A couple of weeks ago, Starkill announced the release of their upcoming, sophomore album Virus Of The Mind on the following dates: USA/Canada: October 14th, 2014, and Europe/Australia/NZ: October 20th, 2014. Now, the band present their first song, "Breaking The Madness", available for streaming via the YouTube player below.

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Pennsylvania's Rivers Of Nihil will be touring this September/October with fellow Reading natives, Black Crown Initiate. The 'Reading Rainbow Tour' will begin on September 19 in Buffalo, NY and winds its way through Richmond, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Ohio, and Kentucky before wrapping up on October 3rd in their home town. Several more dates are still to be announced.

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Event:	Rivers Of Nihil: The Reading Rainbow US Tour 2014

Dutch black metallers Carach Angren are proud to finally announce that they will embark on their first tour across the North American grounds, where they will support Deicide on their headlining march. In The Minds Of Evil North American Tour will also feature Septicflesh, Inquisition and Abysmal Dawn. So far confirmed tour dates, which are scheduled for this coming October, can be seen below.

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Progressive metal band Protest The Hero recently premiered the official video for "Mist," a song that appeared on their latest album Volition. You can expect to see on this video the beautiful scenery of Newfoundland. The outfit has been touring a lot in support of their last album with forthcoming stops in Australia in September and Europe in November and December with support from The Faceless, The Contortionist and Destrage.

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A trailer for We Are Twisted F*cking Sister!, the forthcoming movie about Twisted Sister club days by German filmmaker Andrew Horn, can be seen below. Horn has been working on it for more than five years, and production was supported with a successful Indiegogo campaign in 2013.

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Start your day with some death metal courtesy of Horrendous. The Americans have recently premiered a brand new song called "Nepenthe" now available to stream here below. Ecdysis, as the new album is called, has been in the making for almost 3 years and will be out on October 14th, 2014 on Dark Descent Records in CD, vinyl, and digital formats.

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Greek black metal act Astarte have lost their main member Maria "Tristessa" Kolokouri. After battling with leukemia, previous updates suggested she might be getting better but today her husband broke the sad news of her passing after complications. Maria founded the band with Kinthia and Nemesis back in 1995.

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Italy-based metal quartet Nero Di Marte will release Derivae, the highly anticipated follow-up to their self-titled debut, this fall via Prosthetic Records. The album's title, taken from the Italian phrase 'andare alla Deriva' ('to go adrift'), correlates with its lyrical themes, which vocalist Sean Worrell describes as "tragically searching for something that maybe isn't there? letting yourself go and becoming swayed by the unknown". Keep an eye out for further details in the coming weeks.

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Paradise Lost is set to play for the first time with the real orchestra on the 20th of September. The show will take place in the Roman open air theater in Plovdiv, Bulgaria (the same one where Anathema shot their show for a DVD release). Two weeks after confirming the titles of the songs to be performed for the first time with an orchestra, the band now unveils the title of a brand new song to be performed for the first time ever. It is entitled "Victim Of The Past" and will be performed with the support of an orchestra. This song will be also part of the upcoming new Paradise Lost album.

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Event:	Paradise Lost: Live In Plovdiv With Philharmonic Orchestra

British psychedelic doomers Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats are pleased to announce a new single "Runaway Girls", set for release on August 25th via Rise Above Records. This single is the first taste of their upcoming, yet untitled new studio album, and can be listened through the SoundCloud widget below. It is a subconscious-infecting three-minute piece speaking in The Deadbeats' familiar tongue of cyclical vocal motifs and unison guitar.

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Orphaned Land, one of Israel's most successful musical exports, have recently premiered their new video for "Let The Truce Be Known" taken from the actual album All Is One. The video can be seen here now. The video was directed and edited by Vadim Mechona and produced by Yan Lubin. "Let The Truce Be Known" is one of the band's favourite songs ever. The lyrics and the story are based on the World War I's "Christmas Truce".

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"Habitchual", the new video from Brazilian female-fronted metallers Shadowside, can be seen below. The clip was produced and directed by Studio Kaiowas and features an appearance by actress Rida Principessa. "Habitchual" is taken from Shadowside's third album, Inner Monster Out, which was released in May 2012 via Inner Wound Recordings.

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The freaks Freak Kitchen have a new album coming out soon. For now, you can have a taste of what's to come on the opus Cooking With Pagans. The progressive band from Sweden give you "Mathematics Of Defeat". All you have to do is enjoy it over here! Cooking With Pagans comes out on September 16th on Laser's Edge.

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UK's Winterfylleth are pleased to present the new track "Whisper Of The Elements", now available for streaming through the Stereogum website. The song is taken off the group's upcoming effort, The Divination Of Antiquity, to be released on October 6th, 2014 in the UK and the 7th of October in the rest of the world on Candlelight Records.

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Fearless Records has officially added US tech metalcore band August Burns Red to their roster. Since forming in 2003, the band has released six studio albums through Solid State Records. August Burns Red are currently in the writing stage and will release their Fearless debut in 2015.

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