Here's something that might interest Neurosis fans. It's a new band called Mirrors For Psychic Warfare, the latest collaboration between Neurosis' Scott Kelly and producer/engineer Buried At Sea's Sanford Parker, which is now available through the Neurot Recordings Store. Their unsettling, ambient self-titled debut album can be streamed in full here. Discover the album and give us your impressions.

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This year, progressive death metallers Black Crown Initiate will finally release their second album, following 2014's The Wreckage Of Stars. The new offering is called Selves We Cannot Forgive and features artwork by Travis Smith/Seempieces. You can feast your eyes on it now as you wait to hear the music.

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Headbangers Ball is a name that bears heavy metal nostalgia and it will come to life again! By the end of this year, MTV's classic 80's show shall return as a series of events. MTV Headbangers Ball, hosted by Continental Concerts in cooperation with MTV, is going to tour Europe. Headlining this festival tour will be U.S. metal gods Iced Earth, currently working on a new album. Who will be joining them? Ensiferum, Kataklysm and Unearth. It should be a headbangers feast!

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After sharing the well-received "The House Of Shame" song previously, Italian metallers Lacuna Coil give us now more material to enjoy from their upcoming album, Delirium. This time around, they are showcasing the title track and new single, available below. While the band is kicking off their new touring cycle in North America, they will be playing select festivals worldwide before heading to Australia for four shows in October.

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The awaited new album from death metallers Katalepsy is called Gravenous Hour. While it is only coming out this May 27th on Unique Leader Records, today you can be hit by the first aural assault "Critical Black Mass". It is available through a lyric video right here. Sit back, relax your neck and enjoy some brutality.

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As of now, you can stream the entire new Diamond Head album online. The self-titled release is their first new offering in nine years and the heavy metallers are streaming it in full over here, as it drops today, April 22nd, via Dissonance Productions. Diamond Head are back fueled by their new singer Rasmus Bom Andersen. What do you think of the album?

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New music alert! There is a new Gojira tune available, at last. The French metallers promised a new song soon and here it is. The first song released online from the forthcoming heavy record Magma, and first in four years, is called "Stranded". The group made a video for it, directed by Vincent Caldoni. Also, they revealed the album cover. The wait is over. Give it a spin below.

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Today is the day, Candlemass fans! You get to listen to a brand new song from the epic doom metal kings. The track is taken from their 30th anniversary EP, Death Thy Lover, which features four studio tracks with Mats Levén on vocals and is set for a June 3rd release on Napalm Records. The title track is available for your listening pleasure on the video below.

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Tarja has shared new music. Leading up to the release of not only one but two upcoming new studio albums by Tarja in June and August, the first official music video for her single "No Bitter End" has premiered online. "No Bitter End", the opening track of the prequel album The Brightest Void, is the first glimpse on Tarja's heaviest album to date. The video clip was shot in Nuremberg, Germany, and you can see the result below.

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A new Virus song? It is here! The Norwegian experimental avantgardists have just debuted the first brand new track off of Memento Collider, their first new album in 5 years. Their fourth full-length drops on Karisma Records this 3rd of June and was recorded at the Amper Tone Studios in Oslo. "Steamer" is the first 7-minute piece of the puzzle that you can hear, so go ahead and enjoy it here.

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After paving the way with tours with HammerFall and Gamma Ray in 2015 and the release of their successful debut album, As Daylight Breaks, power metallers Serious Black are busy working on songs for their upcoming second album. The band has now also unveiled the dates for their upcoming first headlining tour. The support acts will be Sinbreed and Hammerschmitt. See the dates below if you want to catch them live.

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Nightmare are working on a new album! Two years after they released The Aftermath, the French power metallers are holed up at Noise Factory Studio forging their newest creation. The metallers promise that they will share pics of the recording process and more album details while fans wait.

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Norwegian metallers The Wretched End are about to release their third album, In These Woods, From These Mountains. If you are up for some quality extreme metal, check out their new offering in full on the video below. It has been nearly four years since new sounds have emerged from the fiery studio alliance of former Emperor/Zyklon guitarist Samoth, Mindgrinder/Windir guitarist/vocalist Cosmo, and Dark Funeral drummer Nils "Dominator" Fjellstrom.

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Russia hasn't exactly been very friendly to certain metal bands, including Cannibal Corpse, Behemoth and more recently, Batushka as well. The latest victim was Belphegor, more specifically frontman Helmuth "Hel" Lehner who was spat on and attacked by a Christian Orthodox activist, Anatoly Artyukhov, at the airport in St. Petersburg in Russia. Belphegor arrived for a tour with Nile and Melechesh. You can watch the incident on the video below, where Nile's Karl Sanders helped calm down the situation.

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To commemorate the 25th anniversary of his landmark 1990 album, Passion And Warfare, Steve Vai has announced he will be embarking on a very special world tour celebrating the breakthrough record, regarded as one of the greatest instrumental rock guitar recordings of all time. For the first time, Vai will be performing the entire Passion And Warfare record from top to bottom, with some very special surprises in store. You'd better not miss it!

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