As you know, Metallica's new double album Hardwired...To Self-Destruct, is about to hit the streets (November 18th) and the band has planned a special performance to mark its release. On Friday, they celebrate it with an intimate performance at the House of Vans in London, England for Fifth Members and lucky winners of the Vans ticket contest. If you can't be there, the good news is that the band will livestream their performance at 21:00 GMT.

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A new power metal act is born. Steamhammer/SPV will give birth to a new dragon child, or we can call them Unity. The first chapter in this epic book will be written soon and their debut album will be out next year. This saga will be written by drummer Michael Ehré and guitarist Henjo Richter both from Gamma Ray. The eponymously titled recording has been scheduled for release in early 2017.

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Things have been awfully quiet on Evocation's camp but there is good news now. The death metal band from Sweden has been working on new material and is releasing a new album in 2017 via their new label Metal Blade Records! Stay tuned for more news regarding their upcoming, currently untitled album coming soon.

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A Requiem For Terra is the forthcoming new full-length from Black Hole Generator, an industrial black metal band led by Vulture Industries' mainman Bjørnar E. Nilse. The album is set to drop later this month via Dark Essence Records, on November 18th in Europe followed by a North America street date of November 25th. In advance of its release, today you can consume the tasteful "Moloch" below.

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Rockers Aerosmith are returning to Europe for a massive tour! The Americans have just announced the AeroVederci Baby 2017 tour, their "farewell" European tour. See the dates below if you want to attend! It might be their last.

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Dallas five-piece Power Trip have shared today a brand new song from their upcoming new album Nightmare Logic, due out on the 22nd of February 2017 under Southern Lord Recordings. "Firing Squad" is now available for your listening pleasure over here. Enjoy the thrash metal attack!

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"Ons Vrije Fatum" and "De Roes Na", two brand new songs from Dutch black metallers Laster are now available for streaming here. These are the first two tracks from the band's upcoming album, Ons Vrije Fatum. The album was recorded/mixed at Catacomben Studios and mastered by Patrick W. Engel at Temple Of Disharmony. It is scheduled for release on January 9th, 2017 via Dunkelheit Produktionen.

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Helloween have surprised fans with big news today! 2017 and 2018 will see them tour with Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen again. The fans asked for it and now is the time. Michael Kiske and Kai Hansen will once again mount a Helloween stage together and resurrect the band's legendary original line-up. Weikath, Kiske, Hansen, Grosskopf are going to play Helloween classics live and on a joint tour. But that's not all of it! Under the flag Pumpkins United, all pumpkin heads will step up, meaning Andi and Michi on vocals, Kai, Weiki and Sascha on guitars, and Markus and Dani in the rhythm section.

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New Jersey thrashers Blood Feast are streaming "INRI", their first song in over 25 years, on their Bandcamp page. The song appears on their upcoming third album, The Future State Of Wicked, which is due for release on January 13th 2017, and will be the band's first studio album since 1989's Chopping Block Blues.

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Beheaded from Malta are about to release a new album. Titled Beast Incarnate, you can expect more brutal death metal from the quintet. In fact, the first song from the record has already been released. Witness "The Horror Breathes" below. Their fifth full-length will drop next year via Unique Leader Records on the 27th of January 2017, four years after Never To Dawn.

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Swiss metallers Dreamshade just shared a brand new song! The melodic death metal band has announced their new album Vibrant, which will be released on December 9th through Artery Recordings. Their latest single is called "Up All Night" and you can give it a spin below. Do you like the new material?

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French metallers Betraying The Martyrs have shared a new song from their upcoming album. The group decided to release the track today as it marks one year after the terrible Paris terrorist attacks. "Won't Back Down" can be streamed below via YouTube. The video was directed and edited by Scott Kennedy at 12 Inch Media.

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A long time ago, Mägo De Oz was born in 1989 and guitarist Pedro Pablo Diaz was one of the Spanish band's three founding members. He would leave the band in 1990 but played on their first demo. It was another founding member, drummer Txus di Fellatio, still in the band, who announced the sad news.

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Back in October, Vanhelga released their latest album, Ode & Elegy. Now, the Swedish black metal group has premiered a video of the track "Utan Mening". Directed by J. Ejnarsson, the video features A. Rohtsalu in the role of a depressed young woman who is slipping further and further into darkness and despair, from which she is unable to escape. Watch it unfold below.

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Have you already listened to Superjoint's new album? The sludge metallers have just released Caught Up In The Gears Of Application, their first new full-length in over a decade. Their previous offering, A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred, dated back to 2003. You can listen to the entire new record now via Bandcamp. Enjoy the sludge!

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