DEICIDE's latest offering, "The Stench of Redemption" (due on August 22), is now available in the Earache webstore to pre-order on four different formats.

01. 10 Track Super-Limited Edition Collector's Box Set

The super-rare collector's edition box set is limited to 4000 worldwide, housed in a sturdy clamshell box it contains:

* 1x 10 track "The Stench of Redemption" CD
* 4x Collectable band member art cards
* 1x Double-sided color poster

02. Limited Edition Collector's Box Set

The collector's edition box set comes in a sturdy clamshell box and contains:

* 1x 9 track "The Stench of Redemption" CD
* 4x Collectable band member art cards
* 1x Double-sided color poster

03. Regular CD Edition

04. 12" Vinyl Picture Disc

For more information, including pre-ordering details, click here.

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).

The cover artwork for AMON AMARTH's new album, entitled "With Oden On Our Side", has been posted online at this location. The Swedish viking death metal metallers' sixth full-length album will be released in Europe on September 25 (September 22 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland) via Metal Blade Records. The CD was recorded at Fascination Street studios in Örebro, Sweden with producer Jens Bogren.

"With Oden On Our Side" track listing:

01. Valhall Awaits Me
02. Runes to My Memory
03. Asator
04. Hermod's Ride to Hel (Lokes Treachery Part 1)
05. Gods of War Arise
06. With Oden On Our Side
07. Cry of the Black Birds
08. Under the Northern Star
09. Prediction of Warfare

There will be a limited digipack version containing a bonus disc featuring the following track listing:

01. Where Silent Gods Stand Guard (live at Wacken 2004)
02. Death in Fire (live at Wacken 2004)
03. With Oden on Our Side (demo version)
04. Hermod's Ride to Hel - Lokes Treachery Part 1 (demo version)
05. Once Sent from the Golden Hall (Sunlight Studio recording 1997)
06. Return of the Gods (Sunlight Studio recording 1997 – previously unreleased song)

AMON AMARTH will embark on a full European headlining tour in October. More information will be made available soon.

A new INTO ETERNITY track, "Severe Emotional Distress", from the Canada's progressive metal band's forthcoming album, "The Scattering of Ashes", has been made available at the Gigantour MySpace page.

INTO ETERNITY has been confirmed for this year's Gigantour set to kick off in September. INTO ETERNITY guitarist Tim Roth said of the honor, "We are extremely blown away at the chance to tour with this great festival. When INTO ETERNITY was formed, a tour with MEGADETH was always a goal of mine. I didn't actually think nine years later we would be playing arenas with them. INTO ETERNITY would like to give extra thanks to MEGADETH drummer Shawn Drover for going to bat and putting in some good words for us. See you out there!"

INTO ETERNITY's new CD, "The Scattering of Ashes", is scheduled for release on October 3 via Century Media Records. The CD was mixed and mastered by Andy Sneap (KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, ARCH ENEMY).

INTO ETERNITY's new CD will mark the group's first release with vocalist Stu Block, who was previously a member of Vancouver's OMEGA CROM. The band's third album, "Buried in Oblivion", was released in February 2004 through Century Media Records.

Dutch black metallers SAURON have set "The Channeling Void" as the title of their upcoming third full-length album, tentatively due late 2006/early 2007 via the Swedish label Carnal Records (CRAFT, ARCKANUM, SHAARIMOTH). Eight songs have been written for the CD, which will be recorded at Double Noise studio and mastered at the Necromorbus facility in Sweden. Cover art will be handled by Manuel Tinnemans.

"The Channeling Void" projected track listing

01. Know My Word Is His
02. Crowning the Swarm
03. Secrets Divine
04. Council of the Impious (Vicarius Filii Dei)
05. Deformed Source of Creation
06. The Great Destroyer
07. 7
08. Cognosce Semitas Meas

In other news, the band's video for the song "Anima Mundi" can be viewed at YouTube.com.

SAURON's second full-length album, "For A Dead Race", was released in 2004 via Neurotic Records. The follow-up to 2003's "Universe of Filth" was recorded at Double Noise studio and was described as "more mature, more diverse and most of all more angry" than its predecessor.

