U.S. Heavy Metal powerhouse BENEDICTUM has made “Bang” available for streaming at www.stereokiller.com/benedictum. Featuring Rudy Sarzo (Quiet Riot) on bass, “Bang!” is a quintessential anthem of defiance and one hell of a grooving slam. Vocalist Veronica Freeman calls it “my non-Prom song for those of us who didn’t make the cut… or even those who did but were totally misunderstood.  

Hey there True Believers, here’s your official list of comic books, hitting the Marvel Comics app on June 1, 2011. Now fans can experience their favorite Marvel heroes bursting into action on your iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch!  

Entertainment Weekly dubbed him a “Geek God.” TV Guide seems to document his every move. Firefly/Serenity fans follow him in any direction he goes.  

         On June 14th, Warner Bros. Records will release the album… to the hotly anticipated motion picture Transformers: Dark of the Moon – the third film in the Oscar®-nominated summer blockbuster Transformers series, which hits theaters nationwide on June 29th. The album will feature the rock radio mix of “Awake & Alive” from Skillet, which earned the band their first No. 1 Active Rock hit. The track was also the first No. 1 Active Rock hit to feature female vocals in the charts nearly 14-year history.  

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Mystic #1, from writer G. Willow Wilson  and rising star penciller David López featuring the lush colors of artist Nathan Fairbairn . The fate of a world powered by the combination of mystic arts and technology rests in the hands of two seemingly ordinary orphan girls.  

Multinational Heavy Metallers POWERWOLF have launched a landing page where you can check into several pre-order options as well as listening to the brand new song Sanctified With Dynamite taken off their upcoming fourth longplayer ‘Blood Of The Saints’! Surf over to http://www.metalblade.com/powerwolf/ to check it out!  

“Malenchanments of the Necrosphere “now live on Alt Press. Weeklong tour with Beast in the Field starts 6/1. Pre-orders still available The face-melting Detroit quintet, THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER (TBDM), has just released the final single from Ritual, the band’s fifth full-length album hitting streets June 21st in North America and June 17/20 in Europe. Hosting the exclusive worldwide premiere of the track Malenchanments of the Necrosphere is none other than Alternative Press Magazine. Check out the track HERE and be sure to leave a comment and spread the word.  

Fresh from successfully securing a production budget using the Kickstarter crowd-funding website, Slave Pit Inc., the production company behind intergalactic shock-rockers GWAR, have begun work on the new episode of their original animated puppet-comedy show, “The Blood Vomits”. Shooting is expected to wrap before GWAR leaves for Europe on the latest-leg of their “Bloody Tour of Horror”, and editing will be done by the time they return in late June.  

This year, change is in the air at DC Comics. On Wednesday, August 31st, DC Comics will launch a historic renumbering of the entire DC Universe line of comic books with 52 first issues, including the release of JUSTICE LEAGUE by NEW YORK TIMES bestselling writer and DC Entertainment Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns and bestselling artist and DC Comics Co-Publisher Jim Lee.  

In today’s music “industry,” it seems that most bands are compromising their artistic expression for fear of alienating radio program directiors and record company executives. Few recording artists are willing to step up and record what they truly feel.  

Featuring THREAT SIGNAL’s Travis Montgomery, NOCICPETOR delivers the goods with pummeling, unrelenting groove metal. Mandatory for all djentlemen.  

TOMBS are streaming their brand new album Path Of Totality as an exclusive first listen at NPR.org.