Death Dealer will drop their second full-length album, Hallowed Ground, on October 2nd, via Sweden Music Group (SMG), and they are debuting their hard-hitting new video for "Break The Silence" which can be watched below. The band features members who have previously played with the likes of Manowar, the Dictators, Halford, Lizzy Borden and Cage.

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Jaguar are proud to announce the addition of Swedish vocalist L-G Persson (Steel Attack, The Storyteller) to their line-up. In September 2014, Jaguar parted company with their previous vocalist Jamie Manton following their appearance at Sweden Rock Festival in June the same year. Since then the band has been searching for the perfect vocalist both in the UK and Scandinavia, latterly though in Sweden as the band founder Garry Pepperd planned to move to Sweden to settle down with his Swedish born fiancée.

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Orlando-based Trivium have already shared a few songs from their upcoming new full-length album, Silence In The Snow. The album is set to be released on October 2nd, 2015 via Roadrunner Records, and today we get to listen to another new song. Watch the brand new Trivium video for the mellower "Until The World Goes Cold" below. Guitarist/vocalist Matt Heafy continues to focus on his clean vocals on this one.

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Casket Dream Veneration has been announced as the new Onirik full-length which is set to be released through Iron Bonehead Productions/ Altare Productions. The CD version will be out on the 23rd of October and the LP before the end of the year. The Portuguese black metallers first recordings in six years, Casket Dream Veneration represents a rebirth for mainman Gonius Rex. You can discover the new song "Reverent To The Flames" below. Was it enjoyable?

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Guitar player Joel Hoekstra has previously announced the release of his new melodic hard rock studio album Dying To Live from his new side project, Joel Hoekstra's 13. Hoekstra is best known as the current guitarist for Whitesnake/David Coverdale and this solo album features an all-star cast of rockers. You can hear samples of these songs online down below on YouTube player.

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Motörhead cover version of The Rolling Stones classic "Sympathy For The Devil" has premiered online and can be streamed at this location. The song is taken from band's much-anticipated 22nd studio album, Bad Magic, which will be released later this week on August 28th. At the same location, you can listen to three other new songs from the record that include "Victory Or Die," "Evil Eye" and "Shoot Out All Your Lights".

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Century Media, one of the best-known independent heavy metal labels in the world, will be acquired for $17 million by Sony Music Entertainment, according to Music Business Worldwide. The company is apparently valued somewhere between $15 million and $20 million, and has more than 50 staff across the U.S. and Europe.

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Michael Monroe will release his new studio album, Blackout States, on Friday, October 9th via Spinefarm Records. The 13-track follow-up to 2013's Horns And Halos was produced by Chips Kiesbye in Gothenburg, Sweden, and mixed by Petri Majuri in Helsinki, Finland. The band has shared now the album tracklist and cover. You can check out both below. As for the music, the first single is being released on September 4th. Stay tuned for that.

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Detectives with the Los Angeles Police Department Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force served a search warrant Thursday at the California home of Gene Simmons, but the KISS bassist/vocalist and his family are not considered suspects. The rocker's publicist said the police visit was connected with a crime that may have occurred on the property last year while Simmons was away touring with KISS.

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The Finns Poisonblack have bad news for their fans. The band is going on an indefinite hiatus. The band's latest release had been 2013's album Lyijy but according to guitarist/singer Ville Laihiala (ex-Sentenced), it's time for the band to stop. They decided to lay the band to rest for now.

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Finnish power metallers Stratovarius will release their new album, Eternal, on September 11th via the earMUSIC label. Recently, the band has shared an intimate tour of the album via a 12-minute behind-the-scenes mini-documentary, which can now be seen below. The studio documentary spotlights the band in the studio recording, along with interviews about the new material.

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The Key will be out on Frontiers Music Srl on September 18th and is the new album from Operation: Mindcrime. But singer Geoff Tate (ex-Queensrÿche) is already working on the follow-ups to The Key and says the second album in the trilogy is currently being mixed, while the third is "mostly written" and on track to be finished by the October deadline. As for now, enjoy Operation: Mindcrime's music video for "Burn".

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Finnish group Amorphis just released a new video for the track ''Sacrifice'' which comes from Under The Red Cloud, their new album. This is the first official full-blown promo video the band releases for this album, after showcasing the track "Death Of A King" in a lyric video. You can watch the beautiful video below.

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Attention Aussies. Megadeth have just announced an Australian tour taking place this October with special guests Children Of Bodom! Fan club pre-sale begins Friday, August 21st at 12 Noon local time. All tickets go on sale to the general public on Monday, August 24th at 10.00am. Megadeth are busy preparing a new album, which can be pre-ordered here, while Children Of Bodom's guitarist Alexi "Wildchild" Laiho recently went on stage in Helsinki with an army of 100 guitarists and presented a song he only wrote for that evening.

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Valley Of Tears is the new album from British heavy metal mercenaries Tank, and will be released on September 18th 2015 by Metal Mind Productions. An official teaser video for the album has recently been released and can now be seen below. You can hear a bit more of the new material. Enjoy!

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