The Skull, the new band featuring original members Eric Wagner (vocals) and Jeff "Oly" Olson (drums) of American doom metal legends Trouble alongside longtime Trouble bassist Ron Holzner and Sacred Dawn guitarist Lothar Keller, previously announced the release of their debut album and now they are streaming two new singles. If you are curious about this project, you can now listen to "Sometime Yesterday Mourning" and the 1983 Metal Massacre IV re-make of "The Last Judgment", which are now available below.

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The Americans Machine Head started to announce the first round of tour dates in 2014 for North America and Europe as well. The Killers & Kings Tour will serve as an album primer for more dates in November/December, but more importantly it will hit numerous cities that Machine Head hasn't headlined in for over a decade, or in several cases, never headlined, or even played, at all. Machine Head are currently in the studio recording their eighth album for a summer 2014 release.

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The end might be near for gothic metallers Tiamat. The veteran band will lose its frontman since Johan "Hellslaughter" Edlund announced that he is leaving the group. He posted a message on the band's Facebook page explaining that his health no longer allows him to continue and if the band wants to move on without him, it's their decision. Johan will still perform on the summer festivals and then it's over, at least for him.

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Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with director Hiro Murai (Childish Gambino, St. Vincent) and just unveiled their new cinematic video for the song "Smooth Sailing," the latest single from their most recent album ...Like Clockwork. Watch the video below. "Smooth Sailing" "follows QOTSA's Joshua Homme and cohorts on a delirious adventure that blossoms from garden variety drunken shenanigans to possibly the most nightmarishly accurate live action interpretation of a QOTSA song to date."

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We already knew that the veteran technical thrashers Toxik were preparing a new album and now things are shaping up. The reformed band is currently in the mixing stages of what will be their third album. And the title of their comeback release will be... In Humanity.

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Having released new material from Stilla and Skogen, Nordvis Produktion now presents the signing of Dråpsnatt. The black metal duo from northern Sweden have three albums to their name before signing on with Nordvis; 2009's I Denna Skog, 2010's Hymner Till Undergången and the 2012 release Skelepht. Besides procuring the rights for two upcoming albums, the first of which is planned to be recorded in the summer of 2014, the deal also means that their 2010 album Hymner Till Undergången will be re-released by Nordvis in the coming months. Stay tuned for more news regarding this in the near future.

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Belgian extreme metallers Aborted are excited to announce that they will be returning to Australia, where they will be touring in June together with the Australian tech-death machine Psycroptic. The opening act on this tour will be The Schoenberg Automaton. The list of tour dates is available below.

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Event:	Aborted & Psycroptic: The Necrotic Repression Australian Tour 2014

After five years, American hard rockers Winger are preparing the release of their new album Better Days Comin' on April 18th in Europe and April 22nd in North America via Frontiers Records. The band has just released the video for the track "Tin Soldier," now available for your viewing pleasure here. Below you also find their videos for "Rat Race" and "Midnight Driver Of A Love Machine" to get another sense of what the album will sound like. Enjoy!

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There is a lot of new music today, Crowbar also debuts a new song. With their new album Symmetry In Black set for a May 26th release via Century Media Records in Europe and May 27th via eOne Records in North America, the sludge metallers Crowbar are currently streaming the first taste of new music since the album Sever The Wicked Hand. "Walk With Knowledge Wisely", as the song is called, can be enjoy here!

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Three years after the release of their Prosthetic debut Darker Handcraft (the best-selling vinyl release in the label's 16-year history), the grindcore/hardcore punk quartet Trap Them has announced the title of its long-awaited follow-up ? Blissfucker and revealed its cover art. But there is more. The group isn't wasting any time and has also premiered a brand new track called "Salted Crypts". Get ready and stream the song below.

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You have already listened to the first single from legendary Norwegian black metal legion Mayhem but today the band has premiered a second song from Esoteric Warfare. This one is entitled "VI.Sec." and is now streaming online, which means you can listen to it here now. What are you waiting for? Enjoy some new Mayhem.

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And the title of the upcoming Opeth album is... Pale Communion! Roadrunner Records just unveiled the fact that the album will hit the stores worldwide on June 17th. Among other things, now we know that Pale Communion was produced by bandleader Mikael Åkerfeldt and mixed by longtime collaborator and Porcupine Tree frontman/guitarist Steven Wilson.

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The second single from the upcoming Epica album, The Quantum Enigma, is called Unchain Utopia and it is being released today as a digital download from iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, Deezer and other digital platforms. You can see the single cover art below as well as an audio sample here. Enjoy it!

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The funeral doom project Doom:VS, from Draconian member Johan Ericson, has finally revealed a new track titled "White Coffins" from their new work Earthless. Six years have passed since the release of their latest creation Dead Words Speak but now it is time for something new. You can listen to the 9-minute track "White Coffins" now here through the Soundcloud player. Enjoy! It is what you were expecting from Doom:VS?

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Portuguese gothic/doom metallers Ava Inferi sadly announced their demise last year but their final song, "Ao Teu Lado", will be included in the upcoming One And All, Together, For Home compilation. If you miss Ava Inferi, you have to listen to this song inspired by the traditional Portuguese music known as "Fado". Just click play below.

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