Diabolical death/black metal outfit Belphegor will make their long overdue return to North American shores with a headlining tour this fall. Joining them on their trek dubbed the Voices From The Dark Tour 2014 are the Greek masters Rotting Christ as well as Beheaded from Malta and Svart Crown from France. Not bad, right?

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Dutch necromantic death metal act Antropomorphia are ready to unleash their new album Rites Ov Perversion. In fact, the album is set for release on September 12th on CD and LP in Europe, and on CD and digitally in North America on September 16th on Metal Blade Records. For now, you can check out the cover art and tracklist below and stream the first single "Nekrovaginal Secretions" here. How is the successor to Evangelivm Nekromantia sounding so far?

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The release of black metallers Nachtmystium's final album is right around the corner. So, it seems like a good time to share a brand new song. The first single from The World We Left Behind is called "Tear You Down" and it is available for your listening pleasure right here. Tell us what you think about it. Is it what you were expecting from Nachtmystium?

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And now some good news for Khold fans. After a period of 6 years of silence, Norway's exponents of black metal are back with a new album, Til Endes, set for release on the 29th of September (30th September in the US) on Peaceville Records. Khold will be making a special performance at the Brutal Assault festival in August and a new promo video will also soon be revealed. You just have to wait a little bit more now.

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Primus is back and stranger than ever with their new studio album, Primus & The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble, a tribute to the weird and wonderful world of Willy Wonka that hits shelves on October 21st on ATO Records and is available for pre-order now. Below, you can listen to Primus' rework of "Pure Imagination". Anyone else thinks this will be delicious?

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Like with Hellfest Open Air 2014, several performances of this year's Wacken Open Air 2014 will be streamed live. The annual Wacken Open Air celebrates its 25th Anniversary this year at Wacken, in Germany. For those who missed the chance to grab a ticket for the three-day event, there will be live streams available online. Not everything is lost. You can sit back, relax and enjoy some of the concerts in the next few days.

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Event:	Wacken Open Air 2014

While fans were pleased to hear Minsk's hiatus ended last year, they will be even more pleased to know that the post-metal band has entered the studio to begin work on their new full-length record and first in over 5 years. After a two-year hiatus, "the band has been reinvigorated and has written their most ambitious material to date." The album is being recorded at Earth Analog studios outside of Champaign, Illinois throughout July/August and produced by long-time collaborator Sanford Parker. The as-of-yet untitled album will see an early 2015 release via Relapse Records.

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Formed by guitarist Paul Allender (previously of Cradle Of Filth), White Empress debut full-length album, titled Rise Of The Empress, is set for release on Peaceville Records on September 29th. The album was recorded in their studio and has been mixed and mastered by veteran producer, Kit Woolven (Thin Lizzy, Cradle Of Filth). You can hear what the band has to offer by watching their video for the track "Darkness Encroaching" below.

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Last year, legendary progressive rockers Spock's Beard released their latest album Brief Nocturnes And Dreamless Sleep to much critical acclaim. The band has now announced further European tour dates supporting the album, following last year's jaunt with Sound Of Contact and Beardfish. The full list of dates can be found below, and support at all shows comes from The Sixxis. Good news then!

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Eluveitie have announced a special online stream of their entire forthcoming album Origins, which has already started. The band will be uploading the album track by track starting with the first one. Once each track has received 1000 plays, it will unlock the next track and so on. The more fans share each track with their friends, the faster the album will be unlocked for all to hear in its entirety! So, that seems like a cool idea. The songs are currently streaming here and the first seven songs have been unlocked, as of now. Pretty soon, all of them will be available for you to enjoy.

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At the beginning of the year, Scar Symmetry announced the concept of their upcoming trilogy of albums. At the time, the melodic death metal band shared what we now know will be the album cover for the first part of the trilogy. The Swedes are set to release their new album and successor to 2011's The Unseen Empire this fall. The new creation called The Singularity (Phase 1 - Neohumanity) will be out on October 3rd (Europe), October 6th (UK & France) and October 14th (US) 2014 via Nuclear Blast.

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Industrial metallers Ministry have recently launched the Ministry Mondays series where they offer weekly free downloads. Each Monday the band will post a song from their From Beer To Eternity remix album in the same order as on the album. Following that, they will also continue the series with remixes of material from their Relapse album. This week we have "Permawar" which you can download at this location. You can download the MP3 version but there is also a link to the full 320 experience.

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The lineup and running order for the massive Southwest Terror Fest III has been finalized and announced. If you haven't heard about this fest, this is your chance. It will happen in Tucson, Arizona from October 16th through 19th. With four nights of action between both the historic Rialto Theatre for the main stage events, and nearby The District Tavern for the kickoff and after-shows, the third installment of Southwest Terror Fest promises to be interesting. As for the bands that will be performing, check out the list below.

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Event:	Southwest Terror Fest 2014

KEN Mode seem to tour non-stop and now they have announced another short North American trek. The Canadians have also premiered a video for the track "The Promises Of God" which is taken from their latest album, Entrench. The North American tour starts on August 29th and will bookend their forthcoming appearance at the 2014 edition of the Hopscotch Festival. A list of confirmed tour dates can be found below as well as their new video.

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Bay Area metallers Machine Head continue their live domination of North America with the announcement of a 21-show U.S. and Canadian trek in support of their debut studio album for Nuclear Blast Entertainment, which is due out this fall. With a strong and diverse line-up that features support from Finnish powerhouse Children Of Bodom and Dutch symphonic metallers Epica with American melodic death/thrash openers Battlecross, the tour launches on October 4th in Denver, Colorado and includes five Canadian cities before closing out in Hollywood, California on November 1st. Are you planning to check out this tour?

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