After much teasing, the newly founded heavy metal trio Ashes Of Ares, Matt Barlow (ex-Iced Earth), Van Williams (ex-Nevermore) and Freddie Vidales (ex-Iced Earth), has presented the first fruits of their labor in the form of the first song from their forthcoming debut album Ashes Of Ares. You can enjoy the lyric video for "Dead Man's Plight" below. Does this new project sound promising?

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Finland's progressive melodic death metal outfit Barren Earth has parted ways with their vocalist Mikko Kotamäki due to conflicting schedules. As stated by the band, it was done by mutual agreement with "absolutely no drama involved" and the band will continue to work on new material while looking for someone to fill in his shoes.

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Legendary British metallers Venom will unleash a new beast next year or in other words, a new album. The group has posted an update on their official website revealing that they are currently in the studio adding the final touches to the follow-up to Fallen Angels (2011). The album is planned to be released through Spinefarm Records in early 2014.

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Do you want to hear a new song from Debauchery? Well, now you can because the death metallers have released the song "Demonslayer" from their upcoming new album Kings Of Carnage, which will drop on August 2nd through Massacre Records.

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Progressive metallers Distorted Harmony have released a live clip from their last year's performance at ProgStage festival in Israel. The clip features the band performing "Blue" from their debut album Utopia which was released last year. If you never heard of the band or are just curious, check out the video below.

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Armed For Apocalypse have recently posted online a special live clip shot at EMG Studios which marks the first in a three-part in-studio performance series, hosted by EMG Pickups. The song "Better Worlds" comes courtesy of the band's impending new album The Road Will End, set to drop in North America via Ironclad Recordings on July 23rd, 2013 and one day earlier in Europe. You can watch the video below and hear a new song from the band.

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Bay Area veteran thrashers Death Angel's upcoming new album is one step closer to completion as its mixing process has already been completed. The mastering will start on Monday and it will be released in October via Nuclear Blast Records. The band promises to reveal the title, tracklist and more in the near future about the follow-up to Relentless Retribution.

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After spending the last few months recording their second album, Danish sludgers Rising have recently updated fans and revealed that Abominor will be the title of the new album. On the downside, Jacob Johansen and Henrik Hald have also left the band leaving Jacob Krogholt apprehensive about the future of the band. To Solemn Ash, their last album, was released in 2011.

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Another metal band bites the dust. This time, Swedish death metallers Coldworker have announced the end of the band having released three full-length studio albums: The Contaminated Void, Rotting Paradise and The Doomsayer's Call. The band members will not stop making music, so you will probably find them in other bands now.

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Folk/black metallers Kartikeya have been preparing the successor to Mahayuga (2011). The band is currently recording their new opus to be called Samudra and have released a medley of the new album. You can get a foretaste of the new sounds on the video below. The video contains riffs from all songs from the upcoming Kartikeya album performed by Arsafes.

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Recently, we found out about Ghost Ship Octavius, the new band featuring ex-Arch Enemy guitarist Christopher Amott, current God Forbid guitarist Matt Wicklund, ex-Nevermore drummer Van Williams, bassist Sara Claudius, and 17-year-old vocalist Adōn Fanion. Today the band has released a little preview of what is to come. You can now watch a short clip of Christopher Amott and Matt Wicklund playing some of the guitar solos during the pre-production process. Of course this is just a teaser with music in the background to whet your appetite, but you can expect more soon.

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"Cancer Demon", the brand new video from the Norwegian heavy metal singer Jorn, can be seen below. The song comes off his new album Traveller which was officially released on June 11th in North America and June 14th in Europe via Frontiers Records. This is the second video released for the new album.

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Manowar have released more previews from their upcoming live EP The Lord Of Steel Live, which features performances from the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Russia and Sweden and highlights of their The Lord Of Steel World Tour. Now you can hear a preview of the live songs "Thunder In The Sky" (recorded in Milan, Italy) and ''The Lord Of Steel'' (recorded in Frankfurt, Germany) which are available below.

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German thrashers Sodom have cancelled their show in India due to "solid problems". Well, that is not vague at all. This would be the band's first performance in India.

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Jordanian doom/death metallers Chalice Of Doom have recently posted online a new lyric video for the song "Shame, Written In Blood", taken from their new album Into Hypnagogia. The video was created by Hussam Al Khawaldeh and the track features the legendary Swedish vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Roger "Rogga" Johansson (The 11th Hour, Paganizer, Ribspreader, ex-Edge Of Sanity. Check it out below.

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