Hail to all ye brethren of the hammer,

Shark here with another update for your reading enjoyment. I will try not to be long winded in this report but I do have some new info that I wish to share with you.

First of all Manilla Road has a youtube channel of it’s own now. It is called Manilla Road Official. So far we have only uploaded songs from our album releases with photo montages and there are a little more than 80 of them. Eventually we will have almost all of our released recordings on the channel except maybe for our newest releases because we want people to actually buy the music and not just rip it for free off of the internet. I know that for years there have been many people that have posted youtube videos of our songs and we also know this is our fans who have done this to help promote the band. Some have been good quality and others not so good. In order to remain in control of our own music and the quality we are having most of these removed from youtube. We will leave all the cover versions of our songs and live versions from fan postings at concerts up on youtube. So if you have put up a video of Manilla Road music from one of our releases up on youtube you might consider taking it down. Like I said this does not concern the live concert footage or bands doing cover versions of Manilla Road songs. Which by the way I think is just totally cool that so many bands are covering some of our songs. Our goal with the youtube channel is to have high quality audio versions of the songs on there and eventually special videos of the band. Video reports from the studio (Midgard Sound Labs) and rare live footage and photo montages. I also wish all of you to know that the channel is solely run by myself and the band so if something is screwed up on it then I most likely did it ha ha. Go check it out and subscribe and enjoy the music.

On the tour front we will be kicking off our 2014 world tour starting in South America. We have 6 new dates announced in the countries of Brazil, Argentina, Peru and Chili. This will be the first time that Manilla Road has set foot upon these shores so this is a very special tour for us. Also joining us on this tour will be Kenny Powell and the boys from Omen whom we have toured with before so this should be a fun time for one and all. Go to the tour page on this website manillaroad.net and check out further details on these shows and others for this year.

As for some more news on the new album project: Neudi is almost finished with the mastering now and the mix obviously is completed. We are working on the art concept and design right now so it should not be much longer before we send the whole thing to the label. I don’t have a specific release date for you yet but I will let you know as soon as I do. Just keep checking back here at manillaroad.net and you can keep up with all the most recent Manilla Road news.

As always thank you all so much for all your help in promoting Manilla Road and for all your support of the music and band. May the fates hold you in favor. Up The Hammers & Down The Nails

Shark