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Rudra - New Album Details
Singapore's Rudra have issued the following update on their MySpace page:
"The band is pleased to announce the title of the forthcoming album. The album shall bear the name "Brahmavidya: Transcendental I". It shall feature fourteen tracks with a total running time of about 70 minutes, produced by Joshua G. Nair & Sean Loo. However, the bad news is that the band had to prematurely terminate its relationship with Trinity Records Hong Kong. The band is currently shopping for a new label home or labels willing to secure territorial licenses. This setback may delay the release of the CD. More updates will be coming your way soon.
"Brahmavidya: Transcendental I" track listing:
01. Bhagavatpada Namaskara
02. Ravens Of Paradise
03. Amrtasyaputra
04. Hymns From The Blazing Chariot
05. Meditations At Dawn
06. Advaitamrta
07. Natural Born Ignorance
08. Immortality Roars
09. Reversing The Currents
10. Venerable Opposites
11. Avidya Nivrtti
12. Not The Seen But The Seer
13. Adiguru Namastubhyam
14. Majestic Ashtavakra
"Brahmavidya: Transcendental I" will be the second chapter of the "Brahmavidya" trilogy.
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"The band is pleased to announce the title of the forthcoming album. The album shall bear the name "Brahmavidya: Transcendental I". It shall feature fourteen tracks with a total running time of about 70 minutes, produced by Joshua G. Nair & Sean Loo. However, the bad news is that the band had to prematurely terminate its relationship with Trinity Records Hong Kong. The band is currently shopping for a new label home or labels willing to secure territorial licenses. This setback may delay the release of the CD. More updates will be coming your way soon.
"Brahmavidya: Transcendental I" track listing:
01. Bhagavatpada Namaskara
02. Ravens Of Paradise
03. Amrtasyaputra
04. Hymns From The Blazing Chariot
05. Meditations At Dawn
06. Advaitamrta
07. Natural Born Ignorance
08. Immortality Roars
09. Reversing The Currents
10. Venerable Opposites
11. Avidya Nivrtti
12. Not The Seen But The Seer
13. Adiguru Namastubhyam
14. Majestic Ashtavakra
"Brahmavidya: Transcendental I" will be the second chapter of the "Brahmavidya" trilogy.
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| Source: | blog.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | Rudra |
Eventide - Working On New Album
Stockholm-based metallers Eventide have issued the following update:
"We have a strong feeling that this new year will be a good year for Eventide. We are writing material for a full-length album that we'll start recording in a couple of months. The new songs are turning out great and we are extremely excited to show the world our new works. Hopefully we'll manage to convince a decent label that this music is worth investing in."
And from the band's MySpace:
"We finished writing yet another song last night! This means we now have 7 songs done plus alot of ideas and riffs about to take shape. The plan is to start recording sometime this spring/early summer. I can assure you that the new album will blow your heads off!!"
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"We have a strong feeling that this new year will be a good year for Eventide. We are writing material for a full-length album that we'll start recording in a couple of months. The new songs are turning out great and we are extremely excited to show the world our new works. Hopefully we'll manage to convince a decent label that this music is worth investing in."
And from the band's MySpace:
"We finished writing yet another song last night! This means we now have 7 songs done plus alot of ideas and riffs about to take shape. The plan is to start recording sometime this spring/early summer. I can assure you that the new album will blow your heads off!!"
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| Source: | eventideweb.com |
| Band profile: | Eventide |
Felony - New Vocalist Announced
Suidakra - New Video Online
According to a New Year's posting on the band's website, 2009 is to be expected a good year for Suidakra and it starts right now with the release of the band's brand new video clip for the track "Shattering Swords" taken from the new album "Crógacht". You can watch the video on http://www.suidakra.com or on YouTube in high quality here.
"Crógacht" will be released via Wacken Records/SPV on February 20 (Germany), February 23 (rest of Europe) and March 3 (N. America).
According to the band, "you can expect a decent Irish influence on the new record, so fans of folk metal can rest easy. Fans of Suidakra's harder tunes must not fear; "Crógacht" will kick your asses as hard as usual, if not harder. Famous Belgian artist Kris Verwimp was in charge not only of designing first-class album art, but also arranged first-class lyrical concepts and song texts!"
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"Crógacht" will be released via Wacken Records/SPV on February 20 (Germany), February 23 (rest of Europe) and March 3 (N. America).
