Power metal veterans Primal Fear have posted online the first trailer from the upcoming album Rulebreaker. It will be out on January 29th, 2016 via Frontiers Music Srl as the band revealed recently. The teaser features a sound sample for the first single "The End Is Near".

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2016 will be a big year for proggers Headspace. The band featuring Damian Wilson (Threshold) and Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne, Snakecharmer) have announced they will release their second album All That You Fear Is Gone on 26th February 2016 through their label Inside Out Music to follow the magnificent debut I Am Anonymous.

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Swedish psychedelic bluesy rockers Blues Pills have announced new European tour dates. The group will be back on the road for a 30 plus show European tour in February and March 2016. If you want to catch them live, check out the dates below. Also, they have been working on some new songs for the next album!

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And the new Katatonia drummer is... Daniel "Mojjo" Moilanen! He will replace long-time drummer Daniel Liljekvist, who left the Swedes last year, as a new permanent drummer. You might know Daniel from several bands such as The Project Hate MCMXCIX, Runemagick, Lord Belial and Engel, among others. As you know, the band is releasing a new album next year, and today they also entered Studio Gröndahl with engineer Karl Daniel Lidén to commence the recording of their 10th album.

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Abbath is now streaming the first song from their highly anticipated self-titled debut album, now available for pre-order here. Abbath has been slated for worldwide release on January 22nd via Season Of Mist and it's the band's debut record. The song "Winter Bane" is now exclusively available here or over here. Abbath describes the song as "epic, honest, powerful, and a heavy headbanger". How do you like it?

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Obscura are finally releasing a new album and the details are out in the open. Their highly-anticipated fourth full-length album is to be called Akroasis and is due out on February 5th, 2016 via Relapse Records. The aptly-named 'Akroasis' (Greek for "hearing" or "listening") draws on all the various elements of Obscura's signature sound and combines those qualities into a mind-blowing and cohesive whole. Watch a trailer here for the record that includes four minutes of new music via YouTube.

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It's time to destroy your ears or give them pleasure, depending on what rocks your boat. As you know, Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues have joined forces in a new collaboration called N.V.. Brace yourself for a journey into the bleakest depths of humanity by listening to the entire piece today prior to its worldwide release this Friday via Prosthetic Records. Enjoy the pain here.

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A new black metal band is born. Nordjevel, which translated means "Northern Devil", was founded by frontman Doedsadmiral (Svartelder, Doedsvangr) and guitarist Nord (Fatal Impact, Tvangeste, Byrdi) earlier this year. The Norwegian duo was quickly joined by Sweden's Fredrik Widigs (Marduk) on drums. They have today revealed the details and artwork for their upcoming debut full-length album which will be released on Osmose Productions on the 29th of January. Titled Nordjevel, the nine-track album will be released in digipack and digital editions which will be followed by a vinyl version on a date as yet to be announced.

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Cecilie Langlie, who is the singer of Norwegian doom metal band Skumring, has announced the remastered release of the band's only album, De Glemte Tider, which in English means "The Forgotten Times". The remastered release is coming out worldwide exactly tomorrow via Secret Quarters Records.

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Austin heavy psych-rockers Scorpion Child have just released a brand new single, "She Sings, I Kill". You can enjoy the goodness of this new track now right here. It gives us a furtive glimpse into the Texans highly anticipated upcoming sophomore album, on the wake of starting a month long UK and European tour.

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Here is your chance to hear a brand new song from Wildernessking's upcoming album Mystical Future. The South African black metal unit has unveiled a brand new track called "With Arms Like Wands" which is streaming at Bandcamp here. How is the follow-up to 2012's The Writing Of Gods In The Sand sounding to you so far?

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The German wolves in Powerwolf have announced more tour dates for next year. They have been touring a lot to promote their newest album Blessed & Possessed and their Wolfsnächte tour is almost over. The Blessed & Possessed Tour 2016 will cover most of the countries they haven't visited in depth with the Wolfsnächte tour. Go celebrate with the band! Also, supports on these shows will be announced soon.

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Last year, Emperor announced their Complete Works vinyl box set, spanning the black metallers entire career. The box set will be the first time their works have been remastered specifically for vinyl and presented as special editions. It will be released by Finnish label Blood Music which has started revealing its contents now. Emperor's The Complete Works will be a 24-LP, one 7", and one book box set. The public pre-order date for the box set is slated to begin on December 9th, 2015.

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Christmas is drawing near, and the Sonata Arctica frontman, Tony Kakko, has been busy with the annually-assembled Finnish supergroup Raskasta Joula ('Heavy Christmas'), to whom he is an active contributor since 2006, on recreating the famous Christmas carol "Pieni Rumpali" ("Little Drummer Boy"). The supergroup is known to be a gathering of Finnish metal vocalists like Tony, Nightwish's Marco Hietala, ex-Celesty's Antti Railio, ex-Charon's Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto, ex-Kiuas's Ilja Jalkanen and many more. This new video also, pleasantly enough, introduces a new kind of Finnish metal star: Apocalyptica's Eicca Toppinen, playing the cello. Enjoy the peaceful tune below.

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Hammer Horde is proud to reveal the official music video for "Unholy Harbingers Of War", the first single from the upcoming album Fed To The Wolves. After teasing the new material, now the band reveals its first song. You can immerse yourself in it right here. This new record is available December 1st, 2015 through Storm Surge Records.

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