Swedish classic rock/AOR supergroup The Night Flight Orchestra are set to take off with the release of their new album, titled Aeromantic, on February 28th via Nuclear Blast. The album was recorded at the Nordic Sound Labs using the same drum kit that was used during the recordings of Abba's album Super Trouper from 1980. The video for the song "Divinyls", directed by René U Valdes of Bravo Bravo Films, is available below.

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German doom/sludge act Eremit are happy to announce the return of their guitarist Pascal "Kalle" Sommer, which means that they will be a three-piece once again. The band is also planning the release of their second full-length album, entitled Bearer Of Many Names, as well as a two-track EP, titled Desert Of Ghouls. Both releases will arrive in 2020 through Transcending Obscurity Records.

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German black metallers Porta Nigra premiere their third and final single, "Die Augen Des Basilisken", taken from the upcoming album Schöpfungswut, due out January 17th through Soulseller Records.

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Canadian folk/power metal formation Blackguard premiere their new album, Storm, in its entirety ahead of its official release this coming Friday, January 3rd. This is their first one since 2011's Firefight record. Storm was recorded, mixed and mastered by Jonathan Lefrançois-Leduc at Silverwings Studio.

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Heads For The Dead are ready to deliver some night-ripping terror on their already recorded, mixed and mastered second album, which is going to be released in 2020 via Transcending Obscurity Records. The band has also announced that drummer Ed Warby (The 11th Hour, Star One, Vuur, ex-Demiurg, ex-Gorefest, ex-Hail Of Bullets), is now the band's third member.

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Newly formed American hard rock veteran group Black Swan have announced the release of their debut record, entitled Shake The World, due out February 14, 2020 on CD/LP/Digital via Frontiers Music Srl. Check out also the official video for the album's title-track, directed by Èric Boadella and produced by Enzo Mazzeo.

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Yesterday, Kataklysm vocalist Maurizio Iacono checked in with an 'end of the year video message', in which he also stated that the band's upcoming full-length effort is completed. Even though, Canadian death metallers have been touring a lot in 2019, promoting their latest record Meditations, they had still time to focus on creating new music. The album was produced by Colin Richardson and has been set for the official release on August 22nd, 2020. More to follow, stay tuned.

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Black metal duo from Minnesota Canis Dirus premiere a brand new track titled "The Child And The Serpent", taken from their upcoming new album Independence To The Beast, which will be out in stores January 31st via Bindrune Recordings.

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Sivyj Yar, one-man black metal band from Russia, will put out a new full-length, titled Горе (Grief). The album will be released by Avantgarde Records on February 7th. You can also check out the official video for the 9-minute title-track.

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It was a surprise last month when Children Of Bodom announced the end of the current lineup, with Henkka, Janne and Jaska announcing their departure, and with a last show being played on the 15th of December at Helsinki Ice Hall. Now with a Facebook post they confirmed that they are in ownership of the Children Of Bodom brand.

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Japanese death metal band Defiled are soon to release their sixth album, Infinite Regress, on the 24th of January, through Season Of Mist. Already having released two songs, we now get a third one, "Masses In Chaos", which you can listen to below.

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Sabaton have unveiled yet another video from their newest opus, The Great War, this time for a song called "Seven Pillars Of Wisdom". The song and cinematic video are about Lawrence Of Arabia, keeping up with the WWI topic of the album; with the video being filmed in Tunisia and it leading to several accidents on set. You can watch the video below.

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Japanese doomers Anatomia have posted an update regarding the work on new music they've been creating lately. The group confirmed that they have couple of split albums in the works as well as new full-length effort. The recording process of the latter will commence in early 2020. More will be revealed later.

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Swedes Lucifer are excited to reveal the album artwork and track listing of their new album, Lucifer III, which will be officially released on March 20th, 2020 by Century Media Records worldwide and by Trooper Entertainment in Japan.

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Germans Heaven Shall Burn have revealed a fair share of details for their new, double-album release. Entitled Of Truth and Sacrifice, the outing will contain 100 minutes of new material and will see the light in March, 2020 via Century Media Records.

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