Korpiklaani are set to release their new album Noita soon. In addition to their recently announced North American tour dates with Ensiferum, Korpiklaani has announced a run of North American headline shows with Trollfest providing direct support. These dates begin on April 28th in Charlotte, NC and run through May 5th in San Diego, CA. The two bands will then join up with co-headliner Ensiferum May 6th in Los Angeles. The tour then crosses the country and wraps up on May 29th in New York. Today the band also premieres the lyric video for their first new song to be unveiled, "Lempo". Give it a spin over here.

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Dødheimsgard fans had to wait eight years for the follow-up to the band's last album Supervillain Outcast but the wait is over today. While you can only get your hands on the new opus A Umbra Omega next Monday (March 16th via Peaceville Records), as of now you can stream the entire piece at this location. Enjoy some avantgarde metal courtesy of Dødheimsgard.

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Aussie metallers King Parrot are happy to announce the new label signings. The band joined the family of Housecore Records for North America, Agonia Records for Europe, and EVP Recordings for Australia, which will release their upcoming new album this spring. It was recorded by Phil Anselmo (Pantera, Down) in Nodferatu's Lair Studio. More details will follow.

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Nightwish are currently streaming their new song "Shudder Before The Beautiful", which is the opening song taken from their upcoming album Endless Forms Most Beautiful. So, you can finally listen to another new song from the album before it is released later this month on March 27th (Europe), March 30th (UK) and March 31st (North America) via Nuclear Blast. The 6-minute song is available for your listening pleasure through the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat over here. Check it out and let us know what you think!

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At the end of last year, shocking news came that 48-year-old Static-X frontman Wayne Static had passed away and at the time not many details were revealed about his death. Now, a few months later, it has been confirmed by the official coroner's report that he died as a result of mixing Xanax and other prescription drugs with alcohol. The coroner's report lists the official cause of death as "mixed prescription drug (oxycodone, hydromorphone, alprazolam) with alcohol toxicity" and the "manner of death" is stated as "natural."

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While previously you had the chance of listening to a teaser, outsider French doomsters Öxxö Xööx have now released the seventh track, "Äbÿm", off of the band's upcoming sophomore album Nämïdäë, to be released in mid-2015 by Blood Music. The track can be streamed below, if you dare! The clip is something between a lyric video, a music video, and a museum piece.

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"Hope In Hell" is the new video from Canadian metal legends Anvil, and can now be seen below. The clip was again created by Swedish director Rene U Valdes of Greenworks Productions. The song is of course taken from the album of the same name, the latest record released by Anvil in 2013. The heavy metal unit will embark on another European festival tour this summer with more dates to be added soon.

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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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