FIREWIND guitarist Gus G. has recorded a guest solo for "Redemption", the third album from the Portugese metal/goth rock band HEAVENWOOD, due in September via Recital Records. Gus appears in the track "One Step to Devotion", "matching perfectly HEAVENWOOD's emotive music with is thundering solo!" according to a press release. Also scheduled to appear on the CD is singer Tijs Vanneste of the Belgian progressive metallers OCEANS OF SADNESS.
"Redemption" will be mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren (OPETH, SOILWORK, AMON AMARTH) at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden. The initial recording sessions for the CD took place at Ultrasound Studios with Daniel Cardoso and Ricardo Dias.
After the departure in 2004 of main songwritter and guitarist Ricardo Dias, HEAVENWOOD went on a lengthy hiatus. Now Ricardo Dias has returned along with new drummer Luiz Ferreira (ex-SECRECY from Portugal).
HEAVENWOOD 2007 is:
Ernesto Guerra - Vocals Ricardo Dias - Guitars and Vocals Bruno Silva - Guitar Luiz Ferreira - Drums
HEAVENWOOD previously relelased two albums — "Diva" and "Swallow" — and played shows with IN FLAMES, ATROCITY, THEATRE OF TRAGEDY and LAKE OF TEARS, among others.
After successful show during ROCK PALACE summer fest 2007 in St-Petersburg (Russia) Swedish death metal fathers GRAVE decided to return to Russia to promote their new album called DOMINION VIII. And this time they will hit 8 Russian towns with their uncompromising old school death metal show:
Norwegian death metal BLOOD RED THRONE are going to visit Russia for the first time in April. Their new album called “COME DEATH” has already received a lot of positive feedbacks in Europe and Asia and after few European tours band together with THE FLAMING ARTS AGENCY decided to conquer new markets including Eastern Europe. After some negotiations we decided to try with single show in Moscow together with GRAVE and return for the full Eastern European tour in autumn 2008.
We are proud to announce about our cooperation with the oldest and most respected metal bands from ex-USSR countries called GRENOUER. All albums of band are always some kind of standard of quality, which is mentioned by metal press worldwide. So we are happy to start with GRENOUER management and help them to make step to the next level of their career.
French industrial goth metallers KARELIA will release their third album, "Restless" (cover artwork), on April 21 via Season Of Mist.
The track listing for the CD is as follows:
01. Restless 02. Trial 03. Mirror Mirror 04. Lift Me Up 05. Please Come On In 06. Lovin' Wife 07. Crash 08. Give It Away 09. From My Window 10. Losing My Religion (R.E.M. cover)
The band's cover of R.E.M.'s "Losing My Religion" can be streamed on the KARELIA MySpace page.
A brand new WALLS OF JERICHO track, entitled "Addicted", has been posted online at ' . The song comes off the Detroit band's forthcoming EP, "Redemption", which will be released on April 29 via Trustkill Records. Produced by Corey Taylor (SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR) at his Iowa home studio, the CD features "acoustic instruments, fleshed out arrangements, and Taylor's voice on several songs," including the aforementioned "Addicted".
"Redemption" track listing:
01. Ember Drive (feat. Corey Taylor) 02. My Last Stand (feat. Corey Taylor) 03. No Saving Me 04. House Of The Rising Sun 05. Addicted (feat. Corey Taylor)
Italian gothic metal band THEATRES DES VAMPIRES will release its new album, "Anima Noir", on May 2 via Aural Music/SPV. The CD was recorded at the Temple of Noise studio in Rome with engineer Christian Ice. According to a press release, "Anima Noir" features "romantic lyrics, lyrical voices, strong orchestration, powerfull guitars and powerful drumming. All the elements that you loved in THEATRES DES VAMPIRES are back in this new production. A new modern sound and a super modern production that took six months of work in the studio for recording and mixing it, offering you the best experience of vampirism as always, with the enchanting vocals of the mistress of your nightmare: Countess Sonya Scarlet, this time with her best performance ever."
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FISSION, the collaboration between BORKNAGAR/VINTERSORG frontman Andreas Hedlund (a.k.a. Vintersorg) and VINTERSORG live session drummer Benny "Hägge" Hägglund, has finalized the track listing for its second album, "Pain Parade", due later in the year via Aphotic Records. The CD was mixed at Ballerina Audio with Nils Johansson (VINTERSORG, NAGLFAR, TME). According to a press release, "Pain Parade" will contain "eight brilliant songs that mix the most of [what] metal has to offer."
