NOSTRADAMEUS

Swedish melodic metallers NOSTRADAMEUS have set “Hellbound” as the title of their fourth album, due in May through Germany's AFM Records.

The follow-up to 2003's “The Third Prophecy” was recorded at Roasting House studios in Malmö, Sweden and contains “a lot of new elements,” according to guitarist Jake Fredén. “[The CD is] more heavy, more angry, [with] more melodies that stick, better lyrics, [and a] brilliant sound which will lift this album above our previous ones. . . The band has never been so stable, never so tight playing and never so much in harmony with each other.”

February 11. 2004