JAG PANZER guitarist Mark Briody has issued the following update regarding the band's long-awaited live CD/DVD release:

"Things are progressing VERY well in preparing for the live album. Lots of help from Century Media and an A+ concert promoter I'll name when the details are finalized. I will say this: No one has EVER seen a JAG PANZER show like this one. Every show we've done in the past years has been done with shoestring budgets and minimal gear (whatever we could check on a plane). This will be a full-on headlining show — all your favorite PANZER tunes, special merch, tons of gear and other surprises."

In other news, JAG PANZER releases will figure prominently in Century Media's yearly "10-Year Reissues" series. Since 2007 is the 10-year anniversary of "The Fourth Judgement", look for a "very cool new version" of that album next year. Plans include a new cover, remaster, inclusion of the original demo tracks, liner notes and photos.

JAG PANZER's last studio album, "Casting the Stones", was released in October 2004 via Century Media. Said to be "a more aggressive version" of 2001's "Mechanized Warfare", the CD was recorded in part at Tampa's Morrisound Studios with producer Jim Morris. Download the song "Battered & Bruised" at this location.

German power metallers HELLOWEEN recently shot a video for the track "Light the Universe" in Burg Veldenstein, Germany. The clip features a guest appearance by BLACKMORE'S NIGHT singer Candice Night.

HELLOWEEN announced over the weekend that it was cancelled its previously scheduled North American tour due to "unforeseen logistical and organizational problems. . . Despite good advance ticket sales (where pre-sales already where available), North American organizers of the tour could not guarantee an economical and adequate routing of the tour. Therefore a consequent cancellation two months before tour start seemed the band management to be the fairest for fans and promoters at this point."

HELLOWEEN's latest album, "Keeper of the Seven Keys - The Legacy", is available now on SPV Records. The lineup on the record includes singer Andi Deris, guitarists Michael Weikath and Sascha Gerstner, bassist Markus Großkopf and drummer Dani Löble (ex-RAWHEAD REXX).

German melodic black/death metallers SUIDAKRA have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Caledonia", due on November 17 via Armageddon Music.

The follow-up to 2005's "Command to Charge" was recorded by Martin Buchwalter at Gernhart Records studio in Siegburg, Germany and features artwork by Kris Verwimp. The album photography was handled by Axel Jusseit, who previously worked with the group on 2003's "Signs for the Fallen". The mastering was done by Michael Schwabe at Monoposto Mastering (SUBWAY TO SALLY, DIE TOTEN HOSEN) in Düsseldorf, Germany.

According to the band, "'Caledonia' adopts the lyrical concept of ancient Scottish history, which explains song titles such as 'Highland Hills', 'Forth-Clyde' and 'The IXth Legion'."

"Caledonia" track listing:

01. Highland Hills (8:01)
02. A Blackened Shield (5:15)
03. The Ember Deid (Part II) (3:15)
04. Evoke the Demon (5:27)
05. Forth-Clyde (5:31)
06. Ramble (instrumental) (2:57)
07. Dawning Tempest (5:13)
08. The Distant Call (3:34)
09. On Torrid Sand (3:52)
10. The IXth Legion (5:44)
11. Farewell (1:14)

WARMASTER, the Dutch old-school death metal band featuring André van der Ree (DARK REMAINS, ex-ETERNAL SOLSTICE, MOURNING) and Rik van Gageldonk (VUIST, DARK REMAINS), has announced the addition of guitarist Merijn Schenkels (MENTATION) to the goup's lineup. He will be replacing Rudi de Pont, who left WARMASTER due to "lack of time."

WARMASTER will return to the studio soon to add guitar solos to some of the songs that will be included on the band's upcoming debut CD.

Merijn's first show with WARMASTER will take place on August 25 at Baroeg in Rotterdam.

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Long-running German death metallers RESURRECTED will release their fifth album, "Endless Sea of Loss", on October 13 via Morbid Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Blood Spilled" was recorded at Soundlodge Studio in Germany and was mastered at Megawimp Mastering Studio in Berlin.

"Endless Sea of Loss" track listing:

01. Intro
02. Hidden by Disguise
03. Seducer of Mankind
04. Bloodmarked
05. Until You Kill Yourself
06. Smouldering Human Compost
07. ...and She Loves It Anal
08. An Obseding End
09. End of a Decade
10. Outro

RESURRECTED's fourth album, "Blood Spilled" was recorded at Excess studios in Rotterdam, Holland with producer Hans Pieters.

