Century Media Records will re-release Moonspell's first two albums.

Irreligious (Re-Issue)

A breakthrough album for Moonspell that has now been re-mastered, a bonus disc of rare live tracks added, new artwork Link] and a 24 page booklet. (2008)

DISC I:

01. Perverse... Almost Religious
02. Opium
03. Awake
04. For A Taste Of Eternity
05. Ruin & Misery
06. A Poisoned Gift
07. Subversion
08. Raven Claws
09. Mephisto
10. Herr Spiegelmann
11. Full Moon Madness
12. Opium

DISC II: Moonspell live across Europe, winter 1996/1997

Part 1:
01. Intro
02. Opium
03. Awake!
04. Ruin & Misery
05. Ravem Claws

Part 2:
06. Herr Spiegelmann
07. Mephisto

Part 3:
08. Intro
09. For A Taste Of Eternity
10. Full Moon Madness

Release Date: 02/26/2008

Wolfheart (Re-Issue)

Moonspells most popular album! Dark, heavy and sinister. All tracks re-mastered, new cover art Link] new 20 page booklet and contains a bonus disc of rare live tracks. (2008)

DISC I:

01. Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade)
02. Love Crimes
03. ...Of Dream And Drama (Midnight Ride)
04. Lua d'Inverno
05. Trebraruna
06. Vampiria
07. An Erotic Alchemy
08. Alma Mater
09. Ataegina

DISC II: Moonspell live (1995)

01. Intro
02. Love Crimes
03. ...Of Dreams And Drama (Midnight Ride)
04. An Erotic Alchemy
05. Lua D'Inverno
06. Trebraruna
07. Wolfshade (A Werewolf Masquerade)
08. Vampiria
09. Alma Mater

Release Date: 02/26/2008.

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Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Moonspell

Norwegian Symphonic Black Metal group Dimmu Borgir will be streaming their concert "LIVE" on Saturday, April 5, 2008 at: 5:00pm (Pacific) -- 6:00pm (Mountain) -- 7:00pm (Central) -- 8:00pm (Eastern) -- (European Time would be morning of Sunday, April 6) ...from the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio exclusively at YeboTV.com.

The stream is FREE for fans around the world to view right from the comfort of their home computers. Fans must register to view this exclusive event, so sign yourself up right NOW. Visit this link to register in advance for this exclusive event.

Dimmu Borgir are preparing to launch their North American "The Invaluable Darkness Tour Part 2 - Legions Of The Chosen Few," which officially kicks off in Toronto on April 2 and will include a stop at the New England Metal & Hardcore Festival in Worchester, MA on April 26. Supporting them along the tour are Poland's Behemoth, and Norway's Keep Of Kalessin.

For more info about the Meshuggah free live internet stream, click here.

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Source:	nuclearblastusa.com
Band profile:	Dimmu Borgir
Event:	The Invaluable Darkness Tour Part 2 - Legions Of The Chosen Few

Deadlock have just renewed their contract with Lifeforce Records. After their successful albums "Earth.Revolt" (2005), "Wolves" (2007) and the newest (yet untitled) release to hit the stores in November 2008, their will be three more albums which will combine the typical Deadlock essences, a high standard mixture of extreme technical and melodic metal, the dual vocals by the band's singers Joe and Sabine and a good dose of gothic darkness.

This is what the bands drummer, Tobias Graf, has to say to the renewal of their contract with Lifeforce: "It´s a big pleasure for us to continue our collaboration with Lifeforce. They´re doing an excellent job for Deadlock, so it´s been an pretty easy decision to extend our existing deal with them. Furthermore we´re the only good band on their label roster and we couldn´t take the responsibility to leave them alone with all those other poorly acts."

Lifeforce Records CEO Stefan Luedicke: "I'm very happy that we have secured three more albums with Deadlock, one of the most promising bands around and not to forget one of my personal favorites on Lifeforce, even the band members have the worst haircuts ever I'm really looking for the great things to come in the future and we at Lifeforce will be part of. You can be sure, Deadlock is a band you'll hear and see from a lot in the coming months and years!