According to the band, "you can expect a decent Irish influence on the new record, so fans of folk metal can rest easy. Fans of Suidakra's harder tunes must not fear; "Crógacht" will kick your asses as hard as usual, if not harder. Famous Belgian artist Kris Verwimp was in charge not only of designing first-class album art, but also arranged first-class lyrical concepts and song texts!"
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| Source: | suidakra.com |
| Band profile: | Suidakra |
Wolverine - Resume Recording New Album
Drummer Marcus Losbjer of the Swedish metal band Wolverine has issued the following update:
"I'm looking forward to FINALLY record the new album, after more than 3(!) years of writing in a limbo! The absence of inspiration have been really severe this time. This album have been a struggle to write, by far the most difficult album to puzzle together out of all the Wolverine albums. It's the complete opposite to the last album ("Still") that was a dream to write. It was fast and actually quite easy!
As you may have read on forums, MySpace and so on, we've had more difficulties to deal with this year than just the minor problems concerning the band. The heartproblems with Stefans daughter has maybe been the toughest. A reminder of how fragile we are! Everything has been mixed into a big melting-pot, just ready to explode! Thankfully, it didn't.
After the ProgPower Europe gigs in October, we found a little spark to lighten the inspiration again, this time I hope it will never go as ice-cold as it has been!"
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"I'm looking forward to FINALLY record the new album, after more than 3(!) years of writing in a limbo! The absence of inspiration have been really severe this time. This album have been a struggle to write, by far the most difficult album to puzzle together out of all the Wolverine albums. It's the complete opposite to the last album ("Still") that was a dream to write. It was fast and actually quite easy!
As you may have read on forums, MySpace and so on, we've had more difficulties to deal with this year than just the minor problems concerning the band. The heartproblems with Stefans daughter has maybe been the toughest. A reminder of how fragile we are! Everything has been mixed into a big melting-pot, just ready to explode! Thankfully, it didn't.
After the ProgPower Europe gigs in October, we found a little spark to lighten the inspiration again, this time I hope it will never go as ice-cold as it has been!"
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| Source: | wolverine-overdose.com |
| Band profile: | Wolverine |
Nailed - Working On New Material
UK brutal death metal band Nailed has posted the following update right before Christmas:
"Well we've just finished up the tour for "Hatred, Failure..." and we're back in the rehearsal space just before Christmas. We're holed up finishing song number 7 right now and are aiming to write another two before booking studio time. So far the material is crushingly heavy, a little faster, but also diverging into more twisted realms in terms of polyrhythms. It's definitely the best stuff we've written, more focused and cohesive as we've churned it out with one complete lineup in the space of a few months, unlike all the other material which was written through turbulent times and over long periods. We'll almost definitely do a studio recording blog thing with video updates once we're in there so keep your eyes open for that.
Most likely to be our last gig before heading off for pre-production is the Causing Chaos For Cancer show in February 2009, it's for a good cause and there's some cracing goodies to be had so make sure you're there. Have a brutal Christmas you worthless dogs!
"Well we've just finished up the tour for "Hatred, Failure..." and we're back in the rehearsal space just before Christmas. We're holed up finishing song number 7 right now and are aiming to write another two before booking studio time. So far the material is crushingly heavy, a little faster, but also diverging into more twisted realms in terms of polyrhythms. It's definitely the best stuff we've written, more focused and cohesive as we've churned it out with one complete lineup in the space of a few months, unlike all the other material which was written through turbulent times and over long periods. We'll almost definitely do a studio recording blog thing with video updates once we're in there so keep your eyes open for that.
Most likely to be our last gig before heading off for pre-production is the Causing Chaos For Cancer show in February 2009, it's for a good cause and there's some cracing goodies to be had so make sure you're there. Have a brutal Christmas you worthless dogs!
| Source: | myspace.com |
| Band profile: | Nailed |
Pain Confessor - New Guitarist Announced
Finnish metallers Pain Confessor have announced new guitarist, Tommi Kurki, on their official site:
''Mr. Tommi Kurki has been around since the first gigs of Pain Confessor. In fact, he has been our mainstay Sound Engineer for pretty much all these years. This made the transition from behind the mixer to the frontlines an easy one, and very natural.
He Wasn't Born Yesterday? as a guitarist either. Tommi "Tommi Kurki" Kurki, or The Bullfinch as we like to call him, played guitar in the old Finnish progressive metal band Sancnity along with Pain Confessor producer Janne Saksa. Sancnity's swansong was their excellent early 90's album "Dew".
A multitude of musical paths were ventured after that, a few to mention were as a guitarist in Wooden Bone (Sancnity reincarnate as a more pop/rock-esque band) and as the vocalist for the Finnish punk band Rehtorit.
