The Dallas, Texas, and Atlanta, Georgia, dates of the Death To All Tour taking place this summer have been postponed.

The following official statement was released: "It is with regret that we have to postpone the Atlanta and Dallas dates for Death To All 2012, but there is a good side. Many things have led us to this point including very low ticket sales, issues with opening bands being available and several other factors. We are very sorry to all of the Death fans this has caused an inconvenience and wish things could have been different. We did everything in our power to avoid this situation, but in the end the choice had to be made. The good news is that we are working to re-schedule these dates for early next year, and if possible, add more dates surrounding them in new cities! Please hold on to your tickets, as they will be honored."

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Source:	deathtoall.info
Band profile:	Death
Event:	Death To All Tour 2012

US thrashers Testament, Anthrax and Death Angel will join forces once again for their third run of touring in the last two years. Testament will be promoting their new album The Dark Roots Of Earth, Anthrax will still be riding high on Worship Music, released last year and Death Angel are currently working on a new album.

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Source:	testamentlegions.com
Band profile:	Testament

Bay-area thrash legends Testament have revealed more details about their upcoming full-length titled Dark Roots Of Earth, including the album cover, tracklist and release date.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Testament

Nuclear Blast press release:

The ink has finally dried and Nuclear Blast Records is proud to announce the worldwide signing of the Bay Area's indomitable thrash metal band Heathen!

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Heathen

"Electric Rattlesnake", the brand new video from US thrashers Overkill has premiered and is available for viewing below. It was directed by Kevin J. Custer (Hatebreed, Testament, Suffocation), who previously worked with Overkill on the "Bring Me The Night" video. The song comes off their newly released album The Electric Age.

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Source:	wreckingcrew.com
Band profile:	Overkill

"Purgatorium", a brand new song from Japanese avantgarde black metallers Sigh has premiered exclusively at Pitchfork. The track comes off the band's new studio offering entitled In Somniphobia, set for release on March 12th via Candlelight Records.

The 11-track album features guest appearances by Massacre's Kam Lee and The Meads Of Asphodel's Metatron as well as cover illustration by renowned artist Eliran Kantor (Atheist, Testament). More album details were previously reported here.

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Source:	pitchfork.com
Band profile:	Sigh

Italian metallers Ephel Duath are working on their new EP, due in summer 2012 via their recently-signed deal with Agonia Records.

In a video filmed at Sharkbyte Studios (Machine Head, Exodus, High On Fire) in Oakland, California, drummer Marco Minnemann plays an extract from the song "Stardust Rain" and bass legend Steve DiGiorgio (Death, Testament, Sadus, Obscura) plays the intro of the song "Black Prism".

Erik Rutan will mix the EP at his Mana Recording Studio (Cannibal Corpse, Hate Eternal) in San Petersburg, Florida. Alan Douches will master the material at West West Side Music (Death, Mastodon, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Clutch) in New York.


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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Ephel Duath

Portuguese metallers Moonspell have announced that their upcoming new album will be entitled Alpha Noir and will be released on April 27th via Napalm Records. The album was produced and mixed by Tue Madsen.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Moonspell

In their annual Christmas calendar, Wacken Open Air has announced a number of new bands to play at the 23rd edition of the festival in 2012.

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Source:	wacken.com
Event:	Wacken Open Air 2012

Danish prog/power metal band Evil Masquerade leader Henrik Flyman has written a new track entitled "Let's Unite In Rock" for the The MFC Dragon Slayer All Star Project to benefit the charity Metal For Cancer. The song can be purchased at http://www.metalforcancer.com/ and all proceeds will be donated to the Australian Cancer Research Foundation. You can listen to "Let's Unite in Rock" below.

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Source:	metalforcancer.com
Band profile:	Evil Masquerade

Deepsend Records press release:

We're proud to announce the reissue of The Gates Of Slumber Suffer No Guilt album. This reissue will feature the original album and artwork in a glorious 6-panel, matte finished digipak.

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Source:	deepsend.com
Band profile:	The Gates Of Slumber

US thrashers Anthrax will kick off 2012 with the second leg of the US tour co-headlining with Testament. The second half of this tour will take place for about three-weeks and will start in Las Vegas. Once again the main support band is Death Angel in every date of the tour. The expectation is immense, the first leg of the tour joined these bands for the first time and the reactions couldn't have been better: "This line-up of thrash metal masters is what most metal heads' wet dreams are made of."

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Source:	anthrax.com
Band profile:	Anthrax
Event:	Anthrax + Testament: North American Tour 2012

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

US noisecore/grindcore band Anal Cunt are now streaming online a track which contains the band's entire side of their 1991 split 7" with The Meat Shits. You can listen to the track at this location. This track will be featured on a 2CD collection of all their earliest works, entitled The Old Testament, set for release on November 22nd via Relapse Records.

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Source:	analcunt.bandcamp.com
Band profile:	Anal Cunt

The drummer Gene Hoglan, who participated on the forthcoming Testament album Dark Roots Of Earth, will be joining the band on the upcoming co-headliner shows with Anthrax on the Anthrax North American Tour, to take place from October 28th to November 13th.

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Source:	msanthrope.com
Band profile:	Testament