Even after they released an album last year, Soilwork aren't slowing down in terms of new releases. The Swedes have just announced the release of a special collection of rarities under the title Death Resonance on August 19th, 2016 via Nuclear Blast. It will include fifteen rare and unreleased tracks.

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Twilight Force are back with a vengeance following their debut, Tales Of Ancient Prophecies. Now with Nuclear Blast, after several months of work in the band's studio, the Twilight Forge, the power metallers are set to release their second album called Heroes Of Mighty Magic, on August 26th. The colorful cover art has been revealed as well as the tracklist. Find out more about the album now.

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This fall will have a brutal start. The sky will probably be ripped open, and we'll be hit by a crushing storm of sorrow. Why is that? Because British doom metallers Eye Of Solitude have released some info about their upcoming album! The new album will be called Cenotaph, and is due to be released on September 1st, 2016. The neat artwork was made by Giannis Nakos of Remedy Art Clown.

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Here is some black metal to start off your day, courtesy of Germans Imperium Dekadenz. They are streaming the first new track from their forthcoming album, Dis Manibvs. The epic track, titled "Only Fragments Of Light", can be enjoyed fully below where you also find all the album details, now revealed.

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On July 22nd, progressive metallers Hammers Of Misfortune will release their sixth full-length, Dead Revolution, worldwide via Metal Blade Records. The new album and first in five years, saw Nick Dumitriu (Vhöl, Ritual Chamber) helping out as a producer. Currently, the album title track is streaming online and you can now listen to it here.

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Tool will be embarking on a mini-tour this October 2016. They have announced three headlining shows - in Denver, Salt Lake City, and Little Rock - as well as festival appearances. The progressive metallers will perform at the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience 2016 in New Orleans and they will also headline the 2016 Monster Energy Aftershock Festival in Sacramento's Discovery Park.

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Doomsters Saint Vitus have announced a headlining U.S. tour with their classic frontman, Scott Reagers. The tour, which begins on September 27th in Austin, sees the band trek across America before concluding on October 23rd. Support on this tour comes from fellow doom purveyors The Skull and Witch Mountain. A full list of confirmed tour dates can be found below.

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Drummer Joey Jordison is keeping himself very busy these days. After announcing his new band Vimic, a new band featuring the former Slipknot drummer has launched. This one is called Sinsaenum and also features Frédéric Leclercq (DragonForce) on guitar, bass, synth, vocals, guitarist Stephane Buriez (Loudblast), vocalists Sean Zatorsky (Dååth and ex-Chimaira) and Attila Csihar (Mayhem) and Heimoth (Seth) on bass. Their self-titled EP is out now and contains 2 songs: "Death Is The Beginning" (exclusive track) and "The Forgotten One" (from the forthcoming album Echoes Of The Tortured).

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Death/doom menace Kuolemanlaakso are back with a different kind of album. As the title aptly implies, M. Laakso - Vol. 1: The Gothic Tapes is the first solo album of Kuolemanlaakso mastermind Laakso. According to him, this is not a death doom album as the color palette is vastly wider. The first single is already available for your listening pleasure below.

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Metallers Corrosion Of Conformity are currently touring with Lamb Of God and Clutch but it looks like drummer Reed Mullin won't make it until the end of the tour. He suffered an alcohol-related seizure in Edmonton before the band's show, after a similar incident a few years ago. The band will continue the tour without him but urge him to seek treatment for his alcohol and drug dependency. Hopefully, he will do just that.

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After a few months without news, symphonic tyrants Septicflesh announce today that their new album is in the works. In fact, the follow-up to Titan (2014) is coming out early next year via Season of Mist in Europe and Prosthetic Records in North America. Now fans can start anticipating their next release.

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Century Media Records just confirmed the upcoming concept album by Oriental metal masters Orphaned Land, Kna'an! It is a side project album with Amaseffer's Erez Yohanan, which covers up the biblical story of Kna'an, in the eyes of Walter Wayers, after he wrote a modern-perspective play about the story of Abraham in the land of Kna'an.

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British folk metal pioneers Skyclad show signs of life again. In February, they started working on new material for the successor to In The... All Together (2009). Skyclad plan to release this album, their 13th, within the next 12 months.

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While Alter Bridge revealed earlier this year that they were working on a new album, now we know a little bit more about it. The hard rockers plan to release it in the fall of 2016. It will be released via their new label Napalm Records worldwide excluding North America. Alter Bridge are currently at work on their new album with producer Michael "Elvis" Baskette. More details will be announced soon.

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Rotting Christ are now streaming a new lyric video for the song "Devadevam" from their latest album, Rituals. They already did one for the track "For A Voice Like Thunder" which can still be watched over here. The track "Devadevam" features Kathir (Rudra) on vocals.

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