We are proud to have such a rock-hard extra fist to smash into the collective behind of humanity. This will only make things worse for those against us and add even more spice for those who like what we dish out!
Welcome to Pain Confessor, Tommi! We have been waiting for you.''
Regards,
Rest of Pain Confessor
''Mr. Tommi Kurki has been around since the first gigs of Pain Confessor. In fact, he has been our mainstay Sound Engineer for pretty much all these years. This made the transition from behind the mixer to the frontlines an easy one, and very natural.
He Wasn't Born Yesterday? as a guitarist either. Tommi "Tommi Kurki" Kurki, or The Bullfinch as we like to call him, played guitar in the old Finnish progressive metal band Sancnity along with Pain Confessor producer Janne Saksa. Sancnity's swansong was their excellent early 90's album "Dew".
A multitude of musical paths were ventured after that, a few to mention were as a guitarist in Wooden Bone (Sancnity reincarnate as a more pop/rock-esque band) and as the vocalist for the Finnish punk band Rehtorit.
We are proud to have such a rock-hard extra fist to smash into the collective behind of humanity. This will only make things worse for those against us and add even more spice for those who like what we dish out!
Welcome to Pain Confessor, Tommi! We have been waiting for you.''
Regards,
Rest of Pain Confessor
| Source: | painconfessor.com |
| Band profile: | Pain Confessor |
Detrimentum - New Drummer Announced
Detrimentum have now been joined by Steve Powell (Anaal Nathrakh live drummer, Theoktony) as their new permanent drummer. The band's previous drummer Jonathan Rushforth decided to leave Detrimentum in October after 8 years in the band.
According to a posting by the band: "Steve is the perfect replacement for Jonathan Rushforth as he is fast plus very dynamic and Detrimentums music can only improve with such an intense and varied influence. Detrimentum are very happy to welcome him to the ranks. They are also ready to play live again!"
In other news, Detrimentum have finally completed a new 3 track demo, available on the band's Myspace page.
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According to a posting by the band: "Steve is the perfect replacement for Jonathan Rushforth as he is fast plus very dynamic and Detrimentums music can only improve with such an intense and varied influence. Detrimentum are very happy to welcome him to the ranks. They are also ready to play live again!"
In other news, Detrimentum have finally completed a new 3 track demo, available on the band's Myspace page.
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| Source: | detrimentum.co.uk |
| Band profile: | Detrimentum |
The Haunted - N. American Tour With Nachtmystium
The Haunted are returning to North American shores in 2009 to headline a stellar package tour. Throughout the month of April, the band will be ravaging cities alongside Nachtmystium, Kylesa and Intronaut - a show that, according to Century Media Records, any fan of extreme metal will want to check out.
Sponsored by Decibel Magazine and MetalSucks, the tour will kick off in Pomona, CA on April 2nd and run through April 24th, coming to an end in Atlanta, GA.
The dates are as follows:
April 02 - The Glasshouse - Pomona, CA
April 03 - The Key Club - Hollywood, CA
April 04 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
April 05 - Hawthorne Theater - Portland, OR
April 06 - Neumo's - Seattle, WA
April 07 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC (Canada)
April 08 - Starlite Ballroom - Edmonton, AB (Canada)
April 09 - The Warehouse - Calgary, AB (Canada)
April 11 - Royal Albert - Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
April 12 - Station 4 - St. Paul, MN
April 13 - The Pearl Room - Mokena, IL
April 14 - Majestic Theatre - Detroit, MI
April 15 - Opera House - Toronto, ON (Canada)
April 16 - Club Soda - Montreal, QC (Canada)
April 17 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
April 19 - BB King's Blues Club - New York, NY
April 21 - Mr. Small's - Millvale, PA
April 22 - Jaxx - Springfield, VA
April 23 - Volume 11 - Raleigh, NC
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Sponsored by Decibel Magazine and MetalSucks, the tour will kick off in Pomona, CA on April 2nd and run through April 24th, coming to an end in Atlanta, GA.
