German power metallers GRAVE DIGGER have set "The Clans Will Rise Again" as the title of their new album, due in Europe on October 1 via Napalm Records. The CD was recorded between mid-May and mid-July at the Meadow Studios, which is owned by GRAVE DIGGER's new guitarist Axel Ritt, and Principal Studios, where all of GRAVE DIGGER albums since 1995's "Heart Of Darkness" have been tracked. It was produced by Chris Boltendahl and mixed by Jörg Umbreit.

According to a press release, "Chris Boltendahl, Jens Becker, Stefan Arnold, HP Katzenburg and Axel Ritt offer an explosive mixture of the typical GRAVE DIGGER riff metal, combined with awesome epic chorus hooks, which will fascinate the fans from the very first note.

"'The Clans Will Rise Again' is a loose sequel of the 'Tunes Of War' album, but this time not a concept album about the Scottish history, rather a work about Scotland, its mysticism and its people."

"The Clans Will Rise Again" track listing:

01. Days Of Revenge
02. Paid In Blood
03. Hammer Of The Scots
04. Highland Farewell
05. The Clans Will Rise Again
06. Rebels
07. Valley Of Tears
08. Execution
09. Whom The Gods Love Die Young
10. Spider
11. The Piper Mcleod
12. Coming Home
13. When Rain Turns To Blood

GRAVE DIGGER will celebrate its 30th anniversary at this year's edition of the Wacken Open Air festival, set to take place August 5-7, 2010 in Wacken, Germany. The band will perform its seventh and most successful album, "Tunes Of War" (1996), in its entirety at the event and will be accompanied by "illustrious guests," such as the 20-headed BAUL MULUY PIPES & DRUMS BAND from Hamburg, German metal queen Doro Pesch, BLIND GUARDIAN lead singer Hansi Kürsch and the metal a capella ensemble VAN CANTO. There will also be a special elaborate stage set with an extraordinary pyro show.

Wacken Open Air will mark the first and final time GRAVE DIGGER will play the entire "Tunes Of War" album live. The band will also perform some of its other "greatest hits," such as "Ballad Of A Hangman", "Heavy Metal Breakdown" and "Excalibur" at the end of its set.

GRAVE DIGGER's latest album, "Ballads Of A Hangman", was released on January 9, 2009 via Austria's Napalm Records.

Greek extreme metallers SEPTICFLESH are hard at work on material for their new album, tentatively due in early 2011. The recording process is scheduled to begin in August at the band's own newly built Devasoundz studios in Athens. Once again the orchestral parts will be recorded in Prague under the guidance of Chris Antoniou (CHAOSTAR). This time, the band's effort "is bound to expand its dark and dreamy soundscapes and will be enhanced" by the mixing job of producer PAIN/HYPOCRISY mainman Peter Tägtgren (AMON AMARTH, MARDUK, THERION, CHILDREN OF BODOM, CELTIC FROST, IMMORTAL).

Commented SEPTICFLESH: "The creation of the 10 songs that will appear on the next album is approaching the final stage. The musical result can be described as a great mass of emotional death. One of the dominant elements of the album is the use of the characteristic guitar melodies of the band in a more intense and dramatic way. In combination with the orchestral parts that will surpass everything else that the band has done in the past, the sound resembles to a funeral concerto. Actually, it appears that the whole atmosphere of the album is one step closer to the depths of Hades… Also, as actually SEPTICFLESH is in the wider sense an artistic dark experiment, the nightmarish visual world of Seth Siro Anton that is part of this experiment is going to be expanded towards extremity in order to 'dress' fittingly the soundscapes and the new mysterious lyrical thematology."

Necroterror Records, the Cyprus-based underground record label and distributor which specializes in high-quality black metal releases mainly in the vinyl format, released the 12" LP/box version of SEPTICFLESH's latest album, "Communion". Limited to 350 copies, this vinyl release features all-new alternative cover artwork and layout to the CD version, created by Seth Siro Anton. A special edition gold vinyl boxed set is also available containing several unique extras.

"Witchkrieg", the new video from Swedish metallers WITCHERY, can be viewed below. The clip, which was shot in early May in Stockholm, Sweden, was filmed, directed and produced by Daniel Larrson and AT THE GATES/THE HAUNTED guitarist Anders Björler (At The Gates Productions). Additional scenes featuring Kerry King of SLAYER were filmed in early June in London, England.