At the moment, Deadlock supports the peta2-campaign The Canadiens with a new Song called "Kill Kill Kill" to increase attention to the shameless annual seal hunting in Canada.
So if you want to find out more about the campaign and don´t want to miss listen to this new masterpiece combining extreme music with strong ethical statements you should check the following link.

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Source:	lifeforcerecords.com
Band profile:	Deadlock

Earache Records Press Releases:

"Swedish "art-rock behemoth" Cult Of Luna have entered Tonteknik Studios in their home town of Umea, Sweden, to record their fifth full length album.
The band have 8 songs ready to commit to tape, having spent the preceding weeks fine tuning the material that will look to build further on the success of "Somewhere Along the Highway".
Although the band are yet confirm the title, the album will see the band attempt to adapt their sound, welcoming a harsher and more primal element to their already complex approach.

Guitarist/vocalist Johannes Persson comments cryptically: "As we close the doors of the Tonteknik studio and travel into unchartered musical ground, only one thing is sure; what will come out will have been born from pain and violence."

Cult Of Luna's new album is scheduled for a June release.

The band have already confirmed the following shows this year:
19.03 Oslo (NO), Sub Scene, Inferno Metal Festival
20.03 Oslo (NO), John Dee, Inferno Metal Festival
19.04 Tilburg (NL), 013 Popcentre, Roadburn Festival
22.06 Clisson (FR), Hellfest
11.07 Joensuu (FIN) - Ilosaarirock Festival

For more Cult Of Luna info visit: http://www.myspace.com/cultofluna."

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Source:	earachenews.blogspot.com
Band profile:	Cult Of Luna

Massive Music Agency reports:

"American death metallers Nile will appear on a tour in Europe in September! That's gonna be their first European headlining tournee after the release of "Ithyphallic" album (Nuclear Blast). Band's previous tournee alongside Six Feet Under and Finntroll turned out to be a great success so we hope for another glorious crusade.

Nile will play a monthly tour, appearing not only in places passed over during their recent trip, like the Balkans, Scandinavia, Spain, Portugal, the UK, but also in Holland, Belgium, France, Italy, Austria and Germany.

Special guest acts of "Ithyphallic Europe Tour 2008" will be Swedish death metal horde Grave, promoting their newest album "Dominion VIII" (Regain) and Austrian black-death metallers Belphegor, also promoting their new studio album "Bondage.Goat.Zombie"(Nuclear Blast).

The other support acts, media partners and more dates/ venues will be announced soon."

Ithyphallic Europe Tour 2008 - Dates confirmed so far:

01.09.2008 (SK) Bratislava / Randall
02.09.2008 (A) Wien / Arena
03.09.2008 (HUN) Budapest / A38
04.09.2008 (SLO) Ljubljana / Media Park
05.09.2008 (SER) Belgrade / SKC
06.09.2008 (ROM) Bucarest / Studio Martin
07.09.2008 (BUL) Sofia / Black Box
09.09.2008 TBA
10.09.2008 (ITA) Bologna / Estragon
11.09.2008 (FR) Marseille / tba
12.09.2008 (SP) Vitoria / Azkena
13.09.2008 (POR) Porto / Caos Emergente Festival
14.09.2008 (SP) Sevilla / Sala Q
16.09.2008 (SP) Madrid / Caracol
17.09.2008 (SP) Barcelona / Salamandra 1
18.09.2008 TBA
19.09.2008 (UK) London / Underworld
20.09.2008 (UK) Peterborough / The Park
21.09.2008 (UK) Leeds / Rio's
22.09.2008 (UK) Wolverhampton / Wolves Civic
23.09.2008 (IRE) Dublin / tba
25.09.2008 (HOL) Haarlem / Patronaat
26.09.2008 (BEL) Vosselaar / Biebob
27.09.2008 (GER) Essen / Turock
28.09.2008 (HOL) Eindhoven / Effenaar
29.09.2008 TBA
30.09.2008 (DEN) Aalborg / Studenterhuset
01.10.2008 (SWE) Orebro / Satin
02.10.2009 (NOR) Oslo / Maiden
03.10.2008 (SWE) Goteborg / Musikens Hus
04.10.2008 (SWE) Malmoe / KB
05.10.2008 (GER) Berlin / K17

