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NEGURA BUNGET — the Romanian band that incorporates elements of black metal, progressive metal, folk metal and dark ambient — has finished recording its new album, "Vîrstele Pamîntului" (English translation: The Ages of the Land/Earth). Due in late March via Code666 Records as a special limited-edition handmade woodbox, roped and filled with the very earth of the place it comes from, the CD was tracked at Negura Music studio under the supervision of sound engineer Mihai Toma. The group states in a press release, "'Vîrstele Pamîntului' is an album about embracing your destiny, about choosing and consciously assuming a way of life. The earth is where we came from and where go back into, the one from above and beyond us. Understanding and respecting it is understanding yourself, your purpose and destiny. 'Vîrstele Pamîntului' is an album about places of the earth and places of the spirit, about bounds transcending worlds."

"Vîrstele Pamîntului" track listing:

01. Pamînt
02. Dacia Hiperboreana
03. Umbra
04. Ochiul Inimii
05. Chei De Roua
06. Tara De Dincolo De Negura
07. Jar
08. Arborele Lumii
09. Întoarcerea Amurgului

"Maiestrit", a magical and passionate reinterpretation of NEGURA BUNGET's classic album "Maiastru Sfetnic" (2000), is scheduled for release by Lupus Lounge at the end of February 2010. This record contains the last studio recordings of the classic NEGURA BUNGET lineup (Hupogrammos, Sol Faur, Negru).

NEGURA BUNGET recently recorded a new song for inclusion on Code666 Records' compilation "Better Undead Than Alive II". Entitled "Cumpana (Balance/Ordeal)", the track was laid down at Negura Music studio and was the first composition to be written by the band's new lineup:

Corb - Guitars/Vocals
Spin - Guitars
Gadinet - Bass
Inia Dinia - Keyboards
Ageru Pamanatului - Vocals/Pipes/Percussions/Xylophone
Negru - Drums/Percussions

NEGURA BUNGET will embark on the "Spirit of the Land" European tour in late January.

Fan-filmed video footage of NEGURA BUNGET's performance at this year's edition of the Hole In The Sky festival (a.k.a. Bergen Metal Fest X) — which was held August 25-29 in Bergen, Norway — can be viewed below.