DIR EN GREY will release their 8th studio album DUM SPIRO SPERO 2 years and 10 months after UROBOROS which garnered overwhelming support as the strongest and the maddest record resonating across the globe.  

When YELLOWCARD fans started #YellowcardIsBack on Twitter earlier this year, little did they know just how “back” they really were.  

Enter a world of endless wonder as Syfy’s smash-hit dramedy makes its comic book debut this August! When a series of sudden, unexplained sinkholes appear beneath the streets of Rio de Janeiro, the Warehouse team heads down to Brazil in the middle of Carnival to uncover the cause.  

  It’s been four long years, but hardcore heavyweights, Ringworm, have finally resurrected with their fifth assaulting and vicious album Scars, out July 19th.  Twenty years after their 1991 birth in Cleveland, Ringworm rises above with the brutal new release to remind fans why they are the pioneering visionaries of the hardcore genre known as “crossover.” The extreme hardcore veterans fiercely knock out the competition with the unleashing of their most heavy-hitting, thrash-inspired metal album yet.       

Journey back to the land of Oz as Marvel is pleased to announce Eric Shanower and Skottie Young’s next chapter in their Eisner-winning saga, Dorothy & The Wizard in Oz #1 (of 8)! Set off by the great 1906 San Francisco earthquake Dorothy, joined by her cat Eureka, are transported back to the imaginative new world of Oz where anything is possible! But when Dorothy and her friends find themselves trapped in a realm made of glass, The Wizard of Oz must come to their rescue.  

FUNimation Entertainment announced today that it has acquired rights to distribute the anime series “We Without Wings – Under the Innocent Sky.”  

SEVENDUST was forced to cut their current European tour short over the weekend due to circumstances beyond their control.  The trek was scheduled to conclude June 24 in Madrid.  They’re deeply apologetic to their international fans and hope to see them very soon.   

So, those anticipated “major announcements” from Jim Lee and Geoff Johns at this years Hero Complex turned out to be alot of nothing!  

The mighty Cannibal Corpse will once again be returning to Latin America! This time, they’ll be bringing along label mates The Black Dahlia Murder as well as fellow underground heavyweights Suicide Silence to Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador and Venezuela in December. The tour will begin on December 3rd in Sao Paulo, Brazil and will wrap up on December 13th in Mexico City, Mexico.  

Be sure to head over to MSN.com as the site hosts the worldwide premiere of SISTER’s upcoming album HATED, streaming in its entirety!  

A new era of DC Comics begins as the longest-running monthly comic of all time releases its first issue #1 since 1938.  

Thrash metal quintet, WRETCHED, has officially announced a U.S. summer tour in support of the anniversary of their sophomore album, Beyond The Gate, bringing along two industry-veteran replacements to contribute to the band’s already superior musicianship; new vocalist, Adam Cody, whose GLASS CASKET performance was an early inspiration to the band, and new bassist, Andrew Grevey, formerly of LOCULUS.