MARDUK To U.S. Fans: 'Please Be Patient'

January 15, 2007

Swedish black metallers MARDUK have issued the following statement:

"A lot of fans from the States are asking about a possible tour in the U.S. Many fans from California, Texas and many other states ask about this. Of course the band would like to tour the country. To make this short, MARDUK CAN'T enter the U.S. because of visa issues, so to all the fans in the U.S. please be patient, MARDUK will play the U.S. for sure in a near future."

MARDUK will team up with ENSLAVED, KEEP OF KALESSIN, MELECHESH, GOATWHORE and PANTHEON I for The Excess of Evil European tour beginning in early May. A list of tour dates can be found at this location.

MARDUK recently began recording its new album at Endarker studio for a tentative April 2007 release. "The basic material for 13 songs has been recorded," reads a posting on the group's web site. "The band will be entering the studio again in the very begining of January to continue the recording. Album title and front cover will be [announced] soon."

The upcoming CD will be MARDUK's final effort to feature drummer Emil Dragutinovic. A source close to Emil told BLABBERMOUTH.NET that the drummer officially quit the group on November 1 but has agreed to perform on the new album as a session musician.

Dragutinovic is currently working with former MARDUK vocalist Legion (a.k.a. Erik Hagsted) on his ELIZIUM project (formerly REBELANGELS).

MARDUK recently uploaded a trailer for its new DVD, entitled "Blood Puke Salvation", at this location (8 MB). Released on September 25, the DVD contains over 90 minutes of live material filmed in Tilburg, Holland and Antwerpen, Belgium during December 2004. Also included are promotional videos for "Throne Of Rats", "Steel Inferno" and "The Hangman Of Prague", plus a photo gallery, behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and a section entitled "Deathmarch" with exclusive hand-filmed live material from over 20 cities from the "Deathmarch" tour.

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