After you enjoyed this year's Bloodstock festival via livestreaming, Bloodstock organizers have announced that revered black metal innovators Emperor are confirmed as one of the headline acts for next year's festival, which is due to take place from 7th-10th August 2014. Emperor will also play at Wacken Open Air next year, already sold out.

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Event:	Bloodstock Open Air 2014

Following a couple of shows in India this October and December (dates below), Dutch Textures will start finishing their upcoming new album, to be expected sometime in 2014. The follow-up to 2011 Dualism will be once again released by Nuclear Blast Records.

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Polish heavy metal veterans Turbo are plannig to release their new studio album this Autumn. As the band members announced, we can expect solid heavy metal without any unnecessary intricacies. It will be the band's first album since their 2009 release Strażnik Światł. The release date of the as yet untitled album is scheduled for November. Turbo will enter the recording studio on September 15th at the latest.

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British hard rockers Voodoo Six, who have recently supported Iron Maiden on their European tour, revealed the new official video for their second single "Your Way". The song is taken from the band's latest new album Songs To Invade Countries To, out from May 27th, 2013. In other news, Voodoo Six have also announced a co-headlining UK tour with Sacred Mother Tongue. Check out the video and the dates below.

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Chicago instrumental avantgarde/post-rock band Russian Circles unveiled to us a couple of fresh new details about their upcoming fifth full-length album. First of all, the title of this album will be Memorial, and is set to be released on October 29th, 2013 via Sargent House. The cover artwork, which can be seen below, was done by photographer Ryan Russell. And that's not all of course. The band is also streaming a brand new track, "Deficit", which can be heard through the SoundCloud widget below the artwork.

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Belgium thrashers Channel Zero have yesterday revealed some tragic news. Their long time drummer Phil Baheux has unexpectedly passed away at the age of 45. You can read the band's short statement below.

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Classic California thrashers Dark Angel will reunite and headline the Keep It True XVII festival, set to take place from April 25-26th, 2014 at Tauberfrankenhalle in Lauda-Königshofen, Germany. The group will play their very first show with original singer Don Doty and also in the line up are Eric Meyer (guitar), Mike Gonzalez (bass) and Justin Zych (guitar). The drummer is not confirmed yet, but will be announced soon. It is said to have played an important role in the history of Dark Angel like maybe Gene Hoglan. You can expect to hear songs from Darkness Descends.

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Megadeth recorded a five-song acoustic set on Thursday, August 8th for SiriusXM Radio in New York City. The band played "Symphony Of Destruction", "She-Wolf", "Kingmaker", "Foreclosure Of A Dream" and "Countdown To Extinction" for SiriusXM's rock channels Liquid Metal, Octane and Ozzy's Boneyard. SiriusXM director of programming and On-Air host, Jose Mangin interviewed Megadeth for Liquid Metal and recorded a Liquid Metal takeover.

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"Scornstar", the new official music video from US melodic/tech death metal band Arsis, is now available for viewing below through the YouTube player. The song for this video appears on the band's latest release Unwelcome, released on April 30th through Nuclear Blast Records. The video clip was directed under the supervision of Scott Hansen.

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Following the release of their latest album The Fathomless Mastery and the departure of fellow vocalist Mikael Åkerfeldt, Bloodbath fans have patiently awaited announcement of the new material along with the details of the mystery vocalist who will be making his mark on the band's timeline. While the latter information isn't yet available, the band has recently stated that they will begin recording the upcoming new album in January, 2014.

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As previously reported here, German black metallers King Fear are preparing the release of their debut album Frostbite that will be out on September 27th via Quality Steel Records. Now the group has recently revealed the album artwork and tracklist. Check them out below. Hiko (Fear Factory, Debauchery, SOiL) created the cover art and layout.

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Who wants to hear a new Korn song? Well, now the band has released officially for streaming the new single "Never Never" from the upcoming studio album The Paradigm Shift. You can judge the new music on their Facebook page (at the price of one "Like"). It's the first taste of new music since The Path Of Totality.

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German melodic metallers Arven premiere their very first official music video featuring the song "Believe" from their upcoming sophmore album Black Is The Colour, which will be released on August 23rd via Massacre Records. You can check out the videoclip and other album details below.

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NY death metal legends Skinless have reformed after a two-year hiatus with the old school lineup from the Progression Towards Evil and Foreshadowing Our Demise albums.

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Skid Row have revealed a brand new official lyric video for the track ''This Is Killing Me'', which comes of their latest new EP, United World Rebellion - Chapter One, released on April 16th through SPV Records. In other news, the band has also announced a co-headlining European tour with Ugly Kid Joe. The tour will go through this October/November. Check out the list of confirmed dates below.

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