Jolly have just announced their new album! The progressive metallers have named it Family because it is dedicated to their fans. While the follow-up to the brilliant The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 1) and The Audio Guide To Happiness (Part 2) will be released next year, the group is giving you the opportunity to listen to it as they create it. You can already get 3 new songs plus one bonus track right now.

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Symphonic death metal masters Fleshgod Apocalypse have some news about their new album. They have just revealed the cover artwork that will grace the upcoming album King. This artwork was created by acclaimed contemporary artist Eliran Kantor (Testament, Iced Earth, Kataklysm, Hatebreed) and it's quite majestic. See it for yourself below.

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Bloodway's Romanian guitarist and vocalist as well as renowned artist Costin Chioreanu has released a charity album to help the victims of the recent Bucharest fire, a tragedy that resulted in more than 50 deaths including the two guitarists, bassist and drummer of the band who was performing, Goodbye To Gravity. Only the vocalist of the band survived with burns and injuries from smoke inhalation. Costin decided to help and his small contribution is a compilation entitled The Quest For A Morning Star. All proceeds from the sales will be donated to help with medical bills and funeral expenses of those who have been affected by the fire. Get the compilation here.

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Lamb Of God is currently touring in Europe and sadly, the experience in Dublin wasn't a pleasant one for frontman Randy Blythe. He was attacked in Dublin by a gang of teenagers on Sunday night as he explained via Instagram. The vocalist said this happened while taking late night camera shots of the Samuel Beckett Bridge. He was in Dublin for a gig with Megadeth, Children Of Bodom and Sylosis at the 3Arena, which took place on Monday.

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Your daily fix of thrash metal is here courtesy of Vektor! The Philadelphia tech band is releasing their new album Terminal Redux on March 11th 2016, we now know too. While their previous record, Outer Isolation, came out in 2011, the group took their sweet time with this one. However, the first single has arrived and it's called "Ultimate Artificer". Drop everything and take the plunge now here!

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2016 will be a big year for proggers Headspace. The band featuring Damian Wilson (Threshold) and Adam Wakeman (Ozzy Osbourne, Snakecharmer) have announced they will release their second album All That You Fear Is Gone on 26th February 2016 through their label Inside Out Music to follow the magnificent debut I Am Anonymous.

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And the new Katatonia drummer is... Daniel "Mojjo" Moilanen! He will replace long-time drummer Daniel Liljekvist, who left the Swedes last year, as a new permanent drummer. You might know Daniel from several bands such as The Project Hate MCMXCIX, Runemagick, Lord Belial and Engel, among others. As you know, the band is releasing a new album next year, and today they also entered Studio Gröndahl with engineer Karl Daniel Lidén to commence the recording of their 10th album.

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Obscura are finally releasing a new album and the details are out in the open. Their highly-anticipated fourth full-length album is to be called Akroasis and is due out on February 5th, 2016 via Relapse Records. The aptly-named 'Akroasis' (Greek for "hearing" or "listening") draws on all the various elements of Obscura's signature sound and combines those qualities into a mind-blowing and cohesive whole. Watch a trailer here for the record that includes four minutes of new music via YouTube.

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It's time to destroy your ears or give them pleasure, depending on what rocks your boat. As you know, Dragged Into Sunlight and Gnaw Their Tongues have joined forces in a new collaboration called N.V.. Brace yourself for a journey into the bleakest depths of humanity by listening to the entire piece today prior to its worldwide release this Friday via Prosthetic Records. Enjoy the pain here.

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The German wolves in Powerwolf have announced more tour dates for next year. They have been touring a lot to promote their newest album Blessed & Possessed and their Wolfsnächte tour is almost over. The Blessed & Possessed Tour 2016 will cover most of the countries they haven't visited in depth with the Wolfsnächte tour. Go celebrate with the band! Also, supports on these shows will be announced soon.

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Last year, Emperor announced their Complete Works vinyl box set, spanning the black metallers entire career. The box set will be the first time their works have been remastered specifically for vinyl and presented as special editions. It will be released by Finnish label Blood Music which has started revealing its contents now. Emperor's The Complete Works will be a 24-LP, one 7", and one book box set. The public pre-order date for the box set is slated to begin on December 9th, 2015.

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You might have heard of Metal Allegiance before. It's a new metal supergroup which has just released its debut self-titled album. It features an all-start line-up with drummer Mike Portnoy, guitarist Alex Skolnick and bassists David Ellefson and Mark Menghi, plus a huge array of guest musicians from the metal world. Never heard of them? Check out their new lyric video for the song "Scars" featuring Mark Osegueda of Death Angel and Cristina Scabbia of Lacuna Coil.

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In Flames have lost another long-time member of the group. Drummer Daniel Svensson quits the Swedish band to spend more time with his family. The metallers are currently touring in Europe and that will be his final tour. He will dedicate himself to a brewery soon and focus on his family life. Who will be the new guy behind the drumkit? We will have to wait and see.

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Bad Brains have asked their fans to pray for guitarist Dr. Know who is reportedly on life support in the hospital. Gary Miller is seriously unwell but details are pretty scarce at this point. The band's most recent album was 2012's Into The Future and Gary Miller is one of the founding members of the veterans.

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Are you ready for new SikTh material? You'd better be because their first new song in 9 long years is here. Their brand new mini album Opacities is due for release on December 4th in Europe via Peaceville Records. You can expect news on the North America release soon enough. Meanwhile, check out the new song from the math/prog metallers, "Philistine Philosophies," for which they did a video. The clip was directed and edited by the band's own Mikee W Goodman.

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