Prophecy Fest 2016 is shaping up nicely! The first two artists have already been announced. The German festival showcases bands from Prophecy Productions and Alcest will offer a complete performance their classic Écailles De Lune album plus a "best-of" set! This special performance will be exclusive to Prophecy Fest 2016. The band will be performing the album in its entirety for the first time.

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The Vision Bleak have been pretty busy this year working on the follow-up to 2013's album Witching Hour. The band recently shared an update regarding the album progress and also announced a live bassist for their future shows. Their good friend, heart and soul of Les Discrets and director of their "The Wood Hag" video, Fursy Teyssier, has joined their ranks to support future The Vision Bleak concerts on his bass guitar.

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Usurpress will have more death metal to offer next year when they release their third album. The quartet from Uppsala, Sweden signed a deal with Agonia Records and recorded their 3rd album, entitled The Regal Tribe, during the fall of 2015 under the supervision of producer Lawrence Mackrory (F.K.Ü., Darkane, etc). Its release date has been slated for 2016.

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Not too long after they released their latest album, Desideratum, U.K.'s Anaal Nathrakh are already focusing on the next one. The extreme metal duo has good news to wrap up the year. They are officially writing new material and you can expect the new album around summer time next year, or as they put it, "a blackened ball of shit". So, it will be filthy.

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It seems like Skid Row are changing singers once again. The veteran hard rockers replaced Johny Solinger with Tony Harnell (TNT, Starbreaker) earlier this year but it didn't last very long. According to him, he quit the band and wasn't fired. But what happened exactly? The Skid Row camp has yet to comment on the situation.

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Luke Easter has been the singer of U.S. thrashers Tourniquet since 1993. However, the group has now announced the split with the frontman. "By mutual and respectful agreement," Luke Easter has stepped down as vocalist of the band. The band's latest album, Antiseptic Bloodbath, came out in 2012 but the band has been working on new songs. So, maybe they are preparing a new release?

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In case you didn't know, Norwegian hard rockers El Caco are back with new music after a four year drought. The follow-up to Hatred, Love & Diagrams is coming out next year and it's simply called 7, their seventh album. The power trio has premiered their new video for the second single titled "Curious". Stop what you are doing and check it out here.

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If you like post-metal, you should listen to Latitudes. The British band's third album entitled Old Sunlight is being released next year, on the 22nd of January via Debemur Morti Productions. But you won't have to wait until January to explore the music, because today you can already hear the brilliant new song "Body Within A Body." Give it a spin over here.

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Every now and then, we have rumors that the classic Guns N' Roses lineup might be reuniting. However, now the reunion rumors are stronger than ever since the band's website was made to display their classic style logo. This furthers the recent speculation that the original members will come together in 2016. In fact, some sources claim that the official reunion announcement is just days away. Also, a mysterious teaser, clips of "Welcome To The Jungle" are being played over black-and-white crowd footage during the pre-trailers of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

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Brazilian thrashers Nervosa are about to record their new album! This will be their second album and follow-up to the acclaimed Victim Of Yourself debut. The band will travel in January 2016 to the United States, where the entire process will take place. The first stage will happen at the renowned studio The Foundation, owned by Sylvia Massy (who has worked with bands like Exodus, System Of A Down, Tool, among others) in the city of Ashland, Oregon, where all the drums will be recorded.

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Fleshgod Apocalypse fans rejoice because you can now hear the first track of their new album! The Italian symphonic death metallers are ready to release their fourth album, King, on February 5th, 2016 via Nuclear Blast. To kick off 2016 with a bang, the group will also release the first single from the new opus on January 1st, 2016, entitled "The Fool". Get the first impressions of the new material by checking out the song on the video here. Are you pleased with it?

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Blaze Of Perdition came back this year with the new album Near Death Revelations released via Agonia Records. The Polish black metallers have also recently revealed a video for the track "Into The Void Again", taken from the album. The video footage comes from their Days of No Light Tour MMXV. Enjoy!

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Good news for fans of Aosoth. The French black metallers will join forces with Polish group Mgła for an European tour taking place next March. Deus Mortem will also be accompanying them on this trek. The confirmed shows so far include stops in Germany, France, Belgium and more.

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A new Theocracy album? It is finally happening! The successor of As The World Bleeds (2011) will be released next year through Ulterium Records and original drummer Shawn Benson recorded the drums on the prog/power metallers highly anticipated fourth album. Former drummer Patrick Nickell quit Theocracy last November. As a taste of what's to come, the American band has also recently shared previews of the new songs including demos from the upcoming album.

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Russian metallers Kartikeya have pushed back the release of their new album once again. Samudra, their third and the first in the elemental pentalogy series, was originally set to be released on October 1st, 2015 and later postponed to December 25th via Arsafes Records. But now the release has been postponed again "due to technical and personal difficulties." Fans who wanted to hear the follow-up to Mahayuga will have to wait a little longer.

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