London-based progressive doom-metallers DE PROFUNDIS have issued the following update from guitarist Roman Subbotin:

"Our trip to India went really well. Playing in front of 20,000 people was a blast! We had some technical problems onstage but I guess that's live music for you. We got a really good crowd reaction with some insane mosh pits and crowd surfing. Weird and wonderful feeling to see the crowd go so mad to our music! We met lots of crazy metal fans and we can't wait to come back for a full tour of the country in 2009. We're extremely grateful to all the people that made it possible and looked after us there.

Unfortunately we didn't get to meet the guys in IRON MAIDEN, but, at least, yours truly is now a proud owner of some Dave Murray's guitar picks. We had an awesome time hanging out with the guys from PARIKRAMA and KRYPTOS - cheers!

We've uploaded some photos to our MySpace page - check them out!

We are just about to sign a contract with a major label for release of our first album Beyond Redemption in India - more news on this once the ink is dry!

Writing for our second album is nearly complete. The album will have seven songs with combined length of more than an hour. Our new drummer Nick Tingle has made a huge difference to our sound - those familiar with our first album will be blown away by how much richer the new compositions are! I think that in many ways this will be a much more ambitious, extreme, progressive, textured and powerful work. De Profundis will be entering studio to record the new album in June 2009.

On the live front, we will be playing a few shows around the UK in March before locking ourselves in rehearsal studios ahead of recording! We will be playing in Manchester (March 15) and London (March 21) with two more dates to be confirmed (March 13) and (March 14). Our management has entered talks with several European summer festivals and I can confirm that will be performing at Romania's Rock City Open Air festival in August. More news as we get them."