The first full-length album of Italian BM act Infernal Angels, titled "Shining Evil Light", will be released in February 2006 by Officina Rock Records/Masterpiece (Fearbringer, Lord Vampyr, Necroart...). The first edition will be printed in a limited version of 333 copies handle numeration. The album, recorded in the T.S.A Studios and mastered at 4th Dimension Studios contains 9 tracks of Obscure and Epic Black Metal. Out in February 2006.

Band profile:

Infernal Angels

Swedish melodic death/thrashers Arise are now in the Studio recording a demo/promo in search for a new record deal. The drums were recorded a couple of weeks ago, the guitars and bass lines will be finished this upcoming weekend, and the vocals short after! It's gonna be a killer, keep your eyes and ears open!

Source:	ariseonline.com
Band profile:	Arise

New York independent metal record label, Power Play Records, is proud to announce the official signing of Canadian thrashers Shatterpoint to a recording deal.

Fans will be psyched to learn that Shatterpoint is putting the final touches on their forthcoming full length album, "Dead Precedence" with producer Greg Dawson, which is slated for worldwide release in early 2006.

Shatterpoint will perform live at BLOOD Sweat And Ears: Invasion, Sudbury on Saturday February 4th 2006, in Sudbury Ontario. Immediately following the main event.

Shatterpoint will perform live at Metal Queen Management's Canadian Music Week Festival Showcase on Saturday, March 4, 2006 at 10 pm @ The Vatikan, 1032 Queen Street West.

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shatterpoint.net

Mekong Delta (Ralf Hubert) has announced that it has formed a new line-up. Of course Ralf will still be playing the bass. Peter Haas has gladly agreed to crawl behind the drumkit once again and new to the band is guitarist Peter Sjöberg (also known as Peter Lake from Theory In Practice). Ralf has not found a singer yet, but he's checking out who's able for the job.

Source:	nightmarepatrol.net
Band profile:	Mekong Delta

Lyzanxia entered the Fredman Studio on January 9th 2006 to record their third full-length album 'UNSU' with Fredrik Nordström. 'UNSU' is the long-awaited follow-up to album 'MINDCRIMES', which came out in 2004 in the USA and a year before in Europe and Japan. Fans can expect more of every component that has been shaping the Lyzanxia style over the years in what promises to be the most accomplished Lyzanxia album yet. The band has already started recording the drums these past few days and are going to be in the studio for a full month. You can follow them every step of the way by reading their daily studio report on www.lyzanxia.com, where you'll also be able to watch short home videos of how a Swedish dentist pulled out a wisdom tooth as vocalist/guitarist Franck Potvin was rushed for an emergency extraction on the very first day of recording!

Source:	lyzanxia.com
Band profile:	Lyzanxia

Eyeconoclast are proud to announce that the new "Speed Light Trauma For
Reconstruction"video clip, which supports the 'Clustered Dead Ending Corridors'
promo, is in the final moments of developing. The director Mario Baluci did a
really awesome job perfectly bringing to video the song's atmosphere. Stay tuned
on the Necroagency page (www.necroagency.com) and on Eyeconoclast's official site for further news.

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eyeconoclast.com

The teaser can be found at www.kalessin.no. The first tunes from the upcoming album are revealed along with the new line-up, introducing Thebon as the new vocalist. He was first seen with the band during their live shows in 2005 and did vocals on their eastern european tour with EXODUS and HYPOCRISY in December.

Keep Of Kalessin has also just finished recording a new video for the track "Infire" which will premiere in February.
The video was shot 100% green-screen and is directed by Rome Ramsies at VisionValley (www.visionvalley.com) who has worked with bands like Slipknot, Sepultura and Mudvayne amongst others.
He also worked in Weta Digital for several years during the making of "Lord of the Rings" and he also did CGI for the movie "Pitch Black".

Source:	kalessin.no
Band profile:	Keep Of Kalessin

Lifeforce Records has announced the signature of Danish "Futuristic Hybrid Metal" act Raunchy (www.raunchy.dk). The release date for the new album of the band, "... Death Pop Romance" has been set on February 17th 2006 in Germany and February 20th 2006 in the rest of Europe. This album was recorded in the Summer of 2005 by Jacob Hansen (Mercenary, Fear My Thoughts, Communic) and mixed by Tue Madsen at Antfarm Studios (Hatesphere, The Haunted, Mnemic).

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lifeforcerecords.com

Supreme Chaos Records and NOCTE OBDUCTA have thought about something special for the end of the year 2005.

After receiving high demand for the track "Aschefrühling" which was published only on the vinyl version of "Stille" they decided to release this track as a CD single with a new mix of "Vorbei".
Therefore NOCTE OBDUCTA entered Maranis Studios this week and will even record some new details for the song "Vorbei".