The dates are as follows:
April 02 - The Glasshouse - Pomona, CA
April 03 - The Key Club - Hollywood, CA
April 04 - Slim's - San Francisco, CA
April 05 - Hawthorne Theater - Portland, OR
April 06 - Neumo's - Seattle, WA
April 07 - Commodore Ballroom - Vancouver, BC (Canada)
April 08 - Starlite Ballroom - Edmonton, AB (Canada)
April 09 - The Warehouse - Calgary, AB (Canada)
April 11 - Royal Albert - Winnipeg, MB (Canada)
April 12 - Station 4 - St. Paul, MN
April 13 - The Pearl Room - Mokena, IL
April 14 - Majestic Theatre - Detroit, MI
April 15 - Opera House - Toronto, ON (Canada)
April 16 - Club Soda - Montreal, QC (Canada)
April 17 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
April 19 - BB King's Blues Club - New York, NY
April 21 - Mr. Small's - Millvale, PA
April 22 - Jaxx - Springfield, VA
April 23 - Volume 11 - Raleigh, NC
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| Source: | the-haunted.com |
| Band profile: | The Haunted |
| Event: | The Haunted + Nachtmystium |
Nemesea - New Video Online
Dutch female-fronted Gothic rock band Nemesea are happy to announce they have their first-ever music video online. The band commented:
"We've worked very hard to make it a special one. Together with D'iMages (also known from After Forever, Ayreon and Stream Of Passion) we made this video and we are very proud to show it to the world! Click here to watch it and let us know what you think about it."
The song comes off the band's second album "In Control", which was was produced by Tony Platt (AC/DC) and Ronald Prent (Rammstein) and was released in June 2007.
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"We've worked very hard to make it a special one. Together with D'iMages (also known from After Forever, Ayreon and Stream Of Passion) we made this video and we are very proud to show it to the world! Click here to watch it and let us know what you think about it."
The song comes off the band's second album "In Control", which was was produced by Tony Platt (AC/DC) and Ronald Prent (Rammstein) and was released in June 2007.
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| Source: | nemesea.com |
| Band profile: | Nemesea |
Apostasy - Busy Recording New Album
Swedish black metallers Apostasy are recording their third full-length album, after almost three years:
"Guitarist Mattias Edin and drummer David Ekevärn have this weekend recorded all the drums for the upcoming album in the Ballerina Studios Umeå. We produce and record everything by our selves this time, so it's gonna be great. The next step will be to start recording the guitars and if everything works out smoothly the entire album will be finished in the end of January. Stay tuned for some sick studio videos and other music stuff. We guarantee all of you that this is the most brutal and technical shit we have ever made and it is nothing like anything we done before!"
Two pre-production versions of some upcoming tracks, called "Gods Assassin" and "The Parasite Swarm" are available for streaming at the band's MySpace.
Apostasy made national headlines in Sweden in 2006 when the group's guitarist Henrik Johansson was stabbed to death by his girlfriend. Read the full story on Blabbermouth here.
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"Guitarist Mattias Edin and drummer David Ekevärn have this weekend recorded all the drums for the upcoming album in the Ballerina Studios Umeå. We produce and record everything by our selves this time, so it's gonna be great. The next step will be to start recording the guitars and if everything works out smoothly the entire album will be finished in the end of January. Stay tuned for some sick studio videos and other music stuff. We guarantee all of you that this is the most brutal and technical shit we have ever made and it is nothing like anything we done before!"
Two pre-production versions of some upcoming tracks, called "Gods Assassin" and "The Parasite Swarm" are available for streaming at the band's MySpace.
Apostasy made national headlines in Sweden in 2006 when the group's guitarist Henrik Johansson was stabbed to death by his girlfriend. Read the full story on Blabbermouth here.
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| Source: | blog.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | Apostasy |
Stryper - New Song Samples Available
Stryper is pleased to announce that on December 21, 2008 at 11PM (EST), song samples from the upcoming album "Murder By Pride" along with a major contest will be launched! The contest is a historic first for Stryper and will give one lucky fan the opportunity of a lifetime and become a part of Stryper history! Visit http://www.stryper.com or http://michaelsweet.com on December 21, 2008 at 11PM (EST) to access the contest details and song samples.
For contest details & song samples from "Murder By Pride", you need to enter your e-mail address at this location.
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For contest details & song samples from "Murder By Pride", you need to enter your e-mail address at this location.
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| Source: | stryper.com |
| Band profile: | Stryper |
The Gathering - New Album In April
Drummer Hans Rutten of the Dutch metal/rock band The Gathering has issued the following update:
"The waiting is over. Well... almost!
We are very happy and proud to announce the release of our 9th studio album in April 2009! The album will be called "The West Pole". You probably are curious who is singing on our new record. We have found a new vocalist, and we will have two guest singers on "The West Pole".
