Candlelight Records has confirmed October 9th as the North American release date for Daylight Dies’ new album, A Frail Becoming, four years after the release of Lost To The Living. Mixed by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Katatonia, Devin Townsend), the album features photography from award-winning Jonathan Mehring and packaging design by Agni Kaster. The cover artwork and final tracklist and can be found below.
A Frail Becoming tracklist: 01. Infidel 02. The Pale Approach 03. Sunset 04. Dreaming Of Breathing 05. A Final Vestige 06. Ghosting 07. Hold On To Nothing 08. Water’s Edge 09. An Heir To Emptiness
Daylight Dies is currently working on a video for the song “Dreaming Of Breathing.” The clip is being filmed by Ramon Boutviseth, who also directed “Lies That Bind,” a video filmed shortly after the release of 2006′s Dismantling Devotion.
(via Metal Storm)
Canadian progressive metal genius Devin Townsend has released a clip from his upcoming DVD boxset By A Thread – Live In London 2011, with the performance of the song “Gato” from the album Ki and you can watch it exclusively at this location: http://www.metalinjection.net/tv/view/9196/devin-townsend-project-gato-live-in-london
By A Thread – Live In London 2011 will be released on June 18th in Europe and June 19th in North America through HevyDevy Records /InsideOut Music and pre-orders are available over here: http://www.insideoutshop.de/Search?q=devin+townsend+by+a+thread More details about this release were previously reported here: http://www.metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=16299 and here: http://www.metalstorm.net/events/news_comments.php?news_id=16842

Devin Townsend
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SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser joined German thrash veterans KREATOR on stage this past Friday (May 25) at the Rock In Rio Lisboa festival in Lisbon, Portugal to perform the songs “Extreme Aggression” and “People Of The Lie“. Fan-filmed video footage of the performance can be seen above.
KREATOR‘s new album, “Phantom Antichrist“, will be released on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. The CD was recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with renowned producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AMON AMARTH).
SEPULTURA is touring in support of its 12th studio album, and Nuclear Blast Records debut, “Kairos“, which hit stores in July 2011.

Andreas Kisser

SEPULTURA
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Christian metallers TOURNIQUET will release a new album, “Antiseptic Bloodbath“, this summer via Pathogenic Records. A teaser trailer for the CD can be seen above. Also available is the album’s cover artwork, which was created by Travis Smith of Seempieces (OPETH, DEVIN TOWNSEND, NEVERMORE, ICED EARTH, DEATH, AMORPHIS).
TOURNIQUET‘s last studio release, 2003′s “Where Moth and Rust Destroy” (Metal Blade), featured special guest appearances by guitarists Marty Friedman (ex-MEGADETH) and Bruce Franklin (TROUBLE).

TOURNIQUET
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The third official trailer for “Phantom Antichrist“, the new album from German thrash metal veterans KREATOR, can be seen above. Due on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records, the CD was recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with renowned producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AMON AMARTH).
The limited edition of “Phantom Antichrist” will be made available as two-disc digipack, including a bonus DVD.
“Phantom Antichrist” formats:
- Jewel case CD *
- 2LP yellow vinyl *
- 2LP bi-colored vinyl (red/black): limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered *+
- 2LP picture vinyl **
- CD/DVD digi limited edition: 2 digipacks in a slipcase. **
- Limited mailorder edition: metallic box including CD/DVD digi limited edition, T-shirt, exclusive CD “Live In Wacken“, poster, signing card, limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered **+
* = Featuring artwork by Wes Benscoter (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, SLAYER)
** = Featuring artwork by Jan Meininghaus
+ = only available at www.nuclearblast.de/shop

KREATOR
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Renowned multi-instrumentalist Devin Townsend will be releasing his DVD box-set, By A Thread – Live in London 2011, on June 18th in Europe and June 19th in North America through HevyDevy Records / InsideOut Music.
In anticipation of this release, the DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT has now posted a teaser trailer with video clips from the DVD, which can be viewed above.

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT

DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT
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The second official trailer for “Phantom Antichrist“, the new album from German thrash metal veterans KREATOR, can be seen above. Due on June 1 in Europe and June 5 in North America via Nuclear Blast Records, the CD was recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden with renowned producer Jens Bogren (OPETH, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AMON AMARTH).
The cover artwork for the standard edition of “Phantom Antichrist” was created by Wes Benscoter (SLAYER, DIO, BLACK SABBATH) and can be seen below.
The limited edition of “Phantom Antichrist” will be made available as two-disc digipack, including a bonus DVD.
“Phantom Antichrist” formats:
- Jewel case CD *
- 2LP yellow vinyl *
- 2LP bi-colored vinyl (red/black): limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered *+
- 2LP picture vinyl **
- CD/DVD digi limited edition: 2 digipacks in a slipcase. **
- Limited mailorder edition: metallic box including CD/DVD digi limited edition, T-shirt, exclusive CD “Live In Wacken“, poster, signing card, limited to 500 copies, hand-numbered **+

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Canadian vocalist/guitarist/producer Devin Townsend (ex-STRAPPING YOUNG LAD) has checked in with an update on his forthcoming Epicloud album:
“One more day of catching up on life before mix starts for the album. Sorry about the delay on the studio vids, website and a bunch of things. When it all happens, it’s be a tsunami of Dev junk
”
Vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen, who recorded vocals for the Epicloud album in Vancouver with Townsend, recently checked in with the following update:
“Mister Devin Townsend is a genius. I cannot tell you how awesomely fantastic his album will be. Epic! Epic! Epic! And he made me do 20 hours of the loudest and most gorgeous vocals I’ve ever done.”
The Epicloud album, which will be released under the DEVIN TOWNSEND PROJECT banner, features the following tracklist:
‘Taurus’
‘Animals’
‘Liberation’
‘Back Where We Belong’
‘Save Our Now’
‘Kingdom’
‘Divine’
‘Grace’
‘More!’
‘Heatwave’
‘Hold On’
‘Angels’
KREATOR will release their brand new album “Phantom Antichrist”, on June 1st in Europe and on June 5th in North America via Nuclear Blast Records. As previously reported, the CD is currently being recorded at Fascination Street Studios in Örebro, Sweden, with Jens Bogren (OPETH, HEAVENWOOD, KATATONIA, SOILWORK, DEVIN TOWNSEND, AMON AMARTH among others). Check out the front cover art below.

KREATOR:
Miland “Mille” Petrozza – Vocals, Guitrar
Sami Yli-Sirniö – Guitar
Christian “Speesy” Giesler – Bass
Jürgen “Ventor” Reil – Drums
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