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Kataklysm Announces New Album "Heaven's Venom" Chart Positions

posted Sep 2, 2010 at 3:35 PM by xFiruath.  (3 Comments)

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"Heaven's Venom," the new album from Montreal based extreme metallers Kataklysm, sold around 2,400 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at position No. 7 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart and #196 on the Billboard Top 200 chart, making it the bands highest charting album and their biggest first week sales to date. Heatseekers lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

"On behalf of Kataklysm thank you for buying the album and keeping the support strong,” commented vocalist Maurizio Iacono. “We are close to two decades now since we started this band and now we are charting our highest positions ever, and in the US finally as well! Again, a sincere thank you!”

The "Heaven’s Venom" chart positions are as follows:

Austria #32
Germany #35
Switzerland # 53
USA # 196

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3 Comments on "Kataklysm Announces New Album Chart Positions"

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1. xDecapitation writes:

Kataklysm makes me proud to be Canadian. This album is epic.

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2. METAL213 writes:

Good for them, the deserve it for keeping awesome quality death metal alive

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3. grim_frost writes:

This Is Good...

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