Children Of Bodom's classic debut album Something Wild was released 20 years ago and the mighty Hatecrew was born. The Finns will take to the road in 2017 to celebrate 20 years of life in the form of a mind blowing classic set-list. For an entire month, Children Of Bodom will bring their sound over to the UK and Central Europe, so make sure to catch the guys on one of these shows.

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Darkest Hour have announced their ninth studio album! It's called Godless Prophets And The Migrant Flora and was recorded in Salem, Ma at Godcity Studio with producer Kurt Ballou, mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side. NYC. The Washington metallers crowd funded the album and also shared the album cover art and the confirmed tracklist, which you can check out below.

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The Swedes The Unguided have announced an important line-up change recently. Guitarist/vocalist Roland Johansson is no longer in the band and he was one of the founding members.

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The new Lethe album is upon us and today you can discover more about it. The band's mastermind Tor-Helge has defined it a "snapshot in time". Together with Anna Murphy (Cellar Darling, ex-Eluveitie), they paint on The First Corpse On The Moon a melancholic, introspective and ethereal musical landscapes ready to be released via My Kingdom Music on February 24th. See the cover art and more details below.

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Today is a good day for Benighted fans. Why? Well, there's a new track to be discovered! The French death metal group is streaming another song taken from their forthcoming album, Necrobreed called "Forgive Me Father" which features vocalist Trevor Strnad from The Black Dahlia Murder. Enjoy the insane track below.

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After joining the label Napalm Records earlier this year, it's time for Warbringer to reveal some details regarding their new album. The follow-up to IV: Empires Collapse and their 5th record shall be titled Woe To The Vanquished. The opus has been carefully crafted over a period of time, and was produced and mixed by Mike Plottnikoff (Fear Factory, In Flames), mastered by Howie Weinberg (Slayer, Pantera) with cover art by the esteemed Andreas Marschall (Sodom, Blind Guardian, Obituary). Feast your eyes on it.

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Century Media Records and U.S. metal act Sanctuary have set February 24th, 2017 as the release date of Inception, the official prequel to 1988's classic debut Refuge Denied. It contains presumed lost 1986 studio recordings, which guitarist Lenny Rutledge discovered recently and which were magically restored, remixed and remastered by Zeuss (Queensrÿche, Hatebreed). Watch the first trailer for this release below.

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The third Pryapisme album is coming! The follow-up to 2013's Hyperblast Super Collider will be called Diabolicus Felinae Pandemonium (or the story of the birth of the Diabolic Cat who will end the human race) and the avantgarde metallers will release it via Apathia Records on February 3rd, 2017. For now, a few details have been unveiled. See the cover below and you can expect 10 songs and 57 minutes of music.

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Brazilian thrash metal icons Sepultura will unleash their upcoming fourteenth studio album, Machine Messiah, on January 13th through Nuclear Blast. But before that, the band has released the lyric video of the first digital single, for the tune "I Am The Enemy". It is available for your viewing pleasure below. What are your impressions of the song?

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Back in 2015, Dutch black metal extremists Carach Angren released their last album, This Is No Fairytale. However, there are new sounds being forged in the studio. Recently, the band shared a picture from the Tidalwave Studio where they are recording guitars for their new album. Previously, they were also in the Abyss Studio.

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The Brutal Assault 2017 festival will be pretty special for fans of Czech black metallers Master's Hammer as the band will perform for the first time in 25 years! 25 years after their last show, the legendary band will do an exclusive summer festival show at Brutal Assault 2017 and will do a set based on the early 90's songs for the old fans and those who were not even born at the time.

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Prepare for a new death/grind attack courtesy of Lock Up. The supergroup just premiered their first new song in a long time and it's called "Mindfight". Now fronted by Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth fame, the band will release a new album next year, Demonization. The record will drop via Listenable Records in March 2017.

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The nominations for the 59th annual Grammy Awards were announced today. For the Best Metal Performance category, the nominees are Baroness, Gojira, Korn, Megadeth and Periphery. Gojira's Magma is also nominated for "Best Rock Album" and Metallica appears on the list for "Best Rock Song" with "Hardwired". Check out the nominees below.

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Kreator will present their new album Gods Of Violence next year in North America. They are part of the lineup for the 2017 Decibel Magazine Tour with Florida death metal legends Obituary, old-school Ohio brutalizers Midnight and celebrated progressive death prodigies Horrendous (with regional openers in select markets to be announced next year).

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Frontman of Swedish heavy metallers Sabaton, Joakim Brodén, was voted fifth in the Czech national singing competition "Český slavík" (Czech nightingale) on November 26th! This came as a huge surprise to the Czech domestic music scene, and it became a source of satisfaction for Czech metalheads as Sabaton is hugely popular in the Czech Republic. Brodén got 9826 points, trailing by roughly 2,000 to a fourth place. Joakim made a video to thank his Czech fans. You can watch it here. Maybe more people will check out their new album The Last Stand.

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