German thrashers Pripjat are going to release their second full-length album, entitled Chain Reaction, on April 27th via NoiseArt Records. You can watch the video for the first single, "Survival Of The Sickest", below.

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The Twins of Evil are back this Summer for a co-headliner tour. Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson are heading out on tour again across America (and one date in Canada). The Twins of Evil: Second Coming Tour 2018 will take place in July and August. Pre-sales for the tour will start from March 19th and will go fully on sale from March 24th.

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Event:	Rob Zombie & Marilyn Manson: The Second Coming North America Tour 2018

Death metal defenders Gruesome have completed their second full-length album and follow-up their 2015 debut full-length, Savage Land. The new album entitled Twisted Prayers was recorded with producer Jarrett Pritchard (Exhumed, 1349, Goatwhore) at New Constellation Studios in Orlando, Florida. Additionally, they announce headline Summer Europe tour dates starting at Obscene Extreme 2018, travels through 22 cities and ends August 12th in Kortrijk, Belgium. Includes additional festival appearances at Wacken Open Air, Free & Easy Festival, Stonehenge Festival and more.

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Mixed news from the Disillusion front. As shared in the band's newsletter, claims that the new album will be finished soon were followed by the announcement that the band's long-time drummer Jens Maluschka has decided to leave the band.

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Bleed From Within have recently launched a video taken from their upcoming album, Era. Five years in the making, Era marks the return of the Scottish quintet. Guitarist Craig Gowans directed the video himself for 12 Inch Media. Make sure to check out "Afterlife" right here.

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Swedish metalhead and Borlänge son Nils Patrik Johansson, who is the vocalist in Astral Doors and Lion's Share, will release his first solo album, Evil Deluxe on Metalville this spring. You can already hear a teaser of the album below.

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Halestorm and In This Moment will join forces on a co-headlining upcoming North American tour. New Years Day and Stitched Up Heart are also accompanying them as special guests. Tickets go on sale Friday, 10am and the dates can be seen below. Halestorm are also working on a new album to follow Into The Wild Life.

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The first single off Varathron's upcoming album, Patriarchs Of Evil", is out and you can stream it now below. The album is set for release on April 27th via Agonia Records and "Ouroboros Dweller" has been described by the band as "the most epic, dark and excessive track of the album. A classic among classics."

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German death/doom act Doomed are currently recording a new album, which means the follow-up to Anna is coming. Titled 6 Anti-Odes To Life, it will feature 7 new tracks and the live musicians have been more involved and contributed to the new album, expected in May.

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Blitzkrieg was part of the NWOBHM movement back in 80's. Now the band is back and will release their new album, Judge Not! on April 27th via Mighty Music. The follow-up to 2013's Back From Hell was recorded at Downcast Base HQ in Newcastle, U.K. by Phil Davies, but the band elected to use a different studio this time around for mixing. Because the Blitzkrieg members all admire the work of Denmark's Hansen Studios, most notably the mix of the Pretty Maids' Pandemonium album, they enlisted Jonas Haagensen from Hansen to mix Judge Not!.

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Progressive metal band Oceans Of Slumber have released a new song titled "No Color, No Light", from their new album The Banished Heart. This is the third song they release so far. The song is a duet between lead vocalist Cammie Gilbert and Evergrey's Tom S. Englund and can be heard below. The video features visuals by Costin Chioreanu.

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A super tour has just been announced for North America. Four European bands - Finns Amorphis, Swedes Dark Tranquillity, Portuguese Moonspell and Finnish Omnium Gatherum - will join forces in September and October this year. Don't miss this tour! Amorphis just finished the new album recordings with producer Jens Bogren and the release is tentatively this May.

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Event:	Amorphis & Dark Tranquillity: Co-Headlining North American Tour 2018

English blasphemous metalheads Venom Inc. just shared a new lyric video for the song "War". You can check it out over on YouTube. The trio is set to kick off the next stage of their "Blood Stained Earth World Tour". The first part will lead them through Asia plus Oceania, before the band haunt the UK and European clubs with label mates Suffocation, Nervosa, Aeternam and Survive. In addition to presenting tracks from their debut album Avé (nominated for The Best Heavy / Melodic Metal Album at Metal Storm Awards 2017), Venom Inc. will also perform a bunch of Venom classics.

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The reunited classic lineup of Dokken, guitarist George Lynch, vocalist Don Dokken, bassist Jeff Pilson and drummer "Wild" Mick Brown, will release a new CD, DVD and Blu-ray, Return To The East Live (2016), on April 20th via Frontiers Music Srl. The set will contain footage of the band's October 2016 performance at Japan's Loud Park festival, as well as a brand new studio track, titled "It's Just Another Day".

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The Malta Doom Festival is an annual event in the small Mediterranean island of Malta. And this year, the festival organizers decided go old school and announce the line up on a radio show. The new bands confirmed are Greek metallers Reflection and Swedish necrotic blasphemers Necrophobic.

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