The Age Of Dumb, the brand new album from Swedish grindcore band Afgrund is now available for streaming at this location. The album comes out tomorrow, July 31st, via Willowtip Records. More details about the album can be found here.

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Anthrax's drummer Charlie Benante was reportedly arrested this last Friday night on domestic battery in front of a child. Benante and wife were allegedly arrested at the Hilton Garden Inn in Elkhart Indiana after arguing in front of their daughter, age 6.

According to a local report from WSBT.com, the two were arrested and picked up at the Hilton Garden Inn and both were subsequently released from jail the next day. Benante's booking form shows a court date set for this Friday, Aug. 3rd.

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Necrophagia have a new album coming up titled Whiteworm Cathedral. The US death metallers have now released the demo song "Silentium Vel Mortis", which is available for streaming below. The song will be featured on the new album and is based on the Dario Argentos' "The Three Mothers" horror films trilogy.

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Iceland's own viking metallers Skálmöld have released a short update about their upcoming album titled Börn Loka via their Facebook page and revealed the tracklist for the new album, which can be seen below. Börn Loka is expected to be released through Napalm Records later this year.

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Canadian death metallers Mitochondrion have recently announced that the band will release a new 7" EP in the fall through Dark Descent Records. It will be titled Antinumerology but the release date is yet to be revealed for now.

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US industrial metallers Ministry have cancelled tonight's scheduled performance at L'Étaples Rock en Stock festival in France because frontman Al Jourgensen had to be hospitalized yesterday after collapsing at a show in Paris.

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Norwegian black metallers Mayhem are the latest addition to Barge To Hell 2012, the world's most extreme metal cruise.

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German symphonic gothic metal band Lacrimosa will release their new album Revolution on September 7th through Hall Of Sermon. This is the first Lacrimosa release with Henrik Flyman (Evil Masquerade) on guitar. The band also previously announced that the album will feature guest performances by Mille Petrozza (Kreator) and Stefan Schwarzmann (Accept). The album artwork for Revolution has been unveiled and can be seen below.

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After releasing 9 Degrees West Of The Moon in 2009, Italian power metallers Vision Divine are about to release a new album, which will be entitled Destination Set To Nowhere, due out on September 14th via earMusic. The band has released the first single to be featured on the album, "Mermaids From Their Moons", which is now available below for streaming.

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Italian folk metallers Krampus have recently released the first video off their upcoming debut album Survival Of The Fittest. The song "Kronos' Heritage" was the chosen one and you can watch the video below. Survival Of The Fittest will see the light of day on August 24th through NoiseArt Records. More album details, including cover and tracklist, can be found here.

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What's with the sudden trend of bands calling it a day? Now it's Obsidian's turn. The Dutch progressive death metallers announced today that the band is no more, mostly due to lack of energy and creative inspiration. The band released two albums: Emerging (2007) and Point Of Infinity (2010).

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Official press release:

NoiseArt Records and Rock The Nation are proud to announce the signing of Hungarian pagan black metal horde Bornholm. They offer an extremely cold, evil version of black metal which has been made even richer by sickening, epic and mind-blowingly aggressive elements. With their incredible, fantastic visual components such as front cover, booklet artwork as well as the official pictures, Bornholm are way beyond the generic crowd and look down on them from a "throne of crows". The beast that is Inexorable Defiance will be unleashed early 2013, an extended European tour is in the making.

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Finnish singer Tarja has released a live video for the previously unreleased song "Into The Sun", taken from her upcoming first-ever solo live DVD/CD titled Act I. The single is already available on iTunes. Act I will hit stores in Europe on August 24th and in North America on September 4th via earMUSIC featuring performances in Argentina. More details about this release were previously reported here.

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Good news for those who were expecting to hear something new from Ex Deo. The Canadian melodic death metallers have released a new video for the song "I, Caligvla", taken from their forthcoming opus Caligvla. The video was directed by Tommy Jones and you can watch it below.

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Dutch black metal band Nihill is streaming the brand new song "Spiral: The Tail Eater" at their Bandcamp page. The song is coming from the band's new upcoming full-length release Verdonkermaan, scheduled to be released on August 21st through Hydra Head Records. Verdonkermaan is the third installment of a trilogy that began with 2007's Krach. More details about this album are available here.

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