UPDATE on 10.07.2013: Carcass are on a roll this week! After teasing us with new tunes, the grindcore/melodic death metal legends have finally revealed the cover that will grace Surgical Steel. You might have seen some of it on the teaser released yesterday. Ian Tilton created the cover and you can check it out below.

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One of the most anticipated albums of the year, Gorguts' comeback album Colored Sands is coming out on September 3rd in North America and August 30th in the rest of the world under Season Of Mist. The band has already given the fans its first taste with "Forgotten Arrows" but today you get to listen to another new song from the opus and that is "An Ocean Of Wisdom". You can stream the track here or here. May the wisdom be with you!

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Remember Thrawsunblat? The folk metallers released their debut album Thrawsunblat II: Wanderer On The Continent Of Saplings this year but have now announced the release of a 3-song acoustic EP featuring raw and rearranged versions of "Vastland", "She Arboreal" and "Black Sky" from their first demo today, July 10th, at 8pm on their Bandcamp. Stay tuned for that. The EP will be called Vast Arboreal Sky.

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Tarja has premiered a brand new video for the track "Victim Of Ritual", the second she showcases from her new solo album Colours In The Dark. Are you curious about it? You can now watch it here. Tarja's forthcoming new album will be released on August 30th in Europe via earMUSIC and will be made available in North America on August 27th through Eagle Rock imprint Armoury Records. The video was shot in Berlin by Florian Kaltenbach for Hunger Film.

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Korn have set The Paradigm Shift as the title of their upcoming 11th studio album and successor to The Path Of Totality. We now also know that it will be released on October 1st. The album was produced by Don Gilmore (Pearl Jam, Linkin Park) and more importantly finds guitarist Brian "Head" Welch returning to the fold after an eight-year absence.

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With a new album out, the invigorated Queensrÿche have now released a brand new video for the song "Fallout". You can watch the band in action with their new singer Todd La Torre as well as some behind-the-scenes footage. The band hadn't released a new video in a while. Their new album Queensrÿche is still fresh as it was only released last month on Century Media.

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The time has come to hear a new Fleshgod Apocalypse song, folks. The band has just premiered their brand new tune "Elegy" from Labyrinth. How does the follow-up to Agony sound like? You can finally hear a taste on the video below. Enter the labyrinth and tells us what you think about its musical passages.

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The suspense is over, Dream Theater fans. The progressive metal group has finally revealed the images and words for their self-titled upcoming new album. The cover art and tracklist are now available below for you to enjoy and speculate about. And so it begins. Now all we have to do is wait for the new music to arrive. The official release date of the album is September 24th on Roadrunner.

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Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down) has released his first video for his solo album Walk Through Exits Only. He chose the song "Bedridden" for this visual display and you can watch the result below. His first ever solo album drops next week via Season Of Mist in partnership with Anselmo's own Housecore Records. The video was directed by Matt Faust and produced by Chris Trainor from Lab Productions.

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Danish metallers Mercenary have shared another new track from their upcoming album Through Our Darkest Days. You can listen to the song "Generation Hate" below and let us know what you think. The album will come out in Europe later this month on July 26th via NoiseArt Records and a week later in the US through Prosthetic Records.

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It looks like Carnifex's hiatus is over. The band announced that they were going on a break but were optimistic about the future. Today there's good news for the fans. The Californian metallers announced a new deal with Nuclear Blast. Carnifex will begin recording their Nuclear Blast debut this July at Audio Hammer Studios in Sanford, Florida, with famed metal producer Mark Lewis (Arsis, DevilDriver, Deicide, Six Feet Under). You can expect a release tentatively sometime in the first quarter of 2014.

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Prog/djent up-and-comers The Safety Fire have released a wacky new video for their brand new single "Red Hatchet". This is the first track to be taken from their forthcoming album Mouth Of Swords which is due out on 2nd September on InsideOut Music. The video filmed and directed by Jamie Carter is available below. Enjoy!

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After much teasing, the newly founded heavy metal trio Ashes Of Ares, Matt Barlow (ex-Iced Earth), Van Williams (ex-Nevermore) and Freddie Vidales (ex-Iced Earth), has presented the first fruits of their labor in the form of the first song from their forthcoming debut album Ashes Of Ares. You can enjoy the lyric video for "Dead Man's Plight" below. Does this new project sound promising?

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Legendary British metallers Venom will unleash a new beast next year or in other words, a new album. The group has posted an update on their official website revealing that they are currently in the studio adding the final touches to the follow-up to Fallen Angels (2011). The album is planned to be released through Spinefarm Records in early 2014.

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Do you want to hear a new song from Debauchery? Well, now you can because the death metallers have released the song "Demonslayer" from their upcoming new album Kings Of Carnage, which will drop on August 2nd through Massacre Records.

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