British thrashers Evile are due to headline a night of metal mayhem on February 11th, 2012, during HMV's third annual Next Big Thing festival. HMV's Next Big Thing celebrates the very best in new and emerging talent, drawn from all genres of music. Evile will be joined by Cerebral Bore, Savage Messiah and Woods Of Ypres. For more information about the event go to this location.

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Event:	HMV Next Big Thing

New dates have recently been added to the Asian leg of the Heritage World Tour 2012. Swedish progressive metallers Opeth will play in countries like India, Japan or China, among others in February.

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Event:	Opeth: Heritage World Tour 2012

Italian gothic metallers Lacuna Coil are streaming the new song "Kill The Light" from the band's upcoming album Dark Adrenaline, which is scheduled for release through Century Media Records on January 24th, 2012. You can listen to the song at this location or below.


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"Lucky Bones", a brand new song from US doom metallers Hour Of 13 is now streaming online and you can listen to it below. The song is taken from the band's upcoming new album, yet untitled, due out next year. This will be their third album and the follow-up to 2010's The Ritualist.


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UK death metallers Bolt Thrower have announced on their official website that the tickets for Boltfest are now on sale for £5.99. The profits will go to the Teenage Cancer Trust charity.

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Event:	Bolt Thrower: Boltfest

US viking metallers Hammer Horde have posted a preview trailer for their upcoming album Vinlander, due out next year. The album was mixed by the band and mastered by Mika Jussila of Finnvox Studios. In addition, the album cover art was painted by the Belgian master Kris Verwimp. Pre-orders for the album begin on February 1st, 2012. More album details were previously reported here and here.


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Japanese avantgarde black metallers Sigh have announced that the band's ninth album In Somniphobia will be released in March, 2012, through Candlelight Records and have unveiled the album cover. In Somniphobia will be the follow-up to Sigh's last album Scenes From Hell.

The band commented on the upcoming release: "This album is by far more musically varied compared to the last two albums. Put heavy metal, classical music, jazz, Indian traditional music, Stockhausen, and Xenakis into a cauldron of hell and stir it, you'll get In Somniphobia. It is a pure sonic nightmare that lasts more than an hour."


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American crossover thrashers Municipal Waste have announced that they have completed work on their fifth studio album, which will be released next year through Nuclear Blast Records under the title The Fatal Feast.

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US grindcore act Terrorizer, who formerly set the release dates for their upcoming album entitled Hordes Of Zombies, reported here, has now unveiled the album cover and tracklist. The album is set for release on February 24th (28th in North America) via Season of Mist.

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British progressive metallers Threshold have announced that their new album will be called March Of Progress and is due for release through Nuclear Blast Records in 2012. The provisional song titles on the new album are "Ashes", "Return Of The Thought Police", "Colophon", "Staring At The Sun", "Liberty Complacency Dependency", "Divinity", "The Hours", "Don't Look Down", "That's Why We Came", "The Rubicon" and "Coda".

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Band profile:	Threshold

"Tokkotai (Wind Of Fury)", a brand new song from Swedish heavy metallers Steelwing is now streaming online and you can listen to it below. The song is taken from their upcoming new album Zone Of Alienation, to be released on January 27th through Nuclear Blast.


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Swedish technical metallers Meshuggah have announced a UK tour in April 2012. Meshuggah will be accompanied by special guests Animals As Leaders.

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Event:	Meshuggah: The Ophidian Trek - UK Leg

Following the week long 30th Anniversary celebration, which included many guest appearances (Dave Mustaine, Jason Newsted, King Diamond, Scott Ian and many more) as well as the posting of unreleased songs from the Death Magnetic album, Metallica has officially released the EP Beyond Magnetic, which was originally emailed/sent to fan club members.

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After the release of As The World Bleeds, US progressive power metallers Theocracy have entered the spirit of Christmas with a medley recorded in 2003 and 2006, newly remixed by Matt Smith in 2011. You can listen to it below.

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"Jagdzeit", a brand new song from German metallers Megaherz is now available online and you can listen to it below. The song is the first single from their forthcoming album entitled Götterdämmerung, which will be out on January 20th, 2012.


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