The Amenta Finishing Preliminary Work On New Album

The Amenta, have nearly finished preliminary work on the full length follow up to 2004's acclaimed album "Occasus". Some working titles include Junky, Whore, Slave, and Skin. The album is expected to be released in September 2007. You can hear a sample at the band's MySpace page.

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The Legion Give Update On Third Album

Swedish black/death metallers THE LEGION, featuring former MARDUK drummer Emil Dragutinovic, have issued the following update:

"The progress of our third album is coming along fine and most of the material is ready. We still have a lot of vocal arrangements to deal with but we hope to get started with the recording this spring. We've also been busy upgrading our own studio, Art Decay, since the last album. The plan is to record everything there this time and hopefully this will result in a more dynamic and experimental release. The cover art will once again be handled by Kris Verwimp [MARDUK, ABSU, IMMORTAL]."

THE LEGION released its sophomore album, "Revocation", in February 2006 via Listenable Records.

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Blood Red Throne To Record Fourth Album Soon

Norwegian death metallers BLOOD RED THRONE will enter Jailhouse Studios in Horsens, Denmark in early February to begin recording their fourth studio album, tentatively due this summer via Earache Records. The upcoming CD will be the group's first to feature new members Anders Haave (drums) and Vald (vocals). Songtitles set to appear on the album include "Rebirth in Blood", "Come Death", "No New Beginning" and "Slaying the Lamb".

"This time, we aim for a more classic death metal sound, ala GORGUTS 'Considered Dead' / SUFFOCATION 'Despise the Sun' kind of sound," the band previously said. "We have grown tired with the over-produced and fully triggered drum kits that so many bands use today, besides we have taken a slightly new direction with our music and the analog and dynamic sound fits the music better. We have also chosen a different approach to the recording process of the instruments."

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Unexpect Post Live Video Online

Watch a live video of Unexpect performing Desert Urbania in Montreal on Youtube. More...

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Threat Signal Announce Tour Dates

Canadian metallers THREAT SIGNAL have lined up the following dates:

Jan. 25 - Phil's - Waterloo, ONT
Feb. 03 - Call The Office - London, ONT
Feb. 10 - Underground - Hamilton, ONT
Mar. 04 - Dingbatz - Clifton, NJ
Mar. 05 - Mccoy's - Commack, NY
Mar. 06 - JC Maxey's - Bridgeport, WV
Mar. 09 - Boomerz Boiler Room - Seminole, FL
Mar. 12 - The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA
Mar. 14 - Jaxx - Springfeild, VA
Mar. 15 - The Hyamp - Huntington, WV
Mar. 16 - Peabody's - Cleveland, OH
Mar. 17 - Montage Music Hall - Rochester, NY
Mar. 18 - KC's Tap - Pawtucket, RI

THREAT SIGNAL was honored with the "Canadian Recording of the Year" award at the 2006 Hamilton Music Awards, which were held Nov. 19, 2006 in Hamilton, Ontario.

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Vomitron Release Debut Album

Massachusetts based Instrumental metal project, Vomitron, have released their debut album. To hear samples and order a copy goto their Myspace page.

The project started around 2002 with an MP3.com site which contained various instrumental songs including a cover of every theme from the video game Contra. In these recordings the drums were programmed. On the CD some of these songs have been rerecorded with all live drums.

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Tool Announce Japanese Tour Dates

TOOL will play the following dates in Japan during February:

Feb. 08 - Osaka, JPN @ Zepp
Feb. 09 - Tokyo, JPN @ Zepp
Feb. 10 - Tokyo, JPN @ Zepp
Feb. 12 - Kawasaki, JPN @ Blitz
Feb. 14 - Nagoya, JPN @ Diamond Hall More...

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Car Bomb Premieres Video From New Record

CAR BOMB has debuted the first video, for the track “M^6”, from it's forthcoming record, Centralia at this location. Additionally, the video is being featured at www.Singingfool.com.

The video was shot in New York with Jeremy Jackson of the Filmcore crew (UNEARTH, CANNIBAL CORPSE, AS I LAY DYING, BRIAN POSEHN). Additionally, "M^6" can be heard via CAR BOMB's web site, Myspace, and Pure Volume.

Centralia, which features the first new recorded material from CAR BOMB since the release of their self-titled demo, is set for a February 6 North American release date (February 12 internationally). Tour dates in support of Centralia’s release will be made available shortly. More...

