ReUnation - A Tribute To RUNNING WILD, is scheduled to be released on November 13th via Remedy Records,

Release parties for the album have been scheduled as follows:

Release-Parties:

November
13 - Ballroom Hamburg- Hamburg, Germany (with EVERTALE, MAJK MOTI & PRECHER)

December
5 - Bandit Bikers Pub, Zona Industriale Botteghino - Parma, Italy (with STORM RIDERS, FALLEN FUCKING ANGELS)

The final tracklisting for the album is as follows:

CD1:
POWERWOLF - 'Riding The Storm
FATE - 'Soul Vampires
ORDEN OGAN - 'The Battle Of Waterloo
ESENIA - 'Resurrection
5TH SONIC BRIGADE - 'Angel Of Mercy
SATANOCHIO - 'Siberian Winter
DEADLOCK feat. Jürg Theiler - 'When Time Runs Out
SKILTRON - 'Ballad Of William Kidd
MOTORJESUS - 'The Rivalry
SUIDAKRA feat. Axel Römer & Matthias Zimmer - 'Marooned
THUNDERSTORM feat. Preacher - 'Welcome To Hell
WITHERING SOUL - 'Firebreather
WARHEAD - 'Faceless
WILD KNIGHT - 'Tsar

CD2:
JOSÉ JUAN GALLEGO - 'Draw The Line
MAGICA - 'Victory
CHINCHILLA - 'Conquistadores
HELLISH WAR - 'Return Of The Gods
OVERTURES - 'Pirate Song
BURNING POINT feat. Majk Moti - 'Gods Of Iron '09
CUSTARD - 'Under Jolly Roger
SEVEN SEAS - 'Detonator
HALOR - 'Little Big Horn
THUNDERBLAST - 'Timeriders
CRYSTAL VIPER - 'Libertalia
EVERTALE - 'Blazon Stone
WINTERS DAWN - 'Into The Fire
HEAVENLY - 'Masquerade
SOLEMNITY - 'Dr. Horror
WITCHTRAP - 'Victim Of States Power
RAVAGE - 'Fight The Fire Of Hate

The TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA has posted the line-up(s) for the upcoming 2009 / 2010 North American tour. Go to this location to check it out. An official trailer for the tour is available below. Click here for the complete TSO tour schedule for the East and West US coast companies.

According to a new Billboard.com article on the Trans-Siberian Orchestra and their new album, Night Castle, co-founder / director Paul O'Neill will be bringing a stage production of SAVATAGE's Gutter Ballet album to Broadway:

"TSO, which has sold 7.2 million albums since 1996, hits the road for its annual two-company holiday season tour on Nov. 1 after playing to more than 1.2 million fans in 2008. Songs from Night Castle will be included in the show, but no full-scale stage production of the album is scheduled yet. O'Neill, meanwhile, is plotting a variety of future TSO endeavors, including a re-release of Beethoven's Last Night with a revised and expanded booklet, a Broadway production of Gutter Ballet, which he originally worked on with the band Savatage in 1989, and a series of films that will likely include at least one animated feature by Hildebrandt."

Vocalist Dani "Filth" Davey of British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH has posted a lengthy update on the band's official MySpace blog. An excerpt from his message follows below.

"At the time of writing, September is almost through, with skies fire-paved and a gorgeous Indian summer settling like a phoenix on the east coast of England, the last few weeks finding me extremely busy with the trivialities of being at home and working in a band at the same time. Thus creativity has flourished under this wonderful boon and the first ideas for a new CRADLE album have started to creep and crawl in the far-flung shadows of our combined imaginations. Bearing in mind we have merely the skeletal structures of a few songs laid out, that autumnal vibe is already spreading like a mist, and the tunes are sounding very malefic indeed. Very much like the 'Godspeed...' album thrust up a gear.

