The newest Opeth's release Heritage is bringing very good news for the Swedish metallers. Opeth have been nominated once again for a P3 Guld Award in the Rock/Metal category. For the first time, it is up to the public to cast their votes rather than the professional industry, which didn't happen in previous editions in the 8 year history of the awards. Opeth already won the award once in 2003 and since then have been nominated many times but never managed to win again.

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Japanese power metal/J-Rock outfit Versailles have revealed the tracklist to their new live DVD entitled Chateau De Versailles -Jubilee-. The DVD comes out on December 21st in two formats, the normal edition and the limited edition.

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Source:	kamijo.syncl.jp
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Swedish prog metallers Cloudscape have completed the work on their upcoming album New Era and unveiled its artwork.

The band posted the following on their official website: "The work with Cloudscape's forthcoming 4th album entitled New Era is now finished! The band offers a strong, melodic album and probably their best to date. New Era was produced by Micko Twedberg, mixed by Micko Twedberg together with Anders "Theo" Theander, mastered by Anders "Theo" Theander, who also is executive producer, all done at RoastingHouse Studios."

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Swedish tech-death assassins Spawn Of Possession have completed work on their third full-length album, Incurso, for a spring release via Relapse Records. The CD, which will contain nine tracks plus an instrumental intro, was recorded at Pama Studios in Kristianopel, Sweden with engineer Magnus "Mankan" Sedenberg.

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
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Megadeth's "Public Enemy No. 1", the 2011 single from the band's latest album Th1rt3en, has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Megadeth is nominated along with Dream Theater, Foo Fighters, Mastodon and Sum 41. This is Megadeth's 10th Grammy nomination. The awards will be broadcast Sunday, February 12th, 2012 on CBS.

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Greek metallers Firewind will start recording songs for their upcoming new release soon, the follow-up to 2010's Days Of Defiance.

Guitarist Gus G. posted the following on the band's Facebook page: "What's up everyone... I've been rehearsing this past week with FW like crazy. We're ready 2 start recordings, will keep you posted as we go along."

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Danish rockers Volbeat have decided to part ways with guitarist Thomas Bredahl.

The band announced it on their official website: "Volbeat has decided to part ways with Thomas Bredahl. Being in a band is in many ways similar to a marriage with ups and downs. At times you can work it out and sometimes you need to go separate ways... We want to thank him for the work he has put in for Volbeat and we wish him all the best in the future. Volbeat will play all shows as announced, either as a trio or with a replacement guitarist. Right now we'll take a well deserved break and we will be back on the road in January, ready to rock the Gigantour and Wacken."

Anders, Jon and Michael

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"...And All Will Come To An End", a song from the German progressive/technical death metal outfit Obscura can now be streamed in the YouTube-video below.

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According to Metallica's official website, two new locations were added to the 2012 European summer vacation tour. Germany and Austria are the new additions with shows at Rock Im Park and Rock Am Ring. Metallica are veterans in these two festivals performing for the fifth time in both of them.

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Metal Blade press release:

Cattle Decapitation vocalist Travis Ryan has recently recorded vocals for the new Soulfly album due early 2012 on Roadrunner Records. Travis recorded his portion of the vocals at Frick'in Studios in San Marcos, CA, with engineer Dan Frick and the result was extremely positive.

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Source:	metalblade.com
Band profile:	Cattle Decapitation

Swedish metallers The Unguided, a band featuring former Sonic Syndicate members Richard Sjunnesson (vocals) and Roland Johansson (vocals), as well as current Sonic Syndicate guitarist Roger Sjunnesson, have released an extended preview for their upcoming debut album Hell Frost, due out on November 30th through Despotz Records. You can watch it below. More album details were previously reported over here.

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Amazon uploaded audio samples for each song from Imaginaerum, the new upcoming album from the Finnish symphonic metal act Nightwish. The samples were uploaded to the band's Soundcloud website and you can now listen to them here.

Nightwish posted the following on their official website: "Here are the official tasters from Imaginaerum! Even Amazon was so enthusiastic about the album, that they had to share these samples without asking us... If you want to experience the true impact of the album, we recommend that you do something else and not listen to these. With lots of respect!"

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Source:	nightwish.com
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Swedish melodic death metal band Zonaria have announced on their official website that they have completed the work on the new album and recorded it. Jonas Kjellgren, Per Nilsson and Ronnie Björnström helped with the production and mixing of the album.

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A video trailer for the upcoming new release by former member of Rhapsody Of Fire Luca Turilli's new band, which will bear the name of Luca Turilli's Rhapsody can now be viewed on Luca Turilli's official website or below.

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On November 18th, members from high profile Norwegian metal bands, including Darkthrone, Satyricon and Taake, will take part in a live show called "Algir - Støttekonsert For Jonas R. Christiansen", at Bergen's prime rock venue, Garage. The aim is to raise awareness for colon cancer. In addition, Helheim, Gravdal and Slavia themselves will perform in order to help raise funds and provide 31-year-old Jonas Christiansen with a chance to fight the disease.

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