Greek classic heavy metal band Strikelight released their third full length album, Beyond The Afterglow, on 22nd April via Eat Metal Records, coming six years after their last studio effort, Taste My Attack. They are now a four-piece with new drummer Jerry Cobra (Gerasimos Notarakis). The band's guitarist, Nikos Papakostas (also member of Greek thrashers Convixion) has decided to stream the entire album on his channel and you can listen to it below.

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A new Carach Angren macabre track has arrived! The haunting Dutch metallers just presented the next track from their upcoming album, Dance And Laugh Amongst The Rotten, called "Charlie". The symphonic black metal band's new studio album will see the light of darkness on June 16th, 2017 via Season Of Mist.

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Symphonic metal giants Epica will be hitting North America for an extensive tour and they're bringing with them Lacuna Coil, Insomnium and Elantris. "The Ultimate Principle Tour" will find Epica promoting their latest record, The Holographic Principle, which came out last year. The first show starts on August 31st in Boston and is set to be completed with a final performance in New York on September 29th.

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Nervecell just issued an update about the band's drummer being unexpectedly hospitalized, with blood poisoning, and missing two upcoming shows.

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Great news for German industrial outfit KMFDM fans as the band has announced two new releases, an EP and a full-length album. Yeah! is a 5-track EP of new songs and remixes and will be released on June 23rd (pre-order here), while the LP is expected to be available in August, but no other details have been revealed yet. In order to promote these two releases, the band has also announced the "KMFDM Hell Yeah! 2017 Tour", in Europe and the United States.

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German power metal masters Evertale, that started their epic journey under the Blackened name, just announced that they are working on a new album called The Great Brotherwar, which is due out later this year. They also announced new tour dates. Together with Elvenking, Finsterforst and Firtan, they will kick off the "Your Heroes Are Dead" European tour.

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This Friday, April 28th, proggers Between The Buried And Me will release their new DVD/Blu-ray, Coma Ecliptic: Live, via Metal Blade Records, in association with Good Fight Entertainment. The concert features the band performing their latest album, Coma Ecliptic, in its entirety and was filmed live on location October 4th, 2016 at The Observatory North Park in San Diego, CA. For a preview of the release, an 8-minute live video of "Turn On The Darkness" has now been released. Enjoy!

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Clouds, an international doom project, just announced a new EP, and you can read all about it below. To sum it up, it will be titled Destin and feature artwork by Arthur Kornovics and four new songs. The cover has been revealed and can be seen as well.

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In case you weren't aware, Amiensus are releasing the new EP, All Paths Lead To Death, this year. The American progressive melodic black metal band will unleash it in less than a month. So, it's the perfect time to listen to some new music! Today, you can enjoy the tune "Mouth Of The Abyss" below.

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Are you up for some psychedelic goodness? Evoke Thy Lords has got you covered! The Russian doom metal band has just released their new album Lifestories on Solitude Productions and it's currently available to stream in its entirety via Bandcamp. Enter their intense world of groove by listening to it below.

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Norwegian chaos bringers Kraanium just announced that the band's vocalist Martin Funderud has died. He was one of the founding members of the death metal band. Even though they didn't say much about what happened, they hinted that he committed suicide. R.I.P.

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Houston, TX deathcore heroes, Blood Of An Outlaw, have finally recruited a new bass player into their ranks to replace AJ Sandoval, who left late last year. They've also announced plans to begin the writing process for their sophomore album, and live appearances for the remainder of 2017. You can read the full announcement below.

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Sólstafir have released another track from their upcoming album, Berdreyminn, which will hit the record stores shelves on May 26th, via Season Of Mist. The Icelandic outfit has already revealed the songs "Ísafold" and "Bláfjall" before. The new track, which is the opener of Berdreyminn is called "Silfur-Refur" and you can listen to it below.

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Finnish doomsters Swallow The Sun will play at the Latvian metal festival Metalshow Open Air this summer in June. Recently, the band has been touring in North America with Amorphis and will also appear in two summer festivals at home, Nummirock and John Smith Festival.

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The Spaniards Diabulus In Musica have recently released a live video. The video is for the track "Lies In Your Eyes" and the footage was captured in the greatest Diabulus In Musica show till date where the band performed with a huge symphonic orchestra and choir (Coral de Cámara de Navarra) at the Baluarte Congress Centre and Auditorium of Navarra on November 14th, 2015. Check out the final result here.

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