Svarttjern have released two albums so far in their career: Misanthropic Path Of Madness and Towards The Ultimate. Next year will see the release of their third opus Ultimatum Necrophilia on February 7th, 2014. The black metallers recently revealed the art, tracklist and a teaser of the new album. Enjoy a glimpse at the new tunes below.

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Queensrÿche, now fronted by Todd La Torre, recently filmed a conceptual mini-movie for the tracks "Spore", "Midnight Lullaby","A World Without" and "X2" from their newest self-titled album. The 10-plus minute story, dubbed Queensrÿche: Ad Lucem ("Towards the light"), was filmed by director Daniel Andres Gomez Bagby with producer Marco De Molina on location at Central City Stages in Los Angeles and today you get to watch it. The band shared the final result online after a live chat with fans. It is now available for your viewing pleasure below. How do you think it turned out?

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Folk metallers Heidevolk have found the replacement for Joris Boghtdrincker, who left the band earlier this year after more than ten years in the group. His name is Lars (Bláhrafn) and he is involved in the projects Lost Lament, Godenbloed, Valhaz and Cut Deeper. With their line-up now complete, you can expect a new album next year to follow Batavi.

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Rhapsody Of Fire have just released their new studio album Dark Wings Of Steel in Europe but it will only be available on December 3rd in the US and December 25th in Japan. The album was produced by keyboardist Alex Staropoli, with all songs composed by Staropoli and Manuel Staropoli, with Roberto De Micheli. All lyrics were written by singer Fabio Lione. The effort features a full orchestra, a choir and real string instruments. You can listen to an almost seven-minute preview of all the songs that you find on the album below.

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Prog/power metallers Lanfear have good news to share. The successor to This Harmonic Consonance (2012) is one step closer as the band announced that they will start the recordings of their new album on January 17th, 2014. Lanfear have been focusing on writing new songs for the last few months.

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Quiet Riot announced Scott Vokoun last year as their new vocalist, but that didn't last long. They have now confirmed the addition of former L.A. Guns and Ratt vocalist Jizzy Pearl to the band. He will perform his debut Quiet Riot show on New Year's Eve, December 31st in Flagstaff, Arizona. Moreover, the band is in the studio at the moment preparing their next album to follow Rehab.

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Kiara Laetitia, Italian singer and former frontwoman of the band Skylark, has released a video for the title track of her first solo EP, Fight Now. The clip was directed by Lyda Patitucci and Andrea Fortis and can be seen below.

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Welsh act Bullet For My Valentine recently premiered a brand new track on BBC radio and have since then also made it available online officially for streaming. You can now take a listen to their newest track "Raising Hell" through the Soundcloud widget below.

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The Maryland Deathfest XII line-up just keeps getting better and better. MDF announced a slew of additional confirmed acts that will play in Baltimore next year and there is still more to come, believe it or not. Now the question is: how will your body endure the constant beating?

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Will Timo Tolkki ever get rid of the Stratovarius inheritance? After Tuomo Lassila, the next ex-Strato member to join Timo Tolkki's Avalon's line-up for the second album is Antti Ikonen. The band's site states: "The original keyboard player of Stratovarius Antti Ikonen has joined the line up of Avalon. He played all keyboards on the classic Stratovarius albums such as Fright Night, Twilight Time, Dreamspace and Fourth Dimension."

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Chicago thrashers Diamond Plate recently teamed up with director Lester Cohn (Mastodon, Neil Young, Chevelle) to shoot a video for the song "Dance With Reality" off the band's second album Pulse, available now via Earache/Century Media Records. The result is now available for your viewing pleasure right here. Do you like?

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Empyrios released a new album this year called Zion. If you never heard of these Italians, you can watch their new video now and get to know them. The band's vocalist Silvio Mancini conceived, filmed and edited this video from scratch for the track "Domino". The song is taken from their latest album out on Scarlet Records. Enjoy it here.

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Spirit Caravan is an American stoner/doom metal band from the late 90s formed by guitarist/vocalist Scott "Wino" Weinrich, bassist Dave Sherman and drummer Gary Isom. The group has now reunited and will be among the headliners for Desertfest both in Berlin and London in 2014. This will be their first live appearance in over a decade.

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Canadians Helix have set Bastard Of The Blues as the title of their new album, tentatively due in March next year. Helix released the Skin In The Game EP in 2011 and their last full-length was Vagabond Bones in 2009.

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Riot have a new vocalist. The American band lost their founding member/guitarist Mark Reale last year but announced they were working on a new album earlier this year. Now they have announced Todd Michael Hall as their new singer and will carry on the Riot legacy.

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