Power metallers Helloween have premiered their brand new seven-minute single "Nabataea" at this location. You can now listen to the first taste off their upcoming opus Straight Out Of Hell. The single will be released on iTunes on December 18th via The End Records while the album will come out in Europe on January 18th and in North America on January 22nd, 2013.

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Heavy metallers Satan have signed a deal with Listenable Records. The band is currently in the studio putting the finishing touches to an album entirely of new material written over the last 18 months. The new album, to be titled Life Sentence, is scheduled for release in March/April 2013. This will mark the 30th anniversary of their greatly acclaimed debut Court In The Act.

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US metalcore act Emmure has announced The Mosh Lives Tour 2013 in Europe, scheduled for April/May 2013. Support on this extensive tour will come from several bands: Chelsea Grin, Obey The Brave, Attila and Buried In Verona.

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Event:	Emmure: The Mosh Lives European Tour 2013

2013 is shaping up to be another good year for progressive metal releases, in theory. Now Leprous is back in the studio to record their next album, which is set to be released sometime before the summer of 2013 via InsideOut. The follow-up to the brilliant Bilateral is in the works. You can watch the first studio report on the video below.

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The Contortionist have released a new music video for the song "Dreaming Schematics", taken from their latest and second offering Intrinsic, which was released under Season Of Mist earlier this year. You can now watch the video below. The band worked with the directing team KOTK Productions once again as in their previous video for "Causality".

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CM Kamp 1996 / Horion Jugend, the brand-new split between blackened sludge metallers Alkerdeel and A Den Of Robbers, can now be streamed in its entirety at this location. Enjoy!

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French experimental black metal band Spektr is set to release a new album entitled Cypher on February 5th in Europe and February 19th in North America through Agonia Records. This will be the successor to 2006's Near Death Experience.

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2012 has been quite a trying year for US metal band Lamb Of God. It also looks like the manslaughter case against the band's frontman, Randy Blythe, just won't go away. According to news from novinky.cz, Randy has officially been indicted for manslaughter in the Czech Republic. State Attorney's Office in Prague made the official indictment on November 30 which means there will likely be a full trial in the near future. According to novinky.cz, the court now has three months in which to fix the date for the trial or bring the case back for further investigation.

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Official press release statement:

Metal Blade Records is pleased to announce that Grammy Award nominated King Diamond has signed a new 3 album worldwide record deal with the label.

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Carcass bassist/vocalist Jeff Walker has confirmed to Decibel that the reported rumors about a new Carcass album are actually true. Matthias Voigt is indeed not playing drums on the new album but Daniel Wilding is. The follow-up to 1996's Swansong will be released in 2013 through a yet-to-be determined label.

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Prog masters Dream Theater have re-signed with Roadrunner Records. That is great, but the most important thing is that the band will start recording their next album soon as part of the new agreement with the label.

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Arsis have teamed up with Scion AV to give fans a treat. You will be able to download a free EP, titled Lepers Caress, tomorrow, December 4th. For now, you can listen to the new song "Six Coffins Wide" exclusively over here. Unwelcome, the follow-up to 2010's Starve For The Devil, is tentatively due out next year.

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Inborn Suffering, the French doom metal band, has decided to bring an end to their 10 year career which saw the release of two albums and one demo. The band's latest output Regression To Nothingness came out in July while their debut album Wordless Hope came out in 2006.

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Here it is, finally, a new song from Cult Of Luna. "I: The Weapon", the new single from the band's upcoming sixth full-length album Vertikal, is available for streaming now through the player below. Don't forget the album will be released via Indie Recordings in Europe on January 25th and Density Records in North America on January 29th, 2013.

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Canadian heavy metal legends Anvil have entered the studio to record the group's fifteenth album entitled Hope In Hell with producer Bob Marlette in NRG Studios - North Hollywood, California. The End Records (North America) and SPV (Europe) will release the new offering in the spring/summer 2013 with a world tour to follow.

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