EDGE OF SANITY, the acclaimed Swedish band led by producer/multi-instrumentalist Dan Swanö, has finalized the track listing for its upcoming double CD collection, "The Best of Edge of Sanity". According to Dan, "one disc will feature the highlights of the more 'normal' studio albums and the mini-album 'Until Eternity Ends' [1994]," while "the second disc will be packed with 'Crimson' [1996] and 'Crimson II' [2003] in slightly edited versions. All songs will be remastered."

"The Best of Edge of Sanity" track listing:

Disc A:

01. Tales…
02. Human Aberration
03. Enigma
04. In The Veins/Darker Than Black
05. Lost
06. The Masque
07. Until Eternity Ends
08. Eternal Eclipse
09. Twilight
10. Black Tears
11. 15:36
12. Hell Is Where The Heart Is
13. Hellwritten
14. Bleed You Dry

Disc B:

Crimson (full album)
Crimson II (full album)

EDGE OF SANITY's last studio album, "Crimson II", was essentially a Dan Swanö solo release with help from various friends.

ALICE COOPER's "The Nightmare Returns" will get an official DVD release on Tuesday, August 1 via Geffen Records (August 28 in Europe). This concert was captured live on MTV on Halloween night, 1986 in front of a sold-out audience of 20,000 at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena. This highly theatrical concert tour was in support of ALICE COOPER's 1986 MCA release, "Constrictor", and was said to be one of ALICE's biggest and bloodiest shows. The lineup of Kane Roberts and Devlin 7 on guitars, Kip Winger on bass, Ken Mary on drums, and Paul "Horrorvitz" Taylor on keyboards, along with additional theatrical performers, created an all-new show that included elements of the past while embracing the newer more metallic sound.

"The Nightmare Returns" track listing:

01. Intro tape
02. Welcome To My Nighmare
03. Billion Dollar Babies
04. Years Ago (instrumental excerpt)
05. No More Mister Nice Guy
06. Years Ago (instrumental excerpt)
07. Be My Lover
08. I'm Eighteen
09. The World Needs Guts
10. Give It Up
11. Cold Ethyl
12. Only Women Bleed
13. Go To Hell
14. Ballad Of Dwight Fry
15. Teenage Frankenstein
16. Sick Things
17. I Love The Dead
18. School's Out
19. Elected
20. Under My Wheels

To order a copy, follow these Amazon links: U.S., U.K..

BLIND GUARDIAN's video for the track "Another Stranger Me" has been posted online at YouTube.com. The clip is the group's first to feature drummer Frederik Ehmke, who replaced Thomen Stauch in 2005.

As previously reported, BLIND GUARDIAN have confirmed "A Twist in the Myth" as the title of their new album, due on September 4 via Nuclear Blast Records (September 1 in Germany).

"A Twist in the Myth" (view cover here) track listing:

01. This Will Never End (5:07)
02. Otherland (5:14)
03. Turn the Page (4:16)
04. Fly (5:43)
05. Carry the Blessed Home (4:03)
06. Another Stranger Me (4:36)
07. Straight through the Mirror (5:48)
08. Lionheart (4:15)
09. Skalds and Shadows (3:13)
10. The Edge (4:27)
11. The New Order (4:49)

BLIND GUARDIAN recently released a single, "Fly", containing two exclusive tracks: an acoustic version of "Skalds and Shadows" and BLIND GUARDIAN's version of the IRON BUTTERFLY classic "In A Gadda Da Vida" (previously covered by SLAYER).

Veteran German hard rockers SCORPIONS have posted the following message on their official web site:

"We are looking forward to the Wacken [Open Air] show where we are going to play with our old friends, Michael [Schenker], Uli [Jon Roth] and Hermann [Rarebell]. This is going to be a very special event. If you are surprised that the set list voting for the Wacken show took place on the festival page vs. our official web site this is because we wanted to get a feel for what the audience of the festival wanted to hear. Presumably, the new album will be released in May 2007. We'll keep you posted as details become more clear."

