Ghost are releasing a new EP today called Popestar. It includes four covers and also the new song "Square Hammer", premiered earlier this week. The EP is available on CD/vinyl in stores across the world plus digitally online. You can also grab the Meliora Deluxe Edition double disc on vinyl, CD, or digitally, which includes both Meliora and Popestar. To mark the release of the EP, Ghost also debuted a new music video for "Square Hammer". You can watch it now here.

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German thrash boozers Tankard are mixing new beer (aka new music) after they released their latest beer edition, the record, R.I.B. The currently untitled album is planned for a 2017 release via Nuclear Blast. The unit will enter Gernhart Studios in Troisdorf with producer Martin Buchwalter (Destruction, Accu§er, Perzonal War, Suidakra, etc.) in January 2017 to kick off the recordings of their 35-year-anniversary album.

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Hansen & Friends releases their debut album, XXX - Three Decades In Metal, today! This will be Kai Hansen's (ex-Helloween, Unisonic, Gamma Ray) first solo album. And to celebrate the occasion, you can hear samples from all the songs on the record. Enjoy!

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Metalcore purveyors Demon Hunter will be back with a new album soon! The successor of Extremist will be out in Spring of 2017 and their eighth full-length will be called Outlive. The band has launched a Pledgemusic campaign here, where fans can pre-order the album.

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The symphonic metal band Dark Sarah, fronted by former Amberian Dawn singer Heidi Parviainen, will release their new album The Puzzle on November 18th in Europe and North America through Inner Wound Recordings. The new album The Puzzle is a concept album and it continues the story from Behind The Black Veil. Watch the trailer and find all details below.

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The Violent Sleep Of Reason is the name of masters of dissonance Meshuggah's new offering, following up on 2012's Koloss. If you are anticipating the record, today you can hear another new song from the Swedish tech/progressive metallers. Experience below the 360 lyric video for "Nostrum". Do you prefer it to the other song released so far "Born In Dissonance"? Share your impressions.

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Melodic death metallers Starkill just shared their new music video. The track used is called "Burn Your World" and is taken from their upcoming record titled Shadow Sleep which will be out via Prosthetic Records on the 4th of November. The Illinois-based metallers recorded and mixed at Electrowerks Studio with Chuck Macak (Fall of Troy, Oceano, Letlive). Listen to the first new track here.

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In case you didn't grab Moanaa's brand new album Passage yet, it is currently available for streaming in full at this location. Arachnophobia Records officially releases the album from the post-metal band today. Give it a shot and then share your impressions here. Passage was mixed and mastered at Satanic Audio by Piotr Gruenpeter aka Haldor Grunberg (Thaw).

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It's been a year since the death of Bolt Thrower's drummer Martin "Kiddie" Kearns. Now, instead of hiring a replacement for Kearns, the band just announced on their official website that they have broken up. So, we lose one of death metal's most legendary acts but fans will remain loyal.

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Former Guns N' Roses member Chris Pitman has lost his patience and reportedly filed a lawsuit against the band's lead singer, Axl Rose, over an unpaid debt for services the multi-instrumentalist provided to the group. Keyboardist Pitman claims that Rose wrote him a promissory note for $125,000 that he was owed for over a year's worth of work. In the suit, Pitman claims that Rose was supposed to pay up by October 2012, but has failed to do so. Pitman says that Rose now owes him more than $163,000 with interest.

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English heavy metal giants Saxon have started working on their new musical creation. Their next album will follow last year's Battering Ram. Furthermore, the band is about to release the live album Let Me Feel Your Power on September 23rd. Their 10th live album and 16 track album was recorded in Munich during November 2015 and Brighton in January 2016, with bonus materials from Chicago in September 2015.

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In case you didn't know, Geoff Tate's Operation: Mindcrime is about to release Resurrection, their newest record. The new album will be released this September 23rd via Frontiers Music Srl. Below you find their brand new video for the track "Taking On The World" which features vocals by both Tim Ripper Owens (ex-Judas Priest, ex-Iced Earth, ex-Yngwie Malmsteen and Tim "Ripper" Owens) and Blaze Bayley (ex-Iron Maiden, Blaze Bayley. Check it out.

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American hybrid death metal unit Flesh Consumed has lost their former drummer Alex Colon. He died on September 12th, 2016. R.I.P.

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Technical death metallers Ulcerate have unleashed the opening song of their new album Shrines Of Paralysis for streaming. The song is called "Abrogation" and it clocks in at almost 6-minutes. The return of the New Zealand-based band after Vermis is slated for October 28th, 2016 through Relapse Records. Waste no time and enjoy the new song now here.

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Headliners Revenge and Nocturnal are the last two bands confirmed for the North Of The Wall Festival 2017. North of the Wall will return for its 5th instalment next year in Glasgow, Scotland on the 14th and 15th of April. They join Mgła, Batushka, Acherontas, Misþyrming, Esoteric and many more.

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Event:	North Of The Wall Festival 2017