The release will be a two track single with a special artwork, limited to certified numbered 1500 copies.

AVAILABLE EXCLUSIVELY AT SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS!

Will be released on December 6th 2005!

You can preorder this single for 4,90 EUR here:
http://www.s-c-r.de/shop.php?lang=english&viewitem=scr-cd018

Source:	s-c-r.de
Band profile:	Nocte Obducta

Power metal band Royal Hunt posted the following message on their official website:

"ROYAL HUNT family's just got bigger! After weeks and weeks of searching high´n´low we'd like to present our new bass player - Per Schelander (House Of Shakira, Spike). A great bass player, capable singer/actor and, all in all, quite a colorful personality - welcome aboard, Per... And while he's killing himself learning tons of RH tunes we HAVE to tell you - he's such a great addition to the band! Just wait and see."

Source:	royalhunt.com
Band profile:	Royal Hunt

In a studio owned by Joakim Wassberg, one of the guitarists ov the Gods, the band is currently working on the recording of 10 songs. The drums and guitars have already been recorded. And as soon as the bass, played by Zeb Nilsson (Aeon, And Angels Wept) is recorded, the only thing that is left is the vocals and some additional instruments.
The songs wil, most likely, be available to the public, in some way or another, at the end of the summer.

The Equinox ov the Gods are currently looking for gigs and a decent record label.

Source:	equotg.com
Band profile:	The Equinox Ov The Gods

Tom Gabriel Fischer posted the following message on his blog:

As we approach the final, very intense stretch on the path to completion of this album, there are the Celtic Frost-typical numerous and very vocal ponderings which center around assessments of music and progress, procedure, ideology, song selection, and so on. In many ways, this is as typical and important to the existence of this group as the music itself. And it is crucial in maintaining a fundamental bond to our history.

As we finalize the infrastructure around the album with regard to a variety of industry partners, our management requested that we provide further production demos to facilitate final negotiations and showcase what this project will sound like. But before sending the 20 plus CDs to Berlin, we took time out last night to consecrate every single copy by physically putting them in contact with the original cover of Hellhammer's "Triumph of Death" demo, which Martin preserves at our rehearsal studio.

For this is no less momentous to us all than the release of that demo was almost exactly 22 years ago.

Source:	apollyonsun.blogspot.com
Band profile:	Celtic Frost

The French groovy death metal band Kaizen is preparing the release of its second album. It will be released internationally in late September via XIIIbis / Sony Music.

This new album has been recorded by english producer Mark Mynett (also mainman of english fame KILL II THIS). The band has come back from Manchester with an album masterised at Digital Company Studio in Skipton (Bjork, M, Royal Hunt...). The band is now busy working on the promotion of this new record and is currently organizing a tour.

The band has recently parted ways with their drummer Laurent Caradec. The slot is now fully filled by the excellent young drummer Fabien Rault .

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kaizen-utd.net

Forsaken's new album shall be released by Scotland's Golden Lake Productions in October 2005 and shall be titled 'Dominaeon'. Lyrically, 'Dominaeon' will centre around a core concept that explores various spiritual themes related to the Christian faith. The band is presently concluding the finishing touches to the song-writing process and will start recording at Temple Studios, Mistra Bay, Malta on 4th July 2005.

All the tracks for the album are new and were composed over the past year or so. Song titles include 'Dominaeon', 'Obsidian Dreams', 'Daylight Dies', 'Kenosis', 'Wretched of the Earth' and 'Resurgam'. The artwork for the album was commissioned to Jowita Kaminska who has also been responsible for the cover artwork of the recent Manilla Road, Exodus and Attacker releases. Fans can check out the cover artwork on Jowita's site -
www.jowita-kaminska.com.
As in Forsaken's recent releases the lay-out for the album will be done by Chris Zarb. Forsaken fans can be rest assured that this album will see the band plunging deeper in heavy doom metal soundscapes interwoven with the band's penchant for carving and exploring innovative territory.

Source:	forsakenmalta.com
Band profile:	Forsaken

Unfortunately Henric Carlsson (bass) as well as Daniel Schöldström (vocals) both left swedish metal act Cipher System. The band released their Lifeforce Records debut "Central Tunnel 8" in November 2004, which received an amazing feedback from all over the world.

Here is an official statement by the band:
"Due to lack of inspiration and "fire" in the band, our friends Henric & Daniel have decided to quit! Henric will instead focus on his other band, Nightrage. We hold no grudge what so ever against their decision and we wish them all the best! Henric & Daniel conclude their participation with Cipher System in a last gig at "Mälarrocken" July 1."

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lifeforcerecords.com