SCORPIONS have reportedly tapped songwriter/producer Desmond Child — who has worked with such high-profile pop/rock artists as AEROSMITH, BON JOVI, ALICE COOPER, KISS, RICKY MARTIN, CHER, MICHAEL BOLTON and BONNIE TYLER — to produce their next studio album, which they expect to release before the end of 2007. Child, who recently worked with Michael Beinhorn, Meat Loaf and Jim Steinman as co-producer on MEAT LOAF's "Bat Out of Hell III: The Last at Bat" CD, has also been mentioned as MÖTLEY CRÜE singer Vince Neil's likely collaborator on Neil's new solo album, which the vocalist was previously said to be planning to record this summer.

SCORPIONS' latest album, "Unbreakable", was released in the U.S. in June 2004 through Sanctuary Records. The CD was recorded at Peppermint Park Studio in Hannover, Germany and was mixed at Wisseloord studios in Hilversum, Holland.

Frontiers Records has announce the completion of KINGDOM COME's new studio album, entitled "Ain't Crying For The Moon", to be released in Europe on October 20, 2006.

"After having done a lot of experimenting with 'Perpetual'," says Lenny Wolf, the mastermind behind KINGDOM COME, "I thought it was the time to take out the axe again and rock the house. The new CD will be one of my heaviest recordings ever. I was trying to build 'walls of guitars' in combination with that typical KC moody and spacey approach. It does not have the typical 'blues' factor anymore, which many of you may remember from the first records. I have transported my roots into the year 2006."

Still the new album keeps on having a very personal and quite recognizable touch, even if KINGDOM COME is an ever-evolving musical reality.

"When we will come to your towns, we will definitely play songs from our early days as well," adds Wolf, who, as a special gift to the fans, decided to include in the new album track listing an exclusive remake of KINGDOM COME's first U.S. hit "Get It On", originally released on the band's debut album in 1988.

"Ain't Crying For The Moon" (view cover here) track listing:

01. Two Legged Sheep
02. Not Here To Be Your Friend
03. Same Old Stars
04. Ain't Crying For The Moon
05. Perfect Citizen
06. This Is My Life
07. Bon Scott
08. Removed The Sting
09. Friends In Spirit
10. Darkroom
11. Look At You
12. Across The Universe
13. Get It On (2006 version)

Check out audio samples at this location.

According to MTV.com, a new DVD series called "Dynamo Classic Concert 1991" will launch this fall via Escapi Music with a performance by METAL CHURCH filmed that year at the Dynamo Open Air Festival in Eindhoven, Holland. Other bands that played Dynamo that year include ARMORED SAINT, MORBID ANGEL, EXTREME, OBITUARY, PRIMUS and SAIGON KICK. The METAL CHURCH DVD is scheduled for release October 10.

METAL CHURCH's latest album, "A Light in the Dark", was released in Europe on June 19 (June 27 in the U.S.) via SPV. The CD includes a new version of the classic "Watch the Children Play" as a tribute to vocalist David Wayne, who passed away in May 2005.

METAL CHURCH's current band lineup consists of Vanderhoof (guitar), Ronny Munroe (vocals), Jay Reynolds (guitar), Steve Unger (bass) and Jeff Plate (drums).

Ozzy Osbourne has told Reuters that he is working on two new albums and the first one could be ready by February.

"I don't want to release an album if it's not a great album," Ozzy said. "I primarily write an album for myself, and if the world likes it, great," he said. "I'm just hoping that I can get a good couple of albums out." Osbourne was cautious about when the album would be ready, but his wife, Sharon, who is also his manager, said "hopefully" it would released in February.

The self-proclaimed "Prince of Darkness" said he was working on the two albums with guitarist Zakk Wylde, whose band BLACK LABEL SOCIETY is one of the main acts in Osbourne's annual hard-rock traveling festival, Ozzfest.

"I can't say anything about the songs," Osbourne said at an event in New York to launch a Hard Rock Cafe T-shirt to raise money for his wife's cancer charity.

