Diamond Plate have shared their upcoming new album's opening track "Walking Backwards". As the band says, it must be played loud as hell! So, you go ahead and do that through the player below.

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UK death metal alchemists Grave Miasma have completed work on their debut full-length album which they've christened Odori Sepulcrorum following up their Exalted Emanation debut EP and their Realm Of Evoked Doom compilation EP respectively. Have a first taste of the album by listening to "Ovation To A Thousand Lost Reveries" below.

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Trivium feel like sharing today and the first song from their upcoming sixth studio album is currently available for streaming and free download. You can now listen to the new tune "Brave This Storm" on the Soundcloud player below and download the track at this location. This is your first chance to listen to something from the new album Vengeance Falls. Enjoy it!

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Finnish black metal experimentalists Oranssi Pazuzu have broken the silence and just announced their new album to be released via Svart Records and 20 Buck Spin. The new offering is called Valonielu and comes two years after their latest release. What do you expect from the successor to Kosmonument? Oranssi Pazuzu's third album is completed.

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Among those who still hold faith in melodeath, Be'lakor's upcoming opus is certainly on their wishlist. The Australian band has been throwing hints our way on their Facebook page. This time around, the band seems inclined to take into account their fans' (constructive) opinions. Whether or not they actually influence the album will only be made apparent after our first glimpse of the material but Be'lakor's album number four is on its way.

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Nuclear Blast has snatched yet another new band. After Ashes Of Ares, now it is time for Avatarium, the new band of Candlemass bassist Leif Edling. The band will release their first sonic sign of life on September 20th, 2013 in the form of 12" mini LP called Moonhorse featuring the title track, the B-side "Boneflower" as well as an acoustic cover version of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs".

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Long-running Bay Area thrash metal lords Testament are set to take a look at their long career through a pair of back catalogue-exploring vinyl reissues due out on Prosthetic Records. The label will deliver vinyl pressings of the band's 2001 anthology First Strike Still Deadly and an expanded edition of the group's Live At Eindhoven '87 on September 24th.

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Mike Portnoy might not be in Dream Theater anymore but you can prepare for another dream prog package folks because Progressive Nation is hitting the high seas in 2014 for its inaugural sailing from February 18th - 22nd 2014 on the luxurious Norwegian Pearl heading from Miami to Great Stirrup Cay and Freeport, Bahamas.

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The brand new self-tilted album from US technical death/thrash metallers Revocation can now be streamed in its entirety over at this location. Revocation is the band's fifth full-length, which is set to be officially released on August 6th in North America, August 2nd in Germany/Benelux and August 5th in the UK and rest of the world via Relapse Records but you can enjoy the album beforehand!

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One-man symphonic black metal band Appalachian Winter has new music for us to hear. You can now stream the new song "The Cycle Of Sea And Mountain" over here which is set to appear on their new sixth full length album to be released next year called The Epochs That Built The Mountains.

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Axel Rudi Pell have announced tour dates for the first and second leg of their upcoming 2014 headlining tour well ahead of time. More dates and festival appearances will be announced soon, but you can confirm these below. The new album drum recordings are also finished and the band's new opus Into The Storm will be released on January 17th, 2014 in Germany, January 20th in Europe and end of January in the USA/Canada through SPV/Steamhammer.

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It's a time of changes for Belgian hard rockers Arrow Haze. The line-up that recorded their debut album, the promising Music Factory, is rapidly dismantling. After famous YouTuber Matt Rach left on June 22nd and Delain member Timo Somers took his place, today also the bass changes owner: Stef Exelmans is gone, and gets replaced by experienced Barend Courbois (who toured with Blind Guardian).

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Last year, Chicago death metallers Broken Hope signed with Century Media for the release of their comeback album, also their sixth album, Omen Of Disease to come out on September 30th. The band has now unveiled its cover artwork. 14 years later, there will be a new Broken Hope album and you can see its front painting right now created by world-renowned horror artist, Wes Benscoter (Slayer, Hypocrisy, Autopsy, Kreator, etc).

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Lead guitarist Martin Arendal has left the progressive power metal band Manticora due to "personal reasons". For now, the band will continue focusing on writing new material as a four piece and will search for a new guitarist later.

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Warbringer fanatics eagerly awaiting new details about their upcoming new album, there's good news for you. Well, today you find out its title. Their fourth album will be called IV: Empires Collapse. The thrashers have been locked away in The Omen Room studio with producer Steve Evetts (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Sepultura, Symphony X) for the past few months and are about to complete their next opus.

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