Rhapsody Of Fire have announced their first tour since the split with founding member Luca Turilli. These will be the first shows with new members Oliver Holzwarth (bass) and Roberto De Micheli (guitar).

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Rhapsody

An update on the official Black Sabbath Facebook page has announced that the legendary guitarist Tony Iommi has been diagnosed with the early stages of lymphoma, a cancer related to the immune system.

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Band profile:	Black Sabbath

In this last month of the year, we asked you to tell us what Slo from Smohalla considered as the best representation of his band's sound. Two people with the correct answer have been selected to win the band's debut album Resilience.

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At the start of the month we offered you the chance to win free entry for you and a friend to a show on Saxon's UK December tour. We asked you to tell us which Yorkshire town the band originally come from. The answer was the lovely town of Barnsley, so here are the winners:

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Band profile:	Saxon
Event:	Saxon: UK Tour

Next March and April, Onslaught will embark on their first ever North American tour.

Nige Rockett comments:

"Good Morning America. Here we are at very long last! Onslaught are super-fucking stoked to announce our debut tour of the mighty USofA and Canada. It's been one hell of a long time coming, but we are now finally bringing the Scream For Violence tour to North America for 20 shows in March and April 2012. Just as we did in Europe, the UK and South America, we'll be thrashing it up with a brutal 90 minute set featuring tracks off all five Onslaught studio albums. We can't fucking wait guys. This is the Sound of Violence!"

Coming along on tour is the new black/thrash metal outfit M-Pire Of Evil an all ex-Venom supergroup featuring Demolition man, Antton Lant and Venom's founding member Jeff "Mantas" Dunn. Mpire will be presenting their own material as well as performing classic Venom songs. Bay area thrashers Evil Dead will joining this unholy package for some devastating dates on the US West Coast.

Mar. 19 - Seattle, WA - Studio 7
Mar. 20 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theatre
Mar. 21 - Oakland, CA - The Pound
Mar. 22 - Los Angeles, CA - Ecoplex
Mar. 23 - San Diego, CA - Jumping Turtle
Mar. 24 - Tempe, AZ - 910 Live
Mar. 26 - San Antonio, TX - The Korova
Mar. 27 - Laredo, TX - TBA
Mar. 29 - St. Louis, MO - Fubar
Mar. 30 - Chicago, IL - Reggies
Mar. 31 - Dayton, OH - House of Rock
Apr. 01 - Detroit, MI - Blondies
Apr. 03 - Toronto, ON - Wrek Room
Apr. 04 - Montreal, QC - The Katacombs
Apr. 06 - Rochester, NY - Montage Music Hall
Apr. 07 - Brooklin, NY - Saint Vitus Bar

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Band profile:	Onslaught
Event:	Onslaught: Scream For Violence North America Tour

If you have something you'd like to advertise either to our extensive worldwide audience, or a specific country, we are now offering advertising space for sale with our new automated ad-system.

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Terrorizer have announced that Testament drummer Paul Bostaph has left the band to form his own band Black Gates with former Anthrax singer Dan Nelson.

Chuck stated:

"We just found our last week Paul Bostaph is not coming back to the band, he's starting his own new project and doing some things on his own. So we're actually going to be holding a couple of auditions with probably small group of drummers that we chose - we don't want to have a revolving drum stool, we have a new record we want a permanent drummer... We're still buddies, it's just that Paul feels at this point in his career he wants to be in a little more in control of the artistic creation of the songs and with his new project they are all involved with that process whereas with our group Eric is pretty much the main songwriter and that's just the way its been with us for 25 years."

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Band profile:	Testament

Welcome to December! The mighty Saxon will go on tour in the UK later this month, and to celebrate we have arranged to give away four pairs of free passes to the English shows on this tour.

All you need to do is head towards the competition page here for your chance to win a pass for you and a friend.

You have a week to enter, as the competition closes on the 8th of December. Good luck!

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Source:	metalstorm.net
Band profile:	Saxon
Event:	Saxon: UK Tour

We asked you to tell us who was the longest serving lead singer of legendary rock band Uriah Heep for a chance to win a place on their guestlist on their December UK tour. The answer is of course the current singer Bernie Shaw who has been with the band since 1986.

The four lucky winners, who have a place on the guestlist of their choice are:

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Band profile:	Uriah Heep
Event:	Uriah Heep: UK Tour

The much-anticipated announcement has finally been released on the official Black Sabbath website. The band have reunited and will record a new album and do a worldwide tour. The announcement video can be viewed in the YouTube-video below.

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Source:	blacksabbath.com
Band profile:	Black Sabbath
Event:	Download Festival 2012

Legendary rock band Uriah Heep are are about to embark on a ten date UK tour in December, and here at Metal Storm we are giving you a chance to win a guestlist place for the tour date of your choice.

All you need to do for your chance to catch this influential and timeless band on tour, is head over to the contest page here and answer a simple question.

You have until the 29th of November to enter. Good luck!

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Source:	metalstorm.net
Band profile:	Uriah Heep
Event:	Uriah Heep: UK Tour

The Down contest closed a week ago, and we can now reveal the winners.

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Band profile:

Down

After the successful release of 23rd album Into The Wild earlier in the year, the legendary band have announced ten UK tour dates for December:

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Band profile:	Uriah Heep
Event:	Uriah Heep: UK Tour

Twilight Of The Gods - the band that formed as a Bathory tribute have signed a deal with Season Of Mist. The band have been writing their own original material together and should have a full-length album ready at some point next year.

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season-of-mist.com

To celebrate Down's two hometown Halloween shows, we are giving you the opportunity to win one of three L-size Down t-shirts.

All you need to do for your chance to win is go to the Contest page and answer the question.

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Source:	metalstorm.net
Band profile:	Down