New music from Headspace! The proggers featuring Damian Wilson (Threshold) and Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne, Snakecharmer) recently announced the release of their second album All That You Fear Is Gone for the 26th of February 2016 via Inside Out Music and you can view the striking artwork below. The band have now also launched the first track from the album, and you can listen to "Your Life Will Change" right now here. How was that for a first taste? Enjoy!

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As of now, you can hear the first song revealed from progressive metallers Obsidian Kingdom's new opus! The Spanish band is releasing its second album this year, A Year With No Summer (due out on 11th March via Season of Mist). The first single from the output is called "Away/Absent" and is streaming right now below. Stop what you are doing and give it a chance. Did you enjoy the prog goodness?

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The new music continues now with Textures. The Dutch progressive metal maniacs will release the first of their upcoming two albums, Phenotype, on February 5th, 2016 via Nuclear Blast. The second record of the diptych, Genotype, will be released one year later. Today, the band has released another song off the forthcoming record called "Illuminate The Trail". Check out the 7-minute video for the track below. Do you like it?

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Are you ready for a new Oranssi Pazuzu song? It has just arrived. The psychedelic Finns will be releasing their new album Värähtelijä through Svart Records and 20 Buck Spin on the 26th of February. Before that, you get to hear one new song to get things started. What have they created this time around? Enter the world of "Hypnotisoitu Viharukous" below as an introduction to the new material and let us know your impressions.

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A new Rotting Christ track has just premiered online. Eager fans can listen to the second track revealed from the album, called "In Nomine Dei Nostri" which also opens the record. Rituals will drop on the 12th of February this year via Season of Mist. The Greek black metallers will finally release the follow-up to Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy. How is the new song? Give it a spin or more over here below. The distinctive track also features the contribution of Necromantia's Magus Wampyr Daoloth.

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Bad news for Killing Joke fans in North America. The industrial band has been forced to cancel their upcoming January/February North American tour due to health issues. This has come as a shock for the band, but they ask for time to work this out and hope to return to touring as soon as possible. The Soft Moon are continuing with many of the scheduled dates so please check local listings for further information on that. Killing Joke released the album Pylon last October which is being well-received.

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Thrashers Exmortus have recently released their newest album, Ride Forth, now available worldwide. As of now, you can also watch a live music video of the song "Relentless." Produced by James Pesature of Magnetar Studios, the video features footage taken during the band's stop at New York City's Gramercy Theatre last September as they performed alongside guitar legend Marty Friedman. See the band in action below and don't forget to check out their new album.

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2016 will bring a new album from French proggers Lazuli! After releasing Tant Que L'herbe Est Grasse back in 2014, the band is now releasing Nos Âmes Saoules. The album can pre-ordered now at this location via their website. The new output will arrive in late January. Hopefully, they will share a new song or two soon.

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New tour alert! Between The Buried And Me and Grammy Award nominees August Burns Red, who both released great albums in 2015, Coma Ecliptic and Found In Far Away Places respectively, are joining forces for a North American co-headlining tour. The tour kicks off on March 4th in Sayreville, NJ at Starland Ballroom with additional support from The Faceless and Good Tiger, and will wrap up in New York on April 17th at Webster Hall.

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Absu are set to embark on a massive North American tour in March/April. The tour is titled Merelogical Nihilism Connexus Tour: 2016. The 42-city tour will see the band perform a brand new set with music spanning their 25-year recording career. It is the first full, American tour by the Texas-based mythological occult trio since 2013 and will precede the release of the band's new album, Apsu. They plan to release the new album later this year and have now revealed its first details.

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Event:	Absu: Merelogical Nihilism Connexus North American Tour 2016

Today you can finally hear new Holy Grail music! The LA metallers just premiered a lyric video for their debut single "No More Heroes" taken off their upcoming new album Times Of Pride And Peril, due out on February 12th via Prosthetic Records. Fans had to wait three years to hear new material. Enjoy the catchy heavy metal below.

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Aussies Make Them Suffer released an album last year called Old Souls. If you haven't checked it out, you can always listen to one song from the record now. The band dropped a new music video for the track "Fake" off of the album and also announced that they have signed with Rise Records.

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The French occult black metallers Aluk Todolo are putting out new music this year. The band is releasing their fourth album, four years after Occult Rock. The new output is called Voix and comes out on February 5th, 2016 on The Ajna Offensive. To help with the wait, you can hear a couple of songs from the new record already. The tracks "8:18" and "5:01" are currently streaming via Bandcamp where you can pre-order the album as well.

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One-woman black metal project Myrkur always seems to generate a lot of discussions, maybe because she is a woman in a predominantly male dominated genre, maybe because she gets a lot of attention. Whatever the cause may be, things has been taken too far now as Myrkur, aka Amalie Bruun, has posted online about getting tired of receiving death threats via Facebook. Bruun doesn't blame the metal community as a whole but points out that those threats and messages are coming mostly from American men and occasionally Eastern European.

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After a few years of silence, finally today we have news about Thunderstone. It seems they have been working behind the scenes. The power/heavy metallers who were rejoined by original vocalist Pasi Rantanen in 2013 again, have signed a worldwide deal (excluding Finland and Japan) with AFM Records! The band's upcoming new album will be called Apocalypse Again and will be released on April 1st.

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