HOUR OF PENANCE commented: “We’re really excited to announce that Hour of Penance signed a new deal with Agonia Records. The first friut of our cooperation, a new album, is coming in 2019. It’s great to be part of a label that has always been focused on quality extreme metal and it’s the right place to spread our music and brutalize the ears of extreme metal fans all over the world with the new songs we’ve composed. We’re working very hard to bring you our finest and best sounding album so far and we cannot wait to start recording. More details will be revealed in the upcoming months, so keep your eyes open”.  

With the end of 2018 drawing near, most bands are staying under the radar and getting ready for the new year. That’s not the case with symphonic deathcore band, The Convalescence as they are proud to announce they have signed to Legend Recordings.  

And there came a day unlike any other, when Earth’s Mightiest Heroes found themselves united…collected into one mighty, epic, and spectacular boxset! AVENGERS: EARTH’S MIGHTIEST BOX SET SLIPCASE contains the Avengers’ greatest hits, starting with complete adventures from the original line-up: Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Ant-Man, the Wasp, and Captain America! Experience everything from the team’s cosmic battles in the Kree/Skrull War to their team-up with the Defenders, culminating in the shocking events of AVENGERS: DISASSEMBLED!  

Asking Alexandria, one of the most streamed, downloaded, watched, and altogether listened to bands in a generation, have today released a brand new live video for their hugely successful single ‘Alone In A Room’. Having spent 28 weeks on the Active Rock Radio charts and peaking at #7, ‘Alone In A Room’ is the band’s 3rd top ten hit at rock radio and has amassed a whopping 16.3 million streams on Spotify with the official music video having clocked up 6.3 million views on Youtube to date.  

Fresh off a successful tour throughout Texas, an EP that garnered widespread play on digital and terrestrial radio, and numerous awards, including winner of the WILDFLOWER FEST! Battle of the Bands, Best Guitarist (Trent Cruickhshank), and Best Bassist (Jack Zukoski), 40,000+ spins on Spotify, and airplay on numerous radio stations including KFAI, KMSC, KRSC, KEGL, WCSF, WCVF, WLFC, WMFR, WMNF, WMUL, WPRK, WRRC, WVCW, WVMM, WWSU, and WWUH, the band Weather King has released their second single, Jejune Bug.  

Image Comics is pleased to announce that long-running, cult-favorite series MAGE by Matt Wagner will feature a special, breathtaking 8-page gatefold in the finale issue of the series, MAGE: THE HERO DENIED #15. This highly collectible issue will bring the series to a stunning conclusion after 35 years of adventure.  

The Age of X-Man dawns…and the X-Men cannot stop it. After the apocalyptic dissolution of the X-Men comes…AGE OF X-MAN!  

Two-time Grammy-nominated and millions-selling progressive music titans Dream Theater recently announced the forthcoming worldwide release of their 14th studio album, Distance Over Time on February 22, 2019. Distance Over Time showcases a newfound creativity for Dream Theater while maintaining the elements that have garnered them devoted fans around the globe. The album also marks the first for the band’s new label InsideOutMusic / Sony Music.  

Finnish melancholy death-doom metal masters Swallow The Sun announces the release of their new album When A Shadow Is Forced Into The Light, which is scheduled for release on January 25th, 2019 via Century Media Records.  

Eisner-nominated writer Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Heartthrob, CROWDED), Joshua Hixson (The Black Woods), and Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (Felix & Macabber) will release a trade paperback collection of SHANGHAI RED, their cutthroat historical fiction miniseries, this January from Image Comics. Red is one of hundreds of people who were shanghaied out of Portland in the late 1800s. Drugged, kidnapped, and sold to a ship’s captain for $50, she woke up trapped on a boat headed out to sea—for years. Now, she’s coming home to find her family and track down the men responsible for stealing her life out from under her. This blood-soaked tale of revenge, family, and identity stretches from the deck of a ship outside... 

Desert Rock frontman extraordinaire, JOHN GARCIA, has just released“Chicken Delight“, the first single of the new album John Garcia And The Band Of Gold. Today the Kyuss legend unveils the official lyric video for the relaxed groover straight out of the desert!  

Farel Dalrymple (The Wrenchies, POP GUN WAR) will release PROXIMA CENTAURI, VOL. 1—collecting the first six issues of his psychedelic science-fantasy action drama—this January from Image Comics.