Australia’s melodic death metal heavyweights UNIVERSUM have announced they are to commence recording of the much anticipated follow-up to their highly successful debut album LETO DESTINATUS in the coming months.

Due for release in early 2010, the album tentatively titled MORTUUS MACHINA will feature guest appearances from vocalist Christian Älvestam (ex Scar Symmetry, Miseration) as well as guest guitar solos from Nightrage axe men Marios Iliopoulos and Olof Mörck. Jens Bogren of Sweden’s Fascination Street Studios (Opeth, Soilwork, Amon Amarth, Katatonia) will once again be handling both mixing and mastering duties.

UNIVERSUM’s lead guitarist Michael Soininen comments: "We are all excited by how the new album is developing so far and believe that the songs have a newfound depth, both musically and lyrically. The combination of the new material, the great guest musicians Christian, Marios and Olof, along with Jens’s mixing and mastering should result in a great album”.

In the 12 months since the release of their debut album Leto Destinatus, UNIVERSUM have made a major impact both in Australia and internationally and have received widespread acclaim from the media and their ever growing legion of fans. The success of the debut album together with live performances alongside international big guns Dragonforce (Australian national tour) and Cradle of Filth, a string of endorsements and a very well received video clip has seen UNIVERSUM quickly become regarded as one of Australia's premier melodic death metal acts.

Stay tuned for further information on the forth coming album MORTUUS MACHINA as it becomes available.

Contact: UNIVERSUM
E-mail: universum@universum.com.au
Website: http://www.universum.com.au
MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/universumband

Universum have started writing and pre-production recordings for their upcoming second album, scheduled to be recorded later this year.

Stay tuned in the coming months for more details and some exciting announcements about the album.

The video clip for the track Leto Destinatus has been officially released today which is now available for viewing.

Special thanks goes out to Andy and Becky from Against The Grain Studios here in Adelaide for the massive amount of time and energy that they put into the project!

'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulG3MRh6cIo'

We hope you enjoy it!

Cheers,
UNIVERSUM

Universum are pleased to announce that they have been selected as the major support for Cradle of Filth's May 24th show at the Thebarton Theatre in Adelaide as part of Cradle of Filth’s Godspeed on the Devil Down Under tour.

We would sincerely love to see you all there!

Tickets can be purchased direct from JSR !