Los Angeles, California metallers Armored Saint will release their seventh studio album on June 2nd in North America via Metal Blade. Titled Win Hands Down, the record can now be streamed online in its entirety using the SoundCloud widget here. The album has already been released in Austria, Switzerland and Germany and drops tomorrow in the rest of Europe. Enjoy it while you can online! How would you rate the album?

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Source:	metalblade.com
Band profile:	Armored Saint

Legendary metal frontman and Housecore Records founder, Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down, Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), is bringing his horror-themed film and metal festival back for a third year. After a great ride in Austin, the festival will kick off in San Antonio, Texas at the Aztec Theater on November 13th-15th, 2015 and some big bands are already confirmed.

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Band profile:	Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals

The hard rock band D-A-D were forced to stop their concert in home turf, Aarhus, Denmark last Friday. The band's bassist Stig Pedersen fell and broke his arm. After only fifteen minutes into the show, the bassist fell on the wet and slippery stage in his new, high-heeled boots because of rainy weather conditions, according to reports. Lesson: be careful with your high-heeled boots.

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Band profile:	D-A-D

Desolate Pathway have recently announced that Kostas Salomidis, from the Greek doom metal band Sorrows Path, has recorded 2 guests guitar solos for their second album planned for early 2016. Last week, Kostas recorded the guitar solos in Athens with producer Vangelis Yalamas. Epic doom metallers Desolate Pathway were formed by ex-Pagan Altar guitarist Vince Hempstead.

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Michael Monroe will release their new studio album, Blackout States, on October 16th 2015 via Spinefarm Records. This 13 track outing, produced by Chips Kiesbye (Hellacopters, Nomads, etc.) in Gothenburg, Sweden, and mixed by Petri Majuri in Helsinki, Finland, is the follow-up to Horns And Halos - a Finnish chart-topper in 2013.

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Apparently, Italian act Cadaveria have parted ways with long time bassist Killer Bob at the start of May. On the 29th, they announced Enough To Kill and Necrodeath bassist Gianluca Fontana, under the pseudonym of Peter Dayton, as his replacement.

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Luca Turilli's Rhapsody have shared the second song off their ambitious 70-minute new album Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus. After you had the chance of listening to "Rosenkreuz (The Rose And The Cross)" before, now the band presents the second single of the new opus, "Prometheus" (including Ralf Scheepers of Primal Fear as part of the choir). What are your thoughts on the final product?

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Band profile:	Luca Turilli's Rhapsody

While they are busy recording their new album Love, Fear And The Time Machine, progressive metallers Riverside are already announcing various international touring runs to launch the record, which is expected to be released in September 2015 via InsideOutMusic. The band has announced An Evening With headline shows as well as summer festivals and a North America tour and a European tour. So, if you want to catch the band live, see the dates below and start preparing the trip! Also keep in mind that there is a new album coming.

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Source:	insideoutmusic.com
Band profile:	Riverside

The follow-up to 2013's Sacrifice and heavy metal veterans Saxon's 21st album will be called Battering Ram, says frontman Biff Byford, who expects the album to be released this autumn by October. Byford says that the album is nearing completion with a few last details to take care of.

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Band profile:	Saxon

Germans Powerwolf will release their next full-length effort entitled Blessed & Possessed on July 10th on Napalm Records. Apart from that, they have also now revealed details regarding the bonus album Metallum Nostrum, which will be included as a separate Mediabook in the limited edition of the record.

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Fallen is the title of the new album from heavy metallers Stryper. It will be released worldwide on Friday, October 23rd via Frontiers Music Srl. The album was tracked at SpiritHouse Recording Studios in Northampton, Massachusetts and will include a cover version of the Black Sabbath track "After Forever". According to Michael Sweet, it will be their best album.

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Florida-based brutal death metallers Hate Eternal just lifted the veil on their new full-length album. As of today, we know that it will be called Infernus, and it will see a 24th of August release (North America: August 21st) via Season Of Mist. More information regarding the album artwork, tracklist and more will be made available soon. Fans who have been waiting for the follow-up to Phoenix Amongst The Ashes can start getting ready for new songs.

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Band profile:	Hate Eternal

U.S. symphonic heavy metallers Virgin Steele are preparing to release a new album 5 years after The Black Light Bacchanalia saw the light of day. Nocturnes Of Hellfire & Damnation will be released on June 17th via SPV and for now you can enjoy a new lyric video for the track "Lucifer's Hammer".

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Band profile:	Virgin Steele

It's that time of the year for Ghost, new record release time. And today you get to take a deeper look into the new opus. The Swedes just unveiled the cover artwork that will grace the album, which is going to be called Meliora, by the way. The tracklist is also available below. Moreover, the follow-up of Infestissumam will feature a brand new Papa known as Papa Emeritus III, allegedly the slightly younger brother of the current frontman.

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Unexpected news come from the Finnish metallers Children Of Bodom camp, as long-time guitarist of the band, Roope Latvala, decided to leave the band. This comes at a time when the band is working on their new album which is already mixed and mastered at this point.

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Band profile:	Children Of Bodom