American metal quartet A Sound Of Thunder has released the details of a crowdfunding campaign to support its next album, entitled The Krimson Kult.

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Band profile:	A Sound Of Thunder

Dear readers, today marks a great change for Metal Storm as an institution and as a community. For over 20 years now, we have been a leading voice in the metal underground, providing invaluable resources for music fans through our database, forums, publications, and more. Up until now, we have managed to do this without asking anything in return, powering through year after year purely for the love of the craft. Metal Storm has always operated on a volunteer basis, never motivated by profit, and we had hoped that this would always be the case. Unfortunately, as we have seen over the last year, times change.

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Another February has been remanded to the custody of memory, and one of the most exciting editions of the Metal Storm Awards is now naught but a matter of record. The MSAs continue to expand slowly; if we can just pull Symphonic up to ten nominees next year (and we'll make an effort, we promise), we could hit a full 260 nominees in total (272, counting the Clandestine Cuts). We'll see how things go, but for now, thank you once again for taking the time to listen, vote, and enjoy all this music with us. Discuss the results below.

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metalstorm.net

Ivory Knight guitarist Rob Gravelle has released a cover of Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter", taken from their 1973 album Houses Of The Holy.

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Band profile:	Rob Gravelle

This whole pandemic erupted in earnest around this time last year, when we were embroiled in the 2019 Metal Storm Awards. Well, it's still here, you're still trapped inside, and you probably need to stock up on some more music recommendations to get you through. We don't know about you all, but we've been looking forward to this year's MSAs a lot more than usual, and it is our great pleasure to announce that voting is once again open.

You have the entire month of February to listen and cast your votes, so be sure to explore all of the excellent nominees we have laid out for you. Have at it.

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Rob Gravelle, guitarist of veteran Canadian heavy metal act Ivory Knight, has released a remixed version of the band's song "Rejected," taken from the 2018 album Unity.

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Source:	soundcloud.com
Band profile:	Ivory Knight

It is barely still 2020, but we're going to do our best to end the year on a positive note. You see, 2020 marks the 20th birthday of Metal Storm, and as disorganized and distracted and dispirited as we all have been during the bulk of this time, we weren't going to simply let that slide past us without any mention. Hop over HERE and HERE to read some memories we've shared to honor two full decades of this madness, and be sure to bring your own.

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Canadian symphonic black metal quartet Spiritual Damnation has just released a lyric video for the song "Tower Of Malphas," taken from the album Symphony Of Hell.

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Band profile:	Spiritual Damnation

Swedish black metal duo Golgata has announced the title and release date of its second album: Tempel will be released on November 20th.

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Band profile:	Golgata

Dear fellow Metal Stormers,

We have decided to take the bold step of slashing our Suggestions list into tiny ribbons. Rest assured that this is not because we don't care about what you have to say - on the contrary, it's because the list has become so cluttered and unwieldy over years of accumulation that we feel it no longer serves as an accurate measure of which bands our users care about.

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Mononymous French singer Marge has released her first single, "Detached," a collaboration with Freak Kitchen mastermind Mattias "IA" Eklundh. The accompanying video was released on Marge's YouTube channel earlier today and can also be viewed below.

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Bulgarian groove/death metal quintet Grimaze has released a new music video for the song "Bleeding Earth," taken from their 2018 debut, Planet Grimaze.

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Band profile:	Grimaze

Metal Storm has revised its user policy. Please take a few minutes to read through it.

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A couple of weeks after the initial teaser, Norwegian death metallers Blood Red Throne have released in full a new song from their upcoming album.

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Band profile:	Blood Red Throne

Many of you will recall the Iranian metal band Confess, whose musical activities earned the members imprisonment and the threat of execution for alleged illegal, subversive, and blasphemous acts back in 2015 (though news did not reach many Western media outlets until early 2016). Three years later, Confess proves its endurance by returning with new music.

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Source:	facebook.com
Band profile:	Confess