According to social media, Suicidal Tendencies will team up for this year’s Headbangers Ball-sponsored tour, with support from three legendary thrash metal acts Exodus, Flotsam and Jetsam and Annihilator.

No dates have been revealed yet, but an Exodus fan Facebook page simply says, “Stay tuned…”

Suicidal Tendencies will release a new EP in March called Get Your Fight On!. It’s one of the two releases they are releasing this year. The band’s follow-up to 2016’s World Gone Mad is expected to be released this summer.

Metal icons Slayer have announced that, after 37 years together, they are “making their exit” with a “final world tour.”

The band made an announcement this morning, saying: “Slayer to tour the world one more time…,” and they confirmed on their official website that they will embark on what will be their final U.S. tour this summer, with support from Lamb of God, Anthrax, Behemoth and Testament. We’ll keep you posted as official tour dates come to light.

A 30-second video clip of Slayer confirming that they will embark on their final tour together can be viewed below.

Slayer’s most recent studio album, Repentless, was released in September 2015 on Nuclear Blast. It was their first album since 2009’s World Painted Blood, and their first one with Exodus guitarist Gary Holt as the replacement of the Jeff Hanneman, who died in 2013.

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Apple Valley hardcore punks Stay Wild have announced a run of West Coast dates next month. The support for the ten date tour is Pity Party and Dying For It. Full details of the tour are below.

The band’s newest EP “livelearnlove” was released last year on Panic State Records.

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Austin Texas Pop-punks Breaklights have released a new EP, “Don’t Try So Hard”, via Wiretap Records. The 6 song affair is available on 12″ (limited to 100 press) via the label now.

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Dutch hardcore mainstays Born From Pain have released a video for new single “Rebirth”. The track is taken from an upcoming, as-yet-untitled album due out later this year on BDHW Records. The track is the first since 2014’s “Dance With The Devil”.

You can watch the video below.
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Sheffield, UK’s crossover quintet Malevolence have released a video for the title track of last year’s “Self Supremacy” LP. The album was released in May on BDHW Records.

You can watch the video and see details of the band’s upcoming European and UK tour below.
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First-wave Austin, TX punk trio Terminal Mind have released a retrospective collection. “Recordings” comprises the short lived band’s 4-song 7″, “Live At Raul’s” compilation cuts and unreleased studio and live recordings from 1979-1981.

You can order the vinyl version now – and have a listen to the whole thing below.
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La Armada, the Dominican Republic outfit now settled in Chicago, are to release a new album, “Anti-Colonial Vol.1”, via Creep Records (US) and Epidemic Records (Europe) on March 30th. Pre-orders for various formats are up now. Ahead of the album, the band have released a video for the single “Fire”.

You can watch “Fire” below as well as seeing dates for their upcoming Propagandhi support tour.

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Recently reformed Manchester, UK indie punks The Maple State have detailed their upcoming album “The Things I Heard At The Party” and are streaming “Something In The Water”, the second single ahead of the album.

The ten song affair is out on 23rd March, with pre-orders for both the vinyl and digital downloads up now on the band’s Bandcamp. You can see the album details and have a listen to “Something In The Water”, along with the album title track, below.

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Worcester, UK’s angular hardcore exports Fights and Fires are celebrating their 10th anniversary as a band and have re-released their 2009 EP ‘Will It Be My Curse’, with a few bonus tracks, to mark the event. The EP, which has been out of print for a long time, will be accompanied by rare tracks ‘Smoke And Mirrors’ and ‘East Coast Collective’.

You can get the nine-song release on all the usual digital platforms, including Spotify.