"The Nine Worlds Burn", the brand new video from Swedish viking/black metallers King Of Asgard, can be seen below. It was directed by Andreas Edelönn. The song comes off the band's second full-length album, ...To North, which is scheduled for release on July 30th via Metal Blade Records. More album details are available here and here.

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As part of the World Dystopia Tour, American heavy metallers Iced Earth will be coming back to Europe in December for some very select headlining shows. The support acts will be Evergrey (Sweden), Steel Engraved (Germany) and Deadshape Figure (Finland). The band also has some European summer festivals appearances scheduled before this tour.

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Event:	Iced Earth: World Dystopia Tour 2012 - European Leg

Swiss industrial metallers Sybreed's new album titled God Is An Automaton is set to be released on Listenable Records this coming September 24th (Europe) and October 2nd (North America). The first single from the new album, "The Line Of Least Resistance", has now been made available online for streaming through their SoundCloud page. The band will also shoot a video with director Benjamin Cappelletti for this single.

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"Causality", the brand new video from Indiana djent/progressive metallers The Contortionist has premiered and can be seen exclusively here. The video was filmed last month in North Carolina with directing team KOTK Productions. The song is taken from the band's second album Intrinsic, which is released today through eOne/Good Fight Music.

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US progressive death metal band The Faceless has scheduled August 14th as the release date for their new and third upcoming album entitled Autotheism. The album will be released through Sumerian Records. More album details are yet to be released but in the meantime, whet your appetite with this trailer below. Pre-orders are available now at this location.

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French melodic metallers Ommatidia are set to start working on their second album and the follow-up to 2011 release In This Life, Or The Next. The new as yet untitled album will feature 10 new tracks.

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Sadly, we have to announce the passing of Jon Lord, former keyboard player of Deep Purple, who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism today, Monday 16th of July, at the London Clinic, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

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The new full-length album from US progressive metallers Between The Buried And Me will be entitled The Parallax II: Future Sequence and will be released through Metal Blade Records on October 9th. The album will pick up where the EP The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues left off. The artwork created by artist and designer Chandler Owen (Underøath, Shai Hulud, and Hopesfall) can be seen below.

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Vision Of Disorder have set September 17th as the European release date for The Cursed Remain Cursed, their brand new album and first in over ten years. This will also be their worldwide debut for Candlelight Records. The US hardcore band worked with producer Will Putney (Shadows Fall, Suicide Silence) and mixer Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Social Distortion). The Cursed Remain Cursed features eleven new songs, including the album's lead single "Loveless".

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The details regarding the tribute album to David Gold, founding member of Canadian black and doom metal band Woods Of Ypres, who passed away late last year, have been revealed. The cover for the album as well as the artists who will be participating can be seen below but the release date has not yet been announced.

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US atmospheric black metallers Wolves In The Throne Room have announced the re-release of their second full-length studio album Two Hunters on 180-gram double vinyl. Every detail of the original 2007 Southern Lord release has been maintained in this limited self-released version, which is available for purchase here.

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Eyehategod have announced the release of a new 7" single titled New Orleans Is The New Vietnam this summer via A389 Recordings. The American sludge metallers have been slowly putting together new demo material towards an upcoming album.

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Finnish black metallers The Iniquity Descent have released their debut album The Human Apheresis in May through Massacre Records. The band has now premiered a new video for the song "Collector Vs Protector", taken from that album, which can be viewed below.

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Former Iced Earth members Matt Barlow (vocals) and Freddie Vidales (bass) have teamed up with former Nevermore drummer Van Williams to form a new project which is currently working on original material. Very little information has been revealed so far, but you can check out the teaser trailer for the new band below.

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Krampus are about to release their brand new album entitled Survival Of The Fittest on August 24th through NoiseArt Records. The Italian folk metallers have now released the first trailer for their debut album, which is available below. Shadows Of Our Time, their first EP, was released last year.

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