Commented WITCHERY guitarist Jensen: "Thank God I'm not a huge fan of METALLICA. I am a huge fan of SLAYER, though, and Kerry agreed to do a guest solo for the new WITCHERY album AND to appear in the video. James [Hetfield] would never have done anything like that."

The official "lyric video" for "Buried Alive", a brand new song from Orange County, California's AVENGED SEVENFOLD, can be viewed below. The track comes off the band's new fifth studio album, "Nightmare", which is due from Warner Bros. Records on July 27.

Hopeless Records will release a very special and limited vinyl pressing of "Nightmare" in late September. The deluxe edition includes two 12-inch discs pressed on blood-red 180-gram vinyl in a double gatefold. The 2,500 limited edition package also comes numbered. A standard version is also available, on two 12-inch discs pressed on standard-weight vinyl in a double-gatefold packaging.

DEMIURG — the Sweden-based band featuring Rogga Johansson (RIBSPREADER, PAGANIZER) on vocals and guitars, Johan Berglund (THIS HAVEN) on bass, Ed Warby (GOREFEST, AYREON, HAIL OF BULLETS) on drums and Dan Swanö (EDGE OF SANITY, NIGHTINGALE, BLOODBATH) on lead guitar and keyboards — will release its third album, "Slakthus Gamleby", on July 30 via Cyclone Empire Records.

Regarding the musical direction of the new CD, Warby tells BLABBERMOUTH.NET, "Marjan Welman from AUTUMN guests on a couple of tracks and the musical style has broadened quite a bit from the last record [2008's 'The Hate Chamber']; the heavy stuff is even heavier and the atmosphere is still black as pitch but we've also incorporated some more melodic and even prog elements." He adds, "We all feel it's the best DEMIURG album yet..."

"Slakthus Gamleby" track listing:

01. Life Is A Coma
02. Death Grasp Oblivion
03. Travellers Of The Vortex
04. The Cold Hand Of Death
05. Cold Skin
06. From Laughter To Retching
07. Slakthus Gamleby
08. World Burial

The song "Travellers Of The Vortex" is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page.

The official "lyric video" for "Say You'll Haunt Me", the new single from STONE SOUR, can be viewed below. The track comes off the band's third album, "Audio Secrecy", which is scheduled for release on September 7 via Roadrunner Records.

STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor told The Pulse of Radio that it took him a while to warm up to "Say You'll Haunt Me" during the making of the record. "It was one of those songs that I didn't really feel until it was finished," he said. "I enjoyed the lyrics but I wasn't sure about the music. I'd come in and I'd sang it, and I put my heart into it because the lyrics are about my wife and how I feel about my wife, and then I left. And I came back and they (the band) had just made it incredible. Now I can't get it out of my head."

STONE SOUR has tapped director Paul R. Brown (SLIPKNOT, MÖTLEY CRÜE, KORN, GODSMACK, AVENGED SEVENFOLD) to helm the video for "Say You'll Haunt Me".

STONE SOUR (Taylor, guitarists James Root and Josh Rand, bassist Shawn Economaki and drummer Roy Mayorga) and producer Nick Raskulinecz (FOO FIGHTERS, ALICE IN CHAINS, DEFTONES) recorded the follow-up to 2006's "Come What(ever) May" at Blackbird Studios in Nashville during the destructive storms and devastating floods that hit the historic heart of Music City.

"Come What(ever) May" debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard album chart and included the hits "Through Glass", "Sillyworld" and "Made Of Scars".

The quintet will be previewing select songs from the album during this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Uproar Festival. The 36-date tour launches August 17 in Minneapolis, Minnesota and will visit arenas and amphitheatres across North America before wrapping October 4 in Madison, Wisconsin.

"My Dark Place Alone", the new video from the reactivated MURDERDOLLS — the band consisting of Joey Jordison (SLIPKNOT, ROB ZOMBIE) and Wednesday 13 — can be viewed below. The clip was filmed with director Paul R. Brown, who has previously worked with SLIPKNOT, MÖTLEY CRÜE, KORN, GODSMACK and AVENGED SEVENFOLD, among others.

