Two years after they released their latest opus Habitual Levitations (Instilling Words With Tones), Intronaut are entering the studio again. The band has begun work on what will become their 5th full length album and the record will be recorded with Josh Newell (Cynic) with none other than Devin Townsend handling the mixing. They promise "more dense and brutal" songs this time around.

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Here is your chance to hear a brand new song from Veil Of Maya's upcoming album Matriarch. The American deathcore unit has unveiled a brand new track called "Teleute" which is streaming below! How is the follow-up to 2012's Eclipse sounding to you so far? And how do you like the new vocalist Lukas Magyar?

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Slayer have just been confirmed as the headliners for this year's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival, the self-proclaimed world's biggest heavy music touring festival. The festival enters its eighth year with Slayer, who recently completed their new album, headlining the shows. Additional performances from King Diamond, Hellyeah, and The Devil Wears Prada will round off the Rockstar Energy Drink Main Stage. The Victory Records Stage will feature Whitechapel, Thy Art Is Murder, Jungle Rot, Sister Sin, Sworn In, Shattered Sun, Feed Her To The Sharks, Code Orange, and Kissing Candice.

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Accept have faced line-up changes at end of last year when guitarist Herman Frank and drummer Stefan Schwarzmann decided to leave the heavy metal band. Now they finally introduce the new members that join their ranks. Uwe Lulis (ex-Grave Digger) is their new guitarist and Christopher Williams will be behind the drum kit.

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Another Roadburn festival has passed and the next one is happening between April 14th-17th 2016 in Tilburg, The Netherlands. Two years ago, Les Discrets played a celebrated concert there, which has been recorded and is now set for release (LP, CD, digital) on June 5th via Prophecy Productions. Live At Roadburn features 8 live tracks and is the first live album of Les Discrets. All the details you need to know are available below.

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After the recordings began for Symphony X's next musical offering last year, the good news now is that the album is completed! Hopefully, soon we will be able to get our hands on the new progressive metal creation from the group now that the mixing and mastering are done. The process was handled by Jens Bogren, who worked with the band on their last two albums, Paradise Lost and Iconoclast.

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The biggest surprise on Metal Storm Awards 2014, Babymetal, just inked a deal with RAL/Sony Music Entertainment for the U.S. release of their 2014 critically acclaimed self-titled debut album. The album's re-release in the U.S. will feature two bonus tracks and it will be available digitally on May 12th and physically on June 16th, followed by releases in Canada and Mexico as well. The Japan-based all-girl-fronted band will also release the album in Europe via earMUSIC.

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Death metallers Vital Remains made the news this week after their vocalist Brian Werner entered an onstage dispute with a club owner at The Haven in Orlando. The video of the incident circulated online (and you can see it below). After seeing a cross hanging at the venue above the stage, Brian Werner removed it, which prompted the club owner to rush to the stage and grab the cross. Allegedly, the woman didn't leave the stage until the show ended. Brian Werner has now released a statement explaining that the club owner assaulted the band, and also security ended up removing them from the venue.

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Here is a treat for TesseracT fans. As the band is about to release their first DVD Odyssey/Scala, the first clip you get to see is the band perform two parts from the revered "Concealing Fate" movement (One). Feast your eyes below on the beauty of "Concealing Fate Part 2 & 3" performed live by the U.K. band.

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And so the teasing begins for Luca Turilli's Rhapsody upcoming album Prometheus, Symphonia Ignis Divinus. The symphonic power metallers have now shared the first album preview, that will give you a foretaste on this big epic coming your way. The first single, entitled "Rosenkreuz (The Rose And The Cross)" will be released on April 24th, 2015, which means you will be able to hear more soon.

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You will do well to remember that at the beginning of this year, Porcupine Tree drummer Gavin Harrison revealed that he would be releasing Cheating The Polygraph on Kscope featuring new arrangements of many of his favourite Porcupine Tree songs, with performances from some of the world's best contemporary jazz players. Well, as of now you can have a taste of this release. Check out the video for "Hatesong/Halo" (the edited version) taken from his upcoming solo album exclusively at this location. Tasteful? Share your thoughts.

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After their acclaimed 2013 album The Formulas Of Death, Tribulation are now releasing The Children Of The Night very soon on April 20th in Europe and April 21st in North America via Century Media Records. In anticipation of this release, the band has now premiered another new tune, namely "The Motherhood Of God" which can be enjoyed fully here. Satisfy your curiosity now. How do you rate the new material from the extreme metallers unveiled so far?

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Michael Denner and Hank Shermann, the original guitar players of Mercyful Fate's legendary Melissa and Don't Break The Oath albums, have created a new classic in the forthcoming EP, Satan's Tomb, coming in 2015 on Metal Blade Records. These songs were crafted with the Mercyful Fate worldwide legion of fans at the forefront of their collective minds. The band is simply called Denner / Shermann and the music for their debut release has been completed and promises to be one of the finest pure classic metal releases of 2015.

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As the release date for The Puritan approaches, Nightrage are getting more generous and have debuted two new songs recently in quick succession. The first of which was "Desperate Vows" and you can listen to that song through the lyric video made by Crystal Light Productions below. But the melodic death metallers have also shared a video clip for the tune "Stare Into Infinity". Despite a few years without releasing a new album, now you have plenty of new tunes to revel in.

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Sirenia have chosen today to share the first song from their new album. As they prepare to unleash The Seventh Life Path unto the world this May, the symphonic metallers give us a first taste and it is the song "Once My Light" which comes in the form of a video. It's only the first song but do you think it sounds promising for the rest of the album?

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