The prog/power metallers Angra just announced their new album! It's been almost four years since they released Secret Garden but the next studio album, their 9th in total, shall be called ØMNI and will hit stores on February 16th, 2018 on earMUSIC. 2018 marks the beginning of yet another era in Angra's history and the new album is the result of months of intense dedication, blood and sweat. Hear the first song "Travelers Of Time" in the official lyric video below.

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Metalcore outfit Bullet For My Valentine have been busy working on a new album to follow 2015's Venom but they have shared the good news that it is complete! The band also confirmed that drummer Jason Bowld has joined their ranks permanently after playing with the band since 2015, filling in for original drummer Michael "Moose" Thomas.

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Two bands who were nominated for the 2018 Grammy Awards in the Best Metal Performance category are joining forces on a short North American run: Swedes Meshuggah and Americans Code Orange. The tour will take place next January and Toothgrinder will also join the fun. Meshuggah will be touring in support of the highly acclaimed eighth studio album, The Violent Sleep Of Reason.

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Event:	Meshuggah: West Coast Tour 2018

U.S. experimental metallers Gnaw, fronted by Alan Dubin, formerly of doom group Khanate, have recently released their third LP, Cutting Pieces via Translation Loss. Today they also issued a new video for the album's track "Fire". All visuals are by Roman Urodovskikh. Roman is a multimedia artist of Russian descent who currently lives and works in Montreal, Canada.

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Fu Manchu's 12th studio album has just been announced and will be called Clone Of The Universe. It is scheduled for a February 9th release date through their own label At The Dojo Records. The upcoming record will be their first in 4 years, following the 2014 release of Gigantoid. Furthermore, guitarist Alex Lifeson of Rush fame guests on the 18-minute track, "Il Mostro Atomico".

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Lemmy's final studio recording has surfaced. Before his death in 2015, Motörhead's iconic frontman Lemmy finished what would be his last solo recording, a collaboration with guitarist Chris Declercq. Chris Declercq is a session studio musician, who has worked with many artists throughout his career including Dizzy Reed (Guns N' Roses), Josh Freese (A Perfect Circle), to Blaze Bayley, Paul Di'Anno (Iron Maiden), and many more. Declercq was working on a solo record and managed to land a guest appearance from Lemmy Kilmister, who he'd work with before in the past. This track, "We Are The Ones," which you can listen to below, is Lemmy's final studio performance.

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The follow-up to Grand Morbid Funeral released in 2014 by Swedish death metallers Bloodbath might be coming out sooner than you think. According to frontman Nick Holmes, the band has plans to enter studio in January 2018 to record the next album. Bloodbath will also tour in USA and Canada in May 2018.

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TesseracT have been releasing new albums every two years and their latest one, Polaris, came out in 2015. The good news is that the band hasn't slowed down and is currently in the studio working on album number four. You can listen to some new sounds on their Facebook page. The djent band has shared a picture from the recordings as well. They are tracking the album at 4DSounds.

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Sodom's 35th anniversary celebration show will be special as the German thrash legends will be rejoined on stage by former guitarists Josef "Grave Violator" Dominik (who was in the band from 1984-1985), Frank "Blackfire" Gosdzik (1987-1990) and Andy Brings (1991-1995) on December 26th at Zeche in Bochum, Germany to perform old classics.

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With Christmas only a few weeks away, earMUSIC and Tarja have announced the release of a very special version of "Feliz Navidad": the Barbuda Relief And Recovery Charity Version. This September, the Caribbean island of Barbuda has been hit by the category 5 hurricane Irma. The whole population, of over 1500, needed to flee their homes in order to survive. Tarja, who has recorded the main part of her vocals for her recently released winter album From Spirits And Ghosts (Score For A Dark Christmas) on said island and has a very close relationship to the place and its inhabitants, decided that now is the time to help.

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There's good news for Lantlôs fans today. The band is recording their new album! The follow-up to the lauded Melting Sun record (2014) will be called Wildhunt. The German atmospheric post-metallers haven't said anything about the release date yet but we will keep you posted on all the details.

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Grave have parted ways with their long-time drummer Ronnie Bergerståhl. However, the Swedes didn't clarify the reasons for his departure. The death metal band has a couple of shows scheduled for next year and they said that won't be affected.

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After showcasing their new song "Cast The First Stone", stoner metal veterans Corrosion Of Conformity have shared a bit more from No Cross No Crown, their impending new album. Feast your eyes below on the groovy official new music video for "Wolf Named Crow".

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Band profile:	Corrosion Of Conformity

After some teasing, death metallers Necrophobic have shared all about their new album. Mark Of The Necrogram is the title of their upcoming new studio offering, which is set to be released on Century Media Records on February 23rd, 2018. The record comes with the eerie cover artwork of Kristian "Necrolord" Wåhlin, with whom the band hasn't worked together since the release of the second album, Darkside.

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The first single from Heidevolk's new album is here! As of now, you can listen to "Ontwaakt" ("Awaken"), the opening track of Vuur Van Verzet ("Fire of Resistance"). According to the band, it "tells the ageless story of revolt and resistance set against the backdrop of the historic collapse of the Roman empire." The Pagan folk metallers from The Netherlands will release the new album on January 12th via Napalm Records. Do you like the song?

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