Australian melodeathers UNIVERSUM have posted a rough mix of a new track from their upcoming album "Mortuus Machina," which is scheduled for an early 2011 release.

The track is titled "Sum of The Universe," and features the spine wrenching vocals of Christian Alvestam (Ex-Scar Symmetry, Solution .45, Miseration), and face melting lead solos from Nightrage's Marios Iliopoulos and Olof Morck


"Mortuus Machina" will also be featuring a number of other notable guest musicians, such as: Ola Frenning (Soilwork), Tuomas "Tommy" Tuovinen (MYGRAIN), and Paul Wardingham.

For more information visit: Universum.com.au

I've been listening to the new SOILWORK album, "The Panic Broadcast" (out now via Nuclear Blast Records) a lot lately, and totally falling for Peter Wichers' Bluegrass influenced riffing. You can totally hear the genre's influence on the veteran guitarist and producer on songs like "The Thrill."

The band released a new video for the song "Deliverance Is Mine," which is the band's 2nd animated video, and is a squeal to the first one for Light The Torch from their 2003 album "Figure Number Five."

I was hoping for at least a few cut scenes in the video showing the band performing together, specially with a new line up and the returning Peter Wichers, I'm pretty sure I wasn't the only one curious as to how the band is shaping up lately. But I guess they want to keep it mysterious till you get your ass to one of their shows.


In other Soilwork related news, Peter Wichers will be producing the next Darkest Hour album! If you haven't heard Darkest Hour yet, then you need to check out their latest studio effort "The Eternal Return" to get an idea of how awesome this collaboration is going to be.

SOILWORK guitarist/songwriter and producer PETER WICHERS posted a track by track breakdown of the band's upcoming album "The Panic Broadcast" out July 2nd (Europe) and July 13 (U.S.) via Nuclear Blast Records.

The band is also working on a new video for the song "Deliverance Is Mine" with director Ivan Colic (EX DEO, TYPE O NEGATIVE, UNLEASHED) and producer Stanimir"Staca" Lukic (MOONSPELL, KAMELOT, DEATHSTARS, TYPE O NEGATIVE). Which is according to the band "the follow-up to 2003's CGI animated masterpiece 'Light The Torch'.

Swedish modern metal leaders Soilwork posted a new song titled "Two Lives Worth of Reckoning" from their upcoming album "The Panic Broadcast" out July 2nd (Europe) and July 13th (North America) via Nuclear Blast Records.

The Panic Broadcast marks the return of guitarist, songwriter and producer Peter Wichers to the fold, who also handled production duties for the effort.

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