February 23, 2010

Polish Thrashers CHAIN REACTION will release their second album "Cutthroat Melodies" in May 2010 via Kolony Records in Europe. The band has also been confirmed for Latvian Fonofest (July 9-10, 2010). Further information: www.chainreaction.pl, www.fonofest.com

The second KOLONY METAL FEST will take place on the 12th of June 2010 in Brescia (near Milan, Northern Italy). The first confirmed act is De Profundis from the UK. Two more foreign and two more Italian acts will be confirmed on a later date. For more info and updates visit www.kolonyrecords.com.

The 3rd PERSEFONE album "Shin-Ken" was released beginning of February. The band will start their tour with Obituary on the 4th of March and will play 15 gigs in Holland, Belgium, UK, France, Germany, Slovenia, Switzerland and Italy. PERSEFONE have also been confirmed for the Hungarian Metalfest Open Air (May 23, 2010) and Dong Open Air (July 23-24, 2010). More info at www.myspace.com/persefoneband, www.metalfest.eu, http://dong.walismus.de/en/main

Israeli Extreme Metallers SALEM has officially released the brand new track ‘Drums Of The Dead Part 1’ on the band’s official Myspace page www.myspace.com/salemband, taken off the upcoming new album entitled "Playing God And Other Short Stories".