Italian death metal band Hour Of Penance will enter Cellar Studio in Rome on October 16th, with producer Stefano Morabito, to record their Prosthetic Records debut, and fifth album overall.

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US metallers God Forbid will enter the studio at the end of October to begin recording their new album for an early 2012 release via Victory Records.

The bulk of the production on the CD will be handled by Mark Lewis (The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, DevilDriver, Trivium), with Jason Suecof (Trivium, All That Remains, The Black Dahlia Murder, Chimaira, DevilDriver) stepping in during the the vocal-tracking stage. The album will be mixed at Fascination Street studios in Örebro, Sweden with Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with such acts as Katatonia, Opeth, Paradise Lost and Amon Amarth.

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Belgian black metal outfit Enthroned are set to enter the studio next week to begin recording their ninth and yet-untitled album.

The band posted the following on their MySpace: "Enthroned will start the recording of their ninth studio album next week. The opus will be once more recorded at the Blackout Multimedia Studios (the band's own recording studio)."

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US death/doom metal band Evoken have announced that they will enter the studio in November to record their new album.

The band issued the following statement on their official Facebook page: "The first 3 dates for the studio are booked, and we're ready to go. November 11th, 12th, and 13th we begin recording our new opus. We will be returning to the same studio behind A Caress Of The Void with Steve DeAcutis behind the board once again."

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UK symphonic gothic metal act Cradle Of Filth have announced that their upcoming mini-album Evermore Darkly will only be released on October 24th in Europe, (US and Canada - 18th October) via Peaceville Records. The band posted this short statement: "Due to unforeseen circumstances, Evermore Darkly will now be released on October 24th, 2011."

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Finnish melodic death/doom metal band Swallow The Sun are currently in the studio recording their next album, the follow-up to the 2009 release New Moon.

The band has issued the following statement on their official website: "During the well deserved break we took from shows this year we've been preparing new music, and now we are happy to announce that we have entered Drumforest Studios at Viitasaari to record our fifth full length album, which will be released February 1st 2012 by Spinefarm Records."

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UK-based progressive extreme metallers De Profundis will begin recording the follow-up to their second album A Bleak Reflection in November. The production duties will once again be handled by Fernando Pereira Lopes (Misanthrope, Orakle). The band will be recording 8 new songs, totalling approximately 55 minutes in length.

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German power metal band Freedom Call announced on their official website their new studio album, their seventh, to be released on February, 2012.

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After streaming the first audio sample of their upcoming EP, Maria Magdalena, Visions Of Atlantis are now streaming two new audio samples from the tracks "Melancholia" and "Change Of Tides", respectively. You can watch them below. To listen to the previously reported first audio sample, you can go over here. Maria Magdalena is set for release on October 21st via Napalm Records.

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Japanese heavy metal band Loudness is currently streaming audio samples from their new album titled Eve To Dawn, which you can check out below. The album has been released on September 14th.

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Abigail Williams will begin recording their third full-length album today. The process begins in the band's new home of Southern California as the band enter Keene Machine Studios with The Faceless' Michael Keene and Abigail Williams' mainman Ken Sorceron engineering. Former Abigail Williams and The Black Dahlia Murder drummer Zach Gibson will be playing on the album, as previous band mate Ken Bedene focuses on Aborted.

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Dutch symphonic metallers Delain are currently in Stockholm recording their upcoming yet-untitled album. The band has teamed up with Jacob Hellner (Rammstein, Clawfinger, Apocalyptica), who will be producing the album.

In a short update the band had this to say: "After a long tour and changes, it's great to finally move on to writing and recording an album. Even more so in such legendary studios with people involved in such legendary albums! We have great songs written and these are the perfect conditions to make them come to life."

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Swedish black metal giants Marduk will be entering studio next year to begin working on their 12th studio album. This though will only come after the Hatefest tour which they will be a part of with Triptykon, Kataklysm and many more. The festival package will also be appearing at the Eindhoven Metal Meeting during December. The band will play 17 dates.

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French metal band Reverence, has checked in with the following announcement about entering the recording studio in October:

"Great news! We have finally completed the re-writing sessions which took some extra time but will be well worth the wait, with their debut albums being so highly anticipated, the band swore that we couldn't short change the fans or themselves, it has to be great! We are very happy to announce Reverence are now ready to hit the studio the first week of October. We will have pictures and video updates during recording session."

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US death metallers Cannibal Corpse has begun recording their twelfth studio album at Sonic Ranch studios in Texas with producer Erik Rutan. The band has spent months writing the album and has recorded at Sonic Ranch in the past, but never with Rutan at the helm. More details on the album, including art, songs, title and more will be revealed in the months to follow. For now, the band is hard at work forging their next death metal offering.

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