Horror Pain Gore Death Productions will release a split 7-inch record from PA Black Metal blasphemers The Beyond and Indiana’s Death Metal/Punk beasts The Lurking Corpses, entitled Gross Encounters of the Sacrificial Rite, on February 14th 2012. You can reserve your copy for only $7 including shipping at this location.
Legendary thrash band, OVERKILL have announced their next full length entitled “The Electric Age” due out on eOne Music March 27, 2012. The record will be released in Europe on Nuclear Blast Records on March 30, 2012. The band will tour the US this spring on their very own KILLFEST 2 this spring in support.
Arizona’s most maniacal death metal act, REIGN OF VENGEANCE, will soon team up with Ironclad recording artists TURBID NORTH for the “The Arctic Brutality and Bloodshed Mini-Tour,” which is set to take place during the last part of January. Ethnic De Generation will serve as direct support for the tour, with local openers at each stop.
Deep in the heart of Hell Paso Texas, MINISTRY’s Al Jourgensen re-opened the doors of his industrial compound studio in Fall 2011 and invited his favorite co-conspirators Mike Scaccia (Rigor Mortis), Tony Campos (Static X), Tommy Victor (Prong) and Casey Orr (Rigor Mortis/Gwar) to climb on board the Ministry pirate ship and de-construct and re-construct Jourgensen’s monsterpiece Relapse.
With all that’s been going on in DC comics lately it can be easy to forget about the goings-on within the other facets of comic book geek-dom (of which there are many.) How well have you kept up with what’s happening in the world of action figures and character statuary? Where there are new looks for classic characters and new eras in their many universes there will also be newly-designed must-have collectibles to mark the changing times. To help keep you from missing your chance to own that Limited Edition statue you know you’ve just gotta have, here’s a little bit of what DC Direct has been up to and what they’re releasing soon:
Growing up, I always thought that I was the only one who liked comic books and superhero cartoons, which I watched early in the morning before heading to school. On Saturday morning, I would get up, bright eyed and bushy tailed to watch all those comic book superhero shows like Super Friends, Spiderman and His Amazing Friends and Gobots. So it was refreshing to know that there were others just like me who were inspired by the superheroes I watched jumping off the screen. One of those was Michael E. Uslan, which he describes in his recent book “The Boy Who Loved Batman”.