Sworn Enemy To Headline Trend Killer Tour

SWORN ENEMY are set to storm stages across the United States on the upcoming TREND KILLER TOUR that they will be headlining and supported by Kataklysm, Suicide Silence, As Blood Runs Black and Too Pure To Die. This is going to be a massive tour, heavily promoted with commercial spots on MTV2 and a huge online presence with a MYSPACE page dedicated to the tour.

You can check out the tour e-card here.

TREND KILLER TOUR
w/ SWORN ENEMY, Kataklysm, Suicide Silence, As Blood Runs Black, Too Pure To Die More...

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Down Release Headlining Tour Dates

DOWN have announced the following headlining tour dates:

March 30 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
March 31 - New York, NY @ Roseland Ballroom
April 1 - Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
April 2 - Washington, DC @ 9:30 Club

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Decrpit Birth Seek Second Guitarist

Santa Cruz, California-based death metallers DECREPIT BIRTH have issued the following update:

"DECREPIT BIRTH is officially looking for a second guitarist who is ready for touring and playing shows. We are looking for someone who is a professional-minded musician, who has skill and some experience. It's also very important that you have professional equipment or are ready to upgrade.

"DECREPIT BIRTH is a death metal band with its roots in brutal death metal, but we are really incorporating a more melodic and mature sound into the band, so don't expect to join the band and only play brutal. Our influences range from bands such as SUFFOCATION, MORBID ANGEL and NILE to DEATH, CYNIC and QUO VADIS. So if this seems like something that you or someone you know would be interested in, please learn the tabs posted on our website under the 'Downloads' section (songs from our first album) and make some sort of video of you playing the songs if you want to be considered for the position. You MUST submit a video for consideration, unless we are already familiar with your skills. Please contact us at decrepitbirth@msn.com or www.myspace.com/decrepitbirth." More...

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Monolithe Update

After more than one year spent in stand-by mode, Monolithe comes back to the world of the living. The new album 'MONOLITHE III' is currently being composed and will be recorded during 2007. Again, the album will feature one unique, long song.

Finally, the 'Interlude Premier' MCD will not see the light of day due to conflicts between Appease Me and Candlelight Records. However, the 20 minute song 'Monolithic Pillars' supposed to be featured on this release will be used in another way.

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While Heaven Wept Sign With Cruz Del Sur

Epic doom legends While Heaven Wept has teamed up with Cruz Del Sur Music for the release of their new album 'Vast Oceans Lachrymose' due out in late 2007.

The band writes on its website:

"Although there were many fair and generous offers from various entities after the untimely closure of Black Lotus Records, we felt that working with Cruz Del Sur Music would be the best option for us at this time, and that aside, several members of our extended musical family, including Slough Feg and Widow are part of the ever-growing (and strengthening) roster."

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Skepticism Tribute Coming Up Soon

Poland's Foreshadow Productions have released the following update:

A massive project on which we have been working for four years now is taking the final shapes. We have gathered 12 bands from all over the world. They recorded their own versions of some of SKEPTICISM songs, which we will release as a double CD set under the name of "Entering the Levitation: a Tribute to Skepticism". The whole album will be released together with two labels from USA , namely Red Stream and Oak Knoll. The official release date has been set to the 4th June 2007.

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Interview

Interview with Hurtlocker's Tim Moe

Chicago's HURTLOCKER released their debut LP “Fear In A Handful of Dust” in 2005 on Napalm Records, offering up an all-out sonic assault of ones senses, clearly showing everyone around the true metal community that they're a name to reckon with for the future of metal as it moves forward out of the emo-fied, pop sweetened crap heap of bands that are merely using the great genre's name to try and pawn itself off as the real deal. They have enjoyed some strong radio play off Chicago's largest rock station, 94.7 The Zone, being put in rotation among the elite names of heavy music such as Lamb Of God and Anthrax and are now in preparation to record the next album, in hopes of finally pushing themselves to the top of the game and onto world tours where they rightfully belong. I am pleased to present the following Q&A with their guitarist, Tim Moe. More...

