The Latvian Pagan masters of SKYFORGER are at the 15th Latvian Music Awards have been awarded “Gada Balva” (the Latvian equivalent of the Grammys) in the category “Best Rock Album” for their latest album Kurbads (published in April 2010 on Metal Blade Records). The largest and oldest Latvian Music Awards show went on 22 February at the National Theatre in Riga on the stage and was transferred to the Latvian TV3 channel.

Australian unhinged metallers Kunvuk have set “Immute: What Follows The Feeding of Jackals” as the title of their forthcoming debut LP. The album is currently slated for release in July of 2009 and is set to be released as a two-disc digipack edition. The first disc will contain 10 new compositions rallying from the brink of insanity to the pinnacle of clarity. Coupled with this will be a second disc which will be a reconstructed, rerecorded, remixed and remastered version of the band’s demo EP “The Gone Mekanik Anticipation Demonstration”. The album will be self-funded and self-released via the band’s own label, The Light of Damnation Records.

For anyone eager to hear the new material before the disc drops, come down to Club Blink in Sydney, Australia on March 6th and catch Kunvuk live at one of their last live shows before they disappear into the wilderness to record their new album. They will be video-taping this show for future release so anyone wanting to get in and on the video, the guest list is filling fast so leap to it and send your names to contact[@]kunvuk.com

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