After joining Nuclear Blast Records, Ghost Bath have re-released their latest album, Moonlover, which is now available digitally worldwide. It will be released both on CD and vinyl formats on June 10th. The depressive black metallers have now shared a visualizer for the bonus song "Ascension", which you can enjoy below.

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Sadly for their fans, Stream Of Passion have announced today that they are calling it quits at the end of the year to pursue other musical projects. Since their inception in 2005, the Dutch symphonic metallers released four albums, A War Of Our Own (2014) being their latest. Now they are saying goodbye but will do farewell shows before and record a DVD. So, make the best of it!

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As you probably know, Gorguts are returning this year with new material to be released in the form of one 33-minute track EP Pleiades' Dust. The Canadian tech death metallers are now streaming the final part of the song, called "Besieged" online. It's a 7-minute excerpt and you can enjoy it in all its glory below.

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In Flames are hard at work on their new album! The Swedes latest offering was 2014's Siren Charms. Now, vocalist Anders Fridén has confirmed that the band is working on album number 12 and has been recording new material. It still remains to be seen who their new drummer will be as Daniel Svensson quit the band in 2015.

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Kayo Dot's frontman Toby Driver has announced on his personal Facebook page the release of the band's new upcoming album, entitled Plastic House On Base Of Sky. The release date is scheduled for June 24th via The Flenser Records, which also confirmed the details. You can check out the tracklist and cover below, and the full text by Toby Driver right here.

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Finnish melodic metal quintet Sonata Arctica has started to work on the follow-up album to the 2014' Pariah's Child record. To top off the already great news, the band has announced that they will return this fall for a 33-date headlining tour of North America. The kick-off show is slated for November 6th at The Fillmore in Charlotte, NC. Supporting the band will be German-Norwegian symphonic metallers Leaves' Eyes and Finnish melodic death metallers Omnium Gatherum as opening act on this tour.

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Event:	Sonata Arctica: North American Tour 2016

Official statement from the band:

"It is with regret that we announce the departure of guitarist R.C. and drummer D.B-H. from Cruciamentum. We would like to thank them for all their efforts over the years and we wish them both all the best with their future creative endeavours.

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Karma To Burn, who are currently on a headlining tour in Europe, announced that they will hit the road across the States this spring with The Obsessed and The Atomic Bitchwax. The tour starts just two weeks after the European closure, on May 13th in Washington, DC and runs through June 11th in Atlanta, GA. The complete list of dates is available below the official flyer.

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Event:	The Obsessed: US Tour 2016

Polish death metal stars Behemoth just premiered the fourth music video off their latest album The Satanist. After "Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel", "Messe Noire" and "The Satanist", now it's the turn of "Ben Sahar". You can enjoy "the sprawling sensory experience" directed by Sturla Viðar, Dariusz Szermanowicz, and Nergal right here below.

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Secret Sphere have a new label home: Frontiers Music Srl. The power metallers have new and exciting things coming up. The band's latest original release, the critically acclaimed Portrait Of A Dying Heart and first to feature vocalist Michele Luppi is finally getting a successor. Frontiers plans to release the Live CD/DVD Live In Tokyo in the fall of 2016 with the new album expected to come in the early months of 2017.

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Finnish power metal giants Stratovarius have just unveiled that they will be releasing a "Best Of" compilation album on May 6th on earMUSIC. The new compilation album will also debut a brand new song, featuring their current lineup, the opener track of the album, "Until The End Of Days". The album is remastered by Mika Jussila of Finnvox Studios.

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The release of Gore is fast approaching (April 8th) and Deftones have decided to share another new song off the record now. "Hearts/Wires" is the new song available for your streaming pleasure below. In terms of tour dates, Deftones has announced a U.S. summer tour with Refused joining them on select dates.

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Death metallers Kataklysm are the recipients of the award for "heavy metal album of the year" at the Juno Awards (the Canadian Equivalent to the Grammy's) with their latest record, Of Ghosts And Gods. They were up against other native nominees: Cancer Bats' Searching For Zero, Diemonds' Never Wanna Die, Fuck The Facts' Desire Will Rot and KEN Mode's Success.

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Prog thrashers Vektor have shared another new song from the anticipated new record, Terminal Redux. They have been generous as this is already the third song unveiled from the output. Here's something to chew on before the album release on May 6th via Earache Records. Enjoy "Pillars Of Sand" now!

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Polish progressive metallers Disperse have good news to share. They just announced their first tour of 2016 and it's happening in the U.K. co-headlining with Destiny Potato. The other good news is that the band is currently working on new material, finally, to follow their second album Living Mirrors (2013).

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