With the release of their new live album Apotheosis - Live 2012 approaching, Firewind are starting to tease us with bits from the new release. The Greek heavy metallers have now released a trailer of the live album which you can enjoy below. Apotheosis - Live 2012 will be released on June 24th, 2013 to celebrate the group's 10th anniversary and is the farewell release with singer Apollo Papathanasio.

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Today's offering comes from Swedish metal veterans Entombed which have teamed up with PledgeMusic to launch a reissue campaign for some of their favorite albums. You can find more details and download Entombed's cover of King Diamond's "Welcome Home" over here. If you don't feel like downloading it, you can also just stream it at the same location.

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"Up From Down", the new video from Freedoms Reign, the band led by Victor Arduini, original guitarist and founding member of Fates Warning, can be seen below. The song comes off Freedoms Reign's self-titled debut album, which was released on April 30th. You can discover the album and stream it in its entirety here.

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Power metallers Crystal Ball started their journey in 1995 but they only released their debut album In The Beginning in 1999. Now in 2013, the band's back with a brand new line-up featuring a new vocalist, Steven Mageney. They're currently working on their seventh album, which is tentatively titled Dawnbreaker and set to be released later this year via Massacre Records. You can listen to a short preview of the preproduction of the new album below to get in the mood.

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Death metal titans Behemoth have been holed up in Hertz Studios working on their tenth full-length album and took a break to announce the title of their forthcoming release - it will be called The Satanist. Now that can bring all kinds of trouble and protest. The album will come out in the fall of 2013.

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ABC10 and other sources are reporting that Tim Lambesis, the lead singer of metalcore outfit As I Lay Dying, who is accused of trying to arrange the murder of his estranged wife, posted bail and is out of jail. He left the Vista Detention Facility yesterday, according to authorities. Bail for the As I Lay Dying frontman was lowered from $3 million to $2 million a few weeks ago.

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Swedish metallers In Flames have some interesting news for us today. First of all, the band has premiered a new video for their song "Ropes" taken from Sounds Of A Playground Fading, their latest album released in 2011. The video was made entirely by In Flames fans as part of the project "Making of Ropes" and edited by Erik Engstrand. Take a look at the result below.

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Heavy metallers Stryper have completed work on their new studio album No More Hell To Pay which is due later this year via Frontiers Records. The album's tracklist has been revealed and includes a cover version of "Jesus Is Just Alright", a gospel song written by Arthur Reid Reynolds. Keep an eye out for more details about this new release and song samples.

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Last year, Metallica confirmed that a 3D movie was in the works for release in 2013. At the beginning of this year, the band revealed more and confirmed that the movie would be titled Metallica Through The Never. Now the band has released the official theatrical trailer of the movie and you can have the first taste of Metallica Through The Never here. It will be shown on IMAX theatres in North America on September 27th and will roll into additional theatres in full 3D one week later on October 4th.

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Recently, heavy metal gods Judas Priest announced the release of their upcoming Epitaph Blu-ray and DVD and released a trailer teasing it. Now they shared professionally filmed video footage of Judas Priest performing the song "Turbo Lover" (from the album Turbo) at the Hammersmith Apollo in London, England in May 2012 which can be seen below.

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Exciting news arrive from the Red Fang camp. The stoner band will return this fall with their as-yet-untitled third studio album which follows Murder The Mountains. The Portland-based group is currently in the studio finishing the album with the producer Chris Funk (Decemberists) and mixer Vance Powell (White Stripes, Raconteurs, Kings Of Leon). This same team worked on Red Fang's last album also released via Relapse Records.

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Omnium Gatherum have revealed a new video for their song "Formidable" taken from the band's latest opus Beyond, released earlier this year. The video was directed and shot by Hannu Mikkola / Visual Vortex at their home town show in Kotka earlier this year as part of their Beyond record release party tour. Fans will obviously be familiar with the song but take a look at how the video turned out right here.

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Phil "Philo" Beurstatte, former drummer for White Zombie and also for Last Crack has reportedly been found dead over the weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. No further details have been provided at this point. Buerstatte was 44 years of age.

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In 2012, doom metallers Windhand released their self-titled debut album. The band is now putting the finishing touches on their second release for Relapse Records, due out this fall, which was recorded and mixed by the band's own Garrett Morris at The Darkroom and mastered by James Plotkin, in their hometown of Richmond, Virginia. Moreover, the band will trek across North America this summer showcasing songs from their upcoming new album.

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Following Träume Einer Nacht, Schwarzer Engel are about to release their new EP Schwarze Sonne and as a foretaste, you can now listen to snippets from each song that will appear on the EP at this location. The Schwarze Sonne EP will be released on May 24th, 2013 via Massacre Records.

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