Danish Thrashers Hatesphere have issued the following statement on their official website:

"Heinz is no longer part of HateSphere. The decision was made long time ago, and we have therefore known it for a long time. There is no bad blood in the split - Heinz simply don't like the touring part of music anymore - so we want to thank him for a great time in the band and wish him the best of luck in the future.
No need to worry as we have found a more than fitting replacement. Jakob from fellow Danish metallers, Dawn of Demise + Koldborn, is taking over the guitar duty in the band emidiately. We have known Jakob for a long time, and we are looking forward to finally hitting the big stages with him! Welcome to the band!
Your first chances to see him in action will be on our upcoming tours with Behemoth and Dimmu Borgir. Jakob has already played a show in Essen(DE) with us - watch the video here. /Hatesphere

Heinz' official statement:
At the 25th of August I played my last show with Hatesphere at the Elsrock Festival in Holland. The reason that Im leaving Hatesphere after 5+ years of hard work and boozin' fun on the road is simply that its time for me to try new things in life. It was probably one of the hardest decisions I ever took, but I know that this is the right choice for me and the band. Life is all about being true to yourself and do what you love doing right now.
My time in Hatesphere has given me so many great moments with the guys in the band and all the people who belive in us and came to our shows during the past 5 years. So a big cheers and thank you to all the bands I've toured with, all you fans who came out to join the party with us, but most of all to my friends Bredahl, Pepe, Mixen, Gyldenøhr, Mikael, Dennis, Mads, Tue, Rasmus and Tolderen for all the good times we´ve shared on the road and in the studio. /Heinz"

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Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

Hate Eternal is proud to announce the newest member to its family, Shaune Kelley, joining the band as the second guitarist.

Leader Erik Rutan comments on the official band's website:

"Shaune and I played together in for Ripping Corpse for over 5 years before my involvement in Morbid Angel and Hate Eternal, and have been friends for over 20 years. I am totally ecstatic to have Shaune in the band and recreate a guitar team that always connected on all fronts. Shaune's contribution to the new record will be tremendous as well as touring that will follow. It will be the first time Hate Eternal will actually be a four piece live band, due to other situations never working out.

Rehearsals have been amazing jamming with Alex, Jade, and Shaune for the last couple of months at Mana Studios. The new songs are finished and sounding awesome! We have spent much more time on the preparation of this new album on all fronts compared to our past releases and the results have provided a much more focused and deeper layered results (more solos, yes!). We start recording the drums on August 21st and then following through, finishing by mid October for an early 2008 Metal Blade release."

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Source:	hateeternal.com
Band profile:	Hate Eternal

Hate Eternal have announced their new permanent drummer. Jade Simonetto is now their full member of the band. Jade has been working with the band lately, but has just now been given a full position. In further Hate Eternal news, new details about an upcoming album have been announced.

Vocallist/guitarist Erik Rutan made the following comments on the band's official website: "Jade and I have been working together for six months or so, and his incredible skill and dedication to extreme drumming and groove has made him the perfect drummer for Hate Eternal. We gel on everything from all the old songs to the new and the creativity process has been amazing. Working with Jade on the new songs, there is so much diversity and signature drumming to the melodies and riffs.

We have been in the middle of preproduction right now for weeks and will doing preproduction till the end of August. We will then start recording the drum tracks for our album! I am super excited about the new material and Alex is coming up with some incredible bass lines! This album is covering a lot more ground than we have previously and I am excited about jamming with Jade and Alex, and a surprise in the works! A lot more groove and diversity in an extreme way. We will record and mix between now and October, with an early 2008 release on Metal Blade. I will keep you updated!"

Source:	hateeternal.com
Band profile:	Hate Eternal

The following message was posted on Hatesphere's official website:

"Now it is official: Anders and Mikael is no longer in the band.
We played the last show with them this tuesday - as support for mighty Megadeth.
We have known for a long time, that they would leave, so we kind of was getting used to it -
but it still was a weird feeling playing that last show with them. And a great show it was!

Anders and Mikael, thanks for all the good, the bad and the drunk times!

Picture of ancient line-up here.

The madness will go on.
The rumors about a split up, and rumors about this and that, is a part of the game I guess.
You know, people talk - people wants to be a part of this thing, and then people start spreading lies about the whole situation and bla bla bla...
We know the truth - and that´s enough for us. Who would ever believe the guy who beats up his girlfriend anyway..?
We knew this would start all kinds of shittalking and bla bla bla... And spcially now we are aware of it...
So, what to say?..maybe Go fuck yourself!

