Recently, The Absence shared the first song and video from their new record. The Tampa-based melodic death metal band hasn't released a new album in eight years, since 2010's Enemy Unbound, but they are finally unleashing A Gift For The Obsessed on March 23rd on M-Theory Audio. As of now, the title track is available for your listening pleasure below.

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Kamelot have released just a bit more about their new album. The symphonic metallers are set to release a brand new record in 2018 and now the band has unveiled the album's title: The Shadow Theory, coming this Spring on Napalm Records, with the album cover reveal happening next week. Recently, Kamelot also revealed that Jennifer Haben (Beyond The Black) will be a special guest on the new album.

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Vixen frontwoman Janet Gardner is recovering from surgery to remove blood clots in her brain, a condition known as a subdural hematoma. Subdural hematomas result from bleeding on the surface of the brain, and the condition is most often due to a serious fall or head injury. Vixen are also set to release a new album in 2018.

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Technical death metal masters Obscura have completed their fifth full-length album and announced that it will be entitled Diluvium. Diluvium was recorded with longtime producer V. Santura (Triptykon, Pestilence) at Woodshed Studios in Landshut, Germany and the album is set for a summer 2018 release via Relapse Records.

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After signing an agreement to join the Alone Records roster late last year, the Greek doom metal masters On Thorns I Lay shared the first single from their upcoming album, mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö. Aegean Sorrow will be released on March 12th via Alone Records and The Vinyl Division. Leaving behind the gothic influences, it seems to be a return to the death doom roots. You can hear it for yourself below.

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Austrian mystic metallers Dornenreich have announced that new shows will happen in 2018, and also more interesting news: a new album is coming too. The tour dates can be seen on the flyer. Their new album will be called Du Wilde Liebe Sei and the trio shared the first minutes out of their recent demo-recordings. Check out the snippets now!

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Swedish metallers Tribulation have just shared their third and last single before the release of the new album, Down Below (to be released on January 26th). It is called "The World". Once again, filmmaker Robert Piel has created a visual interpretation that you can watch here below.

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American metallers Iced Earth had announced a North American tour with Sanctuary before Warrel Dane passed away. It has now been announced that the tour will go on as planned, as a tribute to the fallen singer, one of metal's most revered vocalists. The band has invited a guest singer to perform Sanctuary songs and that will be Joseph Michael from Witherfall.

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Riverside's frontman Mariusz Duda has shared some news regarding the future plans for the progressive band. In a message posted on his Facebook page, the bassist/vocalist revealed that a new Riverside album is set to drop this year! This will be their first album since Love, Fear And The Time Machine (2015) and, of course, the first since the passing of guitarist Piotr Grudzinski in 2016.

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Ukrainian black metal icons, Drudkh, just released the first track of their forthcoming new album, Їм часто сниться капіж (They Often See Dreams About The Spring), which will hit the stores on March 9th 2018 via Season Of Mist. Listen to "Nakryta Neba Burym Dakhom?" now below!

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The last we've heard of Immortal, the black metal legends promised to begin recording their new album last year. Now, a year later, that album is completed to finally follow 2009's All Shall Fall. The album will be released by Nuclear Blast Records in 2018 (release date will follow) and contain the following tracks: 'Northern Chaos Gods', 'Into Battle Ride', 'Gates To Blashyrkh', 'Grim And Dark', 'Called To Ice', 'Where Mountains Rise', 'Blacker Of Worlds' and 'Mighty Ravendark'.

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Nuclear Blast just announced that the new, upcoming compilation album of the Finnish symphonic masters Nightwish, titled Decades - An Archive Of Song will be released on March 3rd, 2018, and is now available for pre-order! This compilation album will be released in celebration of the band's worldwide success over the years, and will debut the remastered versions of the best Nightwish songs between the years of 1996-2016, including the band's earliest, self-titled demo, and a variety of songs from all of the band's eras.

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Judas Priest are back with a fiery new single! The legendary heavy metallers just debuted a brand new video for the single "Lightning Strike" which will appear on Firepower, their first new album in four years, due out March 9th via Epic Records. In the video, you can watch the band perform in all their glory.

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The new year has started with a change for Sodom: vocalist/bassist Tom Angelripper has split up with guitarist Bernd "Bernemann" Kost and drummer Markus "Makka" Freiwald. Despite of this line-up change, all scheduled Sodom shows will take place from April 2018 as announced. Tom is set to introduce his new comrades-in-arms at the Full Metal Mountain. Whether the band will continue to operate as a trio or perhaps become a quartet in future remains unclear.

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After a long silence, it appears that Czech metallers Ador Dorath have been working on a new album. The gothic black metal band has posted on YouTube a video teasing the follow-up to The Very Essence Of Fire (2014). It's the new single "Outspoken". You can listen to the new sounds below while you wait to know more details about the record.

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