Launch Radio Networks reports: Things are going well with the recording of the new JUDAS PRIEST album. It's a concept album about the 16th Century French prophet Nostradamus, and the band has started thinking about release dates. Frontman Rob Halford told Launch that everyone's excited about the project. "The writing sessions were fantastic — some of the best writing that (guitarists) Glenn (Tipton) and K.K. (Downing) and myself have ever created, and we're in good shape, we're recording. And finger's crossed, and with the belief that it's ready when it's ready, we should be out by the middle of 2007 with 'Nostradamus'."

This will be PRIEST's first album since "Angel of Retribution" came out in 2005, marking Halford's return to the group.

JUDAS PRIEST is also working out the details for a stage show to go along with the album's subject matter.

Source Launch Radio Networks

Reunited Los Angeles heavy metal legends MALICE have signed with Chuck Bernal at Artists Worldwide for booking and will soon be confirming European festival appearances and U.S. tour dates for June-July 2007

Source Malice

Night of the Vinyl Dead has just released the vinyl version of EXODUS' classic live album "Another Lesson in Violence" in a hand-numbered edition, limited to 500 copies.

"Another Lesson in Violence" was recorded live at the Trocadero in San Francisco, California on March 8, 1997 and was issued on CD by Century Media Records later that year.

Only two members from the "Another Lesson in Violence" recording lineup (guitarist Gary Holt and bassist Jack Gibson) remain in the band, which issued the acclaimed "Shovel Headed Kill Machine" album in October 2005 via Nuclear Blast Records. Recorded at Trident studios in Pacheco, California and mixed by Andy Sneap (MACHINE HEAD, ARCH ENEMY), the follow-up to 2004's "Tempo of the Damned" is EXODUS' first CD to feature new members Lee Altus (guitar; HEATHEN), Paul Bostaph (drums; ex-SLAYER, TESTAMENT, FORBIDDEN) and Rob Dukes (vocals).

"Another Lesson in Violence" vinyl track listing:

Side A:

01. Bonded By Blood
02. Exodus
03. Pleasures of the Flesh

Side B:

01. And Than There Were None
02. Piranha
03. Seeds of Hate

Side C:

01. Deliver Us to Evil
02. Brain Dead
03. No Love

Side D:

01. A Lesson in Violence
02. Impaler
03. Strike of the Beast

Source Nightofthevinyldead