Swedish metal heroes Sabaton announced they will be returning next year for a North American The Last Tour headlining trek. The band will be touring in support of their eighth album, The Last Stand. The tour will kick-off on April 20th at The Trocadero in Philadelphia, hit 7 Canadian cities plus Chicago, Anaheim, Dallas, and conclude at The Fillmore in Silver Springs, Maryland on May 22nd. For the first time since 2012, Sabaton will headline a tour in USA and Canada!

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Abnormality have released a new album this year, Mechanisms Of Omniscience, the second of their career. The tech death metallers are currently on tour with The Black Dahlia Murder, Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, Misery Index, and Power Trip in the USA and just launched a video for "Cymatic Hallucinations", off the new album. Produced, directed, and edited by Jim Foster (red13media.com), the video clip can be viewed here.

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Portuguese metallers Wells Valley have released one album so far titled Matter As Regent. A year later, the sludge/post-metal group has premiered a new song and video to go with it. The brand new song is called "Ophanim" and can be enjoyed fully below. The song "Ophanim" will appear on the upcoming EP, The Orphic.

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Instrumental progressive trio Animals As Leaders are bringing you The Madness Of Many soon, their new album, to be released one week from now on November 11th via Sumerian Records. But before that, you can also hear another new song from the record. This one is called "Inner Assassins", a 5-minute track available for your listening pleasure now here.

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The official release of Dark Tranquillity's anticipated new album Atoma is tomorrow on Century Media Records. You might also be aware that the deluxe CD edition features the songs "The Absolute" and "Time Out Of Place" that showcase a very different side of the band, removed from the usual metal territory. Well, today the Swedes released a medley of these two songs and you can enjoy it below. How do you like this different side of the band?

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German power metallers Freedom Call make a statement on their brand new track: metal is for everyone! And they've crafted a video for it with a band performance and also video submissions from their fans from all over the world. The result has now been revealed online and features metalheads from Thailand, USA, Australia, Chile, Brazil and Europe, among others. Don't miss it!

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Alkaloid have some good news! After their successful debut album, The Malkuth Grimoire, released last year, the band has a label now: Season of Mist. The Malkuth Grimoire also won Best Debut Album on Metal Storm Awards 2015. The progressive extremists will release their second full-length on the label next year.

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The last time we've heard of black metallers Nachtmystium, mastermind Blake Judd was ripping-off fans and the band were dropped by Century Media in 2014 in the aftermath of unfulfilled album orders taken directly by the frontman, who was suffering from drug addiction. Long-standing British independent record label Earache Records has acquired the majority of back-catalogue titles from the band now. Earache's new deal with Nachtmystium includes the rights to five of the band's studio albums, four EPs, a demos collection, and a remixes and rarities album which was previously only released on YouTube.

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Bulgaria gets all the best shows, right? Well, now it's time for Devin Townsend to perform at the Ancient Roman Amphitheater in Plovdiv supported by the Orchestra of Plovidv State Opera. The band will play a 'By Request Set' followed by a full playback of the Ocean Machine: Biomech album, celebrating 20 years since the record was released. If you love that album, mark your calendars for September 22nd next year!

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Today, you can hear the title track of the upcoming Horn full-length album, Turm Am Hang. The German one-man black metal band has created a follow-up to the last offering, Feldpost. The video shows the progress of the cover painting from being nothing but a piece of plywood to the dramatic scenery it evolved into. All the album details are available below. Enjoy the music and visuals!

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The Swedish psychedelic group Luciferian Light Orchestra is about to release a new EP! It follows the band's debut self-titled album, released in 2015. The band features mastermind Therion's Christofer Johnsson and Mina Karadzic on vocals, performing songs that Johnsson has written over the years but thought were too retro-sounding for Therion. The EP can be pre-ordered here, it's called Black and contains four songs. You can now hear the tune "Where The Lilies Grow" below.

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Today is an important day for Soen as the band just announced their new label and also their new upcoming record, which means that the excellent Tellurian is finally getting a follow-up! The Swedish progressive/alternative metallers have undertaken another trip into uncharted waters for the past few months at Ghostward Studios and Deepwell, Stockholm, Sweden. This journey has resulted in the new opus titled Lykaia which will be released on February 3rd, 2017 as CD digi, vinyl gatefold and download on UDR/Warner ADA.

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Delain are about to record their first ever live DVD release this December and one of the latest special guests confirmed is none other than singer Liv Kristine (Theatre Of Tragedy, Leaves' Eyes). Liv Kristine will be joining the symphonic metallers to perform "See Me In Shadow" from the band's debut album, Lucidity. A Decade of Delain; Paradiso Birthday Bash is taking place at the Paradiso venue in Amsterdam on December 10th, 2016.

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A new album from Manes is being forged as we speak! The Norwegian avantgarde collective is working hard on a brand new album to follow Be All End All, released two years ago. The band has been sharing on their Facebook page some excerpts from the recording process and also confirmed that Ana Carolina from Mourning Sun has also recorded vocals for the new songs at Spiren Studio.

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2016 marks the 30 year anniversary of the legendary New York hardcore band Sick Of It All. To celebrate this special occasion, the band will be releasing When The Smoke Clears on November 4th, 2016. The group didn't just record five brand new tracks that are added as 10" vinyl and all five songs on CD, but they also dug deep in their photo archives and pulled up rare photos as well as iconic shots from their past and present. Check out the lyric video for the song "Black Venom" here for starters.

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