So, Down decided to hang out with witches and make a video. The result can be seen below. Their excuse was the newest sludgy release Down IV Part I - The Purple EP, which is in stores now and "Witchtripper" was the chosen song for the experiment.

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French metallers Gojira have premiered a new live video for their song "Explosia", the opening track off L'Enfant Sauvage, their latest release, available since June via Roadrunner Records. You can watch the video, filmed at New York City's Studio at Webster Hall, at this location and now also below.

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Death metallers Decrepit Birth are going through a tough time. The band was forced to drop from the last few days of the Carnival Of Death Tour with Obituary, Broken Hope, Jungle Rot and Encrust after their rental van was broken into in San Francisco and all of their personal bags with cash, laptop computers, cell phones, passports, and IDs were stolen. Their tour van had caught on fire in Canada and they had to rent a new one, but the worst happened again.

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Canadian thrash metal powerhouse Voivod has just released their brand new single for public consumption. You can listen to "Mechanical Mind" at this location. The song will appear on Voivod's 13th studio album Target Earth, which will come out on January 21st, 2013, throughout Europe and January 22nd in North America under Century Media.

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Helloween, Kreator and Gotthard have just been announced for 70000 Tons Of Metal 2013, the self-proclaimed world's biggest heavy metal cruise.

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Beyond The Bridge have announced today the passing of their keyboardist/guitarist Simon Oberender. However, the cause of his death wasn't disclosed.

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It seems like Vildhjarta is working on a new EP. This will be good news for the ones who enjoyed the debut album Måsstaden the band released last year, which made it to the Metal Storm Awards 2011 nominees. For now, not much is known about this new release but the band has teased with new sounds, which can be heard on the video below titled "Thousands Of Evils".

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The mystery regarding the new singer of TesseracT is finally over. The band announced that Ashe O'Hara has joined the band as vocalist and released a preview of their brand new single Nocturne, the first to feature the new vocalist.

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Stoner metal lords The Sword have released the first song off their forthcoming opus Apocryphon. You can listen to "The Veil Of Isis", the album's opening track, at this location and get a feel of the new album. Razor & Tie will release Apocryphon on October 22nd. More album details were previously reported here.

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Awakened, the new album from metalcore group As I Lay Dying, is officially hitting stores today via Metal Blade Records and is currently streaming online in its entirety here and also over here.

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Avenged Sevenfold have released a new original song titled "Carry On", which is now available for streaming below. The song is already available on iTunes. This new track will also be featured in the soundtrack of the highly-anticipated video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II, to be available on November 13th.

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Sludge/hardcore outfit Amenra have unveiled the artwork and tracklist for their new album Mass V, which will see the light of day on November 26th, their debut under Neurot Recordings. The band's guitarist Mathieu Vandekerckhove also worked on a trailer, which can be seen below.

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Black/death metallers Goatwhore have announced tons of news today. The band will return to the road this Fall in support of High On Fire on a North American tour in November/December that will feature Lo Pan, Primate (Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth, Bill Kelliher of Mastodon and more) on select dates in November and Corrosion Of Conformity on select dates in December. The entire list of confirmed dates can be seen below.

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Aeons Black will be the title of the new brutal death metal offering from Aeon. The Swedes have set November 20th as the release date, courtesy of Metal Blade Records. The band released today the title track off the upcoming fourth album, which can be streamed below. The blue cover art done by Kristian "Necrolord" Wåhlin and tracklist were also revealed.

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The heavy metal mob Dokken has released a brand new video for the track "Empire". You will be able to hear this new song on Broken Bones, the band's most recent album, which hit stores in Europe on September 21st and will come out in North America tomorrow under Frontiers Records. You can watch the video below.

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