Sad news to report as Craig Gruber, bassist in the groups Elf and Rainbow, passed away on Tuesday, May 5th, at the age of 63 after battling prostate cancer. He also played in The Rods and Black Sabbath briefly. Condolences to Craig Gruber's family, friends and bandmates.

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Norwegian avantgardists In The Woods... are proud to announce multi-instrumentalist James "Mr. Fog" Fogarty (Ewigkeit) to the roster. James Fogarty will handle the organ and backing vocals to the band's upcoming as-yet-untitled full-length album.

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Belgian metallers Possession have been kind enough to release a second song off 1585 - 1646 EP for streaming. The chosen track now was "Ceremony" and you can stream it right here. How do you rate it? Don't forget that the release of the new mini-album is near: June 5th through Iron Bonehead Productions / Invictus Productions.

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Blind Guardian are currently touring in Europe to showcase their new album Beyond The Red Mirror but soon enough their fans in North America will be able to see them live as well. The power metal heavyweights will embark on a tour with fellow Germans Grave Digger in October/November. If you don't want to miss this package, check out the tour dates below. You might get lucky.

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Delain released their last album in 2014, The Human Contradiction. Since then, the band has been touring consistently and will continue to do that this year. However, the group has also prepared a new lyric video for the song "Sing To Me" which appears on the album. Both the song and video feature guest vocals from Marco Hietala from Nightwish, who they are currently touring with in the US.

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After touring the US in February with Origin, Abysmal Dawn and Wolvhammer, Norwegian black metallers 1349 now confirmed the second leg of the Chaos Raids North America tour. This tour kicks off on May 30th in Baltimore, MD and includes cult death metal pioneers Necrophagia and Vattnet Viskar. A full list of confirmed tour dates can be found below.

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Event:	1349: The Chaos Raids North America Tour 2015 - Part II

Hard rock icons Whitesnake have unleashed the video for the classic tune "Soldier Of Fortune" from their upcoming 12th studio album. The song comes from The Purple Album, a re-imagination of classic songs from David Coverdale's time as the lead singer for Deep Purple's Mark 3 and Mark 4 studio albums. The collection will see a May 18th release via Frontiers Music Srl. Enjoy!

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Acid Reign are back! Twenty four years later, the UK thrashers return is more of a reboot than a reformation, according to vocalist Howard "H" Smith. The band released two albums in their career, The Fear (1989) and Obnoxious (1990) and then split in 1991.

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Rosetta have started their Wednesday with a bang. Not only did they reveal the cover artwork and tracklist of their new opus Quintessential Ephemera, but they also released the first song off the album, "(Untitled V)". The artwork (designed by Philadelphia-based artist Mark Price) and full tracklist are available here. The new song only has 7 minutes. So, go ahead and enjoy it below.

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Another video premiere today. Primordial have just released a new clip for the closing track of their latest album Where Greater Men Have Fallen which was released last year via Metal Blade Records, entitled "Wield Lightning To Split The Sun". The video was cut by Romanian artist Costin Chioreanu and you can enjoy it on the YouTube player below.

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As you already know, UK gothic legends Paradise Lost are preparing to release their new album The Plague Within on June the 1st via Century Media Records. After the first single "No Hope In Sight" which was released some time earlier, today they revealed the first official video from the forthcoming album for the song "Beneath Broken Earth". You can check it out below. So what are you waiting for? Go see it and share your opinion about it!

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Almost 8 years have passed since we've seen Novembre releasing their last work, The Blue. Now the band is up and ready to record a new album as yet untitled, but scheduled to be released later this year via Peaceville Records. The album will be mixed by Dan Swano at Unisound Studio and it will feature 10 songs. You can expect more news to be revealed soon!

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Finnish extreme doomsters Profetus are pleased to present their first official video for the 15-minute long opus "The Dire Womb Of Winter", now available for streaming down below. The track is taken from the band's latest album, As All Seasons Die, released back in June, 2014. The video clip was directed by Markus Nieminen, while video production was done by Oy Routafilmi Ab.

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Soulfly just announced that they will embark on a North American headlining tour starting on September 30th in Los Angeles. The band will be supporting their upcoming vicious new release Archangel, which was produced by Matt Hyde (Slayer, Children Of Bodom) and will be released on August 14th via Nuclear Blast Entertainment. Joining them on this epic campaign are Swedish melodic death metal visionaries Soilwork, Polish technical death metallers Decapitated, and newcomers Shattered Sun. No word yet on who will replace bassist Tony Campos.

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The book adaptation film for Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind's Lords Of Chaos: The Bloody Rise Of The Satanic Metal Underground finally has a director and it is none other than former Bathory drummer and video/film director Jonas Åkerlund. The film will be produced by Ridley Scott's Scott Free London, RSA London, and VICE. Lords of Chaos focuses on the real events involving members of the 80's black metal scene in Scandinavia and will follow the story of 17-year-old Øystein "Euronymous" Aarseth, guitarist and co-founder of the Norwegian black metal band Mayhem during the upbringing of the genre.

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