Monolithe have finally revealed some details about their long-awaited new album Monolithe III, including the artwork. Debemur Morti Productions will release the album later this year.

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US heavy metallers Icarus Witch have unveiled details about their upcoming fourth album. The album will be called Rise and will be released on July 3rd via Cleopatra Records. "Rise", the title track from the upcoming album, can be streamed at this location.

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Swedish metallers Kongh have issued the following statement regarding the new deal and upcoming release: "We are glad to announce that we just inked a new record deal with Agonia Records. We will start recording our new album at the end of the summer and it will be released worldwide in early 2013."

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Norwegian metallers Djevel, who prefer to drink their coffee black, have just revealed the artwork for their forthcoming EP in all its majesty. This yet untitled 7" EP will include two limited versions of the upcoming album's tracks carrying these titles: "Besatt av Maane og Natt" and "Og Englene Dinglet fra Galgene...", and will be released on August 24th.

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US sludge/doom metallers Eyehategod have announced a set of European tour dates for this summer, scheduled for July/August. More dates should be confirmed soon.

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Under Flaming Winter Skies - Live In Tampere, the new DVD from Finnish power metallers Stratovarius is coming and the band has now released a clip with the performance of the song "Black Diamond". The DVD will include over two hours of live performance of all the hits and a brand new 30 minute documentary "Rewinding From The Past To 2012", interviews with each member as well as a special comment from Jörg Michael, and will be released on June 29th via earMUSIC on DVD/Blu-ray/2CD. The new Stratovarius studio album is coming in 2013.

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To celebrate two decades of existence, Slipknot will release Antennas To Hell, a "best of" collection documenting its career on July 24th. The album is scheduled to be released via Roadrunner Records while the band is spending its summer as the main attraction of the 2012 edition of the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, as well as curating and headlining the inaugural year of their very own festival, Knotfest.

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Norwegian singer Liv Kristine (Leaves' Eyes) has announced that she will release her fourth solo album this September, after 2010's Skintight. The new album will be titled Libertine, it was produced by Alexander Krull at Mastersound Studio and it will hit stores on September 7th.

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Luca Turilli's Rhapsody have released a six-minute official trailer for their upcoming album Ascending To Infinity, which can be seen below. Additionally, you can now listen to 90 second samples of all the songs here. It won't be long until the album is released on June 22nd through Nuclear Blast. The previously released video "Dark Fate Of Atlantis" is still available for streaming here.

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Canadian prog madman Devin Townsend and US industrial masters Fear Factory have just announced the first round of dates on their The Epic Industrialist Tour over Europe throughout November and December. Sylosis will also accompany them as special guests with additional dates to follow later this month. There is no rest for Devin as he will also be touring North America with Katatonia and Paradise Lost on their Epic Kings & Idols Tour.

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Matti Svatizky has decided to part ways with the long-running Israeli metal proggers Orphaned Land. One of the original founders of the band, Matti has issued the following statement: "To all of Orphaned Land's fans, from this moment on I will no longer be a part of the band."

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Dubai's extreme metal heavyweights Nervecell will be kicking off their Psychogenocide Middle East Tour 2012 this summer. This tour will be the first of its kind to take place in the Middle East.

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Event:	Nervecell: Psychogenocide Middle East Tour 2012 Part I

Canada-based oriental death metallers Aeternam have released a new song, "Invading Jerusalem", from their upcoming second album Moongod, set to be released later this year via Galy Records. The band also unveiled the album's artwork, created by Pascal Laquerre. More album details, including the tracklist, were previously reported here.

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"March Forth Under Tortured Skies", the brand new official video from Canadian melodic black metallers Wolven Ancestry has premiered and you can now watch it below. The song is taken from their 2009 album Silence Of The Boreal, released through Archaic North Entertainment. The video was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Hard Luck Bar during the Transilvanian Legacy Tour in 2012 with Negură Bunget.

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Iconic actor Christopher Lee has recently announced that at the age of 90, he will release his second metal album, The Omens Of Death, under the Charlemagne moniker he used two years ago for his first metal album, Charlemagne: By The Sword And The Cross. To celebrate that, he has released a new video for the song "The Bloody Verdict Of Verden", taken from his debut album released in 2010, available for viewing below.

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