Napalm Death have just revealed the second track from their upcoming release, their 15th studio album Apex Predator - Easy Meat due out on January 26th, 2015 in Europe and January 27th in North America via Century Media Records. The UK grindcore pioneers give you an opportunity to check out the song "How The Years Condemn" now. It's almost 3-minutes of brutality available through Soundcloud below.

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Bangalore, India-based sludge/heavy rock band Shepherd is out to make sure 2015 is their year. After two years of writing, recording and several gigs at clubs and festivals in Bangalore, the band is ready with their mammoth debut album, aptly titled Stereolithic Riffalocalypse, slated for release on the 7th of March 2015. The album will be available for pre-order on the 1st of February 2015. To kick things off, they're giving fans a taste of the album by streaming the song "Bog Slime" here along with the tracklist and album art.

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Now that their new album is mere days away from its official release, Sylosis have made the entire release Dormant Heart available for streaming online. You can satisfy your curiosity about the band's new album by listening to it over here in full. Don't forget to tell us what you think about it. Enjoy!

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Singer James LaBrie of progressive metal giants Dream Theater has recently revealed to Simcoe.com that the band will enter the studio in February to create the follow-up to 2013's Dream Theater album which he said he expects to be released next fall. So, the proggers will soon begin work on their next album which will be their 13th already. Are you excited to see what the band comes up with next?

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Swedish power metal heroes Sabaton have just announced a new and very special kind of festival. There is the Sabaton Open Air/Rockstad:Falun festival in their hometown Falun, the Sabaton Cruise on the Baltic Sea and now there is also Sabaton Open Air/Noch ein Bier Fest in Germany! For a long time, Sabaton have had plans to do a special and unique event in Germany and that will become reality now on July 25th with several special guests.

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After some teasing, Polish death metal machine Hate have finally revealed the first song off their new opus. The official video for the song "Valley Of Darkness" from their upcoming studio album Crusade:Zero was filmed, edited and produced by Redpig Production in Krakow, Poland in November/December 2014. Today, you can watch it here. Did you enjoy it?

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Here's some thrash metal to start off your day. Angelus Apatrida has debuted a lyric video for the track "Architects", which can be enjoyed fully below. This is your chance to listen to a track from their new opus Hidden Evolution before the album is released later this month. Don't miss it!

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Italian proggers Kingcrow are releasing a new album. Two years after they released the interesting In Crescendo record, this upcoming spring they will be offering us Eidos, which is the title of the upcoming album. It will be released via Sensory Records. The album was recorded at Sound Under Pressure in Rome, produced by Diego Cafolla and Thundra and mixed by Giampiero Ulacco. You can expect around 62 minutes of new material. Hear a taste of it below.

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The sludge metallers in The Body and Thou recently announced their creation of You, Whom I Have Always Hated, due out January 27th through Thrill Jockey. The bands have now given us the chance to listen to their version of "Terrible Lie", originally by the industrial giant Nine Inch Nails, for your listening (dis)pleasure. Pre-order the collaboration here and listen to the filth-drenched cover below!

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Cattle Decapitation's show last night didn't go according to plan. NBCLA reports that a man was knocked out by an angry crowd after allegedly slashing a person at a show at La Habra 300 Bowl in California. Reports indicate that a man was unhappy after being pushed around in the pit, and then took out a knife and stabbed another person on the neck. Other attendees quickly sprung into action and collectively attacked the knife-wielding man and knocked him unconscious. Meanwhile, the band has also released a statement about the incident.

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German power metallers Powerwolf have been holed up in the studio to record the upcoming 6th studio album, and follow up to 2013's Preachers Of The Night, expected to be released in the summer of 2015. More details will be known in the following weeks.

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German metal act Alpha Tiger released a new music video for the new track "We Won't Take It Anymore". The song appears on the band's upcoming new release iDentity, which is set for release via SPV/Steamhammer Records on January 14th (Scandinavia), January 16th (Germany), January 19th (Europe) and January 20th (USA). The video clip is available for streaming through the YouTube player below.

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Do you want to hear another song from Marilyn Manson's new album? Well, here it is. This time, you get to hear the happy tune "Cupid Carries A Gun". The digital single is available to purchase on iTunes and Amazon while the album The Pale Emperor will be available in stores on January 20th on Cooking Vinyl. The wait is almost over.

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The progressive outfit Neal Morse has shared the first song off of The Grand Experiment. You can now watch the official video for the album's catchy title track below and enjoy the music! The Grand Experiment is coming out on the 16th of February 2015 via InsideOut Music. Do you like what you hear?

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Guitar maestro Uli Jon Roth is set to release a double-disc collection of 19 re-imagined Scorpions classics called Scorpions Revisited via UDR. Pre-orders for the album will be available soon. Uli Jon Roth was a member of Scorpions and in 2013, he found himself intrigued by the memory of those early days which began 40 years ago, and specifically by the music he helped write, perform and occasionally sing on the albums Fly To The Rainbow, In Trance, Virgin Killer and Taken By Force. It lead to Roth deciding to spend a year re-visiting, exploring, performing and re-recording his favorite Scorpions songs.

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