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The follow up to EVOCATION‘s highly acclaimed debut-classic "Tales From The Tomb" is entitled "Dead Calm Chaos" and will be released on Halloween 2008 on CD and LP. The album was recorded by the band in their own studio under the supervising eyes of guitar player Vesa who previously has also been working with SUICIDAL WINDS. The tracklist reads like thiss: ‘In The Reign Of Chaos’, ‘Silence Sleep’, ‘Angel Of Torment’ (featuring Anders Björler of At the Gates / The Haunted), ‘Boundead’, ‘Dead Calm Chaos’, ‘Truth Will Come Clear’, ‘Dust’, ‘Protected By What Gods’, ‘Antidote’ (featuring Dan Swanö of Bloodbath / Edge of Sanity), ‘Tomorrow Has No Sunrise’, ‘Astray Masquerade’ and ‘Razored To The Bone’ (featuring Anders Björler of At the Gates / The Haunted).
With the new material for the second longplayer "The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams" US underground Death Metallers FUNEBRARUM suddenly got the attention of Cyclone Empire where the band finally signed a contract. "The Sleep Of Morbid Dreams" is scheduled for a release in early 2009.
Swedens PAGANIZER will release their new MCD "Scandinavian Warmachine" on Cyclone Empire in early 2009. Also their long-time recorded last album "Carnage Junkie" will finally be released on Vic Records this November. "Scandinavian Warmachine" will feature the following tracks: ‘Forever Scorn’, ‘Scandinavian Warmachine’, ‘The Flesh’, ‘Colder’, ‘Thule In Flames’, ‘Distracting The Gods To Enable The Slaughter Of Millions’, ‘An Icon For The Damned’ and ‘Crusader’.
DEMONICAL will fully concentrate on their second, as of yet, untitled full-length album which will be recorded during November and December at Necromorbus Studios for a release in April 2009.
Australia’s GOSPEL OF THE HORNS have split up. Here’s the official statement from Howitzer: "After 16 years of beer sweat and hell, I have decided to bring Gospel of the Horns to an end. We would like to thank the many friends we have made around the world during our journey… and hail to Darragh from Invictus for his unending support. He has given GOSPEL every opportunity to drive our thrashing mayhem out to all. The time is right to move on to new horizons, and we are content in knowing that we have given everything we had in our arsenal. Our final show will be on the 7th December 2008 with GRAVE in our home town of Melbourne. This show will be one hell of a mighty occasion! Give em hell."
SADISTIC INTENT‘s rare "Resurrection Of The Ancient Black Earth" LP (originally released anno 2000 via Iron Pegasus Records) will be available on CD soon. It will include the "Resurrection" and "Ancient Black Earth" mini albums plus the track ‘Morbid Faith’ from the equally hard to find 7".
Necrotic Records is going to re-release the latest productions from Gentle Exhuming Records: MORTAL FUNGUS "Back To The Lombrosary", TRANSIENCY "Manqualm" and WORLD FUNERAL "Caledarium Et Frigidarium". Check out Necrotic Records on MySpace: www.myspace.com/necrotic_records
Israel’s symphonic Black Metallers DAGOR DAGORATH have published a new song entitled ‘Heaven In Hell’ on their official myspace site www.myspace.com/dagordagorath. The track was taken from the band’s debut album "Yetzer Ha’Ra". The artwork is made by Greek artist Seth Siro Anton (Moonspell, Vader, Belphegor, Paradise Lost). The tracklist of the album reads like this: ‘The Hell In Heaven’, ‘The Devil On The Chain’, ‘Heaven In Hell’, ‘The Maze Of Madness’, ‘Vicious Circle’, ‘The Call’ and ‘Wind Cry’.
AMON AMARTH‘s new album ‘Twilight Of The Thunder God’ landed on position 6 on the official German longplay charts, which marks the highest chart entry in the history of the band as well as Metal Blade Europe.
A new SIX FEET UNDER track called ‘Shot In The Head’, from their upcoming new album "Death Rituals", has its debut exclusively on BraveWords.com’s KnuckleTracks Online Audio Player from October 6th until the 12th. The album’s limited first edition for Europe will be exclusively released as a digipak and features three live songs recorded at the With Full Force and Summer Breeze festivals this year. The songs are: ‘Revenge Of The Zombie’, ‘Victim Of The Paranoid’ and ‘Human Target’. "Death Rituals" saw the band returning to Morrisound studios in Tampa, FL with Chris Carroll at the helm with mixing duties being handled by Toby Wright (Slayer, Korn, In Flames, Fear Factory, etc.) and the return of SIX FEET UNDER’s old friend Bill Metoyer, who recorded the bands CD "Warpath", helping out with recording of the drums. "Death Rituals" will be released on November 14 in Germany / Austria / Switzerland / Italy and on November 17 in the rest of Europe.