"Pain Parade" track listing:
01. Chains 02. Frequency Control 03. Dear Frenzy! 04. Pain Parade 05. Machination (The Kallocain Protocol) 06. Collision and Collapse 07. Earthquaker 08. Mekanisk Är Själen
FISSION's debut album, "Crater", was released in 2004 via Napalm Records.
UK vocalist Blaze Bayley's (ex-IRON MAIDEN, WOLSFBANE) official web site has been updated with the following message:
"Blaze Bayley — a new album, the first due for release on his own independent label in late May with additional licensing to various countries. The album is being engineered by James Dunkley, produced by Blaze Bayley and is entitled 'The Man Who Would Not Die'. It promises to take Blaze in new songwriting directions, ushering in a new phase of an already renowned career. It is also the first recorded showcase for the line-up that comprises Nico Bermudez and Jay Walsh on guitars, David Bermudez on bass and Lawrence Paterson on drums."
Lawrence Paterson, the drummer for BLAZE BAYLEY, recently started a ' on the progress of the songwriting/recording sessions for the group's new album. The follow-up to 2004's "Blood & Belief" is tentatively due late summer/early fall.
Long-running Israeli extreme metallers SALEM are putting the finishing touches on a new DVD, entitled "Salem Underground". According to the band, the disc "is a collection of performances from four different shows. The concept for this DVD was to mix the recorded audio (in stereo) but to leave it unedited to maintain the rawest live experience possible."
The release date for "Salem Underground" will be announced next week.
SALEM released its new album, "Necessary Evil", in June 2007 via Season of Mist. The follow-up to 2005's "Strings Attached" includes a 27-minute piece entitled "Once Upon a Lifetime Parts I - V".
The up-and-coming modern metal/metalcore band F.R.Y. (St.Petersburg) have entered the studio to record the full-length debut album. The album should include the material of the demo/promo CD "Orange Demo[n]" and the Internet single "Illusions.ru" (2007), as well as new songs, previously only heard live. The old songs are to be re-recorded. The album should include 11 tracks in total.
F.R.Y. have their own cool and original style, successfully balancing between metal and alternative, adding elements of various styles from funk metal to rapcore. Over one year, the band have developed a unique sound and a signature, informal style of playing live, full of drive and positive energy. In underground circles, F.R.Y. are known not only by their music experiments, but also by creative and original promo and live videos.
The album title, recording studio, and design concept are kept secret:)
Swedish death metal veterans UNLEASHED have entered the studio to begin recording their ninth full-length album, "Hammer Battalion", due later in the year via SPV Records. According to the band, "The new UNLEASHED album will continue in the same victorious spirit as our previous album 'Midvinterblot'."
Check out photos from the recording sessions at ' .
"Hammer Battalion" track listing (not final order)
01. The Greatest Of All Lies 02. Long Before Winter's Call 03. Your Children Will Burn 04. Hammer Battalion 05. This Day Belongs To Me 06. Marching Off To War 07. Entering The Hall Of The Slain 08. Black Horizon 09. Carved In Stone 10. Warriors Of Midgard 11. Midsummer Solstice 12. Home Of The Brave 13. I Want You Dead
Members of '80s German thrash metal cult EXUMER began negotiating a full-fledged reunion for 2009. The projected reunion includes a new album, re-releases of the band's two albums from the 1980s and a substantial tour.
EXUMER vocalist Mem V. Stein of New York City thrashers SUN DESCENDS comments: "This reunion won't be like the one-off show we played at the Wacken Open Air in 2001. This time we will deliver the entire package and release a new, third EXUMER album. It's been close to 22 years since the second EXUMER release in 1987 and it seems that the band is still relevant, especially when you consider the new generation of thrash metal bands that quote EXUMER as a major influence of theirs. I will keep SUN DESCENDS alive and I'm not abandoning the project but most of 2009 will be dedicated to a new EXUMER album and it's promotion. We also have Paul Arakaki (guitars/bass) in the band who replaced me on the second EXUMER album and now lives in Hawaii. I frequently get emails from fans asking for a EXUMER reunion and I feel that the time is right to finally go ahead and make it a reality. We have never played live in North America and I believe that we owe it to the fans here in the States to see the band at least once with full-on live production."
