Exclusive premiere of our new video for "Bear The Cross" at Myspace!

Finnish goth metal masters POISONBLACK featuring former Sentenced-vocalist Ville Laihiala are back with a vengeance! Their brand-new album "A Dead Heavy Day" will be released via Century Media Records in August/September 2008 (see below for the exact release date in your territory) and the band has now premiered the video for the song "Bear The Cross" at www.myspace.com/officialpoisonblack, check it out NOW!

"A Dead Heavy Day" will be released on the following dates:

FINLAND: Wednesday, August 27, 2008.
GERMANY / AUSTRIA / SWITZERLAND / BENELUX / ITALY: Friday, August 29, 2008.
UK / FRANCE / GREECE / DENMARK / NORWAY / REST OF EUROPE: Monday, September 1, 2008.
SPAIN / PORTUGAL: Tuesday, September 2, 2008.
SWEDEN / HUNGARY: Wednesday, September 3, 2008.

POISONBLACK Live:
14.Aug.2008 Helsinki (FIN) @ Tavastia - Century Media - 20 Years of Metal with NORTHER, KIVIMETSÄN DRUIDI
15.Aug.2008 Jalasjärvi (FIN) @ Aukustirock
20.Aug.2008 Oulu (FIN) @ Lammassaari - MusicVideo Festival

Where Death Is Most Alive Tour 2008
DARK TRANQUILLITY
POISONBLACK
FEAR MY THOUGHTS
Presented by Metal Hammer (D & I), Guitar (D), Fuze (D), Laut.de (D), Metal.de (D), Rock Tribune (B), Metal Observer (F), Metalized (DK)

24. Oct, Berlin, Kato (Germany) **
25. Oct, Hamburg, Grünspan (Germany)
26. Oct, Doordrecht, Bibelot (Netherlands)
27. Oct, Vosselaar, Biebob (Belgium)
28. Oct, Paris, Locomotive (France)
29. Oct, Lyon, Ninkasi kao (France)
31. Oct, Milano, Rolling Stone (Italy) *
01. Nov, Bologna, Estragon (Italy)
02. Nov, Rome, Alpheus (Italy)
04. Nov, Treviso, New Age (Italy)
05. Nov, Ljubljana, Gala Hala (Slovenia)
06. Nov, Vienna, Szene (Austria)
07. Nov, Graz, Orpheum (Austria)
08. Nov, Winterthur, Salzhaus (Switzerland)
09. Nov, Munich, Backstage (Germany)
10. Nov, Stuttgart, Röhre (Germany) **
11. Nov, Cologne, Underground (Germany) **
12. Nov, Copenhagen, Pumpehuset (Denmark)
* show will be recorded for upcoming Dark Tranquillity DVD
** Ultimate fan-packages incl. ticket, meet & greet, photo with all three bands, new albums by all three bands plus sound-check attendance available at www.rock-voyager.com!

Info: www.myspace.com/wheredeathismostalivetour

For further info on POISONBLACK visit:
www.myspace.com/officialpoisonblack
www.poisonblack.com

Also visit:
www.myspace.com/centurymediaeurope
www.youtube.com/centurymediaeurope

Travel With The Devil! @ www.rock-voyager.com

Poisonblack merchandise available now at Northern Tribe Home Camp.

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Poisonblack on MTV News Metal File:

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Poisonblack's Ville Laihiala says the band's forthcoming second album Lust Stained Despair sounded "like sh--" the first time he heard it. The band recorded the LP more than two years ago, but it didn't quite live up to the ex-Sentenced frontman's standards. "That's the reason why we postponed it," he explained. "And also, I opened a bottle, and it stayed open for six months, so that was also a reason."

But this spring, the Finnish gothic metallers headed back into Tonebox Studio, in the band's hometown of Oulu, Finland, to record several new tracks and revisit others. "We recorded three new songs and some additional keyboards here and there, and then I flew to Denmark to mix it, so it would sound the way it sounds right now," Laihiala explained. "I am happy with it now. Everything feels great. We know we have a pretty strong album that we really feel honest about, and we've been rehearsing like apes."

The album, which is due in stores August 22, features 11 mind-melting tracks, including "Hollow Be My Name," "Soul in Flames" and "Pain Becomes Me." The singer said he tried to make the lyrical content "clever, and talk about getting rid of stuff through sex and whatever, because when I was 12, the only two things I had in life were music and masturbation. I know what I was thinking when I wrote those things, and the lyrics should have their own meaning to people."

But the follow-up to 2003's Escapexstacy is a different sound for Poisonblack, according to Laihiala. "We were really trying to find a sound of a band playing live," he said. "Obviously, we wanted to do effects with keyboards. But there's only two rhythm guitarists, and we don't sound like eight guitarists live." So the album needed to sound more simplified than the band's debut offering.

Last month, Poisonblack shot a clip for the track "Rush," even though Laihiala didn't want to. "I've always hated doing them, because I think they're a waste of money. Obviously, I care about how it looks that it's not us eating diapers or whatever. But still, it doesn't play a big role in this [band]. It's not the reason why people do music."

This fall, Poisonblack will tour Europe in support of Lacuna Coil the trek begins September 22 and runs through November 8. Laihiala said he'd eventually like to tour the U.S. but added that "in the past, we've had a lot of issues with alcohol, and I kind of have this weird feeling of self-confidence to go back out on tour, but not too much immediately I need to adjust my head again to the bus and that lifestyle."

Laihiala says he has managed to get his drinking under control, and gone are the days when he'd be drunk for three weeks straight, eating nothing but potato chips. But that doesn't mean he doesn't still like to imbibe.

"Some of us, including myself, drank booze for the wrong reasons," he said. "We dealt with those reasons, and the level of alcohol use is pretty much the same as it used to be but for the right reasons."