"My Dark Place Alone" comes off MURDERDOLLS' sophomore album, "Women And Children Last", which will be released on August 31 via Roadrunner Records. The CD was recorded at a studio in Hollywood Hills, California with producer Chris "Zeuss" Harris (HATEBREED, SHADOWS FALL, 3 INCHES OF BLOOD).

"Women And Children Last" track listing:

01. The World According To Revenge
02. Chapel Of Blood
03. Bored 'Til Death
04. Drug Me To Hell
05. Nowhere
06. Summertime Suicide
07. Death Valley Superstars
08. My Dark Place Alone
09. Blood-Stained Valentine
10. Pieces Of You
11. Homicide Drive
12. Nothing's Gonna Be All Right
13. Rock 'N' Roll Is All I Got
14. Hello, Goodbye, Die

"Slaughterhouse", a brand new song from Florida-based death metallers MALEVOLENT CREATION, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's eleventh album, "Invidious Dominion", which will be released on August 24 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records (three days later in Europe through Massacre). The effort will made available in various territories as a regular CD; digipack with bonus material; and vinyl LP.

Norwegian death metallers GOAT THE HEAD will release their second full-length album, "Doppelgängers", on September 13 via Aftermath Music. The CD was mixed and mastered by Tue Madsen (HALFORD, BEHEMOTH, KATAKLYSM, THE HAUNTED) at his Antfarm Studio in Århus , Denmark and it "boasts 10 furious tracks exerting about every color of the metal palette," according to a press release.

"Doppelgängers" track listing:

01. Neolithic Rocket Science
02. Uncanny Valley Clan
03. This Tube Is The Gospel
04. Salt
05. Bestial Domestication
06. The Hunt Is On (Sexy Son)
07. Reveille
08. Stirring The Enigmatic Appetite
09. The Ubiquitous Cube
10. Primal Caveman Death Metal

"This Tube Is The Gospel" can be streamed using the audio player below.

"Sorrowspell", the new video from the California-based deathcore band CARNIFEX, can be viewed below. The song comes off the group's new album, "Hell Chose Me", which sold around 3,100 copies in the United States in its first week of release. The CD landed at No. 4 on the Top New Artist Albums (Heatseekers) chart, which lists the best-selling albums by new and developing artists, defined as those who have never appeared in the Top 100 of The Billboard 200.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania-based Christian metalcore quintet AUGUST BURNS RED filmed its June 4 concert at Warehouse 54 in Manheim, Pennsylvania for a forthcoming CD/DVD, "Home", to be released on September 28 through longtime label home Solid State Records. The DVD/CD shoot drew a sold-out crowd of 1,250 people who wanted to participate in the exciting performance, including some who traveled internationally, from as close as Montreal to as far as away as Amsterdam. Shot and edited by Space Monkey Studios, whose phenomenal work has been seen on releases by acts like COHEED AND CAMBRIA, LAMB OF GOD, EVERY TIME I DIE and more, the live show is accompanied by a documentary on the band detailing life on the road and at home and featuring many fans discussing the ways in which AUGUST BURNS RED have impacted their lives in a positive, meaningful way.

"We played our first ever show as a band in Manheim in April of 2003," explains guitarist JB Brubaker. "Between then and now, we've been fortunate enough to play all over the world. But when it came time for us to record our first live DVD/CD, it only made sense to do so back in Manheim where everything began. It was exciting for us to have people come from far and wide to the town where most of us grew up, and to be able to play such a special show in front of our families and close friends who have been supporting us since the beginning."

The powerful, pummeling performance featured many fan favorites from the band's three full-length albums — 2009's "Constellations", 2007's "Messengers" and 2005's "Thrillseeker" — which means that "Home" will appeal to both new and longtime AUGUST BURNS RED fans.

"Constellations", the third full-length album from AUGUST BURNS RED, debuted at an impressive No. 24 on The Billboard 200. Released on July 14, 2009, the LP also landed at No. 8 on Current Rock Albums, No. 2 on Top Hard Music Albums (less than 300 units behind NICKLEBACK!) and No. 2 on the Christian Market chart.

