edition. The new edition will be released on the 22nd September. The 'Special Edition' package will contain the original Wintersun album plus a live DVD of the band performing at Germany's Summer Breeze festival.

The cover art for the new edition album can be seen here.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Wintersun

Finnish Heavy Metal band Machine Men are currently recording their new album. The album will be called 'The Shadow Gallery' and will be released in January 2007.

Here is a posting by Antony at Fantom Studio, Tampere, Finland:

"We are in the studio since 3 weeks and the songs sound good and very powerful! And we are in schedule 'cos we can record 24 hours a day if we want. Of course, we also have to sleep sometime ;-). The new album will be heavier and faster than the last one, but still melodic. And a good thing is - all the songs work live very well. Can't wait for the moment when I hear all the songs mixed and the feeling of intoxication after that".

You can see some studio diary entries, and pictures of Machine Men in the recording studio at www.machinemen.net.

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Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Machine Men

Australian radio station Triple J, on their 'Full Metal Racket' metal program, have conducted an audio interview with Kreator frontman Mille Petrozza and Blind Guardian vocallist Hansi Kürsch. The interview was conducted by Full Metal Racket host Andrew Haug.

You can download the Kreator interview in mp3 format from here. The Blind Guardian one can be heard here.

Also, you can stream the entire latest Full Metal Racket program here.

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Source:	abc.net.au
Band profile:	Kreator

Veteran Heavy Metallers Motörhead have a new video posted online. The song of the video is 'Be My Baby', which is taken from Motörhead's latest album 'Kiss Of Death'. The video is available on Motörhead's record company SPV's website.

You can stream the video from here.

Or, you can download the video from here.

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Source:	spv.de
Band profile:	Motörhead