The title for Viking/Folk Metal band Moonsorrow's upcoming new album has been set. The album will be called 'Viides Luku - Hävitetty'. A release date for the album has also been announced. It will be released on the 12th January 2007 through Spikefarm records. Moonsorrow have also said that a tour for the album will happen sometime next year. More information about the album is said to be released soon

Source:	moonsorrow.com
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Moonsorrow, Arch Enemy and Tankard have all just been confirmed for this years Arnhem Metal Meeting. The festival will take place on Saturday 9th December this year at Musis Sacrum in Arnhem, Holland. More bands are said to be announced soon.

Here is the list of bands announced so far:

Aeternus
Ancient Rites
Antaeus
Arch Enemy
Immolation
Melechesh
Moonsorrow
Necrophobic
Skyforger
Tankard
Thronar

Source:	arnhemmetalmeeting.nl
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Viking/Folk Metal band Moonsorrow have announced two live shows in Estonia and The Netherlands. These are the first two announced shows of the band's 'Heathen Crusades 2006' tour. Here is a posting by Moonsorrow from their website: "If you live in Estonia or the Netherlands you might wanna swing by Tallinn and Arnhem respectively to do some serious headbanging!".

Here are the two dates:

13.10.2006 - Nõmme Cult, Tallinn, Estonia
09.12.2006 - Arnhem Metal Meeting, Arnhem, The Netherlands

Source:	moonsorrow.com
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The recordings of the new album have begun. Henri and Marko are currently at Tico Tico Studios in Kemi starting up the recordings of the new epic. The band have created a separate site for the studio-diary where you can follow everything http://www.moonsorrow.com/diary/mainpage.html

In other news, two summer festival gigs announced - Day of Darkness in Ireland and Jalometalli in Oulu, FInland. These, along with the gig at Kaltenback O:A will probably be the only Moonsorrow gigs this summer due to us entering the studio to record the new album. The dates are:

07.07 Day of Darkness, Ireland
15.07 Kaltenbach O:A, Austria
18.08 Jalometalli, Finland

Source:	moonsorrow.cjb.net
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The recording and mixing of the new Moonsorrow album, VERISÄKEET, has now been completed. Read the studio diary for the actual info on the album.
The album will include the following tracks:
1. Karhunkynsi
2. Haaska
3. Pimeä
4. Jotunheim
5. Kaiku

For more info, visit the official page:
http://www.moonsorrow.com/

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Moonsorrow