Drummer Ruston Grosse, who has been a member of US black metallers Woe for only a year, has now parted ways with the band. Despite this unpleasent event, Ruston will still appear on the band's new upcoming album, of which details will be announced soon.

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California's deathcore band Impending Doom has announced a string of tour dates for their headlining Chaos Reborn Tour. This tour, which will cross mainly Western parts of USA, is scheduled for the upcoming January and will be performed in support of the band's latest album Baptized In Filth, released on March 13th 2012 via eOne Music.

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Event:	Impending Doom: Chaos Reborn Tour 2013

German black metallers Lunar Aurora have decided to lay the band to rest after 18 years of activity and 9 full-length albums released.

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Greek melodic black metallers Rotting Christ have just disclosed the release date and title of the band's eleventh studio full-length. Their forthcoming opus is entitled Do What Thou Wilt and will hit the stores on next March 1st via Season Of Mist. The band's latest release was Aealo in 2010. There are still no musical or visual teasers at this point, but more should be revealed in the coming weeks.

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German thrash metal legends Exumer have been confirmed to appear at the Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse Festival in Chicago, IL. The fest is scheduled to take place from May 3-4, 2013, and also includes Onslaught, Eldritch, Oz, Omen, and many more.

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Machine Head is in the news yet again! Of late, the band just can't seem to catch a break. Machine Head has this time been forced to put on hold their current North American tour with Dethklok, All That Remains and The Black Dahlia Murder in order for their frontman, Rob Flynn, to undergo surgery.

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Floor Jansen's ReVamp will not be able to beat the April/March album release deadline as had earlier been communicated. This owes to the fact that Floor will be touring with Nightwish next year. The new album will instead be released in the Fall.

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Polish death metal veterans Vader have recently announced the Back To The Black Tour 2013. Vader will give around 30 shows throughout Europe during January and February 2013 presenting the whole albums Black To The Blind and Sothis. Belgian death metallers Aborted and Californian thrashers Bonded By Blood will play as guests during the tour. The full line-up and tour schedule should be announced soon.

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High On Fire have been booked for Roadburn 2013. The sludge metal trio will play two exclusive sets for Roadburn. Thursday, April 18th, will feature their debut full length The Art Of Self Defense in its entirety.

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Event:	Roadburn Festival 2013

Australian extreme metallers Portal have been hard at work crafting their new album, which the band revealed now is due to hit the stores on February 19th, 2013 under Profound Lore. It has been nearly three years since the release of their previous effort Swarth.

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Arthur von Nagel - bassist, lyricist and vocalist of Cormorant has left the band to pursue a career in video games. Arthur, who is also one of the founding members of the extreme progressive metal band, detailed his reasons for leaving in a lengthy post which read:

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Due to delays in securing visas, gothenburg outfit Scar Symmetry will not be headlining their North American tour this year as had been earlier expected. The tour dubbed The Unseen Empire was to feature Threat Signal, Stealing Axion and Lord Of War.

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A while ago, Devin Townsend asked fans to submit videos for a future official video of the song "Lucky Animals". Today we get to see the result of that project in what might be the silliest video ever. "Lucky Animals" is of course taken from the band's latest record Epicloud, released in September by InsideOut.

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Canadian death metallers Cryptopsy have unveiled the new song "Boden", which is now available for streaming below. The song is from 2011 and will be featured on the band's best of collection The Best Of Us Bleed. "Boden" is one of three unreleased studio tracks only available on this release. This collection was released yesterday in Europe and is coming up on November 19th, 2012 in North America courtesy of Century Media.

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The Finns Children Of Bodom have called off their appearance at next summer's Tuska Open Air in Helsinki, Finland. This time, however, it has nothing to do with Alexi Laiho. The band will give priority to a big US tour.

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