Insomnium are preparing a very special performance in their home country this July. The Finns will play their latest masterpiece, Winter's Gate, a 40-minute long track, with the Joensuu City Orchestra. The concert will be an exclusive of the Ilosaarirock Festival in Joensuu.

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USA based thrash metal outfit Havok are disseminating the first new track off their upcoming album, Conformicide. The song, titled "Hang 'Em High", can be heard as of today via the lyric video (created by Cloud Music Typography) below and is also the first instant grat track for those who pre-order the album on Amazon and iTunes. Conformicide will see a March 10th release on Century Media Records. Enjoy the thrash!

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Mastodon are gearing up to release a new album and so the teasing has started. The U.S. metallers have released two goofy teasers so far. You can watch them below and see if you can decipher anything. The new offering is expected out this spring and was recorded with Brendan O'Brien (Rage Against The Machine, Korn) who worked with the group in Crack The Skye.

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German alcohol soaked thrash metal act Tankard are currently working on the follow-up to their acclaimed 2014 album, R.I.B.. The guys entered Gernhart Studios in Troisdorf with producer Martin Buchwalter (Destruction, Accu§er, Suidakra) earlier this month. Guitars, bass and drums are already done and at the moment, Gerre is lending his voice to the soundtrack for their 35th anniversary.

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As the anticipation builds for the release of Soen's new album, Lykaia, the Swedish progressive outfit has revealed a second song off of it. Fans already had the chance to listen to "Sectarian" and now there's a video for "Lucidity". The 7-minute song "Lucidity," as well as most of Lykaia's music, was written by drummer Martin Lopez and vocalist Joel Ekelöf.

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Rammstein: Paris, a new concert-film by Jonas Åkerlund, will screen in selected cinemas across the world on the 23rd of March 2017! Screening dates for Germany, Austria, Switzerland are March 23rd, 24th and 29th, 2017. During the "Made in Germany" tour, Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund filmed two acclaimed Rammstein concerts in March 2012 - each for an audience of 17,000 at the Bercy Arena in Paris. In the resulting film (with 16 songs from the entire repertoire), Jonas Åkerlund takes a radically new approach to capturing the emotion and thrill of Rammstein's live performance.

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After announcing their new line-up recently (the addition of new vocalist Giacomo Voli and drummer Manu Lotter), Italian symphonic power metal kings Rhapsody Of Fire are now working on their upcoming release, which will be a 75 minutes long album revisiting a selection of songs written and produced during the 5 first years of the Rhapsody Era (1997-2002). 14 epic tracks completely re-recorded! All drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, vocals, epic choirs, opera choirs, and numerous classical instruments have been recorded already.

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Australia's incendiary extreme musical export Thy Art Is Murder officially announced the return of a very familiar face. Vocalist C.J. McMahon is back into the fold. To cement McMahon's return to his rightful throne, the band has released a brand new song entitled "No Absolution". Check out the song here. Moreover, there's a new record to be released later this year.

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Cellar Darling have found a label home and signed to Nuclear Blast. After their split with Eluveitie, Anna Murphy, Ivo Henzi and Merlin Sutter reached out for new shores in 2016 and are currently working on their debut album, to be released in 2017. The recordings start this month.

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A new bloody video from Benighted? That's right! Today you can watch a gore and guts filled video based on the track "Reptilian", which has been taken from their forthcoming album Necrobreed, out February 17th on Season of Mist. The French brutal death metallers have also added a European headlining tour joined by label mates Wormed as well as Unfathomable Ruination and Omophagia.

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Recently, the Finnish metallers Wintersun unveiled the title of their third studio album, The Forest Seasons, that will see the light of day in 2017 via Nuclear Blast. The new release will be a full-length album of 53 minutes featuring a brand new concept that band leader and mastermind Jari Mäenpää now reveals, together with the complete tracklist. It looks like it's actually happening. Check it out below.

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As you might know, symphonic metal act Xandria are releasing a new album this month called Theater Of Dimensions. In fact, the opus is dropping via Napalm Records on January 27th. Their newest video for "Call Of Destiny" is now available! Take a look at the images shot with AVA-studios and listen to the first single of the album!

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U.S. metal act Sanctuary are gearing up to release Inception, a collection of presumed lost 1986 studio recordings, on February 24th, 2017 via Century Media Records. Magically restored, remixed and remastered by Zeuss (Queensrÿche, Hatebreed), the band now presents the first track off this release. Enjoy "Die For My Sins (Demo 1986)" here.

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Metallica are among the nominees for "Best Rock Song" with "Hardwired" at the 59th annual Grammy Awards. But the metallers will also perform at the event. The last time Metallica performed at the Grammy Awards, they played the song "One" and were joined on stage by Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang. Now they promise something special once again.

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Eyehategod frontman Mike IX Williams successfully underwent a liver transplant last month and is currently on the slow road to recovery. To help with his mounting medical expenses, several benefit shows are being organized, the first of which will run from February 3rd through the 5th in Williams' hometown of New Orleans. The three-day, festival-styled event will take place at Siberia and Poor Boys venues and includes appearances by Eyehategod, Crowbar, Goatwhore, Thou, Mountain Of Wizard, and many more acts bound together for the cause.

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