Venom will be embarking on a tour of South America this coming December 2009. The bands management commented: "we started looking into the possibility of organising a Venom tour in South America a couple of years back, Venom have a massive following in Latin America, and now that the bands Agent has organised a fantastic tour with the Promoters, the band immediately agreed to take time out from recording the new album to start their rehearsals for the tour.é

The dates are as follows:

Dec. 05 - Mexico, Mexico City - Circo Volador
Dec. 06 - Colombia, Bogotá - Teatro Metropol
Dec. 09 - Chile, Santiago - Teatro Caupolican
Dec. 10 - Argentina, Buenos Aires - Teatro Flores
Dec. 12 - Brazil, São Paulo - Victoria Hall


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Source:	venomslegions.com
Band profile:	Venom
Event:	Venom: The South American Dates Of Hell Tour

Finnish metal band Swallow The Sun has posted a new song, ''These Woods Breathe Evil'', at their MySpace page http://www.myspace.com/swallowthesundoom. This track comes off the bands upcoming album ''New Moon'', which will be released in early November via Spinefarm Records.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Swallow The Sun

Arch Enemy will embark on the "Tyrants Of Evil: North American Tour 2010", in January/February next year. Support will come from Exodus, Arsis and Mutiny Within.

Confirmed dates are as follows:

20-January-2010 - Towson, MD - Recher Theatre
21-January-2010 - Philadelphia, PA - Theatre Of Living Arts
22-January-2010 - New York, NY - Nokia Theatre
23-January-2010 - Worcester, MA - The Palladium
25-January-2010 - Montreal, QC - Le Medley
26-January-2010 - Quebec City, QC - Theatre Imperial
27-January-2010 - Toronto, ON - Phoenix Concert Theatre
29-January-2010 - Chicago, IL - House Of Blues
30-January-2010 - Minneapolis, MN - The Rock
31-January-2010 - Winnipeg, MB - The Garrick Centre
02-February-2010 - Calgary AB, - MacEwan Hall Ballroom
03-February-2010 - Edmonton, AB - Edmonton Events Centre
05-February-2010 - Vancouver, BC - Commodore Ballroom
06-February-2010 - Seattle, WA - Showbox @ The Market
08-February-2010 - San Francisco, CA - Regency Center @ The Grand
09-February-2010 - West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues

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Source:	archenemy.net
Band profile:	Arch Enemy
Event:	Arch Enemy + Exodus + Arsis

Municipal Waste are set to return to Europe in early 2010 as part of their "Waste the World" headlining tour.

Following their round of European festival appearances this Summer, Municipal Waste will be seeing out the year with a North American trek, then having a few weeks rest before kicking off the European leg of their tour in mid-January. Support on the North American leg of the tour will come from Cauldron, with Victims and Reproach supporting the band in Europe.

The European tour dates are as follows:

19.01.10 - Berlin, Germany - Magnet Club
20.01.10 - Stuttgart, Germany - Juha West
21.01.10 - Munich, Germany - Feierwerk
22.01.10 - Bologna, Italy - Sottotetto Club
23.01.10 - Treviso, Italy - New Age Club
25.01.10 - Hamburg, Germany - Hafenklang
27.01.10 - Stockholm, Sweden - Debaser
28.01.10 - Oslo, Norway - Betong
29.01.10 - Bergen, Norway - Garage
30.01.10 - Birmingham, UK - Academy
01.02.10 - Glasgow, UK - King Tuts
02.02.10 - Leeds, UK - The Cockpit
04.02.10 - London, UK - The Scala
05.02.10 - Bolwerk, Netherlands - Sneek
06.02.10 - Amsterdam, Netherlands - Melkweg

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Source:	earachenews.blogspot.com
Band profile:	Municipal Waste
Event:	Municipal Waste

Arkona have released a new video for the song "Goi, Rode, Goi!". The track is taken from Arkona's new album "Goi, Rode, Goi!" out on 30 October via Napalm Records.


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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Arkona

Sirenia has posted the following news on their MySpace page:

"As Jonathan Perez became a father recently, he has decided to take some time off with his family. So for the Beauty and the Beast tour in November (with Leaves' Eyes, Atrocity, Elis and Stream Of Passion), Roland Navratil from Edenbridge and Dignity will step in as a session drummer. It is not the first time we work with Roland, as he also replaced Jonathan on our European tour back in 2004/2005. We are looking forward to work with him again, and we would like to wish Jonathan the best of luck and some great time with his family."