German melodic black/death metallers SUIDAKRA are finalizing the mixing process for their new album, "Caledonia", tentatively due in October via Armageddon Music. The follow-up to 2005's "Command to Charge" was recorded at Gernhart Records studio in Siegburg, Germany and features artwork by Kris Verwimp. The album photography is being handled by Axel Jusseit, who previously worked with the group on 2003's "Signs for the Fallen".

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'."

U.S. death metal giants HATE ETERNAL have set "The Perilous Fight" as the title of their upcoming DVD, which was shot at The Garage in London, England on June 4, 2006. Due in October, the set will feature artwork from Paul Romano (TRIVIUM, MASTODON) and will include the following footage:

* The full London set (June 4, 2006)
* An in-depth interview with the band filmed immediately post-gig
* Documentary on the making of "I, Monarch"
* On-tour footage
* All of the band's promo videos, including "Powers That Be" and "I, Monarch"

HATE ETERNAL's current album, "I, Monarch", was the last to feature departed drummer Derek Roddy, who was replaced by Reno Kiilerich for the European tour.

British extreme metallers CRADLE OF FILTH have finalized the track listing for their new album, "Thornography", due on October 16 via Roadrunner Records. The follow-up to 2004's "Nymphetamine", "Thornography" was recorded at Lincolnshire, England's Chapel studios with producer Rob Caggiano (BLEEDING THROUGH, ANTHRAX) and was mixed at Backstage Studios in Derbyshire, England by Andy Sneap (MACHINE HEAD, SKINLAB, NEVERMORE).

"Thornography" (view cover artwork at this location) track listing:

01. Under Pregnant Skies She Comes Alive Like Miss Leviathan
02. Dirge Inferno
03. Tonight in Flames
04. Libertina Grimm
05. Byronic Man
06. I Am The Thorn
07. Cemetery And Sundown
08. Lovesick For Mina
09. The Foetus Of A New Day Kicking
10. Rise Of The Pentagram
11. Under Huntress Moon
12. Temptation

The narraration for "Thornography" was once again laid down by Doug Bradley (a.k.a. "Hellraiser"'s chief Cenobite, Pinhead), who has previously worked with the group on "Her Ghost in the Fog" and "Swansong for a Raven".

The cover artwork for MESHUGGAH's upcoming remixed version of its acclaimed 2002 effort, "Nothing" has been posted online at this location. Due on September 15 via Nuclear Blast Records, the CD will include a bonus DVD containing live footage from the Swedish experimental extreme metallers' most recent European tour.

MESHUGGAH's latest album, "Catch Thirty Three", was nominated for a Swedish Grammy in the "Best Hard Rock" category. Other nominees were CANDLEMASS ("Candlemass"), HAMMERFALL ("Chapter V: Unbent, Unbowed, Unbroken"), HARDCORE SUPERSTAR ("Hardcore Superstar") and OPETH ("Ghost Reveries").

MYTHIASIN, the band fronted by former STEEL PROPHET vocalist Rick Mythiasin, has commenced the recording sessions for its debut album, tentatively due before the end of the year through an as-yet-undisclosed label. The drum tracks for the song "The Truth" were completed last Sunday (July 23). Other songtitles set to appear on the CD include "Punishment Overdue", "Lost Voice in a Crowd", "The Future is the End", "Grey Skies", "Coming Home", "Origins", "Tell Tale Heart", "The Gathering of Five" and "Grey Mist Death". Check out demo versions of the tracks "The Future is the End", "Punishment Overdue" and "Lost Voice in a Crowd" at this location.

Lost and Found Records USA has announced official licensed CD reissue of the extremely rare speed/thrash metal classic, VIKING's "Man of Straw".

Originally released in 1989 on Metal Blade Records, this fully licensed CD release was fully remastered, and contains rare and never-before-heard bonus tracks.

Lost and Found Records owner Bryan J Anderson says, "We are extremely happy to have this title available once again. It's a shame titles like this are becoming almost impossible to find. It is our goal to bring these classics back to life better and louder than ever."

