For the month of June as we head into festival season, we are giving you the opportunity to win one of two free tickets for the Brutal Assault festival in the Czech Republic!

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Brutal Assault 2012

Swedish black metallers Marduk are streaming their new album, Serpent Sermon, in its entirety. Serpent Sermon, the band's 12th studio album, hit stores in Europe on May 25th and will be released on June 5th in North America via Century Media Records. To hear the album before the release day, be sure to check out the exclusive album stream on CVLT Nation.com.

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"Silencing Machine", a brand new song and the title track from black metallers Nachtmystium's forthcoming album Silencing Machine is now available for streaming at this location. Silencing Machine has been scheduled for release on July 31st via Century Media.

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"War Nation", another new track from British heavy metal band Tank is now available below. The song is taken from the band's upcoming new album of the same name, War Nation. Just in case you missed it, the band earlier released the song "Don't Dream In The Dark" which is still streaming at this location.

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Italian power metallers Kaledon are currently working on a new album. The band simply posted an extremely short update on their Facebook page: "New album: work in progress". A release date is yet to be set but what are the odds of the next album being called Legend Of The Forgotten Reign - Chapter 7?

Meanwhile, the band is scheduled to play in the forthcoming Metal Camp 2012 festival.

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Norwegian heavy metallers Djerv just came up with a new video for the track "Headstone". The video which has been directed by Jørn Veberg and co-directed by Colin McMahon, comes off the band's last year's debut album Djerv. You can watch the video below.

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"Rainmen", a brand new video from Swedish post-rock band Atoma is now available for viewing below. The song comes off the band's debut album Skylight, which was released on March 4th via Napalm Records. The album Skylight is a journey by a group of astronauts to the unexplored cosmos in search of a new home for mankind seeing as planet Earth has become inhospitable. More album details were previously reported here.

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Bluesy rock outfit Rival Sons' new album will be titled Head Down and is set to be released at the end of August via Earache Records. You can check out the album art below.

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Before their European tour with Kreator, Nile and Fueled By Fire, US industrial/death metallers Morbid Angel have announced that they will plays shows in Canada and USA this fall. This is their first North American tour in over six years. They will be joined by Dark Funeral and Grave for all dates and VadimVon throughout the East Coast. Tickets will go on sale at http://www.enterthevault.com on June 6th. All other tickets will be on sale on June 22nd.

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Of Breath And Bone, the new album from Australian melodic death metallers Be'lakor is now streaming online entirely at this location. The album has been released today, June 1st, via Kolony Records and will stream for one week at the aforementioned location until Friday, June 8th. Head over to this location for more details on the album.

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US power metallers Crescent Shield's vocalist Michael Grant has passed away. He was 39 years old. Crescent Shield guitarist, Daniel DeLucie, posted the following on the band's website "Today I have lost a dear and close friend, a band mate, and a heavy metal brother. Michael Grant passed away on May 31, 2012 at Glendale Memorial Hospital in Glendale, CA after a relatively brief but serious illness. He was 39 years old. He was peaceful and surrounded by family at the time of his passing. Michael recorded and toured with several bands throughout his career most notably Onward on Century Media Records and more recently Crescent Shield on Cruz del Sur Music."

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Over the last month we were giving you the chance to win one of four passes for the Motocultor Festival in France by answering the question posed. We asked for the name of the band who had won a slot playing at the festival through a competition. The name of that band is Warmachine - so now let's find out which people have won the festival passes:

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Motocultor Festival 2012

As you probably know, US power metal/steel warriors Manowar have a new album coming up titled The Lord Of Steel, which will be released digitally on June 16th. Now the band has revealed that the album will be released in retail stores on September 7th (dates may vary from territory to territory).

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Norwegian black metal band Gorgoroth will return to South America in September of 2012 for a tour in Brazil, Colombia, and Ecuador, with some further details to be announced soon.

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Norwegian folk metallers Trollfest have announced the departure of bassist PsychoTroll and guitarist St Beinhard from the band.

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