As the release date of their new album approaches, Austrian metallers The Sorrow have released today a new song from Misery Escape for public consumption. Listen to "Burial Bridge" here at the band's Facebook page. Misery Escape will drop on October 26th via Napalm Records.

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Band profile:	The Sorrow

The promoter of ProgPower USA 2013, or prog heaven, has announced that the annual festival's kick off show for 2013 will be held on Thursday September 5th in Atlanta at Center Stage Theater. The headlining act will be Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, with an extended two hour set, along with Circle II Circle, featuring Zak Stevens (Ex-Savatage), who will play a special The Wake Of Magellan set. The opening act will be the excellent up-and-comer Sacramento progressive metal band In The Silence.

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Event:	ProgPower USA XIV

Danish thrashers Essence have signed a worldwide deal with Rock The Nation (Kreator, Exodus, Sabaton) and NoiseArt Records. The band was awarded the deal as part of the Rock The Nation Award 2012.

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Source:	noiseart.cc
Band profile:	Essence

Swedish gothenburg legends Dark Tranquillity will digitally release their Zero Distance EP on October 22nd in North America via Century Media. The songs come from the European tour edition of We Are The Void (2010). Dark Tranquillity is currently working on their 10th studio album, tentatively set for a summer 2013 release via Century Media Records.

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Symphonic power metal act Luca Turilli's Rhapsody has premiered a new music video for the song "Clash Of The Titans". The "Walking Dead Remix" version was directed, edited and filmed by Owe Lingvall (who also created the band's first video for "Dark Fate Of Atlantis") with animations by Magnus Jonsson. You can watch the video below.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Luca Turilli's Rhapsody

Cradle Of Filth have unleashed a new visual creation for their brand new song "Frost On Her Pillow". You can watch their new video directed by Stuart Birchall below. The British metallers will release their new opus The Manticore And Other Horrors at the end of this month, precisely on October 29th in Europe via Peaceville Records and in North America on October 30th via Nuclear Blast Records.

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Band profile:	Cradle Of Filth

The organizers of Brutal Assault have recently announced the first confirmed bands to be featured on next year's festival.

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Source:	brutalassault.cz
Event:	Brutal Assault 2013

Enslaved have premiered a brand new video for the song "Thoughts Like Hammers", the opening track to their twelfth studio album RIITIIR, out now via Nuclear Blast. The visual feast of land, water, sky, and air was directed by Jerome Siegelaer and you can watch it below.

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Band profile:	Enslaved

Gothic metallers Sirenia have recently entered the studio to record the follow-up to their 2011 output The Enigma Of Life.

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Source:	nuclearblast.de
Band profile:	Sirenia

To mark the release of their new opus A Map Of All Our Failures, doom metallers My Dying Bride have released the first four songs on the album which can be streamed here. A Map Of All Our Failures was released in Europe yesterday and hits stores in North America today under Peaceville Records.

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Source:	decibelmagazine.com
Band profile:	My Dying Bride

Finnish power metallers Stratovarius and Swedes Amaranthe are teaming up for a double headline bill for next year's spring. The Nordic Nexus Of Nemesis Tour 2013 will kick off in Munich, Germany, on March 20th, 2013. Check out the confirmed shows below with more to be announced soon.

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Source:	stratovarius.com
Band profile:	Stratovarius

Pig Destroyer will release Book Burner on October 22nd via Relapse Records but the album is already streaming online in its entirety over here. The grindcore band needed five years to release the follow-up to Phantom Limb. Let's just hope it was worth the wait.

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Band profile:	Pig Destroyer

Portuguese doom lords Process Of Guilt have confirmed a string of European tour dates in support of their third album Fæmin, which was recently released via Bleak Records/Division Records. The small run of dates will include an appearance at Dutch Doom Days Festival on October 20th and a performance at Amplifest on October 27th in Portugal along with Ufomammut, Barn Owl and Godspeed You! Black Emperor, among others. See the tour dates below.

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Source:	processofguilt.com
Band profile:	Process Of Guilt

Grindcore group Mastic Scum has announced that their new and fifth studio album will be released in March 2013 via Massacre Records, three years after Dust came out (Twilight Records). The band promises to mix brutal riffs with some experimentation.

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Folk metallers Krampus have announced that drummer Sasha Veselinovic will cover the band's drums position for the Heidenfest tour. He will temporarily replace Carlo Andrian who recently left Krampus after being struck by lightning which will unable him to play the drums for some time. The band will also reveal the official drummer in the upcoming weeks.

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Band profile:	Krampus