With sales of 20,000 copies in its first week, "Constellations" more than doubled the first-week numbers of its predecessor, 2007's "Messengers", which debuted in The Billboard 200 at No. 81 and went on to sell well over 80,000 copies. "Constellations" also hit the No. 1 New Music Release spot iTunes the day it was released, and entered the Top 100 at No. 6, nestled between a MICHAEL JACKSON best-of album and the movie soundtrack for a certain wizard named Harry.

After their extremely successful "Hellish Rock" world tour 2007/08, which took HELLOWEEN through 40 countries on four continents, the German power metallers will hit the road again in November/December. Three weeks after the release of HELLOWEEN's as-yet-untitled new studio album, the band will team up with Finnish melodic metallers STRATOVARIUS for a European tour, dubbed "The 7 Sinners World Tour 2010/11 - European Part I".

Commented HELLOWEEN singer Andi Deris: "We had a great package with GAMMA RAY last time , and we are very proud to have STRATOVARIUS with us this time.

"We look forward to have another power metal party with our fans all over the planet — see you soon!"

"The 7 Sinners World Tour 2010/11 - European Part I" tour dates:

Nov. 26 - Wien, Austria - Szene
Nov. 27 - Zlin, Czech Republic - Winter Masters of Rock
Nov. 28 - Budapest, Hungary - Petöfi Hall
Dec. 01 - Langen, Germany - Neue Stadthalle
Dec. 02 - Antwerp, Belgium - Hof Ter Lo
Dec. 04 - Prestatyn, UK - Hardrock Hell Festival
Dec. 05 - London, UK - The HMV Forum
Dec. 06 - Eindhoven, Netherlands - Effenaar
Dec. 08 - Lund, Sweden - Mejeriet
Dec. 09 - Oslo, Norway - Rockefeller
Dec. 10 - Gothenburg, Sweden - Lisebergshallen
Dec. 11 - Stockholm, Sweden - Arenan
Dec. 13 - Tallinn, Estonia - Rock Cafe
Dec. 14 - Tampere, Finland - Pakkahuone
Dec. 15 - Helsinki, Finland - House Of Culture
Dec. 17 - Warsaw, Poland - Stodola
Dec. 18 - Cracow, Poland - Studio
Dec. 19 - Prague, Czech Republic - Mala Sportovni Hala

HELLOWEEN's new album was recorded at Andi Deris' Mi Sueno Studios in Tenerife, Spain. The band wrote more than 20 songs and selected the best ideas with longtime producer Charlie Bauerfeind.

HELLOWEEN bass player Markus Grosskopf previously stated about the band's new material: "For all those out there who found our special best-of [CD] 'Unarmed' to be too smooth and calm, I have a great news: The new album will hit you right in the face! It's gonna be very heavy and contain all HELLOWEEN trademarks! Some songs are very powerful and hymnic, others contain the fastest bass-drum patterns our drummer Dani [Löble] ever played, and this means a lot!"

HELLOWEEN's 25th-anniversary album, "Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary", was released in North America on March 30 via The End Records, under exclusive license from Sony Music Entertainment Germany.

"Unarmed - Best Of 25th Anniversary" was made available in Europe on January 29. The artwork was once again created by Martin Haeusler, who had previously worked with HELLOWEEN on the "The Legacy" and the "Gambling With The Devil" releases.

"Unarmed" was released in a limited-edition version with a very special digipack, including a 30-minute making-of DVD, containing interviews and studio footage. It was also made available as a double vinyl.

According to STYX's management the band was putting the finishing touches on their new album, Regeneration: Volume 1, back in June. Produced by Styx and their long-time studio/live sound engineer Gary Loizzo, Regeneration: Volume 1 contains six re-recorded versions of some of the band's classics and one brand new song, 'Difference In the World'. The six classic tracks are 'Grand Illusion', 'Fooling Yourself (The Angry Young Man)', 'Lorelei', 'Sing For The Day', 'Crystal Ball' and 'Come Sail Away'.

Styx plan to release the album on vinyl as well as on CD and digitally.

The song 'Difference In The World' is now available for free download at this location.

