The Swedes Darkwater have finally shared the news fans have been waiting to hear: they are releasing a new album this year! The progressive metallers have been in the scene since 2003 and released two albums so far, the groundbreaking Calling The Earth To Witness (2007) and its worthy follow-up, Where Stories End (2010). Six years later, the band will release their third album, at last.

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The new year is already looking promising for fans of Schammasch. The black/death metal extremists just confirmed the release of a new album next year. They have completed work on their upcoming opus. According to their label Prosthetic Records, "it's a sprawling epic both sonically and aesthetically," including visual collaborations with acclaimed photographer Ester Segarra.

Here is the first photo from that session.

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Monster Of Rock Cruise the four-day, four-night voyage out of Miami on February 22-26 2016, aboard the NCL Pearl has announced its biggest line-up ever in its five year history. The 2016 cruise, appropriately titled Shredders From The Deep, will feature 40+ bands including headliners Tesla, Steve Vai, Extreme, Sebastian Bach, Queensrÿche, Helloween and Y&T, plus guitar fantasy camps, pre-cruise events and more.

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Event:	Monsters Of Rock Cruise 2016 - East

After returning to action, In The Woods... have been focusing on a new album. The recordings are done and you can expect the follow-up to Strange In Stereo (1999) to have 72 minutes of playtime. Apart from that, the band will also perform live. They are already confirmed for Norway's Blastfest 2016, Denmark's Metal Magic Festival IX and now also the Belgian festival Graspop Metal Meeting 2016. Accompanying the band live will be guitarist Kåre André Sletteberg as well.

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Author & Punisher, the one man industrial doom/drone band, is heading out to Europe next year. They will be promoting the new album Melk En Honing released this year. The near-three-week live takeover happens next month and is set to commence on January 16th in Rouen, France. Tristan Shone's latest expedition will make its way through ten countries, coming to a close on February 4th in Milan, Italy. See the dates below if you want to check out Author & Punisher live.

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Event:	Author & Punisher: European Tour 2016

Icelandic group Sólstafir are confirmed as the second headliner of Wolfszeit Festival 2016. The festival will take place in Thuringia, Germany from 25th to 27th of August 2016. The fest will celebrate its 10th edition with great bands, special shows and for the first time three days of live music on the big stage!

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After a few months of hard work, Lacuna Coil have announced the first details regarding their new album. To follow Broken Crown Halo, the Italian group will release Delirium next year on their label Century Media Records. More details are currently under wraps but fans can start anticipating the new release. Judging by some pictures posted on their Facebook page, Lacuna Coil have been recording the album since November.

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Converge fans will probably be salivating after this because it has been announced today that they will perform at next year's Roadburn Festival and will play the entire Jane Doe album. But that is not all! To celebrate the upcoming 15 year anniversary of their legendary Jane Doe album, the band will perform the album in its entirety for the first and last time. This special set is exclusive to the Roadburn Festival and will not be played again anywhere, ever. So, if you want to witness this, be there at Roadburn 2016 on Thursday, April 14th.

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The California Deathfest is coming back for its second edition next year. You can mark your calendars for October 14th-16th, 2016. The California Deathfest II will take place at the Oakland Metro Operahouse and to get things started, the first bands have now been announced. The batch includes The Ruins Of Beverast, Angelcorpse, Demilich, Revenge, and more.

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The organizers of one of the best European metal festivals revealed the first batch of bands which will perform during the 21st edition of Brutal Assault. As usual, the bands are very varied, representing the whole spectrum of extreme music. The line-up is already impressive, with over 50 bands still to be announced, and the biggest names so far include Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, Exodus, Ministry, Moonspell and Satyricon, who will perform a 20th Anniversary Nemesis Divina set.

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Berlin sludge outfit Earthship have a new label home: Napalm Records! A new label usually means new releases and that is the case indeed. The successor of Withered is being forged and you can be prepared for their new album which will be released in the summer of 2016. They promise to reveal more about it soon.

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Finnish doomsters Kypck (pronounced Kursk) are ready to give us more doom (metal). The band uses the Russian language in all lyrics and titles, and is working on a new album. You can expect the follow-up to Имена на стене (The Names On The Wall) to be out in the spring of 2016. So far, no other details have been revealed but the writing process is complete and the band will enter the studio soon to record the new beast.

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Cult Of Luna will be celebrating 10 years of one of their crowning jewels, 2006's classic Somewhere Along The Highway. And they will do that by performing the entire record at Roadburn 2016 in The Netherlands. The band performed at both the 2008 and 2013 editions of Roadburn and are among the most requested bands. Cult Of Luna will be playing the album in full at the 013 venue on Thursday, April 14th, 2016.

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With the release of the Nail Them To The Cross single earlier this year, Swedish black metal masters, Dark Funeral, are now preparing the release of their next studio album. And it will happen in 2016 at last. Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus, their previous album, was released in the distant year of 2009. Last year, they introduced new vocalist Heljarmadr and bassist Natt. The black metallers will enter the studio early next year and record the new material.

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Italian maetros Luca Turilli's Rhapsody are now confirmed to play at 2016's Masters Of Rock, which will be held in July 2016 in the city of Zlin, Czech Republic. The symphonic metallers are expected to play material from their latest 2015 album, Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus.

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