Gamma Ray have released a clip from the upcoming DVD/2CD live release Skeletons & Majesties Live. The clip for "Time To Break Free" (originally from the 1995 studio release Land Of The Free) features former Helloween singer Michael Kiske on guest vocals. The release will come in 2CD, Blu-ray and DVD on November 30th, 2012 through earMUSIC.

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Ghost, Gojira and The Defiled have been announced for next year's Jägermeister Music UK Tour in March 2013. The occult rock group will storm UK shores with Gojira and The Defiled as support. What makes this tour even better is that tickets are just £5.

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Bay Area thrash metal legends Testament are proud to announce their first US headlining tour since their phenomenal chart success with their new album, Dark Roots of Earth, released at the end of July this year via Nuclear Blast. The trek promises to be one of the best thrash metal lineups of the year, with support coming from the world renowned Overkill and Flotsam & Jetsam, as well as Australian thrashers 4ARM.

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Event:	Testament: Dark Roots Of Thrash Tour 2013

"The Devil Made Me Do It", a brand new video from US industrial metallers Scum Of The Earth is now available for viewing below. The song is off the band's latest output The Devil Made Me Do It which came out on August 28th via Goomba Music. The clip was directed by Tim King and produced by Splashdown Media.

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Symphonic metallers Serenity and Visions Of Atlantis will be joining forces for an European tour in March 2013. Both bands also have new albums coming up and Napalm Records promises to reveal more details about them soon. For now, see below a full list of tour dates.

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Vocalist Simone Pluijmers has quit Scottish brutal death metallers Cerebral Bore and has been temporarily replaced by Shawn Whitaker. According to the band, she left less than 24 hours before their US tour.

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Jon Schaffer, the guitarist of Iced Earth, will be featured as guest vocalist on Syrian thrashers Anarchadia's upcoming album Let Us All Unite. Schaffer performs alongside the band's singer Nour on a track entitled "True World Order" which will be available as a free download.

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The fifth studio album from Russian act Stigmatic Chorus will be titled Fanatic and contain nine tracks of symphonic black metal. The concept of the album, written by Dan Sein and Demether Grail, tells the bloody events of old, when American town Nauvoo was plunged into darkness and filled with atmosphere of aggression and religious fanaticism. Fanatic is due for self-released on December 2nd, and the new song "Riot Of The Fools" can now be heard below.

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Having inked a record deal with Napalm Records in August, German power metallers Powerwolf have been busy writing material for their new album. The new album, their first on Napalm Records, will be released in the summer of 2013. The band will be entering studio in January to begin recording the follow up to Blood Of The Saints released last year.

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Turns out Canadian extreme metal outfit Xul is currently writing new material. The band has confirmed that the new material will be a new EP which has been tentatively penned for a 2013 release. This will be the band's second offering in two years. Their first, a debut album entitled Malignance was released in June and is still streaming at this location.

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Tobias Sammet's tour management is currently working on a headlining indoor tour for Avantasia in April. The band will also play a few chosen summer festivals, and a South American and Asian tour is planned for late summer. The actual tour dates will be announced soon.

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Danish metallers Saturnus have announced the live streaming of their upcoming release concert on November 29th 2012 at 22.00 CET. The show will be 2 hours+ and will be hosted through this website. The fee is 4?. Before buying access you will be able to test if the stream can run on your system. For those not able to catch the show, it will be available minimum 1 month after the concert has taken place.

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As if having two Queensrÿches wasn't bizarre enough, now guitarist Glen Drover (ex-Megadeth) decided to leave Geoff Tate's version of Queensrÿche before they hit the road. Remember that announcement where Geoff Tate said that Rudy Sarzo, Bobby Blotzer, Glen Drover, Kelly Gray and Randy Gane would join him on future musical endeavours and tours under the Queensrÿche moniker? Well, Glen Drover is no longer part of that project.

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The line-up for the first-ever Ozzfest Japan 2013, set for May 11th and May 12th, 2013 at the Makuhari Messe arena just outside of Tokyo - keeps getting stronger. Tool, Slash, Deftones and Stone Sour have now been confirmed and will join previously announced headliners Black Sabbath and Slipknot.

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Thrashers Paradox have made available a new song for streaming. You can now listen below to "Escalation", the first taste of what you will find in the new album. The song will appear on the band's new offering Tales Of The Weird, which will come out on December 14th via AFM Records.

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