Varg Vikernes has recently revealed details about a new Burzum album to be released around summer this year. It will be titled Sôl Austan, Mâni Vestan (which translates to "East of the Sun, West of the Moon"). The album will be instrumental and the tracklist has already been unveiled.

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Randy Blythe, frontman of Lamb Of God, is in the Czech capital of Prague for his trial which started yesterday. After being arrested in the Czech Republic this past summer, detained for five weeks and then released on 400,000 dollars bail, Randy Blythe is back in a Czech court. He is being charged with what amounts to manslaughter, on allegations that he pushed a fan, Daniel Nosek, at a 2010 show in Prague, and the fan suffered head injuries from that push that eventually led to his death.

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My Dying Bride have released a brand new video and first off their latest offering A Map Of All Our Failures, out since last October through Peaceville Records. You can enjoy the video for "The Poorest Waltz" below. It was directed by Ingram Blakelock.

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British doom metallers My Dying Bride have teamed up with the A.V. Club to premiere the brand new track "Hail Odysseus", taken from the band's upcoming anticipated album A Map Of All Our Failures. Check out the nine-minute song at this location. A Map Of All Our Failures hits stores on October 15th in Europe and October 16th in North America through Peaceville Records. More album details here.

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Opeth's vocalist and guitarist Mikael Åkerfeldt said in a recent interview that he has started writing for a new album, although he admits that the writing process is only in the beginning stages. So, there is probably a little waiting to do before a new release. You can watch the whole interview on the video below.

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German symphonic gothic metal band Lacrimosa will release their new album Revolution on September 7th through Hall Of Sermon. This is the first Lacrimosa release with Henrik Flyman (Evil Masquerade) on guitar. The band also previously announced that the album will feature guest performances by Mille Petrozza (Kreator) and Stefan Schwarzmann (Accept). The album artwork for Revolution has been unveiled and can be seen below.

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Former Iced Earth members Matt Barlow (vocals) and Freddie Vidales (bass) have teamed up with former Nevermore drummer Van Williams to form a new project which is currently working on original material. Very little information has been revealed so far, but you can check out the teaser trailer for the new band below.

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UPDATE: After cancelling their shows in Oslo and Malmö, Children Of Bodom were now forced to cancel their appearance at the Ruisrock Festival in Finland as well. Amorphis will replace them.

The band released the following statement: "This is not an easy letter for us to write. Alexi is suffering from a serious infection. He is still in hospital in Oslo under supervision of the doctors and we don't know yet when they will release him."

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Adam "Nergal" Darski, also known as the frontman of Polish death metallers Behemoth, will be releasing an autobiography titled "Sacrum Profanum" this coming October. The book cover has now been revealed and it was created with the help of Seth Spiro and Ivo Ledwozyw. The book is supposed to be about his fight with leukemia as well as his life as part of Behemoth.

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Folk metal is on fire today. Finnish folk masters Korpiklaani have now released new video clips for the songs "Rauta" and "The Steel", with Finnish and English lyrics respectively. You can check out below the videos directed by Markku Kirves in the region of Janakkala in the south of Finland.

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As some of you may or may not know, Swedish progressive metallers Pain Of Salvation have recently started recording an acoustic album. It is being called Clean for the time being. The band might have been inspired by the acoustic show they played on June 8th at the Parkbühne Geyserhaus in Leipzig, Germany.

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Source:	painofsalvation.com
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Polish death metallers Vader have been relatively quiet lately in terms of updates. But the band has now checked in with the following statement about their upcoming tour activity until the end of the year: "Tomorrow Vader will start their overseas journey to South America. They will visit Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Argentina. We plan a second leg of the tour at the end of 2012. Due to their performance at the Metalfest Open Airs in May, Vader will not be seen on most of the major summer festivals."

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Slipknot has announced that guitarist Jim Root will not be participating in the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem tour due to health issues for an unknown length of time. The tour kicked off in San Bernardino, CA, on June 30th and will run until the beginning of August.

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UK atmospheric black metallers A Forest Of Stars have released a new music video for the song "Gatherer Of The Pure". The 9-minute song appears on the band's forthcoming third album A Shadowplay For Yesterdays. The video was created by Ingram Blakelock and can be viewed below. You can expect the album to be released on July 20th via Lupus Lounge/ Prophecy Productions. For more albums details, please head over here.

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New Jersey thrash warriors God Forbid have teamed up with Battlecross for a string of North American tour dates starting on July 6th in Springfield, Virginia. God Forbid will be headlining a set of dates leading up to the Tresspass America Festival with Five Finger Death Punch, Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Pop Evil, Emmure and Battlecross. The dates are available below or over at the Victory Records website.

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