If you can't wait any longer to listen to the new opus from melodic black metallers Rotting Christ, you can already check out Kata Ton Daimona Eaytoy in its entirety. The album is available for streaming here and also here. Is it a good release? Is it better than Aealo? You can be the judge of that.

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Occult rockers Ghost, turned Ghost B.C. for legal reasons, have shared the cover artwork that will grace their second full-length studio release Infestissumam. You can feast your eyes on it below. The new album is expected to drop on April 9th via Loma Vista Recordings.

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Following 2010's Black Swans And Wormhole Wizards, guitar virtuoso Joe Satriani has prepared a new shredding and melodic experience for May 7th. He will be releasing his new album Unstoppable Momentum and returning to Europe in 2013 to present it. Joe will be joined for all U.K. dates by Matt Schofield and Oli Brown for Italy, Germany, Vienna, and Warsaw.

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Prog outfit East Of The Wall has released a demo version of a new song titled "I'm Always Fighting Drago" to help out Translator Audio, the New York studio Hurrican Sandy destroyed. You can listen to the track over here and purchase the single at this location to help Translator Audio.

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Power metallers Stratovarius have released previews from all of the tracks on their upcoming new album Nemesis, which will be officially released tomorrow, February 22nd in Europe via earMUSIC as a standard 11-track edition as well as a 13 track special edition and vinyl and February 26th in North America through Armoury Records. For now, you can get an exclusive first listen to the new songs on the video below.

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Periphery have released a new official video for the song "Scarlet" from their most recent effort Periphery II: This Time It's Personal. Wes Richardson directed the mustard-driven video which you can watch now below. The band will be touring in Europe this May with TesseracT and Syqem and in North America with Deftones in March.

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Event:	Periphery: European Tour

Arizona grinders Landmine Marathon have announced plans for a week-long West Coast tour en route to the Obscene Extreme Festival in Mexico alongside Napalm Death, Phobia, Dying Fetus and many more. The full tour dates can be found listed below. The band will make their European live debut later this year at the European Obscene Extreme Festival in the Czech Republic. More details on their upcoming European plans will be revealed shortly.

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RIP Vomitory. The last update from the Swedish death metal band revealed plans of a new album but today they have announced that Vomitory is disbanding at the end of this year with eight albums under their belt and a career of 24 years.

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With three albums on their career, The Faceless have now released their first ever music video for the song "Deconsecrate", taken from their latest release Autotheism, which came out last August. The video was directed by Ramon Boutviseth and you can watch the result below.

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The Canadian prog rock institution, also known as Rush, have announced 15 additional North American concerts for the summer of 2013, following the previously announced spring dates and the European leg of their Clockwork Angels tour, scheduled for May. The second leg will begin in Hershey on June 21st and complete in Kansas City on August 4th. You can see the dates in support of Clockwork Angels below.

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Event:	Rush: Clockwork Angels Tour 2013

Flotsam & Jetsam, one of the most prominent acts from the thrash metal scene, has returned to Metal Blade Records to release their new album, Ugly Noise, on April 16th. The lead single/title track is available for streaming now on the video below.

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Sad news for the Overkill fans in the US. Unfortunately, the band was forced to cancel the remaining shows on the Dark Roots Of Thrash Tour in February due to an illness in the band. Vocalist Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth is suffering from pneumonia. However, Overkill promise that after some time for recovery they will be back out in the spring for their Northern European tour.

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With the release of Spiritual Migration right around the corner, progressive death metallers Persefone have released the first taste off the new album. The band is not playing around and the first video clip from the opus is for the 10-minute title track "Spiritual Migration", it was directed by Alvaro Rodriguez Areny, filmed in Andorra and Barcelona and you can watch it below.

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Katatonia have completed their latest video for the track "Lethean", taken from last year's release Dead End Kings. The video was shot by Lasse Hoile, notable for his previous work with the Katatonia as well as Opeth and Porcupine Tree, and can be streamed exclusively at this location.

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The Greek group Septicflesh has just announced a headlining tour in May in support of the album The Great Mass. Three bands will accompany them throughout Europe: Fleshgod Apocalypse, Carach Angren and Descending.

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Event:	Septicflesh: The Great Mass Over Europe Tour