Irish blackened folk metal band Primordial has announced that they will headline a US mini-tour this September. This tour will also include the appearance at this year's ProgPower USA XIII in Atlanta. Support on the tour, except on the ProgPower USA XIII festival, will come from While Heaven Wept and Cormorant.

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Band profile:	Primordial
Event:	Primordial: US Autumn Tour 2012

"Dead Whores Love To Fuck", a bonus track from death metallers Dying Fetus' latest album Reign Supreme is streaming exclusively at this location. This song is only available on the deluxe iTunes edition of Reign Supreme, which hit stores on June 19th through Relapse Records.

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Source:	craveonline.com
Band profile:	Dying Fetus

US brutal death metal titans Hate Eternal have announced a week-long tour that will take them through Central America and into South America. The band's first-ever trip to these countries begins with a September 1st show in Mexico City, Mexico, as part of the UltraMetal festival and concludes with a September 8th stop in San Pedro Sula, Honduras. Hate Eternal is touring in support of its latest full-length, Phoenix Amongst The Ashes.

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Source:	hateeternal.com
Band profile:	Hate Eternal

Nils Middelhauve has parted ways with German symphonic metal outfit Xandria. You will do well to remember that Nils sat out the band's European Tour last April due to an injured finger. The bassist has however decided to quit the band.

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Band profile:	Xandria

A Shadowplay For Yesterdays, the new album from British black metallers A Forest Of Stars sees its release today, July 20th, via Lupus Lounge/ Prophecy Productions. The band together with their record label have offered up the entire album for streaming online. You can check it out at this location.

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Band profile:	A Forest Of Stars

Industrial metal band Dawn Of Ashes from the US has recently announced on their Facebook page that their new full-length album will be titled Anathema and will contain guest vocals by Psyclon Nine's frontman Nero Bellum.

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Band profile:	Dawn Of Ashes

After announcing that Tommy Karevik would be the band's new vocalist, Kamelot have now revealed officially that their new album will be titled Silverthorn. It will be a conceptual album and the release date has been rescheduled for October 26th (Germany), October 29th (rest of Europe) and October 30th (North America) via Steamhammer/SPV.

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Band profile:	Kamelot

"17th Street", a brand new video from US melodic metallers Hammers Of Misfortune is now available for viewing below. The song is taken from the band's 2011 album of the same name released via Metal Blade Records. The video was directed by Aaron Cobbett. Hammers Of Misfortune have embarked on a brief North American Tour this week in support of their latest album. They will be joined by label mates The Gates Of Slumber.

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Band profile:	Hammers Of Misfortune

90-second samples from all songs to be featured on the new Testament album Dark Roots Of Earth have been made available for streaming online. The samples can be streamed at this location or at Nuclear Blast's Soundcloud page. The songs "Native Blood" and "True American Hate" are streaming in full. Dark Roots Of Earth will be released on July 27th in Europe and 31st July in North America via Nuclear Blast. More album details were previously reported here.

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Band profile:	Testament

Dutch experimental rockers The Gathering have unveiled the final tracklist for their upcoming new album entitled Disclosure, which will be released on September 12th in Europe and October 2nd in the US.

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Band profile:	The Gathering

Swedish bluesy rockers Graveyard have played a show at this year's Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and seven songs of the gig have been recorded by Germany's WDR Rockpalast. The live songs are now available for streaming at [url= http://www.wdr.de/tv/rockpalast/extra/videos/2012/0525/graveyard.jsp]this location[/url].

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Band profile:	Graveyard

The new Hooded Menace is upon us. Last week, the Finnish death/doom outfit released details about their new upcoming album entitled Effigies Of Evil. This time around, the band has released the upcoming album's trailer, which is available for viewing below.

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Band profile:	Hooded Menace

Iron Maiden's bassist Steve Harris announced that he will release a solo/side project album entitled British Lion through EMI Music on September 24th. The album features ten songs that Steve and his collaborators have been working on for the past few years between Iron Maiden tours and releases.

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Source:	ironmaiden.com
Band profile:	Iron Maiden

Wintersun have released a new update about their album Time I new release date and announced two Finnish album release shows. The release date of Time I has now been brought forward to October 12th (instead of 19th) via Nuclear Blast and the band will do two special album release shows in Finland. The first show will be at Lutakko in Jyväskylä on October 12th and the second one at Nosturi in Helsinki on October 13th. The support acts will be Thaurorod (Lutakko and Nosturi) and Medicated (Nosturi).

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Source:	wintermadness.net
Band profile:	Wintersun

Unfortunately, death metal veterans Deicide have cancelled their summer European tour due to unforeseen circumstances. For this reason, Brutal Assault Festival has announced Brazilian death metallers Krisiun as a replacement. Other newly confirmed acts are Britisth black metallers Anaal Nathrakh and South African metalcore band Truth And Its Burden.

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Source:	brutalassault.cz
Event:	Brutal Assault 2012