The organizers of one of the best European metal festivals revealed the first batch of bands which will perform during the 21st edition of Brutal Assault. As usual, the bands are very varied, representing the whole spectrum of extreme music. The line-up is already impressive, with over 50 bands still to be announced, and the biggest names so far include Arch Enemy, Dark Tranquillity, Exodus, Ministry, Moonspell and Satyricon, who will perform a 20th Anniversary Nemesis Divina set.

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Event:	Brutal Assault 2016

Dream Theater are hitting the road again. The prog legends announced a special one month long European Tour for early 2016 where they will be promoting their upcoming album, whose title and further details are still to be revealed. It is scheduled for release via Roadrunner Records in early 2016. Why is this tour special? During the shows the band will play their new record in its entirety!

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Guess who's ready to record some new music! Swedish gothic doom legends Katatonia just announced that the writing process of the new album is almost finished, demos have been recorded and they are ready to hit the studio in December. Finally, the news that fans were waiting to hear and Dead End Kings will soon have a follow-up.

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There you go, finally, after two years, a new Subsignal song! The German prog metallers shared a track from their upcoming fourth studio album The Beacons Of Somewhere Sometime, to be released worldwide on October 30th via ZYX/Golden Core Records. The new song is called "A Myth Written On Water" and sounds like a classical melodic Subsignal ballad. Check it out below.

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Here is some more orchestrated prog from Vanden Plas! The German veterans have released another song from their upcoming album Chronicles Of The Immortals: Netherworld II, due for release on November 6th via Frontiers Music Srl. The song is titled "The Last Fight" and tracks over 7 minutes. Check it out below and tell us what you think.

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It has been almost a decade since Beyond Twilight's last album, but the band's mastermind Finn Zierler has been busy. His side-project, called simply Zierler, is finally releasing the long-awaited debut album. ESC will be out on October 16th via Vanity Music Group. Also, check out the official trailer on YouTube player down under as well as other details of the album.

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After three months of silence, Redemption finally revealed some news concerning their new record, announced in July. The band's sixth studio album will be titled The Art Of Loss and will be released worldwide in early 2016 via Metal Blade Records. It will be one of Redemption's longest albums, clocking in at over 70 minutes.

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Cloudscape announced that the work on their new opus is finished. The fifth record of the Swedish prog metallers will be titled Voice Of Reason and premieres worldwide on January 8th 2016 via Dead End Exit Records. The band has also released the first single from the forthcoming album, called "A New Design", which can be streamed below.

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Be'lakor finally gave an update concerning their fourth studio album. The Australian melodic death metallers admitted that the release of the new recording has been delayed by six months and the new scheduled release date is March 2016. The sequel to highly acclaimed Of Breath And Bone is already recorded and ready for mixing.

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German sludge metallers from The Ocean just announced the upcoming release of a split EP with post-rock giants Mono. The EP will be titled Transcendental and contain one new song by each band, 13-minutes long "The Quiet Observer" by the Germans and 11-minutes long "Death In Reverse" by the Japanese. The worldwide release date for the EP is set to October 23rd via Pelagic Records.

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