"Paul [Allender; guitar] has moved to a luxury apartment on the dockside quay in Ipswich, the apocalyptic vision of a reddened sun split by the thin silhouettes of bobbing yacht masts, highly inspirational, tempering his writing with furious abandonment. In the meantime, Martin [Skaroupka; drums] is hard at work on his practice kit back in the Czech Republic, providing the midi backbone to Paul's initial structures, which are then later embellished by guitars and keyboards. Luckily, Dave [Pybus; bass] lives in spitting distance of Paul's new gaff, so he's in partnership with the basic skeleton of every track, which is then flown past [keyboardist] Ashley ['Ellyllon' Jurgemeyer] (who has just moved this week from Phoenix to Los Angeles), who then goes all symphonic on its rugged ass. Things therefore are moving well towards our new, as-yet-untitled album, with a possible studio start date of early January to be ringed in all gothic diaries. Bring it on!

"Now I think everybody got to hear about the stupid happenings at this year's Bloodstock with the kilo-weight candy balls and the cancelled set, so much so this will be the last thing I'll say about it. Period. It's just a crying shame that some idiot ruined for so many people, least of all and very selfishly, me, as it was the last of our summer festival run, it was on home turf and friends and family were present. Plus the weather was damn near perfect and there was a really cool vibe amongst people as the sun slunk towards our headline set. Aside from the fact that Paul, in really bad pain, had to be whisked to hospital for a body scan, two children, one of whom was handicapped, were almost hit by these deadly projectiles. And who the hell sells these things at a fucking festival anyway? Stupid beyond belief."

Austrian symphonic black metallers HOLLENTHON's new EP, Tyrants And Wraiths, features 4 new tracks and 2 live videos from last years Graspop Metal Meeting.

The EP track 'Tyrants And Wraiths' is currently streaming online at this location.

The official release dates for the EP are:

October 28th - Finland, Spain
October 30th - Benelux, France, Italy, Sweden
November 2nd - Rest of Europe
November 3rd - Canada
November 17th - USA

Says the band, "But if you come see us on tour, you'll be able to purchase the album already on October 23rd. Here's a preview of the cover artwork (click imagae on left to enlarge) and the tracklisting:

'Tyrants And Wraiths'
'Innocent Sin'
'Deathly Dirges'
'Of Hollow Men'
'On The Wings Of A Dove' (video clip live at Graspop Metal Meeting 2008)
'Ars Moriendi' (video clip live at Graspop Metal Meeting 2008)

Rob Zombie's fourth solo studio album, "Hellbilly Deluxe 2: Noble Jackals, Penny Dreadfuls and the Systematic Dehumanization of Cool", has been pushed back to " an undetermined 2010 date" from the previously announced November 17 (via Geffen Records). No reason was given for the delay.

"Hellbilly Deluxe" was the name of Zombie's first and most successful solo outing, issued back in 1998.

"The plan was always to make this kind of like the sequel to 'Hellbilly Deluxe', but I didn't want to force it," Zombie recently told AOL's Noisecreep. "I always figure records dictate their own journey. You might say, 'Oh, we're going to write the heaviest thing ever.' But you get in there and, you know, you might write things that aren't heavy that are great, so you kind of go with it. But this one seems like a great follow-up to that record."

"The record's really varied, just like the first one," Zombie says of the new CD. "There are huge, epic songs with 100-piece orchestras. And then there's something like 'What,' which is just the four of us in a garage literally playing live together and making a big noise."

AFM Records has announced the signing of ORDEN OGAN, the melodic/power/folk metal band from Arnsberg, Germany. The group's new album, "Easton Hope", will be made available in early 2010.

In August, ORDEN OGAN released the video for the song "We Are Pirates", which can be viewed below. The song was used by Germany's biggest TV station RTL for several trailers that aired during the channel's Formula 1 broadcast.

Commented the band: "We always wanted to have a label that really believes in the band and gives 110% for ORDEN OGAN. We're very happy to announce that we signed in with AFM Records and are absolutely sure that this is the right decision and the right partner for ORDEN OGAN. AFM are one of the leading German metal labels as you can see when you take a look at the roster: DORO, DESTRUCTION, U.D.O. and so on. We're very proud to be part of the family now and are looking forward to our years and releases at AFM."

According to NME.com, LED ZEPPELIN, PINK FLOYD and THE CLASH are among the acts set to feature on a new range of Royal Mail stamps.

