INEVITABLE END are currently streaming their brand new album The Oculus online now at HailsAndHorns.com. The Oculus was recorded at HoBoRec Studio in Huskvarna, Sweden with producer Ulf Blomberg and will see its North American release next Tuesday, May 24th. Video footage of INEVITABLE END at HoBoRec can be viewed now at this location.  

Madrid, Spain’s LOOKING FOR AN ANSWER has posted “Cheerleaders Para El Armagedon” taken from their forthcoming album Eterno Treblinka online now via the band’s MySpace and Facebook pages. Eterno Treblinka, which shares a title with the Charles Patterson book about animal rights, was recorded at FDS and VRS studios in Madrid and was engineered by Samuel Ruiz.  

EARTH CRISIS have scheduled their hardest hitting piece of work in recent memory, ‘Neutralize the Threat’ for a July 12th release date. The most controversial band in hardcore also teamed with artist Ryan Clark to create the artwork surrounding the latest album culminating in the outstanding cover that is pictured here.  

VILDHJARTA SIGN WORLDWIDE RECORD DEAL WITH CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS It is with great pleasure that Century Media announces the worldwide signing of Swedish progenitors, VILDHJARTA! One of the most respected bands in the scene today, VILDHJARTA mixes ambient, peaceful moments with brutal and dark music to create some of the most awe inspiring and unique musical output in modern metal.  

Which way will Superman fly in the 21st century? DC Entertainment’s own superheroes Geoff Johns and Jim Lee tackle this and other comic book questions Saturday, June 11 at the Hero Complex Film Festival in Hollywood.  

As regular readers of these collected editions will know, I sketch out pretty much all of the cover roughs for this series in my notebook at the start of the creative process. Here are the last of those scribbled ideas, alongside the polished, professional finished versions by Frank Quitely.  

While those of us who are left behind are facing whatever this “apocalypse” may mean, I did want to say a little farewell to someone who meant a lot to me as a kid. It’s not my usual comic agenda, but please read along as I bid a fond adieu to perhaps the only straight man who could get away with all of that spandex, fringe and bedazzled clothing.  

THE SOURCE: In issue one of the WORLD OF FLASHPOINT, we see the impact of the war on real world locations including Paris and New York.  

WINDS OF PLAGUE have been riding high since unleashing their latest and heaviest work yet, ‘Against the World’.  

Colorado’s Allegaeon has recently confirmed a string of tour dates in support of their album Fragments Of Form And Function.  

Sean Ryan’s one-shot, FLASHPOINT: GRODD OF WAR, takes its readers on a trip to a war-ravaged Africa. Led by his hunger for violence and power, Grodd has successfully taken over the continent and has been made king of all the land. With plans for expanding his empire globally, Grodd is not a character to be overlooked.  

The tale of FRANKENSTEIN is unarguably timeless. So how does one take such a culturally recognized figure and alter him within the world of FLASHPOINT? Stepping up to the plate is fan-favorite creator Jeff Lemire, whose miniseries FLASHPOINT: FRANKENSTEIN & THE CREATURES OF THE UNKNOWN sets the legendary monster in the heart of World War II.