Black metal duo Inquisition recently announced that they named their forthcoming album Obscure Verses For The Multiverse but the rest of it has only been unveiled today. The band's sixth full-length has been scheduled for an October 25th in Europe (October 29th in North America) release via Season Of Mist. Mark your calendars, see the cover artwork, tracklist as well as a video trailer below. The trailer features the first bits of new music since Ominous Doctrines Of The Perpetual Mystical Macrocosm, so you better listen to it.

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Dutch symphonic metal band Epica celebrated their 10th anniversary with a one-night-only event dubbed Retrospect. The band was accompanied by the seventy piece Extended Reményi Ede Chamber Orchestra and the Choir of Miskolc National Theatre, playing a 3-hours best-of set in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, this past March. Today, the band has unveiled the cover, tracklist and release date of Retrospect. On November 8th, Nuclear Blast will release it as a deluxe hardcover book with 48 pages both as a 2DVD/3CD and 2Blu-ray/3CD version.

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Now that Turisas2013 is out in most Europe, with UK/France and North America following next week, the folk metal band Turisas has premiered today a brand new video for the song "Ten More Miles" (produced and directed by Jukka Salo). You can watch the result of Jukka Salo's work with the band below. Do you approve?

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Stoner metallers Red Fang have premiered online the first song off their new album Whales And Leeches. At last, you can hear some new material from the follow-up to Murder The Mountains. The album's lead single is called "Blood Like Cream". You can listen to the brand new tune right now below.

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Extreme folk metallers Nekrogoblikon have officially released Power yesterday and have also made the entire piece available for streaming now. You can either stream it on Bandcamp or through the YouTube video below. Either way, you can enjoy the goblin craziness right now and tell us what you think about the band's new material.

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If you like Devin Townsend, chances are you like his sense of humour as well or at least find his wacky being even a little bit funny. Now, he has taken that to a whole new level with the Ziltoid Radio. Yes, this is an actual thing. The Canadian launched his series with an hour-long broadcast on Saturday, delivered in his alter-ego of Ziltoid The Omniscient. You can enjoy the first episode here or on the video below.

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After months without major updates, symphonic metallers Leaves' Eyes finally have some news for us regarding their new album Symphonies Of The Night. Well, the mixing and mastering is finished and so the album is officially completed. Now the band is starting to reveal the pieces of the puzzle and the first one is the album's artwork which was designed by Heile. You can take a look at it below.

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Disinterred British extreme metal legends Carcass are returning this year of course and have now made the new track "Unfit For Human Consumption" available for streaming online here. Tasty! So, go ahead and enjoy another slab of their trademark melodic death metal.

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Following the release of the live album Decade Of Glory, Russian folk metallers Arkona have been hard at work in the studio recording their new album and successor to Slovo. After the bass lines, now the band has completed recording all the guitar parts. The vocal recordings will be next. Arkona has also announced new tour dates for South and North America (with venues to be confirmed soon) as part of their headlining 2013 Pagan Worldwide Tour. Check out the dates below.

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Finnish cello gods Apocalyptica have just announced the release of their first ever live album which you will be able to get your hands on November 15th, 2013. The live album is called Wagner Reloaded, it contains 13 tracks and will be released as an official live recording with the MDR Symphony Orchestra on CD and vinyl. Moreover, you can already take a look at the release's artwork below.

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Veteran thrashers Hirax have revealed the cover artwork of their new opus which was designed by Philip Lawvere. You can check it out below. Their first full-length studio album in four years is titled Immortal Legacy and will come out in October via SPV/Steamhammer. We are still waiting for some new songs to be released.

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After the reveal of their new album title as The Mediator Between The Head And Hands Must Be The Heart, obviously trying to rival with Nile in terms of length, thrash metallers Sepultura have today unveiled the cover art that will grace their new release. You can see below the artwork that was created by Brazilian artist Alexandre Wagner, who specializes in charcoal drawing techniques as well as the tracklist. It shouldn't take much longer for the new music to be shared too.

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Hardcore outfit The Chariot, who recently announced they were calling it quits, have confirmed the tour dates of their Farewell Tour to take place in October/November this year. Joining the band on their last chapter live will be Glass Cloud, Rebuker, Birds In Row and To The Wind.

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Apart from being busy next year with Emperor's festival shows, Ihsahn will release another solo album titled Das Seelenbrechen this October 22nd via Candelight Records. It is not that far away. The album cover art, created by Ritxi Ostáriz, has been revealed and is now available below. At this point, there is still not much more revealed in terms of lyrics or concept.

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Have you ever heard of Karmaflow? Maybe the gamers have. Karmaflow will be a unique 3D platform/puzzle adventure game featuring several rock/metal singers, a band and the famous Dutch Metropole Orchestra. The game is a project led by Ivo van Dijk, drummer and composer for Xystus who wrote the rock opera Equilibrio in 2008. Many well known metal singers are part of the cast for the game and soundtrack and the latest one to be announced is Daniel de Jongh, Textures' vocalist. The goal is to release the game next year for PC/Mac.

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