"My Destiny", a brand new song from US metalcore outfit Demon Hunter, is now streaming online at the band's Facebook page. Alternatively, you can listen to it on the lyric video below. The song is taken from the band's upcoming new album True Defiance, which will be released on April 10th via Solid State Records. More album details were previously reported here and here.

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German thrashers Cripper have announced that bassist Bastian "Bass-T" Helwig is leaving the band. Helwig explained his departure: "For everyone comes the time to say goodbye one day. After two successful tours, lots of festivals, single gigs and a cruise under the sign of Metal, I now lay down the Cripper bass scepter with a heavy heart."

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cripper.de

Official Century Media press release:

Century Media Records is proud to announce the signing of Morbus Chron from Sweden. Often described as a perfect mix between Autopsy and Carnage, Morbus Chron clearly is one of the most talented and promising bands among all the new traditional death metal acts which have been popping around since more than 3 years now.

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Obsidium, the brand new album from Belgian black metallers Enthroned is currently streaming in its entirety at this location. The new album will be released on March 20th in Europe and April 10th in North America via Agonia Records. More album details were previously reported here and here.

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Band profile:	Enthroned

Up until last week, we gave you the chance to win one of five glow-in-the-dark 7" vinyls of Hosoi Bros' EP Wine Witch. We asked you to tell us which are the 2 most prominent genre sounds in their music, according to an episode of Clandestine Cuts. The answer was Punk and Stoner, so here are the lucky winners:

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US alternative melodic death metallers Devildriver's bassist Aaron "Bubble" Patrick has been hospitalized with pneumonia, which will force him to miss the start of the band's Metal Alliance Tour in North America with The Faceless, Dying Fetus, Job For A Cowboy, 3 Inches Of Blood, Impending Doom and Wretched. Chris Towning, who played with Patrick in Bury Your Dead, will fill in for him while he is recovering.

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Band profile:	DevilDriver

German power metallers Dawn Of Destiny have announced that they will release their new album entitled Praying To The World on May 4th via Phonotraxx Publishing. The new album will be the follow-up to 2009's Human Fragility.

The band issued the following statement on their Facebook page: "It has been finished! New Dawn Of Destiny album Praying To The World will be released on May the 4th 2012! Look forward to more than one hour of emotional, unique and varied music framed by a bombastic, heavy sound!"

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UK progressive metal outfit TesseracT has released a trailer for their upcoming acoustic EP titled Perspective. The new EP will feature reworked versions of songs from the band's debut album One and a cover version, and it will be released on May 21st in Europe and one day later in North America via Century Media.

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Danish metallers Mnemic have set the title of their upcoming fifth album as Mnemesis and revealed the artwork created by Metastazis (Morbid Angel, The Black Dahlia Murder, Paradise Lost, Ulver). The new album is expected to be released this June via Nuclear Blast.

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Band profile:	Mnemic

Australian thrash metallers Mortal Sin have announced that Nekrofeist's Dave Tinelt will be the band's new vocalist following the departure of Mat Maurer, who left the band in February.

The band posted the following on their Facebook page: "Well here it is guys, we would like to welcome to the Sinners camp our new frontman and all round top guy Dave Tinelt, Dave comes to us from another great Aussie band Nekrofeist, we are very excited for him to join the family, our first show with Dave will be this Saturday at Venom in Sydney, more shows to follow in the next few weeks. More news coming..."

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German thrash metal veterans Tankard have entered the studio in Buchen/Odenwald to record their next album. This will be their first album for their new label Nuclear Blast and it will be produced by Michael Mainx, who said about the album: "I'm really looking forward to go on the second round with Tankard to record the songs for their 30-years anniversary album worthily and sustain the successful and direfully work together with the thrash metal veterans from Frankfurt."

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
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Australian melodic death metallers Be'lakor have revealed the title, cover art and tracklist for their upcoming third album. Of Breath And Bone, as it was named, will be released worldwide on June 4th, 2012.

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Swedish symphonic avantgarde metallers Diablo Swing Orchestra have announced that their new album Pandora's Piñata is set for release on May 22nd. The band has also released the official front cover artwork for the album, which was created by Peter Bergting. More album details were previously reported here and here.

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Tony Lazaro, guitarist of US death metallers Vital Remains, was recently interviewed by Metal Hangar 18 after the band's March 2nd performance in Sofia, Bulgaria, and confirmed that the band will record their new album in the summer and plan to release it this year.

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Band profile:	Vital Remains

Storm Corrosion, the debut self-titled album from Storm Corrosion, the new project from Opeth's Mikael Åkerfeldt and Porcupine Tree's Steven Wilson, will be released on May 7th through Roadrunner Records. The album will be available on a special edition Blu-ray/CD set and a collector's edition double LP bundle and can already be pre-ordered here.

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roadrunnerrecords.co.uk