DOWNLORD's Dave Ingram (ex-BENEDICTION, BOLT THROWER) has secured permission from The Church Of Satan to use lyrical excerpts from "Hymn of the Satanic Empire" in the new DOWNLORD song "Wake Up & Smell the Species". The hymn was written by Anton Lavey in 1988 and was included on the "Satanic Mass" album.

The proposed track listing of DOWNLORD's debut album, "Random Dictionary of the Damned", due out late November via Open Grave Records, is as follows (subject to change):

01. Nailing You In
02. Psyclotron
03. Loathe. Scorn. Detest.
04. Full Scale Hatred
05. Xsv (Excessive) Payback
06. Hate Brace
07. Old World Chaos
08. Underdrive
09. Turn On, Tune In, Drop Dead
10. Smoke & Mirrors
11. Groin of God +++Amen & Out+++
12. Random Damnation
13. For It Was Written
14. Wake Up & Smell the Species
15. Sleep Forever

DOWNLORD's "Grind Trials" EP was released this past Tuesday worldwide via Open Grave Records. The EP is limited to 666 individually numbered copies, with over 100 signed copies randomly inserted. The EP is available only via Open Grave Records web site for the appropriate price of $6.66, including shipping worldwide.

DOWNLORD is the Denmark-based death metal band featuring Ingram on vocals, Donovan Spenceley (ex-SACRIFICIAL, EXCESSIVE PAYBACK) on guitar, Rene Falther (ex-EXCESSIVE PAYBACK, INIQUITY) on guitar, Thomas Fagerlind (ex-INIQUITY, DAEMON) on bass, and Rasmus Schmidt on drums.

San Francisco Bay Area metal titans MACHINE HEAD have set "The Blackening" as the title of their sixth studio album, tentatively due in early 2007 via Roadrunner Records.

The group will enter Sharkbite Studios in Oakland, CA on Monday, August 21 to begin tracking the effort, with vocalist/guitarist Robert Flynn returning to the producer's chair, and Mark Keaton once again handling engineering duties. Longtime MACHINE HEAD collaborator Colin Richardson (CANNIBAL CORPSE, TRIVIUM, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE) will also be returning to mix the record alongside Flynn this October in London. Tentative songtitles for "The Blackening" include "Clenching the Fists of Dissent", "Aesthetics of Hate", "Halo", "The Beautiful Mourning", "Now I Lay Thee Down", "Slanderous Love", "Wolves" and "A Farewell to Arms". The band has also tapped longtime MACHINE HEAD artist Paul Brown (MARILYN MANSON) to begin working on album art in the coming weeks.

"Words can't really describe how excited we are to get into the studio and record this record," exclaims drummer Dave McClain. "The shows that we just played on the Sounds of the Underground tour were as amazing as we'd hoped they'd be, the raw energy and excitement level of our fans right now is just incredible. We're fired up!"

Guitarist Phil Demmel adds, "We’re still smoothing out some rough edges but what we have, we’re extremely proud of. I'm not one to go off on 'heavier than blah-blah-blah!!!!' and 'crushes your-these-and-those!!!!' but I will say that fans of what we call 'just fuckin' metal' will be digging this new material."

The cover artwork for the new MY DYING BRIDE album, "A Line of Deathless Kings", has been posted online at this location. Due later in the year via Peaceville/Snapper, the follow-up to 2004's "Songs of Darkness, Words of Light" was recorded at Academy Studios and was mixed at Chapel Studios.

"A Line of Deathless Kings" track listing:

01. To Remain Tombless (6:06)
02. L'Amour Detruit (9:08)
03. I Cannot Be Loved (7:04)
04. And I Walk With Them (6:37)
05. Thy Raven Wings (5:22)
06. Love's Intolerable Pain (6:14)
07. One of Beauty's Daughters (5:40)
08. Deeper Down (6:28)
09. The Blood, The Wine, The Roses (8:21)

MY DYING BRIDE's second DVD, "Sinamorata", was released in August 2005 via Peaceville. The disc included a video for the track "The Blue Lotus" (directed and conceived by David Palzer), live footage (12 songs) shot on November 2, 2003 in Antwerpen, Belgium, as well as backstage extras, the "Prize of Beauty" promotional clip, two videos made by MY DYING BRIDE fans ("Hope the Destroyer" and "My Wine In Silence") and a photo gallery featuring fan-created artwork inspired by the band's music.

