Thrash veterans Kreator have announced that they will be recording their upcoming show on December 22nd, 2012 in Oberhausen for a future DVD/Blu-Ray/CD release. This will also be the last show of the tour with Morbid Angel, Nile and Fueled By Fire.

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Source:	kreator-terrorzone.de
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Last month, Shai Hulud announced that they would be releasing their new album Reach Beyond The Sun. Now the band has revealed the first single and title track "Reach Beyond The Sun" off the upcoming opus, which can be streamed below. Reach Beyond The Sun will be released on February 19th in North America, and February 15th/18th in Europe via Metal Blade Records.

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Metal Storm is very excited to offer you an exclusive stream of the song "Alchemy Of Blood" from Polish artist Hate's upcoming album Solarflesh: A Gospel Of Radiant Divinity.

The band revolving around frontman ATF Sinner clads dark visions and nightmares in an aggressive black death metal sound that is brutal and technically ambitious and they will unleash a merciless maelstrom of brutality and impenetrable darkness.

Solarflesh, the follow up to their 2010 album Erebos, will be the bands first release on Napalm Records and will be available on January 30th in Europe and February 5th in North America.

YOU ARE TO LATE ... THE STREAM IS GONE NOW ...

Solarflesh - A Gospel Of Radiant Divinity Tracklist:

01. Watchful Eye Of Doom
02. Eternal Might
03. Alchemy Of Blood
04. Timeless Kingdom
05. Festival Of Slaves
06. Sadness Will Last Forever
07. Solarflesh
08. Endless Purity
09. Mesmerized
10. Hatehammer (limited edition bonus track)
11. Venom (limited editionbonus track)
12. Fall Of All Icons (limited editionbonus track)

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Hate

Legendary Saxon vocalist Peter "Biff" Byford will guest on Avantasia's forthcoming album The Mystery Of Time. He joins Uriah Heep's drummer Russell Gilbrook, producer and guitarist Sascha Paeth and former KISS guitarist Bruce Kulick in the ensemble.

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Source:	tobiassammet.com
Band profile:	Avantasia

Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted has recently revealed that he was fronting a new band that also shares his name. Now the bassist has checked in to let fans know that things are moving along quickly and that his band is close to finishing a new record.

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Folk metallers Finntroll are hard at work in the studio recording their sixth album at Sonic Pump Studios in Helsinki. The successor to Nifelvind and yet untitled album will be released worldwide through Century Media Records in late March 2013. The wait is finally over.

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Back in July, Japanese band Blood Stain Child parted ways with Greek female vocalist Sophia after only one album. The band made an open call, has found a replacement recently and announced Kiki as their new lead singer.

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Black/death metallers Denouncement Pyre have unveiled the details of their upcoming new opus Almighty Arcanum. It will be released by Hells Headbangers on CD/LP and digital on January 22nd, 2013. The tracklist and cover art (created by A. Bouzikov) of the follow-up to the debut World Cremation can be seen below.

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Theocracy have the tradition of releasing a Christmas related song around this time of the year. This time, the band created the single "Wynter Fever", which is now available for streaming on the video below and will also be made available at iTunes.

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Ian Gillan, singer of the legendary hard rockers Deep Purple, spoke exclusively to Classic Rock Magazine, and revealed that the new Deep Purple album, due to be released in April 2013, will feature 13 tracks including "Out Of Hand", "Hell To Pay", "Weirdistan", "Uncommon Man", and "Above And Beyond". The latter song references the band's founding member Jon Lord, who passed away this year, in the lyric: 'Souls having touched are forever entwined.'

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Guitarist Mandy Meyer has officially rejoined Krokus. In the last couple of months, Mandy secretly recorded with the rest of the band their forthcoming new album Dirty Dynamite, which is scheduled to be released at the end of February, 2013.

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Melodic black metallers Netherbird have unveiled the cover that will grace their upcoming third record The Ferocious Tides Of Fate, which is now available below. The Swedish band's successor to 2010's Monument Black Colossal will hit stores next year through Scarecrow Recordings, with the exact release date yet to be announced.

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Spanish metallers L'Endeví have recently released a brand new video for the song "Red Ivy". The video has been directed by Simón Fariza from Terreta Films, and produced by L'Endeví and Terreta Films. It was recorded at different locations and features Beleth, Noctem's vocalist. You can watch it here.

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Huw Lloyd Langton, best known as the former guitarist of rock band Hawkwind, has died, aged 61, after a two-year battle with cancer, the band has announced. He was also a session guitarist for British metallers The Meads Of Asphodel.

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Source:	bbc.co.uk
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Enemy Of The Sun, the international metal band lead by top producer Waldemar Sorychta, are proud to announce Reina Schauff as their new bass player. The four-piece band, which is the follow-up to Sorychta's Grip Inc., is currently holed up in the studio working on their third album. Reina Schauff is no stranger to the Enemy camp as he hails from the band's homebase of Dortmund, Germany.

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