US metallers Wretched are pleased to announce that they will embark on a headlining tour of the eastern and central United States this coming August. Joining them on tour will be the following bands: Abiotic, Allegaeon, and Rivers Of Nihil. The tour will begin on August 2nd in Winston-Salem, NC, and wraps up on August 31st in Lake Worth, FL. Check the complete list of confirmed dates below.

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The new album from Rosetta is really happening. The group has made a series of announcements including that the full-length will be titled The Anaesthete and will be available as a pay-what-you-wish digital download on August 8th. The band is tracking it with Andrew Schneider at Studio G Brooklyn from July 1st-11th, and self-releasing it online. The artwork for the release is by Jordan Butcher/Work of Self and Ryan Clark of Invisible Creature. Also, the band will not be releasing the album on CD. Rosetta will also be supporting KEN Mode on tour in August.

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Adrenaline Mob are still drummerless after the recent departure of Mike Portnoy but that doesn't seem to be stopping the band as it has been announced that they have been hard at work writing the next Adrenaline Mob album and will in fact enter the studio late summer, early fall to begin tracking the new release. Furthermore, Adrenaline Mob have been added as the opening act for Avenged Sevenfold at the LaCrosse Center Arena on July 16th in LaCrosse, Wisconsin.

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Thrashers Savage Messiah have confirmed plans to enter the studio on July 1st to begin recording their as-yet untitled new studio album. The band will be working on the follow-up to 2012's Plague Of Conscience with producer Scott Atkins (Sylosis, Behemoth) at Grindstone Studios in Suffolk, having already worked with him on the band's last two albums.

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California's heavy metal act Huntress will release their second album Starbound Beast on June 28th in Europe and July 2nd in North America via Napalm Records, and recently Huntress premiered online the brand new track "Blood Sisters" for your listening pleasure. You can listen to the new song over here and headbang.

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Michael Monroe (ex-Hanoi Rocks) has revealed the album artwork for his new studio outing, Horns And Halos. The cover art is based on an idea from Swedish guitarist Dregen, who features in Michael's current touring and recording line-up. You can take a look at it below. Horns And Halos is the follow-up to 2011's Sensory Overdrive and will be released on Spinefarm Records.

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Attention progheads, Haken have announced the title of their new and third album and it is: The Mountain. You can expect the new opus to hit stores on September 2nd through their new label InsideOut Music. There is still a lot of waiting around to do, but hopefully we will get to hear new material soon. The band also posted an image on their Facebook page but didn't really reveal if it would be the album cover or not.

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Hungarian black metallers Sear Bliss have been quiet lately but 2013 will be an important year for the band, this being their 20th anniversary. It will be celebrated with a huge show in Budapest at the end of the year. In a recent update, it was also revealed that the band started writing new songs for their upcoming album and you can expect it to differ a lot compared to the previous one, Eternal Recurrence.

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UPDATE: Now it is not just the one song available, the entire Amon Amarth's Deceiver Of The Gods album is currently available for streaming for a limited time over here or at this location. So, you better hurry before it disappears.

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Shining has joined forces with Dark Essence Records for a special release. The label will release an album with different Shining songs that hark back to an earlier era for the band. Rather than simply reissuing the original tracks, Shining decided not only to re-record the songs, but re-record them using a number of different vocalists. The album, which will be available in both CD and LP versions will be titled 8 ½ - Feberdrömmar I Vaket Tillstånd and will be unleashed in September this year.

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Shortly after their latest announcement, another update about the new ReVamp album Wild Card has been posted on the band's Facebook page. This time it was revealed the full tracklist and guest musicians on the opus, which will be released on August 23rd via Nuclear Blast.

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Power metallers Masterplan have announced European dates for their upcoming Novum Initium Tour 2013 which is set to start in October in support of their recently released new album. Other than the headliners Masterplan, you will be able to see Mystic Prophecy, Jaded Heart, Siren's Cry and Sebastien depending on the dates. Check out a message from Roland Grapow on the video below.

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"Are You Done With Me", the new video from Dutch female-fronted symphonic metallers Delain, has been released and can be seen below. The song comes off the band's special release Interlude which was released in May via their label Napalm Records. The video was recorded at the FortaRock festival.

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Brazilian depressive black metal band Thy Light will release the album No Morrow Shall Dawn possibly later this year. It will be the band's first full-length release after the 2007 demo Suici.De.pression. Even though not much more is know about the album, the band confirmed that it is complete and the cover artwork has now been unveiled. You can see it below.

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Indonesian epic power metallers Lord Symphony have been officially announced as nominees for the Best Metal Artist category at Indonesian biggest music awards Anugerah Musik Indonesia (AMI) Awards 2013. Lord Symphony was voted as the top 5 bands by the judges of AMI Awards 2013.

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