VIKING's "Man of Straw" reissue track listing:

01. White Death
02. They Raped the Land
03. Twilight Fate
04. The Trial
05. Case of the Stubborns
06. Winter
07. Hell is for Children
08. Creative Divorce
09. Man of Straw
10. Prelude/Scavenger (from original 1986 demo tape)
11. Do or Die (from original 1986 demo tape)
12. Abortuary (1989 demo for unreleased third album)
13. Valhalla (live from December 1986)

Founded in the spring of 1986 in Los Angeles, VIKING released two full length albums on the Metal Blade label, with "Man of Straw" being the second and final release after disbanding in 1990. "Man of Straw" has been hailed as one of the most rare and hard to find speed/thrash metal albums by collectors.

For more information, visit www.lostandfoundrecords.com.

Despite a previous announcement to the contrary, drummer Tony Laureano (NILE, DIMMU BORGIR) will NOT be performing on MALEVOLENT CREATION's upcoming tenth studio album, "Doomsday X", >, tentatively due before the end of the year via Nuclear Blast Records. "Due to various schedualing conflicts I am no longer able to take part in the recording of MALEVOLENT CREATION's new album 'Doomsday X'," Tony writes on his web site. "It's unfortunate, but unavoidable. I wish them luck with the record, and look foward to hearing it."

MALEVOLENT CREATION is currently home writing and demoing material for the new CD, to be recorded later this summer. Recordings will take place at Mercury recording studios in Pompano Beach, FL with producer/engineer Gus Rios, with the mixing set to take place at Antfarm studis on Aaarhus, Denmark with producer Tue Madsen.

MALEVOLENT CREATION's current lineup includes original bandmembers Brett Hoffman on vocals, Jason Blachowicz on bass, Jon Rubin on guitar, and Phil Fasciana on guitar. Teh band has yet to announce a replacement for Laureano.

MALEVOLENT CREATION has been confirmed for the 2007 edition of "The Domination Tour", set to kick off next February. Also scheduled to take part are Greece's ROTTING CHRIST and Norway's CARPATHIAN FOREST.

On August 21, 2006, Danish metal hopefuls MERCENARY will release “The Hours That Remain” via Century Media Records. The follow-up to the critically acclaimed and much-lauded “11 Dreams” (2004), once again presents an intense musical entity formed out of influences from death-prog masters Opeth to prog-power archetypes Nevermore/Fates Warning to modern extreme-but-melodic acts like Soilwork.

Like its predecessor, “The Hours That Remain” was recorded and mixed by Jacob Hansen (Communic, Maroon, Hatesphere). The brilliant artwork created by Travis Smith (Death, Katatonia, Opeth) is the icing on the cake of this brilliant release.

The new album features guest vocals by Soilwork’s Björn “Speed” Strid and Heaven Shall Burn’s Marcus Bischoff.


The track-listing reads as follows:


MERCENARY - "The Hours That Remain" CD
1. Redefine Me (6:06)
2. Year Of The Plague (5:29)
3. My World Is Ending (5:26)
4. This Eternal Instant (6:10)
5. Lost Reality (8:02)
6. Soul Decision (5:03)
7. Simplicity Demand (6:35)
8. Obscure Indiscretion (4:46)
9. My Secret Window (6:29)
10. The Hours That Remain (8:07)


The album will be available in two different formats: Standard jewel case CD and limited edition CD+DVD containing an exclusive bonus DVD filled with 120 minutes of “Making of” documentary and live footage. To catch at least a glimpse of what to expect of one of this year’s most remarkable metal albums, MERCENARY’s new hymn “Soul Decision” can be streamed online here: http://www2.centurymedia.com/index.aspx?page=detailed_artist&id_artist=122

The new Droom album is finished and it is entitled "the voice of ghosts". It will be done as a special release in short pressing runs, each cd coming with individual hand made artwork (so that no two's cds' cover art will be identical). in all the cd is contains 8 & 1/2 fairly weighty and potent songs and clocks in between 45 and 50 minutes. according to the band's website, "it may take a few listens for you to "get" it, but I assure you that it's our best work to date." Released by Droom and available July 31st, 2006. Go listen here : http://www.myspace.com/droom

