Nightwish start their week by revealing all about their new album. Firstly, it will be called Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Their long-awaited new album comes out on March 27th (Europe), March 30th (UK) and March 31st (US) via Nuclear Blast Records. The detailed cover artwork was created by longtime collaborator Toxic Angel and the album features eleven new songs. Feast your eyes on the cover below.

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Danish folk metallers Svartsot have announced their new album title and release dates. Their fourth album is being released in cooperation between Svartsot's newly established company, Of Wood And Iron Productions, and the Hungarian label Nail Records, the home to Dalriada. It drops on February 20th in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and three days later in the rest of Europe. A taster from Vældet can be heard in the form of the song "Kilden - I Marker og I Lunde" below.

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Here is some Gnaw Their Tongues music for you today. The experimental one-man band has premiered a song from the upcoming release Collected Atrocities 2005-2008 which is coming on February 3rd, 2015 through Crucial Blast. Furthermore, you can take a look at the "cutting edge" cover artwork as well as the tracklist below. The previously unreleased track "Slaves" is available for your listening pleasure over here. What are you waiting for?

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The 2015 Deathwish Fest Europe has been announced! This is a select group of shows featuring Converge, Trap Them, Harm's Way, and Young And In The Way. These shows start at Temples Festival 2015 alongside a multitude of bands, then run for a week in select cities. Converge alone then heads to Forta Rock Festival in The Netherlands to play alongside Slipknot, Lamb Of God, Exodus, Clutch, Red Fang, and many more.

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The Parisian quintet Cowards will release their new album Rise To Infamy next year. However, you can already listen to it in full now here. Their second full-length is available for pre-order, full streaming and free download. As for the release, it is set for February 9th via Throatruiner Ṙecords and Ruins Records. Enjoy!

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Chicago based instrumental post-metal act Pelican present a brand new music video "Deny The Absolute", now available for viewing through the YouTube player below. The video was filmed during Pelican's West Coast US tour in June, 2014. The track for this video is taken from their latest full length, Forever Becoming, released back in October, 2013 via Southern Lord Records.

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1349 are bringing their black metal to the masses in the U.S. on their Chaos Raids USA 2015. Furthermore, they are taking with them Origin, Abysmal Dawn and Wolvhammer on this trek. 1349 will be presenting their new album Massive Cauldron Of Chaos which was released this year.

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Frontiers Music Srl will release Uriah Heep's newest live album, entitled Live At Koko, London 2014, on February 20th in Europe and February 24th in North America. Below you can get a taste of what you will find by watching the band perform the track "Gypsy". Enjoy!

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A few months ago, guitarist/vocalist Aaron Turner announced his new project Sumac with drummer Nick Yacyshyn (Baptists). They recorded their debut effort with help from bassist Brian Cook (Russian Circles). Now they are streaming one of their tracks named "Thorn In The Lion's Paw" from the album The Deal and they also revealed the album cover art. Check out the music and everything else below.

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American thrashers Toxik have announced the departure of their drummer Jason Bittner. He just joined fellow Americans Flotsam & Jetsam. Bittner joins the veteran Arizona metallers as the replacement for Kelly Smith, who recently left the band to focus on family matters.

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In The Company Of Serpents are streaming online their newest EP Merging In Light. Produced, mixed and mastered by Dave Otero (Cephalic Carnage, Catheter, Nightbringer, Primitive Man etc.) at Flatline Audio in Denver, Colorado, Merging In Light spews forth over twenty minutes of new material. The Denver doom duo releases the EP today and you can hear the whole thing at Bandcamp. Dig in!

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The official lyric video for "Shadowmaker", the title track of the upcoming album from Finnish cello masters Apocalyptica, has been unveiled and can now be seen below. The group's new album will be released in April 2015 via Eleven Seven Music Group in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and South East Asia. For the upcoming album, the band worked with Franky Perez as exclusive singer on the tracks. You can hear him on "Shadowmaker". Check it out!

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German hard rock veterans Scorpions had announced this year that they would release a new album and here it is. Titled Return To Forever, the record is to be released on February 20th, 2015. Furthermore, if you pre-order the album now on iTunes or the band's webstore, you'll receive the brand new single "We Built This House". The band recorded 19 songs altogether. Twelve of which are on the album, sixteen on the Deluxe Edition.

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The Norwegian progsters Leprous are back in the studio working on the follow-up album to 2013's acclaimed latest release Coal. Even though the new opus is still untitled, it is expected for a May 2015 release via InsideOutMusic. Good news all around! As usual, the band will change things up a bit and not make the same album twice.

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Japanese death metallers Defiled will be descending upon South Asia this January for a string of shows across the Indian subcontinent. Starting on January 8th in Pokhara, Nepal, The Elite Of Steel Tour 2015 will include a series of headlining performances at festivals like Nepal Deathfest in Kathmandu, and the inaugural edition of Kolkata Deathfest.

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