Mick van Tuckerberg, a long-time guitarist of a heavy metal band Tank, revealed that the band's founding member and former bass player Algy Ward has passed away. Algy was part of the band in years between 1980 and 1989 as well as between 1997 and 2007.

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Dark Age Of Ruin's debut album, False Messiah And The Abstract, was officially released on May 19th. The band from São Miguel Island (Portugal) was founded in 2020 and "come to claim the throne of Azorean Black Metal with an extremely furious and hateful album, based on the best that the style produced in Northern Europe during the mid 90s, but with a more raw approach, typical of the sound practiced in recent times". You can listen the entire music effort via the band's YouTube channel.

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Obituary are in the final phase of their headlining North American tour, where they perform in support of their latest album Dying Of Everything. Now, the Florida veterans unveil an extensive touring plan in United Kingdom and Ireland. Scheduled in August and September, this trek features support from Pest Control.

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Event:	Obituary: Barely Alive In The UK & Ireland Tour 2023

This past Friday, the German trio Craving put out their fourth studio album Call Of The Sirens. To celebrate this occasion, the band have launched an official video for "Blood Ov Franconia" song.

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Chicago, Illinois based metalcore ensemble Repentance unveil details and first single in connection with their sophomore full length release. Dubbed The Process Of Human Demise, it will see the light of day on August 4th, 2023 through Noble Demon. All songs were produced by Alex Lackner at Accelerated Sound, and mixed/mastered by Chris Collier. The band also offer the first taste of the album with the single "Withered & Decayed", featuring guest performance by the new Fear Factory vocalist Milo Silvestro.

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Experienced hard rockers The Dead Daisies announced that former singer John Corabi will join the band for the upcoming touring around the world. In addition, joining the collective for the first time, is bassist Michael Devin formerly of Whitesnake. In other news, to celebrate 10 years of existence, The Dead Daisies announce the release of "Best Of" album later this year.

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Terra Builder is a newly formed death metal quintet from Germany that plans to release debut studio album later this year via Transcending Obscurity Records. Before they will unveil further details as well as pre-orders info of the upcoming music output, give a listen to two fierce preview tunes - "Interplanetary Portal" and "Abyss".

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Tech death metal four-piece from Colorado, Vale Of Pnath, have confirmed a couple of West Coast shows in July, including appearance at the Armstrong Metal Fest in Armstrong, British Columbia.

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Event:	Vale Of Pnath: West Coast Tour 2023

Atmospheric/melodic black metal act Blackbraid have premiered the second advance track from upcoming full length effort, Blackbraid II. Entitled "The Spirit Returns", it is available for streaming with an official music video via Black Metal Promotion YouTube channel.

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Purveyors of the legendary Gothenburg sound, The Halo Effect, have released a new single. "Path Of Fierce Resistance" was previously released as a Japanese exclusive on the band's debut album Days Of The Lost, which was released in August 2022. This ferocious track is finally being released to the rest of the world as the band embarks on their first North American (East coast) headline run, and then heads into the studio to record new material.

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After the announcement of their upcoming album Goliath last month, Kataklysm have now revealed further details such as the cover art, the tracklist and the release date, which is set to 11 August. They have also released an official music video for the song "Bringer Of Vengeance".

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As part of their upcoming sophomore record Everything Worth Loving, due out June 16th, California-based grindcore quartet Elder Devil present a video for another new single called "Burning Forest".

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"Edge Of A Knife" serves as the third single from the forthcoming new Jag Panzer studio album, The Hallowed, which will be released on June 23, 2023, through Atomic Fire Records.

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After touring Australia and Japan as well as kicking off this year's festival season by introducing new bassist Peter Baltes last month, the legendary Germans U.D.O. have still been able to find time to record a new, 13-track album at various locations. Crafted with producer and mixing engineer Martin "Mattes" Pfeiffer at Redhead Studio (Wilhelmshaven, Germany) and mastered by Stefan Kaufmann at ROXX Studio (Solingen, Germany), Touchdown is scheduled to land in the end zone of the heavy metal world on August 25th, 2023 through Atomic Fire Records. The first single, "Forever Free", as well as pre-order options will become available on Friday, June 23rd.

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Shining (NOR) have revealed a music video for "Us Against The World", a brand new standalone single. It can be streamed via YouTube player down under.

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