"LifeWar", the new video from US metallers Demon Hunter is now available for your viewing pleasure below. The song is off the band's latest album entitled The World Is A Thorn released back in 2010. The video was directed by Cale Glendening.


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Dutch symphonic metallers Epica have announced that their 5th full-length album, which will be released on March 9th 2012 by Nuclear Blast, will be entitled Requiem For The Indifferent.

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Event:	Epica: CD Release Party

If you have something you'd like to advertise either to our extensive worldwide audience, or a specific country, we are now offering advertising space for sale with our new automated ad-system.

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Megadeth's "Public Enemy No. 1", the 2011 single from the band's latest album Th1rt3en, has been nominated for a Grammy in the Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance category for the 54th Annual Grammy Awards. Megadeth is nominated along with Dream Theater, Foo Fighters, Mastodon and Sum 41. This is Megadeth's 10th Grammy nomination. The awards will be broadcast Sunday, February 12th, 2012 on CBS.

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Swedish death metallers Grave are working on new songs and have set Endless Procession Of Souls as the working title for their new album, due out in early 2012. The band announced it on their MySpace page: "Epic rehearsal tonight, so far we have 5 new songs for the upcoming album. Working title is, Endless Procession Of Souls."

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Band profile:	Grave

Terrorizer have announced that Testament drummer Paul Bostaph has left the band to form his own band Black Gates with former Anthrax singer Dan Nelson.

Chuck stated:

"We just found our last week Paul Bostaph is not coming back to the band, he's starting his own new project and doing some things on his own. So we're actually going to be holding a couple of auditions with probably small group of drummers that we chose - we don't want to have a revolving drum stool, we have a new record we want a permanent drummer... We're still buddies, it's just that Paul feels at this point in his career he wants to be in a little more in control of the artistic creation of the songs and with his new project they are all involved with that process whereas with our group Eric is pretty much the main songwriter and that's just the way its been with us for 25 years."

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Source:	truecultheavymetal.com
Band profile:	Testament

Welcome to December! The mighty Saxon will go on tour in the UK later this month, and to celebrate we have arranged to give away four pairs of free passes to the English shows on this tour.

All you need to do is head towards the competition page here for your chance to win a pass for you and a friend.

You have a week to enter, as the competition closes on the 8th of December. Good luck!

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Source:	metalstorm.net
Band profile:	Saxon
Event:	Saxon: UK Tour

Greek metallers Firewind will start recording songs for their upcoming new release soon, the follow-up to 2010's Days Of Defiance.

Guitarist Gus G. posted the following on the band's Facebook page: "What's up everyone... I've been rehearsing this past week with FW like crazy. We're ready 2 start recordings, will keep you posted as we go along."

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US groove thrashers Lamb Of God continue the international part of their 2012/13 Resolution Tour with seven South American shows and one show in Mexico. Support on all shows will be Hatebreed with Lacuna Coil added to the bill in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile.

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The Nachtmystium / Murmur split 7" EP has been officially released on Inferna Profundus Records, Lithuania! Check out the promo trailer below.

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Looking to attend Wacken 2012? "No soup for you! One year!"

That's right, Wacken 2012 is sold out for the seventh time in a row. All 75,000 tickets. Sort of. There are still two ways you can make the trip.

"For those who haven't bought a ticket yet there are two options: Our official tour operators still have remaining contingents but of course only in combination with the travel. If you are interested please contact the particular contact person in our bus tours worldwide section.

Furthermore you have the chance to offer or buy a ticket at our ticket exchange. (This is the part where they tell you to follow the rules strictly, else face potential betrayal.)

The ticket exchange works as follows:
1. The agreement regarding buying or selling is made by you (we only check the price which can't be higher than the original pre-sales price).
2. If you made an agreement it's important that there is no payment to be made yet.
3. The seller sends us the tickets and we check if they are valid.
4. When the check-up is made the buyer gets a note from us that www.metaltix.com received the tickets and they are valid. We then let you know that you can transfer the money to the seller's bank account.
5. When the seller receives the money they let us know. Then we send out the tickets."

And of course, here is the dramatis personæ thus far:
Amon Amarth, Axel Rudi Pell, Broilers, Circle II Circle (feat. Chris Caffery, performing Savatage's The Wake Of Magellan), Coroner, Cradle Of Filth, Danko Jones (a spoken word special), Dark Funeral, Dimmu Borgir (orchestral performance), Endstille, Forbidden, Gamma Ray, Hammerfall (special anniversary show), Henry Rollins (another spoken word special), In Extremo, In Flames, Machine Head, Ministry, Moonspell (an orchestral acoustic special), Napalm Death, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Saturnian, Scorpions, Sick Of It All, Six Feet Under, Suicide Silence, U.D.O. (special anniversary show), Volbeat, Watain, Winterfylleth

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Source:	wacken.com
Event:	Wacken Open Air 2012

Deathhammer, the brand-new upcoming album from Dutch death metallers Asphyx is set to be released on February 27th in Europe and a day later in North America through Century Media Records.

Recorded at The Mörser Studio as well as at Harrow Studio with their longtime engineer Harry Wijering, Deathhammer was mixed and mastered in Sweden by Dan Swanö, who previously worked with the band on Death? The Brutal Way as well as on the Live Death Doom release.

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Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Asphyx

Swedish metallers In Mourning have revealed the title of their upcoming new album: The Weight Of Oceans will be the follow-up to 2010's Monolith. It was also announced that the album will be issued next year by Spinefarm Records.

The band posted on their Facebook page: "We are proud to announce that our new record will be entitled The Weight Of Oceans and that it will be released in 2012 by Spinefarm Records."

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"Blood Of My Enemies", the new video from Australian thrashers Mortal Sin can now be seen below. The song comes off the band's new album Psychology Of Death, which was released in Europe on November 18th via NoiseArt Records. More album details were previously reported here.


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Source:	mortalsin.com.au
Band profile:	Mortal Sin

Danish rockers Volbeat have decided to part ways with guitarist Thomas Bredahl.

The band announced it on their official website: "Volbeat has decided to part ways with Thomas Bredahl. Being in a band is in many ways similar to a marriage with ups and downs. At times you can work it out and sometimes you need to go separate ways... We want to thank him for the work he has put in for Volbeat and we wish him all the best in the future. Volbeat will play all shows as announced, either as a trio or with a replacement guitarist. Right now we'll take a well deserved break and we will be back on the road in January, ready to rock the Gigantour and Wacken."

Anders, Jon and Michael

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Source:	volbeat.dk
Band profile:	Volbeat