Sweden's EVERGREY have issued the following:

"Unfortunately we must inform you that Evergrey not is able to do the planned tour with BRAINSTORM in March 2008. This is due to the fact that our next album not will be ready in time to be released before the tour. We feel it's not fair to the fans or to the promoters or to Brainstorm to do a tour without the new album out. If the circumstances aren't the best we shouldn't do a major tour like this. We are sorry for any problems this may cause but we will be back soon.

We wish our friends in Brainstorm all the best of luck with their re-scheduled dates.

Tom, Henrik, Rikard, Jonas and Jari."

Meanwhile, the band have posted the fourth video studio report filmed during their recording sessions for their new album. Watch the video here.

Evergrey frontman Tom S. Englund recently checked in with the following studio update:

"Another week of pure fuckin' metal mayhem has begun! Anyway. I finished all the guitar parts I had left for the first eight songs, and it all went so much smoother than I ever could have imagined. I have to explain this for you first, when we write songs for an album, we do just that, we do not rehearse them before we record them , so everyone is pretty much just rehearsing by themselves. We are sending files back and forth and of course there are LOTS of discussions. I don’t know why we have chosen this way of getting it done but it has it’s pros and cons. For instance, it is hell to sit and try to pick put what the hell you’re playing but at the same time writing like that makes it all much more fresh and spontaneous. The real problems come whenever we will start to rehearse the songs for tours when NO ONE have played them together with anyone. Maybe we’re stupid. We have been working like this since In Search Of Truth. Too lazy to jam it out, hehe.. Today Henrik’s (Danhage) doing guitars for a song called 'Fear' and probably continuing with drums on a new song called 'Numb'. On Monday we will start writing again for 10 -15 days, to finish the last couple of ideas for songs we have. It’s pretty cool since we haven’t listened to those ideas at all since before we started the recording. That really should bring some objectivity. We will try to post a new video clip tomorrow or Friday (November 9th). So you know where and what to check..."