The line-up for the Inferno Metal Festival 2015 continues to grow. The latest confirmation has been the Norwegian band Kampfar due to popular demand. After an overcrowded gig at their club day in 2014, the band in 2015 will enter the big stage at Rockefeller. The fest will celebrate 15 years in 2015 and plenty of great bands have been announced so far.

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Malta's brutal death metallers Beheaded have recently shared that they are currently in Italy at work on their new album to follow Never To Dawn. Frank Calleja, Davide Billia, Omar Grech and a mysterious guitarist who will be announced later on as the band's second axeman are completing the return to a 5 piece line-up. You can start anticipating their next album.

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After having Russian Orthodox Church activist organizations trying to ban their shows in the country and seeing three Russian shows cancelled, death metallers Cannibal Corpse now face a ban of their lyrics, according to Rapsi. Prosecutors in the republic of Bashkortostan had requested a court ban on lyrics and cover art by the band.

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After a few months of silence, Polish post/black metallers Mord'A'Stigmata now post a new update. The band has been working on their upcoming split album with the French orthodox black metal outfit Reverence. Both bands share the same concept, to show an unique side of arts by American photographer Joel-Peter Witkin. Does that sound like an appealing idea? Tell us what you think.

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The new project The Gentle Storm, where Arjen Lucassen ( Ayreon, Star One, Guilt Machine) joins forces with Anneke van Giersbergen ( The Gathering, Devin Townsend), has finally set an official release date for their anticipated debut album. The Diary will be released on the 23rd of March 2015 in Europe through Inside Out Music. But there is more. They have also confirmed that in advance of The Gentle Storm's full band shows, Arjen will join Anneke for a select few European live acoustic dates in what will be quite a rare and special occasion.

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"Steel Versus Steel" is the new video from Swedish heavy/doom metallers Grand Magus and can now be seen below. The song is taken from the band's seventh album, Triumph And Power, which was released at the beginning of the year. You can watch the video for the catchy song "Steel Versus Steel" right now here. Moreover, you can still catch the band live on their last shows of 2014 in less than two weeks in the UK.

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Fresh off the Atlantic Records release of their new album Black Widow, In This Moment share yet another new video today. The American band created a video for the song "Big Bad Wolf". Maria Brink and company are currently touring in support of this new record. Enjoy!

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The heavy doom band The Skull - featuring original Trouble members, vocalist Eric Wagner and drummer Jeff "Oly" Olson, alongside longtime former Trouble bassist Ron Holzner with Sacred Dawn guitarist Lothar Keller and former Pentagram guitarist Matt Goldsborough - have recently announced a December U.S. tour to promote their debut record, For Those Which Are Asleep, which was released worldwide this month (November 4th) via Tee Pee Records. The confirmed tour dates are listed below.

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Start your weekend with some brutal death metal courtesy of Ingested. The Manchester band recently revealed a brand new lyric video for their first cut off the impending album The Architect Of Extinction. The ferocious track is called "The Divine Right Of Kings". The cover artwork was penned by Toshihiro Egawa and is also available below. Listen to the new song and find out all about this new record.

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Five years and several line-up changes later, Israel's own Melechesh are finally releasing their new album. Titled Enki, the follow-up to The Epigenesis now has an official release date. Nuclear Blast will release it on February 6th (Europe), February 9th (UK) and February 10th (US), 2015. You can check out the album's tracklist below. Do you have high hopes for the new record?

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Black metal trio Nihill is exclusively streaming the entire fourth studio album Verderf, which means "decay" in Dutch, over at Terrorizer. The album is set to be released on the 1st of December 2014 via Burning World Records but you are lucky enough to be able to listen to it now. Is it better than their previous offering Verdonkermaan released back in 2012? Find out now.

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A capella metal sensations Van Canto have just released a brand new live video from this year's Wacken Open Air Festival 2014! They hit the stage together with many special guests: Tarja Turunen, Victor Smolski ( Rage), Chris Boltendahl ( Grave Digger), André Matos (ex- Angra) and Stimmgewalt (Hardchor from Berlin). You can watch the band's special performance of the song "Fear Of The Dark", the Iron Maiden hit, right here.

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Black metal duo Inquisition are now revealing the artwork of the reissue of their praised second full-length Invoking The Majestic Throne Of Satan which has been scheduled for release on February 23rd, 2015 (one day later in North America). This is part of Season Of Mist exclusively releasing the official catalogue of the band. Invoking The Majestic Throne Of Satan will come as all reissues with new artwork by the renowned artist Paolo Girardi, who already created the cover art for Inquisition's latest album Obscure Verses For The Multiverse (2013). The original artwork will be included as well with each re-release. These will have the original masters; no remixes and no remastering.

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The official release of Axenstar's new album Where Dreams Are Forgotten in Europe is today. If you want to hear more power metal and material from their opus, check out below a brand new lyric video for the track "The Return". The album will only be released a few days later on December 2nd in North America through Inner Wound Recordings. Did you enjoy this song? How about the new album?

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Earlier this year, the Finns The Man-Eating Tree unveiled a new song from their upcoming album. Now things are starting to come together and the release of their third album, called In The Absence Of Light, is set for early 2015. The metallers have also revealed the cover that will grace the record. Take a look at it below. Besides that, you can also hear the first album teaser as a foretaste of what's to come.

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