INTO ETERNITY: In Full-Blown Rehearsal Mode

Founding guitarist/principal songwriter Tim Roth of Canadian extreme progressive metallers INTO ETERNITY has issued the following update:

"INTO ETERNITY is in full-blown rehearsal mode now [for upcoming shows in Canada, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan]. The jams have been going very smooth and they sound very tight already.We are about 10 hours in and we are working on a 22-song set list. The band plans on playing songs from 'Dead Or Dreaming', 'Buried In Oblivion', 'The Scattering Of Ashes' and our new album, 'The Incurable Tragedy'. Stu [Block; vocals] just got a new in ear monitors, so he is singing better than ever now that he can finally hear himself! Our first gigs are going to be local in Saskatoon on May 8 and our hometown Regina on May 9. The set time should be around 85 minutes, so be ready to grab a chair! It's good to know that we have plenty of good songs to play in a headlining set. Normally we play for 30 minutes on some of our past tours, so we get to finally call some shots of our own on these gigs.

"Tomorrow Stu and I are going to tape a one-hour metal show at our local rock station 104.9 The Wolf. We have done community radio here in town before, but never a big rock station. Stu and I will pick all the songs played, so we were thinking about playing bands that we dig, like SACRIFICE, KATAKLYSM, AUGURY, MEGADETH, DREAM THEATER, LOST HORIZON, OBSCURA, PESTILENCE, CYNIC, ZERO HOUR and more. Hopefully people outside of Regina can check it out at www.thewolfrocks.com. It should be on 11:30 p.m. May 8 (Regina time).

"We fly out on May 10 to Japan to play three shows with DESTRUCTION. I know that these will be killer shows. Japan was so good to us a year ago and we can't wait to get back! Now we also have two more exciting shows to announce. Trinity Records is bringing us over to play Hong Kong on May 16 and he is also getting us to play Taiwan on May 17. It will be our first time ever in these new markets, so we have happy that Soni is inviting us to play. Hopefully we'll have a good time at these shows as well."

"Time Immemorial", the latest video from INTO ETERNITY, can be viewed below. The track appears on the group's concept album, "The Incurable Tragedy", which sold 1,900 copies in the United States in its first week of release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. The clip, which features vocalist Stu Block in a prominent role, was filmed in Montreal in August, just before the group embarked on the Summer Slaughter Canada tour. That trek was followed by a run alongside the legendary ICED EARTH, which capped off a year that also saw the band tour with SYMPHONY X, AT THE GATES and THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN, among others.