A set of 10 stamps featuring classic British album sleeves will enter circulation on January 7 next year, according to stamp collecting web site Norvic Philatelics.

Albums in the collection include "The Division Bell" by PINK FLOYD and "Led Zeppelin IV".

Royal Mail are said to have assembled a shortlist of classic albums, though initially some were deemed unusable due to the darkness of the image.

Swedish death metallers NOMINON have launched a vocalist search following the recent departure of Daniel Garptoft (who was in the band for five years). The band is seeking someone who "shares [its] vision of delivering disgusting death metal full of energy and hatred to all the inhabitants of the underground."

Interested parties can contact the group by writing to nominon@lycos.com (subject: "VoKill").

NOMINON will release a new mini-CD within the next couple of months, which will serve as "an appetizer" for the band's new album, to be made available early next year.

Entitled "Omen", the mini-CD will feature the following track listing:

01. Omen
02. Invocations
03. Through Dead Dreams Door
04. Submit To Evil (live)

"Cosmic Egg", the second album from the Australian retro-rock combo WOLFMOTHER, is available for streaming in its entirety on the band's MySpace page. Due on October 27, the group's first CD since the departure of drummer Myles Heskett and bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross was recorded in Los Angeles with heralded U.K. producer Alan Moulder.

The track listing for the CD is as follows:

01. California Queen
02. New Moon Rising
03. White Feather
04. Sundial
05. In The Morning
06. 10,000 Feet
07. Cosmic Egg
08. Far Away
09. Pilgrim
10. In The Castle
11. Phoenix
12. Violence Of The Sun

On October 27, Eagle Rock Entertainment will add another gem to its stunning Montreux collection when STATUS QUO's "Pictures: Live At Montreux 2009" is released on DVD.

STATUS QUO's album "Pictures" (released in November 2008) celebrated 40 years of the band filling the U.K. charts with hit after hit. The album was an instant success, charting at #8 and selling over a quarter of a million copies in the U.K. alone. In July 2009, the "Pictures" live tour landed at Montreux in Switzerland as part of the world famous festival.

When STATUS QUO hit the stage, the usually reserved Swiss crowd knew they were in for a treat. Led as always by the twin telecasters of Francis Rossi and Rick Parfitt, they deliver a blistering set of hits and classic tracks from across their career, including no less than 18 U.K. Top 20 hits. This "Pictures" tour set list has been hailed by many as the band's best ever. Commemorating the 40-year celebration of the band, huge screens behind the stage illustrated high points from QUO's career. Exclusive interviews filmed backstage at Montreux with the always entertaining Rossi and Parfitt are included as bonus features.

STATUS QUO is one of Britain's most cherished and influential bands. With this DVD coming hot on the heels of their new CD, "In Search Of The Fourth Chord" (released stateside via Eagle Rock on September 15, 2009), "Pictures: Live At Montreux" is live and loud and serves as a timely reminder of what the QUO legacy is built on.

The track listing is as follows:

01. Caroline
02. The Wanderer
03. Rain
04. Don't Drive My Car
05. Mean Girl / Softer Ride
06. Beginning Of The End
07. Is There A Better Way
08. Proposing Medley: What You're Proposing / Down The Dustpipe / Little Lady / Red Sky / Dear John / Big Fat Mama
09. Pictures Of Matchstick Men / Ice In The Sun
10. The Oriental
11. Creepin' Up
12. In My Chair
13. Living On An Island
14. In The Army Now
15. The Killer
16. Roll Over Lay Down
17. Down Down
18. Whatever You Want
19. Rockin' All Over The World
20. Junior's Wailing
21. Rock ‘N' Roll Music / Bye Bye Johnny

Swedish melodic metallers NOCTURNAL RITES have issued the following update:

"We are sorry to inform our South American fans that the [previously] announced tour will not happen. We are very sorry about this, but it was out of our hands and not our decision to make. We will try our best to organize something for next year. We have lined up a few other shows, though. More news on those at a later date."

NOCTURNAL RITES is currently writing material for the follow-up to 2007's "The 8th Sin". The band states, "We are slowly but steadily advancing and the new stuff is shaping up really nicely. We have some really dark and aggressive stuff written as well as some more melodic, so this new album will definitely cater to all aspects of the NOCTURNAL RITES legacy!