EXUMER has not yet decided with which record label to work with for the releases, but plans to enter the studio to record their new CD in late 2008/early 2009.
SUN DESCENDS' new album, titled "The Entropy Formula", will be released on Khaosmaster Productions in April and on Twilight distribution in fall 2008.
German power metallers HUMAN FORTRESS will release their third album, "Eternal Empire", on April 25 via Massacre Records. The first pressing will be available as a limited-edition double CD featuring a bonus disc containing two bonus tracks, a video clip, outtakes, pictures and much more.
"Eternal Empire" track listing:
01. Contrast 02. Borders Of Insanity 03. The Wizard 04. The Raven 05. When Love And Hate Collide 06. Under The Spell 07. Lions Den 08. Circle Of Flames 09. Falling Leaves
Audio samples of the tracks "Contrast" and "Falling Leaves" are available at ' . A video for the song "Contrast" was recently shot and will be released soon.
"Of Sacrifice, Loss and Reward", the new single from the Finnish power metallers KIUAS, has entered the ' in the band's home country at position No. 1. The track comes off the group's third album, "The New Dark Age", which is scheduled for release in Finland on March 5.
"The New Dark Age" track listing:
01. The Decaying Doctrine 02. Conqueror 03. Kiuas War Anthem 04. The New Dark Age 05. To Excel and Ascend 06. Black Rose Withered 07. After the Storm 08. Of Sacrifice, Loss and Reward 09. The Summoning 10. The Wanderer's Lamentation Bonus track for Japan release: 11. Towards the Hidden Sanctum
According to the band, "The ' is the product of the visionary artist/musician Niklas Sundin (Cabin Fever Media). The picture is an original drawing in the style of reneissance woodcut illustrations, and portrays the members of KIUAS as the four — or in this case five — horsemen of the Apocalypse with a dismal landscape that combines ancient and modern times."
A video for the song 'Conqueror' was shot on February 18 with Owe Lingvall of Village Road Film.
KIUAS' second full-length album, "Reformation", was released in May 2006.
KIUAS is:
Ilja Jalkanen - Vocals Mikko Salovaara - Guitars Markku Näreneva - Drums Atte Tanskanen - Keyboard Teemu Tuominen – Bass
Italian power metallers KALEDON will enter Outer Sound studios on March 10 with produceer Giuseppe Orlando to begin recording their fifth album, "Legend Of The Forgotten Reign Chapter 5: A New Era Begins", tentatively due in Europe in May/June via Hellion Records. The CD artwork will be designed by Fabrizio Galliccia.
"Legend Of The Forgotten Reign Chapter 5: A New Era Begins" track listing:
01. A New Man 02. A Wounded Friend 03. Mozul 04. Undeads Again 05. The End Of The Green Power 06. A Flash In The Sky 07. Great Mighty Light (instrumental) 08. The Greatest Heart 09. The God Beyond The Man 10. Return To Kaledon
The Japanese version of the CD will include "top-secret" bonus material, according to a posting on the band's web site.
Russian pagan metal band ARKONA will take part in Ragnarök fest as a headliner together with UNLEASHED, HAGGARD, TURISAS, PRIMORDIAL, NORTHER, BATTLELORE, NEGURA BUNGET, SKYFORGER, TROLLFEST, MENHIR and many other in the end of March. More about this fest you can read on ' .
German melodic black/death metallers SUIDAKRA will release their new DVD and "best-of" CD package, "13 Years of Celtic Wartunes", on April 25. The set will include the band's Wacken Open Air 2007 performance, an acoustic concert, and a best-of CD with remastered and newly recorded songs spanning the group's 13-year history.
Sundsvall, Sweden-based death metallers IN BATTLE have issued the following update:
"Yesterday we started rehearsing material for the new album. We have 2.5 songs done, except for some vocal arrangements, and a ton of riffs and ideas. The new stuff sounds extremely intense, brutal, straight-forward. It kind of sounds like a mix between the 'Soul Metamorphosis' MCD with a touch of the first two IN BATTLE albums, so prepare yourselves for this coming whirlwind of destruction! The working title was set to be 'Flames & Death' but since HATE ETERNAL's new CD is called 'Fury & Flames', we probobly gonna have to come up with something else. We are also glad to inform you that Nils (Lord Dominator) Fjellström is back in the band as a full-time member. Welcome back, brother! It's a pleasure to work with you again. We would like to thank Tony (Dark Rambo) Westermark for filling in for Nils on the tour, you did an amazing job man, best of luck in the future."
