High On Fire have been booked for Roadburn 2013. The sludge metal trio will play two exclusive sets for Roadburn. Thursday, April 18th, will feature their debut full length The Art Of Self Defense in its entirety.

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Band profile:	High On Fire
Event:	Roadburn Festival 2013

Australian extreme metallers Portal have been hard at work crafting their new album, which the band revealed now is due to hit the stores on February 19th, 2013 under Profound Lore. It has been nearly three years since the release of their previous effort Swarth.

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Arthur von Nagel - bassist, lyricist and vocalist of Cormorant has left the band to pursue a career in video games. Arthur, who is also one of the founding members of the extreme progressive metal band, detailed his reasons for leaving in a lengthy post which read:

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Band profile:	Cormorant

Due to delays in securing visas, gothenburg outfit Scar Symmetry will not be headlining their North American tour this year as had been earlier expected. The tour dubbed The Unseen Empire was to feature Threat Signal, Stealing Axion and Lord Of War.

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A while ago, Devin Townsend asked fans to submit videos for a future official video of the song "Lucky Animals". Today we get to see the result of that project in what might be the silliest video ever. "Lucky Animals" is of course taken from the band's latest record Epicloud, released in September by InsideOut.

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Canadian death metallers Cryptopsy have unveiled the new song "Boden", which is now available for streaming below. The song is from 2011 and will be featured on the band's best of collection The Best Of Us Bleed. "Boden" is one of three unreleased studio tracks only available on this release. This collection was released yesterday in Europe and is coming up on November 19th, 2012 in North America courtesy of Century Media.

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The Finns Children Of Bodom have called off their appearance at next summer's Tuska Open Air in Helsinki, Finland. This time, however, it has nothing to do with Alexi Laiho. The band will give priority to a big US tour.

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Band profile:	Children Of Bodom

Finnish metallers Eternal Tears Of Sorrow have announced that their seventh album will be titled Saivon Lapsi. It will be released early next year. Before that, the brand new single (as well as the music video) "Swan Saivo" will be released. More details will be unveiled a bit later. Meanwhile, you can see the tracklist below.

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Band profile:	Eternal Tears Of Sorrow

Stoner legends Corrosion Of Conformity release today a free a five-track EP courtesy of Scion A/V titled Megalodon. The EP features the original three-piece lineup of guitarist Woody Weatherman, bassist Mike Dean and drummer Reed Mullin. You can now listen to and download the new tracks over here.

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Canadian blackened death metal act Xul has posted online the band's debut album Malignance for streaming for free and download at their Bandcamp here. The album is also available at the band's YouTube channel. Malignance was released on June 16th. Go ahead and explore.

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Today is your chance to listen to the entire Devolved album which is available for streaming below. Reprisal is due out in seven days time - November 20th via Unique Leader Records.

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Metal Storm has a new feature for each Monday. We're pleased to be working together with the guys from the Visions From The Darkside radio show to bring you a weekly metal radio show.

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Shall we thrash? German thrashers Destruction have just premiered a new video for the song "Carnivore". The song will appear on their upcoming beast Spiritual Genocide, which should hit stores on November 23rd via Nuclear Blast. This album marks the band's 30th anniversary.

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Funeral doom metallers Wijlen Wij have updated on the band's current activities and divulged that they are working on a new album. The band also announced that bassist Stijn Van Cauter has decided to leave the band.

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Band profile:	Wijlen Wij

German melodic metal outfit Mourning Caress is currently looking for a new singer, as founding member Gerrit Mohr decided to quit due to private reasons.

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