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Source:	massive-music.pl
Band profile:	Nile
Event:	Nile: Ithyphallic Europe Tour

Hollenthon's first two albums "Domus Mundi" (1999) and "With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell" (2001) are going to be available for a free 24h live streaming at Heavylaw.com. The date for each particular album is listed below:

Thursday, March 20th for "Domus Mundi"
Saturday, March 29th for "With Vilest Of Worms To Dwell"

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Source:	hollenthon.com
Band profile:	Hollenthon

Hatesphere have posted the following short message on their MySpace page:

"We're very happy to announce that we won a grammy at the Danish Music Awards earlier today for our album "Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes"! We were nominated in the category "Best hard rock act"... and yes, we won. We will post a celebration video soon... so keep your eyes and ears open for that..."

The 40th Danish Music Awards show was held earlier tonight (Saturday, February 23) at Tivoli in Copenhagen, Denmark and was broadcast live on MySpace. Other nominees in that category were Mnemic and The Psyke Project.

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Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

Pain touring guitarist Marcus Jidell (Royal Hunt, House Of Shakira) has issued the following update on his official MySpace:

"We had to cancel the gig tonight in Leipzig while some crazy assholes kicked Peter (Tägtgren), Johan (Husgafvel) and David (Wallin) down when they where on their way home from a local bar yesterday. They just came from behind so there was nothing they could do. I was in the bus watching a movie so I am totally ok, besides the fact that we had to cancel. I feel really shitty to cancel but there was no way we could play today . I hope we will be able to be on stage tomorrow but I am not sure. But the guys are in a good mood and are working on recovering. Today we will sleep in a hotel and I'll try to make our heroes feel a little bit better."

Pain are currently on the road in Europe supporting Nightwish.

Drummer David Wallin has posted the following UPDATE:

"We arrived here (Leipzig) and three of us spent the evening of our day off at some local bars. When we had enough we walked out on the street to find a taxi back to the bus and three assholes decided to kick us down and hit me in the head with a wine bottle. Some guy who recognized us helped us in his car to a nearby hospital. Peter's got a really black eye and was given 10 stitches on his cheek. I have a concussion, eight stitches on the side of my head and glass in my hands. Johan has a broken nose and bruises all over. We're really sorry for canceling tonight's (February 23) show but it just wasn't possible. We're gonna do our best to get back in the saddle again and continue the tour without further interruption. Everything tastes better with blood in your mouth."

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Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Pain

You can check out a new track from Hate Eternal entitled "Fury Within" at the following location. Also "Bringer Of Storms" has already been made available at the band's MySpace page for your listening pleasure. The song is featured on the band's newest album "Fury And Flames".

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Hate Eternal

An e-card for German Black metal band Dark Fortress's fifth full-length album "Eidolon", can be accessed at this location.
The band's first effort with new vocalist Morean will be released via Century Media Records on the following dates:

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Benelux, Italy: February 22
UK, France, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Rest Of Europe: February 25
Spain, Portugal: February 26
Finland, Sweden, Hungary: February 29

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Source:	ecard.centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Dark Fortress

A new video from German Progressive Death Metal band Dark Suns has been posted on YouTube. The song is called "The Chamaleon Conflict" and comes off the band's new upcoming album "Grave Human Genuine". The video has been made available at this location.

"Grave Human Genuine" is available now as limited Digipak CD with bonustrack and jewelcase edition CD.

01. Stampede
02. Flies In Amber
03. Thornchild Pre-Listening Track]
04. Rapid Eyes Moment
05. Amphibian Halo
06. The Chameleon Defect Pre-Listening Track]
07. Free Of You
08. Papillon
09. 29

Dark Suns Release Party with live show: 08.03.'08 D - Leipzig / UT Connewitz.