CANNIBAL CORPSE's video for the song "Death Walking Terror" has been posted online at Yahoo! Music. The track comes off "Kill", the band's 10th studio LP, which came out late March. The album debuted at No. 170 on The Billboard 200 chart, selling more than 6,000 copies in its first week. It was the second time in the band's career that one of its albums breached the mostly pop-friendly list; in 1996, "Vile" opened at No. 151, with more than 6,100 copies sold.

Regarding the band's song choice for the new video, CANNIBAL CORPSE bassist Alex Webster previously told MTV.com, "Every one of our songs has some kind of violent or dark imagery in it, but we have to look for songs that are a little less graphic. We only have a couple of songs on each record where the lyrics aren't more or less R-rated for violence. We have to carefully choose what songs we do videos for, because otherwise it won't make it passed the censors. The song 'Murder Worship', I think all of us would have liked to have done a video for that. But there's no way, with the decapitated heads and all."

Florida-based death metallers OBITUARY are currently rehearsing for their upcoming DVD shoot, which is scheduled to take place August 24 at the Stodola Club in Warsaw, Poland. They will also perform at the the Up From The Ground festival, which is set to take place August 25-26 in Gemünden, Germany. Check out pictures from the band's recent rehearsal sessions at this location.

OBITUARY are continuing to promote their latest CD, "Frozen in Time", which was released in July 2005 via Roadrunner Records. The group's first collection of new songs since 1997's "Back from the Dead" was self-produced by the band, with Mark Prator and Scott Burns engineering, and was mastered by Tom Morris at Morrisound.

Sundsvall, Sweden-based death metallers IN BATTLE have issued the following statement:

"IN BATTLE wants to announce that their longtime friend and drummer Otto Wiklund, born October 18, 1976 and died August 13, 2006, has passed away by his own hand...

"Otto Wiklund was a great drummer and did record the debut album of IN BATTLE (1997) and the second album, 'Rage of the Northmen' (1998). He also was the session drummer for SETHERIAL in 1998 and recorded the 'Lords of the Nightrealm' album.

"Otto Wiklund's memory will be honored on the upcoming [fourth] IN BATTLE album, 'Kingdom of Fear', which will be released through Nocturnal Art Productions/Candlelight Records in mid-November this year… with material that Otto Wiklund wrote for IN BATTLE.

"I ofred vi drar fram!! I OTTO's Namn!"

IN BATTLE's latest album, "Welcome to the Battlefield" (2004, Cold/Metal Blade Records), was recorded at Courthouse Studio in Östersund, Sweden and at Necromorbus Studio in Stockholm, Sweden. The CD was mixed and mastered at Erik Rutan's (HATE ETERNAL/ex-MORBID ANGEL guitarist) Mana Recording Studios in Tampa, Florida with engineer Shawn Ohtani. Rutan also laid down a guest appearance on lead guitar in the track "Serpents".

A brand new DEFTONES song, entitled "Hole in the Earth", has been posted online at the band's MySpace page. The track is the first single off the band's upcoming album, "Saturday Night Wrist", due on October 31 through Maverick. The follow-up to 2003's "Deftones" features guest appearances by SYSTEM OF A DOWN frontman Serj Tankian on the track "Mein" and Annie Hardy of GIANT DRAG on "Pink Cellphone".

"Saturday Night Wrist" tentative track listing:

01. Hole in the Earth
02. Fm
03. Beware
04. Cherry Waves
05. Mein (feat. Serj Tankian)
06. Interlude
07. Tilde
08. Rats
09. Pink Cellphone (feat. Annie Hardy)
10. Combat
11. The Earth
12. Comanche

With regards to the new material's musical direction, DEFTONES drummer Abe Cunningham told Billboard.com earlier in the year, "Actually, if you look at our last record, I refer to it as 'Dark Days' because that's basically what it was. It's kind of an incomplete record from my viewpoint. I think it's a good record [with] a lot of good songs but the new album, from start to finish, is a very complete record and has all of the extremes that we like. I'd say it's kind of hard."

ANGELCORPSE is currently working on two albums' worth of new material with its new drummer Gina Ambrosio. "We will be re-signing with Osmose Productions," guitarist Gene Palubicki said in a statement. "We have not decided on what date we will enter the recording studio but it will be sometime before the end of the year. The new material is as brutal as ever, and so is our new drummer. I named her the corpse-skin death-drummer. MP3s will be available prior to the full-length album release for 2007."