We can imagine people are anxious to hear some of our new music. However, we will not make it to put new songs online this year. The reason is that some of our guest musicians still need to be recorded and we prefer to present only complete version of the songs. As soon as we have mixed and mastered the album we will put some tracks on the web and of course you will be informed with all possible details. We believe, after hearing the new songs, you will agree the waiting was worthwhile!
We are very, very proud and we feel we made something really special. The album is produced by René Rutten, it will contain 9 tracks and will be released on our own imprint Psychonaut Records. It will be a very extravert, rock orientated, alive album. Typically The Gathering, but with many new elements. This time it's absolutely guitar driven. For sure.
"The West Pole" will be available via our own webshop one month before the actual release date. Like our DVD "A Noise Severe" we will make special packages. More news will follow soon."
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"The waiting is over. Well... almost!
We are very happy and proud to announce the release of our 9th studio album in April 2009! The album will be called "The West Pole". You probably are curious who is singing on our new record. We have found a new vocalist, and we will have two guest singers on "The West Pole".
We can imagine people are anxious to hear some of our new music. However, we will not make it to put new songs online this year. The reason is that some of our guest musicians still need to be recorded and we prefer to present only complete version of the songs. As soon as we have mixed and mastered the album we will put some tracks on the web and of course you will be informed with all possible details. We believe, after hearing the new songs, you will agree the waiting was worthwhile!
We are very, very proud and we feel we made something really special. The album is produced by René Rutten, it will contain 9 tracks and will be released on our own imprint Psychonaut Records. It will be a very extravert, rock orientated, alive album. Typically The Gathering, but with many new elements. This time it's absolutely guitar driven. For sure.
"The West Pole" will be available via our own webshop one month before the actual release date. Like our DVD "A Noise Severe" we will make special packages. More news will follow soon."
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| Source: | gathering.nl |
| Band profile: | The Gathering |
Kreator, Saxon - Audio Samples Of Entire New Album Available
Audio samples of all the songs of the new upcoming Kreator albul "Hordes Of Chaos" are available for streaming onlile over at the JPC.de website.
The twelfth Kreator studio album will be released in Europe on January 19, 2009 via SPV Records (except in Germany, on January 16) and in U.S. on January 13.
JPC.de website is also streaming audio samples of all 13 tracks that appear on "Into The Labyrinth", the new album from British metallers Saxon.
"Into The Labyrinth" will be released in Europe on January 12, 2009 (Germany, on January 9; USA, on January 13) via SPV Records.
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The twelfth Kreator studio album will be released in Europe on January 19, 2009 via SPV Records (except in Germany, on January 16) and in U.S. on January 13.
JPC.de website is also streaming audio samples of all 13 tracks that appear on "Into The Labyrinth", the new album from British metallers Saxon.
"Into The Labyrinth" will be released in Europe on January 12, 2009 (Germany, on January 9; USA, on January 13) via SPV Records.
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| Source: | jpc.de |
| Band profile: | Kreator |
Redemption - New DVD Details
U.S. progressive metal band has posted some new details about their new upcoming DVD online. Redemption's live DVD will be titled Frozen in the Moment: Live in Atlanta. It will be released via Inside Out Records on following dates:
Germany, Austria and Switzerland: February 27, 2009
Rest of Europe: March 2, 2009
North America: March 3, 2009
The track listing consists of:
01. Threads
02. Bleed Me Dry
03. Nocturnal
04. Memory
05. The Suffocating Silence
06. Release
07. Fall On You
08. Sapphire
09. The Death of Faith & Reason
In addition, there will be a 12 minute video and photo tour diary set to our unreleased instrumental from the Dream Theater songwriting contest that the band wrote back in 2003. Lastly, there will be some funny outtakes which will be embarrassing to us and pretty damn funny to all of you.
More news to come regarding new music in 2009.
Again, happy holidays and thanks as always for your interest and support.
Germany, Austria and Switzerland: February 27, 2009
Rest of Europe: March 2, 2009
North America: March 3, 2009
The track listing consists of:
01. Threads
02. Bleed Me Dry
03. Nocturnal
04. Memory
05. The Suffocating Silence
06. Release
07. Fall On You
08. Sapphire
09. The Death of Faith & Reason
In addition, there will be a 12 minute video and photo tour diary set to our unreleased instrumental from the Dream Theater songwriting contest that the band wrote back in 2003. Lastly, there will be some funny outtakes which will be embarrassing to us and pretty damn funny to all of you.
More news to come regarding new music in 2009.
Again, happy holidays and thanks as always for your interest and support.
| Source: | blog.myspace.com |
| Band profile: | Redemption |