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Dark Tranquillity Release More Tour Dates

More dates have been released for the upcoming North American tour featuring DARK TRANQUILLITY, THE HAUNTED, and INTO ETERNITY:

March 19 - Orlando, FL @ The Social
March 20 - St Petersburg, FL @ State Theatre
March 21 - Atlanta, GA @ The Masquerade
March 23 - Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
March 24 - Philadelphia, PA @ The Trocadero
March 25 - Springfield, VA @ Jaxx
March 26 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theater
March 28 - Montreal, QC @ Club Soda
March 29 - Toronto, ON @ Opera House
April 2 - Louisville, KY @ Headliners
April 3 - Sauget, IL @ Pop's
April 4 - Chicago, IL @ Metro
April 6 - Denver, CO @ Cervantes
April 7 - Salt Lake City, UT @ Avalon
April 9 - Vancouver, BC @ Croatian Culture Centre
April 10 - Seattle, WA @ El Corazon
April 11 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
April 12 - San Fransisco, CA @ Slims
April 13 - Anaheim, CA @ House of Blues

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Pain Confessor Post New Single Online

Finnish metallers PAIN CONFESSOR have posted their new single, "Ne Plus Ultra", on their MySpace page. The song comes off the group's third album, "Purgatory of the Second Sun", which is scheduled for release in Finland on March 14. The single will precede the album in February. Other songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Mercenaries", "Last of Forever", "Dreamcrusher", "Second Sun", "My Last Words", "End", and "Without Redemption/Without Remorse".

"Purgatory of the Second Sun" was recorded at Fantom studio and is described by the band as "raw and furious. This album has nine songs from which 80% is pretty much all out war and the rest 20% is heavy, like walking to the gallows."

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Cattle Decapitation Embark On Mexican Tour

San Diego extreme metallers CATTLE DECAPITATION will embark on their first-ever tour of Mexico in February. Also appearing on the three-date trek, dubbed "Chas Metal Attack Tour 2007", are MARDUK, MONSTROSITY and SETHERIAL. The details are as follows:

Feb. 09 - Leon, MEX @ Madeiras
Feb. 10 - Mexico City, MEX @ Circo Volador
Feb. 11 - San Luis Potosi, MEX @ Huerta del STIC

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Saxon's World Record Air Guitar Attempt Failed

Saxon's attempt to break the world record for the most people playing air guitar at the same time might have actually failed. It happened at Hillsborough during the half-time interval in the football match between Sheffield Wednesday and Sunderland, when around 30,000 fans were encouraged to play air guitar to new Saxon single 'If I Was You'. Yet, despite earlier reports that they'd succeeded, now it seems the crowd were less than enthusiastic.

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Candlemass Announce New Singer

The band comments on their new choice of singer in Robert Lowe of Solitude Aeturnus:

"After months of auditions it is now official who replaces Messiah Marcolin in CANDLEMASS. Robert Lowe, well known for his work with SOLITUDE AETURNUS, is the man who killed all the competition and showed that he beyond doubt is the most capable man for the job. A worthy successor!!

Robert will still be fronting SA, but since there's a whole ocean between the bands, we/CANDLEMASS, feel that this is a great solution that is very beneficial for everybody. The mighty voice from Dallas Texas, is thrown into the fire immediately and is starting the vocal work on the new CANDLEMASS album in a matter of days. CANDLEMASS are sure that the words 'amazing' and 'incredible' will be used to describe the result! CANDLEMASS would also like to thank all the gifted singers who applied for the job. Many talents from all over the world have been heard. We are sure that they will continue to be heard for a long time, but not in CANDLEMASS. The band have finally found the ideal replacement for Messiah Marcolin – Robert Lowe! The new album will KILL!!"

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Dawn of Azazel To Tour Europe w/ Grave, Krisiun

New Zealand's most notable death metal export, Dawn of Azazel, will return to Europe this spring for a 38-show tour with Grave, Krisiun, and Immolation.

"We are extremely pleased to announce our return to Europe with some of the greatest in the genre," said frontman Rigel Walshe. "We would like to thank Massive Music and Ibex Moon Records for the chance go from strength to strength and again have the honour of hitting the road with acts that have been tremendously influential on our sound and musical identity."

No strangers to the road, Dawn of Azazel has most recently trekked throughout Australia and New Zealand with American death metal legends Deicide. Prior to that, the group toured America with Vital Remains, Incantation, and Sin of Angels on the Decades of Death tour. In March of 2005, Dawn of Azazel played 13 dates in New Zealand, Australia, Indonesian, and Thailand. The final show of the upcoming tour will mark the 99th in support of the band's latest album, "Sedition," which was re-released in the United States in September with a video bonus track via Ibex Moon Records.

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Will Haven Complete Production On Track w/ Chino

WILL HAVEN recently finished up tracking a series of new songs with Chino Moreno of Deftones and Shaun Lopez of Far, Revolution Smile fame handling the production. An update on the new tracks, as well as more can be found on their MySpace blog.

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Bieler Bros. Records Expand Operations

Bieler Bros. Records (Will Haven, Skindred, Nonpoint, Karnivool, Sikth, Ankla) are going international and will now be distributed in Canada, Germany, Austria and Switzerland. That is in addition to their US and UK offices.

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