Finnish prog metallers Pressure Points have signed a contract with the Spanish label Art Gates Records. Next week, on February 23rd, they will put out a brand new single titled "The Night Inside". Their new studio album is expected to be released in 2023.

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After announcing their return earlier this year, the Finnish band MyGrain now have a new lyric video out for the song "Lightless". It is taken off the yet untitled three-song digital EP that will be released in November. The lyric video was designed and edited by Joonas Takalo.

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The up-and-coming Finnish prog metal quartet Fireproven have released a lyric video for the song "The Tower". It is taken off their impending debut full-length Future Diary, scheduled for release on March 23rd.

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Abhorrence, the band who were among the pioneers of Finnish death metal in the late 1980's, are working on an EP after nearly three decades. The EP, titled Megalohydrothalassophobic, is planned to be released next autumn through Svart Records.

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Juha Raivio, the driving force behind Trees Of Eternity and Swallow The Sun, has founded a new band called Hallatar with Gas Lipstick (ex-HIM) and Tomi Joutsen (Amorphis). The band have signed with Svart Records and is due to release their debut full-length, No Stars Upon The Bridge, this autumn. The lyrical content of the album will be based on lyrics and poems written by the late Aleah Starbridge.

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The Finnish band Amoral are set to call it a day in early 2017 after their final show, scheduled for January 5th at Tavastia in Helsinki. Before this they will set up an "old school shows" tour in the fall, playing songs off the first three albums as a five-piece without Ari Koivunen.

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The Finnish four-piece Amendfoil recently finished their follow-up to the well-received debut full-length, Skyline Escape, and now they have released the first taste off the forthcoming album which will be titled Empyrean & Ophidian. You can watch and listen to "The Passenger" lyric video below. Let us know what you think about it!

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The Finnish band HIM set up a pleasant surprise for the audience of Qstock festival in Oulu, Finland with a secret performance. The festival had originally booked Ville Valo's solo project Rambo Rimbaud, but Valo and the rest of the band apparently decided otherwise and introduced their new drummer, Jukka "Kosmo" Kröger, on stage. Jukka previously played in the Finnish pop-rock group Herra Ylppö & Ihmiset.

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Finland's Amoral announced what they had been teasing the day before: singer Niko Kalliojärvi has returned to the band after a seven year absence. The progressive band is now a six-piece again. Kalliojärvi's return has been cooking up since last year, and he will be largely present on the band's 7th studio album, on which they are currently working on, with an early 2016 release planned.

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Have you been anticipating the third Chaos Divine album Colliding Skies? If so, there is good news for you, because the prog metallers are streaming the album in its entirety on SoundCloud. It is also available below. Colliding Skies will be released on March 6th through Firestarter Music. You can discover and stream the record all this week, so enjoy it while you can!

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Reveal The Change, the new album by the Finnish progressive metal band Silent Voices, is currently streaming in its entirety over here. The album features guest vocals from Mats Levén (ex-Therion, Yngwie Malmsteen), Tony Kakko (Sonata Arctica), Mike Vescera (Obsession, ex-Loudness, Yngwie Malmsteen), Mike DiMeo (ex-Masterplan, Riot) and Teemu Koskela. The album was released in Europe on November 29th, and will be released in North America on December 3rd via Inner Wound Recordings.

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The Finnish Gothenburg metal band MyGrain have announced the departure of their guitarist Resistor, who had been in the band since the beginning. He was replaced by Joni Lahdenkauppi, who had previously filled in for them on their European tour supporting fellow Finns Insomnium. You can read Resistor's message about his departure below and watch a video from their sold out Nosturi show which was his last one with the band.

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Finnish Gothenburg metallers MyGrain have made their entire upcoming new album Planetary Breathing available for streaming ahead of its release. You can listen to it over here. Planetary Breathing will be released in Europe on September 27th through Spinefarm Records.

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Finnish melodic death metal band Noumena is offering a pre-listening of their upcoming album Death Walks With Me at this location. It will be streaming until it is released on April 18th by Haunted Zoo Productions. Ville "Vilhelm" Lamminaho's comments (in Finnish) about each track of the album are also included.

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Finnish melodic death metal band Noumena has released a lyric video for "Handful Of Dust", a song taken off their upcoming album Death Walks With Me, scheduled for release on April 18th under Haunted Zoo Productions. The video can be streamed below. "Handful Of Dust", the opening track off the new release, is the first taste of what you can expect to hear from the group after Anatomy Of Life.

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