After being a member of Danish blackened death metal tank Panzerchrist for 9 years, guitarist Rasmus Henriksen has decided to leave the band.

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Blacklight Deliverance, the brand-new upcoming album from Finnish melancholic metallers Black Sun Aeon is now streaming in its entirety over at Kaaoszine.

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Source:	kaaoszine.fi
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Japanese power metal/J-Rock outfit Versailles have announced that they will release a new live DVD entitled Chateau De Versailles: Jubilee. The DVD comes out December 21st in two formats, the normal edition and the limited edition, and will contain their "Method Of Inheritance World Tour 2010 - Grand Final - Chateau de Versailles" concert held at Shibuya C.C. Lemon Hall on September 4th, 2010.

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UK stoner/doom outfit Electric Wizard have announced that they have begun writing new material for what will become the band's next album.

The band wrote on their Facebook page: "Electric Wizard have begun work on the follow-up to last year's evil opus Black Masses. Material has been demoed at a secret location and was so 'malevolent and foreboding' that 2 tracks will see the light of day as a 7" EP scheduled for release at the forthcoming London Forum show on March 31st. The show will also feature previews of the new songs and (at last!) specially filmed sequences for the video show and more to be announced."

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Sumerian black metallers Melechesh have just returned from the Lux Mundi Europe Tour as special guests of label mates Samael. Mastermind, vocalist and guitarist Ashmedi offers the following positive summary: "So far we have completed our fourth tour, plus a festival run in support of The Epigenesis album. Yet we still have some more gigs to announce."

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German heavy metallers Running Wild have announced that they will release a new album entitled Shadowmaker, seven years after Rogues En Vogue, which is set for a worldwide release via Steamhammer/SPV in April 2012.

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Finnish folk metallers Korpiklaani will enter Petrax Studios next month to prepare their new album. The band posted the following on their official Facebook: "We are happy to announce that on November 7th we will invade the Petrax-studios in Hollola again to record our next album. The title is still subject of discussion, so we cannot reveal it. The amount of songs is unsure yet; we keep on writing? inspiration flows!"

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As reported earlier, Danish metallers Royal Hunt are set to release their new long-awaited DVD, entitled Future's Coming From The Past, which consists of new restored versions of their classic Japanese live albums - 1996 and Closing The Chapter (previously released only on VHS), with improved images and sound, and of course, bonus features! The DVD will be released on December 2nd in Europe and November 29th in North America via Frontier Records.

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After 13 years in the band, Johan Hallgren has decided to leave Pain Of Salvation to focus on his daughter and wife. He will not leave music altogether, but plans to work with music in a way that allows him to stay at home with his family in Sweden. That means that the band's upcoming Nov/Dec tour together with Opeth will be his last. He will of course be sadly missed, both musically and personally, and very difficult to replace. So, if you know someone who sings and plays the crap out of basically anyone, send him or her our way - we might just have a thing or two to discuss.

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The Austrian metalcore band The Sorrow has joined the Napalm Records ranks and is currently working on their fourth album, which will be released in early 2012!

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We have been informed that Belphegor have been forced to stop all activities until May 2012. Frontman/guitarist/founding member, Helmuth Lehner went through a serious and difficult operation 16 days ago after the South American tour, and as result of this Belphegor have indeed had to cancel all shows until May next year.

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Spanish crossover thrash metal band Soziedad Alkoholika have revealed on their official website that their new album will be entitled Cadenas De Odio and it will be released in the last week of November. The album was produced by Tue Madsen (Sick Of It All, Moonspell, The Haunted), recorded in the Music Lan studios and mixed at Antfarm Studios in Aarhus. Brent Elliott, who penned previous artwork for Arch Enemy and Megadeth, came up with the cover art of the album.

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Vocalist Kyle Thomas and guitarist Jay Ceravolo of New Orleans groove thrash metallers Exhorder will be leaving the band, according to this statement from Kyle Thomas released recently: "On behalf of Jay Ceravolo (Exhorder guitarist) and myself, it is with much regret and disappointment that we are both leaving Exhorder. There is much darkness surrounding Exhorder at this time due to business and personal differences. We extend deep apologies to those that this has both inconvenienced and disappointed."

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Source:	roadrunnerrecords.com
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As previously announced, US progressive power metal band Theocracy will be releasing their new album As The World Bleeds on November 25th in Europe through Ulterium Records and on November 21st in North America through Nightmare Records. You can now listen to the album teaser below.

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Source:	theocracymusic.com
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Lulu, the new album from musical collaboration between Metallica & Lou Reed, is now available for streaming at this location. The song "The View" was previously released and you can listen to it here. Lulu is set to be released on October 31st everywhere else except for North America, where it will be released on November 1st. More album details were previously reported here and here.

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Source:	loureedmetallica.com
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