Bassist Robin Everhart has left the US blues rockers Rival Sons, after being part of the band for the last eight years. As the both sides have stated, it's an amicable split without any hard feelings. Robin has participated on three full length studio albums, last one - Head Down, released back in September, 2012.

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Solid Vision, an Italian progressive metal band that also boasts a collaboration with Charlie Dominici, ex-vocalist of Dream Theater, are splitting up with their long time singer, Samuele Pintus. The band, which lives in Sardinia, is currently looking for a singer and has started the auditions. Essential requirements are: fluency in English with good pronunciation, ability in clean singing is requested as much as ability at executing screaming and growling.

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The mighty Florida death metal behemoths Obituary are going back to the studio to record a brand new album, and they need your help. You can watch the band's Kickstarter video here and see all the perks available. The band says you can expect real, raw and honest Obituary music on the successor to Darkest Day.

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Finnish power metal group Thunderstone have announced the return of vocalist Pasi Rantanen who left the band in 2007. He will replace Rick Altzi who now has his plate full at Masterplan.

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Scar The Martyr's "Blood Host," the first song to debut from their self-titled debut album due out on October 1st, is streaming now at this location. The band features Joey Jordison (from Slipknot) on drums, Kris Norris (Darkest Hour) and Jed Simon (Strapping Young Lad) on guitars, Kyle Konkiel on bass, and Henry Derek on vocals. Check out how they gel together.

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Last year Narrow House released their initial offering, A Key To Panngrieb, a strong enough release to make the cut as a nominee in the extreme doom field. The band are hard at work in the studio composing the follow up, Thanathonaut. Yegor "Bewitched" Ostapenko recently emailed yours truly as the band is posting tidbits of the recording process up on youtube.

Chapter I: Prologue

Chapter II: The Backbone Of Sound

The band is shifting from Funeral Doom into Tradition (and Stoner) Doom. So if it's the kind of thing that floats your boat, check 'em out

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In a recent update on Facebook, Jan Axel "Hellhammer" Blomberg, drummer of Norwegian black metal band Mayhem, announced the band's currently in Mølla Sound Studio recording the follow-up to 2007's Ordo Ad Chao.

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Great news for black metal fans because legendary band Emperor will reform and headline Wacken Open Air 2014 for the 25th anniversary of the fest. The news was announced earlier today at Wacken's press conference which was attended by Ihsahn (Vegard Sverre Tveitan) and Samoth (Tomas Haugen).

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Underground netzine CVLT Nation are happy to announce the streaming of a brand-new track from US doomster Windhand. The track comes off of the band's upcoming album Soma, due out via Relapse Records on September 17th. Be joyful to the soul-crushing tunes of "Woodbine" below.

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Finnish old school assault Corpsessed have entered the studio to record their yet untitled debut full-length album. So far the band's recorded drums and are currently working on the guitars. The album follows up their previous EP efforts, The Dagger & The Chalice and Corpsessed.

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German power metal force Wizard has today unveiled a complete tracklist of their new upcoming album Trail Of Death, which will see the light on September 27th, 2013 via Massacre Records. This will be the band's 10th jubilee full length studio album and will be available as CD, limited edition LP and digital download.

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After announcing headlining North American tour a couple of weeks ago, Americans Between The Buried And Me are pleased to announce that they will performing through Australia this coming November. Main support on the road will come from US progressive deathcore band The Contortionist. On this tour Between The Buried And Me will be playing their latest album, The Parallax II: Future Sequence, in it's entirety. Check out all the confirmed dates below the official tour flyer.

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Event:	Between The Buried And Me: Australian Tour 2013

Representatives of melodic death metal from Sweden The Unguided are pleased to announce that they have recently inked deal with well-known Austrian record label Napalm Records. Napalm will release the band's highly anticipated "TBA" successor album to Hell Frost, which was released back in November, 2011. Further information and release dates about the new album will be announced in near future.

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The first cut is the cheapest, Carcass say. The extreme metal legends made a new announcement that they will embark on a select amount of intimate headlining North American shows this September in support of their sixth full-length release Surgical Steel and possibly the most awaited new album this year alongside Black Sabbath's new release. Check out the dates for the Colonial Irrigation below and see if you'll get lucky.

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Event:	Carcass: Colonial Irrigation Tour 2013

Philadelphia's post-metallers Rosetta have recently revealed the cover artwork for their upcoming album The Anaesthete made by Jordan Butcher. You can see it below. The digital pay-what-you-wish release will start next Wednesday at midnight while physical copies will be available sometime in the Fall via Debemur Morti in Europe and Monolith in Australia.

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