This is news week for Van Canto. Just two days ago, they unveiled the cover artwork and tracklist of their upcoming album Dawn Of The Brave, to be released next 7th of February via Napalm Records, and today are giving fans the chance to listen to snippets of the songs right here. Does it sound promising? The a cappella metallers are returning with the successor to Break The Silence.

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A cappella power metal masters Van Canto just unveiled the details of what will be their 5th album, Dawn Of The Brave. The album will be released on February 7th, 2014 via Napalm Records. Here you can have a look at the album cover and tracklist. For now, there are no music samples available.

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Will Timo Tolkki ever get rid of the Stratovarius inheritance? After Tuomo Lassila, the next ex-Strato member to join Timo Tolkki's Avalon's line-up for the second album is Antti Ikonen. The band's site states: "The original keyboard player of Stratovarius Antti Ikonen has joined the line up of Avalon. He played all keyboards on the classic Stratovarius albums such as Fright Night, Twilight Time, Dreamspace and Fourth Dimension."

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Italian symphonic epic metal masters Rhapsody Of Fire just premiered another song off their upcoming album Dark Wings Of Steel, which will hit the stores on November 22nd in Europe and December 3rd in North America via AFM Records, and will be the first without former guitarist Luca Turilli. The band, which already released for streaming the song "Silver Lake Of Tears", is now giving the fans the chance to enjoy "Rising From Tragic Flames".

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Cello metal masters Apocalyptica have just released the official video clip for "Fight Against Monsters", the third out of three live clips for their upcoming album Wagner Reloaded - Live In Leipzig. Recorded in Leipzig in July 2013, this is a live collaboration with the MDR Leipzig Symphony Orchestra and will be released on November 19th via BMG.

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American progressive metal rising stars Jolly just premiered the fourth music video off their new album The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 2). After "Dust Nation Bleak", "Firewell" and "As Heard On Tape", now it's the turn of "Lucky". You can enjoy the really original output created by the band themselves right here below.

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After a teaser, Lascaille's Shroud mastermind Brett Windnagle just revealed the lyric video for the new song "Awakened: Not Even Revembered By The Dust Of Stars". This is the third track on the band's upcoming release, Interval 02: Parallel Infinities - The Abscinded Universe. You can enjoy the video below. The song is almost ten-minutes long.

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So, the wait is over. Italian masters of epic symphonic metal Luca Turilli's Rhapsody just revealed the title for their upcoming album: Prometheus - Symfonia Ignis Divinis, which will be recorded and mixed once again in the Backyard Studios of Sebastian Roeder (Kempten, Germany) and released via Nuclear Blast in 2014. This will be the second album for Luca Turilli's Rhapsody after the split with the original Rhapsody Of Fire. Will the band top the acclaimed Ascending To Infinity?

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It has begun. Finally, the Epica guys are back in the studio, to record what will be their 6th album, the follow-up to the controversial Requiem For The Indifferent. The new album, yet untitled, will be released via Nuclear Blast Records in the spring of 2014.

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After a long period of silence, finally Blind Guardian's frontman Hansi Kürsch shared a long update, containing some of his thoughts about the upcoming show at the Out & Loud Festival in Geiselwind, Germany and many news concerning the progress of the upcoming album. He also talks a bit about new songs which should be fast, epic and heavy.

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Short but great news are coming from the Van Canto camp. The band, which some months ago renewed the deal with Napalm Records and announced a new album, now revealed the title of their forthcoming release that will be named Dawn Of The Brave and will feature 12 songs.

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And so the time has come for Ayreon fans to discover what the long-awaited The Theory Of Everything album will sound like. Arjen Lucassen, in fact, just posted a YouTube video of the official album trailer, which you can enjoy below. The album will be released on October 28th via Inside Out, and will feature many guest artists, that you can read all about here. Take it all in.

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We're just one week away from the release of Soulfly's 9th full-length album, Savages, but the wait to hear Max Cavalera & co's latest effort is finally over. The band, in fact, after releasing for streaming two songs, "Master Of Savagery" and "Bloodshed", is now giving fans the chance to listen to the new album in its entirety over here or here.

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Swedish power metallers Civil War are presenting their first ever official video clip. The song chosen was "Gettysburg", from their debut album The Killer Angels, and the video was shot during the band's live performances in Sweden and Hungary. The video was directed by Michael Asplund. You can watch it here. The group also announced their first European tour. It is due to take place in February of 2014 and will hit across central Europe.

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After releasing the live album Live - From Chaos To Eternity, Italian symphonic power masters Rhapsody Of Fire announced, in July, their new studio album. Now the band revealed more details about what will be their 11th studio effort, the first without former guitarist and songwriter Luca Turilli.

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