Rockabye Baby! — which transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies — released "Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions Of Black Sabbath" on July 13. The CD takes the songs of BLACK SABBATH and reconstructs the melodies with bells, vibraharps and polyphonic keyboards. All of the instrumental adaptations on the album are produced and performed by Jeffrey Miner.

Is your family going through changes? If your days are filled with tears because baby kept you up until the witching hour, try these soothing versions of BLACK SABBATH's metal classics to rock your little one to sleep. You're going to feel sweet relief as the hauntingly familiar melodies cast an enchanting spell over the whole family.

"Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions Of Black Sabbath" track listing:

01. Iron Man02. N.I.B.03. War Pigs04. Paranoid05. Sweet Leaf06. Sabbath Bloody Sabbath07. Wicked World08. Fairies Wear Boots09. Children Of The Grave10. Electric Funeral11. Heaven And Hell12. Planet Caravan13. Changes

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY will release its new album, "Order Of The Black", in North America on August 10 via E1 Music. The CD will be made available in Europe through Roadrunner Records and in Australia and New Zealand via Riot! Entertainment.

"Order Of The Black" will feature four different CD covers — one for each territory: North America, Europe, Australia and South America/Asia.

"Order Of The Black" track listing:

01. Crazy Horse
02. Overlord
03. Parade Of The Dead
04. Darkest Days
05. Black Sunday
06. Southern Dissolution
07. Time Waits For No One
08. Godspeed Hell Bound
09. War Of Heaven
10. Shallow Grave
11. Chupacabra
12. Riders Of The Damned
13. January

A limited-edition version of the album featuring the bonus track "Can't Find My Way Home" will be made available internationally.

According to The Argus, Jimmy Page's former home is up for sale for £8 million (approximately $12 million).

Plumpton Place — an Elizabethan manor house in Plumpton, East Sussex, England — comes with six bedrooms, five en-suite bathrooms, a tennis court and its own moat and was once the home of the LED ZEPPELIN guitarist.

The Grade II-listed building comes with three lakes, two cottages and a three bedroom mill house with its own working water wheel.

Set over three floors the house has a sitting room 48 feet long and a library that is 550 square feet.

The luxury pile will offer any potential buyer with the right bank balance a haven in the South Downs six miles from Lewes and set in its own 62 acres of land.

ARCH ENEMY guitarist Christopher Amott has released his latest solo effort, Follow Your Heart, in Japan on CD and as a download in the rest of the world.

According to a press release, in 2008, Amott began to consider his creative options as a mature musician. He began writing songs of an entirely different atmosphere, which saw his guitar playing focused less on technical ecstasy and more on a chord-based blues rock ambience as a foundation for more prominent vocal and lyrical ideas. These compositions developed into his next solo project; the album would be called Follow Your Heart, released under his own name in 2010.

Amott adds: "This record may be something different than what you are used to hearing from me. Check it out and see what you think. I hope you enjoy it!"

"Follow Your Heart" (cover) tracklisting:

'Tibet'
'Holy Mountain'
'Kilimanjaro'
'In the Pale Moonlight'
'Track #5'
'Space Song'
'From Here To There'
'Lifeline'

'Tibet' and 'Holy Mountain' are being streamed on Amott's MySpace Page.

The album is available for download on these websites:
iTunes
CD Baby
Cdbanq.com

ALL SHALL PERISH's new guitarist and Berklee College of Music graduate Francesco Artusato has completed work on his dynamic new, all-instrumental solo endeavor entitled "Chaos and The Primordial". This all-out technical shred fest features 10 truly diverse tracks that takes the listener on an all-encompassing musical journey and the depth and diversity in which Artusato does so is astonishing.

Check out audio samples at this location.

Commented Artusato: "I just got back from my first tour with ALL SHALL PERISH playing four great shows as direct support for the legendary DANZIG. It was such an amazing and mind-blowing experience!

"We will be back on the road starting this weekend for the Summer Slaughter North American tour and will then head out to Europe after that. It's going to be great.

"This is also an exciting moment for me because my first solo record, 'Chaos and the Primordial', is finally finished. It's 10 tracks of all instrumental music that explore the rock/metal language in singular ways.

"I'm very proud of the final product. It sounds the way I envisioned it, thanks to Ben Cohen, who mixed and mastered it at Sky Blue Studios.

