New Zealand's brutal death metal machine Ulcerate have announced a European tour, together with French blackened death metal act Svart Crown, taking off on February 2nd in France.

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Band profile:	Ulcerate
Event:	Obscure Winter Fest 2012

UK's heavy metal pioneers Judas Priest have announced the first dates of their upcoming European tour, taking off on April 14th in Poland.

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Source:	judaspriest.com
Band profile:	Judas Priest
Event:	Judas Priest: Epitaph World Tour 2012 - Europe

German power metallers Powerwolf will headline the <b>Wolfsnächte Tour</b> in the spring of 2012 to celebrate the metal mass at full length. The wolves will be forcefully supported by two additional power metal highlights in the form of Mystic Prophecy and Stormwarrior. Opening up the package will be the French fellow pack of Lonewolf.

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Band profile:	Powerwolf
Event:	Powerwolf: Wolfsnächte Tour

Japanese metallers Blood Stain Child have announced the postponement of most of the dates on their European tour in November and December. The dates in Russia and Ukraine will however remain as scheduled.

Here it is the statement from the band: "EU tour postponed - Due to various unfortunate situations, we could not avoid the change in schedule. Therefore, we would like to apologize to all the fans that have been waiting for us, from the bottom of our heart. Soon, we will be able to announce new dates for the tour, so we ask for your understanding and your patience."

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Source:	bloodstainchild.com
Band profile:	Blood Stain Child
Event:	Blood Stain Child: Epsilon Tour [POSTPONED]

German progressive/technical death metal outfit Obscura have announced an upcoming European tour, taking off in March through April.

Support on the trek comes from technical death metallers Spawn Of Possession and Gorod, and fusion metallers Exivious.

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Band profile:	Obscura
Event:	Omnivium Europe Tour 2012

British thrashers Evile have confirmed an European headlining tour in support of their new album, Five Serpent's Teeth, which is due to kick off on January 10th in Prague, Czech Republic.

Presented by Rock Hard, the <b>Five Serpent's European Tour 2012</b> will see Evile bringing their brand of hard and heavy thrash back to mainland Europe following a recent UK tour. The band will be tearing their way across ten countries with support from Portrait and Dr. Living Dead.

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Source:	evile.co.uk
Band profile:	Evile
Event:	Evile: Five Serpent's European Tour 2012

On January 17th, 2012, Metal Blade will re-issue the three Bolt Thrower albums Mercenary, Honour - Valour - Pride and Those Once Loyal on vinyl. Metal Blade Records Europe released their versions on October 21st/24th, and they can be ordered now at this location.

Bolt Thrower comments on their 25th Anniversary: "Anniversaries are kind of easy to achieve. For a band, just don't split up and you'll reach one, whether it's 10, 20 or 35 years. And this year we've reached '25 years of not splitting up'!"

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Source:	metalblade.com
Band profile:	Bolt Thrower

British crossover thrashers SSS have confirmed the final dates for a headlining European tour, which kicks off this Friday, October 28th in Lisbon, Portugal. The band will be hitting the road in support of their critically acclaimed new album, Problems To The Answer, and it will be the first full tour with new members Stu Taylor (guitar) and Dave Archer (drums).

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Band profile:	SSS

German metalcore act Caliban will embark on tour, dubbed Get Infected Tour 2012, set to take off in early February next year. Tour dates and locations can be seen after the jump.

Support on the trek comes off All Shall Perish, We Butter The Bread With Butter, Eyes Set To Kill and Attila.

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Band profile:	Caliban
Event:	Caliban: Get Infected Tour 2012

Czech death metallers Pandemia have parted ways with their guitarist Vlasta Slí?. The band issued the following statement on their MySpace: "Since September we have added a new member, Vitaly to our ranks! We want to thank outgoing guitarist Vlasta for everything, especially for the last 5 years with the band and wish him the best!"

The band will also be hitting the road with Debauchery, Vermin and Bloodstained Ground in the course of an European Tour come this November.


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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Pandemia
Event:	Pandemia: European Tour

Through January and February next year, Brazilian brutal death metallers Krisiun will embark on a tour, dubbed Sounds Of Extreme Tour, through-out Europe. Dates are yet to be announced.

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Band profile:	Krisiun

Since Norway's jazz-metal outfit, Shining, shocked the music world with their genre-defining and now classic Blackjazz in January 2010, people have been asking themselves if it's humanly possible at all to reproduce the sheer ferocity and aggressiveness on a stage, while still retaining the machinelike precision displayed in their punishing studio tracks. See for yourself that Shining makes it more than possible when they tour Europe this November.

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Source:	p2rdesign.com
Band profile:	Shining (NOR)
Event:	Shining [NOR]: European Tour

Swedish metallers Grand Magus will hit the road early in 2012 across Europe. Support will come from the hand of Bullet, Steelwing, Skull Fist and Vanderbuyst.

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Band profile:	Grand Magus
Event:	Grand Magus: European Tour 2012

With the upcoming album Imaginaerum in the making, Finnish symphonic metallers Nightwish will embark on a European tour in support of the album in next year. The tour takes off in Göteborg/Gothenburg, Sweden on April 10th.

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Source:	nightwish.com
Band profile:	Nightwish
Event:	Nightwish: Imaginaerum European Tour 2012

Hot on the heels of new album Until Fear No Longer Defines Us (released last August), Finnish metallers Ghost Brigade will embark on a two-week tour of Europe with opening acts A Storm Of Light and Intronaut. Below are the dates and venues.

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Band profile:	Ghost Brigade
Event:	Ghost Brigade: Until Fear No Longer Defines Us Tour