After revealing their forthcoming album details, Italian symphonic power metallers Ancient Bards are streaming the first samples off their third album A New Dawn Ending, to be released on April 25th in Europe and Japan, and June 10th in North America via Limb Music. Listen to the excerpts below. Do they sound promising?

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The upcoming Ancient Bards album, A New Dawn Ending, is being detailed piece by piece. After revealing fans the first info about it, the Italian band is now sharing the cover artwork, created by renowned artist Felipe Machado Franco (Rhapsody Of Fire, Blind Guardian, Luca Turilli's Rhapsody).

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Last December, it was revealed that Norwegian black metallers Ancient were working on their seventh album to finally follow Night Visit (2004). Recently, the band updated on that. Their comeback album is being recorded and will be called Chapter VII: Back From The Land Of The Dead, for a release around September.

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After giving us the first taste of their new album, death metallers Ancient Ascendant have shared more new music. This song is called "Patterns Of Bane" and you can enjoy it right here below. Does it fit your tastes?

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At the beginning of this year, death metallers Ancient Ascendant announced their new album and now we know more about it. First of all, it is called Echoes And Cinder and will be released on CD, digital download and vinyl on the 24th of March via Candlelight Records. The wicked cover art was also revealed and is available below. Take a look at it. The band unveiled a track from the album called "Riders", now streaming at Bandcamp.

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Italian symphonic power metallers Ancient Bards are now revealing the first details of their upcoming album, that will close The Black Crystal Sword Saga Pt.I which begun with 2010's The Alliance Of The Kings. The new album will be named A New Dawn Ending and will be released on April 25th via Limb Music. The songs were all recorded at Simone Mularoni's Domination Studio, and to add a twist to the album, it will feature Rhapsody Of Fire's Fabio Lione in the track "The Last Resort". The cover artwork was designed by Felipe Machado Franco (Blind Guardian, Luca Turilli's Rhapsody, Rhapsody Of Fire, etc.) and will be revealed soon.

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He's everywhere. Fabio Lione (Rhapsody Of Fire, Vision Divine) will join Sara Squadrani in a song on the upcoming Ancient Bards album. Lione has his hands full with guest appearances in various projects.

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Candlelight Records has announced today the signing of U.K. death metal band Ancient Ascendant, which will be on tour in April supporting Pestilence across Europe. The band's new album was recorded with Dan Swanö.

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After the good news about the forthcoming third studio album, no-one surely expected this: guitarist Fabio Balducci, with the band since 2007, just left Ancient Bards due to personal reasons. Simone Mularoni (DGM, Empyrios) will take his place in future studio albums.

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It has been almost 10 years since the last studio album release (Night Visit) from Norwegian melodic black metal horde Ancient. Now the band is pleased to announce the plans for their new upcoming effort, tentatively to be released sometime between June and September, 2014.

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Italian symphonic power metal rising stars Ancient Bards are ready to release their third album in 2014, the follow-up to 2011's Soulless Child, that will set the beginning of the second part of the Black Crystal Sword Saga. The guys seem to have not lost their passion for medieval times, as you can see by enjoying the crispy album trailer down here.

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Swedish doom metal legends Candlemass will perform the album Ancients Dreams in its entirety at Mikael Åkerfeldt's 2014 curated Roadburn event on April 11th at the 013 venue in Tilburg, The Netherlands. The festival has also confirmed the likes of Avatarium, Obliteration, Elephant9 with Reine Fiske, Trettioåriga Kriget and Promise And The Monster to enrich their line-up.

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Legendary Swedish doom metallers Candlemass will celebrate the 25th anniversary of their third album Ancient Dreams with a special live concert on December 28th at Debaser Medis in Stockholm, Sweden. The album which was originally released in 1988 has been hailed as a classic and will be performed in its entirety by Candlemass.

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Enslaved just announced dates for their North American "Winter Rite 2013" Tour, which will also feature Pallbearer and Ancient VVisdom.

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Italian power metallers Ancient Bards are preparing the release of a new split-single with Serenity In Murder which will be titled Prelude To Awakening and feature one new song. This will be the band's first new material since the release of Soulless Child last year.

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