ANGELCORPSE 2006 is:

Gene Palubicki - Guitar
Pete Helmkamp - Bass, Vocals
Gina Ambrosio - Drums

Palubicki will be recruiting a new second guitarist, to be announced at a later time.

ANGELCORPSE's last studio album, "The Inexorable", was released in 1999 through Osmose. A CD collection, "Iron Blood and Blasphemy", featuring a number of singles, EP tracks, covers, live recordings, and the "Goats to Azazael" demo, came out in 2001.

DEICIDE's brand new brutal offering, "The Stench of Redemption", can now be downloaded at the MP3 download site www.metaltracks.com. This also includes the hard-to-find bonus track "Black Night" (DEEP PURPLE cover). This precedes the release date of the album, which is due in stores on Tuesday, August 22 (one day earlier internationally) via Earache Records.

The follow-up to 2004's "Scars of the Crucifix", "The Stench of Redemption" was recorded at Morrisound in Tampa, Florida and marks the first recording with the new DEICIDE lineup following the departure of the Hoffman brothers. Joining frontman Glen Benton and drummer Steve Asheim in the new formation are guitarists Jack Owen (ex-CANNIBAL CORPSE) and Ralph Santolla (ex-ICED EARTH, DEATH).

Norwegian power metallers GAIA EPICUS have posted the cover artwork for their upcoming third album, entitled "Victory", at this location. The cover painting for the CD was created by J.P. Fournier, who was also responsible for the band's first album cover, "Satrap", in 2003.

"Victory" was recorded at Top Room Studios in Lunner, Norway. The band, who recently parted ways with Sound Riot Records, has already received offers from several record labels that wish to release the new album, but nothing has been signed yet.

01. New Life
02. Iron Curtain
03. The Sign
04. Revenge is Sweet
05. In Memory
06. Awaken the Monster
07. Rise of the Empire
08. When Darkness Falls
09. Fortress of Solitude
10. Through the Fire
11. Victory

Check out audio samples at this location.

New Door Records/Universal Musical Enterprises has to announced the October 24, 2006 release of "Live to Win", the solo release from iconic KISS frontman Paul Stanley. The voice and songwriting force behind such KISS classics as "Detroit Rock City", "Black Diamond", "Hard Luck Woman" and "Tears Are Fallin'", Stanley's career with KISS spans more than three decades and in excess of 100 million records sold worldwide.

Stripping all the legendary bombast away, what becomes starkly clear is that besides rocking relentlessly, the power of human emotion and conviction on "Live to Win" can rattle not only the walls, but also touch the heart and soul of the listener. "What I wanted to do on this album was sing about my life because my life is not that different than anybody else's," says Stanley. "The truth is, what we all deal with in life is pretty similar. You change the names and the story's the same."

"This album is purely a labor of love," continues Stanley. "It is a labor of passion, and something where I was concerned with turning out the album I heard in my head, without regard for having glitz and star power from other sources. It was purely about making the album I wanted to make." While the heartfelt "Loving You Without You Now" was written without any outside collaboration, the remainder of the album reunites him with former KISS songwriting partners Desmond Child (AEROSMITH, LEANN RIMES) and Holly Knight (TINA TURNER, PAT BENATAR), and introduces new collaborators including Andreas Carlsson (BON JOVI, BRITNEY SPEARS), John 5 (ROB ZOMBIE, MARILYN MANSON) and Marti Frederiksen (AEROSMITH, FAITH HILL). Seven of the ten tracks were co-written with Child and/or Carlsson, with Stanley and Child joined by John 5 on "Where Angels Dare" and Frederiksen on "Lift", and Knight teaming with the frontman on "It's Not Me".

"Live to Win" is self-produced by Stanley, who provides lead vocals, guitar and percussion alongside a studio core of guitarist Corky James (AVRIL LAVIGNE, THE MATRIX), drummer Victor Indrizzo (BECK, MACY GRAY) and keyboardist Harry Sommerdahl (CARRIE UNDERWOOD, LINDSAY LOHAN). Also performing on the album are former KISS bandmate Bruce Kulick and guitarist John 5.