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Negativa Post Another New Song Online

NEGATIVA, the Quebec-based band featuring former GORGUTS members Steeve Hurdle (guitar, vocals) and Luc Lemay (guitar, vocals), along with Etienne Gallo (drums, ex-AUGURY) and Miguel Valade (bass, ex-ION DISSONANCE), has posted another new track, entitled "Taedium Vitae", on www.negativa.ca and www.myspace.com/negativa1.

"Taedium Vitae" (9:32) comes off NEGATIVA's debut, self-titled multimedia mini-CD. The disc, which was recorded at Wild Studio with producers Rémillard and Jean-Yves Theriault (a.k.a. Blacky, former bassist of VOIVOD), also contains enhanced material, including video footage and photos taken during the recording sessions. Other songtitles appearing on the mini-CD are "Chaos in Motion" (4:35) and "Rebellion" (6:11).

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Cephalic Carnage Post Upcoming Tour Dates

CEPHALIC CARNAGE have lined up the following upcoming tour dates:

January 31 - Denver, CO @ The Filmore w/ Slayer, Unearth

with Brujeria:
March 2 - El Paso, TX @ House of Rock n' Roll
March 3 - Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theater
March 8 - Austin, TX @ Emo's
March 9 - San Antonio, TX @ Sanctuary
March 10 - Houston, TX @ Meridian w/ Mushroomhead
March 11 - Dallas, TX @ The Galaxy
March 22 - Chicago, IL @ Double Door
March 23 - Chicago, IL @ Double Door

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In Battle In Recording Mode

Sundsvall, Sweden-based death metallers IN BATTLE are currently recording their fourth album, "Kingdom of Fear," due later in the year via Candlelight / Nocturnal Art Productions. The follow-up to 2004's "Welcome to the Battlefield" will honor the memory of the group's former drummer, Otto Wiklund, who passed away last August.

Wiklund appeared on IN BATTLE's first two albums — "Lost in the Shadows Gray" (1997) and "The Rage of the Northmen" (1998) — and was also the session drummer for SETHERIAL, with whom he recorded the "Lords of the Nightrealm" album (1997).

IN BATTLE's latest album, "Welcome to the Battlefield" (2004, Cold/Metal Blade Records), was recorded at Courthouse Studio in Östersund, Sweden and at Necromorbus Studio in Stockholm, Sweden. The CD was mixed and mastered at Erik Rutan's (HATE ETERNAL/ex-MORBID ANGEL guitarist) Mana Recording Studios in Tampa, Florida with engineer Shawn Ohtani.

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Carnal Forge Sign Deal With Candlelight Records

CARNAL FORGE have signed a new worldwide deal with Candlelight Records for release in 2007. At the moment they are in the middle of recording the 13 songs in their own studio, with a release date yet to be announced.

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Orphaned Land Announce New Album

Vocalist for Orphaned Land, Kobi Farhi, has posted the following reguarding their upcoming album:

"These past months we've received a lot of suggestions with ideas and proposals for our next album's concept. We even opened threads regarding this topic in all our forums, and people from all over the world suggested many great ideas, many of them were excellent and certainly help us choose the concept we are beginning to sync to – Many thanks to all of you for the inspiration!
Soon Alon Miasnikov and I will start to work on the full story of the album, Yossi and Matti are already composing the music and arranging sessions with Uri and me to create the musical puzzle for our next release.
Throughout the years, and especially in the last weeks period, I've been researching this new concept in depth (for comparison, 'Mabool' was the biggest research we've done in terms of a single topic focus, including dozens of meetings and hundreds of pages of information from various resources). The research work for our future release is handled the same as I write these lines to you.
When I begun to write down this concept I reached a point where I'm writing 10 pages and it's not fully there yet, I changed my mind for 20 times whether the album should have a short name with a small explanation, or to "spill out" the full story behind the concept (which might certainly make some tired, and some highly thrilled with the in depth explanations). So I decided to go with a partial yet thorough explanation… the rest might be published one day in a book, should I decide to publish it one day in the future.
The next 'Orphaned Land' album will deal with the war of light and darkness. We've dealt with this topic in the past, yet this time the emphasis will be on the hero of this war – The Warrior of Light (Lohem Ha'or in Hebrew)

The album title will be:

The never ending way of
ORwarriOR"

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Finntroll Release First North American Tour Date

Finland's FINNTROLL have announced the first date for their highly anticipated return to North America:

September 19 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx

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