This band will continue as HateSphere.
We have lots of new adventures in the future. Lots of great shows, festivals and so on.
And so far we will continue with these two guys you see on the mugshot below.
On drums we got Dennis Buhl and on bass we got Mixen Lindberg.
Welcome!

Picture of new line-up here.

See you all out there - have a Serpent Summer

All the best
Jacob and the leftovers".

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Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

The new video for 'Forever War' has been made available for download at the media section of the official Hatesphere website.
The songs comes off the Danish Thrashers' latest effort "Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes", which was released on April 27.

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Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

Acclaimed Death Metal act Hate Eternal has parted ways with bassist Randy Piro. "I am at a crossroads in my life and I feel the need to change direction," Randy writes in a statement. "I will be devoting my creativity to Gigan and my schooling.

"From the deepest pits of my heart I thank Erik Rutan, Derek Roddy, Jared Anderson (may he rest in peace), and everyone in the Hate Eternal family for believing in my abilities, and bestowing upon me the honor of playing in one of the most extreme bands the world has ever heard.

"Hate Eternal has played a massive role in my life, and I will always look upon my time spent jamming with Erik and Derek with warm emotions. I wish Erik Rutan and the band the world and its spoils, for the Hate truly is Eternal..."

Hate Eternal leader Erik Rutan added: "Randy and I both thought this was the right life change for him and I support everything he wants to do for his future. Randy always gave 100% while in the band and I appreciate all he has done for me and Hate Eternal. I wish him nothing but the best in his schooling, career and his life."

Handling the bass duties on Hate Eternal's upcoming CD will reportedly be Alex Webster from Cannibal Corpse (although this has not yet been officially confirmed).

Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Hate Eternal

Danish Thrash Metal band Hatesphere have have uploaded 2 songs from their upcoming album "Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes" on their MySpace Page - 'Let Them Hate' and 'Floating'.

According to a post on the band's official website, "the songs will be online for a short period only, so hurry up and tell your friends before we remove them again."

The tracks come off the group's new album "Serpent Smiles And Killer Eyes", due in Europe on April 30 (April 27 in Germany) via SPV Records.

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Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

Guitarist Peter "Pepe" Lyse Hansen has posted the following message on Hatesphere's official website:

"So now there is finally some tour dates for you. After the release of the new album "Serpent smiles and killer eyes" we will embark on a Scandinavian tour with Stonegard (N). The dates are:

16.05.2007: Gimle, Roskilde, Denmark
17.05.2007: Pumpehuset, Copenhagen, Denmark
18.05.2007: Studenterhuset, Aalborg, Denmark
19.05.2007: VoxHall, Aarhus, Denmark
22.05.2007: Blå, Oslo, Norway
24.05.2007: Hulen, Bergen, Norway
25.05.2007: Samsen, Kristiansand, Norway
26.05.2007: Folken, Stavanger, Norway

Furthermore we will head out on a European headliner tour in June - but much more about that later. Also expect us to announce summer festival appearances plus some very special shows very soon.

See you out there !"

Hatespehere have in the meantime already been confirmed for summer festivals as Summer Nights Festival, Tuska Open Air Festival and Earthshaker Fest.

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Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere
Event:	Hatesphere: Scandinavian Tour

According to Forsaken's official myspace, "It is with great satisfaction and elation that I Hate Records (Sweden) and Forsaken (Malta) can now officially announce that they have reached agreement on terms, which shall see Forsaken releasing their forthcoming heavy, epic doom metal opus on I Hate Records. The band's next album on I Hate Records is planned for mid-2008 and the contract that Forsaken have etched with the label, also provides the option for the release of two further albums, thereby providing for a fruitful and mutually rewarding long-term relationship between both parties."

The full announcement can be read at this location.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Forsaken

Metal Blade Records announced that has just signed a worldwide deal with Hate Eternal.

Metal Blade Records owner/CEO, Brian Slagel, had this comment:
"I am truly honored to be working with Hate Eternal. They are a legendary band and I am so happy to welcome them to the Metal Blade Family." - Brian Slagel

Hate Eternal guitarist, Erik Rutan, had this to say regarding their signing:
"Signing to Metal Blade for us reconfirms that all the hard work, blood, sweat and tears we have put into the band has been worth every single moment. This is completely amazing. We know we will forge on with all the support and confidence a band can ask for from their record label. We are proud to be a part of the hugely successful Metal Blade Family and look forward to bringing our music to the next level." - Erik Rutan

Hate Eternal is currently in the writing process for the follow-up to their 2005 release "I, Monarch" that shall be recorded at Rutan's own Mana Recording Studios in June/July 2007.