"It took a lot of patience and attention due to the crazy amount of recorded guitar tracks (doubles, harmonies and different layers and textures). Some of the songs have more 25 guitar tracks each!

"This disc is the result of the experiences, studies, thoughts and musical moments that shaped my sound and vision throughout these years.

"The first sample is taken from the first track titled 'Chaos and the Primordial'. Overall, it's a very technical and intense song that has a progressive vibe with some very open and lyrical parts mixed with very powerful moments of intensity and complexity. The second sample is taken from the third track titled 'Typhoeus' and this song combines some of the most challenging riffs and phrases that I've ever written. The intricacy of the parts and its wild and forceful nature are what make this song comparable to a typhoon: uncontainable and feral! The third sample is taken from the sixth track titled 'The Metamorphosis', which is probably the most experimental and unconventional sounding song of the album. The song is distinguished by crazy time signatures, peculiar-sounding lines and phrases and a constant mutating form that makes the song evolve and devolve within itself."

ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET, the Swedish band featuring former THE CROWN vocalist Johan Lindstrand, is currently writing material for its fourth album, tentatively due in early 2011. Lindstrand states, "We will enter Black Lounge studio in October and together with Jonas Kjellgren we will try to create the best possible ARMY album ever. If we succeed or not is up to you to judge, but all I can say is that for the first time all songs feels like keepers.

"We have chosen nine songs out of 13 and now the pre-recordings are done. There are just some solos and lyrics left to be done but they will be in place in a couple of weeks.

"My voice seems stronger than in years. Like I've gone back ten years to record a CROWN album or something, and the rest of the gang is truly doing tremendous things.

"Jonas [Blom; guitar] has written most of the songs and we have all had the chance to put some input in them, which feels great.

"We've had so much time with the songs and to have had this long period since 'Grim Tales' to just reload the batteries has been a true blessing.

"The ones who know about us knows that we were famous for working ultra-fast and releasing album after album, year after year, but I got to tell ya, this time we needed the extra time to come up with something extra special so it's with great pleasure I announce 'The Dark Epic'... as the title of our forthcoming album.

"Some titles on the album are: 'Sandman Apocalypse', 'Stitch', 'The Pleasures Of Slavery', 'How I Love To Kill You', 'The Zombie Syndrome (Of Acid And Man)'.

"The cover art is being processed at this right moment by Björn of Killustrations so when we have it you will see it.

"Björn is a great guy and a real talent and we've talked for some time now to do the whole thing together. He has done some really cool shirt designs for us so we expect nothing but a masterpiece from him.

"No pressure, Björn.

"Those who expect General Grim to be on this one too will be very disappointed."

"Sasha Grey", a brand new song from Southern California's ANTAGONIST, can be streamed on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off the group's new full-length album, "World In Decline", which will be released on August 17 via Prosthetic Records. The CD was recorded at Buzzbomb Studios in Orange, California with producer Paul Miner (TERROR, THRICE, THROWDOWN) and it features guest vocal appearances by ARSONISTS GET ALL THE GIRLS' Jared Monette and John Strachan of THE FUNERAL PYRE. The cover artwork was created by Daniel McBride, who has previously worked with VEIL OF MAYA and BORN OF OSIRIS.

The 20th-anniversary edition of QUEENSRŸCHE's most commercially successful album to date, "Empire", will be released in North America on September 14 via EMI Music. In addition to the original CD remastered with bonus tracks from the 2003 reissue, "Empire - 20th Anniversary Edition" will include a bonus disc of a live concert from 1990.

The track listing is as follows:

Disc 1 (original CD remastered with bonus tracks from 2003 reissue):

01. Best I Can
02. The Thin Line
03. Jet City Woman
04. Della Brown
05. Another Rainy Night (Without You)
06. Empire
07. Resistance
08. Silent Lucidity
09. Hand On Heart
10. One And Only
11. Anybody Listening?
12. Last Time In Paris
13. Scarborough Fair
14. Dirty Lil Secret

Disc 2 (live tracks recorded at the Hammersmith Odeon, London on November 15, 1990):

01. Resistance
02. Walk In The Shadows
03. Best I Can
04. The Thin Line
05. Jet City Woman
06. Empire
07. Roads To Madness
08. Take Hold Of The Flame
09. Silent Lucidity
10. Hand On Heart

Founding figures in the birth and construction of the black metal genre and important figures in the Norwegian scene that later became the topic of mainstream press and film documentaries, IMMORTAL remain one of three most revered and esteemed black metal bands in all the world. Many remember the shock in 2003 when — thirteen years into their existence and one year after the band was nominated for an Alarm award for "Sons Of Northern Darkness" — IMMORTAL suddenly announced they would disband.

