OBITUARY, MASTER and VISCERAL BLEEDING will be teaming up for the "The Legends Are Back" European tour beginning in early October. Confirmed dates so far are as follows:

Oct. 08 – Eindhoven, NETH @ Effenaar
Oct. 09 - Sint-Lievens-Houtem, BEL @ De Fabriek
Oct. 10 – Dublin, IRE @ The Village
Oct. 11 – Paris, FRA @ La Locomotive
Oct. 15 - Reggio Emilia, ITA @ Transilvania Live
Oct. 19 – Bradford, UK @ Bradford - Rio
Oct. 20 – London, UK @ The Electric Ballroom
Oct. 21 – Osnabrück, GER @ Düttehalle
Oct. 22 – Berlin, GER @ K 17
Oct. 23 – Thessaloniki, GRE @ Hydrogios
Oct. 24 – Athens, GRE @ Rodon Club

OBITUARY are continuing to write material for their first collection of new material since 1997's "Back From the Dead", tentatively due in early 2005 through an as-yet-undetermined label (most likely Roadrunner). Vocalist John Tardy had previously told BLABBERMOUTH.NET, "We are busy writing new material right now and it is going great. We have several songs done or at least almost done. It is kinda of hard for me to tell you what they sound like compared to our older stuff but I think it is very 'OBITUARY' sounding. It is very heavy. We do have some song titles in mind but until we are done completely I hate to say much because we are always changing things as we go and we still have a while before it would be released."