After releasing their latest album, Sorceress, last year, Opeth now present us with the official promo video for the tune "Era". The video comes just ahead of the band's return to the U.S. for a headline spring tour with support from Gojira and Devin Townsend. The cinematic video was directed by Markus Hofko and is available for your viewing pleasure below.

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Insomnium are preparing a very special performance in their home country this July. The Finns will play their latest masterpiece, Winter's Gate, a 40-minute long track, with the Joensuu City Orchestra. The concert will be an exclusive of the Ilosaarirock Festival in Joensuu.

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USA based thrash metal outfit Havok are disseminating the first new track off their upcoming album, Conformicide. The song, titled "Hang 'Em High", can be heard as of today via the lyric video (created by Cloud Music Typography) below and is also the first instant grat track for those who pre-order the album on Amazon and iTunes. Conformicide will see a March 10th release on Century Media Records. Enjoy the thrash!

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Serbian metal band Jenner will release its debut album, To Live Is To Suffer, on February 20th via Infernö Records. Formed in December 2013, Jenner is said to be the only all-girl metal band from the Belgrade area. The track "How Deep Is Your Greed" can be streamed below. Also available is a new album teaser.

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German death metallers Venenum have announced the details of their upcoming debut full-lenght album. Entitled Trance Of Death, it is slated for release on the 17th of March via Sepulchral Voice Records. The tracklist and cover artwork are available below.

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Mastodon are gearing up to release a new album and so the teasing has started. The U.S. metallers have released two goofy teasers so far. You can watch them below and see if you can decipher anything. The new offering is expected out this spring and was recorded with Brendan O'Brien (Rage Against The Machine, Korn) who worked with the group in Crack The Skye.

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German alcohol soaked thrash metal act Tankard are currently working on the follow-up to their acclaimed 2014 album, R.I.B.. The guys entered Gernhart Studios in Troisdorf with producer Martin Buchwalter (Destruction, Accu§er, Suidakra) earlier this month. Guitars, bass and drums are already done and at the moment, Gerre is lending his voice to the soundtrack for their 35th anniversary.

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Italian power metal outfit Wind Rose just posted an unconventional message on their Facebook page, confirming that the band will release a new album this year. So far, the release date and title are unknown but it seems like the record will feature 9 songs.

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Siberian atmospheric black metal band Grima is set to release their brand new studio album Tales Of The Enchanted Woods through Naturmacht Productions on February 25th. The follow-up to the promising Devotion To Lord (2015) will be an eight-track release. Feast your eyes on the cover and more details below. More importantly, enjoy the new track "The Moon And Its Shadows" as an introduction to the record.

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As the anticipation builds for the release of Soen's new album, Lykaia, the Swedish progressive outfit has revealed a second song off of it. Fans already had the chance to listen to "Sectarian" and now there's a video for "Lucidity". The 7-minute song "Lucidity," as well as most of Lykaia's music, was written by drummer Martin Lopez and vocalist Joel Ekelöf.

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Rammstein: Paris, a new concert-film by Jonas Åkerlund, will screen in selected cinemas across the world on the 23rd of March 2017! Screening dates for Germany, Austria, Switzerland are March 23rd, 24th and 29th, 2017. During the "Made in Germany" tour, Swedish director Jonas Åkerlund filmed two acclaimed Rammstein concerts in March 2012 - each for an audience of 17,000 at the Bercy Arena in Paris. In the resulting film (with 16 songs from the entire repertoire), Jonas Åkerlund takes a radically new approach to capturing the emotion and thrill of Rammstein's live performance.

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Metal Storm has previously reported that Gamma Ray members drummer Michael Ehré and guitarist Henjo Richter have launched the new power metal band The Unity. Today you can hear a bit of what they have to offer. Check out their new single "Rise And Fall" which comes off the band's upcoming self-titled debut album, out on May 5th via Steemhammer/SVP.

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We already knew that Brazilian all-female heavy metal act Panndora will be back on the road. Now they have confirmed that they will play live again after a hiatus of almost two years. Panndora will support Grave Digger in Brazil.

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Funeral doomers Bell Witch are going to release a new album 2017. The band will enter the studio in March and the album is scheduled to be released in the autumn of 2017. The new album will be the first featuring new drummer/vocalist Jesse Shreibman, and according to the band's Facebook page, Shreibman is also going to play an analog organ on the album. The record will be called As Above, So Below and it will be one song divided into seven movements.

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After announcing their new line-up recently (the addition of new vocalist Giacomo Voli and drummer Manu Lotter), Italian symphonic power metal kings Rhapsody Of Fire are now working on their upcoming release, which will be a 75 minutes long album revisiting a selection of songs written and produced during the 5 first years of the Rhapsody Era (1997-2002). 14 epic tracks completely re-recorded! All drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, vocals, epic choirs, opera choirs, and numerous classical instruments have been recorded already.

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