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Sirenia
Event:	Leaves' Eyes: Beauty & The Beast

Nightrage have announced, they now have added an additional eight shows to the Mexican tour in February-March 2010. Some of these dates and venues are tentative, so check back with regularly to get the latest updates.

Here are all Nightrage Mexican tour dates:

Feb 27 2010 - Mexico City - Hard Rock Live (Extreme Sound Festival)
Feb 28 2010 - Cuernavaca - Foro de PIT
Mar 05 2010 - Guadalajara - Auditorio FEU
Mar 06 2010 - Torreon - TBA
Mar 07 2010 - Durango - TBA
Mar 12 2010 - Ciudad Obregón - Salon Chaparral
Mar 13 2010 - Hermosillo - TBA
Mar 14 2010 - TBA - TBA

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Nightrage
Event:

The new Samael video for "Black Hole" can be viewed here.

Comment by the band: "If your favourite video clip from Samael is "Baphomet's Throne" you're going to love the new "Black Hole" video. It's black and white with lots of live footages taken from the latest Swiss shows all mixed up with various designs and animations. It has been filmed and edited by Sergeï Ulyanov who happens to be the bass player of Makro's death/doom metal band Sludge. We've tried to come up with something simple which would fit the intensity and aggressiveness of the song. The video is very dense and hard to digest at once... you've been warned."

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Samael

Belphegor have uploaded the videoclip for the track "Der Geistertreiber" right here.

The video was shot in Abtenau, Austria with director Walter Fanninger.

Vocalist/guitarist Helmuth stated: "The song is about the celebration on the 30th of April, better known as the Walpurgis Nacht, the occult celebrations on the mountain. It's the first time that we hired a professional camera team for a Belphegor video, so the result is beyond amazing. We rented a cottage three days high in the mountains in middle of nowhere in the woods. There was nothing around. Just a lot of excess, alcohol, substances etc. Was a great intense time!"

The song was taken from the band's upcoming album "Walpurgis Rites - Hexenwahn" to be released via Nuclear Blast on October 9th (Europe) and 20th (North America).

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Source:	vids.myspace.com
Band profile:	Belphegor

Belgian Black metallers Enthroned have posted the following update on their MySpace site:

"In a month, Enthroned will start the recording of the new album "Pentagrammaton". The band sent some new tracks to Regain Records and 100% of the reactions are simply insane! The concept of "Pentagrammaton" will deal with lived fact through satanism and the occult and the musical direction is the logic fellow up to "Tetra Karcist" with some elements of albums such as "Prophecies of Pagan Fire" and "Towards the Skullthrone of Satan"."

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Enthroned

Gothic metal band Elis have revealed some new details about their new upcoming release "Catharsis". The album artwork is available here. As the band also mentioned on their official site, the album will also be released as a Digipack (cover artwork). The artwork of the covers were done by Stefan 'Heile' Heilemann. Album tracklist is available to see below.

The tracklist looks as follows:

01. Core Of Live
02. Twinkling Shadow
03. Warrior's Tale
04. Des Lebens Traum, des Traumes Leben
05. I Come Undone
06. Firefly
07. Morning Star
08. Das kleine Ungeheuer
09. Mother's Fire
10. Rainbow
11. The Dark Bridge
12. Ghost Of The Past (Bonus on Digipack)
13. No Hero (Bonus on Digipack)

Furthermore, a DVD will be enclosed to the DigiPack version, more information will follow.

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Source:	elis.li
Band profile:	Elis

Original news, posted on 12.06.2009

Finnish death/doom metallers Swallow The Sun have revealed some new details about their upcoming album "New Moon":

"We are entering Fascination Street studios in Sweden, Orebro on June 15th to record our fifth album which will be called "New Moon". The album will be produced and mixed by Jens Bogren, who has worked with such names as Katatonia, Opeth, Paradise Lost and Amon Amarth, just to name a few. And as we announced earlier, Kai Hahto (Wintersun, ex-Rotten Sound) will be playing drums on the album. We are thrilled and looking forward to working with such professionals.

