After some years of silence, 2014 will bring the new Carnifex album. The San Diego metallers have now revealed pretty much everything about it including title, cover artwork, tracklist and release date. Their Nuclear Blast debut is coming on March 7th (Europe) and March 4th (North America). The opus is titled Die Without Hope and the cover art was created by renowned artist and longtime collaborator Godmachine. You can see the cover below. The music will come later.

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Norwegian innovators Ulver will be embarking on an European tour in February 2014 set to begin in Helsinki, Finland. The setlist will consist of partly new and improv-based material. The band will perform in Poland, Czech Republic, The Netherlands, Italy, Russia, among others. Check out the tour dates below.

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"Firefly" is the new video from American progressive metal pioneers Fates Warning. The clip was directed by David Solbjørg and Kjetil Kolbjørnsrud of Twitchyfilms and you can enjoy it now here. The song comes off Darkness In A Different Light, their first new studio album effort in almost a decade and InsideOut debut.

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The Finns Altar Of Betelgeuze are about to release their debut album Darkness Sustains The Silence in two weeks. If you feel up to it, you can already listen to the entire album now at this location. Memento Mori will release the album unto the world on January 1st, 2014. Let yourself be buried in doom with Altar Of Betelgeuze.

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Looks like Jason Richardson is very busy this year. After releasing his solo single "Thought", now Chelsea Grin, the prog deathcore outfit, just released their newest single called "Letters" which you can hear down below. This is one of the new songs that will be featured on the band's upcoming new album and follow-up to My Damnation, due out in 2014 on Artery Recordings/Razor & Tie.

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French metallers Pryapisme have confirmed that they will release a very limited 8-Bit EP called Blastbit Rococollider on February 3rd via Apathia Records. This very special EP will be strictly limited to 100 pink tapes. Earlier this year, the band released their new opus Hyperblast Super Collider.

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Italian progressive metallers Eldritch will release their new album Tasting The Tears on February 17th in Europe and February 18th in North America via Scarlet Records. The album was produced by Eugene Simone and was mixed and mastered by Simone Mularoni (DGM). The first single, "Alone Again", can be streamed now using the SoundCloud widget below.

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The release of Benighted's new album is approaching fast. While fans are eager to hear new music, today you get to see the album cover and tracklist of the French brutal death metallers' seventh full-length. Benighted also recently shot a video for the song "Experience Your Flesh", a number from Carnivore Sublime. The clip will be premiered in January. So, you have that to look forward to.

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Something awesome is happening. In fact, vocalists Nils Rue from Pagan's Mind, Henrik Båth from Darkwater, Elin Redin from End Of September and Theocracy's Matt Smith have joined forces to sing in a track composed by Smith himself and enriched with the guitar solo of Darkwater and Harmony's Markus Sigfridsson. The cool fact is that 100% of the income of this track will be delivered to The Bridge Bunch, an organization dedicated to serving the homeless population of Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. Below you find a teaser of the track, which you can hear in full at this location.

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Folk metallers Korpiklaani and Týr are very pleased to announce a South (Latin) American tour in the end of May, 2014. For now, they have confirmed 4 tour dates (three in Brazil and one in Argentina), which you can check out below. More shall be announced in the near future.

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Mariusz Duda has started working on the next album of his solo project Lunatic Soul. The recordings will take place in the Studio Serakos, the same where Riverside's latest effort called Shrine Of New Generation Slaves was created. The upcoming album (still untitled) is scheduled for release in the autumn of 2014.

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British sludge/doom innovators Bong have a new album on the way. Their label Ritual Productions confirmed that they have completed work on the follow-up to Mana-Yood-Sushai, which is due for release on March 2014. More info is coming in the next few weeks but for now you can get a taste of the new track "Polaris" here. Oh, and it's eight minutes long.

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Dream Theater has announced new tour dates for a North American headline trek dubbed Along For The Ride tour where they will showcase the new opus Dream Theater. The coast-to-coast run will pick up on March 20th, 2014 in Toronto, following the band's European tour and then continues through the end of April where it will eventually wrap up in Guadalajara, Mexico.

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The Swedes Cult Of Luna have announced, or rather implied, that the band will be taking a break from their busy schedule after next year's Beyond The Redshift festival in the UK which they are curating. The statement is quite cryptic and non-specific but it does seem that you should expect a lot less activity from them after May 2014 for a while.

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Just days after they premiered the video for "Mountain Wolves Under A Crescent Moon", Legion Of The Damned have shared yet another official video this time for the song "Doom Priest". The video was entirely produced, filmed and edited by the band. You can enjoy it below.

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