Tracklist:
1. Electric blue
2. At the end of October
3. Copenhagen
4. Into the river
5. Flesh bone body soul
6. The rain upon your cheek
7. Sasha
8. Dead quiet

As previously reported, Napalm Records will issue a DVD collection, The Realm Of Napalm Records, on July 28th. It features over 140 minutes worth of video clips, live clips, specials and comes with a 16 Song bonus audio CD. The track list is as follows:

Videos: ATROCITY - 'Cold Black Days', BATTLELORE - 'Storm Of The Blades', 'Journey To Undying Lands', BESEECH - 'Innerlane', DARKWELL - 'Fate Prisoner', ELIS - 'Der Letzte Tag', HURTLOCKER - 'Absolution', KORPIKLAANI - 'Beer Beer', 'Kadetsiipina', 'Hunting Song', LACRIMAS PROFUNDERE - 'Amber Girl', 'Ave End', 'Again It's Over', LEAVES' EYES - 'Elegy', 'Into Your Light', SINAMORE - 'Darkness Of Day', TYR - 'Regin Smidur', 'Hail To The Hammer', VISIONS OF ATLANTIS - 'Lost'

Live: ENTHRONED - 'Hellgium Messiah', 'SALTATIO MORTIS - 'Heuchler', 'Salz Der Erde', 'Mea Culpa', 'Junges Blut', 'MIDNATTSOL - 'Infinite Fairytale', 'Desolation', 'Haunted'

Leaves' Eyes Special: The Making Of A Saga, A Winter Talk, Bochum Total, From Mexico To Russie Get WIG WAMed - 'In My Dreams' (new version), 'Hard To Be A Rock'n Roller', 'Bless The Night'

Australian progressive metal band VANISHING POINT has issued the following update:

"We are currently busy writing and preparing ourselves for our fourth album for Dockyard 1. We are booked to go back into the recording studio in September with Endel Rivers at Palm Studios (BLACK MAJESTY, THE ETERNAL and many others) and things are going really well.

"What can we say about the new material so far? It's probably the heaviest music that we have come up with in some parts within the VANISHING POINT style. We still have the melodic edge, symphonic arrangements and thought-provoking lyrics as usual that you would expect on a VANISHING POINT album.

"We are very excited about the new material and we hope that you guys stick around for the next album!!!

"Oh, yeah, this time the album will not take years to complete — we want to have it ready for early next year. And yes, as many people are asking, the songs will be shorter, at least the majority of them will be, heh heh."

VANISHING POINT's latest album, "Embrace the Silence", was released in Europe in May 2005 through Dockyard 1, the new German company/record label formed by Dirk Putzke, Christine Stephan (both ex-Sanctuary/Noise Records) and Piet Sielck (IRON SAVIOR). "Embrace the Silence" is available in Australia and New Zealand through Riot Distributions.

KAMELOT guitarist Thomas Youngblood has posted the following message on the group's official web site:

"Greetings from Wolfsburg, Germany! Home of Volkswagen, they are everywhere here. We are here working on the new songs for the upcoming album and follow-up to 'The Black Halo'. It is going very very well on the new songs. It's incredibly hot here in Germany at the moment, even hotter than Florida where I live. We are already planning tour dates for Europe again that we hope to announce very soon. It will likely be spring 2007 and we will unveil our biggest stage ever. I also have previewed some of the footage from the upcoming DVD and it looks really amazing. The artwork is nearly complete and our friend Mattias Norén in Sweden is working very hard on the whole booklet. As soon as we have an official release date you will hear it here first."

KAMELOT's first-ever DVD, "One Cold Winter's Night", was shot in Oslo this past February. "We have 18 cameras on this shoot and the concert was nearly two hours long," vocalist Khan had previously stated. The disc was edited by Patric Ulleaus (DIMMU BORGIR, LACUNA COIL, IN FLAMES) and will include special guest appearances by Simone Simons (EPICA), Sascha Paeth and Snowy Shaw (ex-KING DIAMOND, DREAM EVIL), plus many others.

