Los Angeles power metal trio NINTH CIRCLE have announced three new dates for 2011 beginning this Friday, February 25th with a show in Corona, CA with '80’s legends MISSING PERSONS and MANDY LION’s WW III.

The band will then play two more additional shows on March 19th with THE IRON MAIDEN’S in Garden Grove, CA and kick off the summer touring season by performing at the Inland Empire Metal Fest with DESTRUCTION and HEATHEN in Yucaipa, CA May 21st.

Bassist Frank Forray comments: “We’ve been working pretty hard the past few months writing and demoing some new songs and ideas. At the moment we’re up to eight new killer songs and the stuff we’re coming up with is just insane! We have some really heavy power prog metal concepts for the next album. Great time changes, riffs, melody and spacing to give the listener a sense of what is really possible with this band.”

Frank further comments: “Now that we have a few shows lined up, this gives us a chance to road test some new material. We did that last year in March with one or two of the new songs that will be on the record. Then summer came around we put off writing to hit the road for summer. We’ve been really serious about writing this past winter and we’ve have three or four more songs to write before we’re off to record.”

According to sources close to the band, working titles for the new songs are, ‘Arcturus Rising’, ‘All Or Nothing’ and ‘The Quickening’ and they confirm the songs are on the melodic and progressive/power metal side.

Tour dates are as follows:

February

25 – Angel’s Sports Bar - Corona CA

March

19 – The Can Nightclub - Garden Grove, CA

May

21 – Inland Empire Metal Fest - Yucaipa, CA