Source:	metalblade.de
Band profile:	Hate Eternal

Danish Death/Thrash metallers Hatesphere have issued the following update via the band's official website:

"Have a good new year - don't blow yourselves up! We will do that for you with our new album next year on April 27th and April 30th. Until then, go buy the new German Metal Hammer - there is a DVD with 15 minutes of Danish Metal with your own Jacob and friends.

We will start recording the new album on the 5th of January - and we will of course keep you updated with pictures, videoclips and reports etc. The drums will be recorded with our old friend Tommy Hansen in his Jailhouse Studios in Horsens, Denmark. Guitars, bass and vocals will be done in Jacobs Smart´n´hard Studios here in Aarhus, while Tue Madsen will do the mix at his Antfarm Studio."

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Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

Hatesphere have had to pull out of the USA tour with Unleashed, Krisiun and Belphegor that is taking place in February 2007. The tour will still take place, but with just the remaining bands. The band have said though that they will do what they can to get to the US later on for some shows to "...spread the euro-thrash all over the place".

Here is a comment by the band: "It was a very hard decision for us to make, and we apologize to everybody who worked their asses off to get this up and running, but unforeseen stuff got in our way, and caused us to cancel".

Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere
Event:	Unleashed: Midvinterblot Tour

According to Cincinnati.com, Jared Anderson, the former bassist/vocalist of Hate Eternal and Morbid Angel, passed away on Saturday, October 14 at the age of 30. The cause of his death has not yet been released. Visitation will take place Thursday, October 19 at the E. C. Nurre Funeral Home, St. Rt. 125 Amelia, Ohio from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. followed by Funeral Services Thursday, 11 a.m. at the Funeral Home. Interment Pierce Township Cemetery.

Jared Anderson was most recently working on a project which was known by its alias As One... Jared described the band's musical direction on his MySpace page as "a revision of my Internecine writings, or shall I say 'written in the vein of.' The Internecine record itself was all 'old' material from the early to mid-'90s that I was given the offer to record, so obviously I opted to do so. Highly technical, obscure death metal was purely the intent of Internecine. Although most of the material was written many years prior to recording it, there were a couple of songs that were more recent. The two songs were 'The Elder Gods' and 'The Calling Of The Hordes'. This is where As One... comes in, kind of continuing where I left off so to speak, with a much more matured sound."

Back in February 2006, former Morbid Angel bassist/vocalist Steve Tucker confirmed to Blabbermouth.net that he was putting together a new project with Jared Anderson. "It is definitely death metal," Tucker said at the time. "It is very early on, but we are both extremely excited about it. No name yet, a few songs written, varying in tempo etc."

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
Band profile:	Morbid Angel

Danish death/thrash metallers Hatesphere have been added to the previously announced Unleashed, Krisiun, and Belphegor tour. Confirmed dates so far are as follows:

February 8 - New York, NY @ B.B. King Blues Club
February 9 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
February 11 - Mokena, IL @ The Pearl Room
February 15 - Seattle, WA @ Studio Seven
March 5 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House

Source:	hatesphere.com
Band profile:	Hatesphere

Death Metallers, Hate Eternal announced they will release they first DVD in their career entitled "The Perilous Fight", on Oct. 16, 2006. The video features artwork from Paul Romano and also includes a blistering live set filmed at The Garage in London on June 4, 2006, with a live audio mix by Hate Eternal frontman Erik Rutan.

"The Perilous Fight" delves deep into the life of one of death metal's most influential bands, with Erik Rutan, Randy Pir and Reno Kiilerich sharing their thoughts on Hate Eternal so far in an exclusive 20-minute interview filmed immediately following the June 2006 London show.

Here is the tracklisting:

Main Feature:
01. Two Demons
02. Servants Of The Gods
03. The Victorious Reign
04. Dogma Condemned
05. I, Monarch
06. Behold Judas
07. The Obscure Terror
08. To Know Our Enemies
09. Powers That Be
10. By His Own Decree
11. Sons Of Darkness
12. King Of All Kings

Promo Videos:
01. The Powers That Be
02. I, Monarch
03. The Victorious Reign

Bonus Features:
* Hate Eternal interview
* Behind the Scenes at Mana Studios

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Source:	earache.com
Band profile:	Hate Eternal