Yes, it is happening. Following their 2011 album As The Valley Of Death Becomes Us, Our Silver Memories Fade and their 2012 shows with the likes of Converge, Sleep, Corrosion Of Conformity, Torche and Valient Thorr, post metallers A Storm Of Light will return this year with a brand new record and Southern Lord will be releasing it.

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The Brutal Assault festival is heating up for what promises to be a very heavy summer in Jaroměř, Czech Republic. The organizers have announced the next bunch of newly confirmed bands and they are...

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Event:	Brutal Assault 2013

Newsted, the new band led by former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted, has announced that it is now a 4-piece, joining forces with Staind guitarist Mike Mushok for the debut album and live shows. Speaking of live shows, Newsted will be performing at some European shows which have been announced.

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Amorphis have just announced the European leg of their upcoming headlining Circle World Tour in support of the new opus Circle which will be released on April 19th, 2013 in Europe and April 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast. Apart from the European festival appearances that the band previously announced, you can now confirm all of their headlining European tour dates below.

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Event:	Amorphis: Circle Europe Tour

The Bonding will be the new offering from symphonic metallers Edenbridge which will hit stores on June 21st in Germany, June 24th through the rest of Europe and on July 2nd in North America under the SPV/Steamhammer banner. The anticipation for the album has now started building as the band released the first teaser for it. However, we will have to wait a bit longer to know more album details.

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As the release date of Disarm The Descent approaches, Killswitch Engage are getting more generous and have shared with us another brand new song from the forthcoming album. Go ahead and listen to the second new track from Disarm The Descent, "The New Awakening", on the video below.

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The 2013 Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival lineup has officially been revealed for its sixth edition.

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Event:	Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival

Norwegian sensation Kvelertak will release their new album in a few days but you can already stream Meir in its entirety starting today at Stereogum. If you can't listen to the album there because of country restrictions, try this link. This is only the group's second album after they released Kvelertak back in 2010.

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EarMUSIC and Tarja have announced the renewal of their collaboration for a set of new releases spanning over the next few years. Tarja's fans will be happy to know that the follow-up to 2010's studio album What Lies Beneath will hit stores between August and September of 2013.

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Death metal beast Verminous has revealed the tracklist and cover artwork that will grace their new album The Unholy Communion, their second. The artwork resembles a different take on "The Last Supper" as you can confirm below.

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Deathgrinders Milking The Goatmachine are preparing to milk some more goats on their forthcoming concept album Stallzeit, set for release at the end of the month. You can now listen to the title track off the opus because the group released a new lyric video for it.

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Heavy metallers StoneLake are celebrating their 10th anniversary this year with their brand new 6th album Monolith, which will be released on March 22nd, 2013 via Massacre Records. You can check out the album tracklist and cover below as well as listen to the first advance track from the album, "End This War".

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Finnish melodic death metallers Medicated have been around since 2005 and released Glasstrophobic at the end of last year. The band features former Norther vocalist Aleksi Sihvonen in their ranks and has recently premiered a brand new video for the song "Take It". Check it out below.

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Bad news for the ones who were planning to see Pallbearer in Europe on their upcoming small tour with Royal Thunder in April. The band was forced to cancel the tour and is trying to book European shows for later this year. On the bright side, Pallbearer will still be playing at Roadburn Festival 2013.

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Three years after the release of their debut Altered Reflections, Darkology are working on their new album, planned to be released this year. Having recorded the new material, the band is currently in the mixing stages and the second Darkology album will be mixed and mastered by the renowned British producer, sound engineer, and mixer Chris Tsangarides (Judas Priest, Anvil, Thin Lizzy).

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