News Briefs

• Salem, Oregon based Saint is scheduled to soon start work on its next album, Desperate Night. The group plans to begin laying rhythm and bass guitar tracks the second week of January and then move on to vocals the third week. This will be followed by guitar leads from Jerry Johnson. Jerd Knowland is handling production duties and Dakin Costello cover artwork.

• Bill Menchen will be releasing a reworked version of the 2006 self-titled debut of his band The Seventh Power. From the artists Facebook page (December 31, 2011):"The bass and the vocals (will remain) unchanged. The existing drums have been worked over to give them a more raw organic sound than the 80's reverb type of sound they had on the original release. There were some drum edits on the original version that I did not use on this version. It's all original, all raw. The guitar had a lot of mid scooped out on my amp when I did that recording that I wasn't able to get back with EQ adjustments to my satisfaction so all of the rhythm guitar has been re-recorded from the ground up. I made a few adjustments on some of the parts while I was at it."
  
  The revised version will feature the new title The Power and be released on Wrenchen Menchen Wrecords.