Mournful Congregation & Longing for Dawn news:
MILESTONES of MISERY Tour 2009
Ten dates have now been confirmed and with another bunch to go,we will be making an official announcement about the tour very soon. The band will be joined by Mourning Beloveth on selected dates and some other special guests for other parts of the tour.
Both bands will have new albums released prior to this tour.

Liquid Graveyard news:
The band has recently announced the addition of new drummer Lin Chang to the band. Lin was a former member of the now defunct COILBOX from Madrid.
Plans are underway to beging recording the album as soon as possible.
Review from Metal Ireland HERE
".....There’s nothing that can beat this. A band truly has it made when they manage to make arcane and uncomfortable notes actually course forward and rock "..."Dark, inventive, even a little magickal: the possibilities here are brilliant, and it will be tantalising to watch it develop"

We are happy to announce the addition of another great label to our list of working partners. Lugga Music will now be responsible for the Spanish promo for the upcoming Cruz Del Sur Music releases which include:

REFLECTION	BIBLE OF THE DEVIL	HADES
When Shadows Fall CD	Freedom Metal CD	Bootlegged in Boston1988  DVD

Bookings for the bands upcoming 2009 festival tour are gathering pace and to get things off to a good start,we are glad to announce that they will be appearing at the Headbangers Open Air 2009 in Germany.

Their frontman says that their first new album in 22 years
"is worth the weight"

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www.myspace.com/kaledonband

Firebox Music News. Lugga Music is now the official promo manager in the UK/ Eire market for Firebox.
The next releases are:
DOOM: VS - Dead Words Speak CD
THE ETERNAL - Kartika CD
PANTHEIST - Journey Through Lands Unknown CD
FOREST OF SHADOWS - Six Waves of Woe CD

The official Launch night will be in Eamonn Dorans, Temple Bar, Dublin, on 21st November.
Read the blog about "Weather the Storm" here

If you are a label and are interested in hearing this cd, please get in touch with Lugga Music.

Era Vulgaris recently played their first gig in the UK after their relocation to London earlier in the year. With 2 new members taking their position on stage and with a new song aired also they were well received by the audience present. The band is currently in pre-production for their new album and there will be a 2 track promo recorded for labels/press in the coming weeks

The guys of Graveyard Dirt are currently in writing mode and will be ready to record their debut album in the coming months.

Ground of Ruin are entering the studio at the end of the month to record an Ep. More news later. 

Haieeta are in writing mode with plans for a new album to be recorded towards the end of 2008.

Jack Frost - The gloom rock bastards have found a new home in Silverdust Records,Germany. The new album “My Own Private Hell” will be released in August. The albums concept tells us stories of being caught in the twilight zone between boredom, drinking, ex-girlfriends and what others consider normal life. Autobiographical? not always. authentic? absolutely.

Liquid Graveyard - With the ‘Criministers’ demo mixed/mastered and ready to send to labels,everything remains on schedule for the band to record and release its debut album at the end of the year.
The band uploaded the track ‘1760’ to their Myspace site earlier this week.

Worn out from the recent month-long tour and very successful tour of Europe in April, Mar de Grises are back at home resting and getting their lives back to normal. Recent news is that they will be regrouping in the coming weeks to discuss future plans and get back to writing the follow up to the very successful ‘Draining the Waterheart’ CD.

Mass Extinction recently released ‘Creations Undoing’ on Underground Movement has got the attention of many Thrash fanatics worldwide and some are wondering why these guys didn’t get a first class ticket during the recent Tharsh revival. Who knows but with high review scores and comments like
“"Here's another band to add to the list of up and coming young thrashers. Mass Extinction hail from Dublin and the three professionally executed tracks on this EP reveal why Gary Holt of Exodus has joined the queue to produce a full length album for them.
"METAL HAMMER(UK) Score 7 / 10", we should soon see these guys signing on the dotted line to release they album they are currently in pre-production with.

A new album from Mournful Congregation on the way and a long European tour scheduled for April/May 2009. More news as we get it.

Mourning Beloveth´s new album ‘A Disease for the Ages’ has garnered some amazing reviews and placed very highly in soundcheck charts/polls etc all across Europe and the Usa. Some festival appearances and short tours are on the way for the end of 2008 with more extensive touring and promising tour supports to be announced soon.

Poema Arcanvs - A full album of demo material is currently being sent around to labels with the hope that someone will release it by the end of the year.

Piledriver - The longawaited return to the live scene for the sickest Canadian group ever will hit the European shores in early 2009. The band is currently recording ‘The Metal Manifesto’ which will be the follow up to their last release ‘Stay Ugly’ in 1986. The list of proposed European festival appearances for next year is growing steadily so prepare for the filth!

Saturnus has recently been confirmed as the main support to VOLBEAT at all Danish shows on their upcoming tour. The songwriting has also begun for the follow-up to the successful last release ‘Veronika Decides To Die’ with no plans on a release date as of yet.

Thurisaz - Following successful participation on the recent Ethereal Session Tour with Saturnus & Mar de Grises and the recent Irish tour, the band have been busy once again preparing for some more show shows at home.
They are also in writing mode with plans to record in the coming months.

The Foreshadowing were recently confirmed to play at this years MAYDAY Rock Fest in Poland 4th Oct. The band profile has been steadily growing and high sales of their debut ‘Days of Nothing’ on Candlelight(Uk). The band will be playing some more shows in Germany/Slovakia and Czech Rep to coincide with their Polish date.