The following is an update from mainman Hellion from Boston-based metallers PLANET GEMINI:

"I have decided to release my long delayed album Wicked as is. While it's not 100% perfect it is better for me to release it to the public than to let the songs dwell on my harddrive unheard.

The version of the album will be the version I sent out to the press a long while back... it really is polished quite well. I fell into a trap of "overpolishing" and I really do feel that I was really holding the album back from it's release.

Wicked features 11 tracks all written and recorded in 2006. The tracklisting is: 'Incantation', 'Grim (My God Of Red)', 'Silver Strings', 'Lightmare', 'Minus', 'Moondancer', 'The Beast On Your Back', 'Author Of Pain', 'Preachin' To The Choir', 'The Deadly Sleep', 'Eden'.

This album will be released for FREE on www.planetgemini.net on August 4th, 2008 (a year after it's last announced release date).

Wicked is a very special album to me... filled with tons of venom and passion... and my biggest issue with the album was that I felt I could re-create it better under more "sane" circumstances. However, when recorded in a more "sober" state took away from a lot of the power. Hence forth the delays...

What you will hear is not typical "in control" Hellion from Planet Gemini. It really is my decent into madness and depression... and the subsiquent resurrection and power that sometimes vitriol can bring.

I hope you all enjoy the album... while it is not perfect... upon listening it again this last weekend I've kind of realized that it is perfectly imperfect... and can't really be improved upon without lossing all of that build and aggression.

I always said "Wicked will be ready when it's ready"... and I guess the real fact of the matter was that... "Wicked will be ready when I am ready"... I wasn't ready yet... Now I am."