Finnish Wintersun just dropped their highly anticipated record, The Forest Seasons. No full song or video had been released so far, but on the day of release, the lyric video for the 14-minute epic "Awaken From The Dark Slumber (Spring)" was launched on Jari Mäenpää's personal YouTube channel. The Forest Seasons consists of four lengthy tracks that reflect - as the name implies - the four seasons. Spring being the first. Check out the song below.

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Thy Art Is Murder, now fronted by CJ McMahon once again, will release their new album, Dear Desolation, soon on August 18th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment and throughout Australia and New Zealand via Human Warfare. The Australian band has just dropped another sonic thunderbolt from the album in the form of the fiery video for "The Son Of Misery". Explore it here.

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After recently revealing their new album, Vagabond, the psychedelic proggers Subterranean Masquerade recently released a new song online for consumption. It's called "Nomad" and you can see if you like it below. Rafael Ortega created the lyric video for the tune. Enjoy!

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On September 15th, Germany's thrash crew Cripper will release their new and fifth album, Follow Me: Kill! worldwide via Metal Blade Records. The album details have been revealed and you can also hear the catchy first single, "Pressure" right here.

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In case you didn't know yet, Sannhet will release a new album this year which will be titled So Numb. The U.S. instrumental metal trio now releases the new single called "Salts" and a video (directed by AJ Annunziata) to go with it. Enjoy and you can get the album on August 25th, 2017 through Profound Lore Records.

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This year, death metal heavyweights Asphyx are celebrating 30 years of existence and they have announced a very special anniversary celebration. In addition to the already announced and sold out anniversary show at the Turock venue in Essen, Germany on Saturday, November 18th, 2017, the band announced a second (matinee) show at the same location for the day after, November 19th, 2017. These two "30 Years Anniversary" concerts will be supported by Pentacle and Soulburn, but also feature long Asphyx sets, special merchandise as well as meet and greet opportunities including former band members like Eric Daniels, Bob Bagchus, Wannes Gubbels, Ronnie van der Wey, Roel Sanders or Sander van Hoof.

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After revealing the title of their new album and then being quiet for a while, Diablo Swing Orchestra finally updated fans on the release. Recently, the wacky metallers revealed that they signed a contract with Spinefarm/Universal for the release of Pacifisticuffs in October, if all goes according to plan.

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Ritualistic, apocalyptic noisemakers Atriarch are back with their fourth offering of mind-altering, doom-soaked, death rock, entitled Dead As Truth, due out on August 11th on CD/LP/digital via Relapse Records. The album was recorded and mixed by Greg Wilkinson at Earhammer Studios (Om, Graves At Sea, Vhöl) and features artwork by Stevie Floyd (Yob, Dark Castle). The band has shared the official music video for "Repent", directed by Daniel Menche, which you can watch below.

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Swedish heavy metallers Portrait have revealed another new song from their fourth full-length album, entitled Burn The World, due out on August 25th via Metal Blade Records. The band has already unveiled the new album's details as well as the title track and now the song "Martyrs" is available for you below.

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After already announcing a string of shows couple of weeks ago, reunited UK doom masters Warning now confirmed a headlining US tour, scheduled for this coming October. The band will be performing their masterpiece Watching From A Distance in its entirety. Furthermore, after this tour Warning will be also doing couple of festival shows in Europe - Damnation Festival (Leeds), - Hammer Of Doom Fest (Würzburg), Madrid Is The Dark Fest.

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Finnish atmospheric black metal act Kalmankantaja has announced the release of their new full-length Routamaa. While it will be released this fall via Wolfspell Records, until then you can stream below one of the new tracks, called "Kylmä Ikuinen". Check out the album's artwork, crafted by JDW, here as well. How about that 6-minute song?

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Altarage have recently shared one new song from their forthcoming musical offering, Endinghent. This tune is called "Spearheaderon" and the Spanish death metal outfit made a video for it. Just one year ago, the band released the album NIHL and on October 13th Season Of Mist will release the new one. Enjoy the music!

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Folk metal band Ensiferum is set to release their new album Two Paths via Metal Blade Records on September 15th. Gyula Havancsak, who made the cover art for 2015's One Man Army has done the same for this album as well. The first single off the album, "For Those About To Fight For Metal", can already be heard online. Satisfy your curiosity about the new sounds by listening to it below. How do you like this first song?

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Doom metallers Pagan Altar will release their long-awaited final album, The Room Of Shadows, on CD, cassette and vinyl through Temple Of Mystery Records on August 24th, 2017. The album will be available for pre-order on July 24th at this location. The cover artwork, painted by Adam Burke, can be seen below.

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Italian black/doom metallers Forgotten Tomb have finished recording their new album, We Owe You Nothing. It will include 6 songs for approximately 40 minutes of music and is due in fall 2017 on Agonia Records. The album recording sessions started in December 2016 with drums being tracked at Big Pine Creek studio in Italy, but were abruptly interrupted when singer/guitarist Ferdinando "Herr Morbid" M. was involved in a life-threatening car accident that left him unable to play for months. Recording sessions were resumed and completed in May 2017 at SPVN Studio in Italy, while mix and mastering were done in June 2017 at Planet-Z studio by Chris "Zeuss" Harris.

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