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The members will each have their own projects ftom this day on Legendary Punk/Metal crossover band D.RU. (DIRTY ROTTEN IMBECILES) have cancelled their previously announced U.S. tour. According to a statement released by the group's booking agent, D.RI. guitarist Spike Cassidy was recently “diagnosed with colon cancer and was operated on three weeks ago. Sadly the concem is that [the cancer] spread and the medical treatment is [required immediately] and it prohibits any touring for the remainder of the year at least SATYRICON's latest effort, "Now, Diabolical”, has entered the Norwegian album chart at pasition No. 2 ‘The CD was released in most European countries on Apni 17 through Roadrunner Records. COLDSEED. the new band featuring former BLIND (GUARDIAN/current SAVAGE CIRCUS skinsman Thomen Stauch and SOILWORK singer Bjorn "speed" Strid, wil release thelr Geout album, “Completion Makes the Tragedy”, on June 30 via Nuclear Blast Records OPETH frontman Mikael Akerteldt recently spoke to Australia's Time Off magazine about the inspiration for his band's occult lyrical themes. "It started out as. a fascination for these type of lyrics and that's something that’s deeply rooted in Heavy Metal,” he explained. “its always been there, ever since I was a kid. | picked up an IRON MAIDEN record, or {JUDAS} PRIEST, it was kind of dark. A piano sang like "Epitaph... a jolly old song but the lyrics are auite dark and quite gothic. That was something | was always intrigued by California Metallers LEATHERWOLF have finalized a deal with King Records for the territory of Japan and will issue their new studio album, "World Asylum", on June 21. The European release is set for June 23, via Massacre Records Former WARRANT frontman Jani Lane has recruited 16-year-old Baston guitarist Dario Lorina to join him on his upcoming tour, which is scheduled to Kick off in early May. Lorina, who was reportedly chasen from over 100 applicants, started taking private lessons at the tender age of six. It was clear to Dario's instructors that he had a talent well beyond his age, which led him to relocate to Las Vegas, Nevada to pursue his music career at the age of twelve Finnish symphonic Power Metallers EXCALION will enter Watercastle studios in early May to begin recording the follow-up to 2005's "Primal Exhale”. due later in the year via Sound Riot Records. “The new material will rock HARD!” the band write on their web site. "The music style of the album wil be a combine of 80s metal and the EXCALION you've heard on the debut album NEVERMORE bass player and one of the founding members Jim Sheppard will scon be undergoing a minor procedure for Crohn's Disease, a condition he's managed for over 15 years. Unable to perform with the band during the first part of their upcoming tour with IN FLAMES, Sheppard is expected to rejoin the group in Spokane, WA May 18. Filling in for Sheppard will be longime frend James MacDonough (ex-MEGADETH, ICED EARTH). ® 16)Poteet 8 | BLIND GUARDIAN is definitely one of the most easily recognized Heavy Metal hands. Besides the indisputably unique sound and fantasy-inspired lyrics, the German quartet was one of the very first to introduce epic, symphonic arrangements, and the thousand-voice chorals into Heavy Metal. With albums like “Imaginations from the Other Side,” “Nightfall in Middle-Earth” and the latest one, “A Night at the Opera” Blind Guardian has pretty much shown the way to such bands as. Rhapsody, Edguy, Persuader, and dozens of other Power Metal acts. With the new single “Fly” out now and the as-yet- untitled new album in the making, we contacted Marcus Siepen, the guitarist of the band, who kindly agreed to answer some of our (and your) questions, So, Marcus, what's the latest news from Blind Guardian? Well, we just released the new single, “Fly,” and night now we're trying to finish the new alum. Hansi [Kurseh; vocals] is finishing his last vocal recordings and then welll start mixing. Which of course will take some time, but we're almost done. It was quite a long productian again, How many vocal lines is Hansi gonna have there? (laughs) Not as many as last time. The album is very different compared to “A Night at the Opera," because there is no vocal layer overkill and there's not too many orchestrations. Compared to the last one it's much more basic and straight. What we did on the last one, especially with “And Then There Was Silence” (the 14-minute epic); we couldn't top this. | mean it wouldn't make sense te have even more vorals and choirs and guitars. VWe've reached the limit with that song. And since we don't want to repeat ourselves anyway, we just decided to go for something completely different. The result is the new album, whieh as | said is a much more basic and straight Metal record. There are all the Blind Guardian elements of course, but itis different What is it gonna be called? We don't know yet. There was one title, “Twist in the Mist,” going around the intemet, but its not going to be the title. We will decide on the title sometime during the mix So is it going to be a step towards the old-school Blind Guardian? Yes and no. There are elements of the old-school Blind Guardian, there are elements of the newer Blind Guardian and there are completely new ‘elements. In my opinion i's the best thing we could do. It would be wrong to say it's a step back to Imaginations" or “Somewhere Far Beyond’ albums, because we already did that and we don't want t repeat ourselves. Blind Guardian went quite a way from “Tales from the Twilight World” and “Somewhere Far Beyond” to the epic “Nightfall in Middle-Earth” and opera-style “A Night at the Opera." How did this change come about? it's not like we were sitiing there and planning something like this. it was a natural development, When we started, the stuff we did on “Battalions of Fear" and “Follow the Blind" was the thing we could do as niusicians and songwriters. it reflected our influences and the spirit of that time, and all this has changed over the years, We tried not to repeat ‘ourselves and look for the new things that we can involve in ur sound, and take our sound fo the new level