Italian doomsters Messa are pleased to reveal a new official video, combining two tracks from their latest Feast For Water release, "She Knows" and "Tulsi". A 12-minute long video clip was directed and shot by Laura Sans, and can be viewed down below.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Messa

Doom metal quartet Messa will tour over Europe this May together with Sabbath Assembly. A three week long run will also include several festival appearances: Dudefest (Karlsruhe), Deserfest London, Into The Abyss Festival (Wroclaw). The rest of confirmed club dates are available at the official tour flyer below.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Messa
Event:	Sabbath Assembly & Messa: Blood And Water European Tour 2019

One-woman black metal project Myrkur always seems to generate a lot of discussions, maybe because she is a woman in a predominantly male dominated genre, maybe because she gets a lot of attention. Whatever the cause may be, things has been taken too far now as Myrkur, aka Amalie Bruun, has posted online about getting tired of receiving death threats via Facebook. Bruun doesn't blame the metal community as a whole but points out that those threats and messages are coming mostly from American men and occasionally Eastern European.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Myrkur

British heavy metal band Tokio Blade have posted the following video and message about their return to the scene:

Warmest Hello to all Tokyo Blade Fans and supporters.

We are officially announcing . . .
~TOKYO BLADE'S RETURN~

Tokyo Blade is well known in all of Europe since their formation in 1981, and are rapidly building popularity in the United States.

Tokyo Blade is preparing to make their 11th album with legendary metal record producer, Chris Tsangerides. The album will be released this year 2010 with 4 of the original Tokyo Blade members . . .

Andy Boulton (guitar, founder and band leader),
John Wiggins (guitar)
Andy Wrighton (bass),
Steve Pierce (drums)
and ANNOUNCING THE NEW VOICE OF TOKYO BLADE . . . .
Nicolaj Ruhnow (from Domain and Nick Hellfort)

ARE YOU READY FOR THE HEAVY METAL EXPERIENCE YOU HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR?!
WITH THE POWERFUL VOCAL ENERGY BEHIND NICK RUHNOW AND THE POWERFUL ENERGY BEHIND THE BOYS OF TOKYO BLADE, THERE'S NO STOPPING THEM!
ARE YOU READY TO RIDE THE HEAVY METAL HIGHWAY THAT'LL ROCK YOUR WORLD?!!

To further improve this experience for the new Album, we have legendary producer "The DARK LORD" himself, Chris Tsangarides!
Chris Tsangarides, as you know, is a British Grammy nominated record producer who is known for his work with many heavy metal bands, including Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Anvil, DIO, Thin Lizzy, Helloween and many many more.

With the Management Team of Lozen Brown Bear and Joe "Bear" DeVito, there are no stones unturned... ALL FOR YOU !!!!!

This new Album has been long in waiting, the fans waiting to exhale in anticipation.
A new Album, music videos and promotions galore!

STAY TUNED FOR MORE UPDATES! UNTIL THEN STAY HEAVY! STAY METAL!

Whew, they sure do seem excited...

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Source:	Joe "Bear" DeVito
Band profile:	Tokyo Blade

The title for the upcoming Cover album will be "Diamonds Unlocked" and will be released by SPV Sept./Oct. this year. The band will be in the studio starting next week on April 2nd.

Also today, Axel Rudi Pell has posted the following message on his official web site:

"We will record 11 songs, 10 cover versions and 1 self written Intro. I saw a few song suggestions from the fans here in the guestbook... but, hey... this will be a record containing songs which hadn't been covered much. Also it is not my intention to record songs from other "real" Metal bands (with 1 or 2 exceptions), because the songs ARE already "metal". We wanna show how songs from other music genres could sound when a Hardrock or Classicrock Band is covering em. That doesn't mean that the record will be strange sounding....no way !!! It will be typically ARPish and you´ll not be disappointed, believe me !!!!"

Source:	axel-rudi-pell.de
Band profile:	Axel Rudi Pell

Nightwish's ex-singer Tarja Turunen has posted following message in her homesite:

Since last Sunday morning, I have been asked to express my position by magazines, newspapers, radio and TV stations, fan clubs and fans from Finland and from all over the world. So many in total that it is physically impossible for me to find the time to reply to them all individually. Hence I decided to put down a couple of words in this text to let my fans, family and friends and the public know how I feel after the recent events.

This is a moment of grief and pain and I find it very hard to speak.

At the moment I am in Argentina. I hope you can understand that after this shocking life change comparable to a divorce, I didn't want to stay alone at home in Finland. My husband had booked his tickets to Argentina many months ago and I decided to travel with him at the last minute.

But the fact that I am in Argentina and the long distance should of course not be an excuse not to comment on the situation.

Last Friday 21st of October was a day the whole band had been waiting for a long time.

Practice started early in the morning. I was very sick and nervous because of the fact that I was not even able to sing during the rehearsals.

Also nervous because the concert programme was going to be longer than usual for a Nightwish concert. Furthermore we were going to have a special guest to perform with us, more wardrobe changes for myself than usual and for the first time big screens and bigger production on stage.

Not to forget that the concert was going to be recorded and filmed.

The five of us had finally made it to play Hartwall Arena.

Even though every one of us knew in advance that the concert was sold out, finally on stage, we saw that screaming, applauding and standing people took every seat. The feeling was unbelievable.

I will never forget how amazing it was to experience the Finnish audience's gorgeous reception.

