Greek symphonic metallers Nightfall have completed the recordings for their new album to be titled Cassiopeia, which is set for release in January 2013 through Metal Blade Records. This will be the follow-up to Astron Black And The Thirty Tyrants. A first single, cover art, and more details on Cassiopeia will be revealed in just a few weeks.

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The classic US heavy metal band Obsession has uploaded the track "Forbidden Desire" for streaming. "Forbidden Desire" comes off the new album Order Of Chaos, which was released on October 3rd in Europe and October 9th in North America through Inner Wound Recordings and on September 19th in Japan through Spiritual Beast. The Japanese edition of the album also features the exclusive bonus track "The Damned".

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Italian progressive power metal band Infinita Symphonia is happy to announce that Michael Kiske (ex-Helloween, Unisonic) will feature as a guest vocalist on their new album. Kiske will team up with the band's vocalist Luca Micioni on one of the songs on the album.

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Rikard Edlund, Graveyard's bassist, has been forced to sit out the band's upcoming events in order to fight addiction problems. The band labored to explain as to why Rikard will not be featuring in the band's upcoming tours. While Rikard is away, the band will continue with a stand-in bass player whose name is yet to be announced.

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Norwegian doom metal act Funeral has released thirty seconds excerpts from the songs on their upcoming album Oratorium, due out on November 23rd through Grau Records. With the release of the new album right around the corner, you can now stream the samples here.

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Flourishing is preparing the release of a new EP. It will be called Intersubjectivity and, according to the band, carries forth where The Sum Of All Fossils left off. You can expect a November 13th release.

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Greek metal band RandomWalk has parted ways with keyboardist Dorian, who has been part of the band for the last 8 years, since the beginning.

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Canadian death metallers Cryptopsy will soon release a 2CD/digital download "best of" collection entitled The Best Of Us Bleed. The band has now teased this release with a brief video, which you can watch here. Century Media Records will release The Best Of Us Bleed on November 12th in Europe and on November 19th in North America.

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German thrashers Sodom have checked in to update on the progress of their new album. The band has started the production stages. Sodom is working with producer Waldemar Sorychta.

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Israeli progressive metal band Orphaned Land is encouraging fans to sign a petition (created by a fan of the band) submitted to the Norwegian Nobel Committee to consider them for the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, in case you think they are worthy of such a prize.

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The Art Of Coming Apart, death metallers Fragments Of Unbecoming's new album, has been penned for release on November 30th. The new album tracklist was recently revealed at this location. Now the band has unveiled the cover art to The Art Of Coming Apart, which you can see below. The layout was done by Sascha Ehrich, the band's guitarist.

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Danish progressive/neoclassical metal band Royal Hunt has recently announced the release of an anniversary 3CD + DVD compilation, simply entitled 20th Anniversary. The special edition will be released via Frontiers Records in Europe on November 23rd, 2012, in the USA on January 22nd, 2013 and through Marquee/Avalon in Japan/SE Asia on November 21st, 2012.

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Deathgrind outfit Whorecore is currently streaming two new songs from their new album titled Headless. You can listen to "Schweinehund" and "Born Headless" at their Bandcamp page. Headless should be released at the end of this year.

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Finnish melodic death metal band Insomnium has premiered a video for their song "One For Sorrow", taken from their latest album of the same name. The video can be seen over at Noisecreep. The video was filmed at the Wacken Open Air festival and Tuska Open Air this summer.

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Belgium black metallers Enthroned and Italian black/doom metal band Forgotten Tomb have announced an European tour, scheduled for November/December this year. Support on the road will come from Impiety and Noctem. The entire tour is organized by Flaming Arts Agency.

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Event:	Enthroned: Obsidivum European Campaign 2012