Finnish death/doom horde Hooded Menace have good news! They are preparing to enter the studio to record their fourth full-length and first new record since 2012's Effigies Of Evil. The band will be entering Skyhammer Studio in the UK to record with Chris Fielding (Electric Wizard, Moss, Napalm Death, The Wounded Kings) while Brad Boatright (Yob, Vallenfyre, Beastmilk, Sleep) will be mastering the album at Audiosiege in the U.S. You can expect the album to drop in the latter half of 2015 via Relapse Records. Get ready!

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Bloodcults, the newest death metal attack from The Monolith Deathcult, is currently available for streaming in full at Metal Hammer (UK). The band will officially release the mini-album on March 23rd through Season Of Mist. How is the successor to Tetragrammaton sounding? Check it out for yourself.

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Swedish metallers Sabaton released their seventh full-length record Heroes on May 16th last year via Nuclear Blast and reached some of the highest chart entries in the band's history. Heroes also won in the Best Power Metal Album category on Metal Storm Awards 2014. Now they announce the U.S. release of the album's Deluxe Edition, a 3-disc limited edition deluxe version, due out on April 7th.

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Now this could be something epic. Mastodon have contributed with a new track to the upcoming Game Of Thrones "Catch The Throne Vol. 2" mixtape. The track is called "White Walker" and like all of the tracks on the mixtape, it samples music from last season of the HBO show. Satisfy your curiosity and listen to the track over here. If you watch the show, you know that the White Walkers are the frostbitten undead from Beyond The Wall and the song is inspired by them.

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With the official unveiling of The Crash & The Draw, the imminent new full-length from Illinois post-metal unit Minsk now less than one month away, they have presented the album's eighth movement, "The Way Is Through," for communal ingestion. You can be the judge of the 9-minute track after you listen to it at this location.

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Jack Starr's Burning Starr, the American power metal act founded in 1984 by ex-Virgin Steele guitarist Jack Starr, has commenced the pre-production process for their new studio album, titled Stand Your Ground, and scheduled for recording during spring and summer of 2015. Some of the new song titles are: "Stronger Than Steel", "In Another Time (From Ashes We Rise)", "Stand Your Ground" or "To The Ends Of The Earth". Stand Your Ground is a loosely based concept album, about the problems facing America and the world, and the belief that many people have, that we are heading into an era of strife and conflict.

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Death metallers Pyrrhon have suffered a tough blow. The Americans have been dropped from Relapse Records. The label terminated their contract with Pyrrhon and will not be working on their next LP. The given reason for their decision was that their 2014 album The Mother Of Virtues has not proven commercially successful. Despite the split, the band perseveres and has good news. They will release the new EP Growth Without End on June 2nd, 2015. Check out the cover art below and more details.

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Finland's Michael Monroe has renewed his recording contract with Universal Music/Spinefarm Records and his solo band has started work on a new album to be released this year. The album recordings will continue until mid-March and Michael has recorded vocals for 18 songs.

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In case you didn't know, KEN Mode are releasing a new album called Success on Season Of Mist. You can see the teaser below. It's coming! They have also announced a new European tour this April. The Winnipeg trio will embark on their road-trip with Swiss post-hardcore act Cortez on April 1st in Fribourg, Switzerland.

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"Control", the new official music video from Swedish hard rock/heavy metal act Spiders, is now available for streaming through the YouTube player below. Track for this video clip is taken from the group's latest studio effort, Shake Electric, released at the end of October, 2014. Check it out!

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Des Moines, Iowa television station KCCI is reporting that Mickeal Gordon Thomson, Slipknot's guitarist, has reportedly suffered a stab wound to the back of his head in an altercation with his brother, Andrew Thomson. According to reports, the knife fight started inside Mickeal's home in Clive, Iowa and spilled into the front yard.

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Metal Storm has an exclusive reveal today courtesy of none other than progressive innovators Dissona. The Chicago metallers have been putting all of their blood, sweat and tears into the new album with the recordings well underway. While you might be eager to listen to new songs, today you can take a look at the alluring yet mysterious album cover art as well as the tracklist of Paleopneumatic, the band's impending new album.

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The Finnish supergroup Cain's Offering have more news to share today. The power metal band has published a trailer with snippets of 4 new songs that will appear on Stormcrow, their upcoming album. Apart from that, the band has joined Frontiers Music Srl, which will release the opus on May 15th in Europe and May 19th in North America. The label promises that the final result will blow you away. For now, what did you think of these song previews?

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Finnish folk metal heavyweights Korpiklaani will release their brand new record Noita on May 1st (Europe), May 4th (UK) and May 5th (US) via Nuclear Blast, three years after they released Manala. Now the band has published a trailer, giving an insight on the recordings of their ninth studio encounter. To get introduced to the new material, check out the clip here which features snippets of new songs.

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Not too long ago, symphonic metallers Xandria released their latest album Sacrificium. However, they are already back in the studio and entered Sandlane studio in Rijen, The Netherlands to begin recording a new EP for a summer release. The band is working with producer Joost van den Broek to record a 6/7 song EP and they will record 3 brand new tracks, one or two cover songs, but also two remakes of well-known Xandria classics.

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