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Lava, the new album from Swiss doom metallers Sludge which was released in some parts of Europe at the beginning of the month, will see it’s release in the US and Germany on the 12th of May, to be followed by Italy on the 26th. Dates for its release in Greece, Hungary and Australia are still to be announced.

The band will perform live at the official launch party for Lava which is set to take place at [event=Sludge, Rorcal]Le Romandie[/event] in the band’s hometown of Lausanne, Switzerland, on the 16 May. The album is released on the Mighty Music label and features two new members – Ulik on bass and Odin (Houston Swing Engine, Unfold) on vocals. Much to the band’s surprise, they found themselves at No 1 in the Metal Charts of music networking site,fuzz.com , and No 3 in the Punk Charts. Commented bass player Ulik “Metal is understandable, but Punk was completely unexpected. Still, we’re happy that we seem to be reaching such a large cross-section of fans”.

Formed by Samael guitarist Makro…

Especially for all our fans we will make a total of six, out of the nine tracks from our forthcoming album, available for streaming on MySpace. Due for release April/May on the Mighty Music label, Lava will be the band’s fourth full-length release and the follow up to the 2004 release Yellow Acid Rain.

Founded ten years ago by Samael guitarist Makro and drummer Pud, the band recently underwent personnel changes with the arrival of new bass player Ulik and vocalist Odin (HOUSTON SWING ENGINE, Unfold). Produced by Makro, the new album is, according to him, “Dirty, un-compromising and heavy as shit”.

The first three tracks to be made available will be 60mm, “Carnivore” and “Lava”. A further 3 tracks will be made available on Sunday 30th.

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I'd like to make a list of all the good french postcore bands there is. For some time I thought it was french black metal that was the most interesting around but I've just thought that there was a lot of good Neurosis and Isis inspired band around here that had a great identity. Overmars
Time to Burn
Year of No Light
Cortez
Comity
Every Reason To...
HKY (haven't yet released something but they are awesome)
Tantrum
Some cool bands from Switzerland like Unfold, Vancouver or the mighty Knut but that's still a couple of cool band from a country obsessed with bad singers.