Manngard leave their native shores of Norway armed with debut album "Circling Buzzards", ready to conquer. This ruthless chunk of
death metal is delivered with uncompromising Slayer-like aggression, featuring a guest appearance from Grutle Kjellson of Enslaved.

The lyrical concept on Circling Buzzards is inspired by the works of American novelist William Faulkner. A family living on a farm at
the back of beyond in the American Mid-West, are driven to monstrosities by a tyrant father. Travellers passing by tend to disappear,
and rumours have it they end up in a nearby quagmire.

Manngard has a history of live appearances from all the biggest Norwegian cities. The band has performed twice at "Hole In The Sky"
heavy metal fest of Bergen (www.holeinthesky.no), latest in 2005, and played as supporting act for reknowned Norwegian metallers
Red Harvest.

The first release through NAP/ Candlelight Records will be a worldwide re-issue the debut album "Circling Buzzards". To be released
2006. Details will follow.

MANNGARD IN THE PRESS: "Great album for fans of Meshuggah, Slayer, etc" Powermetal.de "Great debut with lots of surprises - bloody awesome!" Metal Dungeon Webzine "Somewhere between Punk, Slayer, Thrash, Death, Prog - weird, varied and exciting" Aberration Online "Impressive debut that combines speed, experiments, strange harmonies and rhythms" Darkness Webzine The intensity and rawness of opening track "Wreathed in rot" makes Slayer resemble Atomic Kitten. Boosting the quartet's appeal further is their wide variety of influences - thrash, speed, prog, death, metalcore, mathcore - and the passion with which they deploy them. Consequently "Circling buzzards" sounds fresh, vibrant and unpredictable. ..." 8/10 – Terrorizer Magazine