Back in 2014, British doomsters 40 Watt Sun announced plans for a new album. Wider Than The Sky has now been announced as the title of that new album. This is the follow-up to their 2011 debut, The Inside Room. Furthermore, you can already check out the cover, teaser and also song titles from the opus.

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Vocalist Ville Laihiala of Sentenced and Poisonblack fame has launched a new band called S-Tool. He is joined in the Finland-based group by drummer Aksu Hanttu (Entwine), bassist Kimmo Hiltunen (Lullacry) and guitarist Sami Leppikangas. If it looks interesting to you, check out their video for the song "Shovel Man" here to get an idea of the music.

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The short-lived Newsted project might be over but American bass player Jason Newsted (ex-Metallica, Voivod, Flotsam And Jetsam) is launching a new acoustic project called Would And Steal with Rob Tucker. Stay tuned for more news about that coming soon but he has debuted the new acoustic duo Would And Steal at Mighty Fine Guitars in California. You can watch that performance here. Jason Newsted plays guitar.

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Drummer Adrismith of Brazilian all-female metal unit Panndora has updated on the band. The group is still active even though they have been on hiatus. You can expect more news soon.

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Suomi metal band To/Die/For just announced their farewell. The Finnish band broke up after 17 years as a band, Cult being their last album, released last year. It will all be over and one of their last performances will be at the John Smith Festival in Laukaa, Finland.

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Doom metal band from Finland Kypck, who sing in Russian, will bring us another Siberian Winter this upcoming September. Their new opus, and fourth in total, is entitled 3epo (Zero) and Kypck have started a Pledge campaign. You can order the album here. Furthermore, the cover has also been revealed.

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Guns N' Roses was detained at the Canadian border for having a gun on board, frontman Axl Rose revealed to a sold-out crowd of 50,000 at Toronto's Rogers Centre Saturday night (July 16th). The singer waited until the evening's 18th song, "Out Ta Get Me," before telling the story. At least they are being true to their band name. Guns N' Roses are currently on the road on their Not In This Lifetime tour, with Rose joined in the lineup by guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan. Original drummer Steven Adler also joined the band onstage recently, appearing at shows in Nashville and Cincinnati.

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A 29-year-old North Side man died tragically this Friday night after falling two stories from a railing to the pavement below on opening night of the three-day Chicago Open Air Festival at Toyota Park in Bridgeview. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that just after 10 p.m., Robert Smucz was sitting on a railing watching the concert on the mezzanine level of Toyota Park at 7000 Harlem Avenue when he fell two stories to the cement pavement below, according to city spokesman Ray Hanania.

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Hailing from the Swedish town of Boden, the progressive death metal trio An Abstract Illusion will release a new album, Illuminate The Path, this 27th of July 2016. This is the debut album from band. Following up the 2014 release Atonement Is Nigh, the band has recorded 7 original songs, as well as a cover of Norwegian black metal band Windir. Check out their rendition here.

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On July 15th, Megadeth were slated to perform at the Rockmaraton Festival in Dunaujvaros, Hungary, but had to cancel the show when bassist David Ellefson broke his foot backstage before the band went on. After planning to save the show, mainman Dave Mustaine informed the crowd that Megadeth would not be playing. The thrash band has canceled the remaining two shows on their European tour, including the Harley Days festival in Slovakia Saturday night and the Masters Of Rock festival in the Czech Republic on Sunday, July 17th.

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It is one of the latest signings by AFM Records. The new Asenblut's record, Berserker, will be out on August 19th, 2016. The opus includes 12 highly energetic songs (plus an English bonus track) which leave no questions about what these melodic Vikings are about. Hear the first advance track "Drachenborn" now.

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The 2016 edition of Denmark's Metal Magic Festival this past Saturday, July 9th, didn't end well and things got a little weird. Metalized Magazine reports that Australia's extreme metallers Deströyer 666 spent much of their set time fighting with the audience. Guitarist/vocalist K.K. has now apologized for the incident via Facebook and says he was drunk and it's all part of Rock and Roll.

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American doom metal legends Pentagram just launched their first ever music video. The track chosen was "Curious Volume'', from the album of the same name, released last year on Peaceville Records. Enjoy the visuals and music here. What do you think about their first promotional video?

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After the hard work on their new album, HammerFall will hit the road again. The mighty power metallers have also confirmed that their new record is dropping this November 4th, 2016 on their new label Napalm Records. In the wake of what will be the band's 10th studio effort, HammerFall will do another celebrated tour over Europe, beginning on January 12th, 2017 in Bremen, Germany. Mark your calendars!

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Aerosmith's guitarist Joe Perry is now in a stable condition at a New York hospital after falling ill at a concert, police said. The musician, 65, had taken to the stage Sunday at Coney Island with his group the Hollywood Vampires when he collapsed and was rushed to the hospital. The Hollywood Vampires is also made up of singer Alice Cooper and actor Johnny Depp.

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