"I've always believed that when you give somebody an album, it should be like a fresh newspaper, where you get ink on your fingers and it's today's news," says Stanley, who wrote and co-wrote the ten tracks on "Live to Win" specifically for the new release. "For me, this album is where I'm at now — this is where things are in my life, and my perspective on my music."

Stanley is planning a North American club tour to coincide with the release of the album.

"Live to Win" (view cover here) final track listng:

01. Live To Win (3:07)
02. Lift (4:01)
03. Wake Up Screaming (3:00)
04. Everytime I See You Around (3:28)
05. Bulletproof (3:01)
06. All About You (3:16)
07. Second To None (3:35)
08. It's Not Me (3:19)
09. Loving You Without You Now (3:16)
10. Where Angels Dare (3:22)

Swedish heavy metal musician Jon Nödtveidt, 31, was found dead on Wednesday, August 16 at his apartment in Hässelby, a suburb of Stockholm. He shot himself in the head and was surrounded by lit candles, Expressen reports. Shortly before the ritual suicide, he had sent farewell letters to his father and his girlfriend and explained to a friend, "I'm going away for a long, long time. I'm going to Transylvania."

Sometime between Monday (Aug. 14) and Wednesday, Nödveidt, vocalist and guitarist in the popular Swedish black metal band DISSECTION, chose to take his own life.

At 7:21 p.m. CET on Wednesday, a police patrol reported to the police communication center in Stockholm that a man had been found dead, the apparent victim of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. According to several of Expressen's sources, the singer had placed an open copy of "The Satanic Bible" in front of him before pulling the trigger. "He shot himself in the head and lay dead in a ring of lit candles," says a police source.

At 5:44 p.m. on Wednesday, the police received a 911 call from Jon Nödtveidt's family who hadn't been able to establish contact with him for a couple of days. "They were very concerned," says his legal representative and manager, Per Nordqvist. "His girlfriend and his family called after their fears that something terrible had happened had been bolstered."

The reason for their concern was a farewell letter that Jon Nödveidt had sent to his girlfriend in Germany. His father, Anders Nödtveidt, had also received a postcard asking him to contact a number of people and thank them for everything. "What it said is personal. I want to keep it to myself," Jon's father says of the postcard's contents. "I met him in Stockholm just a week and a half ago. Everything seemed great then. I've always had good contact with Jon during his upbringing and throughout his adult life. I don't understand what has happened to make things turn out this way. This weighs even more heavily on us considering everything that has happened. This is very difficult for the entire family."

The group's statement on the matter reads as follows:

"Jon Nödtveidt was a man who lived his life according to his convictions and True Will. A couple of days ago he chose to end his life by his own hands. As a true Satanist he led his life in the way he wanted and ended it when he felt that he had fulfilled his self-created destiny. Not everyone will have understanding or acceptance for his personal path in this life and beyond, but all must respect his choice.

"Those of us who have met him in his last days can assure that he was more focussed, happier and stronger than ever. It is our full conviction that he left this world of lies with a scornful laughter, knowing that he had fulfilled everything that he had set up for himself to accomplish. The empty space that he leaves behind will be filled with the dark essence that he manifested through his life and black-magical work. His legacy and Luciferian Fire will live on through those few who truly knew him and appreciated his work for what it really was and still is. As our brother's goal in life and death never was to 'Rest in Peace', we will instead wish him victories in all battles to come, until the Acosmic Destiny has been fulfilled."

Martin Motnik (bass) and Stefan Hertrich (vocals) left Darkseed in order to concentrate on their other musical projects.

Stefan comments: "I want to concentrate on my ethnical influenced projects SpiRitual and Shiva In Exile, three bands simply were too much, in a music world, where most people just download albums instead of buying them and now income can be made by the bands. Therefore I decided to leave Darkseed - and with that 14 years of my past - behind, and head for the future. I hope that many fans will follow me on the musical adventures that might come during the next years! I noticed that especially the Russian fans AND media were most friendly and enthusiastic, compared to the music scene in other countries, and I hope, this will continue!"

Also, Stefan Hertrich (Germany) and Yana Veva (Russia) started songwriting for the 2nd Shiva In Exile album. While the highly awarded debut album "Ethnic" (2004, Trostlos Records/Canada) featured performances from all over the world, the 2nd album is focussed on near/middle eastern instruments and vocal performances, exclusively done by Yana Veva, and will offer a new and fresh gothic experience.
Publisher and release date are not set yet.

