Guitarist Thomas Wyreson has announced his departure from Swedish gothic metallers Tiamat, saying, “For the record, there are absolutely no personal problems or anything like that influencing my decision. It's just kinda hard to make everything work with the family etc."

Belgian black metallers Enthroned are working on material for a new album, saying in a  statement, "We are not ready to enter the recording studio yet, but what we got until now promises that the next album will be crushing and will definitely continue where 'Tetra Karcist' stopped."

Brum's death metal titans Benediction have uploaded previously unreleased track 'Dissasembler' to their MySpace profile: http://www.myspace.com/b...

Napalm Death have announced the title of their forthcoming new album as 'Time Waits For No Slave'. 

Finnish melodic deathsters Omnium Gatherum have uploaded a video for 'The Nail' to the following location:http://www.youtube.com/w...

Canuck deathsters Beneath The Massacre have uploaded new song 'Our Common Grave' to the following location:http://www.myspace.com/b...

Viking death metallers Amon Amarth have uploaded their new album's title-track, 'Twilight Of The Thundergod', to their MySpace page:www.myspace.com/amonamar...