Pagan folk metallers Arkona will release a new double live album entitled Decade Of Glory next year. Napalm Records has set February 22nd, 2013 as the release date. This live album was recorded this year on Arkona's 10th anniversary show.

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Swedish extreme technical metallers Meshuggah have announced their 2013 headlining return to North America around February/March. If that isn't enough to make you dance a bit, the band will be accompanied by Animals As Leaders as direct support and Intronaut opening each evening.

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Event:	Meshuggah: North American Tour 2013

Proggers Threshold have announced that they will be touring Europe in March 2013 to promote their new studio album and masterpiece March Of Progress, which was released via Nuclear Blast. As of today, the support bands are yet to be announced but you can see the confirmed dates below.

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Gothic doom metallers Saturnus have finally released a brand new song from their upcoming opus Saturn In Ascension for streaming. The new album will hit the stores on Friday under Cyclone Empire, but you can now check out the song "A Fathers Providence" right here or on the Soundcloud player below.

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Les Fleurs Du Mal, the new album from Therion is currently streaming online in its entirety. In case you are curious about it, you can listen to it at this location. Les Fleurs Du Mal will finally see its physical release tomorrow, November 27th, in North America via End Of The Light Records.

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Gamma Ray have released a clip from the upcoming DVD/2CD live release Skeletons & Majesties Live. The clip for "Time To Break Free" (originally from the 1995 studio release Land Of The Free) features former Helloween singer Michael Kiske on guest vocals. The release will come in 2CD, Blu-ray and DVD on November 30th, 2012 through earMUSIC.

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Symphonic metallers Serenity and Visions Of Atlantis will be joining forces for an European tour in March 2013. Both bands also have new albums coming up and Napalm Records promises to reveal more details about them soon. For now, see below a full list of tour dates.

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As if having two Queensrÿches wasn't bizarre enough, now guitarist Glen Drover (ex-Megadeth) decided to leave Geoff Tate's version of Queensrÿche before they hit the road. Remember that announcement where Geoff Tate said that Rudy Sarzo, Bobby Blotzer, Glen Drover, Kelly Gray and Randy Gane would join him on future musical endeavours and tours under the Queensrÿche moniker? Well, Glen Drover is no longer part of that project.

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The line-up for the first-ever Ozzfest Japan 2013, set for May 11th and May 12th, 2013 at the Makuhari Messe arena just outside of Tokyo - keeps getting stronger. Tool, Slash, Deftones and Stone Sour have now been confirmed and will join previously announced headliners Black Sabbath and Slipknot.

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Thrashers Paradox have made available a new song for streaming. You can now listen below to "Escalation", the first taste of what you will find in the new album. The song will appear on the band's new offering Tales Of The Weird, which will come out on December 14th via AFM Records.

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Grindcore supergroup Lock Up will undergo a brief European club tour in February of 2013 in support of their latest album Necropolis Transparent, released under Nuclear Blast Records. The tour, tentatively named Infiltrate And Destroy Europe 2013, will see them play a 10 date up-close-and-personal club tour which takes the band through such territories as U.K., France, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Austria and Belgium.

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Gothic metallers Trail Of Tears have signed to Germany's Massacre Records for the release of their new album Oscillation. We now know that it will be released worldwide on March 22nd, 2013. So mark your calendars.

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With the official release of Tributo Di Sangue scheduled for today in Italy via Subsound Records, Subhuman have released a new song for streaming online. You can now enjoy "L'Atroce Scommessa" on the video below. Tributo Di Sangue will only be available worldwide in the beginning of 2013.

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Black metal mob Svarttjern has just signed with Austrian label NoiseArt Records for their future releases. In addition to that, Rock The Nation will be handling all their booking from now on. The band will be entering Strand Studio on the fourth of December to begin recording their third album, which follows Towards The Ultimate and will be released in 2013.

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Stratovarius have divulged the release date of Nemesis, their new studio album. It will hit stores as a standard 11-track edition as well as 13 track special edition on February 22nd, 2013 via earMUSIC. A taste of the new studio album can be enjoyed with the limited edition EP Unbreakable, released before that on January 25th, 2013. See the EP details below.

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