Enslaved just announced a new release, but it isn't exactly a new album. The Sleeping Gods - Thorn will drop via By Norse Music on November 11th, and it will feature rare and experimental material from 2010/2011, collected for the first time as a full-length album. Costin Chioreanu of Twilight 13 Media (Roadburn Festival, Opeth, Darkthrone, At The Gates, etc.) once again did the new layout, including new illustrations.

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The Finns Insomnium have delivered another trailer which presents Winter's Gate, their upcoming album. This fourth part is about the book that will come with the record. The album will be released very soon on September 23rd via Century Media Records. It is built around a short story, "Winter's Gate" ("Talven Portti" in Finnish), written by vocalist and bassist Niilo Sevänen. You can also hear more excerpts of new music from the opus, a concept album which will feature one 40-minute long track.

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Persefone, the band from Andorra, just announced that their fifth album will be released on the 24th of February 2017 and will be called Aathma. The successor of Spiritual Migration will contain 10 new songs and it's mixed and mastered by Jens Bogren at Fascination Street. The artwork is once again created by Travis Smith. Also, Persefone has announced the 2017 European Aathma tour.

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While Spanish death/black metal band Noctem is still expected to deliver their 4th album, Haeresis, on September 30th via Prosthetic Records and Art Gates Records, today they offer us a new video and a new song called "The Submission Discipline". The video is streaming online and can be seen here. Alternatively, you can watch it below. Tell us what you think about it.

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The Cult have announced a headline five-date tour of Australia and New Zealand that will take place in November. The tour comes in promotion of the band's most recent album Hidden City, which was released last February.

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Vienna is about to host the inaugural Vienna Metal Meeting! The festival will happen in Austria's capital on Saturday 8th of April 2017 and the Arena Wien - one of Vienna's most renowned venues - will get very loud. Focusing on thrash/death/black metal on two stages, with 15 international and national bands, Eindhoven Metal Meeting's little brother is born. The first bands have already been announced.

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Ten days before its official release, Barishi have decided to stream online their new album Blood From The Lion's Mouth in full. The gritty progressive metallers are finally releasing the follow-up to their self-titled debut three years later. As of now, you can see how you like the new album by streaming it through the YouTube player below.

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After the release of two videos from the last album Repentless and revealing that they won't release a new album until 2018 - Slayer comes with a new, and also the last music video of the Repentless video trilogy. The clip was directed by BJ McDonnell, who also directed the whole video trilogy. The final story takes us into a world that is especially sinister in tone, with the dark and the light colliding. Check out the "Pride In Prejudice" video below.

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Leaves' Eyes, now fronted by singer Elina Siirala, recently unveiled the cover artwork, tracklist and release date for their next release, the EP titled Fires In The North. The artwork was done by their friend Stefan Heilemann. The EP was produced by Alexander Krull at Mastersound Studio. The title track is a brand new song, featured in both a regular and an acoustic version. In addition, the EP includes three songs from the band's latest album King Of Kings in new versions (featuring Elina on vocals).

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Power metallers Brainstorm just revealed the second song off their Memorial Roots (Re-Rooted) album, which will be released in digipak format on September 16th via AFM Records. Check out Achim Köhler's 2016 remix of "Shiver" here. The song is taken from the album originally released in 2009 and completely new mix and mastered in 2016 (by Achim Köhler).

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Progressive rock supergroup Neal Morse has finished recording, mastering and mixing their new concept double album. The news was revealed by ex-Dream Theater drummer and long-time collaborator of Neal Morse, Mike Portnoy. The new record will follow last year's The Grand Experiment.

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Hard rockers Black Star Riders are hitting the road next year with a comprehensive UK tour in support of their new album Heavy Fire, set for release in early 2017. The band are currently in the studio in Nashville, once again with producer Nick Raskulinecz putting the finishing touches to Heavy Fire.

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Serbian progressive/power metal band Asymmetry, who shares members with Burning Circle, will release their first full-length album Fragility on September 16th, 2016. Following the successful EP Room 17: Hours Between Shadows And Light (2012), Fragility is a conceptual story fragmented to 9 songs in total length of 50 minutes of progressive/power metal music with powerful vocals, complex arrangements and strong rhythm section.

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If you are eager for new material from Anathema, there's good news today! The band has been lining up an Autumn tour to road test new music that they have been working on in their London studio for the past few months. Two years after their latest offering, Distant Satellites, in an almost unprecedented step for the band, they will embark on a string of dates to road-test material from their still-untitled eleventh studio album. Let the anticipation begin!

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Things were unclear when Steven Wilson decided to leave his collaborational project with Aviv Geffen, known as Blackfield, back in early 2014, but in a change of heart, he had joined forces again with Blackfield last year, and the first details of its result are in: Blackfield V, the band's fifth full-length album to date, will be released on November 18th, 2016, via Kscope. The new record will feature no less than 13 tracks, that will form into a 45 minute "ocean-theme" experience.

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