Hail all ye Brethren of the Hammer,

First of all I would like to thank each and every one of you, that have checked out this new site and come to support Manilla Road. You have all made the launch of manillaroad.net a great success. Once again I wish to extend a hearty welcome to anyone visiting the site for the first time and remind all of you that this is the true official website for Manilla Road. We are running this site ourselves so you are insured that if you purchase anything from manillaroad.net that the proceeds will be going directly to the running of this site and helping build the Manillan Empire.

Even though we have just released a new album (Playground of the Damned) we are already back in the studio working on new material. As a matter of fact the studio (Midgard Sound Labs) has been just pumping out the tunes for the last month. We are working on several projects at once and it is a really glorious time for us all in the Manilla Camp. I will give you a bit of a run down of what we are working on: First of all I am working on a band project called Miskatonia with ex-Manilla Road members Scott Peters and Mark Anderson. You might remember them from our Atlantis Rising and Spiral Castle releases. Anderson is writing the riffs and some of the lyrics and I am writing the vocal parts and some of the lyric content also. Scott Peters is doing the drums and I am singing all the vocal parts. It is very doom like and does not really sound like MR but it is cool music and I am honored to be working with these guys again on this project. Next I would like to tell you about a new band that I have formed with E.C. Hellwell called Hellwell. I have spoke of this before but would like to let you all know that the first album is completely recorded and mixed and we are now working on the mastering and the artwork for the release. It should be out on High Roller and Shadow Kingdom come the Spring of 2012. This is somewhat like MR but with synthesizer and keyboards added. It is a very heavy and aggressive project and we are all very pumped about this one. It is one of those type of projects that I really love every single cut on the project. Keep an eye out here at manillaroad.net for more details as we approach the release date. We are also working on new songs for the next Manilla Road album as well and so far all the stuff we have come up with is totally cool and I am so excited to be working on new MR music again.

As you have most likely already seen we have some shirts up for sale on the site now and there will be more styles to come in the near future. We are looking to continue to add different styles to the merchandise page as time goes on. Once again rest assured that everything that you get from this site is official MR merch and not bootleg.

I will be continuing to post updates here to let you all know what is going on in the Manilla Camp as time goes on. We are currently working on scheduling tour dates for 2012 and I will let you all know those secured dates as they are confirmed. Thank you all for your undying support of Manilla Road and May The Lords Of Light Be With You!

Up The Hammers & Down The Nails

Mark The Shark Shelton