DUSKMACHINE, featuring PRIMAL FEAR/ex-ANNIHILATOR drummer Randy Black, ex-Annihilator bassist Russ Bergquist and guitarist Nikolai Wurk, have issued the following update from Nikolai:

"It's been a while since the last update, but due to several reasons - and really important ones.

First off all, we had to move out of our studio/rehearsal place which I owned for 13 years. This was major stress, because when you own a studio for such a long time, you bring a lot of shit in there - and all of it had to go out!! A pain in the ass, just because of lacking tolerance. So fucking what...

This kept us busy now for the last 6 months, but we finally found a new room which allows us to continue like before, meaning having the possibility to have a rehearsal place AND a studio at the same time. A little smaller, but anyway great to go back to business soon. Of course we'll have to move in first, which means more work.

The other reason - as you might guess by reading the headlines - is that we have a new singer... again. No, we don't like to switch singers every 2 years - it just happens!

We had a meeting with Mirko recently and he explained to us that he is not 100% into it anymore and wants to move on with another project. Another reason for him was that nothing really happened except for the writing/recording process - of course it was never planned to take that long - but if you want to know why.... well, just read above and the former blogs.

Anyway, there is no bad blood and we wish him all the best for his future projects.

At this point we cannot tell who the new man is... but you'll be very surprised... or not? We'll see. Unfortunately this also means that new lyrics will have to be written etc., but we still plan to have the album mixed in October. Bass tracks are done, Russ did a great job and the only thing missing are the final vocal tracks.

From now on, we will keep you posted more often about the progress - really!!"

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