Vocalist Martin Steene of the Danish power metallers IRON FIRE (also in FORCE OF EVIL) has posted the following message on the band's official web site:

"The time has come for the recording of a new IRON FIRE album. We are starting on the first of September and will be mixing in late December. The mix will be done by Fredrik Nordström at Fredman Studio. This will be the first IRON FIRE album without Tommy Hansen behind the mixing desk. It's a scary thing for me personally to do a production without Tommy who has become a big part of the IRON FIRE family over the years, but we had an opening with Fredrik and we took it. We hope and think that he will push our sound to new heights. Another thing which will be new on the next album is that there will be three songs written by Kirk Backarach and one song written by Martin Lund. It is the first time in IRON FIRE history that I share songwriting and I'm sure it will bring new and fresh energy to our music."

IRON FIRE's third album, "Revenge", was released in March via Napalm Records. The follow-up to 2001's "On the Edge" was produced by Tommy Hansen (HELLOWEEN, TNT, HATESPHERE) and features cover art by Eric Philippe (RHAPSODY, LUCA TURILLI).

IRON FIRE issued two full-length albums through the Sanctuary/Noise label: 2000's "Thunderstorm" and 2001's "On the Edge".

Swedish melodic death metallers DARK TRANQUILLITY have posted the following message on their official web site:

"The songwriting for the new album is progressing nicely. 10-11 songs have now been demoed, and we're busy doing the final adjustments and modifications before it's time to depart for the long awaited Japan/Korea/Australia tour.

"A bootleg clip of 'The Wonders at your Feet' and 'Monochromatic Stains' from the show in Costa Rica last June is now uploaded to our MySpace page for your limitless enjoyment. Find it in the video section."

DARK TRANQUILLITY recently announced that their next studio album will be produced by Danish producer Tue Madsen. "The effort will be mixed in his Antfarm studio, while the actual recording will take place in different premises here in Sweden," the band said. "Drums will be set to tape at the old Studio Fredman, while guitars, bass, vocals and electronics will be immortalized at Rogue Music." Songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Blind at Heart", "The Lesser Faith", "InsignifiCunt" and "The Plunge"."

According to I.Battlegrim.net, a radio-broadcast, reduced-quality recording of the song "The Storm I Ride" by I — the new band featuring former IMMORTAL frontman Abbath (real name: Olve Eikemo), original IMMORTAL drummer Armagedda, ENSLAVED guitarist Arve Isdal and GORGOROTH bassist King ov Hell — has been made available for download at this location. The track was premiered on Tuesday (August 15) on the Norwegian rock/metal show "Pyro" as part of a one-hour special show dedicated to the Norwegian festival Hole In The Sky.

As previously reported, I has completed work on its debut album, "Between Two Worlds", due this fall through Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Bergen's Lydriket Studio with Geir Luedy, and was mixed by PAIN/HYPOCRISY mastermind Peter Tägtgren. "Between Two Worlds" — which will feature lyrics written primarily by former IMMORTAL guitarist Demonaz (real name: Harald Nævdal) was mastered in last week.

I will make its live debut at Bergen's Hole In The Sky festival on August 26.

IMMORTAL will reunite for several exclusive shows next year, including the Wacken Open Air festival, which is scheduled to take place August 2-4, 2007 in Wacken, Germany.

MTM Music has set a September 22 release date for TNT's "Live in Madrid" DVD. The set, which was filmed on April 1, 2006 in Madrid, Spain, will be accompanied by an 82-minute audio CD plus booklet liner notes from ex-TNT vocalist Tony Harnell about his work with the group as well as an additional tour documentary by Darren Paltrowitz.

Commented Harnell: "This DVD is dedicated to TNT fans around the world who have not had a chance to see the band live. I gave everything I had to give — it was an emotional night for me as I said goodbye to this era of my life."

"Live in Madrid" (view cover artwork at this location) track listing:

01. Invisible Noise
02. As Far As The Eye Can See
03. Downhill Racer
04. A Fix
05. She Needs Me
06. Give Me A Sign
07. Guitar Solo
08. Caught Between The Tigers
09. Listen To Your Heart
10. Black Butterfly
11. Seven Seas
12. Forever Shine On
13. Fantasia Espanola
14. My Religion
15. 10,000 Lovers (In One)
16. Intuition

DVD specials: interactive animated menus with sound, scene access, bonus material featuring additional concert videos

As previously reported, TNT has recruited SHY vocalist Tony Mills as the replacement for Harnell.