GOD DETHRONED have finished the songwriting for their upcoming new album. Here’s an official comment from the band: "We’re ready! We finished 8 songs for our new album "Passiondale". Those of you who are fans of our "Bloody Blasphemy" and "The Lair Of The White Worm" albums can take a deep breath now and wait out the time until the album comes out. Cause this motherfucker brings back all the good things you liked so much. Bringing back Roel to the band after all these years was a good idea. His drumming gave us the right vibe to come up with the stuff we needed for so long. We’re really happy about the results and we can’t wait to start tracking down those songs. We start recording on October 13th in the Soundlodge Studios in Germany." The album is a concept album about World War I and the song titles are ‘Under A Darkening Sky’, ‘Behind Enemy Lines’, ‘Drowning In Mud’, ‘No-Man’s Land’, ‘Passiondale’, ‘Poison Fog’, ‘Fallen Empires’ and ‘Artifacts Of The Great War’. It is to be expected for release in April / May 2009.
Despite the hurricane devastation to the city of Houston, Texas the DESTROYING TEXAS FEST will still go on at the White Swan on November 22, 2008 with headliners BLOODSTORM and the addition of MORBOSIDAD to the line up of NECROHOLOCAUST, GNOSTIC, BAPHOMETS HORNS, NODENS, ADUMUS, TO SCALE THE THRONE and OBEISANCE. All for only $15 Dollars.
SLAUGHTER vocalist / guitarist Dave Hewson has just posted the following sad news: "I just wanted to let everyone know that longtime drummer for SLAUGHTER and STRAPPADO, Brian Lourie, has died of a heart attack at the young age of 39. Brian was one of the best people I have ever met and was a huge part of SLAUGHTER joining in 1987-88 ’till we disbanded in 1992. His sense of humor and love for life made him such a wonderful person who will be greatly missed. I will try to release more info as it comes. Love you, bro." Rest in peace Brian!
Germany’s RESURRECTED have composed all songs for the still untitled follow up to "Endless Sea Of Loss" and are scheduled to enter Catacomb Productions for the recordings beginning of October. The drum recordings will start on October 7th.
"Pure Fucking Mayhem" is the title of a MAYHEM DVD documentary by Stefan Rydehed, clearly focussing on the years 1984-1993 with their tales of unrelenting, brutal Black Metal and bloody crimes. Including exclusive interviews with, amongst others, Necro Butcher, Attila Csihar and Manheim, this documentary attains a maximum of authenticity and with rich, often unreleased footage, it brings MAYHEM’s infamous story to gruesome life. As a bonus the release also features an audio CD with eight tracks of calm and eerie piano music inspired by MAYHEM and other Black Metal classics. The release is scheduled for November 2008. For more info check out www.index-verlag.org
PESTILENCE will enter Jacob Hansen Studios in mid October to record their new album "Resurrection Macabre", which is going to be released in 2009 by Mascot Records. The band will record 11 new songs and 3 bonus tracks for the limited edition. The bonustracks will be 3 re-recorded classic PESTILENCE songs and you can vote for your favourite song at the band’s website www.pestilence.nl.
POSSESSED singer Jeff Becerra became very ill while touring in Europe. The group, now featuring Jeff Becerra on vocals and SADISTIC INTENT backing him up, was touring in preparation for the Hole In The Sky Festival. Jeff has been wheel chair bound for more than 18 years since he was shot and paralyzed in a street robbery. A pressure sore became infected on the tour, which was a very ambitious tour for a healthy person, let alone someone with a number of special needs, but Jeff felt compelled to follow the rigorous schedule. The infection spread to his bones, and soon he was unable to move, the band rushed him to a Helsinki hospital who had home flown to Paris for medical care, but Parisian doctors did not want to deal with such a sick American and they had him flown to LA where he spend nearly 20 days in a hospital on a strong course of antibiotics. Jeff is now resting in his family’s care until he can beat the illness. While filming for a documentary, filmmakers Shane and Amy Bugbee joined forces with Jeff in a acoustical music project Re-Possessed, they have posted some behind the scenes footage as well as an interview and more info on Jeff and his illness at www.myspace.com/repossessed2112. Jeff and his family will be checking the site daily and any and all Jeff Becerra updates can be found there. The documentary film and book featuring Jeff Becerra, Gene Hoglan, Mike Williams and other Metal luminaries will be out this Thanksgiving. We at Voices HQ wish Jeff a quick recovery!
The new MANDATORY full-length album "Adrift Beyond" (which is already completely recorded for some weeks now) is still waiting to be mixed. If one of the interested labels will finally get back to them, Dan Swanö might be hired for the job. Otherwise the band will either do the mix on their own or through Armin of PAVOR. For more info check out www.myspace.com/mandatory1989
DEMONICAL‘s second – yet untitled – full-length album will be recorded during November and December at Necromorbus Studios for a release in April 2009.