Heavy Metal Television, a live television station, streaming worldwide 24 hours a day in hi-def video and hi-fi audio, will launch on November 15.

The channel brings the classic MTV format back to life with band’s such as Judas Priest and Iron Maiden as well as newer bands like Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown.

The format will play conceptual videos presented by young VJs with short segments of rock news and interviews sprinkled throughout with heavy metal promos of all kinds driving the content. Concerts will be shown Saturday nights. Specialty programing is being developed.

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Frost on Her Pillow, the new video from British extreme metallers Cradle of Filth, can be seen here. The song comes off the band's tenth studio album, The Manticore and Other Horrors, which will be released in North America on October 30 via Nuclear Blast Records.

Finnish melodic death metallers Mors Principium Est will release their fourth album, …And Death Said Live, in North America on January 15, 2013 via AFM Records.

A track from the CD, Destroyer of All, can be streamed here.

Time I, the long-awaited new album from Finnish epic metallers Wintersun, will be released via Nuclear Blast Records on the following dates:

Time I is now available for streaming here.

Guitarist Anders Björler and drummer Per Møller Jensen have left The Haunted.

Per says in a statement:

"This decision has been underway for a long time and cannot be attributed to [former The Haunted frontman Peter] Dolving's departure earlier this year.

"It's been a good 13-year stint. All in all, I have no regrets.

"My penchant for music, creating — as in digging deep — and practicing has never been at a higher peak than now. When you throw musical differences between members in with that, I started feeling unfulfilled. This is not pointing fingers at anybody, but rather just seeing, accepting and acting on that fact.

French melodic death metallers Destinity will release their sixth full-length album, Resolve in Crimson, on November 20 (one day earlier internationally) via Lifeforce Records. The CD was recorded at Hansen studios in Ribe, Denmark with producer Jacob Hansen (Destruction, Maroon, Hatesphere, Illdisposed, Mercenary, Raunchy, Deadlock) and features cover artwork by Strychneen studios.

The song Aiming a Fist in Enmity is available for streaming here.

Dutch melodic doom/death metal veterans Officium Triste have signed a deal with Hammerheart Records and will release their fifth studio album, Mors Viri, on February 18, 2013. The CD was recorded on several occasions during 2011 at El Pato studios in Bergweiler, Germany. Ronnie Björnström at Enhanced Audio Productions did the mix and master in Sweden.

Stratovarius and Amaranthe will join forces for a "double headline" European tour next spring. The Nordic Nexus of Nemesis Tour 2013 will kick off on March 20 in Munich, Germany.

Confirmed dates are as follows:

Norwegian black metal act Koldbrann will release its third full-length album, Vertigo, on January 22 in North America and January 25 in Europe via Season Of Mist's Underground Division.

Italy's black/rock/doom metal outfit Forgotten Tomb will release its sixth full-length album , entitled ...And Don't Deliver Us from Evil, on October 30 in Europe and on November 6 in North America via Agonia Records. The CD is now available for streaming in its entirety until October 22 here.