Official album press release:

Following two highly successful tours with established Progressive metalists Pain Of Salvation and two years of exacting work, Dark Suns have finished their third album "Grave Human Genuine".

"Grave Human Genuine" - this unconventional title was chosen with care and purpose, as it represents the three characteristic elements of this work: 'Grave' signifies darkness, the sinister force, and the inevitable fate. 'Human' is synonymous with the music's inherent soul-depth, while 'Genuine' means 'real' or 'authentic' and hence refers to Dark Suns' uncompromising approach to music.

But what about the music? Dark Suns don't merely pick up where the successful predecessor "Existence" (2005) left off, they present themselves as many-facetted as never before. A clear nod to Doom, complex polyrhythms, unusual and diverse instruments and, last but not least, drummer Niko Knappe's characteristic yearning vocals comprise the album's cornerstones. The variety of sounds stretches from angular Metal riff attacks via atmospheric ambient soundscapes and Techno reminiscences to Avant-garde influences - despite this complexity, an accomplished musical mosaic of enormous expressiveness.

Exciting nuances are created by the incomparable bass of Pain Of Salvation's long-time member Kristoffer Gildenlöw, a friendly turn that resulted from the tours mentioned above, and Disillusion's Schmidt's guest vocals in "Flies In Amber".

With "Grave Human Genuine" Dark Suns have created a haunting album full of autonomy and instrumental class, self-consciously charting new musical territory. In this, the band from Leipzig embodies the essence of every true progressive band: compositional genius coupled with advancement.The dark suns radiate: gloomy, human and egregiously genuine.

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Source:	prophecyproductions.de
Band profile:	Dark Suns

A new Deicide song entitled "In The Eyes Of God" has been made available online at the band's official MySpace. The track comes off the forthcoming new album "Till Death Do Us Part", which is due on May 13th via Earache Records.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Deicide

MP3.com is streaming the self-titled new album from Swedish Death Metal machine Dismember at this location. Also Dismember's 2006 "The God That Never Was" is streaming for free at the same location.

The new album was released in Europe on February 18th and will be out in North America on April 1st via Regain.

UPDATED on 7 March:

Dismember will make their new self-titled album available for streaming in its entirety on the group's MySpace page between March 7 (at midnight) and March 14.

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Source:	mp3.com
Band profile:	Dismember

Gojira have issued the following update on their MySpace page:

"Having completed more than 220 shows in order to promote the much acclaimed "From Mars To Sirius" album, Gojira are now about to finish up the writing of their much awaited new full length to be released in Autumn 2008. The band will lock themselves in the studio from April to June.
The new and yet untitled album will include all new original material and will be released by French label Monslip / Warner in France and Listenable Records and various licensors in other territories.

The band will immediatly embark on a series of major tours in Europe and throughout the U.S. right after the release. More infos soon."

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Source:	blog.myspace.com
Band profile:	Gojira

Extreme metal titans Cryptopsy have been forced to cancel their recently announced tour of South America in March, after drummer Flo Mounier broke his kneecap. Mounier had completed the drum tracking process for the group's new album prior to the incident, so it did not affect the recording. The tour of South America is expected to be re-scheduled later in 2008.

Cryptopsy are currently putting the finishing touches on their sixth full-length "The Unspoken King", which will surface through Century Media Records this summer. The group recently announced the addition of new frontman Matt McGachy (3 Mile Scream) and keyboards/samplist Maggie Durand to their line-up.

Guitarist Alex Auburn states: "Right now the band is plunged deeply into the production of the new album and so far everything is going well. Fans will be amazed by the diversity and open minded vision of extremes for this particular entity. Some song titles we've been working on are "Worship Your Demons," "Resurgence Of An Empire," and "Silence The Tyrants." More news to follow soon."

Source:	bravewords.com
Band profile:	Cryptopsy