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My cat MILO is most likely dying.
Promoters for MARYLAND DEATH FEST 2026, set to take place 5/21st, 22nd, 23rd and 24th, 2026 BALTIMORE, MARYLAND have confirmed OLD MAN'S CHILD, MACABRE, CEPHALIC CARNAGE, NOVEMBERS DOOM, LIVIDITY, NECROFIER and MORE METAL BANDS..
MARYLAND DEATH FEST 2026 have also confirmed BATUSHKA, BLOOD RED THRONE, THE CROWN, DEATH ANGEL, DESTRUCTION. OSSUARY, PATHOLOGY, HAVUKRUUNU. 1914, CANCER, MORTICIAN, SOLITUDE AETURNUS, ...AND OCEANS,..KREATOR, UNMERCIFUL, WITCH VOMIT, PIG DESTROYER, SARDONIC WITCHERY. and MORE EXTREME METAL BANDS
FROM MARYLAND DEATH FEST 2026 PROMOTERS:
Hamburg, Germany based symphonic, power metal warriors INDUCTION have posted a video for "DARK TEMPTATION", a stand alone single, unleashed 8/21/2025 via REIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC.
INDUCTION
have announced WINTER 2025 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES.
INDUCTION have announced new vocalist GABRIELE GOZZI.
INDUCTION
have parted ways with vocalist CRAIG CAIRNS.
INDUCTION via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated new EP "THE POWER OF POWER", unleashed 8/4/2023 via ATOMIC FIRE RECORDS.
INDUCTION unleashed "BORN FROM FIRE", 11/25/2022 via ATOMIC FIRE RECORDS.
VIDEO BELOW: INDUCTION:NEW TRACK "DARK TEMPTATION" (VIA YOU TUBE, COURTESY OFREIGNING PHOENIX MUSIC):
Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
German blackened/thrash metal warriors DESASTER, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "KILL ALL IDOLS", unleashed 8/22/2025 via METAL BLADE RECORDS..
DESASTER, via BANDCAMP, are streaming the bands anticipated new release "CHURCHES WITHOUT SAINTS", unleashed 6/4/2021 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.
DESASTER: NEW RELEASE "KILL ALL IDOLS" (VIA BANDCAMP COURTESY OF DESASTER.)
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Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-
German black metal warriors DER WEG EINER FREIHEIT have posted a video for "MARTER" , a track from the bands anticipated new release "𝐈𝐍𝐍𝐄𝐑𝐍", due to be unleashed 9/12/2025 via SEASON OF MIST.
More dates have been added to German power metal warriors BLIND GUARDIAN have announced FALL 2025 NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES with ENSIFERUM And SEVEN KINGDOMS..
Helsinki, Finland based folk metal warriors ENSIFERUM have posted a video for "VICTORIOUS" , a track from the bands anticipated new offering "WINTER STORM", unleashed 10/18/2024 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.
BLIND GUARDIAN, via SPOTIFY, are streaming the bands anticipated reissue "SOMEWHERE FAR BEYOND", unleashed 8/2/2024 via NUCLEAR BLAST RECORDS.
SEVEN KINGDOMS have posted a lyric video for "IN THE WALLS", a track
from the bands anticipated new release "DECENNIUM", unleashed 5/5/2017
via NAPALM RECORDS.
FROM SEVEN KINGDOMS:
Ukrainian blackened death doom metal warriors 1914 have posted a video for "1916 (THE SUDTIROL OFFENSIVE) ", a track from the bands anticipated new release "VIRIBUS UNITUS", due to be unleashed 11/14/2025 via NAPALM RECORDS.
1914 have announced MY DYING BRIDE'S AARON STAINTHORPSE as guest on the bands anticipated new release
1914 have announced new drummer "IHOR"..
Ukrainian blackened death doom metal warriors 1914 have announced the
band has CANCELLED the anticipated WINTER 2025 EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
WITH KATLA.
1914 unleashed "WHERE FEAR AND WEAPONS MEET", 10/22/2021 via NAPALM RECORDS.
FROM NAPALM RECORDS:
FROM 1914:
BRENT HINDS, former guitarist of Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. based alternative hard rock warriors MASTODON died in a motorcycle accident 8/20/2025 at 51.
In March of 2025, MASTODON announced they have mutually parted ways with guitarist BRENT HINDS.
MASTODON unleashed "EMPEROR OF SAND", 3/31/2017 via REPRISE RECORDS.
FROM BLABBERMOUTH.NET and ATLANTA NEWS FIRST:
According to Atlanta News First, former MASTODON guitarist Brent Hinds was killed in a car crash in southeast Atlanta, Georgia Wednesday night (August 20). He was 51 years old. The Fulton County medical examiner's office reportedly confirmed his death.
FROM MASTODON:
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