Dordeduh have been quiet in the last few months apart from a few shows. Some of its members have lately been focusing on their side-project Sunset In The 12th House including guitarist/vocalist Edmond Karban, guitarist Christian Popescu and drummer Sergio Ponti. Dordeduh have now finally offered an update on the status of the band and it appears they are going on a live hiatus as Edmond Karban will focus on his family.

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Vreid begin their week with a brand new song. The black metal group from Norway has premiered the first song from the 7th album Sólverv and it is the opening track "Haust". You can find out all you need to know about their new album below and you can listen to the new song over here. Sólverv shall be released through Indie Recordings on 9th of October 2015.

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With Immortal working on new songs and after the legal Battles In The North with his former band, Abbath went solo and his new band project is simply called Abbath. Now we know that Abbath's debut album is coming in January via Season of Mist. His line-up also features bassist King ov Hell (Gorgoroth, I, God Seed, Ov Hell) and drummer Creature. Stay tuned for more details regarding the album.

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The London-based post-metallers Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster have a new album out called Wires/Dream\Wires available as a 6-panel digipack CD. The full-length contains 9 new tracks and clocks at around 60 minutes. You can now listen to it in its entirety at Bandcamp. Enjoy their new album!

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Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served a search warrant Thursday at the California home of Gene Simmons, but the KISS bassist/vocalist and his family are not considered suspects. The rocker's publicist said the police visit was connected with a crime that may have occurred on the property last year while Simmons was away touring with KISS.

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Attention Aussies. Megadeth have just announced an Australian tour taking place this October with special guests Children Of Bodom! Fan club pre-sale begins Friday, August 21st at 12 Noon local time. All tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday, August 24th at 10.00am. Megadeth are busy preparing a new album, which can be pre-ordered here, while Children Of Bodom's guitarist Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho recently went on stage in Helsinki with an army of 100 guitarists and presented a song he only wrote for that evening.

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Bad news arrive from Insomnium. The Finns are currently touring in North America with Omnium Gatherum but are cancelling their upcoming European tour they had planned with Wolfheart. The band will still be playing a three-gig tour in Belarus and Russia in November (5-7.11) and all the booked one-off shows including Metal Hammer awards gig in Berlin (18.9), Geiselwind Christmas Bash (11.12) and 70000 Tons Of Metal 2016 cruise in next February. And they promise that they will be back in full strength.

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Weeping Birth, the brutal black/death metal project of Vladimir Cochet (Mirrorthrone), has unveiled the artwork of its upcoming and long-awaited album, The Crushed Harmony, to be released on November 16th via Apathia Records. Seven long years after the monolith of brutality Anosognosic Industry Of The I, Vladimir Cochet releases a new Weeping Birth album. The Crushed Harmony is an especially dense 32-minute act, mixing limitless death metal aggressiveness and grievous black metal atmospheres.

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It has been a while since Rage Against The Machine released a live album (or any album for that matter) but that is about to change. On September 11th, 2015, Eagle Rock Entertainment releases Live At Finsbury Park by Rage Against The Machine. This is a simultaneous release on DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats. For now, you can watch the anthem "Killing In The Name" taken from the show below and bang your head.

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Chthe'ilist will be releasing their debut album next year, it has been announced. The Canadian death metallers will finally release a follow-up to their demo Amechth'ntaas'm'rriachth. Their debut full-length, Le Dernier Crépuscule, will be mixed by Greg Chandler of Esoteric in the coming weeks, and will be mastered by Brad Boatright at the end of the month. The release date, tracklist and painting by Paolo Girardi will be revealed later. The album will have about 50 minutes of music and will be released by Profound Lore Records (CD/digital), Dark Descent Records (vinyl) and Graceless Recordings (cassette).

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Polish heavy/black metal legends Kat & Roman Kostrzewski have announced that they will release a rerecorded version of Kat's 1986 debut album 666. It has been 29 years since it was released for the first time. You can preorder the album on CD or vinyl through the label Mystic Production store right now. it will be made available on September 11th.

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Finns Omnium Gatherum, who have just started the North American tour with fellow countrymen Insomnium, premiere a brand new song, entitled "Skyline", taken from the band's upcoming (yet untitled) new album due out in February of 2016 on Lifeforce Records. The album was recorded by Teemu Aalto, mixed and mastered by Dan Swanö. More details will follow soon.

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New music alert! The official lyric video for "I Worship Chaos", the title track of the ninth studio album from Finnish metallers Children Of Bodom, can now be seen below. The anticipated album will be released on October 2nd via Nuclear Blast. This is already the second song the band shares from the upcoming offering. After you listened to the track "Morrigan" before, what are your thoughts on "I Worship Chaos"? Discover the track here.

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And now for something a bit different but also familiar. Photojournalist Jacob Ehrbahn has captured people headbanging at several European metal outings, including Copenhell, Wacken Open Air and Metaltown. The result is Headbangers which "is a collection of Danish photographer Jacob Ehrbahn's intimate portraits of the beauty and chaos of heavy metal rockers in the throes of musical ecstasy."

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New music alert! There is a new song from TesseracT to be enjoyed now. Ahead of the release of the brand new studio album Polaris from the U.K.'s progressive act, the band is giving fans worldwide a chance to hear a new album track "Messenger". This release sees the return of vocalist Daniel Tompkins. How was that as a first taste of the record?

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