MISTER BONES vocalist/guitarist Al "The Yeti" Petrovich personally contacted BW&BK; with the following update:

"We've killed the body to preserve the skull!

We've been offered a great deal for management with a company out of Maryland, and they suggested we change the name and start fresh. To be perfectly honest, I've been Mister Bones for far too long. In the midst of all these line-up changes, the music has fluctuated throughout all styles of metal and cannot continue in that direction anymore. We are a real band. We are now officially GEORGIAN SKULL.

2007 will mark the biggest year of our careers, since we're rising out of the ashes of the old and into the heaviest realm ever. The music has developed to a mature, crushing sound and we've never had better shows than we're having right now, and we're more well received then we've ever been.

This May, we hit the studio with singer/guitarist Billy Graziadei from BIOHAZARD in New Jersey to record our new record: The Elements Of Horror.

Afterwards, we hit the road for the summer tour - 55 shows in 56 days spanning all of North America. We're also pleased to announce we are playing with TROUBLE in Toronto, March 28th.

The second last of Mister Bones' releases: the long overdue Monster Burn & The Power Seekers has finally been released on Obskure Sombre Records (order it through their site).

Here is more detail on the name change:

I sat down one night, pulled an all-nighter and wrote every name I could think of. I narrowed it down to: The Last Master, Hunting The Ghost and Georgian Skull. I gave each a reasonable amount of time to allow them to grow on me, and Georgian Skull was the only one I couldn't get out of my mind. So then I looked up the name Georgian Skull and discovered some interesting news about it - that Georgian Skull exists, but not within a band context so we were safe.

But I knew about the Georgian people through my Dad, because they were mountain men, from the early man era, well they became mountain men later on. They were migrators from Africa who came to the Western World 1.75 million years ago, disproving scientists of today that the Georgians were strong, smart savvy people that knew what they were doing. Scientists quickly realized that just because their brain was smaller in mass, didn't mean that they were stupid. They were just as smart as we are now, but with less education and development. They were no monkeys. This is the time when scientists realized the size of the brain had nothing to do with how smart you were. They saw that the brain over time, grew in mass, but we did not receive any new attributes of power and skills from the brain's enlargement. It simply just grew to fill up the skull which was an acting shell. They were humans; with canine teeth instead of our fangs.

They perfectly fit the mold of our profile that I wanted to convey. Our music is and always will be about the evolution of our beginnings (musically within this band) and how we are getting better and better in time. And the best way to run the name change on people within the context of a smooth transition, the only thing I could think of, was saying, how we killed off the body (the Bones) to preserve the head (the Skull)." In most aboriginal and early cannibalism cultures, the preservation of someone's head was tradition. Skull keepers and native tribes were headshrinkers and madmen etc. This is what we are, in modern times, but using all these ideals and incorporating them into our music, this is what we are now. Better, stronger, and much more efficient. And that is the meaning behind the name change."

Georgian Skull have the following shows scheduled:

January

20 - Wrestling Show at Royal Canadian Legion - Tecumseh, Ont
26 - Club Absinthe - Hamilton, Ont

March

28 - Lee's Palace with Trouble - Toronto, Ont

April

21 - The Edge 102.1 - Toronto, Ont

June

2 - Club Absinthe - Hamilton, Ont