After the colombian tour, the argentinian heavy metalers enter in the studio to the recording of the new album, it will be recorde in Buenos Aires, in a study closed, exclusive to the band.
The album is expect to be out in november, and it will be produced by guitarrist Walter Giardino.

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Rata Blanca

Acording to Magnament coordinator of Judas Priest, they will be not doing more shows this year in order to finnish the new album, that have is expect to be out at: 28/12/2004. They're also working on a new World Tour in early 2005.

www.judaspriest.com

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Judas Priest

Steve Tucker have decide to leave the band, David Vincent will be in charged of the vocals and bass, here is a message from Steve:

"After many problems and much discussion with the people around me, the people I trust. I have decided it is necessary for me to step away from Morbid Angel. It has been a long trip with a lot of great shows and I have made many friends along the way. The Morbid Angel fans that not only excepted me ,but reveled in my being a part of the band, have been the greatest thing about my time in Morbid Angel, they are the reason I came back to the band.

There are many reasons for me leaving the band, personal reasons, musical reasons and very logical reasons. All of which will stay between me and the band . Morbid Angel existed many years before I came along and will for many more I am sure.

I have enjoyed playing with some great musicians and touring with some great bands and meeting some incredible people all over the world. To all these people I say "Thank You" and we will meet again.

I am not done with the music business by any means, I will now be moving into other areas of the business, things I have always enjoyed, but didn't have time for. I will be moving into much more recording ,production and management, so any bands interested in working with me, feel free to contact me at hewhosleeps@hotmail.com .

Again ,Thank you to all of the fans for 8 years of making my hour and a half of stage time so brilliant!!! Tucker"

And in other hand the shows that were programed to south america have been changed to september

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Morbid Angel

September 13 will see the release of ELEND's new album "Sunwar The Dead", the second part of a cycle of five albums started with "Winds Devouring Men."
In contrast to the slow, relatively calm and intimist "Winds Devouring Men", "Sunwar the Dead" is a furious, dark and fast effort. Some of the tracks must be ranked as the most brutal ever composed by ELEND. On "Sunwar The Dead", ELEND are accompanied by a ensemble of more than 50 classically
trained musicians and singers.
"Sunwar The Dead" is going to feature the following tracks:

1. Chaomphalos
2. Ardour
3. Sunwar The Dead
4. Ares In Their Eyes
5. The Hemlock Sea
6. La terre n'aime pas le sang
7. A Song Of Ashes
8. Laceration
9. Poliorketika
10. Blood and Grey Skies Entwined
11. Threnos

http://www.prophecy.cd/

Interesting news from Prophecy Records website:

"GREEN CARNATION - Trilogy - LP box

GREEN CARNATION are inviting their fans to a special treat with their beautiful box set: "The Trilogy" contains all three of GREEN CARNATION's albums on heavy vinyl and with luxurious gatefold covers in a deluxe box. Especially the covers to ?Journey To The End Of The Night" and ?Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" finally show to their advantage in this format. We follow the Norwegians' musical voyage from their debut album ?Journey To The End Of The Night" via the second release ?Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" to their most recent work, ?A Blessing In Disguise". While ?Journey To The End Of The Night" (on which Tchort was helped by Vibeke from Tristania and the Botteri twins from In The Woods ?) was very much located in the Psychedelic Doom Metal area, ?Light Of Day, Day Of Darkness" features a blending of heavy doom guitars, orchestral arrangements and Progressive Rock influences. Finally, ?A Blessing In Disguise" reveals the melancholic Hard Rock side of GREEN CARNATION. In addition to these three albums, "The Trilogy" includes five previously unreleased acoustic versions of some tracks from the ?A Blessing In Disguise" album. In Europe, this box set is limited to 333 hand-numbered copies".

Source:	prophecy.cd
Band profile:	Green Carnation

From the official site:
Metal Blade have confirmed that they will release FATES WARNING's new album, FWX, on October 5th.
FWX was recorded in Stamford, Connecticut at Carriage House and will include the following song titles:
1. Left Here
2. Simple Human
3. River Wide Ocean Deep
4. Another Perfect Day
5. Heal Me
6. Sequence # 7
7. Crawl
8. A Handful Of Doubt
9. Stranger (With A Familiar Face)
10. Wish
www.fateswarning.com

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Fates Warning

Jordan Rudess' new solo album "Rhythm of Time" will be released by Magna Carta on August 31st, 2004. "Rhythm of Time" features Joe Satriani, Steve Morse, Vinnie Moore and Greg Howe on guitar, Dave LaRue on bass, Rod Morgenstein on drums and Kip Winger on vocals on two tracks.
The tracklist is the following:
1. Time Crunch
2. Screaming Head
3. Insectsamongus
4. Beyond Tomorrow (with Kip Winger)
5. Bar Hopping With Mr Picky
6. What Four
7. Ra
8. Tear Before The Rain (with Kip Winger)

