Orange Goblin has announced that the brand new Orange Goblin album A Eurology For The Damned will be released on Candlelight Records on Monday 13th February 2012, the same date that Black Sabbath released their self-titled debut in 1970. It will be released in the USA the following day on Tuesday 14th February 2012, Valentines Day.

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San Francisco metallers Hammers Of Misfortune will be hitting the road this December for a string of dates in the North West with support coming from Relapse Records' Christian Mistress. Hammers Of Misfortune will be playing with their newly-rejuvenated line-up in support of their upcoming album 17th Street, a brash and heartfelt song cycle, blending the best elements of NWOBHM, thrash, doom metal, and American folk music while somehow sounding unlike any of these. Check out 17th Street, which is still streaming in its entirety on NPR's site.

Hammers Of Misfortune NW Tour with Christian Mistress dates:

12/08/2011 Vancouver BC Biltmore Cabaret
12/09/2011 Bellingham, WA Shakedown
12/10/2011 Seattle, WA Highline
12/11/2011 Portland, OR Mississippi Studios w/ Spellcaster

More information about the band's new album is previously reported at here and here.

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Pomona, California thrashers Bonded By Blood have announced the addition of Jessie Sanchez to the band as their new bassist.

Sanchez replaces former bassist Jerry Garcia, who left the band earlier this year. The newly completed line-up are currently writing songs for a new album, which is tentatively due to be recorded in early 2012.

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British crossover thrashers SSS have confirmed the final dates for a headlining European tour, which kicks off this Friday, October 28th in Lisbon, Portugal. The band will be hitting the road in support of their critically acclaimed new album, Problems To The Answer, and it will be the first full tour with new members Stu Taylor (guitar) and Dave Archer (drums).

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Official press release

The leatherswept members of Deathstars are getting ready for the release of their new video "Metal" and their "Greatest Hits On Earth" collection (release: November 4, 2011).

The band is also proud to present their new drummer Vice (aka Oscar Leander/Crescendolls). Vice replaces Bone W. Machine who split ways with Deathstars in 2010. "I'm really excited to be a part of Deathstars and I really feel that my drumming complements Deathstars music in a perfect way", says Vice.

Nightmare Industries adds: "With this addition to our band our recordings and live shows will deliver more energy than ever before. We are really pumped up about the future!"

Make sure to catch Deathstars live on tour with Rammstein or on one of their headlining shows in November and December 2011. The brand new single "Metal" is now available for digital download on iTunes!

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Chicago-based, multinational, extreme-metal act Against The Plagues have released a brand new song from their upcoming-yet-to-be-titled album on the band's Myspace. You can also stream the song "Man's Modern World" below.

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UK stoner/doom outfit Electric Wizard have announced that they have begun writing new material for what will become the band's next album.

The band wrote on their Facebook page: "Electric Wizard have begun work on the follow-up to last year's evil opus Black Masses. Material has been demoed at a secret location and was so 'malevolent and foreboding' that 2 tracks will see the light of day as a 7" EP scheduled for release at the forthcoming London Forum show on March 31st. The show will also feature previews of the new songs and (at last!) specially filmed sequences for the video show and more to be announced."

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US deathcore/metalcore act Winds Of Plague has debuted a new video for the song "Refined In The Fire" at bloody-disgusting.com. Alternatively, you can watch it below. The song is off of the band's latest output Against The World, which came out last April via Century Media Records.

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As reported earlier, Danish metallers Royal Hunt are set to release their new long-awaited DVD, entitled Future's Coming From The Past, which consists of new restored versions of their classic Japanese live albums - 1996 and Closing The Chapter (previously released only on VHS), with improved images and sound, and of course, bonus features! The DVD will be released on December 2nd in Europe and November 29th in North America via Frontier Records.

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"Cretaceous Chasm", the brand new video from progressive metal band Blotted Science is now available for viewing below. The song is off the band's new EP entitled The Animation Of Entomology, which was released on October 4th.


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UK metalcore outfit Malefice have announced Andy Wilson as their new guitarist. Andy replaces Alex Vuskans who parted ways with the band this year. The band posted the following on their Facebook page: "After a baptism of fire standing in for Alex Vuskans on the bands recent UK run with Sylosis, Malefice have announced that Andy Wilson will take over on a permanent basis."

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"Black Stars In A Blue Sky", a new song from Dutch symphonic act Autumn has premiered exclusively at this location. The song is off the band's upcoming fifth album entitled Cold Comfort, to be released on November 8th via Metal Blade Records and 4th/7th in Europe. More album details were previously reported here.


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"Rise And Confront", another new song from Brazilian brutal death juggernauts Krisiun is now streaming online at the band's official Facebook page. In case you missed it, the band is set to release their new album, The Great Execution, on October 31st in Europe and November 1st in North America via Century Media Records.

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US thrashers Megadeth have now made the track "Whose Life (Is It Anyways?)" available for download and you can get it at this location (you need to give an email address to do so). The song comes off of Megadeth's upcoming new album entitled Th1rt3en, due out November 1st, 2011, via Roadrunner Records. More album details were previously reported here.

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Official press release:

Napalm Records is very proud to announce that the Swedish doom metal legend Candlemass has joined their ranks. The band is currently working on material for their farewell album, which is tentatively scheduled for a spring 2012 release.

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