Roadrunner Records last metal band Deicide will release a new album on the 20th of June. Entitled Insineratehymn and featuring songs like Bible Basher, the album is as fast and furious as ever...New on Mexico's Oz Records is Buried Dreams' Perceptions which is recorded at Studio Fredman in Sweden. The label has also released a Oz Live CD box set and video featuring most of the label's bands...Here we go again: it is now reported that Christian thrashers Incubus have changed their name to Opprobrium and will release an album this month...Fleshcrawl drummer Bastian Herzog has joined the reformed line up of fun punk band Tauchermeister (formerly Die Taucher) on a part time basis. Fleshcrawl is crisscrossing Europe with Vader and Vital Remains...Chicago's Usurper has finished recording their new album entitled Necronemesis. Expect a guest appearance from King Diamond on the title track...Pavement is working on arranging for Defleshed to tour North America with Cannibal Corpse this July. Additionally CC is recording shows for a live album/video called Live Cannibalism...Obscenity has pulled out of Sinister's German tour and has been replaced by Apophis...The next Abigor is tentatively entitled Satanized and is due next January. The band believe the style is reminiscent of their debut. There is also a covers EP planned...Miika Luttinen of Impaled Nazarene will be tentatively singing on the next Hypnos (ex-Krabathor) album...Deranged may be releasing a live album this year...Cult German speed metallers Warrant will re-release their two albums, The Enforcer and First Strike this year with two bonus tracks...Listenable Records' Abscess claim to have been robbed of their studio down payment and recordings by engineer James Murphy. The band is rerecording all material...Flatulation, who is now joined by former Angelcorpse and Malevolent Creation drummer Tony Laureano, will release two 7'EPs this year...Furthermore rumour has it that Angelcorpse is history following the departure of Pete Helmkamp...Artch will see its back catalogue released by Metal Blade with bonus tracks...Vital Remains has parted way with original singer Jeff Gruslin again...Here is some news courtesy of Slovakia's Metal Age Productions: the label has the following two releases this summer, the second album of Protest called About Human Idols, which is described as akin to Sadist, and the second album of Erytrosy which is pure death metal. Also Lunatic Gods has a new 7' and is working on a new full length due out this fall. The band's guitarist Hirax is also working on his project called Editor. Editor has also released a split 7' with more songs coming...Rumour has it that Blasphemy has reformed and is rehearsing...Cryptic Carnage is touring Germany in July...Belgian grinders Serial Butcher has reformed...Former Massacre vocalist Kam Lee is back with two bands, both of which are signed to Necropolis. Kauldron is a deathrash band featuring former members of Equinox and Acheron; while Soulskinner is a solo project with Lee handling all instruments...Belgium's Witchsmeller Pursuivant is recording a new album for a new CD called Enter Delirium. Some tracks are Caught in the Act and Falled from Grace...Vampiric Motives (formerly Catasexual Urge Motivation) is recording for Disgorgement of Squash Bodies Records...News from Ottawa's Fuck the Facts: the band will release a split CD with the USA's Drogheda on Extremist Records, as well as appear on several compilations including All Filth...IV and Noise Overdose II on Scrotum Records. The band is also working on a split with Japan's Long Dream Dead on AxCx Records...Abyssos (formerly on Cacophonous) has been signed to Necropolis...Out next on X-Rated Records are Witch Hunt's Souls Enshrouded Fire and Desolate's Eventide of The Orb And Heavens... Canada's Dedfuk Records is putting together a new compilation of extreme metal. Please write to 50 Rue Rene Levesque, Gatineau J8P 6Z5 for an information package...Excess of Cruelty are looking for a new guitarist and searching for a new moniker...Jon Allen (Sadus) has joined Testament. The band is rehearsing for some European live action...Sweden's Maze of Torment are recording their album Death Strikes with Thomas Skogsberg...Hammerheart Records has a busy schedule: Necromicon's Peccata Mundi, Havayoth's His Creation Reversed and a Infestdead re-release are up next. Hypnosia' Extreme Hatred and Skymning's Stormscoirs are due in the summer and the fall should see Non Serviam's Between lLight and Darkness and a Scheitan double CD...Some news from The End Records: From Russia, NeChrist is the title of the new Nokturnal Mortem album. The band stay true to their symphonic sound. Odes of Ecstasy and Love History are almost done with their new recordings which will be released this summer...Nifelheim has left Necropolis and signed to Black Sun. The band is working on a new album which is 'rawer' than previous releases...Death metallers Suhrim have announced the release of the first of a planned three albums. The debut is entitled Unidentified Flying Bodyparts and will be out through Soulreaper Records...The next Enslaved is called Mardraum (Beyond the Within). It will be out this fall...Germany's Haggard have canceled their planned tour...Australia's Choke have been the subject of state prohibition, with police raiding their houses in order to confiscate the Smokin' Tailpipe Action release after it was ruled illegal in their country...French guitarist Patrick Rondat has joined Elegy...Olympic Records is in the process of sorting out its distribution ordeal following being cut loose by Mercury in the USA...Germany's Prophecy Productions has a busy season ahead with releases from Silencer, Bethlehem, Mysterium and Green Carnation....Germany's Nordic metallers Blazing Eternity will release their debut album Of Times And Unknown Waters imminently...Australia's Damaged, featuring new singer Kevin Sharp, are in the studio recording the album Purified in Pain...Doom band Artemisia has a new CD called So Legends Tell on Dawn of Sadness Records of Italy... American doom metallers Last Chapter has finished recording Paths to Always and expect to see it released in August...Blackend's new signing Reign of Erebus will shortly release an EP called Of Blackest Magick...Former Mental Aberration members have changed their name from Tremor to Deified Tremor as the former name was already taken. The new band is composing songs...Abramelin's Deadspeak album is now out...Alister Records is releasing the new Ancient Ceremony called Synagoga Diabolica...Italy's Aborym, featuring ex-Mayhem Attila, is done with their new album due out in September on Scarlet Records...Death Vomit/ Necropolis has a new grindcore band on its roster: Vulgar Pigeons. Additionally Necropolis has signed Brazil's Mental Horror who will have an album ready this fall...Monstrosity is busy putting the finishing touches on the next album before heading over to Europe to headline at the third Fuck the Commerce Festival in Germany...Mayhem is touring the US this summer...Guitarist Paul Crook is back In Anthrax...Lowlife Records is releasing the debut CD of death metallers Impedigon. The album title is tentatively Spiritual Exploitation...Peruvian thrashers Estigma are recording their debut CD...Upcoming releases on FMP are: Canada's Conqueror with War Cult Supremacy, Acheron's Compendium Diableie, Finland's Diaboli and Anthems of Sorrow, Hemlock's Lust for Fire and finally Black Witchery's Desecration of the Holy Kingdom...Death's Richard Christy is the live drummer for Incantation on their current US tour.


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