Polish extreme metal machine Hate have begun work on their new and eighth album entitled Solarflesh. The album will be released worldwide via Napalm Records in January 2013.

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"Gethsemane", a brand-new song from drone/doom/stoner metal outfit Om is now available for streaming exclusively at NPR.org.

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You now have the chance to listen to Harakiri, the entire new Serj Tankian album, which has premiered exclusively at this location before it is officially released on July 10th through Reprise Records/Serjical Strike. This is Serj Tankian third solo album.

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"Gap Of Ginnungs", another new song from Swedish viking folk metallers King Of Asgard is now available for streaming at Metalhammer.de. The song is taken from the band's new upcoming album entitled ...to North, due out on July 31st via Metal Blade. More details about the album, including the stream of the song "The Nine Worlds Burn", were earlier reported over here.

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Swedish melodic death metallers The Unguided have finally announced a replacement for John Bengtsson. The band released the following statement about their new touring drummer: "We are happy to announce that our friend Richard Schill (King Leaf Experience, My Collapse, ex-Shining) from Halmstad, will fill in on drums for The Unguided on our upcoming summer shows. Richard is not only a really talented drummer but also an old friend to the band. We did numerous shows together in the past with our previews bands, and it feels really cool to have him onboard!"

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Diabolical are preparing to unleash a new black/death metal explosion. The Swedes have announced that they have started the recording sessions for their fifth album to be titled Neogenesis, which translates to "new beginning".

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Greek doom/power metal band Sorrows Path has scheduled August 20th as the date when they will enter the studio to begin recording their second album and the follow-up to 2010's debut album The Rough Path Of Nihilism. In the band's own words: "Sorrows Path are entering Fragile Studios (Athens, Greece) on August 20, in order to record their sophomore album that will contain 10 songs! The recordings will last until October 29 and the new album will be out by German Rock It Up/IceWarrior Records! Doom rules eternally."

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"Make Total Destroy", a brand new video from US metallers Periphery has debuted exclusively at GuitarWorld.com. Alternatively, you can check it out below. The clip was directed by Wes Richardson. The song comes off the band's new album Periphery II: This Time It's Personal, which is still streaming here. The album is out today via Sumerian Records in North America and will be released on July 16th via Century Media in Europe.

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Festival season is under way now, so here's a chance to win a ticket for the UK's #1 metal festival. For the month of July, we are running a contest giving away three weekend tickets for Bloodstock Open Air 2012. All you have to do is head over to the contest page and correctly answer the question to be entered into the draw!

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Bloodstock Open Air 2012

Folk metal is on fire today. Finnish folk masters Korpiklaani have now released new video clips for the songs "Rauta" and "The Steel", with Finnish and English lyrics respectively. You can check out below the videos directed by Markku Kirves in the region of Janakkala in the south of Finland.

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Bassist Tomá? Čelechovský of the Czech Republic-based classical symphonic power metal band Symphonity (formerly Nemesis) has unfortunately lost his battle with pancreatic cancer on June 27th.

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Finns Finntroll have announced that they will enter Sonic Pump to record their 6th full-length album in November. The yet unamed album and follow-up to 2010's Nifelvind will be released worldwide through Century Media. You can expect to know the release date and additional info soon.

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Over the last month we were giving you the chance to win one of two tickets for the Brutal Assault festival in the Czech Republic. For your chance to win, we asked for what the festival took place within. Perhaps unsurprisingly the correct answer is indeed a fortress - so let's find out which people have won the festival tickets:

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Brutal Assault 2012

With 7 years in existence, US extreme metallers Abigail Williams have decided to put down their instruments by the end of this year, following a lot of touring to say farewell.

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As some of you may or may not know, Swedish progressive metallers Pain Of Salvation have recently started recording an acoustic album. It is being called Clean for the time being. The band might have been inspired by the acoustic show they played on June 8th at the Parkbühne Geyserhaus in Leipzig, Germany.

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