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Contradictions (formerly known as A Pleasant Dystopia ) have posted a teaser for their upcoming EP to their YouTube channel. Listen below. The band are also looking for a guitarist. All interested parties can contact them via their Facebook page. Moreover, they have revealed the artwork for the EP. View it below.

Chimp Spanner toured Europe in December, supporting Cynic. We had a chat with Paul Ortiz after the first show of the tour in Dublin, Ireland. We talked about playing live, the upcoming EP 'All Roads Lead Here', and desert islands. Check out the interview below. Subtitles in English are available, click the red 'CC' icon to enable them.

'All Roads Lead Here' comes out on February 6th through Basick Records, and is now available for preorder in the USA on fye.com.

Lou Gregoire of A.I.(d) has uploaded a new song titled 'A Time Machine Called Hope' to his YouTube channel. Listen below. The song will be featured on his upcoming full-length album, titled 'Disorder', which is due for release this year. A teaser for the album was posted last month.

Sumerian Records have announced on their Facebook page that the new album of Veil Of Maya, titled 'Eclipse' will be released on the 28th of February 2012. More information will follow later this week. Currently the band is preparing for their US tour alongside In Flames and Trivium, the date for which can be found on their Facebook page.

French experimental metal band Innerty are gearing up to release their debut album 'Tabula Rasa' on Bandcamp on January 19th. Two weeks ago, we streamed the whole album in full for two days. Today, we're doing the same for the instrumental version of the album. Check it out below.

Physical copies will be made available at a later date, in the form of a double album with the regular and the instrumental version included. The album was co-produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Eddy Dorigny of Fromtape Records. About the reason for releasing an instrumental version, the band had this to say:

"During the recording and mixing sessions, we got so many versions of mixes, premixes, premasters, with vocals here, there, not there, this way, this other way, that three digits weren't enough to name the files. There was this afternoon, a fucking cold one, like icecube-toes cold, where we sat down and one of us just went: "I want a goddamn instrumental version of this thing." And the light just... went on; and the toes weren't cold anymore and then the goosebumps and... well, you get it.

Another hairy one of us, with a mouthful of some kind of donkey salami that rendered his words so French they would've been typed in blue red and white, just went "why don't we just, you know, release an instrumental version as well!" We had that chemical feeling that people maybe probably felt when the big Guy's son hollered "I'm back, bitches" after his three days vacation. We were pretty much convinced by the idea. There were so many tiny little details, just a 16th ride here, a little harmonic here, a tiny legato there, that were sometimes eclipsed by the power of the vocals, that we were pretty confident this would please little geeks like us who are into this nutty level of nerdiness.

Plus it'd please our dads. They're always saying "why do people pay to be yelled at by a crazy guy in a band for 52 minutes!" Well, here you go pa, no more yelling.
Enjoy."

Abstract Deviation have posted an instrumental preview of their upcoming album to their SoundCloud page. Listen below. The band also report that they have found a new vocalist, who will be featured on the album. The 'Aliedora' EP was released earlier.

French experimental metal band Innerty are gearing up to release their debut album 'Tabula Rasa' on Bandcamp on January 19th. We're streaming the whole album for 48 hours! Check it out below.

Don't like the vocals? Maybe you prefer instrumental music? The band are also releasing an instrumental version of the album (separately mixed and mastered!), which we will be streaming on January 10th, so be sure to check back then. Physical copies will be made available at a later date, in the form of a double album with the regular and the instrumental version included.

The album was co-produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Eddy Dorigny of Fromtape Records. About it, the band had this to say:

"The blood, the sweat, the tears and all that crap. We started recording Tabula Rasa literally two years ago. We went through so many changes in our lives and our minds, that the result is an excruciatingly painful delivery. More than happy, we're actually extremely relieved to finally get it out there. Truthfully, a whole lot can happen in two years. People change, influences vary, and you keep questionning things till the very last minute; once again literally.

This is our first album and as a not-so-fresh starting paradigm, we ask a very simple question of our very first album: what if the notion of starting with absolutely nothing was some kind of vicious circle? What if the whole idea of an innate tabula rasa was idiotic? This is not a "concept", we abhor the "concept" phenomenon. This is a just a remark, a realisation, a question we thought of as amusing. But we're twisted and some of us eat snails and frogs. Such is life.

This is Tabula Rasa, and if you appreciate it half as much as we suffered doing it, then we'll be very pleased and you'll be too."

Periphery have uploaded three more studio update videos to their Youtube channel. Watch them below. Four other studio update videos were posted earlier.

George Hayduk of Skylines has released a preview of his upcoming album, which is available for streaming and for free download from his Bandcamp page. Listen below. A new track, titled 'Chapter 1: Desperation' was posted earlier.

Australia-based The Storm Picturesque have posted a studio update video with footage from the recording of their upcoming debut full-length album 'Arrival'. It also features some new music. The album is slated for release early next year. A track with the same title was posted over a year ago.