After "The Lion's Roar" and "Kindly Bent To Free Us", the US prog act Cynic premiered today another new song from the upcoming album Kindly Bent To Free Us, the opening track "True Hallucination Speak". This means you can enjoy more new material. Just click play on the lyric video here.

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Band profile:	Cynic

Anders Eek, the drummer of Norwegian doomsters Funeral, has suffered a heart attack. The following update can be found in the band's official Facebook page: "We're sorry to inform you that Anders suffered from a heart attack today. Luckily, he's still alive and kicking, and from the circumstances, he's doing well. Playing in Funeral is apparently a dangerous thing to do! More info to come."

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Band profile:	Funeral

Portuguese metallers The Spektrum are working on a new album. A couple of days ago the band issued the following update:

"We are very proud to announce that the pre-production of the successor of Daemonicus Awakening is almost complete. The album doesn't have a name yet but this opus will be bigger, with more variety and darker. This time, to help us in our search to find and gather all obscurity on Earth, we are very pleased to announce that we will be working with the producer Magnus "Devo" Andersson (Marduk). The recordings will start on the 23rd of November at Endarker Studios, in Sweden."

Stay tuned for more news.

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	The Spektrum

Moonspell will enter studio first weeks of July in order to record a very special project. The recording sessions will be held at the Denmark's finest Antfarm Studios. Behind the wheel of death will be Tue Madsen (The Haunted, Dark Tranquillity, Rob Halford), co-producing with the band. This release will consist of re-recordings of the band's legendary Under the Moonspell (1994) but also going back as far as their first demo Anno SatanÆ and their sole track as Morbid God, Serpent Angel. All the songs will be re-arranged and revamped in order to underline their revered distinction as Underground classics but now with a mature dark energy and class. The full-length record (8 songs and around 5 instrumental compositions) will be released in early October (2007) via SPV worldwide.

Tracklist: (not the final order)

Halla alle halla al rabka halla (Praeludium/Incantatum Solistitium)
Tenebrarum Oratorium (Andamento I/Erudit Compendyum)
Interludium/Incantatum Oequinoctum
Tenebrarum Oratorium (Andamento II/Erotic Compendyum)
Opus Diabolicum (Andamento III/Instrumental Compendyum)
Chorai Lusitânia! (Epilogus/Incantatam Maresia)
Intro
Goat on Fire
Ancient Winter Goddess
Wolves From The Fog
Outro
Serpent Angel

In the process is also the composition of the follow up to Memorial which will go into production before the end of the year at the Woodhouse Studios with Waldemar Sorychta.

A Best of Moonspell entitled The Great Silver Eye, released through Century Media, will be hitting the stores in July.

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Band profile:	Moonspell

Mortal Love, a Gothic Metal band from Norway, will release a new album called "Forever Will Be Gone". This will be their third studio album and it'll be on stores on 22nd September 2006. The following hasbeen posted on their official "My Space" page:
"Our new album, the third and final chapter in our trilogy, will be released on September 22nd!!! A new web site will co-incide with the release of the album."

A teaser of one of the song can be found at there official web site http://www.mortallove.com. More info will be announced soon!

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Mortal Love

Atrox are currently working on their fifth studio album. This was posted by Edwald on their official website:

"During the last months we've been working hard with our next full length album. And currently we're looking for the right label to release it.

So what can we tell you about this album?

Well, Atrox has always been considered visionaries in the metal genre. This will in no way change with this album, however this time it is a quite different Atrox than on the previous releases. Mainly because of the latest roster change, and primarily in the new all-male-vocal department. But the new material is likely to reach out to a much broader and diverse audience, because of the vast musical diversity of the six musicians. With this album, the Atrox sound is presented in a new wrapping - a metal based fundament spiced up with elements of elektronika, pop, jazz and funky balooba!

This is an ambitious record, certain to be the best Atrox album to date. Musically this will be an album full of contrasts. Contrasts of old and new, organic and mechanic. Modern electronics meets vintage instruments in a rare symbiosis. It can be weird. It can be complex. It can be smooth. The material is intended to work just as well in an live environment, as well as it can take the listener on a exceedingly vast, musical journey through a headset."

Source:	atrox.biz
Band profile:	Atrox