Recently, Nile drummer George Kollias announced the release of his first solo album via Season Of Mist. Well, today you get to hear a bit of the album where Kollias performs all instruments. The first new track taken from his forthcoming solo album Invictus is the crushing "Shall Rise/Shall Be Dead" and features guitarist George Emmanuel from Greeks Rotting Christ. Check out if you like it or not over here or here.

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Anthrax also contributed with a song to the Catch The Throne: The Mixtape Volume II, like Mastodon, Killswitch Engage and Mushroomhead. Now you can hear all of their contributions online through SoundCloud. Anthrax's song is called "Soror Irrumator" and is available for your listening pleasure at this location.

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If you liked stoner metallers Domovoyd's debut album Oh Sensibility, we have good news. The band will release their new album this May! The Finns are ready to deliver a second transmission from worlds beyond and within scheduled to appear on May 8th. The album is self-titled and it will be available on CD, double vinyl and digital via Svart Records. For those who are looking for a quick fix while waiting for the album to hit, Domovoyd have prepared a shorter version of the album's opening track "Domovoyage". Dive in!

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The legendary Black Sabbath frontman Ozzy Osbourne is getting the comic book treatment! Bluewater Productions just confirmed the release of a brand new comic book biography on the life of Ozzy as part of their popular Orbit series. Ozzy Osbourne: The Metal Madman will be released this week and will be available in both print and digital in case you are interested. Ozzy Osbourne has had a pretty animated life, so that makes sense.

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Prog giants Arena were founded in 1995 by two celebrities of the scene: Mick Pointer (ex-Marillion) and Clive Nolan (Pendragon, Shadowland, Strangers On A Train, Caamora). Together with guitarist John Mitchell (Frost*), bassist Kylan Amos, and with the charismatic Paul Manzi (Oliver Wakeman Band) on the vocals, the band return with a brand new studio album The Unquiet Sky. But there is more! During the Polish leg of their upcoming tour, the band will record their new DVD release.

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Now this could be something epic. Mastodon have contributed with a new track to the upcoming Game Of Thrones "Catch The Throne Vol. 2" mixtape. The track is called "White Walker" and like all of the tracks on the mixtape, it samples music from last season of the HBO show. Satisfy your curiosity and listen to the track over here. If you watch the show, you know that the White Walkers are the frostbitten undead from Beyond The Wall and the song is inspired by them.

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Death metallers Pyrrhon have suffered a tough blow. The Americans have been dropped from Relapse Records. The label terminated their contract with Pyrrhon and will not be working on their next LP. The given reason for their decision was that their 2014 album The Mother Of Virtues has not proven commercially successful. Despite the split, the band perseveres and has good news. They will release the new EP Growth Without End on June 2nd, 2015. Check out the cover art below and more details.

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Des Moines, Iowa television station KCCI is reporting that Mickeal Gordon Thomson, Slipknot's guitarist, has reportedly suffered a stab wound to the back of his head in an altercation with his brother, Andrew Thomson. According to reports, the knife fight started inside Mickeal's home in Clive, Iowa and spilled into the front yard.

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This year will see the release of a new Goatsnake album. It's quite an occasion because the doom/stoner metal quartet hasn't released a new album since 2000's Flower Of Disease. Their first full-length in fifteen years is entitled Black Age Blues, and shall be released via Southern Lord on June 2nd, 2015. Take a look at the front cover below as well as tracklist and more.

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Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium, winners of Best Melodeath / Extreme Power / Gothenburg Metal Album on Metal Storm Awards 2014 with Shadows Of The Dying Sun, have announced a tour with their country mates Omnium Gatherum. This is Insomnium's first ever USA headlining tour, as well as the second tour announced with Omnium Gatherum.

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Italian black/doom metal quartet Forgotten Tomb has launched the first promotional video for their new album Hurt Yourself And The Ones You Love. Check it out here now! The video, created by Alberto Falcone, is for the title track of the album which is set to be released on April 17th in Europe and April 21st in North America via Agonia Records. Don't forget to give us your impressions of the music and clip.

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Death metal veterans Six Feet Under have been very prolific throughout the years and that is not about to change now. In fact, they will release their eleventh studio recording on May 5th via Metal Blade Records. Titled Crypt Of The Devil, the album brings a ten track slab of audio violence composed by vocalist Chris Barnes and Cannabis Corpse bassist/vocalist Phil "Landphil" Hall. Sample the new macabre single "Open Coffin Orgy" below and take a look at the album cover and more details too.

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While Katatonia haven't released a new album in a few years, they have been busy with other releases including EPs, compilations, acoustic releases and DVDs. Now the Swedish masters of melancholy will release a new concert film, Sanctitude, and today you get to watch the live video for "Day" which is a beautiful song you might know from one of the band's standout records, Brave Murder Day. Sanctitude will be released on March 30th in the UK and the rest of the world, March 31st in the USA and Canada, and April 3rd in Germany. Until then, enjoy this version of the haunting "Day" song.

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If you like to read and also like death metal and grindcore, this could be perfect for you. Originally released on Feral House back in 2004, Choosing Death: The Improbable History Of Death Metal and Grindcore is widely recognized as the definitive history of its titular extreme music subgenres. For its (more or less) 10-year anniversary, author Albert Mudrian - editor-in-chief of Decibel Magazine - has chosen life after death in the form of an expanded and revised edition, which flaunts 100 additional pages of new content.

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It's time to hear some new material from Coal Chamber. The Los Angeles metallers fronted by Dez Fafara are back but is it with a bang? You can judge their first new single for now. It's called "I.O.U. Nothing" and it's their first new material in a long time. You can stream the song at this location.

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