If you still haven't seen The Amenta live, you better check out one of their upcoming shows because the Australian industrial death metal band has announced that they will not be playing live for the foreseeable future after their already scheduled performances. At this point, the band is also not sure if they will work on new material to follow this year's Flesh Is Heir.

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Broken Hope's newly released Omen Of Disease was their first album in more than ten years and the death metallers don't want to pass on the opportunity to be a bit bloody and gruesome again. In fact, the Chicago act just unleashed a brand new video for "The Flesh Mechanic". The song title is suggestive enough and the video directed by Corey Soria features a cameo from Fear Factory guitarist Dino Cazares and is full of gore. If you are up for it, you can watch it here.

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Folk doom metallers Kauan have just premiered the opening 5 minutes of their crushing new opus titled Pirut (translated as "Devils"). You can get your first taste right here through the Soundcloud widget below. The daunting and beautiful new sounds of "Pirut I" serve as an introduction to the group's fifth full length which will be available for pre-order via Blood Music on October 23rd and is released on December 15th. Pirut is meant to be absorbed as a single 40-minute composition.

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After four years, Killswitch Engage released a new album this year called Disarm The Descent which saw the return of vocalist Jesse Leach to the fold. The band has been touring in support of the new record and today they have released their second video off the album and chose the song "Always". You can enjoy the video directed by Ian McFarland and Mike Pecci below. The band worked with McFarland and Pecci before on the video for "In Due Time".

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German veterans Axel Rudi Pell unveiled today the cover artwork that will grace their new album Into The Storm. The cover is literally a ship facing a storm and you can check it out below. Into The Storm shall be released through SPV/Steamhammer in 2014 on January 17th in Germany, January 20th in Europe and on January 21st in the USA/Canada. The new music is still under wraps for now. All in due time.

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With the upcoming release of their first DVD Live At The End Of The World, Alestorm recently took the opportunity to release a video for their new single "In The Navy", their cover of the Village People classic. The video features behind-the-scenes nonsense from the filming of the DVD, due out on November 15th. You can watch the video and DVD teaser now right here. Silliness ensues...

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UK's own Architects are currently in Gothenburg at Studio Fredman crafting their brand new album. The band just signed to Epitaph Records and also signed deals with UNFD in Australia and New Damage Records in Canada. The follow-up to Daybreaker is penciled for a spring 2014 release. In other news, Architects will be embarking on a European headline tour in support of their new record. These seem exciting times for the band.

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Hate Eternal have some good and bad news to share. The bad news is that drummer Jade Simonetto has left the band to further his education and post-music career. The good news is that the brutal death metallers are currently writing material for the follow-up to Phoenix Amongst The Ashes and are seven songs deep into the process. Hate Eternal is tentatively scheduled to begin recording in the Spring of 2014.

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Progressive/alternative metallers Klone have unveiled a new song from their yet untitled acoustic EP, which was mixed and mastered by the band's saxophonist Matthieu Metzger and will be available as free download later this year via Klonosphere Records. The acoustic version of "Rocket Smoke" can now be enjoyed here.

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If you are thinking "what will I listen to next?", you can always listen to the new Protest The Hero album Volition because the band has made it available online in full and on YouTube. How is the band sounding on their fourth album? Is it better than Scurrilous or Fortress? You can be the judge of that. As for the official release date of the opus, it is set for October 29th.

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Progressive rock supergroup Transatlantic, featuring Mike Portnoy, Neal Morse, Roine Stolt and Pete Trewavas, has recently announced the release of their brand new fourth studio album Kaleidoscope on the 27th of January 2014. The tracklist for the forthcoming record can be found below as well as the groovy artwork. The album will feature five, potentially long and epic, songs. The successor to The Whirlwind is coming.

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The Swedes Amaranthe are going through a line-up change. The band just announced that Andreas Solveström has chosen to step down as the growl vocalist in Amaranthe. His reasons are personal and the split is amicable and friendly, and not the result of any hard feelings. And since the band is not planning to slow down, they have welcomed a new member: Henrik Englund Wilhelmsson (Scarpoint), who filled in for Andy on their latest European and American tour.

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Now that the singer situation is resolved, after Floor Jansen joined the band permanently, Nightwish have released the first full video clip out of their upcoming live release Showtime, Storytime, which hits stores via Nuclear Blast on November 29th. The band chose to release a clip of the song "Storytime" from the latest Imaginaerum opus.

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Tankard's obsession with beer is well-known and that is not going away on their new album, which is already in the works. They are going to call it R.I.B. (Rest In Beer) of all things. The veteran thrashers have a release date planned for summer 2014 via Nuclear Blast.

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Proggers The Flower Kings will release a new album in a couple of weeks called Desolation Rose and the first full track and lyric video from the album is finally here. Prepare your body and listen to "Desolation Road" right here. Inside Out Music will release the Swedes' new album on October 28th.

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