IMPALED NAZARENE re-signed with Osmose for two more albums. On 21st of november band will enter Sonic Pump Studio with producer Tapio Pennanen, where will be recorded new album. Also IN plan to re-release with new art-works and remastered two old albums "Latex Cult" and "Rapture".
The seventh annual Tuska Open Air Metal Festival has now confirmed its first artists for the 2004 festival.
The headliner for Saturday, the 17th of July, will be Nightwish, who will release their much-anticipated new album, "Once" in June. Nightwish will be mainly touring Europe and the United States next summer and their Tuska-performance is going to be one of their three finnish shows.
Another headliner at Tuska during 16.-18.7.2004 will be the legendary King Diamond. This pioneer of black metal has been touring the world for almost three decades, sold millions of records and inspired four generations of metalheads. Also appearing at Kaisaniemi Park are swedish melodic-deathmetal groups Soilwork and Dark Tranquility and german thrashers Dew-Scented.
Besides Nightwish, Tuska-festival will once again present the hottest finnish metal acts. During the weekend, performances by Impaled Nazarene, Sonata Arctica, Sinergy, Suburban Tribe, Mokoma, Kotiteollisuus and Timo Rautiainen & Trio Niskalaukaus will be taking place. The new generation of finnish metal will be represented by the highly acclaimed Swallow the Sun, Diablo, Machine Men, Kilpi and Twilightning.
Over the course of three days more than 30 bands will be appearing on three different stages.
In addition to the festival itself, the evening-clubs will entertain the festival crowd from Thursday through Sunday on four different locations. More than 30 up-and-coming acts will be performing in the evening-clubs, styles ranging from deathmetal to goth, industrial and cover-material.
Tickets for Tuska 2004 will go on sale in May through Tiketti (), Lippupalvelu () and the new addition of Menolippu (). Tickets will also be available at selected record stores. Tuska 2004 is an all-ages festival.
Impaled Nazarene will enter studio to record their follow-up to the highly acclaimed "Absence Of War Does Not Mean Pease" album on July 1st. "All That You Fear" will be Impaled Nazarene's 8th studio album and will be recorded by Anssi Kippo (Children Of Bodom) at Astia Studio and be mixed by Mikko Karmila (Nightwish, Stratovarius) at Finnvox studios. "All That You Fear" will feature the band's new lead guitarist Tuomo Louhio (ex-Antidote). The band is busy writing the last few songs for the album at the moment. Some song titles are: "Suffer In Silence", "All That You Fear", "Kohta Ei Naura Enaa Jesuskaan" & "Urgent Need To Kill". Says vocalist Luttinen: "I can't wait to record this new stuff, we have really killer songs ready and more are coming. More variety, more power, more everything." Of the new leader guitarist Tuomo, Luttinen says: "Well, this guy just kills. We had only one rehearsal with him and he got the job right away. That should tell you enough." "All That You Fear" will be out on Osmose Productions late October 2003.
