The Norwegian Viking metallers Enslaved just announced their first ever show in Turkey. It will happen in Istanbul on April 4th at Zorlu Performans Sanatları Merkezi. In other news, the band has also confirmed the reissue of their debut EP, 1993's Hordanes Land on ByNorse Music, Ivar Bjørnson Peersen's own label. The CD and digital will be released on March 2nd and the LPs on April 20th.

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Even if bands break up, the music lives on forever and Led Zeppelin proves it. The band's legendary live album How The West Was Won will be reissued. The band will continue their reissue campaign with a new edition of their celebrated live album originally released in 2003, featuring newly remastered audio supervised by guitar legend Jimmy Page.

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Funeral doomsters Pantheist have updated fans on what they have been up to. It seems like the band is working on new music again. In fact, the recordings are practically complete for their 5th studio album, to follow 2011's Pantheist. The band has been sharing clips and photos from the studio on their Facebook page. After 6-7 years with endless line-up changes and three different versions of the fifth Pantheist album, it now looks as though they are finally on track again.

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Yob has announced the deluxe reissue of The Great Cessation which is due out December 8th on CD/2xLP/digital via Relapse Records. Originally released in 2009, the trio's 5th full-length record is a master lesson in cosmic doom. This definitive edition has been completely remastered by Heba Kadry (The Mars Volta, Diamanda Galas, Slowdive) and includes stunning new artwork plus two bonus tracks (previously only available on vinyl). Stream the remastered version of "Breathing From The Shallows" via YouTube.

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After releasing The Storm Within last year, Swedish progressive metallers Evergrey will now be reissuing two early albums. Two late 90's classic albums are about to be re-issued on November 24th 2017 (December 1st in North America) via AFM Records: the debut The Dark Discovery and the groundbreaking Solitude, Dominance, Tragedy.

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Paradise Lost just released a new album, their 15th studio album, titled Medusa and to celebrate just that, the British metallers also shared a brand new lyric video (credit: Vyacheslav Ivanov) of the crushing song "Until The Grave", the album closer. You can watch that right here.

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While keeping busy with the release of their upcoming album, Paradise Lost will also reissue their 1997 record, One Second, later this summer. It's being launched by Music For Nations on July 14th to mark the 20th anniversary of the band's sixth album.

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Celtic Frost leader Thomas Gabriel Fischer has denounced BMG's recently announced plans to reissue the band's seminal Noise Records catalogue on June 30th. The reissues include four of the band's Noise-era studio albums: Morbid Tales, To Mega Therion, Into The Pandemonium and Vanity/Nemesis. The albums will be reissued on deluxe hardback CD and 180-gram double album sets, complete with posters and 10-inch spine bound book. All tracks have been fully remastered and releases contain previously unreleased and rare tracks.

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Iron Maiden have announced that, following 2014's reissue of their first eight albums, Parlophone Records will release twelve brand new pressings of albums from the period 1990-2015 in heavyweight 180g black vinyl. Along with their eight studio albums released in these 25 years, a specially selected choice of four live recordings from this era will be included. As far as the studio recordings are concerned, it has been made known that the audio on these releases has been cut from the high resolution remasters of 2015 when the band's catalogue was digitally upgraded and that they will be packaged in identical artwork to the initial vinyl releases.

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Russian prog duo Iamthemorning just reissued their Kscope debut album Belighted (2014) on double vinyl. It is now available from Burning Shed. The album came out before this year's Lighthouse, and features Gavin Harrison (Porcupine Tree, King Crimson) on drums. The band also has bad news, unfortunately. They are shutting down their Bandcamp merch store.

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Venice crossover band Excel have revealed some details on the recently-announced reissue of their classic second album, The Joke's On You. It will be released on CD and vinyl this November 18th through Southern Lord Records (both formats will include the bonus track "Blaze Some Hate"), and pre-orders are available here.

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Peaceville Records will release the 10th anniversary edition of SikTh's opus Death Of A Dead Day on double heavyweight LP and CD. Following the release on Peaceville of their mini album Opacities, their first new music since their acclaimed 2006 sophomore album Death Of A Dead Day, Peaceville will be re-releasing the album on the 10th anniversary of its original release on 30th September 2016.

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Venice crossover band Excel have announced that they are going to reissue their classic second album, The Joke's On You, on vinyl. No release date for the reissue has been set, but according to Southern Lord's Facebook page, it is due for release soon. This will be the second Excel album to receive a reissue treatment on Southern Lord, following the 2014 reissue of the band's classic 1987 debut album, Split Image.

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Pantheist mastermind Kostas Panagiotou has been working on a story originally meant as the basis of the concept behind the next Pantheist album. However, the project ended up being a science fiction novel as well as an EP featuring 6 tracks involving collaborations with present and past Pantheist members and many others. All funds generated from this EP will be used to support the recording of the band's fifth full-length album, which is to be released by early 2017.

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Remember Enslaved's debut Vikingligr Veldi? Well, it will now be reissued on vinyl for the very first time this September on ByNorse. The reissue of Vikingligr Veldi will coincide with the band's 25th anniversary European Tour and will be available in a limited Enslaved 25 Webshop edition and a regular edition! The astonishing new layout was done by Zbigniew M. Bielak (Ghost, Mayhem, etc.) and includes four brand new illustrations specially made for this album.

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