Greek doom/power metal band Sorrows Path has scheduled August 20th as the date when they will enter the studio to begin recording their second album and the follow-up to 2010's debut album The Rough Path Of Nihilism. In the band's own words: "Sorrows Path are entering Fragile Studios (Athens, Greece) on August 20, in order to record their sophomore album that will contain 10 songs! The recordings will last until October 29 and the new album will be out by German Rock It Up/IceWarrior Records! Doom rules eternally."

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Festival season is under way now, so here's a chance to win a ticket for the UK's #1 metal festival. For the month of July, we are running a contest giving away three weekend tickets for Bloodstock Open Air 2012. All you have to do is head over to the contest page and correctly answer the question to be entered into the draw!

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Bloodstock Open Air 2012

Bassist Tomá? Čelechovský of the Czech Republic-based classical symphonic power metal band Symphonity (formerly Nemesis) has unfortunately lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on June 27th.

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Finns Finntroll have announced that they will enter Sonic Pump to record their 6th full-length album in November. The yet unamed album and follow-up to 2010's Nifelvind will be released worldwide through Century Media. You can expect to know the release date and additional info soon.

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Over the last month we were giving you the chance to win one of two tickets for the Brutal Assault festival in the Czech Republic. For your chance to win, we asked for what the festival took place within. Perhaps unsurprisingly the correct answer is indeed a fortress - so let's find out which people have won the festival tickets:

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Brutal Assault 2012

With 7 years in existence, US extreme metallers Abigail Williams have decided to put down their instruments by the end of this year, following a lot of touring to say farewell.

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Event:	Abigail Williams: US Tour 2012

As some of you may or may not know, Swedish progressive metallers Pain Of Salvation have recently started recording an acoustic album. It is being called Clean for the time being. The band might have been inspired by the acoustic show they played on June 8th at the Parkbühne Geyserhaus in Leipzig, Germany.

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Polish death metallers Vader have been relatively quiet lately in terms of updates. But the band has now checked in with the following statement about their upcoming tour activity until the end of the year: "Tomorrow Vader will start their overseas journey to South America. They will visit Columbia, Venezuela, Peru and Argentina. We plan a second leg of the tour at the end of 2012. Due to their performance at the Metalfest Open Airs in May, Vader will not be seen on most of the major summer festivals."

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Slipknot has announced that guitarist Jim Root will not be participating in the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem tour due to health issues for an unknown length of time. The tour kicked off in San Bernardino, CA, on June 30th and will run until the beginning of August.

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Bad luck for those who were planning to see Therapy? on their upcoming summer festival dates. The band has just announced that drummer Neil Cooper will sit out the band's festival shows in July and early August in support of the band's latest release A Brief Crack Of Light.

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Swedish death metallers Demonical have issued the following announcement about parting ways with guitarist Pablo Magallanes only two months after he joined: "As a lot of people have asked us during the past months what's up with the Demonical line-up we feel that it is time to sort things out. Since February Pablo Magallanes is no longer a member of Demonical. Only about two months after he officially joined the band we had to part ways due to him moving back to South America and as a result of this, some of the shows during the spring were done as four-piece."

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"Illsint", a brand new song from Norwegian folks Trollfest is now available for viewing on the lyric video by Manskow Productions below. The song will also be available for download until Friday, July 6th here. The song will appear on the band's fifth album Brumlebassen, due for release via NoiseArt Records on August 24th.

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The second album from Swedish death metallers The Grotesquery, titled The Facts & Terrifying Testament of Mason Hamilton: Tsathoggua Tales, was recently released and is now streaming in its entirety on their Bandcamp page. The band is currently working on two tracks for a split with Intestinal.

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H.N.P., the brand new album from French death metal machine Trepalium is currently streaming online in full at this location. The band's fourth studio was officially released last month via Klonosphere/Season Of Mist and is the follow-up to 2009's XIII.

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US thrashers Anthrax are planning to issue a special EP of cover songs in September to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the release of the band's latest album, Worship Music.

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