Swedish progressive metallers CLOUDSCAPE have issued the following update:

"Lately, Cloudscape have been focusing on auditions to find a replacement for (guitarist) Björn Eliasson. We have now agreed and are happy to invite Mr. Daniel Paulson as the new guitar player and member in Cloudscape.

Daniel impressed the band a lot, both musically and personally during auditions. Daniel is officially totally unknown and has only played in local bands and Cloudscape will be his first step into the world of melodic metal.

Cloudscape is finally complete again and despite member changes Cloudscape's more inspired than ever!! The work of New Era continues...

We will update the "band" page of this website very soon where you will be able to learn more about Daniel plus we will upload a short clip with Daniels guitar playing very soon."

A previous update from the band reads: "As some of you might have noticed it has been quite silent around Cloudscape for some time. We have updated a few minor news in order to send you all some life-signs. Nonetheless as mentioned, Cloudscape is still fully alive and hungrier than ever.

But, 2009 and parts of 2010 have been quite struggling years mainly because of member changes and stuff which have prevented us from moving on. Roger Landin and Haynes Pherson left Cloudscape in early 2009 because of personal issues and they were shortly replaced by Fredrik Joakimsson (drums) and Håkan Nyander (bass). Fredrik and Håkan have filled the band with new fuel and inspiration and the song-writing for our fourth album is going really damn well and all of us are very excited about the new songs.

We have a few more songs left to compose in order to have more than enough songs to the next album (New Era) but, we are quite sure we will be finished with the song-writing process during early fall. As soon as we are finished with the new songs we will start to check out the music business and contact different labels for a possible co-operation and release of New Era. We will also make sure to find good booking agencies that have the right connections to organize more live shows and tours.

Nonetheless we will try to do a few more shows during 2010 so, stay tuned and keep yourself up to date in this site. The next scheduled live show will be in Helsingborg, Sweden at the venue called The Tivoli as special guest to FULLFORCE on July 10th. We will have something very special included in our setlist as well... don't miss this event."

Stay tuned for further updates.