Last month, Irish metallers Primordial revealed the title of their new album as Exile Amongst The Ruins. Today, they are giving their fans another sneak peek and just unveiled the cover that will grace the follow-up to Where Greater Men Have Fallen which is set to be released this March. Feast your eyes on it below and expect more details soon.

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A few days ago, Slugdge announced their fourth studio album, Esoteric Malacology, three years after they released Dim & Slimeridden Kingdoms. The record will be available on March 2nd, 2018 on CD, 2xLP, and digital via Willowtip Records. If that wasn't enough, they also offered new music. Get your blackened death metal plus sludge fix now with "Putrid Fairytale" and check out the album artwork in all its glory.

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Californian death metallers Skeletal Remains just announced their third album! Entitled Devouring Mortality, it will hit stores on April 13th, 2018 via Dark Descent Records in North America and Century Media Records for the rest of the world. It was inspired by 90's legends from Asphyx over Pestilence to Gorguts, Morbid Angel, and Demolition Hammer. Check out the cover and more right here.

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Last year, French post-metallers Eryn Non Dae. joined the Debemur Morti Productions and now they finally reveal all about their new album to follow Meliora. The artwork and full tracklist of the band's upcoming fourth opus, Abandon Of The Self, can be seen below. The album will be released on March 9th by Debemur Morti Productions on gatefold CD, gatefold 2x12" LP and digital.

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Cynic just released a new single! However, just last month, they had warned us that founder, guitarist and vocalist Paul Masvidal would continue with the band now that original drummer Sean Reinert left and reached an agreement with Masvidal. They just released a digital single titled "Humanoid". This song marks the first new music from the progressive pioneers since their 2014 full-length, Kindly Bent To Free Us. You can give it a spin below.

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San Francisco Bay Area metal titans Machine Head are about to release their highly anticipated new album, Catharsis, on January 26th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Today, the band has released the brand new track, "Bastards". The song was originally released in late 2016 as a rehearsal room recording and has since been developed and worked on. Listen to the final version that will appear on Catharsis here.

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Riverside's frontman Mariusz Duda has shared some news regarding the future plans for the progressive band. In a message posted on his Facebook page, the bassist/vocalist revealed that a new Riverside album is set to drop this year! This will be their first album since Love, Fear And The Time Machine (2015) and, of course, the first since the passing of guitarist Piotr Grudzinski in 2016.

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After showcasing the new track "Multi Dimensional", tech death metallers from The Netherlands, Pestilence, have now released a second single. The new tune is called "Non Physical Existent", the opening song on Hadeon. According to the band, it's the "perfect mixture of old school riffs, brutal vocals, insane and innovative leads and some small progressive touches." You can listen to it below as much as you want.

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On February 2018, we'll witness the release of Interregnum, the 4th album and follow up to the ambitious concept suite The Regal Tribe (2016), by Swedish self proclaimed "primitive and progressive" death metallers Usurpress. The album will be available via Agonia Records. Listen to the first single "In Books Without Pages" below to get a first taste from it.

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Babymetal have shared some sad news with their fans today. They have confirmed that their Kami Band guitarist, the backing group for the J-Pop outfit, Mikio Fujioka has tragically died very young at the age of 36. Fujioka was also a lecturer at a Japanese music school and published several guitar textbooks. Rest in peace...

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The last we've heard of Immortal, the black metal legends promised to begin recording their new album last year. Now, a year later, that album is completed to finally follow 2009's All Shall Fall. The album will be released by Nuclear Blast Records in 2018 (release date will follow) and contain the following tracks: 'Northern Chaos Gods', 'Into Battle Ride', 'Gates To Blashyrkh', 'Grim And Dark', 'Called To Ice', 'Where Mountains Rise', 'Blacker Of Worlds' and 'Mighty Ravendark'.

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Black metallers Horna are currently streaming their new release, Kuolleiden Kuu. It was recorded and mixed at Blackvox Studio, during the Hengen Tulet album sessions. It's also the last recording with Vainaja on drums. You can now stream the entire piece, out now via World Terror Committee, below.

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Atmospheric black metal band Laster has signed with Prophecy Productions. The Dutch group, which formed in 2012, is currently hard at work on its third full-length release and follow up to last year's Ons Vrije Fatum. Their Prophecy debut is expected in 2018.

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Mammoth Grinder return after five long years with their fourth full-length, Cosmic Crypt. The underground extreme metal trio has also shared the official video for "Servant Of The Most High" off the impending new full-length album. Watch the Samu Salovaara directed video via YouTube right here.

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Blackened thrash metallers Deströyer 666 will release a crushing new EP on February 23rd, 2018 through Season Of Mist. Call Of The Wild contains three brand new songs and a fresh take on their classic and live-favourite, "Trialed By Fire" (from Terror Abraxas). Bang your head to the sounds of the EP title track now below.

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