On March 10th, death metallers Evocation will celebrate their return with the new album, The Shadow Archetype. According to their label Metal Blade Records, while honoring their Swedish death metal roots, the new album also adds thrash metal elements to their heavy sound. For a first preview of the album, the single "Children Of Stone" can be heard below. Prepare your ears and enjoy!

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Polish black/death metal tyrants Azarath have signed a new record deal with Agonia Records. Their last release with the label was the 2009's offering Praise The Beast. The band is expected to release a new album, the successor to Blasphemers' Maledictions from six years ago, this April.

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Today is the day you can check out the cover artwork for Wintersun's upcoming new album, The Forest Seasons and it is... a forest! Last week, the Finns announced their crowdfunding campaign that will start on March 1st. With the collected amount, front man Jari Mäenpää says he plans to build his own studio that would finally allow him to record the long-awaited album, Time II.

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If you like Drudkh or other Roman Saenko's musical endevours, you should check out Windswept. They are currently streaming the second new track taken from their debut full-length, The Great Cold Steppe, which will be released worldwide on March 31st via Season Of Mist. Enjoy "Shrouded in Pale Shining, So Sleeps Infinite Ancient Steppe".

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San Francisco death metal horde Vastum has announced a string of tour dates surrounding their performance at The Netherlands Death Fest. The band will raid Europe on the Eight Days Of Death. The announcement is joined by news of label home 20 Buck Spin's plans to reissue the band's primal debut album, Carnal Law, which has been out-of-print on vinyl since its 2011 release.

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The Swedes Vampire have unveiled the cover for their upcoming second full length album, With Primeval Force, a piece of handcrafted art by renowned artist Nick Keller. You can feast your eyes on it right here. With Primeval Force is set to be released on April 21st via Century Media Records and offers "nine tracks of furious and nightmarish death/thrash metal."

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A new prog collective has been introduced. It's called Nova Collective and on March 10th, the band featuring members of Between The Buried And Me, Haken, Trioscapes, Cynic will release their debut album, The Further Side, via Metal Blade Records. Nova Collective's music can be described as "fusion, weaving progressive rock influences with world music, jazz and classical, to create something entirely new that is pure aural candy for prog/jazz fans." For a preview of their record, the first single, "Dancing Machines", can be heard below.

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Band profile:	Between The Buried And Me

After touring the world this past year in support of their new album, Jomsviking, Amon Amarth will head back out on the road this spring for a USA tour with Goatwhore, shortly after their scheduled European tour. Starting April 30th, the trek also features select appearances by Amon Amarth at some of the nation's music festivals: "Welcome to Rockville", "Carolina Rebellion", "Dark Lord Day", "Northern Invasion", and "Rock on the Range".

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It's now official that singer Zachary Paul Theart has joined Skid Row permanently after touring with the group for a while. Furthermore, they are already writing new songs for the final installment, the third chapter of their United World Rebellion trilogy.

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The Prophecy Fest 2017 line-up is already shaping up to take place this summer. Prophecy Fest takes place in a natural cave from Old Stone Age - Balver Höhle, Germany this July and two new bands have now been confirmed: Hexvessel and Lotus Thief.

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Arch Enemy have now launched a live video for "War Eternal", filmed at Wacken 2016 and taken from their upcoming live DVD/Blu-ray, As The Stages Burn! which will be released on March 31st, 2017. This is the first clip the band unveils from the release. The full Wacken 2016 show was recorded with 13 cameras, produced and directed by Patric Ullaeus. The audio was mixed by Andy Sneap. Watch it here.

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On February 3rd, 2017, London-based progressive metal band Haken will release their first two albums, Aquarius and Visions, as new remastered 2CD editions as well as on vinyl for the very first time. They have therefore revealed a stream of the remastered version of "Streams" taken from Aquarius. You can enjoy that below.

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Icelandic black metallers Misþyrming recently released a 10" split with fellow countrymen Sinmara via Terratur Possessions. In case you haven't heard it yet, check out the song "Hof", Misþyrming's contribution to the release here and Sinmara's "Ivory Stone" over here. Don't forget to tell us if you liked it.

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Black metallers Secrets Of The Moon have revealed that founding member and bassist Daevas has returned! He left the group in 2008 but now rejoins. In other good news, the band plans to start working on the successor to Sun after the summer festivals this year.

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The first sounds from Lethe's new album, The First Corpse On The Moon, are here. February 24th, 2017 is the official release date via My Kingdom Music of the second album from the avantgardish duo which are Tor-Helge Skei (Manes, Manii) and Anna Murphy (Cellar Darling, ex-Eluveitie). If you are curious, dive into the 7-minute title track right now below.

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