Omnivium, the upcoming album of technical death metallers Obscura will be released on March 29th through Relapse Records. Cover artwork can be found below, while the complete tracklist and more details are available here.

According to a press release, Omnivium finds the band pushing the progressive edges of the genre's sounds to new heights while delivering the technical metal that has become their calling card. The band gracefully blends brutality and beauty with complex, commanding songs played at stunningly virtuosic levels. Ominivum very clearly raises the bar for extreme, technical metal and is Obscura's finest moment to date. Get excited!

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A video interview with Obscura bassist Jeroen Paul Thesseling, as well as some South American Pestilence tour dates, has been posted earlier today over here.

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Source:	relapse.com
Band profile:	Obscura

80's American Thrash band Toxik has announced the release of a DVD, Think Again. The DVD will be available on August 20th. All details are available here.

The Think Again DVD will contain a lot of back-in-the-days material, such as interviews, live shows, and pictures. Here is an excerpt from the post by Tad (drummer, 1986-1992): "The main feature is a 1989 headlining set from the Paramount Theater in Toxik's hometown of Peekskill, NY. This performance came shortly after the release of World Circus and the energy level of the band is truly at it's peak for Toxik's 1st headlining show. The set contains all the tracks from World Circus & an early version of "Spontaneous" that appeared on our 2nd album Think This." The DVD will also contain some new footage as well.

To read the full post, check out the band's MySpace blog post.

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Toxik

Finally the title of Atheist's forthcoming reunion album has been announced. The fourth creation by the Technical Death Metal legends will be entitled Jupiter and is being recorded now at LedBelly recording studios in Atlanta, GA with Matt Washburn. The album is planned to be released in November of this year, with a world tour to follow. As stated earlier the album will be mixed by Jason Suecof (Chimaira, Trivium).

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Source:	bravewords.com
Band profile:	Atheist

At this moment, Stéphan Forté, Kevin Codfert and Mats Levén, are at the moment working on the composition of Adagio's fifth album at Kevin's XFade studio in Nanterre (France).

Guitarist Stéphan comments: "I'm at the moment at Kevin's studio working on the composition of Adagio's upcoming album, and for the first time, I will not compose the whole music and lyrics alone, as Mats, Kevin and the guys will also collaborate to the writing! It will definitely bring a fresher sound to the band, and so far, the experience is awesome. Mats arrived here on Sunday, and we've started working right away on some ideas. Lots of great melodic vocal lines, heavy riffing and intense piano parts are coming naturally, so that's a very positive start...

Another big change, is since I've down tuned my Lâg 7 string to A for my solo album, I am now using that for Adagio's new stuff as well, so be prepared for some really heavy shit."

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Source:	adagio-online.com
Band profile:	Adagio

Last week already, Bay Area Thrashers Death Angel have announced the release of their 6th album entitled Relentless Retribution. The release dates are September 3rd in Europe and September 14th in North America. A picture of the cover art (by Brent Elliot White (Job For A Cowboy) can be found here.

Comments on the artwork by vocalist Mark Osegueda and artist Brent Elliot White can be read here.

As previously reported, the Relentless Retribution album was recorded at Audio Hammer Studios in Sanford, Florida with production genius Jason Suecof (Trivium, August Burns Red, The Black Dahlia Murder, etc.)

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Source:	blogs.myspace.com
Band profile:	Death Angel

Season of Mist unexpectedly announced that Ukrainian Black Metal legends Drudkh will release a brand new album on September 20th, 2010. The new work will be entitled Handful of Stars and will also be available as a limited edition box set. More news to follow soon!

Source:	season-of-mist.com
Band profile:	Drudkh

French metallers Heavenly have finally shared some information about their next album. Here is what Charley Corbiaux, the band's guitar player posted on the official website:

"We're still working on our new album dudes! And... it smells and sounds good my friends! Once again very melodic and powerfull, amazing vocals, crazy guitar parts, blowing bass lines, blasting drums... And from now I can tell you that this new album will be available just after this summer.

And in a few weeks I'll be back to inform you about our next gigs."

Source:	heavenly.fr
Band profile:	Heavenly

The music video for the new Metallica single "The Day That Never Comes" is out. It can be viewed on the band's website. Here is what the Metallica members themselves say about it:

"It's midnight here at HQ and we are incredibly proud to present you with the debut of "The Day That Never Comes"... not so much the standard video fare, but what we like to think of as a short film.

We were honored to work with acclaimed film director and fellow Dane Thomas Vinterberg, as our goal with this song was to step outside of the usual every day music video box and into to the world of film. As you may have see here earlier, we shot it outside of Los Angeles a month ago and we hope that you are as blown away by Thomas' vision as we are."

In other news, Metallica have also posted another new song online, Link] namely the studio version of "Cyanide".

Both tracks come off the band's new upcoming album "Death Magnetic", which will hit the streets worldwide on Friday, September 12th.

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Source:	metallica.com
Band profile:	Metallica

On the 23rd of July Metallica announced the tracklist of the upcoming album Death Magnetic on their official website. Pretty much all of the information about this album is now known so only the music itself is a mystery.

Here are the song titles:

01. That Was Just Your Life
02. The End Of The Line
03. Broken, Beat & Scarred
04. The Day That Never Comes
05. All Nightmare Long
06. Cyanide
07. The Unforgiven III
08. The Judas Kiss
09. Suicide & Redemption
10. My Apocalypse

Source:	metallica.com
Band profile:	Metallica