Currently recording their debut album and follow-up to the EP Metal, Newsted has just announced a string of scheduled US tour dates for the month of April and May. You can confirm the dates below.

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Event:	Newsted: US Tour

Want to hear another new song from Finnish trolls Finntroll's upcoming Blodsvept album? Well, now you can because "Mordminnen" has been made available online for streaming and you can listen to it on the YouTube video located below.

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Apart from Roadburn and Neurotic Deathfest to name a few, The Netherlands offers another festival this summer in the form of Fortarock XL in Nijmegen. The line-up for the festival is now complete with the addition of Heaven Shall Burn and you can see if it tickles your fancy.

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Event:	Fortarock XL

Alice In Chains have lifted the curtain on their new album and revealed the cover artwork that will grace it. Their fifth opus will be titled The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here and the release date is set for May 28th via Virgin/EMI. After Black Gives Way To Blue, this will be the second album with vocalist William DuVall. Nick Raskulinecz is working with the band again and producing the record.

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Prog masters Fates Warning have revealed a little more about their new studio album. The group will enter the studio in April to begin tracking it, and this will be their first album of new material in nine years as well as the first studio release for InsideOut. Fans in the US can expect to see the band touring the country in November and December. Also, there is promise of upcoming European and South American tour dates.

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The 7th annual Summer Slaughter Tour is taking off. It has been announced that the tour is officially slated to run in North America from July 19th through August 24th. The line-up will boast acts such as The Dillinger Escape Plan, Animals As Leaders, Periphery, Norma Jean, Cattle Decapitation, The Ocean, Revocation, Aeon and two bands to be announced. In the coming weeks, the official tour dates will be announced as well.

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The Contortionist have announced the departure of their frontman Jonathan Carpenter. Jonathan and his long-time girlfriend will be expecting their first child and Carpenter has made the decision to focus on his personal life. Mike Lessard of Last Chance To Reason will be taking on vocal duties while the band finds a permanent replacement. The progressive group will soon start a new vocalist search.

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Orphaned Land have set All Is One as the title of their next album which they will release in June, almost three years after their latest prog masterpiece The Never Ending Way Of ORwarriOR. The group is in the final process of recording the new album and still hasn't given us audio teases at this point.

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The release of Belphegor's new album and successor to Blood Magick Necromance might take more than originally planned. It was meant to be released this year and the band even pulled out of Barge To Hell to meet a March deadline but the yet untitled album is now scheduled for a worldwide release in early 2014 via Nuclear Blast Records.

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French metallers The Old Dead Tree are reuniting this year to mark the 10th anniversary of their iconic debut full-length, The Nameless Disease and to celebrate that, the band will perform the album in its entirety at Hellfest this June and is currently booking a French tour. But there is more in store for the band. Sold-out for a couple years and now hard to find on CD, The Nameless Disease has been made available again digitally, in a special 10th Anniversary Edition with brand new cover artwork and no less than seven bonus demo tracks.

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Neurosis worshipers will finally be able to show their devotion to the US metallers again in Europe as the band has just announced a trek for this upcoming May/June/July. The extensive European tour happens in support of their tenth album, Honor Found In Decay, released last October.

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If you were planning to go to the Burning Sea 2013 festival in Croatia this summer, there's bad news. The festival has been cancelled due to a sudden extra VAT of 25 % to the regular ticket prices. In compensation, the festival ticket you might have bought for Burning Sea 2013 can be exchanged into tickets for the Metaldays festival in Slovenia.

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Event:	Burning Sea 2013 [CANCELLED]

Textures has announced that Joe Tal is the new guitarist that will replace Jochem Jacobs who left the band earlier this year to pursue other dreams. Joe Tal will make his live debut on a select number of shows this summer and the band has already announced some dates.

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Following the recent troubles and acquittal of frontman Randy Blythe from all charges in the Czech Republic, Lamb Of God has announced today a North American tour of secondary markets from May 16th through June 20th. The tour continues the support of the album Resolution and hits 30 markets not yet visited on the current album cycle. Support on all dates will be Decapitated with Terror appearing through June 10th and The Acacia Strain appearing on the remaining shows.

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Event:	Lamb Of God: Resolution Tour

Curious about the new Gama Bomb album? Well, now you can finally hear something from it because the band has released a new thrashing video for the track "Terrorscope". Enjoy the video directed by Sean Duncan below.

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