TORNADO are gearing up for the release of their debut album Amsterdamn Hellsinki, which has been postponed to a mid-June release date in Europe.  

LISTENABLE RECORDS has announed the signing of genuine Swedish death metal band TORMENTED featuring members of SCAR SYMMETRY, ex-MARDUK and DEVIAN. TORMENTED started playing 2008 with no other intentions than creating Death Metal that they themselves wanted to hear. Although TORMENTED may sound old-school it is not deliberately so, this is pure Death Metal!  

W.B. has announced the digital release of Mortal Kombat, the original movie that inspired a generation of video game movies.  

Following up on the success of last year’s reissue of the classic Winter Of Sin, Abyss Records is proud to unearth yet another treasure from Norwegian black/death metal warlocks FESTER. Abyss has reincarnated FESTER’s 1994 masterpiece Silence on digi-CD. The reissue comes completely remixed, remastered and repackaged and features all nine original tracks and a live version of the song “Persecution” recorded in 1991.  

Poland’s blackened death metal brigade HATE have been touring the US and Canada for the past month in support of their newly released opus EREBOS!    Here is a comment from HATE frontman ATF Sinner:   

As recently announced Metal Mind Productions will release the debut album of a young but very promising Polish band J.D. Overdrive. The album entitled “Sex, Whiskey & Southern Blood” consists of ten tracks (plus a fancy intro) filled with American dirt, including their own interpretation of Jimi Hendrix’ classic – “Purple Haze”.  

 Warner Bros. Digital Distribution and Machinima.com today announced the original digital media series “Mortal Kombat: Legacy” premiered to over five million views since its debut last Tuesday making it one of the most watched films on YouTube over the past week.    

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at X-Men #12, chapter two in the First To Last X-epic from the superstar creative team of, Chris Yost, Paco Medina and Dalibor Talijic. The mysterious Evolutionaries have arrived on the shores of Utopia and only Cyclops and the X-Men can put an end to their plans of relentless destruction.  

Up and coming death metal overlords Dark Descent Records are proud to announce the signing of American Death Metal act FATHER BEFOULED for the release of their third album on CD and LP formats.  

CHAOS RECORDS proudly announce the signing of Swedish Death Metal band deluxe BLOOD MORTIZED for their upcoming EP entitledBESTIAL. The EP was recorded, mixed, mastered and produced by drummer Mattias Borgh at Underworld Recording, Sweden. Featuring artwork from Thomas Kynst and Daniel Devilish the four track EP is slated for a June/July 2011 release on both CD and Vinyl format.  

In support of their critically acclaimed, seventh full length album “The Great Mass,” SEPTICFLESH are coming to destroy a town near you! The new masters of darkness are ready to unleash their Greek form of debauchery and mayhem, as Guitar World and Revolver bring you Children of Bodom, with SEPTICFLESH, Devin Townsend and Obscura!  

For Soundgarden fans, this is a moment they’ve been waiting for: since the band’s final show in Hawaii in 1997, fans have hoped that Matt Cameron, Chris Cornell, Ben Shepherd, and Kim Thayil would once again take their exalted rock show on the road. This summer, Soundgarden will do just that.