Guitarist Martin Haglund has decided to leave Astral Doors. Martin explains:

"This decision has not been easy to make, but its needed. I have reached a point where I feel I have to focus more on my kids and support them in their hobbies and interests, by doing that I'm not able to give Astral Doors 100%. I don´t want to be the one that´s holding the band back so I let go. I will continue playing, writing and record music but on a more suitable level. I´ll keep the metal flowing that´s for sure.

Being a member of Astral Doors has given me experiences and memories that I'll bring to the grave. I am truly proud of my time in Astral Doors and what we have accomplished and brought to the hard-rock scene. Thanks and hugs to all of you! Now Astral Doors will reload and hit you harder then ever."

Nils Patrik Johansson, singer of Astral Doors comments: "Martin is a great guy and we wish him all the best. He did a great job with the mixing of our previous album that's for sure. Hope the job he did with that album will open a lot of doors for him as a producer."

Astral Doors will not bring in a new guitar player in the band to replace Martin; Joachim Nordlund (founding member of Astral Doors, together with Johan Lindstedt and Nils Patrik Johansson) will from now on handle all guitars himself.

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Astral Doors have released a new song, entitled "Call Of The Wild". The song comes off of the band's upcoming effort Requiem Of Time, which will be released in mid-January next year. "Call Of The Wild" can be streamed here. Also an album teaser can be heard at the same location.

Requiem Of Time cover art] tracklist:

01. Testament Of Rock
02. Power And The Glory
03. Rainbow Warrior
04. Call Of The Wild
05. St. Peter's Cross
06. So Many Day So Many Nights
07. Blood River
08. Anthem Of The Dark
09. Metal DJ
10. Fire And Flame
11. Greenfield Of Life
12. The Healer
13. Evil Spirits Fly
14. When Darkness Comes

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Swedish metallers Astral Doors have issued the following update:

"It's about time that we give you all a real update of what's happening in the Astral Kingdom at the moment.

We've received many mails from worried fans asking us where we are and why it's so quiet from us right now. Well, the answer is: we're working harder than ever before, but not public.

We have actually moved into the studio, writing and recording songs for the upcoming album. We have written 20 songs ot something at the moment and more will come. The creativity has never been at this level before, so we will continue the work a few more months before we go to mixing.

What more to say? Well, our new management Flying Dolphin, with Mr.Chris Boltendahl in the lead, does a great job for us and we feel that the future looks very, very promising. In August we'll come up with a big surprise for you and then a new album and a great tour all across Europe.

So, there you have it: the present and the future of Astral Doors!

In Rock We Trust,

/The Band"

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Swedish metallers Astral Doors have issued the following studio report:

"We have started writing songs for the upcoming album which will be released mid-September 2009 on Locomotive Records. The sessions so far have been just great; it's business as usual. Our goal with all our albums has always been to create world-class hard rock and the same goes for this one: when the album is recorded, pressed and released we wanna say: Fuck, we created a monster! Stay in touch for updates and gossip from the recordings. "

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The following message was posted on Astral Doors's official website:

"As you can see here, the new cover for our upcoming album "New Revelation" is done. It was created by the Germany company Killustrations (cover here).
We've uploaded one full song and 2 samples for you to check out of "New Revelation". The full song is the title-track. We're very curious to hear your opinion on it, so feel free to leave us a comment in the guestbook or on our new forum (which should be online within the next few days)." (You can find these samples on a jukebox by clicking here).

"New Revelation" tracklisting:

01. New Revelation
02. Freedom War
03. Pentecostal Bound
04. Bastard Son
05. Waiting For The Master
06. Planet Earth
07. Quisling
08. Cold War Survivor
09. The Gates Of Light
10. Shores Of Solitude
11. Mercenary Man
12. Lament Of The East (bonus track Japan)
13. 21st Century Medieval (bonus track Japan) *

Europe / USA: Locomotive Music, September 2007
Japan: King Records, October 2007

Recorded at: Big Turn Studio and at The Darkside, Borlange, Sweden
Mixed at: Abyss Studios, Sweden by Peter Tägtgren & Astral Doors
Mastered at: Tailormaid Productions by Peter In De Betou
Produced by: Astral Doors
* Mixed by Martin Haglund at The Darkside
Artwork: www.killustrations.com
Layout by: Claus Jensen

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Swedish band Astral Doors released today their new EP entitled "Raiders Of The Ark" through Locomoitive Music.

The trackilist is as follow:

1. Raiders Of The Ark
2. Easy Rider
3. Far Beyond The Astral Doors
4. Another Day In Hell
5. Moonstruck Woman
6. Time To Rock (video)

Also the band is preparing their upcoming Full Lenght "Astralism".

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locomotiverecords.com & astraldoors....

"The mixing process of the new album is almost finished and it sounds killer.
The Astral Doors were at a photo session the other night and it could have ended up in a disaster. Som technical equipment caught fire right in front of us. Fortunately we discovered the fire at an early stage and took care of it but the equipment got destroyed. Scary shit !"

http://www.astraldoors.com/