CROWBAR will be hitting the road hard next week along side BLACK TUSK. Dates will span most of the eastern seaboard through the middle of December. All tour dates are below. Tickets info can be found here http://mysp.ac/9MusSf  

Eternal Descent comic book Issue #5 featuring guitarists Dan Jacobs and Travis Miguel of popular metal band Atreyu is now on sale.  

  A special VIP ticket package is now on sale for Cradle Of Filth’s first US tour since 2009, a headlining run on the “FEARnet and Decibel Presents: Creatures From The Black Abyss Tour”.  The VIP ticket package is available exclusively through Artist Arena at: http://tixx1.artistarena.com/cradleoffilth/, and includes one general admission ticket, a meet-and-greet with the band, a signed Cradle Of Filth poster, and a commemorative VIP laminate.   

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at What If? #200, the landmark anniversary issue featuring ALL-NEW stories from the legendary Stan Lee along with Marc Guggenheim, Dave Wilkins, and Dale Eaglesham! In the first towering tale of a Marvel Universe that never was, see what would have happened had Norman Osborn’s bloody siege of Asgard actually succeeded.  

Marvel is pleased to announce that superstar artist Dale Eaglesham (Fantastic Four) joins New York Times bestselling author Greg Pak on Incredible Hulk this February! The new team launches headfirst into “Planet Savage” – a new three-part story arc starting with Incredible Hulk #623.  

DESPISED ICON Issue Final Statement Before The Last Six Shows of Their Career Canadian Crushers DESPISED ICON are finishing up their final dates as a band. Soon, one of Canada’s brightest stars will be no more and your last chance to partake in the madness that is a DESPISED ICON live show is around the corner. Alex Erian has issued the following statement about the upcoming final dates:  

Abyss Records is pleased to announce that Swedish doom/death metal act THE GARDNERZ has joined the label’s ever-growing roster. Plans are in place to release the band’s debut, The System Of Nature, in early 2011.  

Eulogy Recordings signs Through the Fire. Through the Fire is a progressive hardcore band from Chicago, IL. The band, in it’s four year presence, built a great local buzz and developed into a national touring act. In 2009 the band released their debut full length on Hotfoot Records “The World At Our Feet”.  

BEHEMOTH “Evangelia Heretika” DVD hits the charts in US and Canada! BEHEMOTH’s latest release, the DVD Evangelia Heretika, which just hit streets on November 9th, has entered the Billboard Charts for first week sales coming in at #15 on the Top Music Video Chart.  

Goatwhore’s Apocalyptic Havoc has been confirmed for the soundtrack for upcoming Xbox 360® and PlayStation® 3 game, SPLATTERHOUSE (Rated “M” for Mature by the ESRB and releasing November 23, 2010). The entire soundtrack consists of some of the best metal that’s out today and fits perfectly with the game’s over-the-top violent imagery. Fans can check out SPLATTERHOUSE trailers, Goatwhore tour dates, videos and order the game right now at metalblade.com/goatwhore!  

Canadian heavy metal legends Anvil have signed a new recording contract with The End Records.  As recently announced, the band is currently recording their upcoming album entitled Juggernaut of Justice at Dave Grohl’s Studio 606 in Northridge, California with famed producer Bob Marlette (Black Sabbath, Airbourne, Filter, Atreyu, Alice Cooper).  Juggernaut is due to be released in Spring 2011.   

DEAD NEON is the primitive nuclear doom metal project of Las Vegas poet Jarret Keene. Inspired by a morbid tour of the Nevada Test Site with only GOATLORD’s Distorted Birth and LEONARD COHEN’s The Future loaded on a half broken iPod, the music of DEAD NEON conjures a dreadful world ravaged by atomic conflict where survivors inevitably succumb to radiation, starvation, each other.