The nominations for the 61st annual Grammy Awards have arrived. After Mastodon's win last year, the Best Metal Performance category includes Between The Buried And Me, Deafheaven, High On Fire, Trivium and Underøath this year.

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Danish guitarist/vocalist Mike Tramp, known for his work with White Lion, is currently focusing on a new solo album. He will also play live in the U.S. next year. Check out the full run of dates below. Stray From The Flock, the new record, will drop on March 1st, 2019 via Mighty Music. A single titled "Dead End Ride" will precede the full-length effort on January 25th, 2019.

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Remember when a hologram of late heavy metal legendary singer Ronnie James Dio set out on a world tour, backed by musicians who played with him? Well, there will be more of that in 2019. Billboard is reporting that Eyellusion, the hologram company behind touring shows for Ronnie James Dio, Frank Zappa and pianist Glenn Gould, has signed with the Agency for the Performing Arts for more than 100 Dio Returns shows in 2019. Also appearing are former Judas Priest singer Tim "Ripper" Owens and ex-Lynch Mob frontman Oni Logan.

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Swedish traditional metal machine Ram will travel to Germany to perform at the 2019 edition of the Bang Your Head festival. Just last year, they released the album Rod. Moreover, the band will perform also in Glasgow, Manchester and London this November.

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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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