IN BATTLE's fifth album will be recorded at Epidemic Productions in Sundsvall.
The group's fourth CD, "Kingdom of Fear", was released on September 3 via Nocturnal Art Productions/Candlelight Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Welcome to the Battlefield" was recorded at Epidemic studios in Sundsvall and was mixed by UNLEASHED's Fredrik Folkare at Chrome studios in Stockholm. The CD contains "11 songs of raw trashy death metal," according to a press release. Two video clips for the album have been filmed: "Kingdom of Fear" and "The Dead Shall See".
According to a posting on YNGWIE MALMSTEEN's official web site, the legendary Swedish guitarist's long-awaited new CD is now in its final stages of creation, with a tentative release date of July 2008. The new lineup that will take Yngwie's upcoming album on the road is as follows:
Yngwie Malmsteen - Guitar Tim "Ripper" Owens (ex-JUDAS PRIEST, ICED EARTH) - Vocals Bjorn Englen - Bass Michael Troy - Keyboards Patrik Johansson - Drums
Yngwie Malmsteen will attend the Musikmesse Frankfurt 2008 fair in Germany, which runs from Thursday, March 13 to Saturday, March 15.
Sweden's PAIN has issued the following update from its European tour as the support act for NIGHTWISH:
"Here we go again. We left Frankfurt [Germany] around noon today 'cause we had to wait for a new driver first. The new driver arrived and our 200-kilometer journey towards Bamberg began. After two hours of driving with only 20 minutes to go, we got pulled over by the police who ordered us out of the bus and had us sit in a line at the sidewalk. They searched us one by one and had us remove socks and shoes for about 40 minutes while they searched the whole bus and turned all of our bags upside down [' ]. When they were finished, they came out with a camera case and asked us who it belonged to. It contained a small plastic bag with a suspicious white powder and was owned by our new driver who, of course, claimed he never seen it before. Well... to make a long story short, we're stuck somewhere on autobahn without a driver, it's pitch black and raining outside. We're trying to enjoy ourselves watching 'Terror on Elm Street' on a laptop eating cold can food with piss-warm red wine. Another day off well spent. Everything taste better with Freddy Krueger."
As previously reported, PAIN members Peter Tägtgren (guitar/vocals), Johan Husgafvel (bass) and David Wallin (drums) were assaulted Friday night (February 22) in Leipzig, Germany during a day off on the band's European tour as the support act for NIGHTWISH. As a result, the group was forced to cancel Saturday's concert in Leipzig, but the bandmembers quickly picked themselves up and were back on stage on Sunday.
Mexico's DENIAL will release its full-length debut, "Catacombs of the Grotesque", on Asphyxiate Recordings.
Formed at the end of 2006, DENIAL is said to be inspired by '90s death metal. The group's seven-inch EP, "Immense Carnage Vortex", is available through Blood Harvest Records.
DENIAL is:
Oscar Clorio: Drums Ivan "Bloodhunter" Velazquez: Vocals Marko Guevara: Guitars Roberto Granados: Guitars Ricardo Gil: Bass
FIREWIND guitarist Gus G. has recorded a guest solo for "Redemption", the third album from the Portugese metal/goth rock band HEAVENWOOD, due in September via Recital Records. Gus appears in the track "One Step to Devotion", "matching perfectly HEAVENWOOD's emotive music with is thundering solo!" according to a press release. Also scheduled to appear on the CD is singer Tijs Vanneste of the Belgian progressive metallers OCEANS OF SADNESS. 
“Маятник жизни” tracklist:
After successful show during ROCK PALACE summer fest 2007 in St-Petersburg (Russia) Swedish death metal fathers GRAVE decided to return to Russia to promote their new album called DOMINION VIII. And this time they will hit 8 Russian towns with their uncompromising old school death metal show:
We are proud to announce about our cooperation with the oldest and most respected metal bands from ex-USSR countries called GRENOUER. All albums of band are always some kind of standard of quality, which is mentioned by metal press worldwide. So we are happy to start with GRENOUER management and help them to make step to the next level of their career.
