Scrap Metal: Rock/Metal News Bits - Nov 4, 2006

Random scraps of metal news... Max Samosvat (vocals) is no longer a member of Mechanical Poet. The band is searching for a suitable replacement before finishing the recording of their upcoming third album, Creepy Tales For Freaky Children. Finnish metallers Tarot have updated their official website to coincide with the release of Crows Fly Back (out now). A new media player allows you to stream full-length tracks from each of the band's seven albums. Trail Of Tears will release their fifth album, "Existentia", in the U.S. on January 30 via Napalm Records (one day earlier internationally). John Perez, Solitude Aeturnus founding member and guitarist, is taking pre-orders through his Brainticket Records for the digipak version of Solitude Aeturnus' upcoming album Alone. The digipak version feature the 10-minute bonus track “Lucid Destitution.” The album will officially be released on November 10. Pro-Pain's upcoming tenth studio album is now due to be released in early 2007, not this year as was previously stated. Silverchair—lots of metalheads like this band!—name their upcoming new album (due in spring 2007): Young Modern. Germany’s Wicked Sensation have called it quits. The almighty Battlelore name their upcoming new album (due in early 2007): Evernight. Suspyre have signed a deal with Nightmare Records and you can pre-order their upcoming album, A Great Divide, here. While Heaven Wept have announced that they've likely found a new label home, though no more specifics were given. They also dropped a bombshell: Vast Oceans Lachrymose is to be released in fall 2007! And sadness sweeps the land…