Sad news for Ulver fans from North America, as well as for the band itself, as they decided to cancel the planned tour when forced to face the fact that it would have probably wound up as a financial disaster. The band goes into detail in the following message, posted on their Facebook page:

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Norwegian black metal legends, Mayhem, have signed to Century Media Records and are ready to deliver their 6th offering through the label. Not much has been revealed about the album, other than that it will be released this year on the 25th of October. Afterwards they will embark on an European headlining tour with Gaahls Wyrd and GosT as support.

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Romanian funeral doom outfit, Descend Into Despair have just announced the cover art, the name and the concept for their upcoming record, yet no tracklist and release date have yet been announced.

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It's been a while since Romanian post-rockers Valerinne have teased their upcoming album, Desire, which was initially meant to be released in 2018. Now we know that it will be released on the 22nd of May.

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Romanian black metal band Ordinul Negru have released a new live video for one of their tracks from their previous record, 2018's Faustian Nights. The track is the album's title track and its video was filmed at Reflektor Venue Timisoara during their performance on 19th of January 2019. You can watch the video below.

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Romanian band Dirty Shirt are soon to release their upcoming album, Letchology, coming on the 8th of March. Now we get a taste of new music with the lyric video for the single "Put It On"

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French instrumental sludge outfit The Lumberjack Feedback have announced their sophomore record and follow-up to their 2016 debut, Blackened Visions. The new album will be called Mere Mortals and it will be released worldwide on the 26th of April through Deadlight Entertainment. They're also streaming the first song from the record.

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Norwegian prog metallers Leprous have teased the video for their cover of Massive Attack's "Angel" for a while, but today, the 25th of January, is the release day and they rightfully delivered.

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British black metal project and summer vacation photo enthusiast Sacred Son have revealed that they are soon to start recording their follow-up full length to their self-titled record from 2017. The planned follow-up will be called Arthurian Catacombs and will be released sometime during 2019's summer. The band also teased that they will enter the studio in greater number than before.

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We now know that a new album from cult band Have A Nice Life will be released in 2019. Don't get too excited yet, as we know nothing else about the upcoming record.

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Icelandic atmospheric rock band Katla. have initially had no plans to perform live, but it seems that's not the case anymore. The band has signed to Doomstar Bookings for upcoming live appearances and their live lineup will be completed by Hörður Ólafsson on bass and Ingvar Sæmundsson on guitar, both ex-members of Momentum.

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Krzysztof "Derph" Drabikowski has posted the following video on YouTube, detailing his and Batushka's situation:

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Some less fun drama has come from Ævangelist's camp as Reuben "Matron Thorn" Jordan has been accused of sexual assault by a fan of the band, with Valerie "Ascaris" Dorr posting the following message on the band's Facebook page: "Ævangelist supports Elsie [the fan]. Our future is unclear as a result, but Ævangelist will be one or the other of us or neither."

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A few days ago, Metal Blast published an article explaining how their photographer, J Salmeron, has been blacklisted from photographing Arch Enemy after a copyright dispute over the supposed commercial use of one of his photos without permission, of the band's singer, Alissa White-Gluz, by a clothing company, Thunderball Clothing, which made a piece of clothing that Alissa was wearing in said photo. The photographer claimed that the fee usually associated with the use of his photo would be ?500, but would be willing to let them continue using it if they donated ?100 to a certain cancer charity. The band and the company removed the photo and blacklisted the photographer. Now both the company and Alissa have released statements regarding the dispute.

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Taiwanese metal band Chthonic were to perform at On The Pulse Of Music Festival in Hong Kong but had to cancel their appearance due to frontman Freddy Lim's visa being denied. The reason, apparently, is because the singer didn't "possess a special skill, knowledge or experience of value". More can be read below.

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