Negura Magazine

Last Update: May 27 2007

Negura - Central European Ideological Magazine
P.O. BOX 8-1136, 300334,
Timisoara, Timis, ROMANIA

www.negura.com

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Negura Music is born! Negura Music is a company started by the individuals behind Negura Magazine, dedicated to the support of quality music & ideology. We'll have a small label, a distribution, a studio, a publishing house and we'll also act as local promoters. You'll see more about this soon!
See our distribution catalogue on www.negura.com/distro
See some images from the gigs we organized with Ancient and Primordial on www.negura.com/live

Negura Bunget - Inarborat Kosmos MCD out on May 31 - to compensate somehow the delay with the release of the new album, Negură Bunget prepared a mini MCD. Entitled "Inarborat Kosmos", the MCD will be released by code666 Records at the end of May in a strictly limited edition of 734 copies. You can expect more than 20 minutes of exclusive music recorded and mixed by Negură Bunget in our own studio, as well as a multimedia part. There won't be any re-edition of this material, so grab one as soon as you have the chance. Pre-order it now (contact@negurabunget.com)! An Inarborat Kosmos t-shirt will be also released in a 100 copies limited edition!

Negura Bunget - OM album delayed - Negură Bunget decided to postpone the release of the new album "OM" for autumn 2005 due to delays with the composition and recording. The album will be initially released by code666 Records in a limited edition with a very special packaging, containing beside the CD with the album a full DVD, featuring a brand new clip for a track of the album, live footages from Negură Bunget gigs, a detailed media gallery, interviews, presentation, making-off, and lots of other extras...

Negura Bunget Tour in October - Negură Bunget is preparing an European Tour right after the release of the OM album. The tour is scheduled for the second part of October, first part of November. We will bring the whole backline with us (including the drum set, guitar and bass combos), we'll have an opening band for all the dates, and we'll coordinate the promotion for the tour with the promotion of the new album. That will mean 1000 promo CD's sent to the media, adds in all relevant magazines, thousands poster and flyers. If you are interested in booking a date on the tour, please get in contact (contact@negurabunget.com) to arrange the details.

Season of Mist is proud to announce the signing of the progressive doom-metal legends, CONFESSOR! Emerging from over a decade of hibernation, the band has returned to form, hungrier and more focused than ever. As a precursor to the band's upcoming long player, "Unraveled", due out in early autumn, Season of Mist will release the limited edition CD-single, "Sour Times". Scheduled for a June release, this soon-to-be collector's item will mainly be made available for purchase to the die-hard fans. The release will contain 2 new songs; "Sour Times" and "Hibernation", a radio edit of the title track plus a live video! Also included on the limited CD with be PC Interactive gems such as band photos, a screen saver and more! Already listen to an extract of "Sour Times" here

The Gathering are currently rehearsing again for new upcoming DVD recordings, as well as work in a new album. The band plans to hit the studio in autumn 2005, with a possible release date at the beginning of 2006.

Ambient darkwave/metal act Peccatum completed the release of The Moribund People EP. This release contains two new songs and a special cover of Bathory’s legendary “For All Those Who Died”. The EP will also include a music video for the title track.

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN will join MEGADETH, DREAM THEATER, FEAR FACTORY, NEVERMORE and others on this summer's just-announced "Gigantour". Set to launch in late July, Gigantour is a six-week festival trek whose moniker was inspired by the classic 1960s cartoon "Gigantor" and will criss-cross North America. On the topic of touring with DILLINGER, MEGADETH frontman Dave Mustaine commented, "I think THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN are really going to add something different to the tour and bring some new people in."

ABORYM sign a two album contract with Season of Mist. After comparing several offers from European and American labels, the band decided to sign with Season of Mist, in their opinion the best “quality black metal” label. ABORYM record their new album during April-May 2005 in Rome, Italy. The line-up has undergone several changes. ABORYM proudly presents its new members Bard G. Eithun aka Faust (SCUM, ex- EMPEROR) and Prime Evil (MYSTICUM). Faust will play the drums on the forthcoming new album. Drummer Faust says: “Through the years my contribution to ABORYM varied from writing a few lyrics, doing some spoken passages, as well as playing with them live. I have great respect for the band and the people behind it. ABORYM is highly innovative and influential as far as the mixture of traditional black metal and electronics goes. I see my position in the band strengthening when becoming a permanent part of the band. I am going down to Rome later this year in order to participate on the recording of the fourth ABORYM album. I think it should easily surpass everything they have done earlier. It should be classic to say the least.” Prime Evil (MYSTICUM) joined ABORYM as new vocalist and front man. Prime Evil is the new voice of death now. As everybody knows Attila is back in MAYHEM, and ABORYM wish all the best for him and his band. Attila Csihar, of course, will do some vocals on the new album. ABORYM is also working on a special track (yet untitled) with Mr. Richard K Szabo from TWZ (Sweden).

