Black metal outfit Inquisition have begun recording their highly anticipated new album to be released in 2016, a follow up to 2013's critically acclaimed Obscure Verses For The Multiverse record. The band are recording at the legendary London Bridge Studio in Seattle (Alice In Chains, Queensrÿche, Wolves In The Throne Room, and many more) with long time engineer Arthur Rizk (Prurient, Power Trip, Goat Semen). You can start anticipating the band's next album!

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Norwegian black 'n' rollers Vreid have released a new video, bestowing musical goodness on the populace. The video is the title track from the band's forthcoming album Sólverv, to be released on October 9th via Indie Recordings. Their last album, Welcome Farewell, was released in 2013. Enjoy the clip and the new music!

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Beer alert! To celebrate the release of the English version of Mikkeller's Book Of Beer, American metallers Mastodon have collaborated with famous beer brewery Mikkeller. The band and brewer have put together a bizarre "commercial" to help launch the book, which can be purchased at this location. You can view the video below if you dare.

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Norwegian black metal outfit Cor Scorpii have released a short update about their upcoming album, preliminary titled Ruin. The message was released via the band's Facebook page. The follow-up to 2008's Monument is finally coming together after the band did some changes. However, they promise it will be worth the wait.

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Former !T.O.O.H.! frontman Josef "Humanoid" Vesely has recently released an electronic music album under the name of the unpronounceable symbol §§, along with different live and rare !T.O.O.H.! music and from other projects. This is the first release from anyone within the band since the Democratic Solution album was released last year as their final album. Download links are available on the !T.O.O.H.!'s Facebook page. The album is called The Path Into Shadow.

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As if Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson isn't busy enough, he's decided to take his love of flying to the next level by starting his own small airline. Bruce Dickinson has spent his life singing in the legendary band Iron Maiden. Now, the frontman is working on an altogether different type of metal: airplanes.

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It appears that the plot seems to be thickening in the new feud between Nuclear Blast and Wintersun's mastermind Jari Mäenpää. He issued a second, very lengthy update about crowd funding, Time II and his squabbles with Nuclear Blast.

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It seems like Wintersun's mastermind Jari Mäenpää still has a lot to say about Time II after a recent update where he discussed the reasons for the delay of the album. This time, he talked about why he doesn't take the road of crowdfunding and didn't have a lot of nice things to say about the band's label, Nuclear Blast Records.

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Detroit black metal monsters Dauden I Mørke have released the tracklist for their upcoming EP, Coldwired, that they have been working on. The EP will consist of a handful of old Dauden I Mørke favorites and covers of various artists reworked through the artistic lens of their 2014 album Cold Miasmic Domain, which came out on January 12th of this year.

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After keeping fans waiting for years, Norwegian black metallers Cor Scorpii have finally set the date of the 17th July on which to begin recording their second full-length album. As with their previous release Monument, the album will be recorded and mixed by Børge Finstad at his Toproom Studio (Mayhem, Borknagar, Vintersorg, Tristania, Arcturus, etc).

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As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis has been sentenced to six years in prison in a San Diego Superior Courtroom for attempting to hire a hit man to kill his wife. In February, the singer pleaded guilty to soliciting an undercover cop to murder Meggan Lambesis, whom he had married eight years prior and adopted three children with. At the time, he faced up to nine years in prison. According to Radio.com, the verdict was handed down as more than three dozen people, out of the 80-plus spectators present, wore yellow felt hearts in support of Meggan Lambesis. Three of Lambesis' bandmates - Nick Hipa, Phil Sgrosso and Josh Gilbert - were present at the sentencing.

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KISS won't rock and roll all night when they are inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April, the band said in a statement. The veteran group is unable to agree on which lineup should perform during the April 10th ceremony in New York, and has decided not to perform.

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American metallers Mastodon are currently embroiled in a controversy regarding an allegedly racist t-shirt that coincided with the Thanksgiving holiday. The t-shirt depicts a white male pilgrim pointing a gun at a female Native American and is pictured below. Some deemed it racist. The band defended the artwork explaining that they aren't racist and simply pointed out the atrocities linked to Thanksgiving.

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Norwegian black metallers Cor Scorpii have released an almost four-minute snippet from a song to be featured on their upcoming second album. The band's new album has a working title of Ruin and the exact release date is yet to be announced. Previously, the band released a small teaser of what they were working on. Enjoy it while you can here.

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The burger of controversy... Swedish metallers Ghost B.C. have caused a bit of an uproar this time not with their music, videos or album covers but with a hamburger featured at a Chicago-based burger joint which names all of its specialty burgers after metal bands. The burger is considered sacrilegious.

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