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The Amenta Mixing New Album

Australia's extreme industrial metal collective THE AMENTA will enter The Vault Studios in Sydney, Australia this week to mix its latest release, "n0n", with longtime engineer Lachlan Mitchell (NAZXUL). Mastering for the album will take place at Studios 301 with Australia's premier mastering engineer Steve Smart.

THE AMENTA describes the new album's sound as a fusion of extreme metal, electronic noise and dub. The follow-up to 2004's "Occasus" will feature 12 tracks in total, including "Skin", "Rape", "Cancer", "Whore", "Dystrophy", "Atrophy", "Slave", "Vermin", "Dirt", "Spine", and "Junky". With each song featuring over 100 actual recorded tracks, THE AMENTA's new album pushes technology to its absolute limits.

The recording of the album spanned three different countries and seven different studios. "n0n" contains a myriad of different contributors and performers with no less than two drummers, six vocalists and two bass players recording on the album which features guest appearances from Jason Mendonca (AKERCOCKE), Alice Daquet (SIR ALICE), Alex Pope (RUINS) and more.

Judas Priest Tour

PRIEST FEAST 2008

“METAL GODS”
JUDAS PRIEST TOUR AUSTRALIA WITH ORIGINAL LINE UP
ROB HALFORD – VOCALS
GLENN TIPTON – GUITAR
K.K. DOWNING – GUITAR
IAN HILL - BASS
SCOTT TRAVIS – DRUMS
AND SPECIAL GUESTS CAVALERA CONSPIRACY

The original lineup of Judas Priest head to Australia for the first time ever for the Priest Feast 2008 tour.
One of the world’s definitive heavy metal bands, who have sold more than 35 million albums world wide, will bring their mammoth Priest Feast 2008 tour to Australian fans in September.

Tickets go on sale on Friday 13th June!
Judas Priest are a seminal and vital part of rock history. Since 1974, they have been one of heavy metal’s most successful bands, issuing such all-time classic albums as 1980’s ‘British Steel,’ 1982’s ‘Screaming for Vengeance,’ and 1990’s ‘Painkiller,’ and such arena-rocking anthems as “Breaking the Law,” “Living After Midnight,” and “You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’.” However, Priest’s influence goes far beyond their music - they were the first metal band to embrace the ‘leather biker look,’ a fashion that has since become synonymous with the musical genre. Additionally, Halford’s powerful four-and-a-half octave vocal range and the twin guitar harmonies of Downing and Tipton have been ‘studied’ by countless metal bands in Priest’s wake.
The Priest Feast tour will showcase their hugely impressive legacy as well as new tracks from their forthcoming album Nostradamus, which will be released by Sony BMG on 14 June, 2008.

The new album is a metal opera based on the life and predictions of Nostradamus. Long in the works, Nostradamus takes epic storytelling to a whole new level, as it recounts the life of this mysterious, world-known 16th Century French prophet. Some of the events that Nostradamus experts have interpreted as his predictions include the great fire of London in 1666, the rise of Adolf Hitler, and most recently, 9-11, among countless other renowned events.

Lead vocalist Rob Halford left Judas Priest in 1993 and after almost 12 years apart and ever-growing demand for a reunion, Judas Priest and Halford announced they would reunite in 2003. They did a live concert tour in Europe in 2004 and were special guests at the 2004 Ozzfest, being named as the ‘premier act’ by almost all US media coverage of the event.

In 2006 they were the inaugural inductees into the “VH1 Rock Honors” and MTV.com named Judas Priest the second most important band in heavy metal.
Judas Priest will be joined in Australia by special international guests:
Cavalera Conspiracy, Sepultura’s Max and Iggor reunited!
Now it’s Australia’s turn to rock with the “Metal Gods” Judas Priest!
T
ickets on sale Friday 13th June!
JUDAS PRIEST AUSTRALIAN TOUR DATES
BRISBANE
Wednesday 10-Sep-08
Brisbane Entertainment Centre
Ticketek 132 849
www.ticketek.com.au

SYDNEY
Friday 12-Sep-08
ACER ARENA
Ticketek 132 849
www.ticketek.com.au

MELBOURNE
Saturday 13-Sep-08
Melbourne Vodafone Arena
Ticketek 132 849
www.ticketek.com.au

ADELAIDE
Sunday 14-Sep-08
Adelaide Entertainment Centre
Ticketek 132 849
www.ticketek.com.au

PERTH
Tuesday 16-Sep-08
Perth Burswood Dome
Ticketek 132 849
www.ticketek.com.au

WWW.JUDASPRIEST.COM

For further Australian tour information: www.dcegroup.com
MEDIA ENQUIRIES: VICKY ILIOPOULOS or KERRY O’BRIEN
KERRY O’BRIEN PUBLICITY (03) 9596 9792
Publicity@kob.com.au OR kerry@kob.com.au
AND FOR ALBUM RELEASE ENQUIRIES:
STELLA CHAMBERS, NATIONAL PUBLICITY & PROMOTIONS MGR, SONY BMG
(02) 9383 6261 / stella.chambers@sonybmg.com / 0410 452 879

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TESTAMENT WIN ALBUM OF THE YEAR AT GOLDEN GODSâ��

June 16, 2008

“THE FORMATION OF DAMNATION” NAMED ALBUM OF THE YEAR AT 2008 METAL HAMMER GOLDEN GODS AWARDS!!!

The legendary heavy metal heroes Testament have won the Metal Hammer GOLDEN GODS AWARD for Album of the Year for The Formation of Damnation. Testament beat out the other worthy contenders in this category: Atreyu, Bullet For My Valentine, Children Of Bodom and Down. All hail Heavy Metal Forever!

The Formation of Damnation debuted at #59 on the Billboard Top 200 and has sold nearly 33,000 copies since its April 29 release. The Formation of Damnation is Testament’s highest charting release in their 24-year history. The album also dominated at radio holding the #1 spot on both CMJ and FMQB for several consecutive weeks.

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