Irish Pagan metallers Primordial just announced that they will spread their madness throughout Europe. The band announced the Heathen Crusade 2018 tour (dates below, or on flyer). They are joining axes with Finnish folk metal giants Moonsorrow for the co-headline tour and German black metallers Der Weg Einer Freiheit supporting. The other good news is that Primordial's new album is called Exile Amongst The Ruins and is set to be released by the end of March in 2018! They have just finished the recordings. Now, we wait for the music.

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Metal Storm has already informed that English heavy metal eagles Saxon are about to release a new album, entitled Thunderbolt. Now the band has released some audio and visuals from it. The band's latest video for "Thunderbolt", featuring footage from their pyro-filled performance at Wacken and a host of other live shows, can be seen below. It gives you a chance to listen to the first new track from the record.

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In celebration of their bassist's Shane Embury's 50th birthday, U.K.'s extreme metal legends Napalm Death released a new track on Decibel Magazine's Flexi Series. The only way you can own the Flexi is by purchasing Decibel's Special Collector's Edition Napalm Death Issue. "Nurse The Hunger" was written by the band's guitarist Mitch Harris and recorded in 2014, but was not released until now.

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English extreme gothic metal icons Cradle Of Filth will sail to America and perform some dark rituals on their live shows there as part of the Cryptoriana world tour, with Jinjer as support. Having released a new album this year, Cryptoriana: The Seductiveness Of Decay, the group will be touring in Europe at the beginning of next year followed by a South American tour and a North American tour. Later, they will also play in Japan and Australia.

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Event:	Cradle Of Filth: Cryptoriana North American Tour 2018

U.S. long running death metal growlers Malevolent Creation recently announced several line-up changes and a new album as well. The only founding member left is guitarist Philip Fasciana. He recruited for the death metal ship vocalist/guitarist Lee Wollenschlaeger as well as Phil Cancilla on drums and bassist Josh L. Gibbs.

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Fans of progressive death metal pay attention. Feared is soon releasing a new album called Svart, more precisely on December 8th. But before that, you have the chance to listen to "Your Black Is My White", the second single, for which the band created a new video. It features art and paint by Johan Ejerblom and it was directed by Hugo Andersson. Check it out.

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The Latvian metal scene hasn't been very active in 2017. However, Latvian progressive black metal act Eschatos has just shared a new album, which is comprised of two tracks. MÆRE, mastered by Dan Swanö at Unisound, will be out today, December 1st. You can listen it here in full. Alternatively, you can also enjoy it below.

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San Francisco Bay Area metal titans Machine Head will release their highly anticipated new album, Catharsis, on January 26th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Today, the band has released the live video for the song "Now We Die" from the bonus DVD (21 song live concert filmed live at The Regency Ballroom, San Francisco, CA, 2015) of the limited edition of their upcoming album. You can enjoy their performance on the video available below.

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The Iced Earth Incorruptible World Tour will venture across the U.S. and Canada from February 22nd through March 29th, 2018 with featured support from Sanctuary and Kill Ritual. The heavy metallers recently announced new tour dates in support of their current album, Incorruptible. Don't miss it!

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Event:	Iced Earth: The Incorruptible North American Tour 2018

Swedish death/thrash purveyors The Crown have returned to Metal Blade Records for a multiple album deal. The group has just finished recording their new, currently untitled long-player at Studio Fredman, and the record "promises to be one of the biggest surprises of the upcoming year." Metal Blade will release Iron Crown, the first single from the upcoming album, as a limited 7″ on January 12th. Make sure to check out a video teaser of the song below.

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Northlane recently won their 2nd ARIA Award, with their album Mesmer beating out Airbourne (Breaking Outta Hell), Frenzal Rhomb (Hi-Vis High Tea), King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard (Murder Of The Universe) and Sleepmakeswaves (Made Of Breath Only) for the Best Hard Rock/Heavy Metal Album category. Their previous album, Node, also won in 2015.

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Sons Of Apollo, the new progressive metal group who has released their debut album, Psychotic Symphony, last October via Inside Out Music, has announced their first U.S. tour dates. The band is known for joining together once again former Dream Theater members Mike Portnoy and Derek Sherinian with bassist Billy Sheehan, guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal and singer Jeff Scott Soto.

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Today, you can hear a new song from death metal veterans Morbid Angel. The track is, of course, taken from their impending 9th studio album, Kingdoms Disdained, which is due out really soon on December 1st via Silver Lining Music. The Tampa band returns with a new album, without frontman David Vincent, and has just premiered the tune "For No Master". You can see if you love it/hate it/something else below.

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Power metallers Primal Fear are at it again! The German band is back in the studio working on their upcoming new album, Apocalypse. Twelve brand new crushing tracks have been selected, out of 30 newly written tracks, which will be produced by Primal Fear's own Mat Sinner and engineered and mixed by Jacob Hansen at Hansen Studios in Denmark. The album is tentatively scheduled for release in mid-2018 via Frontiers Music Srl to follow Rulebreaker.

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Some of you might remember Combat Records as one of the seminal thrash labels of the 1980s, their most prominent artist being Megadeth. Combat was also home to Helstar, Circle Jerks, Exodus, Nuclear Assault, and many more of the most influential metal and punk bands around. Megadeth's bassist David Ellefson and his EMP Label Group will be resurrecting the Combat Records label in 2018. Look for new releases coming in 2018 from Raven, Helstar, Dead By Wednesday, WRATH and more!

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