Source:	dreamtheater.net
Band profile:	Dream Theater

The following message was sent by Michael Håkansson to the official site of the band:

"Greetings Clan members,
On the 9th of October we will record our first Live DVD here in Gothenburg. We will for sure make this is a night to remember. It will be the most glorious thing in Evergrey history and we feel that we want to have all of you there to help us make this night perfect. So all of you people from outside of Sweden who want to attend at this special night, send an email to me with the subject DVD and you will be put on a special guestlist for the show.
Stay Grey and we'll see you on October 9th!!!"

Source:	evergrey.net
Band profile:	Evergrey

Guitarist Christofer Malmström of Swedish thrashers DARKANE has posted the following message on his web site:

"It's going to be a busy autumn. Finally it seems like Peter's hands are healed and we can start the serious work on our upcoming album. All songs are written but never rehearsed and we are going to start rehearsing two new songs. A few days ago we did a show at a festival in the area where we live and it turned out very good! I would say all of us did a great performance considering that we haven't played together since November last year. The recording of the new album will start ASAP.

"The recording of my solo project will probably start in a few months or so. Ryan is busy with his DEVIN TOWNSEND BAND and other projects but will start recording as soon as he has learned the songs and is ready to go. It will be released next year anyway."

DARKANE's last studio album, "Expanding Senses", was released in 2002 through Nuclear Blast Records.

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Darkane

Finnish death metallers DEATH DU JOUR have completed work on their debut album, "Fragments of Perdition", due in September through Golden Lake Productions. The follow-up to the "Gamashinoch" EP was recorded at Pop-Studio with producer Mika Haapasalo. The complete track listing for the effort is as follows:

01. Grace by Chalice of Anger
02. Fragments of Perdition
03. Embittering Cicatricies
04. Harlot Deliverance (mp3)
05. Weakmeat Vortex
06. Satire of Caustic Lunacy
07. Triangle Gallows (mp3)
08. Dogma - The Suffering

DEATH DU JOUR and fellow Finns HATEFORM will support GODHATE and INSISION on their upcoming "Deathkampen 2" Finnish mini-tour in October. The dates are as follows:

Oct. 19 - Helsinki, FIN @ Semifinaali
Oct. 20 - TBA, FIN @ TBA
Oct. 21 - Joensuu, FIN @ Marks
Oct. 22 - Imatra, FIN @ Woodoo
Oct. 23 - Turku, FIN @ Bar Shadow

The grindcore band has finished the works on "Shift" that will be release in october, 2004. Nasum will include two new members in this release, they are: bassist Jon Lindqvist and guitarist Urban Skytt.

The band describes the album as: "a very fast and aggressive album with some of the fastest parts ever recorded by NASUM, but as usual, there is room for groove and nuances. In other words: classic NASUM grindcore."

After the release the band plans a tour of four weeks over Europe.

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Nasum

They plan to enter in the studios on August and released the album in early 2005, this are some worlds of the drummer Craing Nielsen:

"leaps and bounds heavier than the last four records combined, definitely a return to the bands roots but still with some ambient surprises that break up all the speed riffing. There seems to be an inspired vibe going on in the writing process that is taking on a life of its own."

Also the band it's going to take part on the "Thrash Domination 04", this are the confrimed dates:

Sep. 24 - Osaka, JPN @ Namba Hatch
Sep. 25 - Tokyo, JPN @ Club Citta
Sep. 26 - Tokyo, JPN @ Club Citta

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Flotsam And Jetsam

"The Empire are entering Studio 13 August 1st to begin recording their 4th Cd "METHOD OF EXECUTION" & will consist of 15 new songs of their own brand of pure extreme Southern Florida style Death Metal. "METHOD OF EXECUTION" is due to be released early '2005' through Olympic/Century Media."

http://metalasylum.com/divine/

The pagans metalers are going to released a new EP, still with no released date, but you can check some sound samples here: http://www.odroerir-fix.de/liedgut.htm and the cover art: http://www.odroerir-fix.de/coverep.gif

The band that recently decide not to continue, because of the loss of Valfar(founder and singer of the band), will do one last concert on his honour:

"Friday the 3rd of September there will be a last Windir concert. The concert will be at Rockefeller Arena in Oslo, Norway. The 3rd of September would have been Valfars 26th birthday, and we would like to honour his memory by doing one last show. Sture will be doing most of the Windir vocals. We are also glad to announce that 3 bands will be joining us this night. ENSLAVED, FINNTROLL & MINDGRINDER will be doing shows in honour of Valfar."

www.windir.no

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Windir