It was four years into their abrupt retirement when the men in black reconnected with their creative force and announced to their worldwide fan base that IMMORTAL would reunite and return to the stage. Luckily, every moment of IMMORTAL's headlining reunion show at the prestigious Wacken Open Air festival in Germany in 2007 was captured for all future generations of black metal fans to enjoy.

IMMORTAL manager Håkon Grav had this to say about the long-awaited DVD: "This release has been due many years, but finally we can present IMMORTAL's first concert DVD.

"The band paid their dues with hard roadwork during the first decade and then some during their career, but they were hardly given the tools and surroundings worthy of a full-blown video production like this demands. The mighty Wacken Open Air proved to be the perfect partner for us in that sense, and this was truly a special night for both the band and the fans.

"The band played several great shows on the reunion tour, but the fact that headlining the Black Stage at Wacken would be something spectacular was a given in advance, and now the DVD is here to prove it again.

"It has taken some time, but good things rarely come easily or quickly.

"If you were present at the show, I think you will appreciate the possibility to relive the magic, and if you're witnessing the show for the first time within your own four walls, I hope you enjoy it just as much!

"For those of you coming to Wacken again this year — what can I say but 'Auf Wiedersehen!'"

"The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh", the band's first official live DVD and live CD release in the history of their existence, features songs that span IMMORTAL's timeless discography and includes three back-to-back-to-back selections from their most acclaimed release to date. The leather and spikes, the "war paint," the bursting pyrotechnics, the essential anthems, Abbath's on-stage acrobatics, and an audience that drew upwards of 70,000 people... the magic's all there, ready to be absorbed into your consciousness.

Take a walk through the mystical Norwegian landscape and witness Abbath, Horgh and Apollyon as they return to the fabled and mythical kingdom of Blashyrkh, where they are destined to rule for all eternity.

"The Seventh Date Of Blashyrkh" will be released in Europe on August 6 and in North America on September 14 via Nuclear Blast.

The track listing for both the DVD and the CD is as follows:

01. Intro
02. The Sun No Longer Rises (from "Pure Holocaust")
03. Withstand The Fall Of Time (from "At The Heart Of Winter")
04. Sons Of Northern Darkness (from "Sons Of Northern Darkness")
05. Tyrants (from "Sons Of Northern Darkness")
06. One By One (from "Sons Of Northern Darkness")
07. Wrath From Above (from "Damned In Black")
08. Unholy Forces Of Evil (from "Diabolical Fullmoon Mysticism")
09. Unsilent Storms In The North Abyss (from "Pure Holocaust")
10. At The Heart Of Winter (from "At The Heart Of Winter")
11. Battles In The North (from "Battles In The North")
12. Blashyrk (Mighty Ravendark) (from "Battles In The North")

"The Cabal", a brand new song from Italian folk/power metallers ELVENKING, is available for streaming on the band's MySpace page. The track comes off ELVENKING's new album, which is tentatively due in September via AFM Records. The CD was recorded at Piranha studios in Karsdolf, Germany with producer Dennis Ward (ANGRA, PINK CREAM 69, PRIMAL FEAR) and executive producer Mat Sinner (PRIMAL FEAR, SINNER). The album's cover artwork was created by Samuel Araya, who has previously worked on CRADLE OF FILTH's "Thornography" CD.

METALLICA is making a deluxe vinyl edition of its 1983 debut album, "Kill 'Em All", available for order online on Thursday (July 15), beginning at 10:00 a.m. ET. The two-platter set comes in heavyweight 180-gram red vinyl, packaged in a gatefold sleeve and remastered from the original album master tapes. Only 1,000 copies are available and can be ordered by METALLICA fan club members at MetClub.com.