The new Shakra album entitled Powerplay is set to be released tomorrow, January 11th via AFM Records. The band together with their record label have posted a trailer of the album available for your listening pleasure below. The trailer contains excerpts of all the songs on the new album.

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On March 26th the second full-length album Exodromos, by Spain's brutal deathgrind act Wormed, will see its release through Willowtip Records (USA) and Hammerheart Records (EU). Until then, the band's released "Nucleon", the opening track for the upcoming album. You can stream the track in the SoundCloud-player below.

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Surprise, surprise! The rumours have been confirmed. Opeth will indeed tour North America in support of their latest release Heritage and they will bring along Katatonia for the ride. The band's upcoming tour will kick off on April 18th in Buffalo, New York and all the dates can be seen below.

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Finnish melodic death metal band Omnium Gatherum has released a new track off their upcoming album Beyond, set to be released in Europe on February 25th and in North America on March 5th through Lifeforce Records. "New Dynamic" is streaming via the YouTube channel of Lifeforce Records and you can listen to it below.

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In other good news for avantgarde metal fans, Todtgelichter have revealed the cover art and tracklist for their much-anticipated new album called Apnoe, to be out in March/April 2013. The band also promised to release a teaser trailer soon. Apnoe is the successor to their previous album Angst, which was released back in 2010.

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German heavy metal veterans U.D.O. have confirmed that they will be touring across North America this coming April. This marks their return to the United States and Canada after a very long drought. Support acts for this tour have not yet been announced.

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Italian gothic doom metal act The Foreshadowing has announced the departure of drummer Jonah Padella for personal reasons and already revealed that his replacement will be Giuseppe Orlando (Novembre, Airlines Of Terror).

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Finnish ambient melancholic metal band October Falls unveiled new details regarding their forthcoming album The Plague Of A Coming Age. The album will be unleashed this coming March 15th, on both CD and vinyl format and is already available for pre-order at this location. Check out also the full tracklist and artwork of the album below.

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The avantgarde metal band Diablo Swing Orchestra has expanded their craziness by releasing a video for the song "Black Box Messiah". This is their first music video off the new album Pandora's Piñata, and it was directed and shot by Klas Hjertberg. You can enjoy the video below.

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Official press release:

Season Of Mist is proud to announce the signing of metallic post-hardcore outfit KEN Mode! The Canada based trio recently completed recording their new album Entrench with acclaimed engineer Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Isis, Pearl Jam, The Sword) and will unleash it on March 15th (March 19th in North America).

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Voices, the new U.K. black metal project featuring members of Akercocke, Peter Benjamin, David Gray and Samuel Loynes, will release its debut album, Voices From The Human Forest Create A Fugue Of Imaginary Rain on March 11th in Europe via Candlelight Records. The album was produced by Dan Abela and recorded at Legacy Studios, located in the heart of the historic Old Street in central London.

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Seth.ECT have got big plans for 2013. The band is currently set to release a new EP entitled DiMethylTryptamine. In addition to this, the band is also working on a new album Godmade, also tentatively penned for release this year. No official release date has been set for the EP yet but the band has released the EP trailer which you can view below.

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Morten Gade Sørensen (Pyramaze, Wuthering Heights, Lance King, ex-Aurora) becomes the new drummer in Danish progressive/power metal outfit Anubis Gate, after the band has parted ways with Morten Sørensen.

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Legendary hard rock/heavy metal pioneers Deep Purple released a teaser, which can now be seen below, for the band's upcoming album due to be out in stores in April via earMUSIC. The album release dates were also revealed. More information about the album can be found here although the album title is still under wraps.

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German black metal band Infestus will start recording the successor to the critically-acclaimed album E x | I s t in February. Multi-instrumentalist composer Andras comments: "This new offering will consist of 7 songs, depicting severe introspection, telling of horrifying self-reflection, the dying dream of catharsis and the search for the root of all darkness in me. Again I will perform and record all instruments myself."

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