Manic Music has pledged a portion of their proceeds from the direct wholesale/mailorder sales of Chuck Schuldiner's 'Zero Tolerance' to The American Cancer Society. The two-disc set, which includes the unfinished Control Denied tracks Chuck was working on at the time of his death, is available in the U.S. since February 22nd.

VOID OF SILENCE farewell. After 11 years since we started this adventure, after 6 years since the band started its official activities and after three album released together as VOID OF SILENCE, we decided to put an end to this band. We took this decision with sadness and bitterness, also we must admit we yet reached our initial goal. We would like to thank our worlwide fans, those who always trusted us and those who supported us along the way. A special thank you to Fabban and Alan Nemtheanga, who gave us the possibility to release such incredible albums and to the whole code666 staff, always supportive towards our music. A great hail also to our old friends Andrea Toro, Alessandro Bianchi, Riccardo Tran and Fabio Restano, who were beside us in the beginning. We are not leaving the musical scene, just we will wear different dresses and walk different ways, together as usual. Maybe one day things will run in a different way, who knows... Bye and thanx to all". - Riccardo Conforti and Ivan Zara.

Reunited Dutch metallers GOREFEST are currently looking for pictures taken on the group's "Chapter 13" tour — "either supporting PRIEST or our own shows, live pics, backstage, anything you thought was worth saving for later," the group's drummer, Ed Warby, writes on their web site. To submit material, write to: ed_warby@hotmail.com. GOREFEST recently inked a multi-album deal with Nuclear Blast Records. The band are currently writing songs for what will reportedly be "a very heavy new album." A late 2005 release is expected. GOREFEST released several CDs through the Nuclear Blast label in the early 1990s before switching to SPV for their last album, 1998's "Chapter 13".

Osmose Productions has set a May 9 European release date for the first-ever live album by Finnish extreme metallers IMPALED NAZARENE, entitled 'Death Comes In 26 Carefully Selected Pieces'. Recorded last December at Tavastia club in Helsinki, Finland, 'DCI26CSP' features 26 songs from the band's catalogue, including songs from their 7" EPs. The album was mixed at Sonic Pump studio by the band's own soundman, Tapio Pennanen. Mika Jussila mastered the album at Finnvox studio.

According to a statement from MARDUK's management, the group's drummer Emil Dragutinovic's arm is healing well after it was broken in a fight back in February. The band plan to be back touring torwards the end of the summer. MARDUK are currently putting the finishing touches on the videos for the songs "Throne of Rats" and "The Hangman of Prague". As previously reported, Dragutinovic had his arm broken while he was trying to protect himself from a swinging bat during a fight with several men on February 12. MARDUK's ninth full-length album, "Plague Angel", was released in the U.S. last month. The album was issued in Europe in late November via Blooddawn/Regain Records.

"Maniac is out of legendary black metal band MAYHEM and back in comes Attila Csihar. He will – with immediate effect – take over Maniac’s role as front figure. Although many rumors flourished over the past months, nothing was decided until now. The reason for this change in line-up lies in more private matters, but has also to do with Maniac’s inability to tour. Maniac was, and will always be a part of our legacy, and it has been an honor to work with him for the last 10 years. Respect!" - Mayhem

The Gathering will be taking a break following the conclusion of their current European tour in order for lead singer Anneke van Giersbergen to give birth to her first child. They will resume touring in November 2005.

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All informations provided by bands, labels,
Metal Update Newsletter (www.metalupdate.com),
Blabbermouth Newsletter (http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/blabbermouth.net)
Metal Maniac News (www.metalmaniacs.com).
DemonicHorde (www.demonichorde.com).

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