ABIGAIL WILLIAMS Release Date for Candlelight Records Debut Album

Candlelight Records today confirms January 23 as the North American release date for Abigail Williams' Legend. The limited edition 5-song ep is the territory's formal introduction to the Phoenix-based extreme metal band and coincides with the band's first national American tour; the band participating on Candlelight's upcoming (and highly anticipated) label tour featuring co-headliners Dark Funeral and Enslaved.

Amassing an impressive quarter million hits to their MySpace page (this in under six months!), Abigial Williams defy classification by taking the groove and melody of Gothenburg-styled death metal, face-smashing breakdowns of the hardcore scene and top it with the bombastic and epic-flavored frostbite of black metal's evilest hordes. The result is a multi-faceted and unforgettable hybrid that already has genre aficionados taking an immediate interest. Kerrang! says, “the bloody birth of black metalcore. Abigail Williams have taken fresh-faced metal down the left hand path… the result is obscenely exciting.”

Abigail Williams' full length debut is planned for an early Spring 2007 release. Additional touring plans will be announced in cooperation with the album's release date.

Track listing for Legend is as follows: From a Buried Heart, Like Carrion Birds, The Conqueror Wyrm, Watchtower, Procession of the Aeons (exclusive demo).

Candlelight II: Phoenix Rising dates featuring Abigail Williams with Dark Funeral and Enslaved are available at www.candlelightrecordsusa.com.