West Coast doom masters Aldebaran have announced a string of West Coast dates with Graves At Sea. Ash Borer will be joining the tour on the Portland and Seattle dates exclusively as a warm up for their European tour. You can probably expect some insanity in these shows.

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Megadeth have begun the mixing stages of their still untitled new album and shared some new studio footage with all the members from the band recording parts at Vic's Garage studio in San Marcos, California during mid-January 2013. The thrash metal band has recorded 11 songs so far.

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Witchcraft, who released Legend last year, will join forces with San Francisco group Orchid for a European tour this April/May.

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Yes, Whyzdom face yet another line-up change. After replacing Clémentine Delauney for Elvyne Lorient, the band was forced to replace their singer one more time. Elvyne Lorient will not be able to join the band live and has decided to leave and not hamper the band's progress. The new singer is now Marie Rouyer. Whyzdom recorded a few songs with her and you can listen to them on the video below.

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Brazilian metallers Almah had a busy weekend. Apart from releasing a brand new video for the song "Living And Drifting", now available for your viewing pleasure below, the band also announced a new bassist: Raphael Dafras. The video was filmed in São Paulo and directed by producer, musician and composer Diogo Araújo from Under Control Filmes.

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The first song from Wolfchant's forthcoming album, Embraced By Fire, is here. The folk metal band has released the title track for streaming and you can be the judge of it through the Soundcloud player below. You don't have to wait much longer to hear the entire Embraced By Fire album because it will be released on March 1st, 2013 on NoiseArt Records.

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Rhode Island riff manglers Howl have recently completed the recording of their upcoming new full-length. Titled Bloodlines, the band's second offering was recorded at Planet Z studio in Hadley, Massachusetts, produced by Chris "Zeuss" Harris (Soulfly, Crowbar, Municipal Waste, 3 Inches Of Blood) and offers up 10 tracks of audio menace. Bloodlines is set for release via Relapse Records on April 30th, 2013 and follows Full Of Hell.

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Swedish metallers Soilwork took on the ambitious project of releasing a double album this year and The Living Infinite is right around the corner. After streaming two new songs, "This Momentary Bliss" and "Spectrum Of Eternity", you can now listen to "Rise Above The Sentiment" for which the band made a video with Sune Eskelinen and Niclas Lindah.

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Having recently signed with Roadrunner Records for the release of Meir, the Norwegian band Kvelertak has now unveiled the cover that will grace this new release. Like with their self-titled debut, the artwork was created by John Dyer Baizley of Baroness. See how it looks like below.

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Lately many bands are recording new albums which opens good perspectives for 2013. This time, it's Evile who are due to enter the studio this weekend to begin recording their as-yet untitled new album. It is fair to say that you can expect a new thrash metal offering from the band in the near future. Evile will once again be working with producer Russ Russell at Parlour Studios in Kettering for what will be the band's fourth full-length album.

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Grinders Mumakil have concluded the recording process for the follow-up to their 2009 album Behold The Failure. The new opus will be titled Flies Will Starve, and is set for release later in the year via Relapse Records.

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Italian band The Secret, who is nominated in this year's Metal Storm Awards in the Grindcore category, has recently released a brand new video for the song "Seven Billion Graves" taken from their fourth album Agnus Dei. The video has been directed by Shazzula Nebula of "Black Mass Rising" and shot at Cave di Matera in Southern Italy. Check it out below.

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With more than 62 extra bands, plus all those already announced, the Hellfest 2013 line-up is almost complete. Clisson, France, is the place to be come summer and now you can see below the new bands that will help you celebrate this year's edition.

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Event:	Hellfest Open Air 2013

Extreme metallers Absu have reserved something special for their upcoming North American tour dubbed North American Connexus Conjuration which starts next April. The 26-city tour will see the band perform two full sets with music spanning their 20-year recording career. It is the first full tour by the Texas-based trio since the release of Abzu, the second of a planned trilogy of recordings.

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Symphonic metallers Within Temptation have been writing new material for the successor to 2011's The Unforgiving and have now announced a deal with BMG Rights which will release their new album in the autumn.

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