Norwegian extreme metal veterans KEEP OF KALESSIN have officially announced that they will be competing in the national Eurovision Song Contest called Melodi Grand Prix.

The band will perform a song called 'The Dragontower', which was originally written for the new album but had to be shortened from 5:20 mins. to 3:00 mins. The original version will of course appear on the upcoming album.

Commented mainman Obsidian C.: "We're exited to have been picked out from about 1,000 norwegian contributors to MGP 2010. The feedback on the song is amazing so far and we hope that we can have a chance to be the first ever extreme metal band in the norwegian MGP finale."

Keep Of Kalessin will compete in the first of 3 initial finals that will air on NRK1 in Norway on January 8th, 2010. Viewers will be able to vote via SMS for their favourite artist. The top 2 artists chosen via SMS will directly go to the national finale held at the Spektrum, Oslo on February 6th, 2010. The artists on position 3 and 4 will get a new chance in a new TV show called The Last Chance where also the top 2 will go the finale.

There is a number of 21 participating artists and 8 finalists. The winner of the final in February will be the one to represent Norway at the international Eurovision Song Contest 2010.

Unfortunately, the voting in Norway can only be done by Norwegian cell phones. Foreign fans can watch the show live at the www.nrk.no webcast.

Keep Of Kalessin are currently recording the follow up to their 2008 release Kolossus. The band were in Dug Out Studio in Sweden in October to record the drums with Daniel Bergstrand (IN FLAMES, BEHEMOTH, MESHUGGAH) then went back home to their own studio in Trondheim, Norway where they recorded both Armada and Kolossus, to record all the other instruments and vocals. The tracks will then immediately be sent back to Daniel Bergstrand who will be mixing the entire record.

A new studio report can be viewed below:

Keep Of Kalessin have been added to GORGOROTH's European tour date in April 2010, which include:

April

9 - Vosselaar, Belgium - Biebob
10 - Rotterdam, Holland - Baroeg
11 - Paris, France - Trabendo
12 - Hamburg, Germany - Marx
13 - Cologne, Germany - Underground
14 - Ludwigsburg, Germany - Rockfabrik
15 - Milan, Italy - Magazzini Generali
16 - Osnabrueck, Germany - N8
17 - Glauchau, Germany - Alte Spinnerei