The Daily Mail is reporting that former Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore has sued two management companies, HEC Enterprises and Deep Purple (Overseas), claiming that he got underpaid in recent years for co-writing such songs as "Smoke On The Water", "Black Night" and "Highway Star" and that he is owed £750,000.

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Remember a little landmark album called Unquestionable Presence? If you are familiar with Atheist, you should. As of now, you can check out rare footage of the last-ever live performance of the classic Atheist line-up, and the last show bassist Roger Patterson ever played. It was filmed at The Waters Club in San Pedro, CA on the Candlemass/Atheist U.S. tour in February 1991. This footage is included on the DVD portion of the newly-announced CD/DVD deluxe reissue of Atheist's classic album Unquestionable Presence, coming July 24th via Season Of Mist.

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Death Angel have released online the live song "Execution Don't Save Me". The track will appear on their upcoming The Bay Calls For Blood - Live In San Francisco live album, which will also be included with the release of their new Thrashumentary DVD. Both will be out really soon on July 17th (Europe) and July 24th (US) via Nuclear Blast. You can hear the track on the YouTube video here.

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After more than a year of working on a new album, folk metallers Bucovina from Romania are finally going to release their new, yet untitled, opus and they will celebrate that with a release concert in Bucharest. The concert will be organised by Metalhead Romania and will be held on the 5th of December in Club Colectiv.

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Praying Mantis, the heavy metal veteran band, is preparing the release of new material. Their brand new record is called Legacy and drops on the 21st of August 2015 via Frontiers Music Srl. Now you can have a taste of that new material with the new tune "Fight For Your Honour" below. Enjoy the metal!

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A third video of a song from Marilyn Manson's latest album, The Pale Emperor, has made its way now online. The third track to get the video treatment was "Third Day Of A Seven Day Binge" and you can enjoy it below, if you dare to binge. Marilyn Manson has already started his End Times Tour with The Smashing Pumpkins and you can catch them live. In Europe, there are already a few shows booked for November 2015.

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Amberian Dawn's new studio album already has a title and a release date set. Recently, the symphonic metal group announced the first details of their next studio album which will be released worldwide on October 23rd via Napalm Records and will be titled Innuendo. Stay tuned for more info soon.

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British epic power metallers DragonForce have released their debut DVD, In The Line Of Fire... Larger Than Live, on July 10th in North America via Metal Blade and in Europe via earMusic. You can catch a glimpse of what's in store with this live performance of "Black Winter Night" (from the album Valley Of The Damned). If you like it, you can always grab it in a store near you.

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Metalcore group Zao have been quite silent since 2009's Awake?, but now the band has released a 7" and digital single comprised of two songs, "Xenophobe" and "Fear Itself". Both songs can be streamed here via their Bandcamp. Check it out!

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After previously announcing that they are working on a new studio album, metalcore outfit Norma Jean are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their 2005 album O God, The Aftermath by embarking on a North American tour this autumn, during which they will perform the album in its entirety. It is taking place in September/October 2015.

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As they prepare to Rebel by releasing their new album, Lynch Mob have shared new music for the weekend. Below you can enjoy "War" that will appear on the impending album out on August 21st via Frontiers Music Srl. As a bonus, check out "Automatic Fix" as well, which was released earlier.

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Funeral doom metal one-man band Ego Depths will release its fourth full-length album this Fall, 2015. Titled Dyrtangle, it is going to be unleashed by Dusktone Label (Koldtunes, Italy), if everything goes according to plan. The album will feature (for the first time in Ego Depths history) a drummer and 5 ethnic instruments, recorded live. For now, you can take a look at the album cover.

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Swedish death metallers Wombbath are releasing their first album in more than 20 years. The album will be called Downfall Rising and will be released on August 21st via Dark Descent Records/Pulverized Records. Now we have our second taste of things to come through "Fall Of The Weak" which can be listened to at this location. Alternatively, you can enjoy it here.

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Besides his range defying falsettos, vocalist King Diamond is famous for his trademark occult black and white makeup with which he performs. A makeup that also got him into legal trouble once. However, this Wednesday, fans got to see a quite different King Diamond on stage. The concert took place on the 8th of July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin at The Rave.

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Swedish old school death metallers Centinex have released a new video for the track "Eye Sockets Empty" included on their latest come-back album Redeeming Filth which was released last year via Agonia Records. The video features footage of the band performing live. It was filmed by Freddy Larsson. Watch it below.

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