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The Legendary Songwriter Who Gave the World “The Roy Orbison Sound” Dies at 91 Joe Melson, the songwriter who penned more than 150 songs with Roy Orbison, died on July 1 of natural causes.

Creator and host of MTV’s iconic '120 Minutes' Dave Kendall has died British-born presenter and journalist Dave Kendall – who created and hosted MTV’s '120 Minutes' – has died.

Decibel is extremely saddened to announce the death of drummer/vocalist Mike Browning, who passed away on July 13, 2026, at the age of 62. A legend of the Florida extreme metal scene, Browning was a co-founder of Morbid Angel with Trey Azgathoth in early ’80s (as well as pre-Morbid Angel acts Ice and Heretic), then briefly performed with Tampa death metallers Incubus before going onto found his own band, the sci-fi death metal act, Nocturnus. The band’s 1990 debut, ‘The Key,’ remains a death metal benchmark to this day. He’d record drums only on one more Nocturnus record, 1992’s ‘Thresholds,’ before splitting with the band in 1992.

Browning spent time in several other Tampa metal acts over the next two decades before forming Nocturnus AD in the 2013. A spiritual successor to Nocturnus’ ‘The Key’ era, the band released a pair of acclaimed albums via Profound Lore Records (‘Paradox’ and ‘Unicursal,’ as well as single via the Decibel Flexi Series in 2024.

Live and die by the sign of The Key! Safe travels on your journey through the cosmos, Mike. You were one of a kind.

Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, Dies at 71 Mr. Graham died of a “brief and sudden” illness on Saturday evening, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.

UK police arrest 26-year-old suspect in the killing of former minister Widdecombe | CNN British police said they had arrested a 26-year-old man on the suspicion of murder in the death of Ann Widdecombe, a 78-year-old former government minister whose death was announced earlier on Friday.