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An excerpt of the live studio DVD that TesseracT plan to release alongside their debut album 'One' has appeared online. Watch it below. The five minute video fragment features the band playing their song 'Concealing Fate part III: The Impossible' live in a studio environment.

About the live DVD, the band said: "It will be a stark example of what a band sounds like live and in one take. So see it as a take on a live performance, but in the studio environment. You don't really get the opportunity to hear music in its pure form these days, but with this DVD we hope to show you a band without the typical production tools and 'smoke and mirrors'."

Meshuggah are currently answering fan-asked questions on the Nuclear Blast Streaming Room. They will be streaming their 2010 live DVD 'Alive' later. The DVD was released in February last year and came in 10th place in got-djent.com's favourite releases of 2010.

Watch the stream on nuclearblast.de.

TesseracT, who have just returned from their US tour with The Devin Townsend Band, have announced that they will be recording a live studio DVD to go along with their heavily anticipated debut album 'One'. On their official website, they added: "[i]It will be a stark example of what a band sounds like live and in one take. So see it as a take on a live performance, but in the studio environment.

The Ocean have announced that their upcoming album Heliocentric will be released on April 9th (Germany), April 12th (Europe) and April 13th (North America). It will not be released on April 14th, as the band announced earlier on Facebook.

The band will be playing a release show with a full lineup, including piano, saxophone and strings, in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland on March 26th. They will perform the new album in its entirety, as well as some older songs. The show, as well as the band's performance at Friction Fest in Berlin on May 7th, will be filmed for a DVD release on Metal Blade records later this year. Some new merch designs are available as well.

They have published the following list of upcoming gigs (more dates will be announced soon):

26/03/10 - CH - La Chaux-deFonds @ Bikini Test, w/ NEBRA
27/03/10 - CH - Geneva @ L'Usine, w/ NEBRA
01/04/10 - IT - Perugia @ Urban Club
02/04/10 - IT - Rome @ Init
03/04/10 - IT - Brescia @ Olden Club
04/04/10 - IT - Torino @ Supermarket
06/04/10 - IE - Galway @ Roisin Dubh
07/04/10 - IE - Cork @ Cyprus Avenue
09/04/10 - IE - Dublin @ Fibber Maggees
10/04/10 - IE - Belfast @ The Limelight
13/04/10 - CH - Basel @ Hirscheneck
15/04/10 - DE - Köln @ Underground
17/04/19 - DK - Arhus @ Metal Royale Festival
07/05/10 - DE - Berlin @ Astra _ Friction Fest
08/05/10 - CH - Hasle @ Break The Silence Fest (with Cynic and TesseracT, as we wrote earlier)
14/07/10 - ES - Madrid Ritmo Y Compas
15/07/10 - ES - Barcelona @ Sala Be Cool
16/07/10 - ES - Bilbao @ Sala Santana
17/07/10 - ES - Foz @ Mareira Fest

Read the announcement on Myspace.

Inside Out Webzine has published an interview with Meshuggah rhythm guitarist Mårten Hagström, in which he discusses the band's recently released live DVD Alive, touring experiences and their upcoming shows in Australia and New Zealand.

Read the interview on Myspace.

As we wrote earlier, PyroMusic.net and Limewire Music Blog have also posted interviews with Mårten Hagström. Read them here and here respectively.

The Limewire Music Blog has posted an 'artist profile' for Meshuggah, including a short interview with guitarist Mårten Hagström, about their recently released live DVD 'Alive'. The DVD was released on February 5th and contains footage from several performances in Tokyo, Montreal, Toronto and New York.

Read the interview at the Limewire Music Blog.

Russian math metallers Reign The Absolute have uploaded a live video of the song 'Bite Off My Face' to YouTube. The footage is taken from their Live DVD (RTA Promo Pack). Watch it below. The band are currently working on new material for their first full-length album.

Zooindustry.com has published a short interview with Meshuggah drummer Thomas Haake, about the upcoming Live DVD 'Alive', due to be released in February 2010. More information about the release date, the track listing and the official trailer video are available on this site. Read the interview below.

Without sounding presumptuous, what took so long to get that DVD ‘Alive’ done?
To be honest I’m not entirely sure why it took us so long! It’s just one of those things that we’ve been thinking of doing for a bunch of years, but never got around to doing! We were approached by Ian McFarland/Killswitch TV about this after he had done the Bleed video for the latest (obZen) album, and his excitement over the whole project of doing a live dvd was kind of what finally got us into gear! So we owe it to him for really pushing us and also for how the dvd came to look/sound etc. he did a phenomenal job with it! I think this kind of scenario is really common among touring bands, in the sense that you got touring, writing and all that on your mind and in the “off periods”, instead of planning for all the coming things you tend to want to spend that time on your family and “home life” (that’s a good thing of course). So a lot of times I think bands need that push by “outside” people/management or whatever it might be to get things started! That’s how things usually are for us at least!

Meshuggah have uploaded the official trailer for their upcoming Live DVD and CD named "Alive".

Watch it here:
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=101595401