U.K. doom metal cult act Cathedral have released its first new recorded material in three years exclusively via Decibel magazine's subscriber-only Decibel Flexi Series. The song "Vengeance Of The Blind Dead" can be heard in the flexi included in this month's issue, now available in newsstands. The track is also streaming on Decibel's Soundcloud page over here.

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Some people might have been expecting it after he joined Queensrÿche, the one where Geoff Tate is no longer part of the picture, but now Todd La Torre has left Crimson Glory after joining the band in 2010. Florida-based progressive metal band Crimson Glory will have to find a replacement.

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Australia's hard rock outfit Airbourne has a new album coming up, titled Black Dog Barking, which shall be released via Roadrunner Records on May 21st. Produced by award winning producer Brian Howes, this is Airbourne's third album and the follow up to No Guts. No Glory., which was released back in 2010.

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Black metallers Crest Of Darkness, who will release their upcoming new offering In The Presence Of Death on February 25th through My Kingdom Music, have debuted a brand new track, namely "From The Dead", and you can now enjoy it on the player below.

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Candlelight Records has announced the signing of Pestilence to a worldwide deal. The celebrated eastern Netherlands-based technical death metal band is currently preparing to enter the studio to begin work on its seventh album, titled Obsideo. The album wil be produced by the band's vocalist/guitarist Patrick Mameli and will feature ten new songs, including "Necromorph", "Saturation", "Soulrot", "Laniatus" and "Superconcious".

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Romania's folk black metal band Negură Bunget has checked in with the announcement about parting ways with keyboardist Inia "Neith" Dinia and vocalist Stefan "Chakravartin" Zaharescu. Inia has been part of the band for the last 6 years, while Stefan has been in the band for only a year.

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Tool have announced an Australian arena tour which will kick off in Melbourne on April 27th at Rod Laver Arena. Australians are set to see a lot of Tool frontman Maynard James Keenan in 2013 with his other 2 bands A Perfect Circle and Puscifer hitting out shores later this month for Soundwave and a tour respectively.

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Dutch symphonic black metallers Carach Angren have revealed a new video clip for the song "The Funerary Dirge Of A Violionist", taken from their latest album Where The Corpses Sink Forever, which was released in May 18th, 2012 under Season Of Mist. You can now watch below the brand new video from the band, directed and produced by B.J. Harring.

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Italian black/doom metallers Forgotten Tomb will embark on a new European tour this spring, supporting their latest album ...And Don't Deliver Us From Evil out on Agonia Records since last October. The band will also perform an exclusive set during very few selected shows, playing in its entirety their classic record Springtime Depression to celebrate the 10th year anniversary of the album release. Forgotten Tomb will be supported by Swedish doomsters Isole and epic metallers Ereb Altor.

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In celebration of its release via Willowtip Records, Lambgoat is currently streaming Passages Into Deformity from German brutal death metal tyrants Defeated Sanity in its entirety. You can check out the entire album right here.

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Don't get your hopes too high, The Devil's Blood has indeed disbanded but the band is planning to release a new album and acoustic EP tentatively at the end of April and also a future DVD and live recordings. These were projects the band was working on and plans to make available as they are without altering it.

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Jordanian melodic death doom metallers Chalice Of Doom have released the announcement that they have signed a record deal with Spanish death doom label Memento Mori, which will release the band's 2nd full-length album.

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Spanish extreme metallers Avulsed are ready to hit the studios next week to record their 6th full-length album entitled Ritual Zombi, which will be a conceptual work dealing with zombies. The album will contain 9 new songs plus a cover song of Death's "Zombie Ritual", as a tribute to the band that started it all for the real death metal sound. There will be also three instrumental songs (intro, interlude & outro), and this will be the first recording featuring new drummer Osckar Bravo.

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If you remember well, Portugal's own Heavenwood released their last album Abyss Masterpiece in 2011, and their next masterpiece The Tarot Of The Bohemians - Part. 1 is planned to be released this year. To spike up the interest in the new studio album, the gothic metal band is currently streaming in its entirety the new pre-production track called "Strength" and you can listen to it on the video below.

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"The Unknowing", the brand new video from Finnish melodic death metallers Omnium Gatherum, is now available for your eyes and ears below. The track comes off the band's new upcoming album Beyond, which will be released on February 25th in Europe and March 5th in North America via Lifeforce Records. The album was recorded by Teemu Aalto and mixed and mastered once again by Dan Swanö.

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