The first thing I will say about The Dark Knight Rises is “Don’t Believe the Hype”. This movie is not epic, ground breaking, one of the greatest movies of all time, as the critics would have you believe. This movie reminds me a bit of The God Father III, the immensely flawed finally in The Godfather Trilogy.
Following 23 shows and 19 flights throughout Europe, today pioneering Florida death metal merchants OBITUARY are pleased to unveil the official routing of their first North American headlining tour in over three years! Brought to you by Rock The Nation and sponsored by Fender, the Carnival Of Death Tour 2012 will kick off in Orlando, Florida and tear its way through 20 cities. Further sonic battery will come from reunited DM behemoths Broken Hope as well as Decrepit Birth, Jungle Rot and Encrust, making it among the year’s most relentlessly brutal old school metal package tours.
Image Comics and Top Cow Productions are excited to announce the highly anticipated return of CYBER FORCE, in celebration of the title’s twentieth anniversary, in October 2012. Comics legend and Top Cow founder Marc Silvestri returns to the property that helped launch his company and Image Comics as co-writer, art director, and cover artist, spearheading his unique vision for the new series.
Mark your calendars! Western Massachusetts heavy weights THE ACACIA STRAIN will release their new album entitled “Death Is The Only Mortal” on October 9th via Rise Records. The band have been in the studio writing and recording for the past couple of months, right up until they had to leave for tour and are pleased to have guitarist Daniel Laskiewicz (DL) at the helm of producing and recording the album.
Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, poet, political activist and System Of A Down front man Serj Tankian has announced an international tour with his solo band, The FCC. The October tour kicks off in London on 10/2 and stops in Germany, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, France, Luxembourg and the Czech Republic before wrapping up back in Berlin. A full list of the dates is below.
Robert Kirkman’s Eisner Award-winning The Walking Dead comic series for Image Comics/Skybound reached its milestone 100th issue and instantly sold out of its 383,612 initial orders on July 11th, the same day it was released, effectively becoming the best-selling comic book in initial orders for any publisher since 1997, when Image Comics/Top Cow’s The Darkness #11 was released.
Comic heads were all abuzz this weekend with the new Marvel unleashed at this years San Diego Comic Con. The big surprise was the announcement of The Guardians Of The Galaxy coming in 2014. This is a somewhat of a surprise as Disney/Marvel will be taking somewhat of a a risk on a very limited known property in the Marvel Universe. The saving grace is the tie in value to super baddie THANOS. Other tent pole properties announced were Captain America: Winter Soldier, Iron Man 3 and Ant-Man. Stay tuned to metalmachine.net for more up to the minute comic book news and info. Check out all the picks below…
