Here is a new band to discover: Tau Cross. Have you heard of them? Well, they are a punk/metal supergroup, a quartet of musicians including Amebix vocalist/bassist Rob "The Baron" Miller, Voivod drummer Michel "Away" Langevin, Misery guitarist Jon Misery, and War//Plague guitarist Andy Lefton. Tau Cross formed in 2013 and recorded their debut album over several months in 2014 throughout three different countries. Now they just unveiled another new track from its upcoming Relapse Records debut, Tau Cross, and you can hear it here. Does it sound promising to you?

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Following a busy year of promotion and touring for his solo debut album I Am The Fire, Firewind guitarist Gus G. has now announced that the recordings for the follow-up release have been completed. His second solo album will be entitled Brand New Revolution and it is expected to be released in July via Century Media Records in Europe, Australia and South America, Dismanic/eOne in North America and King Records in Japan.

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Cryptopsy need their fans to help them. The long-standing Canadian death metallers just launched a crowdfunding campaign. The group is releasing the first installment of The Book Of Suffering, and you can support this project on their Indiegogo Campaign filled with perks and goodies. The first part of the EP series is titled The Book Of Suffering Tome 1.

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Japanese Babymetal have released a brand new video. The video clip is for the song "Road Of Resistance" and was filmed at Saitama Super Arena in Japan on a 20,000 people sold out show. This brand new track is a collaboration between Babymetal and guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman of British power metallers DragonForce. Check out the video for it here!

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Borealis has a new label home! The Canadian power metal unit has joined AFM Records for a worldwide release (excluding Japan) of their new album, Purgatory. Fans have been waiting for the follow-up of 2011's Fall From Grace and it's finally near. The band has even released a teaser featuring new music to whet your appetite. Hear below a taste of what you can expect on the new record.

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Apart from fighting a lawsuit filed by Dave Brockie's father, Gwar are busy with many other things these days. First off, the band has announced a new tour, dubbed 30 Years of Total Domination Tour with support from Butcher Babies and Battlecross. Secondly, the group is releasing a new book titled Let There Be GWAR and also Kim Dylla, Vulvatron, was released from the band directly following the fall 2014 GWAR Eternal Tour, and will no longer perform with the group. Vulvatron will live on but portrayed by someone else.

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Shape Of Despair have shared more material from their new album. While they have previously released the track "Monotony Fields", the second one is called "Descending Inner Night" which is also 10 minutes long. It is funeral doom after all! You can stream it here or over here, among others. According to the band, the song combines both the old and new elements of Shape Of Despair.

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Blind Guardian are currently touring in Europe to showcase their new album Beyond The Red Mirror but soon enough their fans in North America will be able to see them live as well. The power metal heavyweights will embark on a tour with fellow Germans Grave Digger in October/November. If you don't want to miss this package, check out the tour dates below. You might get lucky.

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Delain released their last album in 2014, The Human Contradiction. Since then, the band has been touring consistently and will continue to do that this year. However, the group has also prepared a new lyric video for the song "Sing To Me" which appears on the album. Both the song and video feature guest vocals from Marco Hietala from Nightwish, who they are currently touring with in the US.

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Soulfly just announced that they will embark on a North American headlining tour starting on September 30th in Los Angeles. The band will be supporting their upcoming vicious new release Archangel, which was produced by Matt Hyde (Slayer, Children Of Bodom) and will be released on August 14th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Joining them on this epic campaign are Swedish melodic death metal visionaries Soilwork, Polish technical death metallers Decapitated, and newcomers Shattered Sun. No word yet on who will replace bassist Tony Campos.

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The book adaptation film for Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind's Lords Of Chaos: The Bloody Rise Of The Satanic Metal Underground finally has a director and it is none other than former Bathory drummer and video/film director Jonas Åkerlund. The film will be produced by Ridley Scott's Scott Free London, RSA London, and VICE. Lords of Chaos focuses on the real events involving members of the 80's black metal scene in Scandinavia and will follow the story of 17-year-old Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem during the upbringing of the genre.

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Goatsnake are releasing a new album this year, after a decade without new releases, and it is called Black Age Blues. What better way to present it than by showcasing the title track? Get your daily dosage of stoner metal by listening to the track below. If you like what you hear, grab the record on June 2nd via Southern Lord Recordings. Enjoy the heavy riffs!

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Arch Enemy are releasing a new digital single. Right before the metal titans kick off their next European tour tomorrow in France, the band has just released a new video for a brand new version of a song that was originally released on the 2014 album, War Eternal. This new version, "Stolen Life (2015 Version)", has the distinction of featuring additional lead/solo parts of their new guitarist Jeff Loomis! As for the video, it was directed and produced by Carlos Toro V. (Abysmo Films) and filmed in Chile during their recent Latin America tour in early 2015. How do you like this version of the track?

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Brutal Assault 2015 promises to be a veritable feast for fans of all kinds of metal. The festival is taking place in Czech Republic in Jaroměř from 05-08 August 2015 and despite its long list of bands confirmed so far, the organizers continue to announce big names. The latest confirmations include cult black metal act Mayhem, avantgarde metallers Arcturus, Dødheimsgard, Blood Red Throne, Ad Nauseam, Atari Teenage Riot, Hed PE, Perturbator and Sebkha-Chott.

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Trouble in paradise? Five Finger Death Punch had a meltdown onstage during the band's performance in Memphis, Tennessee as part of the Beale Street Music Festival. Reportedly, the band cut its performance short after roughly six songs and walking off stage. This led some fans to speculate they were breaking up. However, the Los Angeles metallers have already dismissed these rumors. The band's frontman, Ivan Moody, has suggested that it was all due to technical problems and that the band fired some of their crew.

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