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Metal News for August 20, 2016

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8 news articles posted on this day.

Banisher Posts New Lyric Video

Polish death metal band Banisher just revealed a lyric video for "The Iconoclast" - a new track from forthcoming album "Oniric Delusions."

The track is a four and a half minute rager of old-school death metal and can be heard below. "Oniric Delusions" will be released by Deformeathing Productions on September 3rd, 2016.

1. Axes to Fall
2. Human Factor
3. The Iconoclast
4. Notion Materialized
5. Synthetic Euphoria
6. Confront the Mass
7. The Fatal Parable of a Certain Mercenary

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Aephanemer Releasing New Album

French melodic death metal outfit Aephanemer will release debut album "Memento Mori" on September 16th, 2016. Pre-orders are online here and an advance track can be heard below. The full track listing consists of:

1. Unstoppable
2. Sisyphus' Bliss
3. Hellebore
4. The Oathsworn
5. Ghosts
6. Rage and Forgiveness
7. The Call Of The Wild
8. Crows
9. Memento Mori
10. Gilgamesh

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GraveCoven Streaming "Furious Fires"

The California-based duo GraveCoven (featuring Jimmy of Swamp Witch's and Philip from Bog Oak) has concluded work on a debut album entitled "Coughing Blood."

The release, containing six original compositions following the vein of obscure and depressive black and doom metal, will be released in CD format via Godz Ov War Productions

The album was recorded by Patrick Hills at Earth Tone Studios in Sacramento, CA and bears cover artwork by Glitch Witch (Void King, Skeleton Wolf, King of None). Check out advance track "Furious Fires" below. More...

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Zornheym Premieres New Song "The Opposed"

Swedish symphonic blackened death metal unit Zornheym premieres a new song entitled "The Opposed", taken from the band's upcoming new album. The single and the forthcoming album as a whole were recorded and mastered by Sverker Widgren (October Tide, Demonical, IXXI, Diabolical), with cover art created by photographer and designer Jens Rydén (Marduk, Thyrfing).

The line-up consists of former Dark Funeral multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Zorn, Facebreaker's Bendler on vocals, guitarist and musical arranger Scucca, and Diabolical drummer Angst.

Check out now "The Opposed" below.

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Mist of Misery Pre-Release Full-Album Streaming

Swedish black metal outfit Mist of Misery premieres the pre-release full-album stream of the band's upcoming new album "Absence", which will be out in stores August 31 via Black Lion Records. Absence was recorded, mixed and mastered in Forlorn Halls Studios and on various private locations in Stockholm, Sweden from 2010 – 2016. The cover artwork was created by Russian artist Alex Tartsus.

Check out now "Absence" in its entirety below.

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Sinsaenum Premieres New Lyric Video

Sinsaenum - the international blackened death metal act featuring Mayhem vocalist Attila Csihar, ex-Chimaira vocalist Sean Zatorsky, DragonForce bassist Frédéric Leclercq and ex-Slipknot drummer Joey Jordison - premieres a new lyric video for the "Anfang Des Albtraumes". The song appears on the band's full length debut "Echoes of the Tortured", out now via earMusic.

Check out now "Anfang Des Albtraumes" below.

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Devin Townsend Project Premieres New Song

Devin Townsend Project premieres a new song entitled "Secret Sciences", taken from the upcoming new album "Transcendence", which will be out in stores September 09th through InsideOut Music.

Check out now "Secret Sciences" below.

Next month you can catch Devin Townsend Project out with Between The Buried And Me and Fallujah on the following tour dates: More...

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Saving Grace Premieres New Song & Music Video

New Zealand's Saving Grace premieres a new song and music video entitled "Recidivist", taken from the upcoming new album "Into Hell", which will be out in stores 2017 via Facedown Records.

Check out now "Recidivist" below.

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