01. Restless
A brand new WALLS OF JERICHO track, entitled "Addicted", has been posted online at ' . The song comes off the Detroit band's forthcoming EP, "Redemption", which will be released on April 29 via Trustkill Records. Produced by Corey Taylor (SLIPKNOT, STONE SOUR) at his Iowa home studio, the CD features "acoustic instruments, fleshed out arrangements, and Taylor's voice on several songs," including the aforementioned "Addicted".
Italian gothic metal band THEATRES DES VAMPIRES will release its new album, "Anima Noir", on May 2 via Aural Music/SPV. The CD was recorded at the Temple of Noise studio in Rome with engineer Christian Ice. According to a press release, "Anima Noir" features "romantic lyrics, lyrical voices, strong orchestration, powerfull guitars and powerful drumming. All the elements that you loved in THEATRES DES VAMPIRES are back in this new production. A new modern sound and a super modern production that took six months of work in the studio for recording and mixing it, offering you the best experience of vampirism as always, with the enchanting vocals of the mistress of your nightmare: Countess Sonya Scarlet, this time with her best performance ever."
14 марта Digimortal дадут концерт в прямом эфире программы "Брать живьем"
телеканала О2ТВ.
FISSION, the collaboration between BORKNAGAR/VINTERSORG frontman Andreas Hedlund (a.k.a. Vintersorg) and VINTERSORG live session drummer Benny "Hägge" Hägglund, has finalized the track listing for its second album, "Pain Parade", due later in the year via Aphotic Records. The CD was mixed at Ballerina Audio with Nils Johansson (VINTERSORG, NAGLFAR, TME). According to a press release, "Pain Parade" will contain "eight brilliant songs that mix the most of [what] metal has to offer."
UK vocalist Blaze Bayley's (ex-IRON MAIDEN, WOLSFBANE) official web site has been updated with the following message:
Long-running Israeli extreme metallers SALEM are putting the finishing touches on a new DVD, entitled "Salem Underground". According to the band, the disc "is a collection of performances from four different shows. The concept for this DVD was to mix the recorded audio (in stereo) but to leave it unedited to maintain the rawest live experience possible."
The up-and-coming modern metal/metalcore band F.R.Y. (St.Petersburg) have
Swedish death metal veterans UNLEASHED have entered the studio to begin recording their ninth full-length album, "Hammer Battalion", due later in the year via SPV Records. According to the band, "The new UNLEASHED album will continue in the same victorious spirit as our previous album 'Midvinterblot'."
Members of '80s German thrash metal cult EXUMER began negotiating a full-fledged reunion for 2009. The projected reunion includes a new album, re-releases of the band's two albums from the 1980s and a substantial tour.
German power metallers HUMAN FORTRESS will release their third album, "Eternal Empire", on April 25 via Massacre Records. The first pressing will be available as a limited-edition double CD featuring a bonus disc containing two bonus tracks, a video clip, outtakes, pictures and much more.
"Of Sacrifice, Loss and Reward", the new single from the Finnish power metallers KIUAS, has entered the ' in the band's home country at position No. 1. The track comes off the group's third album, "The New Dark Age", which is scheduled for release in Finland on March 5.
Italian power metallers KALEDON will enter Outer Sound studios on March 10 with produceer Giuseppe Orlando to begin recording their fifth album, "Legend Of The Forgotten Reign Chapter 5: A New Era Begins", tentatively due in Europe in May/June via Hellion Records. The CD artwork will be designed by Fabrizio Galliccia.
Russian pagan metal band ARKONA will take part in Ragnarök fest as a headliner together with UNLEASHED,
German melodic black/death metallers SUIDAKRA will release their new DVD and "best-of" CD package, "13 Years of Celtic Wartunes", on April 25. The set will include the band's Wacken Open Air 2007 performance, an acoustic concert, and a best-of CD with remastered and newly recorded songs spanning the group's 13-year history.
Sundsvall, Sweden-based death metallers IN BATTLE have issued the following update:
According to a posting on YNGWIE MALMSTEEN's official web site, the legendary Swedish guitarist's long-awaited new CD is now in its final stages of creation, with a tentative release date of July 2008. The new lineup that will take Yngwie's upcoming album on the road is as follows:
Sweden's PAIN has issued the following update from its European tour as the support act for NIGHTWISH: