TESTAMENT is pleased to announce a string of headlining dates this October with Louisiana metallers Soilent Green. The tour includes TESTAMENT’s appearance at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 9 in New York City, where they will be direct support to headliners Children of Bodom; also special guests, The Black Dahlia Murder and Between The Buried and Me. More news and tour dates after the fold…

Guitarist Eric Peterson checked in to discuss the Metal Masters tour and the band’s upcoming US headlining dates: “We just finished the Metal Masters tour, and it was a great tour to be on. Unfortunately, it went by too quick. We got to know everyone towards the end, and it started to feel like family. It’s too bad it had to end so soon, especially after getting to know everyone. Hopefully, the Metal Masters will continue next year in Europe.

“In the meantime, we’re heading to Japan and Australia. The last time we played there in ’06, we promised our fans we’d have a new record out the next time we came around. We kept our promise and we’re excited to get back there and play it for them.

“Once we get back, we’ll be headlining some east coast shows, including a one-off with Children of Bodom at the infamous Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC. We’ll have full production, so we’re excited to put on our whole show. This tour is going to focus on secondary markets, so we don’t spoil anything for next year. We plan on having a big year and putting a big package together, wink wink.”

September Remaining tour dates

09/25/08 The Arena – Brisbane, Australia
09/26/08 HiFi – Melbourne Australia
09/27/08 The Metro – Sydney, Australia
October 2008:
10/01/08 Diamond Ballroom, Oklahoma City, OK
10/03/08 Rex Theater, Pittsburgh, PA
10/04/08 The Lost Horizon – Syracuse, NY
10/05/08 Lulu’s – State College, PA
10/07/08 Chameleon Club – Lancaster, PA
10/08/08 Crocodile Rock – Allentown, PA
10/09/08 Hammerstein Ballroom – New York, NY*
10/10/08 Webster Theate – Hartford, CT
All dates with Soilent Green, except for date marked with *, which is with Children of Bodom, Black Dahlia Murder, and Between Buried And Me
October 2008:
Testament in Mexico (venues TBA):
10/27/08 Monterey, Mexico
10/29/08 Guadalajara, Mexico
10/30/08 Puebla, Mexico
10/31/08 Mexico City, Mexico
November 2008:
11/09/08 Southern Amp Festival Christchurch NZ

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Oakland deathcore demigods All Shall Perish are set to release the highly-anticipated follow up to 2006’s metal milestone The Price of Existence on September 16^th via Nuclear Blast Records. Entitled Awaken the Dreamers, the band’s third proper full-length further blurs the boundaries between technical grind, relentless death, and balls-to-the-wall metalcore. The furious twelve-track collection was once again recorded at Oakland’s Castle Ultimate with Zack Ohren (Decrepit Birth, Light This City). Drummer Matt Kuykendall is mighty proud of the result:

“We have never been a band to write the same record twice and we have never enjoyed records that are 1 single and 11 worse versions of the same song. This record is the most diverse thing we have done to date. Every song is different and brings something new to the overall experience of the CD. When you look back to all the classic records of our time, they are full of all kinds of different songs. Vulgar Display of Power just wouldn’t be the same without ‘This Love’ and ‘Hollow’. Our record is a breath of fresh air in a scene that is turning stale.”  

Over the past month, the band has posted a handful of new songs on their Myspace page, but you can get a free download of the album’s punishing title-track right here. Its barreling drums and spinwheel guitars oughta tide you over until the band’s headlining tour later this year.

Download and Share “Awaken The Dreamers” From All Shall Perish’s Awaken The Dreamers [Nuclear Blast]

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Bio, hi-res artist images, album art, music, interviews available upon request.

