It has been almost 10 years since the last studio album release (Night Visit) from Norwegian melodic black metal horde Ancient. Now the band is pleased to announce the plans for their new upcoming effort, tentatively to be released sometime between June and September, 2014.

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Italian symphonic power metal rising stars Ancient Bards are ready to release their third album in 2014, the follow-up to 2011's Soulless Child, that will set the beginning of the second part of the Black Crystal Sword Saga. The guys seem to have not lost their passion for medieval times, as you can see by enjoying the crispy album trailer down here.

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Swedish doom metal legends Candlemass will perform the album Ancients Dreams in its entirety at Mikael Åkerfeldt's 2014 curated Roadburn event on April 11th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The festival has also confirmed the likes of Avatarium, Obliteration, Elephant9 with Reine Fiske, Trettioåriga Kriget and Promise And The Monster to enrich their line-up.

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Legendary Swedish doom metallers Candlemass will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their third album Ancient Dreams with a special live concert on December 28th at Debaser Medis in Stockholm, Sweden. The album which was originally released in 1988 has been hailed as a classic and will be performed in its entirety by Candlemass.

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Enslaved just announced dates for their North American "Winter Rite 2013" Tour, which will also feature Pallbearer and Ancient VVisdom.

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Italian power metallers Ancient Bards are preparing the release of a new split-single with Serenity In Murder which will be titled Prelude To Awakening and feature one new song. This will be the band's first new material since the release of Soulless Child last year.

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"To The Master Of darkness", the new video from Italian metallers Ancient Bards, can be viewed at this location. The video clip was directed by Matteo Ermeti.

"To The Master Of darkness" comes off the band's forthcoming album, entitled Soulless Child, which will be released via by Limb Music (Europe and America) and Spiritual Beast - Universal (Japan) on the following dates:

November 18th 2011: Europe
December 14th 2011: Japan
January 31st 2012: USA

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Italian band Ancient Bards is proud to announce the release of their second album. The highly anticipated new album, titled Soulless Child, will be available in the European market in mid-November 2011 via Limb Music Products and later in the American market. With this album continues the first part of the Black Crystal Sword Saga; 10 songs of pure symphonic epic metal: a more powerful and symphonic sound, massive choirs, more aggressive guitars, engaging bass, keyboards and guitar solos, and the beautiful voice of Sara are the elements that make this work even more epic and exciting.

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Diego "Grom" Meraviglia, former drummer of Norwegian Melodic Black metal band Ancient and Italian Doom band DoomSword, has provided ear-shattering drumming for a track on the new Hexfire album. The recording session took place in Valencia (CA) with engineer Steven Leavitt. A few pics of the recording can be found here.

The band says: "Grom is an amazing drummer. We wanted him to record the fastest song from our forthcoming album because we were sure that he was the only man who could do the job perfectly! His style is exactly what we were looking for. That's why we asked him to record a song for us and he agreed! It's just amazing! We're so proud!"

Recently, Hexfire also tapped renowned metal drummer Alex Holzwarth (Rhapsody Of Fire, Avantasia, Dol Ammad) to help bring some of the tracks to life, while Jonno Lodge (Biomechanical) will perform the rest of the drums.

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But in fact it's the oldest recording we could find . Through the Eyes of God" was recorded in the summer of 1998, when we were stilled called "Infernal Dream" and obviously much more influenced by black metal bands. The quality is pretty poor but we think it's very cool nevertheless, demonstrating how fucking "true" we were back then Check it out, it's the fifth song in our player on our MySpace profile!

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Belgium-based black metallers Ancient Rites have issued the following update:

"The collaboration with guitarist Raf (Jansen) came to an end as it was for the best for all parties involved. Rafs' guitar duties are taken over by Domingo (Smets) who now plays his third instrument within the band."

Upcoming Ancient Rites live dates include:

February
17 - Memento Mori Metal Fest in Oostende, Belgium

April
14 - Nepherex Fest, Zenith in Dendermonde, Belgium
27 - Gigant in Apeldoorn, Netherlands

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Belgian Black Metal pioneers Ancient Rites are heading back to the studio to record their long awaited follow-up to 2001's "Dim Carcosa".

"They are also pleased to announce that Ancient Rites have found a new record label in Season of Mist, also the home of bands like the legendary Mayhem, Rotting Christ and Arcturus. Needless to say the band is really happy with both the new label and heading back to the Spacelab studio in Germany."

Ancient Rites started recording the new album on November 21st, 2005, under the guidance and supervision of veteran AR producers Oliver Phillips and Christian Moos.

The album will most likely be released before the summer of 2006, after which Ancient Rites, now a septet since the return of former members Domingo Smets and Raf Jansen last year, will once again play live to spread their new music. Concerts all over Europe and the U.K. are being negotiated and arranged as we speak, so expect the band to be out there in full blast next year.

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The Catholic church's lawsuit against ANCIENT CEREMONY founder/vocalist Chris Anderle over a series of "blasphemous" photos posted on the German black metal band's web site has been given a new court date: May 26 at Landgericht Trier. Lawyers for both parties are currently working towards a possible out-of-court settlement.

The band are said to be "rather pissed off with this soap opera", and are concentrating on finishing up their new mini CD, "P.uritan's B.lasphemy C.all (Ruf-Mord)" . The highly controversial album, which is being observed by the German censorship authorities even before its release, is tentatively scheduled for release in June on Irond Records. A full-scale European tour will follow.