The wait is over: Broken Crown Halo, the latest effort by Lacuna Coil, has been released via Century Media Records today in most of Europe and Australia/New Zealand. The whole album is available for streaming in full at this location.

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Rejoice DragonForce fans, since the band's new album, the follow-up to the successful The Power Within, has now been detailed. The album will be called Maximum Overload and it will be the band's debut album for new label earMUSIC, which will release it in the UK on August 18th, and it drops in the USA on Metal Blade Records on August 19th. DragonForce is also streaming a demo of a new track, "Defenders" (featuring Matt Heafy), which you can listen to below.

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After revealing their forthcoming album details, Italian symphonic power metallers Ancient Bards are streaming the first samples off their third album A New Dawn Ending, to be released on April 25th in Europe and Japan, and June 10th in North America via Limb Music. Listen to the excerpts below. Do they sound promising?

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Anxious to hear the latest Gamma Ray album, Empire Of The Undead? Wait no more, since the band is streaming the album in full now on YouTube. Moreover, you will find an interview with mastermind Kai Hansen, divided into 7 mini-videos. Listen to the full album here and tell us your thoughts about it.

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The upcoming Arch Enemy album is now taking shape. Century Media has just unveiled the tracklist and cover artwork of War Eternal, the band's first with new singer Alissa White-Gluz. The band has already shot a video with the new singer, for the title track "War Eternal". Below you can see the album cover. One clue: pigs.

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A new song off Sabaton's upcoming release Heroes is online: we're talking about the Wild West influenced "To Hell And Back", for which the band has just released a lyric video. Heroes, the band's first album with the new line-up, will be released on May 16th via Nuclear Blast Records. Listen to the new song here below.

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The new Edguy album, Space Police - Defenders Of The Crown, will be released on April 18th via Nuclear Blast Records. Now Tobias Sammet and his crew are releasing a new single, for the track "Love Tyger". The single is now available on most digital platforms. The group also released an excerpt of another album track, "Defenders Of The Crown". Check it out below.

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Canadian up-and-coming proggers Intervals have just released a new video, for the previously released single "The Escape". Enjoy it below. The track is off the band's debut album A Voice Within, recently released on March 4th.

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Timo Tolkki's Avalon's new opus, Angels Of The Apocalypse, will drop on May 16th in Europe and May 20th in North America via Frontiers Records. After revealing the full album details and the all-star line-up, Timo is now sharing with fans a new trailer of the upcoming album. In this video, we can see an interview with Tolkki himself and hear snippets of two tracks, sung by Fabio Lione (Rhapsody Of Fire) and Floor Jansen (Nightwish, ReVamp).

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Power metal veterans Gamma Ray are ready to release their new album, Empire Of The Undead, that will hit the stores on March 28th via earMUSIC. Now the band is sharing with fans the album's opening track, "Avalon". It is a nine-minute beast. Enjoy it below now!

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Five Finger Death Punch are premiering a new music video for their cover of the classic track "The House Of The Rising Sun" found in the album The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell - Volume 2, released in November 2013. Enjoy it below.

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Another lyric video off Lascaille's Shroud's latest album, Interval 02: Parallel Infinities - The Abscinded Universe, is now online. After "Awakened: Not Even Remembered By The Dust Of Stars" and "Disenthralled: Into The Bulk", the track chosen this time is "Transcience: A Moment For Our Eternity". Enjoy the video below.

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The upcoming Ancient Bards album, A New Dawn Ending, is being detailed piece by piece. After revealing fans the first info about it, the Italian band is now sharing the cover artwork, created by renowned artist Felipe Machado Franco (Rhapsody Of Fire, Blind Guardian, Luca Turilli's Rhapsody).

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As already announced, Italian folk metallers Elvenking have released their new single "Elvenlegions" off their upcoming album The Pagan Manifesto. The album, that will be released on May 9th via AFM Records, will be featuring Amanda Somerville in one of the songs. But before that, you can listen to "Elvenlegions" on the Soundcloud player below.

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Sonata Arctica's new album, Pariah's Child, will hit the stores on March 28th via Nuclear Blast Records, and now the band announces the third single off the album. After "The Wolves Die Young" and "Cloud Factory", the song chosen is now the ballad "Love". The single is now available as a limited, signed digipak version from the official Sonata Arctica webshop.

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