When the concert was over, I cried of happiness on stage. Happy tears because I was able to do my best as always even though I was sick. Happy tears because our long tour got the greatest possible ending and happy tears because of the best recognition an artist can get: applause and smiling faces.

At that moment I didn't know that I was going to cry again soon.

After the concert, the guys of the band invited me backstage to join them and asked me to hug altogether. This felt strange as it was the same kind of hug we traditionally came together for before every concert. That tradition remained between us, even though the tension and increasing pressure already existed since a long period of time.

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Source:	tarjaturunen.com
Band profile:	Nightwish

"First of all from the bottum of our hearts we wish you lots of love, health and joy in 2005! Furthermore we want to thank you so much for your faith, your support and your believe in us, which made it possible, that Lacrimosa is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year!! Sincere gratitude!!

As mentioned earlier, we are at the studio right now, recording our anniversary-album... and already now we can promise, that it's gonna be an exceptional album! Addinional we will play a large-scaled tour and some more surprises are to come this year...!

Into this senses we look upon the future with great expectations!
Tilo Wolff
Anne Nurmi"

www.lacrimosa.com

Band profile:

Lacrimosa

Happy New Year everyone,
First of all, we want to apologize to all the God Forbid fans who were looking forward to seeing us in Pittsburgh as part of the Stillborn Fest. Our transportation broke down and we couldn't make it. We promise to do a make up show in March-April.
2004 has been the best year we have had as a band with a trek on Ozzfest as well as first time tours in mainland Europe and Japan. We'd like to thank Century Media worldwide, Tim and Face the Music Touring, Paul Ryan at the Agency Group, everyone at the Syndicate, and all of the bands we've played with this year. Most of all we have to thank all of the fans who have shown such amazing support. With out the people who attend the concerts, buy the records, and appreciate the music, we wouldn't be doing this.
We'll start work on "IV:Constitution of Treason" at the start of the new year, and I have to say that we are extremely excited. We have never been this comfortable or had this much material already writtten going into writing sessions, so it should be a quick and painless process. There are plans for a headline US and UK tour coming up. We'll see everyone on tour in early 2005! Peace.
Doc

Band profile:

God Forbid

A new message was recently posted on the Pär Lindh Project's website:

"Sunday November 7th it was exactly ten years since the first PLP album Gothic Impressions was released on Sunset Boulevard LA in connection with Progfest 1994.
Next week november 18th this legendary CD will be re-released as a new re-edition with new mixing and mastering. Musical parts has been reworked as well with new vocals on two tracks, new drums on one track and lots of new choir has been added.
The booklet has also been extended to a 20 pages full colour deluxe booklet with partly new artwork.
On 4th December we will have a re-release party here in Uppsala. Devoted PLP fans are welcome to participate. Please give us notice beforehand via e-mail if you are interested.

Very best regards

Pär Lindh"

more info on:
http://www.parlindh.com/
http://www.crimsonic.com/

Taken from Lacrimosa website:

"From the buttom of my heart I want to thank everyone who believed in me and in Snakeskin and with that supported this new side-project, nevertheless the music is very dark and sometimes unpleasant!! This means very much to me as you express therewith how much my music and its contents mean to you!!
And for those who still have prejudice against Snakeskin I hope that you one day will learn that emotional art does not exist in limitations!
I wish you all a beautiful and intensive autumn and for those who live on the other side of the planet
I wish you a beautiful and not too hot summer!
Tilo Wolff"

Source:	lacrimosa.de
Band profile:	Lacrimosa

From "The End Records" website:
A message from the band/Tomer: "It's been awhile since my last up-date and as always, there is a lot going on with Subterranean Masquerade.For starters you need to know that "Suspended Animation Dreams" is now a reality and is scheduled to be released via The End Records early next year.I can't even start to describe the joy in completing this mission; the album was a burden on me for quite some time and recording it was one of the most challenging things I have ever done.As for the music, I can honestly say that every song on the album has its own personality, every song is special, search what you looking for and you shall find it: Jazz Folk, Extreme Metal, Progressive, Alternative, Psychedelic, you name it? there is some really cool instrumentations and musicians on the album as well; Harmonica, Dulcimer, percussions, bells, grand piano, Hammond organ, choir, lots of guest appearances and spoken words passages, shredding guitar solos, Horns and so much more ?Like I said, something for everyone!
In addition, Neil Kernon did a hell of a job organizing this album and blessing it with a crystal clear sound quality and Travis Smith is preparing a perplexing cover art, his most unique and special work yet! Double the pleasure."

http://label.theendrecords.com/

A message from this excellent progressive band from Norway, posted on their website by Jacob:

"One down, a few more to go
So last night we played at Ås. Sort of a hard place to find, but we got there eventually, and we had a really nice time playing there. A very friendly vibe from the audience, and a relaxed vibe on stage as well. So thanks to Alf Haakon and to the people who showed up. By the way, we saw some cameras flashing. If anyone has some pics from Galleri Texas they want to send us, feel free! I don't believe anyone associated with the band took pictures that night. Next up are the gigs in Kristiansand and Trondheim, but we still don't have the confirmed dates, so stand by. You may already have heard that Lars' other band, Wobbler, has been confirmed for NEARfest 2005. Congrats to the band. And to anyone considering going to NEARfest - do it for Wobbler. They are worth it".

http://www.whitewillow.net/