Also on the KAMELOT-related front, the first-ever KAMELOT anthology, "Lunar Sanctum", will be released by Sanctuary Records. It will feature some classics as well as unreleased live cuts from the band's last concerts in Tokyo.

KAMELOT will team up with EPICA for a North American tour beginning on September 19 in West Springfield, Virginia.

VELVET REVOLVER has decided to take a little time off from writing for its new album to play a few shows. But drummer Matt Sorum told ABC Radio's ePrep they're on track to have the CD in stores in the spring. No producer has been chosen at this point, but the band has been speaking with Rick Rubin (AUDIOSLAVE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN, SLAYER, SLIPKNOT), hoping to get him to come on board for the project.

"We've been talking to Rick Rubin," Sorum revealed. "So hopefully he's gonna come on board, because I think he's just a great song guy. And his advice to us, which was great advice, was, 'Write as many songs as possible.' He's listened to a lot of our riffs and different parts that we have. He's a very honest guy, and even if he doesn't produce us, he's given us a good sense of what we need to go for, and that's just great songs."

The working title for the disk remains "Libertad", although Sorum dismisses Scott Weiland's statements that it will be a concept record.

"You know, Scott said something about a concept album," Sorum told ABC Radio's ePrep. "But you know, the concept is let's get it done, you know what I mean? (laughs)"

VELVET REVOLVER's 2004 debut, "Contraband", was certified double-platinum for sales in excess of two million copies in the United States.

On Monday, July 24, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE's debut album, "The Poison", was re-released by Visible Noise Records in the U.K. with four extra tracks and a bonus DVD including exclusive live tracks from Tokyo, Japan.

The extras include a DVD side that has the promo videos for "Hand of Blood", "4 Words (To Choke Upon)" and "Suffocating Under words of Sorrow", as well as live footage and three songs taken from the Club Quattro, Shibuya in Tokyo show earlier in the year. Audio-wise, the extras include B-sides "Seven Days", "My Fist, Your Mouth, Her Scars" as well as two live tracks from the sold-out Brixton Academy show, "Spit You Out" and "All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)".

"The Poison" reissue complete track listing:

01. Intro
02. Her Voice Resides
03. 4 Words (To Choke Upon)
04. Tears Don't Fall
05. Suffocating Under The Words Of Sorrow (What Can I Do)
06. Hit The Floor
07. All These Things I Hate (Revolve Around Me)
08. Room 409
09. The Poison
10. 10 Years Today
11. Cries In Vain
12. Spit You Out
13. The End

In other news, BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE will be taking part in a couple of in-store signings in the U.K. this week. Wristbands will be needed for the Virgin signings, and will be available the morning of signing from the store on a First-come, first-served basis. No wristbands will be need needed for the HMV signings. The details are as follows:

Thursday, July 27 at 5:00 p.m.: Nottingham Virgin
Friday, July 28 at 4:00 p.m.: London HMV

BULLET FOR MY VALENTINE's "The Poison" has sold 72,000 copies in the United States since its mid-February release, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

Swedish gore death masters DERANGED have commenced work on the follow-up to their sixth full-length album, "Obscenities in B Flat", which was released earlier this year on Listenable Records.

Commented drummer Rikard Wermen: "We have a couple of new songs more or less all done and so many ideas so it won't be any problem to throw some more tracks together. It's to early to say when we will eventually record the new disc. However, it will be titled '213' and a couple of titles that will hopefully and most likely end up on the disc are 'Death Walks on High Heels', 'Strip Nude for your Killer', 'Watch Me When I Kill', 'Too Young Too Die', 'The Killer Wore Black Gloves', 'So Sweet So Dead' and 'The Red Light Murderess'.

"And yes, it is the best musical work we have so far accomplished under the name DERANGED. It's brutal and insane, and will hopefully leave you dead with a broken neck in the pit."