Sweden's WOLF have set "The Black Flame" as the title of their fourth album, due this fall release via Century Media Records in Europe and Prosthetic Records in the U.S. The band are currently tracking the effort at Studio Fredman in Gothenburg, Sweden and will be done recording by the end of June. Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "The Bite", "I Will Kill Again", "Silverbullit Eater", and "Black Magic". The follow-up to 2004's "Evil Star" will be the first album to feature new drummer Tobias R Kellgren and longtime session/live guitarist Johannes Losbäck alongside founding members Niklas Stålvi ...

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Nebraska-based power metallers CELLADOR have posted the video for their song "Leaving All Behind", at this location (Windows Media). The video shoot took place in Los Angeles, CA between May 8 and May 11 with director Dan Dobi (CANNIBAL CORPSE, INTO THE MOAT). According to the band: "It was a fantastic first experience in the music video world for us and the resulting neck and head pains from the nine hours of thrashing we will cherish in our hearts for many days to come. We can't say enough good things about our video director Dan Dobi and his producer Jer ...

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WINDS guitarist Carl August Tidemann recently posted a message on the the band's forum stating that he has now completed the solo-guitar recordings for the upcoming album. The rhythm guitars were already completed last year and the recent completion of the solos now concludes all the guitar recordings for the fourth WINDS album.

WINDS — comprised of singer Lars Eric Si (KHOLD), guitarist Carl August Tidemann (ARCTURUS), keyboardist Andy Winter (AGE OF SILENCE) and Jan Axel Von Blomberg (ARCTURUS, MAYHEM) — have also confirmed recent suspicions of a guest performance by Dan Swanö ( ...

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Tim Roth of the Regina, Saskatchewan-based progressive metallers INTO ETERNITY has issued the following update on the band's curent and upcoming activities:

"Things are going well these days in the INTO ETERNITY camp. The recording of our fourth album was recently completed at the end of May. Now we are looking forward to Andy Sneap [NEVERMORE, EXODUS, ARCH ENEMY] putting all of his talent into mixing the new disc. That will take place around June 23/06. The band is excited for everyone to hear the new material.

"Right now Mattias Norén is working on the CD packaging. I've seen the cover and it looks really amazing. Ma ...

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IRON MAIDEN plan to release their new studio album, entitled "A Matter of Life and Death", in early September.

The band started writing songs at the end of 2005 after a short break from their hugely successful festival appearances in Europe and the USA. After Christmas, the songs were completed and rehearsed when the band then got together with producer Kevin "Caveman" Shirley at Sarm West Studios in London to start work on recording the backing tracks.

Kevin Shirley has now co-produced three of the band's studio albums alongside Steve Harris, as well as two of their recent live DVDs and albums. From this the working relationship betw ...

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According to a posting on MaidenNorway.com, former IRON MAIDEN singer Paul Di'Anno has just released a "brand new classic studio album." The CD, entitled "Paul DiAnno - The Classics", is subtitled "The Maiden Years". It features brand new 48-track digital recordings from 2006 of the following songs:

01. Wrathchild
02. Strange World
03. Charlotte The Harlot
04. Killers
05. Prowler
06. Murders In The Rue Morgue
07. Running Free
08. Remember Tomorrow
09. Phantom Of The Opera
10. Sanctuary
11. Women In Uniform
12. Iron Maiden

Only 150 collectors' CD copies are available worldwide, and orders are limited to one per person. The only way to get your hands on this gem is to visit Paul Di'Anno's online store.

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A management representative for DRAGONLORD — the San Francisco-based black metal band featuring Eric Peterson (guitar, vocals; TESTAMENT), Gian Pyres (guitar; ex-CRADLE OF FILTH), Derrick Ramirez (bass), Lyle Livingstone (keys) and Jon Allen (drums; SADUS, ex-TESTAMENT) — has issued the following statement:

"I have been informed that Gian Pyres, DRAGONLORD guitarist, has developed very bad tendonitis in his left hand. Accordingly, his doctor advises refraining from playing guitar for the immediate future for fear of more permanent damage. Therefore, he is not available for the scheduled DRAGONL ...

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Former SEPULTURA drummer Igor Cavalera has formed a brand new project with hardcore Brooklyn "death rapper" NECRO. Cavalera had previously appeared on the song "Necrotura" off NECRO's "The Circle of Tyrants" CD.

"The news is that myself and Igor have started a band, we will go into the studio in the next month and record demos," Necro told BLABBERMOUTH.NET. "We have been planning on doing this for months before he even left SEPULTURA, but now that he has left it seems like the perfect time to let people know about this new project we are working on.

"We don't have a band name yet, but we know we want ...

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Australia's The Bulletin is reporting that feuding gangs armed with spears and machetes — and named after such heavy metal bands and albums as Judas Priest, Cowboys From Hell and Fear Factory — have run amok at the biggest Aboriginal settlement in Australia, destroying homes and terrifying families hiding from the violence.

On October 23, 2002, after a policeman shot dead a Judas Priest gang member in Port Keats, the JPs — who that day had been fighting the Evil Warriors [

CRIMSON GLORY have reunited and have plans to record a new album with original singer Midnight. In addition, there is talk of Crimson Glory re-recording the Astronomica album from 1999, which featured current LEATHERWOLF vocalist Wade Black fronting the band. Black offered his thoughts on having "his" CG album re-done by Midnight: "There's no way that Midnight has the power to do that," says Black. "If they do Astronomica over I think it'll be one of the biggest mistakes they could make in this business. Who knows what's going to happen with that band? It's 2006 and we've heard nothing but stories about how 'Oh, they're gona do this and they're gonna do that...' If they do it I think it's great for the Crimson Glory fans because they deserve it, but if they don't come out of the gate strong with something original rather than a reissue it's going to be a huge disappointment for everyone."

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