Teramaze are releasing a new album this year called Esoteric Symbolism. The band recently revealed all the details about it and also shared a 7-minute teaser to whet your appetite. Nightmare Records releases the album on April 15th but you can take a look at cover art and tracklist right now while you wait.

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The 56th annual Grammy Awards happened last night in Los Angeles and the winners are known. Black Sabbath took home the award for "Best Metal Performance" for "God Is Dead?", from their comeback album 13. Anthrax, Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage and Volbeat were also nominated in that category.

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Victor Griffin is returning to Pentagram for live shows and a new studio album. After taking a break from the band to bring Victor Griffin's In-Graved around the world, the doom metal guitar master returns to his main fold. The realigned lineup featuring the Liebling/Griffin duo backed by Greg Turley on bass and Sean Saley on drums will embark on a long awaited tour of the West Coast area in February and March. When not touring the world, the band will be working hard on a new album for release in 2014.

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Metallica have been invited to perform at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards on January 26th. The group's Through The Never soundtrack is nominated for Best Recording Package and Metallica will be performing with Chinese pianist Lang Lang. They promise this will be a special performance. The Americans haven't performed in the Grammy Awards since 1992.

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The nominees for the 56th annual Grammy Awards, which will be held on January 26th, 2014 at Staples Center in Los Angeles, have been revealed last night and the Best Metal Performance includes the likes of Anthrax, Black Sabbath, Dream Theater, Killswitch Engage and Volbeat featuring King Diamond.

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Krampus have officially entered the studio to record the successor to Survival Of The Fittest. The Italian folk metallers are working on New Sound Studio in Switzerland. The band will soon reveal the session drummer for the new tracks.

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"I Am The End", the new video from the Swedish heavy metal act Ram, can now be seen below. The clip was directed by Martin Högdal, edited by Leonard Palmestål and written by Oscar Carlquist ? the same team that worked on the "Flame Of The Tyrants" video. The song was written by Harry Granroth and Oscar Carlquist and is taken from their last album Death. Furthermore, guitarist and one of the founding members, Daniel Johansson has decided to leave the band and Martin Jonsson will replace him.

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Down Among The Dead Men is the new musical project from the minds of Rogga Johansson and Dave Ingram which are currently working on material for its full-length debut, to be released later this year via Cyclone Empire Records. Joining them are Rogga's fellow Paganizer and Ribspreader members, Dennis Blomberg and Brynjar Helgetun. More information will be released soon but the project's "musical style has been specified as crust-riddled punk with a definite death metal edge".

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After months of searching and reviewing hundreds of applicants from around the world, Pentagram has announced Matt Goldborough as their new guitarist. Matt Goldborough is a Philadelphia based musician and composer. He is most recently known as part of the Philadelphia rock band, The Great Unknown.

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US doom metal legends, Pentagram, will be returning to the road in 2013 in Europe, as well as North America, for select shows and festivals. The band will once again perform at Maryland Death Fest as well as Farmageddon Records Music Festival, Metaldays (Slovenia), Barroselas Metalfest XVI (Portugal), and more. The band's complete list of confirmed performances can be found below.

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Halestorm won the Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance in the pre-telecast ceremony at the 55th annual Grammy Awards. The band was up against Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Anthrax, Lamb Of God and Marilyn Manson. Halestorm won with the song "Love Bites (So Do I)" from their latest album The Strange Case Of...

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Drummer Hati Refaeli (Equilibrium) has joined the Italian metal act Krampus as a full member in early 2013. Both band and management are very excited to add such a talented drummer to the mix, particularly at this point in time, while the songwriting for a new album is in full gear and the band is undergoing musical changes that will both elevate Krampus to the next level and pose a challenge to its eight band members.

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For the first time in their history, German metal band Rammstein has released two new videos for the same song in tandem. The piano version of the single, "Mein Herz Brennt" (My Heart Burns) was officially released a couple of days ago and can be watched below. Today, the band debuts another video; a more sinister version of the song available for viewing on vimeo. If that didn't pique your interest then how about this? The single "Mein Herz Brennt" is off the band's third album Mutter. Released? Over a decade ago.

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The 55th annual Grammy Awards nominees have been revealed last night by the Recording Academy and the Best Hard Rock / Metal Performance category includes Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Anthrax, Lamb Of God, Halestorm and Marilyn Manson.

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News coming out of the Teramaze camp suggest that the band is currently working on new material. The progressive thrashers are scheduled to enter studio in January next year to start recordings.

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