SHADOWS FALL have issued the following update:

"Shadows Fall has reluctantly decided that the intensity of their current recording sessions has made it impossible for the band to hit the concert trail next month for their previously announced shows with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE and BURY YOUR DEAD. The Springfield, MA-based rock outfit is hard at work in the studio with producer Nick Raskulinecz (FOO FIGHTERS, STONE SOUR, RUSH) recording their highly anticipated Atlantic debut, due in early 2007."

"We are all very disappointed that we will not be able to hit the road with our friends in Killswitch Engage and Bury Your Dead," said Shadows Fall lead singer Brian Fair. "Originally, we had hoped to complete the recording of our new album in time for the beginning of the tour on November 9th, but now it appears that will not be possible. New ideas have continued to surface and push the songs into new directions that we have to pursue. Making the best album possible is our number one priority and something we must focus on one hundred percent at this time. We sincerely apologize to all the people that planned on coming to see us at these shows, but our absence is no reason not to go and support this tour. Our bros from New England in Killswitch Engage and Bury Your Dead will be throwing it down the way only they can and this should not be missed by anyone!! We will keep you posted as we wrap up the album and make plans to get back on the road."

Source Shadows Fall

Rob Urbinati, lead guitar / vocalist of one of the first canadian pure thrash metal band, Sacrifice has announced the following message:

"The process has begun. New SACRIFICE songs are being written and if they can be held up to our standards...they will be heard. We were always notorious for taking a really long time to write, hopefully this time it won't take as long. Joe [ Rico , guitar] and Scott [ Watts , bass] have sent me some devastating riff tapes, Gus [ Pynn , drums] and myself will begin the process in November."

Source Sacrifice

Recently Metal-Rules has conducted the interview with Urbinati. Few excerpts are follow:

Metal-Rules.com : If you guys did put out a new album, would it be the classic SACRIFICE sound, or would it be somewhat updated?

Urbinati : I would say it's more on the side of classic SACRIFICE . I don't want to say there's new elements thrown in, because it makes people go "fuck, this sucks!," but there's not much of that. That's what we've talked about, too — as much as I love LAMB OF GOD or something, I don't want SACRIFICE to sound like that. I want it to sound like a thrash band. I don't want it to be a thrash band, with new influences. It has to be balls-out fuckin' thrash, from when you press play until it stops. If it's not gonna be that, we're just gonna say "Fuck it."

Metal-Rules.com : If you guys did the new album, would you ever tour again?

Urbinati : I doubt it. If we were to do that, it would be a couple of shows here and there. We would never do a full-scale tour. Our lives have changed too much. We have families and stuff, and we can't just leave work and say "Okay, we're going on tour, this is our new career." We're all like 40 years old — this isn't the time to be picking up our music career. As much as I, and probably the rest of the guys, would like to, it's not reality. We can't feed our families with that. If we could, we would do it, but it's just not there.

Metal-Rules.com : If this [ Day Of The Equinox II festival in Toronto] is the final show as SACRIFICE , are there other musical projects that you would start?

Urbinati : I write all the time at home. I've got tons and tons of songs written, not necessarily SACRIFICE -style, but at some point I'll get something together again. Even if SACRIFICE does get together and do another album, I'm sure I'll do something else, and at some point put something else out. I just have it in me to do that — I love to write music and play in a band, all that stuff. Something will happen at some point I'm sure.

Source Metal-Rules