Today you can find out more details about Avatarium's impending new album, Hurricanes And Halos, namely the cover that will grace it as well as the tracklist. The artwork was once again created by Erik Rovanpera, who already designed the cover art of the band's debut album, and shows a mystical creature inspired by the epic track "Medusa Child". The music should come next.

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Following a long radio silence, Finnish band HIM have announced a farewell tour, closing the final chapter on their 26 year career. Formed in 1991 by vocalist Ville Valo, guitarist Mikko "Linde" Lindström and bassist Mikko "Migé" Paananen, HIM "offered the world a new take on the metal genre, which became known as Love Metal (also the title of their fourth album)". Now, four years after the release of their last studio album, Tears On Tape, the band is saying farewell, taking in 14 countries across 35 shows for their final goodbye.

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In a new video, Stone Sour just revealed that their new album will be called Hydrograd which will be released in June via Roadrunner Records. The news was revealed by singer Corey Taylor when the band took a fan to the studio to play him selections from the new album.

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Sweden based blues rockers Blues Pills will return to European stages this summer! Besides a number of festival gigs, the band will play some selected headlining club shows within their Lady In Gold tour cycle. The rockers just kicked off their current European tour on March 1st.

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Heavy metallers Quiet Riot have announced yet another change in the frontman position. "American Idol" alumnus James Durbin has replaced Seann Nicols as the singer of the band. Nicols was with Quiet Riot for just a few months, but long enough to record the vocals for the band's upcoming album, Road Rage (due April 21st on Frontiers Music). The California-born singer James Durbin, who placed fourth on Idol, will make his live debut March 18th in Wichita, Kansas as the band does a few North American dates during the next two months.

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The monumental Converge album Jane Doe was performed and recorded live in its entirety at Roadburn Festival 2016 in The Netherlands and is now being released as Jane Live. The set was mixed by Converge guitarist Kurt Ballou at God City Studio and mastered by Brad Boatwright at Audiosiege. Enjoy the official live video of the full set below.

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Hearts Of Darkness, Fleshdoll's new album, is now available online. This is the French brutal death metallers 5th full-length album. The digipack will be released by Great Dane Records by the end of the month but now you can hear it on Bandcamp or below. Don't forget to tell us if you liked it.

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Delain have announced a very special tour dubbed the 'Danse Macabre' tour. 2016 was a triumphant year for Delain with the release of their EP Lunar Prelude, their latest full length Moonbathers (nominated for Best Symphonic Metal Album on Metal Storm Awards 2016), relentless touring and the celebrations of their 10 year anniversary in a sold out Paradiso, which will appear on live DVD/Blu-ray. To make 2017 a worthy successor, the metallers are thrilled to announce a very special run of shows for October 2017.

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Prepare for a death metal feast! Polish death metal legends Vader and New York's death metal masters Immolation have announced that they will both be touring on a co-headlining tour in Europe this coming April. Vader will be headlining the six shows, with Immolation co-headlining. Also supporting will be Austrian brutal death metal troupe Monument Of Misanthropy, with more supports to be announced in due course.

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The Life Of Agony crew has shared a new video! Below you can check out the first music video from A Place Where There's No More Pain, their first new album in more than a decade. The record drops on April 28th on Napalm Records. Joining Mina Caputo are guitarist Joey Z, bassist Alan Robert, and drummer Sal Abruscato, the same lineup that brought the 1993 River Runs Red effort into the world. Enjoy!

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Behemoth have announced a tour of heavy-hitters. The Polish extreme metallers will join forces with Slayer and Lamb Of God for a "Satan-approved triple bill of Biblical proportions" Summer tour in the United States. The tour starts on July 12th in Bemidji, MN and wraps up in Phoenix, AZ on August 20th.

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Ensiferum recently entered the Astia studio in Lappeenranta, Finland, where the band recorded a few demo songs for their upcoming seventh full-length, set to be released September 2017 via Metal Blade Records. This means that the quintet will soon return to the Astia studio to begin recording this new album, which will be produced once again by Anssi Kippo (Children Of Bodom, Impaled Nazarene, Entwine).

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Norwegians Vulture Industries just launched a crowdfunding for their upcoming album. This way you can secure a copy of the album early or pick up lots of other goodies while you help the band fund finalizing the album. Last year, the avantgarde metallers revealed that their new album was in the works and now the follow-up to The Tower is being finalized. Good news! Check out the crowdfunding campaign here.

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A new Pyramaze album is upon us! With their milestone fifth album, Contingent, the power/prog metallers continue to break new ground. The album is "an epic post-apocalyptic conceptual piece inspired by current events, the human spirit to overcome struggle and diversity, and the brotherhood that lies there in." It was produced, mixed and mastered by Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Amaranthe, Epica, Evergrey).

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After teasing fans last year, Aussies Voyager have revealed a bit more about their upcoming new ten-track, 45-minute offering. The successor to the excellent V will be titled Ghost Mile. Currently, the proggers are in the mixing stages of their sixth album. Apart from releasing an album preview, the band set up a pre-order page where you can find out all the latest info first - album track listing, exclusive recording snippets and other assorted goodies. Check it out.

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