Swedish bluesy rockers Graveyard have played a show at this year's Rock Hard Festival in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, and seven songs of the gig have been recorded by Germany's WDR Rockpalast. The live songs are now available for streaming at [url= http://www.wdr.de/tv/rockpalast/extra/videos/2012/0525/graveyard.jsp]this location[/url].

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Unfortunately, death metal veterans Deicide have cancelled their summer European tour due to unforeseen circumstances. For this reason, Brutal Assault Festival has announced Brazilian death metallers Krisiun as a replacement. Other newly confirmed acts are Britisth black metallers Anaal Nathrakh and South African metalcore band Truth And Its Burden.

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Source:	brutalassault.cz
Event:	Brutal Assault 2012

As part of the World Dystopia Tour, American heavy metallers Iced Earth will be coming back to Europe in December for some very select headlining shows. The support acts will be Evergrey (Sweden), Steel Engraved (Germany) and Deadshape Figure (Finland). The band also has some European summer festivals appearances scheduled before this tour.

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Band profile:	Iced Earth
Event:	Iced Earth: World Dystopia Tour 2012 - European Leg

"Causality", the brand new video from Indiana djent/progressive metallers The Contortionist has premiered and can be seen exclusively here. The video was filmed last month in North Carolina with directing team KOTK Productions. The song is taken from the band's second album Intrinsic, which is released today through eOne/Good Fight Music.

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Sadly, we have to announce the passing of Jon Lord, former keyboard player of Deep Purple, who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism today, Monday 16th of July, at the London Clinic, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer.

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Band profile:	Deep Purple

Vision Of Disorder have set September 17th as the European release date for The Cursed Remain Cursed, their brand new album and first in over ten years. This will also be their worldwide debut for Candlelight Records. The US hardcore band worked with producer Will Putney (Shadows Fall, Suicide Silence) and mixer Cameron Webb (Motörhead, Social Distortion). The Cursed Remain Cursed features eleven new songs, including the album's lead single "Loveless".

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The details regarding the tribute album to David Gold, founding member of Canadian black and doom metal band Woods Of Ypres, who passed away late last year, have been revealed. The cover for the album as well as the artists who will be participating can be seen below but the release date has not yet been announced.

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Eyehategod have announced the release of a new 7" single titled New Orleans Is The New Vietnam this summer via A389 Recordings. The American sludge metallers have been slowly putting together new demo material towards an upcoming album.

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Finnish black metallers The Iniquity Descent have released their debut album The Human Apheresis in May through Massacre Records. The band has now premiered a new video for the song "Collector Vs Protector", taken from that album, which can be viewed below.

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Krampus are about to release their brand new album entitled Survival Of The Fittest on August 24th through NoiseArt Records. The Italian folk metallers have now released the first trailer for their debut album, which is available below. Shadows Of Our Time, their first EP, was released last year.

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Danish black metallers Blodarv have released a new video for the song "I Blaek Og Blod", which is due to appear on their upcoming full-length album Gâst, expected to be out at end of 2012 via Selfmutilation Services. The video for the track "I Blaek Og Blod", which translated means "In Ink And Blood", was filmed in Hammerknuden amongst the ruins of Hammershus on the island of Bornholm, where the band originates and where its founder Hugin lives. You can watch the video below.

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Devolved are gearing up to release their new opus, which will be titled Reprisal, on November 20th via Unique Leader Records. Reprisal will be the fourth album of the Australian technical death metallers and will feature many guest appearances, including All Shall Perish's guitarist Francesco Artusato. The tracklist is available below.

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Swedish dark rock/metallers Katatonia have announced dates for an extensive European tour in November/December in support of their forthcoming 9th album Dead End Kings, which will hit stores in Europe on August 27th and North America on 28th August through Peaceville Records. The tickets for the tour go on sale from July 16th and support will come from Alcest and Junius.

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Band profile:	Katatonia
Event:	Katatonia: Dead Ends Of Europe Tour 2012

"Severed Into Separates", the brand new video from American metalcore band Darkest Hour has premiered exclusively at this location. The clip was created by Mihaszna Films. "Severed Into Separates" comes off the band's latest album The Human Romance, out since last year via Century Media Records. The band will be starting their European summer tour dates next month.

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It has been a while since US death metallers Massacre released new music. Now the band is about to release the 7" EP Condemned To The Shadows and the new song "Succumb To Rapture" is streaming online at this location. The EP featuring two new tracks ("Back From Beyond" and "Succumb To Rapture") will be released on July 30th, a few days before the band's live show at this year's Wacken Open Air.

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Source:	centurymedia.com
Band profile:	Massacre