Textures Confirmed For "Suffer And Die!" Tour

Dutch math-metal band TEXTURES has been confirmed on the "Suffer and Die! Tour" featuring European death metal butchers ABORTED and German deathcore band NEAERA. The latest confirmed tour dates are as follows:

15/10/08 – DE – Hannover @ Musikzentrum
16/10/08 – DE – Würzburg @ AKW
17/10/08 – DE – Passau @ Metalinvasion
18/10/08 – AUT – Wien @ Viper Room
19/10/08 – DE – München @ Feierwerk
20/10/08 – CH – Aarau @ Kiff
21/10/08 – DE – Stuttgart @ Landespavillon
22/10/08 – DE – Trier @ Ex-Haus
23/10/08 – DE – Köln @ Werkstatt
25/10/08 – BE – Leffinge @ Den Zwerver
26/10/08 - NL - Den Bosh @ W2

New French and Dutch tour dates will follow.

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Tyrant To Tour With At The Gates, New Song Online

After having slaughtered stages at the Hole In The Sky and Partysan festivals, TYRANT will be embarking on a tour with AT THE GATES and GRAND MAGUS in Sweden. The band released their debut album "Reclaim The Flame" last year and completed a European tour with GORGOROTH.

TYRANT is working on a split LP with ALEHAMMER. Their new song from this split, "Hell To Pay," is available on the band's myspace in a very rough mix version.

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Download A New Dagoba MP3 of "Back From Life"

With DAGOBA's new album, "Face the Colossus," being released in the coming weeks (September 29th in Europe and October 14th in the US), Season of Mist has made a full song off the album in MP3 format available for download. You can download the "Back From Life" song here. You can also hear the song on the band and label's MySpace profiles.

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Skindred Completes Filming "Trouble" Video

SKINDRED has wrapped filming the video for their new single, "Trouble." Filmed this past weekend in London at Greenford Studios, the video was helmed by Ray Moody of Visual Abuse. Moody's previous credits include visual effects on the Academy Award winning, "Saving Private Ryan," the first four "Harry Potter" films, as well as over 600 commercials including promos for Keane, Radiohead and Nine Inch Nails.

"Trouble" will impact radio on September 23rd with the video expected to make its world premiere shortly after.

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Live To Die Taps As The Kingdom Falls Guitarist

Frederick, MD metal band Live To Die has announced the addition of their new guitarist, Mike, from local band As The Kingdom Falls. Here's the announcement from the band themselves:

"We're very happy to announce that our newest addition to the band, Mike (a.k.a Driz) from As The Kingdom Falls. We've been working hard to get him up to speed with all of our songs, and writing new stuff as well so keep an eye out for some new tunes coming soon! We're booking shows for October and November so be sure to check those out. It might be the only time you can check out the new music until winter!"

You can hear some of the band's material on their MySpace page.

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Great White Offers $1 Million To Settle Fire Suits

Great White has agreed to pay $1 million to the victims' relatives and survivors of the tragic fire at the Rhode Island nightclub, The Station, which took the lives of 100 people in February of 2003. The settlement must meet the approval of more than 300 people who have filed suit and does not mean the band admits any wrongdoing in the tragic event.

The settlement, covered by Great White's insurer, would cover tour manager Daniel Biechele, lead singer Jack Russell, the record label, band members, manager, and management company of the band at the time of the fire.

Around $175 million has now been offered by dozens of defendants to settle lawsuits over the fire, including foam companies, the radio station that ran advertisements for the concert, the club owners and the local fire marshal who failed to cite the club for the foam on the walls and ceilings. Last month, the state of Rhode Island and the town of West Warwick each agreed to settle for $10 million.

Read the full article at Billboard.com.

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Dawn Of Desolation To Post New EP as Free Download

Maryland's Dawn Of Desolation have issued the following update regarding the release of their new EP as a free download:

"Ok first and foremost our biggest goal in this band is to make some brutal heavy music, and hope that the majority of you enjoy it. We also are not interested in making a ton of money really fast either. All of us in this band our huge supporters of the file sharing and understand that it is just another tool in getting your name out there. Here lately you have seen a lot of major bands starting to release their new stuff through their websites completely for free. So we have all decided since you guys have been nothing but awesome to us its time we repay you. We are gonna release the EP FOR FREE! That's right as we get each track done it will be posted up for you to download. Also we intend to have a lot of little extras as well for you to get (wallpapers, more banners, recording diary... etc). Once we have the entire thing done we intend to have some people we know release it through a lot of major torrent sites as well, but you will be able to get it here first. Once again thank you guys for being so awesome to us and look for finished versions of songs up in the near future."

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Black Succubi Comments On New Release

Scandinavian melodic metal act Black Succubi from Denmark have released their debut album and it is now available from iTunes.com and common Danish pay sites. The album has noticeable guest appearances by Hank Shermann (Mercyful Fate, Force of Evil), Kirk Backarach (IronFire) and California based female rocker Rachelle Ramm and the band have already received positive and supporting reviews online and in magazines.

"After an unsteady beginning with several line-up changes, we have finally found our sound and musical style. The music on the album connects our past with today and songs like Troubled Times and Dark Side shows us the way forward", says Swedish drummer Jens B. who is also known from legendary Fate (MTM Music/Replica Records) and Martie Peters Group (Sheer Class Music).

In June Black Succubi signed a promotional deal with Two Side Moon Promotion in England and are currently working on material for the follow up to their debut album. In conjunction with the release the band have updated their website at blacksuccubi.dk with a new design and lots of content including liner notes and lyrics for the digitally released album. Music samples and video are also available from the website as well as biography and press info.

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Another Black Day To Perform Live On Mancow's Show

ANOTHER BLACK DAY will be the featured performer on the nationally syndicated "Mancow Morning Show" on Friday, October 17th.

"Mancow" is the one radio show with 18-34 & 25-54 demos, and can be heard in 32 markets from San Francisco to Miami Beach every weekday morning from 5:30 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. CST.

ANOTHER BLACK DAY released their self-titled debut album in May via Bieler Bros. Records. The album features the top twenty smash, "Wicked Soul," as well as the second single, currently catching fire at radio, "Another Black Day."

Beginning October 3rd in Sauget, Illinois, ANOTHER BLACK DAY will be hitting the road with Five Finger Death Punch, In This Moment and Bury Your Dead for a coast to coast trek.

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