The title track of Serpents Unleashed, the new album from Ohio metallers Skeletonwitch, has been made available online and can now be streamed in the YouTube clip below. This is the second song the blackened thrash metal band releases from their new output and you can check out "Serpents Unleashed" right now.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Skeletonwitch

Hard rock/glam metal band Vixen is facing a very sad moment. Founding member and guitarist Jan Kuehnemund has passed away suddenly. She lost a battle with cancer.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Vixen

Norway's Triosphere are currently recording their new opus and follow-up to 2010's The Road Less Travelled. As of now, the drum recordings of Ørjan Aare Jørgensen are completed. The band started the third album recordings just earlier this month. All you have to do now is wait in anticipation of what's to come.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Triosphere

Silent Force are returning with a vengeance. Guitarist Alex Beyrodt and his band have been working very hard on new material in the last few months. Their new album which will be called Rising From Ashes is set for release on December 13th. This will be their first release in almost seven years since Walk The Earth. So, mark your calendars and get ready for some more progressive power metal.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Silent Force

After their debut album The Killer Angels released earlier this year, power metallers Civil War are already working on new songs for their next album. The Swedish band seems to be wasting no time and the creativity is flowing. Civil War will also be touring in Europe next February.

Read more ››

Source:	civilwar.se
Band profile:	Civil War

New York noise/industrial metallers Gnaw have shared online their full new album Horrible Chamber. The follow-up to their debut This Face promises to be a horrifying experience. Seventh Rule Recordings will release the seven-track effort on October 15th. You can start off your weekend by streaming the entire release at this location if you dare.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Gnaw

Epica present us today a clip from the forthcoming Retrospect DVD. This is the first full song taken from the release which is now available to watch. Enjoy the band performing "Unleashed" (from Design Your Universe) below. This show was recorded on their 10th anniversary where the band was accompanied by the seventy piece Extended Reményi Ede Chamber Orchestra and the Miskolc National Theatre Choir.

Read more ››

Source:	epica.nl
Band profile:	Epica

Iced Earth have decided to premiere today the title track off their new album Plagues Of Babylon. Are you curious about it? Watch the lyric video created for the song below. This video also gives you a sneak peak into some of the artwork that will be featured in the final version of the upcoming The Plagues EP vinyl. This first song is seven minutes long. Don't hesitate to check it out.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Iced Earth

Important information regarding the Northern Darkness Festival. The event, which was scheduled for the 8th of December, 2013 and featured bands like At The Gates, Decapitated, Napalm Death among others, has now been cancelled. Tha main reason lies in very low ticket sales.

Read more ››

Source:	northerndarkness.co.uk
Event:	Northern Darkness Festival 2013 [CANCELLED]

Today is the day. Death Angel have released their new album The Dream Calls For Blood today in Europe, and while it only drops on October 14th (UK), and October 15th (North America) through Nuclear Blast, you can stream the entire thing right now. Just click play on the Soundcloud widget below and enjoy it while you can. This is the thrash metallers' seventh studio album. How is their form?

Read more ››

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Death Angel

The Swedes Ghost B.C. are preparing the release of a covers EP called If You Have Ghost, which was produced by Dave Grohl, and will be available worldwide and in stores on November 19th, 2013 via Loma Vista Recordings. The title track "If You Have Ghosts" has already been released by the band for streaming and you can listen to it right here.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Ghost

Leisure time does not seem to exist for singer Doro Pesch as she is once again about to face an overwhelming schedule, which has her commute between two worlds: the music business and the movie industry. After vocal recordings in early October in Hamburg, Doro took off to the Swiss mountains this past week to finish working on the sequel of Anuk - Way Of The Warrior, where she is starring in front of director Luke Gasser's camera. Doro will be impersonating warrior Meha, who is fighting dark rivaling hordes with her mountain people in 2,500 BD.

Read more ››

Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Doro

Six more bands have been confirmed for the Maryland Deathfest XII, which promises to be a highlight next year. The new additions to an already strong line-up are My Dying Bride, playing an exclusive US appearance and the first US show since 1997, The Church Of Pungent Stench, also with an exclusive US appearance and playing an old school setlist of material from their first EP and first three albums, Hooded Menace, Ulcerate, Bölzer with an exclusive US appearance, and Windhand.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Event:	Maryland Deathfest XII

After three years, Living Sacrifice are back with a new album that will be titled Ghost Thief. Solid State Records will release the new effort on November 11th, so mark your calendars. There is still no new music to share at this point but you can view the eerie cover artwork below as well as the tracklist.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Living Sacrifice

After three years in the making, the wait will finally be over. The female fronted metal band from Finland Memoira has confirmed that their second album Memories, Tragedies, Masquerades, consisting of 11 songs, will be released on November 1st, 2013 independently. Check out the album artwork and tracklist below.

Read more ››

Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Memoira