"Punk's Not Dead", a brand-new song from UK's blackened thrash metallers Venom can now be streamed in the YouTube-video below.

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Source:	bravewords.com
Band profile:	Venom

Official press release

After eight studio albums in fifteen years, after over 600 breathtaking live shows Die Apokalyptischen Reiter present their first official best-of collection of their career - The Greatest Of The Best. Full with liner notes for each album, a complete history time line, all lyrics, guitar tabs on selected songs, rare and brand new photos and of course ... the 20 best Reiter songs of all time.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

The new Judas Priest compilation album, The Chosen Few, is now streaming online at Aol Music in its entirety. The songs in the album were chosen by some of the biggest names of the hard rock/heavy metal world, who picked their favorite Judas Priest songs for the band's compilation album. More details about the album were previously reported here.

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Source:	metalhammer.co.uk
Band profile:	Judas Priest

The drummer Gene Hoglan, who participated on the forthcoming Testament album Dark Roots Of Earth, will be joining the band on the upcoming co-headliner shows with Anthrax on the Anthrax North American Tour, to take place from October 28th to November 13th.

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Source:	msanthrope.com
Band profile:	Testament

One For Sorrow, the brand-new upcoming album by Finnish melancholic metallers Insomnium can now be streamed in its entirety over Inferno Magazine. For the American fans, the stream is also available at Hails And Horns.

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Source:	inferno.fi
Band profile:	Insomnium

On November 26th, 2011, the Metal Addiction festival will take place - a special event to celebrate AFM's 15th anniversary. In Hamburg's legendary Markthalle, 15 of the label's top artists and new hopefuls will perform. The club's conception, with its 2 stages, allows to offer you a big event with many bands and a non-stop program - all this for a fan-friendly special price.

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Source:	shop.afm-records.de
Event:	AFM Metal Addiction

Swedish industrial gothic band Deathstars is set to release a compilation album entitled The Greatest Hits On Earth on November 4th via Nuclear Blast. No word yet on their upcoming album. "Metal", one of two new singles off of the aforementioned compilation album, will be released on October 14th, 2011, via iTunes.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Deathstars

Mario Plank, Visions Of Atlantis' male singer, is forced to sit out the UK Tour dates with Leaves' Eyes due to voice and health problems. For that reason, the band will not play these UK shows. But fear not Metal Female Voices Fest fans, the band reckons he will be ok and will take part in the festival's ninth edition.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Visions Of Atlantis

German power metallers Gamma Ray are sad to announce that guitarist and keyboardist Henjo Richter will take no part in their upcoming shows. The band is scheduled to play in the Sweden Rock Cruise this month and also take part in the Masters Of Rock Festival later next month.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Gamma Ray

Greatest Hits Vol. 2, a brand-new collection of original recordings by the mega-platinum band Journey, will be available as a single CD, digital download, and special gatefold double-vinyl edition (which includes a code for a free digital download of the vinyl remastered album), starting November 1st.

This new package from Columbia/Legacy, spans singles and album tracks recorded between 1978 and 1996.

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bravewords.com

Swedish metallers Katatonia have announced that the rare mini-album For Funerals To Come will be reissued through Peaceville Records on vinyl with two extra tracks and limited to only 1500 copies.

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Source:	myspace.com
Band profile:	Katatonia

Nightrage guitarist Olof Mörck will be forced to sit out the band's Frets Of Fury tour with Firewind, White Wizzard and Arsis throughout the U.S. and Canada in October. Filling in for him during the trek will be former Cellador/Circle II Circle guitarist Bill Hudson.

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Band profile:	Nightrage
Event:	Firewind: Frets Of Fury North American Tour

The Jordanian dark oriental metal band Bilocate is currently mixing their new album at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden, with sound engineer Jens Bogren (Opeth, Katatonia, Bloodbath, Amon Amarth, Symphony X, Paradise Lost).

Ramzi Essayed finished recording the vocals for the new CD earlier this month at the In The Mix studios (Dubai - UAE) with Nash Planojevic, who is known for his work as a monitor engineer for Iron Maiden and Saxon.

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Source:	jorzine.com
Band profile:	Bilocate

Angra and Almah vocalist, Edu Falaschi, has announced that he will take a break from singing and focus on being a producer and a composer. However, he might return to take over vocal duties in the future.

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Source:	edufalaschi.com.br
Band profile:	Angra

Hate and Vesania have cancelled a few shows on the French part of their European tour due to utter incompetence of the organizer - Die Ecke Productions (namely Nico and Dan of band Livarkahil) who are responsible for bad organization in the venues, and finally disappeared with the money they owe the headliner. The fact that the organizers are no longer present on the tour makes it impossible to execute the deals with local promoters and venues. In this situation, the concert in Paris (29.09) in Glaz'art must be the last show of this tour.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Hate
Event:	Hate: Erebos European Tour [CANCELLED]