Japanese power metal act X Japan has been nominated for Best International Band alongside Behemoth, Lacuna Coil, Meshuggah, Rammstein and Sepultura at the Revolver Golden Gods Awards, which will take place on April 11th at Club Nokia in Downtown Los Angeles. You can cast your vote at this location.

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Source:	xjapanmusic.com
Band profile:	X Japan

Sixteen new remix tracks off the compilation album Illud Divinum Insanus (The Remixes) have been made available online and can be streamed at this location. The double compilation hits stores today in Europe and on February 28th (North America) via Season Of Mist and features remixes of songs from US industrial/death metallers Morbid Angel's latest album Illud Divinum Insanus from 39 artists from the Electro/Industrial/Dub scene. More details about this release were previously reported here.

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Band profile:	Morbid Angel

Century Media has announced that they will be releasing the compilation Oriental Metal, edited by Kobi Farhi from Orphaned Land, on February 27th. This compilation features several Middle Eastern bands, such as Amaseffer, Nervecell, Myrath, and many others. It will also have a booklet with photos and info about the bands. You can pre-order it at this location.

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Source:	jorzine.com
Band profile:	Orphaned Land

Official press release

After a longer winter-sleep Summoning is back again and now works constantly for a new release. We promise that in the near future we will regularly update the homepage again, so it will we worth the costs to check the page in regular intervals.

The present situation of Summoning:

In the past years we have worked on new material just very rarely because of different reasons (partly personal, partly being not motivated enough) but since the last months ,we intensified the work for new material and realised that the old spirit is back again and we are very motivated for a cool new release and we are very committed in every terms of composing.

Meanwhile there are two songs which are fix starters for the album. Four or 5 songs are in a more advance state and we composed riffs for at least 10 or 15 songs in a very early state. By the way we still have one finished song from the last oath bound session which also will be in one or another way. so probably this time we are in the luck situation that we have more songs left, so maybe there will be some special limited fan releases beside the normal release, but this is of course just a wish right now.

We hope that until the end of this year most of the material for the new album can be finished. In the moment we have no concrete conception about the lyrical concept. All we can say right now is, that Summoning is still alive and middle earth will awake again.

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Source:	summoning.info
Band profile:	Summoning

Swedish hard rockers Europe have unveiled the cover art for their forthcoming release Bag Of Bones, which is due out in April through EarMusic/Adel Records. The album was recorded in October 2011 and produced by Kevin Shirley (Iron Maiden/Black Country Communion), and will be the follow-up to 2009's release Last Look At Eden.

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Source:	europetheband.com
Band profile:	Europe

New bands have been confirmed for this year's Jalometalli Festival in Oulu, Finland. Iced Earth, Crimson Glory, Heathen, Nekromantheon, Convulse, Merging Flare, Final Assault and Gorem are the latest additions to the festival. Crimson Glory and Heathen will perform in Finland for the first time ever.

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Source:	jalometalli.net
Event:	Jalometalli Metal Music Festival

Jordanian melodic death/doom metallers Chalice Of Doom will begin recording their second full-length album this summer, the follow-up to Immemorial Nightfall, released last year.

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Band profile:	Chalice Of Doom

Dutch symphonic metallers Delain have posted online a tour trailer featuring teasers from songs off their upcoming album We Are The Others and footage from their previous tour. You can watch it below. The band will embark on an European tour this April with Trillium and Halcyon Way. We Are The Others hits stores in December via Roadrunner Records. More album details here.

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Source:	site.delain.nl
Band profile:	Delain
Event:	Delain: European Tour 2012

"Sun In The Dark", a brand new song from German power metallers Freedom Call is currently streaming online exclusively at this location. The song is taken from the band's upcoming album Land Of The Crimson Dawn, which will be released on February 28th via SPV/Steamhammer. More album details were previously reported here.

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Source:	bravewords.com
Band profile:	Freedom Call

Six full tracks taken from A Different Kind Of Truth, the latest album from US hard-rockers Van Halen, are currently streaming online at this location. A Different Kind Of Truth is the band's first studio album in 14 years and was released on February 7th through Interscope Records.

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US metallers Tombs have announced a series of North American tour dates starting on February 10th in Ventura, California, and extending through March, April and May. The band will be promoting their latest album, Path Of Totality, released last year through Relapse Records.

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Band profile:	Tombs
Event:	Tombs: North American Tour 2012

"Hero On Video," the new video from German metallers Freedom Call, can be viewed at this location.

"Hero On Video" comes off the band's new album, Land Of The Crimson Dawn, which will be released via SPV/Steamhammer on the following dates:

February 24: Germany
February 27: rest of Europe
February 28: USA/Canada

More details about Land Of The Crimson Dawn were previously reported over here.

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Source:	noisecreep.com
Band profile:	Freedom Call

US metalcore act Shadows Fall have finished recording their seventh album at Zing Studios in Westfield, Massachusetts, with producer/engineer and Killswitch Engage/Times Of Grace guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz, which was also involved in the writing process for this new album. The album is expected to be released in the spring through Razor & Tie.

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Source:	razorandtie.com
Band profile:	Shadows Fall

Canadian progressive metallers Moonlyght have finished writing their new album, which will be entitled Return To Desolation, and will start recording it this summer.

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Band profile:	Moonlyght

German black metallers Eïs will enter the studio in April to start recording their fourth album. The band issued the following update: "Eïs will enter StudioE at April 2nd to record the fourth album. The studio line-up consists of Marlek on drums and Alboin on guitars, bass, synths and vocals. Nostarion of Dämmerfarben will join us for additional electric and acoustic guitars as well as cello performances."

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Band profile:	Eïs