vBoogieman Rock and Metal News

Swedish progressive metal band DARKWATER will release its new album, “Where Stories End”, on November 12 in Europe through Ulterium Records and November 23 in North America via Nightmare Records.

“Wrath Of Judgement”, the new video from the Stockholm, Sweden-based all-girl metal band FRANTIC AMBER, can be viewed below.

Swedish death metal veterans GRAVE have parted ways with bassist Fredrik Isaksson “due to personal reasons and issues.”

Fredrik played his last show with GRAVE in late July at the Eisenwahn festival in Germany.

Swedish “Viking metal” act MÅNEGARM has parted ways with bassist Pierre Wilhelmsson.

Most of the back catalog from the Swedish metal band SABATON will be re-released on September 24 in new “Re-Armed Editions” featuring a number of bonus tracks — including old demos, cover songs, live recordings, previously unheard material and completely new songs recorded at Studio Abyss in Sweden.

Swedish black metal overlords WATAIN, who unleashed their “Lawless Darkness” full-length earlier this summer, will shower their blasphemy upon North American soil later this fall.

Swedish death metal masters DIABOLICAL have announced the addition of bassist Dan Darforth to the group’s ranks.

FULLFORCE — the new Swedish melodic metal project featuring Mike Andersson (CLOUDSCAPE, SILENT MEMORIAL, PLANET ALLIANCE) on vocals, Stefan Elmgren (HAMMERFALL) on guitar, Anders Johansson (HAMMERFALL, YNGWIE MALMSTEEN) on drums, Carl-Johan Grimmark (NARNIA) on guitar, and Tommy Larsson (HEED) on bass — has posted a new song, “Mythomaniac”, on the group’s MySpace page.

FOLLOW THE FOOLS, the new band featuring four former members of the Swedish heavy metal outfit CRYONIC TEMPLE — Magnus Thurin (vocals), Leif Collin (guitar), Hans Kallin (drums) and Mika Nyyssölä (bass) — has posted a new song, “Resurrection”, on its MySpace page.

Swedish metal band Sister Sin have released a video for the song “Sound Of The Underground”