The new IQ live DVD, entitled "Stage" (view cover here), is due for release in September. It's a 2-disc set, comprising the band's full performances last July from NEARfest, USA, and the Burg Herzberg Festival in Germany. The running time is approximately 260 minutes. Both shows were professionally filmed and the track listings are as follows:

Disc One, NEARfest, Bethlehem, PA, USA, July 9th, 2005

1. Sacred Sound
   
2. It All Stops Here
   
3. Leap Of Faith
   
4. Born Brilliant
   
5. The Seventh House
   
6. Drum Solo
   
7. No Love Lost
   
8. Widow's Peak
   
9. The Narrow Margin (middle section)
   
10. Guiding Light
    
11. Harvest Of Souls
    
12. Awake And Nervous
    
13. The Last Human Gateway (middle section)
    
14. The Wake
    

Disc Two, Burg Herzberg Festival, Germany, July 16th, 2005

1. Sacred Sound
   
2. It All Stops Here
   
3. Born Brilliant
   
4. The Seventh House
   
5. Drum Solo
   
6. No Love Lost
   
7. Leap Of Faith
   
8. The Wake
   
9. Harvest Of Souls
   
10. Awake And Nervous
    

Special Features:

- 'Stage And Screen' featurette
- NEARfest soundcheck footage
- 'Andy's First Gig' featurette
- Photo Gallery

During the recent Believe tour PENDRAGON returned to the stage in Katowice, Poland where Nick Barrett and Clive Nolan recorded the recently released "A Rush Of Adrenaline" DVD. Naturally this was the site for a new DVD recording entitled "And Now Everybody To The Stage" (view cover here). The DVD will be released through Metal Mind on 11 September 2006.

The band came to Poland with three great gigs. One of them – that happened on 22nd May in Wyspianski Theatre in Katowice - was recorded for DVD release which has been requested for several years now by many people. Their last live DVD was made back in 1996!! The set list includes live versions of all PENDRAGON's "greatest hits", eg, "As Good As Gold", "Am I Really Losing You", "Kowtow", "Paintbox" or "Last Waltz". The DVD will also include bonus videos. The full tracklist is as follows:

DVD:

1. No Place For The Innocent
   
2. As Good As Gold
   
3. Guardian Of My Soul
   
4. Kowtow
   
5. The Wishing Well
   
6. The Edge Of The World
   
7. Nostradamus
   
8. The Dance Of The Seven Veils
   
9. Paintbox
   
10. Last Waltz
    
11. Breaking The Spell
    
12. Masters Of Illusion
    
13. The Black Knight
    
14. The Lost Children / Green Eyed Angel / Sister Bluebird / The Last Man On Earth
    
15. Am I Really Losing You?
    

Bonus video: The Progumentary - a home video recording

CD 1:

1. No Place For The Innocent
   
2. As Good As Gold
   
3. Guardian Of My Soul
   
4. Kowtow
   
5. The Wishing Well
   
6. The Edge Of The World
   
7. Nostradamus
   

CD 2:

1. The Dance Of The Seven Veils
   
2. Paintbox
   
3. Last Waltz
   
4. Breaking The Spell
   
5. Masters Of Illusion
   
6. The Black Knight
   
7. The Lost Children / Green Eyed Angel / Sister Bluebird / The Last Man On Earth
   
8. Am I Really Losing You?
   

PLEASE NOTE: the CDs are available only with MMP DVD 0086 limited digibox edition.

Los Angeles power/thrash metallers RESISTANCE have entered Desert Moon Recording Studios in Anaheim, California to begin recording their new album, "Patents of Control". The follow-up to 2005's "Lies In Black" (Lion Music) is being produced by RESISTANCE and Patrick Miller, with the final mix set to be handled by famed producer Neil Kernon (QUEENSRŸCHE, NEVERMORE, DEICIDE, CANNIBAL CORPSE).

"Patents of Control" projected track listing:

01. Inhumanation
02. End Of Today
03. Ashes Of Tomorrow
04. One Nation Under G.O.D. (Group Order Device)
05. Confessions Of The Black Heart
06. Paternal Shift
07. Cerebral Screams
08. I Am Techno Christ
09. The Cleansing
10. The Alpha And The Omega
11. Mirrors Black

A November release through Lion Music is expected.