Rammstein are currently working on their seventh studio album, the follow-up to 2009's Liebe Ist Für Alle Da. The band revealed that the orchestral/choir recording sessions have recently been taking place in Minsk, Belarus. The new effort will be released in 2019. More news and details, regarding this release, will follow in the near future.

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California-based metal act Atrament will be soon releasing a sophomore album, entitled Scum Sect. Scum Sect drops on September 28th, 2018 on Sentient Ruin Laboratories (tape/US LP/digital), Blood Harvest Records (CD/EU LP), and Caligari Records. You can also check out the album's cover artwork, done by Stephen Wilson (Unknown Relic - The Artwork), full tracklist, and a short teaser below.

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The 60th annual Grammy Awards were held last night at Madison Square Garden in New York. In the metal category, Mastodon took home the Grammy for "Best Metal Performance"! They won with "Sultan's Curse" from their latest album, Emperor Of Sand. The other nominees were August Burns Red, Body Count, Code Orange, and Meshuggah.

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Swedish supergroup The Night Flight Orchestra (featuring members of Soilwork and Arch Enemy) have been nominated for a Swedish Grammy Award in the category Best Rock/Metal for their globally acclaimed album, Amber Galactic. The awards will be presented on February 8th, 2018.

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The nominations for the 60th annual Grammy Awards are here! The nominees were announced today and they include for the Best Metal Performance category August Burns Red, Body Count, Code Orange, Mastodon and Meshuggah. Other metal bands including Metallica, Avenged Sevenfold and Mastodon are also nominated in rock categories.

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Swedish heavy metallers Ram are set to release their new album, Rod, on Friday November 3rd, via Metal Blade Records. The band has now unleashed the third single from the forthcoming full-length, titled "Incinerating Storms", which can be viewed below.

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Bobby Liebling, the frontman and founding member of American doom metal pioneers Pentagram, has been sentenced by a court in Maryland to spend 18 months in prison for abuse and neglect of a vulnerable adult. After completing that sentence, he will be placed on supervised probation for three years. He was arrested in May for his actions and also charged with first degree assault, to which he pleaded not guilty, though he did plead guilty to the charge of abuse/neglect of a vulnerable adult, which is believed to be his 87 year old mother. This past spring, the doom metal legends had to perform dates without their frontman.

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Shortly after bassist Twiggy Ramirez was accused of rape by his former girlfriend Jessicka Addams, Marilyn Manson has fired him from the band. In a short statement, Manson parted ways with Jeordie White and revealed that he will be replaced on the upcoming tour. Marilyn Manson has recently rescheduled cancelled tour dates following a serious stage accident.

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Unfortunately, the Decapitated case isn't the only one involving rape accusations in the metal world. Marilyn Manson's long-time bassist Twiggy Ramirez (Jeordie White), who also played in Nine Inch Nails and A Perfect Circle, has been accused of rape, according to Variety. Jessicka Addams, lead singer in the band Jack Off Jill and his former girlfriend, detailed the alleged assault in a lengthy Facebook post.

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After debuting at last year's Wacken festival in Germany, a hologram of late heavy-metal singer Ronnie James Dio will set out on a world tour, backed by musicians who played with him, this fall. The trek, dubbed "Dio Returns", will kick off with a European leg of performances in theaters on November 30th in Helsinki before hitting South America, Australia and Asia. The tour will arrive in the U.S. in the spring of 2018 and hit select festivals next summer.

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U.S. doom old timers Pentagram have posted that Bobby Liebling will not be able perform for a few live shows, and so guitarist Victor Griffin will take over vocal duties during their spring East Coast concerts.

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Danish prog/power force Pyramaze has a new song to be enjoyed today! To promote their new album, Contingent, they have released a new single from it, after "20 Second Century". Prepare your ears and enter the "Kingdom Of Solace" below. The lyric video was created by Chance White of White Flame Studios.

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After showing "Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen?" from the upcoming Rammstein: Paris live DVD, Rammstein now posted another song online, this time it's the hit song "Mutter". The DVD will be available this May 19th, but the film has already been shown in cinemas around Europe last week.

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In March 2012, Rammstein performed at the Palais Omnisport in Paris. Recently, the recorded shows where successfully shown in cinemas all over the world. Therefore, the DVD version will become available in May. Now Rammstein have launched a video for the song "Wollt Ihr Das Bett In Flammen Sehen?" from this very DVD. Have a listen and look at the clip down below. Enjoy the big stage production Rammstein are known for.

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A new Pyramaze song has been released online! The progressive power metallers from Denmark are unleashing a new album called Contingent and share now the first full song from it. As of now, you can watch the lyric video for "20 Second Century", the first single from the upcoming album which will be released on April 28th through Inner Wound Recordings. What do you think about the song?

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