LORD, featuring former DUNGEON frontman Lord Tim, have issued the following update:

"We'd like to welcome our good friend Mark Furtner, the brains behind the awesome FROMBEYOND project, as our new live guitarist! :)

Until now, we've had Shane from TRANSCENDING MORTALITY filling in for our live shows in Mav's wake, but given the incredible workload that TM have coming up this year as well as the complexity of both bands' material that had to be played to world-class standards, it was really unfair to ask Shane to commit any more time to Lord.

We had a fantastic time playing with Shane "The Steamroller" and we hope you guys enjoyed the shows we did with him!

For those of you who don't know Mark's work, check out www.myspace.com/frombeyondoz.

Lord Tim co-produced his first album and did vocals on it, and in the process we realised that this guy is one of the best guitar players in the country, so we were fairly sure he'd be able to give the live set a good go. What can we say? In 3 days, he had 10 songs down perfectly. Just insane!

Mark's first shows with us will be in Hobart in May and he'll be sticking around indefinitely until we do find a proper permanent member of LORD (we're taking our sweet old time because we want to find the right person for the job, not just someone who can do it for now).

Mark is also looking for members for FROMBEYOND too, so if you're a musician up to the standards that he'd need, check out the songs on his MySpace page and see how you go. We can see a lot of BIG things happening for that project in the next year or so. ;)

But anyway, let's hear it for Shane for being a champion, and welcome Mark to the stage! :)"