"We are really excited to record, but we've always said that we'll not rush things, so we'll take our time and make sure we are 100% on the money before we nail the songs in the studio."

NOCTURNAL RITES previously described the new songs as "a little back to the darker 'Afterlife' [2000] days mixed with some trademark NOCTURNAL RITES catchy melodies — those that can never go wrong!"

"Apokathilosis", the new video from Greek old-school thrashers SUICIDAL ANGELS, can be viewed below. The song comes off the band's new album, "Sanctify The Darkness", which will be released on November 20 via Nuclear Blast Records.

"Sanctify The Darkness" track listing:

01. Bloodthirsty
02. The Pestilence Of Saints
03. Inquisition
04. Apokathilosis
05. … Lies
06. No More Than Illusion
07. Atheist
08. Beyond The Laws Of Church
09. Mourning Of The Cursed
10. Dark Abyss (Your Fate Is Colored Black)
11. Child Molester
+ enhanced part (2 video clips

Boston Massachusetts metallers THE RED CHORD will release their fourth full-length album, "Fed Through the Teeth Machine", on October 27 in the U.S. via Metal Blade Records. The CD was recorded at Jonny Fay Backyard Studios, which is owned by the band's former guitarist Jonny Fay, and it was mixed and mastered by Chris "Zeuss" Harris, who has previously worked with HATEBREED and SHADOWS ALL, among others.

The track listing for the album is as follows:

01. Demoralizer
02. Hour Of Rats
03. Hymns And Crippled Anthems
04. Embarrassment Legacy
05. Tales Of Martyrs And Disappearing Acts
06. Floating Through The Vein
07. Ingest The Ash
08. One Robot To Another
09. Mouthful Of Precious Stones
10. The Ugliest Truth
11. Face Area Solution
12. Sleepless Nights In The Compound

NIGHTWISH frontwoman Anette Olzon makes a guest appearance on "October & April", the new single from Finland's THE RASMUS, which is scheduled for release on November 11. The song, which is available for streaming below, has been sent to radio stations in Europe and the video for the track will premiere on October 23.

In a September 2008 interview with Italy's Musica Metal, THE RASMUS singer Lauri Ylönen stated that the idea for the song came to him nine years ago when Tarja Turunen was still the lead singer of NIGHTWISH, but he only got around to recording the track during the sessions for last year's "Black Roses" CD. "I actually asked Tarja, but she said no!" Lauri revealed. "Then I called Anette, and she was like, 'Yeah, I would love to sing a song with you, I'm a big RASMUS fan, actually two years ago before I joined NIGHTWISH, I was singing THE RASMUS songs in karaoke bars!' so we went with her."

"October & April" was not included on "Black Roses" because the CD was a concept effort and the song didn't fit in with the overall idea for the album. Instead, the track will make its debut on THE RASMUS' "Best of 2001-2009", a compilation of all the hit songs from their four latest albums, including the million-selling "In The Shadows", most of the singles and a few rarities.

Due on November 25, "Best of 2001-2009" features the following track listing:

01. In The Shadows
02. No Fear
03. Guilty (U.S. mix)
04. October & April (featuring Anette Olzon)
05. First Day Of My Life
06. Livin' In A World Without You
07. F-F-F-Falling
08. Chill
09. Immortal
10. Justify
11. Shot
12. Funeral Song
13. Ghost of Love
14. Open My Eyes (acoustic version)
15. In My Life
16. Ten Black Roses
17. Sail Away

Commented Lauri: "We felt it was time to sum up these past ten years. Eero said, let's call the album, 'This is how I spent my twenties.' No matter how stupid it sounded, that is pretty much the truth. We went on this crazy rollercoaster ride; it has been an amazing time. We have travelled to more than 60 countries, from India to Siberia, met thousands of fans all over the world and enthusiastic people working with our records. And when I look back on these last four records, I feel very proud of them. We decided to include most of the singles to the album with a couple of our favorite album tracks, and the new song 'October & April'."

