German heavy metal group Stormwitch is gearing up to release a new album called Season Of The Witch. Due out on the 23rd of January 2015, it follows a long dry spell from the band which hasn't released a new album since 2004's Witchcraft. The band split after that album and returned only in 2010.

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After Decapitated had a serious van accident, now the Swedes Deathstars narrowly escaped a tragedy early on Saturday, October 25th when the tour bus they were travelling in caught fire in the middle of the Austrian Alps. The industrial metallers didn't make it to Italy but their European tour will continue in Munich despite the scare. They were lucky they got out in time or it could've been worse.

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According to Examiner.com, the new studio album from Glenn Danzig's namesake band is set for a fall 2015 release, and his covers record is due in March. He is also working on an EP of Elvis Presley covers. Danzig was in the studio in February with guitarist/bandmate Tommy Victor (also of Prong) recording three new tracks for the next Danzig album. You can start preparing for some new material from the band four years after Deth Red Sabaoth came out.

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Sweden's Sister Sin have a new album soon to be released called Black Lotus. The heavy metallers are streaming it in advance of its release on Monday via Victory Records. Play it loud in the YouTube player below. You can sit back, relax and just enjoy the entire record below.

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Good news for Wolfheart as the band just signed with Spinefarm Records. We already knew that Tuomas Saukkonen's new band was recording their next album. Now we know that the new opus, titled Shadow World, is due out in mid-2015 and Spinefarm Records will also re-release their 2013 debut, Winterborn, with two additional bonus tracks on February 3rd of next year.

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Doom metallers My Dying Bride are back in the studio to record their 12th full studio album at Academy Studios in Dewsbury, West Yorkshire while the mix and some final edits will take place at Futureworks in Manchester. So, the successor of A Map Of All Our Failures is being conjured up as we speak. The new album is also the first since former guitarist Calvin Robertshaw came back to the band. What are your expectations for the band's next album?

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Swedish power metal force HammerFall have announced a partnership with NHL hockey team Minnesota Wild. The players of the NHL team began the 2014-15 season extremely well with two shut-outs against the Colorado Avalanche, and they will get a special heavy metal HammerFall welcome at all the home games at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. The team is using an instrumental version of the song "Fury Of The Wild" from the band as an intro.

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The official lyric video for the song "Down From The Mountain" from singers Jørn Lande and Russell Allen's fourth Allen/Lande collaborative album, The Great Divide, is now available online. The new opus was released days ago on October 17th in Europe and will be made available today in North America via Frontiers Records.

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Chicago death metallers These Are They, fronted by Paul Kuhr, have premiered online "Steeple Of Blood", a brand new song which can be streamed below. The track is taken from the band's third full-length album, At The Feast Of Seven Funerals, which will be released on November 17th via The End Records/Unruly Sounds. Check out the track here.

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"Symmetry In White" is the new video from New Orleans sludge metal veterans Crowbar, which was released today and can be seen below. The clip was helmed by Mike Holderbeast of Cement Level Studios (Goatwhore, High On Fire, Eyehategod), who previously directed the band's video for the track "Walk With Knowledge Wisely". You can expect to see Kirk Windstein as a minister and creepy nuns.

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Legendary rockers KISS continue to celebrate their 40th anniversary with the release of a deluxe two-CD version of their 1977 platinum-plus album, Love Gun, which is coming out on October 27th, 2014 on Universal Music Enterprises (UMe). The band's sixth studio recording Love Gun was the first album to feature lead vocal performances from all four original band members, and has since gone on to sell more than four million copies.

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Latvian folk metallers Skyforger are one step closer to completing their new album. While their last album Kurbads came out almost 4 years ago, the wait is almost over to hear the new material. The recordings are completed and the album will now be mixed and mastered.

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Virgin Steele is finally releasing a new album! Their label SPV/Steamhammer is proud to announce a new studio album for February/March 2015. This will be the first full-length album with brand new songs since The Black Light Bacchanalia which was released in 2010.

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Bay Area thrashers Exodus are currently on their Latin American Tour. Sadly, they send their deepest sympathy to the loved ones of their fan Gustavo Molina, who has died of cardiac arrest shortly after the band's show in Buenos Aires, Argentina on October 9th. Gustavo Molina, who was around 25 years old, reportedly played bass for the Argentinian thrash metal band Kronos.

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Here is another band that will release a new album next year. Death metal veterans Malevolent Creation have signed a worldwide deal with Century Media Records. The band is working on its 12th full-length album for a 2015 release. Their last album, Invidious Dominion, came out four years ago. Drummer Justin DiPinto is now in the band again after Gus Rios was fired.

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