Awaken The Dreamers Tracklist:

• 01 When Life Meant More…
• 02 Black Gold Reign
• 03 Never…Again
• 04 The Ones We Left Behind
• 05 Awaken the Dreamers
• 06 Memories of a Glass Sanctuary
• 07 Stabbing to Purge Dissimulation
• 08 Gagged, Bound, Shelved and Forgotten
• 09 Until The End = till the end
• 10 From So Far Away
• 11 Misery’s Introduction
• 12 Songs for the Damned

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FREE ALBUM DOWNLOAD FOR EVERYONE WORLDWIDE ON AUGUST 1st!

Nuclear Blast Records continues to celebrate their 20 heavy years of non-stop aggression with metalheads worldwide by offering a FREE 20 killer songs download package for everyone!!

You have nothing to lose, just download everything right here at the Nuclear Blast MP3 Musicshop: www.nuclearblast-musicshop.de
Watch out metalheads, there’s still more!

At the beginning of each month you’ll find five previously unreleased songs of upcoming Nuclear Blast albums on our killer TRACK ATTACK compilation. That’s only 0,99€ for a whole bundle of 5 brand new songs!

FREE 20 Track Download at Nuclear Blast MP3 Site

Nuclear Blast Music Shop Track Attack

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Rebels With A Cause – Unruly, Unrestrained, Uninhibited (DVD)
The DVD will be a continuation of the previous two (The First Crusade and The Templar/Renegade Crusades) and will contain newly recorded interviews with the band interspersed with footage from their own cameras.
The time span is six years, from the beginning of 2002 until the end of 2007, and it’s edited together as a documentary of sorts, i.e. one continuous film, but of course with chapters.
Also included will be all six promo videos made during the time in question plus some behind the scenes, four professionally filmed live songs from Filderstadt 2005, five TV clips they have purchased the rights to from SVT (the Swedish national television network) and some more homemade stuff as bonus. The complete running time is estimated to be almost three hours.

Also released was the cd Masterpieces of all cover songs. Check out the track listing and the caption from Nuclear Blast.

Masterpieces (CD)
A collection of all the covers recorded by HAMMERFALL to date plus three new, unreleased ones. Incidentally, this will be guitarist Stefan Elmgren’s last release with HAMMERFALL.

Masterpieces covers CD:
01. Child of the Damned (WARLORD)
02. Ravenlord (STORMWITCH)
03. Eternal Dark (PICTURE)
04. Back to Back (PRETTY MAIDS)
05. I Want Out (HELLOWEEN)
06. Man on the Silver Mountain (RAINBOW)
07. Head Over Heels (ACCEPT)
08. Run With the Devil (HEAVY LOAD)
09. We’re Gonna Make It (TWISTED SISTER)
10. Breaking the Law (JUDAS PRIEST)
11. Angel of Mercy (CHASTAIN)
12. Rising Force (YNGWIE J. MALMSTEEN’S RISING FORCE)
13. Detroit Rock City (KISS)
14. Crazy Nights (LOUDNESS)
15. När Vindarna Viskar Mitt Namn (ROGER PONTARE)
16. Flight of the Warrior (RIOT)
17. Youth Gone Wild (SKID ROW)
18. Aphasia (EUROPE)

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Oh, and Johnny Walker says Hello.

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Nuclear Blast Records is offering up 25 albums at a discount price of $5.99 until August 30, 2008. Some new, some old. get them while you can!

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While I appreciate Nuclear Blast sending me the magazine from overseas, it just had me laughin’ my ass off when I started to flip through and realized that I couldn’t read any of it.

Thanks Nuclear Blast, I love the label and the bands, but damn! Could you send me one in English next time, please?