Here is the initial track listing for the album (although we reserve the right to change it if we feel like it):

01. These Woods Breathe Evil
02. Falling World
03. Sleepless Swans
04. And Heavens Cried Blood
05. New Moon
06. Lights On The Lake (Horror Pt. III)
07. Servant Of Sorrow
08. Weight Of The Dead

The album will be released in early November 2009 around the world; we'll let you know the exact dates as soon as possible."

UPDATE (thanks to 98889)

Finnish metallers Swallow The Sun have issued the following update on their official website:

"So, here's some info on "New Moon" you have been waiting for!

We have put online a mini site promoting "New Moon" at this location! Check it out for audio samples, cover artwork and info on pre-ordering the album!

The final tracklist of the album is:

01. These Woods Breathe Evil
02. Falling World
03. Sleepless Swans
04. And Heavens Cried Blood
05. Lights On The Lake (Horror Pt. III)
06. New Moon
07. Servant Of Sorrow
08. Weight Of The Dead

"New Moon" will be released November 4th in Finland, November 9th in UK and November 10th in the US! You can pre-order it from our webshop at this location, there will be CD and exclusive T-shirt bundle available!"

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Source:	swallowthesun.net
Band profile:	Swallow The Sun

Within Temptation have issued the following update on their official website:

"Dear fans,

As you already know, we will be releasing a new acoustic live CD in the end of October. "An Acoustic Night At The Theatre" will feature many of our biggest hits, played live and acoustic during our seated tour last year. In April next year we will be doing a rerun of this tour, where we will be doing this particular show for the last time. After that, we will prepare ourselves for the new album, new show, etc. The exact release date is October 30th in some countries and 2 days later in some other countries. We will post an exact overview on that at a later date. Of course you want to know what's going to be on there, well here you go:

"An Acoustic Night At The Theatre" cover art] tracklist:

01. Towards The End
02. Stand My Ground
03. Caged
04. All I Need
05. Frozen
06. Somewhere
07. The Cross
08. Pale
09. What Have You Done
10. Memories
11. Forgiven
12. Utopia

Of course you will be able to preorder the album through our webshop! We will also be releasing a video trailer shortly and will be recording a brand new video this weekend for our single "Utopia"! Keep an eye on Twitter for a live update on that!

Cheers,
WT."


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Source:	en.within-temptation.com
Band profile:	Within Temptation

Swedish metallers Katatonia have issued the following update on their official waebsite:

"The mini-site for "Night Is The New Day" can now be accessed at this location. It includes audio samples, downloads, album information, pre-order links, interviews, art gallery plus all the studio diaries from the recording session.

Subscribers to the Peaceville Records mailing list are being given the first opportunity to download a free song entitled "Forsaker" taken from "Night Is The New Day".

Also check out what Opeth frontman Mikael Akerfeldt had to say about the forthcoming Katatonia album on his official MySpace blog."

"Night Is The New Day" is scheduled for release on November 2 in Europe (November 10 in North America) via Peaceville Records.

"Night Is The New Day" cover art] tracklist:

01. Forsaker
02. The Longest Year
03. Idle Blood
04. Onward Into Battle
05. Liberation
06. The Promise Of Deceit
07. Nephilim
08. New Night
09. Inheritance
10. Day & Then The Shade
11. Ashen
12. Departer

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Source:	katatonia.com
Band profile:	Katatonia

German metallers Savage Circus have issued the following update on their official website:

''Savage Circus is ready to return to the scene with a crack of thunder. The long awaited new album "Of Doom And Death" shows all trademarks of "Dreamland Manor". Progressive and powerful songwriting combined with elaborate arrangements, tons of melodies and harmonies, raging guitars rounded up with the trademark vocals towering on the music. From speed monsters such as the title track "Of Doom And Death" to the majestic "Ballad Of Susan" Savage Circus created an album with all the varieties one would expect and beyond.

Savage Circus are finally back with a thunderclap and with their long awaited 2nd studioalbum and ready to set the next milestone in the metaluniverse!"

The album will be released on October 23 via Dockyard 1 Records.

"Of Doom And Death" cover art] tracklist:

01. Of Doom And Death
02. The Ordeal
03. Devil's Spawn
04. Chasing The Rainbow
05. Empire
06. Ballad Of Susan
07. Legend Of Leto II
08. From The Ashes
09. Dreamland

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Source:	savage-circus.com
Band profile:	Savage Circus