Swiss folk metallers Eluveitie have announced the release of a new double-CD package named The Early Years on August 17th, 2012. This package will include, as you may have guessed, songs from Eluveitie's early years. To be more exact, all titles from the very first EP Vên as well as the complete debut album Spirit, both of which have remained sold out for some time now.

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German melodic death metallers Fragments Of Unbecoming have finished recording their upcoming album, The Art Of Coming Apart. A release date is yet to be announced but the band posted the following: "We've finished the recordings for our upcoming silvering The Art of Coming Apart. The songs are an awesome piece of Swedish death metal! By the end of this month the mixing will be finished and afterwards it will be mastered by Dan Swanö!"

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In This Moment have revealed the artwork from their upcoming new release Blood and follow-up to 2010's A Star-Crossed Wasteland. You can check it out below. The new album from the US metalcore outfit is set for release on August 14th via Century Media Records. The title track off the new album, "Blood", is still streaming at this location, and is also available as a single on iTunes here.

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Norwegian metallers Djevel, who prefer to drink their coffee black, have just revealed the artwork for their forthcoming EP in all its majesty. This yet untitled 7" EP will include two limited versions of the upcoming album's tracks carrying these titles: "Besatt av Maane og Natt" and "Og Englene Dinglet fra Galgene...", and will be released on August 24th.

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Under Flaming Winter Skies - Live In Tampere, the new DVD from Finnish power metallers Stratovarius is coming and the band has now released a clip with the performance of the song "Black Diamond". The DVD will include over two hours of live performance of all the hits and a brand new 30 minute documentary "Rewinding From The Past To 2012", interviews with each member as well as a special comment from Jörg Michael, and will be released on June 29th via earMUSIC on DVD/Blu-ray/2CD. The new Stratovarius studio album is coming in 2013.

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To celebrate two decades of existence, Slipknot will release Antennas To Hell, a "best of" collection documenting its career on July 24th. The album is scheduled to be released via Roadrunner Records while the band is spending its summer as the main attraction of the 2012 edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, as well as curating and headlining the inaugural year of their very own festival, Knotfest.

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Luca Turilli's Rhapsody have released a six-minute official trailer for their upcoming album Ascending To Infinity, which can be seen below. Additionally, you can now listen to 90 second samples of all the songs here. It won't be long until the album is released on June 22nd through Nuclear Blast. The previously released video "Dark Fate Of Atlantis" is still available for streaming here.

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Adrian ''The Swede'' Erlandsson, Paradise Lost's drummer, will not be performing on a couple of their upcoming shows. He will be replaced by Jeff Singer. The band posted the following: "Due to diary clashes we are sorry to say Adrian Erlandsson won't be playing with the band when they appear at Costa De Fuego on the 20th July, and also Wacken on the 4th August. However we didn't want to let anyone down, so we are pleased to welcome back the lovely Jeff Singer as special guest drummer for both these shows!"

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US atmospheric death/funeral doom metal band Evoken have completed work on their anticipated new full-length album Atra Mors (the Latin translation for "Black Death"). The album is due out on July 31st under Profound Lore Records. Also, Evoken has a new track, "An Extrinsic Divide", available for streaming at this location.

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It seems that apparently not only is Slash not welcome at any Guns N' Roses shows, but neither are Slash T-shirts.

According to British music magazine NME, a fan at GNR's May 31 concert at London's O2 Arena, who showed up a wearing a Slash T-shirt, was forced by security to remove his shirt at the door. The concertgoer, 18-year-old James Revell, grudgingly abided and entered the venue bare-chested.

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"Rainmen", a brand new video from Swedish post-rock band Atoma is now available for viewing below. The song comes off the band's debut album Skylight, which was released on March 4th via Napalm Records. The album Skylight is a journey by a group of astronauts to the unexplored cosmos in search of a new home for mankind seeing as planet Earth has become inhospitable. More album details were previously reported here.

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The Kuwait-based melodic death metal band Divine Disorder has released a new two-track single titled Children Of Menace. The single features the mighty Karl Sanders from Nile and Pzy-Coma from The Kovenant in one of the tracks.

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Canadian progressive metal genius Devin Townsend has released a clip from his upcoming DVD boxset By A Thread - Live In London 2011, with the performance of the song "Gato" from the album Ki and you can watch it exclusively at this location.

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"Bound To Strive", the brand new video from Finns Profane Omen is now available for viewing below. The song for this video comes off the band's latest album Destroy!, released in September last year through Spinefarm Records. The video was filmed in Nosturi, Helsinki, on 20.4.2012. It was directed by Pete Voutilainen/One Eye Media and edited by Ykä Järvinen.

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Finnish suomi metal band The Chant's upcoming album is currently streaming online in its entirety at this location. A Healing Place is set to be released on May 30th via Secret Entertainment.

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