We have the honor of supporting the great D-A-D at their headlining show in Beijing a day after our performance at the MIDI Festival. The show takes place at Yugong Yishan on the 30th of April, and tickets are already available here.

In other news concerning our upcoming Asian tour, we'll be doing a meet & greet session at the Pulp Summer Slam festival in Manila, Philippines on the day of the show. High fives and autographs at the Amoranto Sport Complex at 4:35pm!

With the Pulp Summer Slam festival in Manila, Philippines getting closer, we're happy to announce that we'll be playing additional festivals on our visit to the Far East. We've been invited to play the two MIDI festivals (Beijing and Shanghai) in China, alongside acts like D-A-D, As I Lay Dying etc. Needless to say, we jumped at the chance and are excited about returning to China after our show in Shanghai last year!

The dates for our upcoming Asian festival run is as follows:

27.04 Pulp Summer Slam, Manila (http://pulpliveworld.com/shows/summer-slam/pulp-summerslam-13-til-death-...)
29.04 Midi Festival, Beijing (http://www.midifestival.com/index.aspx)
03.05 Midi Festival, Shanghai (http://www.midifestival.com/index.aspx)

The upcoming album features an all star cast of Finnish music industry people.

Having crossed the globe in support of their previous album Beneath, Amoral is happy to begin the recording sessions for their sixth album today. The drums are being recorded at Sound Supreme studios in Hämeenlinna with Janne Saksa. Then the sessions will move to Helsinki and finally to Kuopio where Marco Hietala of Tarot and Nightwish fame will produce the vocals for the new album.

"Working with Janne has always been a lucrative proposition, but after four albums together, we felt like it would be healthy to try new approaches to making an album. Spending a weekend with Janne recording the drums gives us a welcome illusion of familiarity and security, before we take the plunge for ourselves. As for working with Marco, it's something we have discussed since Ari joined the band, but due to conflicting schedules this is the first time we get to test out this working combo", says Ben Varon the guitarist for Amoral, who also acts as the producer for the new album.  

Hi folks,

A little update of what's happening in AmoraLand... Ever since we got home from Europe, we've been hard at work finishing up writing the material for our next studio album. We're happy to say all the music is now pretty much written, and we're liking what we hear! Words like "epic", "prog", "challenging" and "cocaine piano" are just some of the key terms that have been used to describe the direction of the material. The lyrics are also well on their way, and so we felt confident enough to book the studio for the beginning of March. The release will most likely be around the end of the year. Naturally, we'll keep you posted about the sessions as they go along!

We're also very excited to announce our participation in the Pulp Summer Slam festival in Manila, The Philippines, on April 27th! What a way to end our long break from playing live, and reward ourselves after a long and (hopefully not too) gruelling studio session than to fly over to the far east to play a big show at a country we've never visited before. The lineup at Amoranto Stadium is pretty kickass, with bands like Cannibal Corpse, Coheed & Cambria and As I Lay Dying on the bill with us, so we're expecting a pretty kickass event.

And as if this wasn't good enough, it looks like we'll have some more Asian shows to announce soon around the same time... stay tuned!

-Ben & the guys