Italian folk metallers Krampus have recently released the first video off their upcoming debut album Survival Of The Fittest. The song "Kronos' Heritage" was the chosen one and you can watch the video below. Survival Of The Fittest will see the light of day on August 24th through NoiseArt Records. More album details, including cover and tracklist, can be found here.

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What's with the sudden trend of bands calling it a day? Now it's Obsidian's turn. The Dutch progressive death metallers announced today that the band is no more, mostly due to lack of energy and creative inspiration. The band released two albums: Emerging (2007) and Point Of Infinity (2010).

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NoiseArt Records and Rock The Nation are proud to announce the signing of Hungarian pagan black metal horde Bornholm. They offer an extremely cold, evil version of black metal which has been made even richer by sickening, epic and mind-blowingly aggressive elements. With their incredible, fantastic visual components such as front cover, booklet artwork as well as the official pictures, Bornholm are way beyond the generic crowd and look down on them from a "throne of crows". The beast that is Inexorable Defiance will be unleashed early 2013, an extended European tour is in the making.

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Finnish singer Tarja has released a live video for the previously unreleased song "Into The Sun", taken from her upcoming first-ever solo live DVD/CD titled Act I. The single is already available on iTunes. Act I will hit stores in Europe on August 24th and in North America on September 4th via earMUSIC featuring performances in Argentina. More details about this release were previously reported here.

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Good news for those who were expecting to hear something new from Ex Deo. The Canadian melodic death metallers have released a new video for the song "I, Caligvla", taken from their forthcoming opus Caligvla. The video was directed by Tommy Jones and you can watch it below.

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Dutch black metal band Nihill is streaming the brand new song "Spiral: The Tail Eater" at their Bandcamp page. The song is coming from the band's new upcoming full-length release Verdonkermaan, scheduled to be released on August 21st through Hydra Head Records. Verdonkermaan is the third installment of a trilogy that began with 2007's Krach. More details about this album are available here.

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"Crotalus Horridus Horridus", a brand-new song from US death/doom metal act Serpentine Path can now be streamed on Pitchfork and in the YouTube-video located below.

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After completing his epic quadrology last year, renowned multi-instrumentalist and producer Devin Townsend is ready to start the next chapter in the Devin Townsend Project's career with their new effort, Epicloud. Due out on September 18th in North America and September 24th in Europe via InsideOut, Epicloud boasts guest vocal appearances by Anneke van Giersbergen. For the first taste of Epicloud, featuring the album's intro, "Effervescent", stream the video available below.

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Alcest waste no time. The band's mastermind Neige announced via Facebook today that he and Winterhalter are already working on a new album, which they will start recording in March 2013.

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As some of you may know, Down plan to release a series of four EPs in the next few years and now the band has revealed details about the first one, appropriately entitled Down IV Part I - The Purple EP. The cover artwork and tracklist have been unveiled, and you can see them below, and the new offering will hit stores on September 18th.

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Silencing Machine, the brand-new upcoming album by US black metal act Nachtmystium can now be streamed in it's entirety over at Spin Magazine.

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It has been revealed that British doom heroes My Dying Bride will entitle their forthcoming opus A Map Of All Our Failures. It will be released on October 15th in Europe and October 16th in the USA via Peaceville Records on CD, double vinyl and special edition CD/DVD. The album recording and mixing was recently completed at Futureworks Studios in Manchester, UK, with production maestro Mags at the helm.

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German symphonic/progressive metal band Sons Of Seasons has released a brand new video for the song "Bubonic Waltz", which is now available for viewing below. The song for the video, which was directed and produced by Maximilian Schwarz, comes off their second studio album Magnisphyricon, released in April last year through Napalm Records. This is also the first official video clip of the band.

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Antiseptic Bloodbath, the new album from US thrashers Tourniquet is now available for streaming at the band's Youtube channel and you have the opportunity to listen to it for free. The album will be released this summer via Pathogenic Records and was produced by Neil Kernon. The album's artwork was created by Travis Smith. Their last studio release had been in 2003, Where Moth And Rust Destroy.

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"Rising Sun", the brand new video from Brazilian power metallers Scelerata, is now available for viewing below. The song for this video comes off the band's new upcoming and third album The Sniper, which will be released on July 31st. In North America, it will hit stores on September/October 2012 through Nightmare Records. The video was directed by Frederico Cabral.

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