Despite is a death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden. The band was formed 1998 by Timmy Leng and Fredrik Meister. After some years with a couple of demo recordings and line-up changes Despite found its current shape in 2007. With the new recruits John Lidén, Joseph Astorga (ex. Deus ex Machina) and Alex Losbäck Holstad (ex. Decameron, Cardinal Sin, Runemagick) the band stands stronger than ever. A record deal was signed with Tractor Productions (a new Swedish upcoming label) in 2008 and the recording of the debut album begun in September the same year.
Their debut album, “In Your Despite” was released in March 2009 by Tractor Productions. The album contains a song called ”MindPlague” and guest vocals on the track are supplied by Knut Agnred, a renowned Swedish singer and member of the very popular comedy group ”Galenskaparna och After Shave”.

Made of Hate is a one of the best known polish metal bands. Originally they come from Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. They transformed from the band called Archeon. This band has been a huge inluence for many people over the world and has a big importance for polish heavy metal fans. Their existance as Made of Hate started in 2007 when they recorded Bullet In Your Head album in Zed Studio within 7 days of January. In the late summer 2007 media got informotaion that they had gotten signed with AFM Records. That was a huge step forward for polish band.
Arch Enemy is a Swedish melodic death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, formed in 1996. Founded by Carcass guitarist Michael Amott along with Johan Liiva, both originally from the influential death metal band Carnage. The band has released several studio albums, a live album (Burning Japan Live 1999), DVDs and EPs. The band was originally fronted by Johan Liiva; frontwoman Angela Gossow joined as lead vocalist in 2000. They then performed on the Black Crusade tour at the end of 2007, with Machine Head, Trivium, DragonForce and Shadows Fall.
Rose Funeral is an American death metal/deathcore band from Cincinnati, Ohio. Their first demo, Buried Beneath the Blood, was self-recorded and self-released in March 2006. The demo was followed quickly by the release of their EP, Crucify.Kill.Rot, in August 2006. It was enough for them to get picked up by Siege of Amida Records, who re-released Crucify.Kill.Rot in March 2007. While promoting their debut album, Crucify. Kill. Rot, they toured and played shows with The Black Dahlia Murder, Unearth, Walls of Jericho, The Red Chord, Animosity, Too Pure to Die, The Faceless, Dead To Fall, As Blood Runs Black, Emmure, With Blood Comes Cleansing, Becoming The Archetype, Dead Man In Reno, For The Fallen Dreams, Diskreet, Last House On The Left, Once Nothing, My Bitter End, Endwell, Year Of Desolation, Nights Like These, In This Moment, The Burning Season, Veil Of Maya, Iscariot and more.
The Agonist, formerly The Tempest, is a Canadian melodic death metal/metalcore band signed to Century Media Records, hailing from Montreal, Canada. They released their first album Once Only Imagined on August 14, 2007. After releasing their first album (August 2007), The Agonist toured extensively, playing with bands such as God Forbid, Arsis, The Faceless, Sonata Arctica, Overkill, Epica, Visions of Atlantis, and Enslaved. One of the band’s tours was disrupted when its equipment trailer was damaged in a blizzard in the Rocky Mountains. Their second album, called Lullabies for the Dormant Mind, was released in March 2009.
Hardcore metal purveyors Hatebreed [ tickets ] will celebrate their self-titled new album with a North American run dubbed the “Decimation of the Nation 2″ tour.


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