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Necrophagist, Dying Fetus, Beneath The Massacre, Into Eternity, Neuraxis, Whitechapel, Veil of Maya, DIVINITY (Nuclear Blast) and Common Grave will join forces in Quebec to start SUMMER SLAUGHTER CANADA

8/14/08  Imperial – Quebec City, QC – CANADA
8/15/08  Club Soda – Montreal, QC – CANADA
8/16/08  The Opera House – Toronto, ON – CANADA

8/17/08  DAY OFF
8/18/08  Kilroys – Thunder Bay, ON – CANADA
8/19/08  Garrick Center – Winnipeg, MB – CANADA
8/20/08  Riddell Center – Regina, SK – CANADA
8/21/08  Warehouse – Calgary, AB – CANADA
8/22/08  Starlite – Edmonton, AB – CANADA
8/23/08  Roll-A-Done – Prince George, BC – CANADA
8/24/08  DAY OFF
8/25/08  Commodore Ballroom -Vancouver, BC – CANADA

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• 08/28/08  Jaxx – W. Springfield, VA (SONATA ARCTICA)
• 08/29/08  The Trocadero – Philadelphia, PA
• 08/30/08  The Palladium – Worcester, MA
• 08/31/08  The Chance – Poughkeepsie, NY (SONATA ARCTICA)
• 09/01/08  Metropolis – Montreal, QC – CANADA
• 09/02/08  The Docks – Toronto, ON – CANADA
• 09/04/08  The Agora Theater – Cleveland, OH
• 09/05/08  Harpo’s Concert Theater – Detroit, MI
• 09/06/08  House of Blues – Chicago, IL
• 09/07/08  Station 4 – St. Paul, MN (SONATA ARCTICA)
• 09/09/08  Showbox So Do – Seattle, WA
• 09/10/08  Roseland Theater – Portland, OR
• 09/11/08  Big Easy – Boise, ID (SONATA ARCTICA)
• 09/12/08  The Fillmore – San Francisco, CA
• 09/13/08  The Wiltern – Los Angeles, CA
• 09/14/08  Marquee Theater – Tempe, AZ
• 09/16/08  The Palladium – Dallas, TX
• 09/17/08  La Zona Rosa – Austin, TX
• 09/19/08  Meridian – Houston, TX
• 09/20/08  House of Blues – New Orleans, LA
• 09/21/08  Jannus Landing – St. Petersburg, FL
• 09/23/08  Valarium – Knoxville, TN
• 09/24/08  Tremont Music Hall – Charlotte, NC
• 09/25/08  Uncle Pleasants – Louisville, KY (SONATA ARCTICA)
• 09/26/08  Rams Head Live – Baltimore, MD
• 09/27/08  Nokia Theater – New York, NY
• 09/28/08  Penny Arcade – Rochester, NY (SONATA ARCTICA)

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ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET, the Swedish band featuring  former THE CROWN vocalist Johan Lindstrand, has set Grim Tales as the title of its third album, due October/November via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD will be recorded beginning on June 1 at the Black Lounge Studios in Avesta, Sweden with producer Jonas Kjellgren (SCAR SYMMETRY).

Commented Lindstrand: “Grim Tales is starting to shape up. Rehearsals are going great and time is ticking towards a nice studio session. We are fully prepared to make the best possible ARMY album yet and at the end of this year we will prove that to you all. We can’t wait to unleash this monster upon you all. So check it out when it’s done, will ya?!”

Grim Tales projected track listing (in no particular order):
01. Misfit With A Machinegun
02. Cursed By The Knife
03. Saint Lucifer
04. Bastards Of Monstrosity
05. Dominator Of The Flesh
06. A Date With Suicide
07. Make Them Die Slowly
08. Bonebreaker Propaganda
09. The Frisco Reaper
10. Death Makes It All Go Away

ONE MAN ARMY AND THE UNDEAD QUARTET vocalist Johan Lindstrand recently issued the following update:

“We want to thank all of those who sent their guitarist applications to us. There were like 50 people applying for the job but of course there can be only one. Cool dedicated people from all around the globe showed interest. You know who you are!! THANK YOU!!!

“Although it seems like the whole planet wants to play with us we have decided to get a guy that lives nearby and is able to hang out with us as well as rehearse on regular basis. A guy that we knew from before and that has helped us out on several occasions with different ARMY-related stuff. The guy is named Mattias Bolander and is a great choice for us. He is extremely talented as well as a great friend and is 110% dedicated in what we do. May he be happy and healthy in the ARMY for a long long time.”

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