Germany's modern melodic death metallers DARK AGE will release their sixth album, "Acedia", on November 13 via AFM Records. The CD was recorded at Eikey Studio (owned by the band's vocalist/guitarist Eike Freese) and will be available in a standard jewel case version as well as a limited digipack (including a bonus track). The artwork, which can be viewed below, was once again created by Niklas Sundin (of Cabin Fever Media and DARK TRANQUILITY). According to the group, "You can expect the typical DARK AGE melodies and some surprises in our sound as well, mainly because every band member was involved in the songwriting stronger than ever before."

Japanese extreme metal band SIGH will release its eighth studio album, "Scenes From Hell", on January 19, 2010 via The End Records. The CD's cover artwork was designed by Eliran Kantor (TESTAMENT, AGHORA, TO-MERA, GWAR, SICKENING HORROR) and can be viewed below (courtesy of MetalSucks). The group states, "We're truly proud of the artwork. This is the perfect description of what the album is about — namely war, hell and death!"

SIGH's Mirai Kawashima recently stated about "Scenes From Hell", "We were supposed to finish mixing it by the end of June, but it was not easy at all. Of course I knew it'd be tough to mix all those orchestral instruments properly, but it was much harder than expected. The brass section sounds very powerful by itself. Guitar, bass and drums sound powerful enough by themselves. However, once all are mixed, they could often kill each other's powerfulness! After having gone through numerous trials and errors, we finally succeeded in getting the proper result. And the album has been mastered by Maor Appelbaum, who also mastered our tribute to VENOM. He has worked with such artists as Yngwie Malmsteen and Rob Halford, so he knows how to master the metal stuff! 'Scenes from Hell' definitely sounds powerful, symphonic and relentless. This is the musical description of hell!"

"Scenes From Hell" final track listing:

01. Prelude to the Oracle
02. L'art de Mourir
03. The Soul Grave
Musica in Tempora Belli
04. The Red Funeral
05. The Summer Funeral
06. Musica in Tempora Belli
07. Vanitas
08. Scenes from Hell

Veteran German hard rockers SCORPIONS recently spent time in the studio with Swedish producers Mikael "Nord" Andersson and Martin Hansen (the team behind THE RASMUS' "Dead Letters" CD) recording their new album for an early 2010 release.

"We are working on 12 songs at the moment," guitarist Mathias Jabs tells Scorps News. "Great stuff. Definitely 'Scorpionized' in sound and attitude. More towards the early Eighties."

Although SCORPIONS' new CD is tentatively due in Europe in March, a U.S. release date has yet to be pinned down. "Azoff Management [which represents SCORPIONS] is currently working on the [record] deal," Jabs says. "Simultaneous release is up to the record companies."

He adds, "The weak dollar has been a reason to delay the U.S. release in order to avoid bad imports in the 'rest' of the world, for all non-American bands in recent years."

SCORPIONS recently extended their record deal with Ariola, which is part of the international media conglomerate Sony BMG Music Entertainment

The new band calling itself FEAR FACTORY — featuring original FF members Dino Cazares (guitar) and Burton C. Bell (vocals) alongside bassist Byron Stroud (who played on the last two FEAR FACTORY albums in addition to touring and recording with STRAPPING YOUNG LAD and ZIMMERS HOLE) and legendary drummer Gene Hoglan (DETHKLOK, STRAPPING YOUNG LAD, DARK ANGEL, DEATH, TESTAMENT) — has set "Mechanized" as the title of its new CD, tentatively due in February 2010. "[The name] fits the vibe of the album very, very well," Bell told Sergio Alvite of Mexico's Search & Destroy in a brand new interview, which can be streamed using the audio player below.

The CD, which co-produced by the band with Rhys Fulber (FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, PARADISE LOST), was recently mixed by Greg Reely (PARADISE LOST, FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, SKINNY PUPPY).

Regarding "Mechanized"'s musical direction, Bell said, "It has the raw aggression of what 'Soul Of A New Machine' [1992] was but it has... I would say it has the maturity of 'Obsolete' [1998]. When I say 'maturity,' I mean that it has the songwriting skills that 'Soul Of A New Machine' did not have whereas 'Obsolete' did."