Dynamite Entertainment has acquired the Chaos! Comics’ library and all assets associated such as Evil Ernie, Smiley the Psychotic Button, Chastity, Purgatori, Jade, Omen, Bad Kitty, Cremator, and Lady Demon, with the exception of Lady Death. Chaos! Comics was the leading independent comics publisher of the 1990’s, achieving over thirty million dollars in sales in eight languages.  

When Skeletonwitch passed through Long Island on Cannibal Corpse’s Evisceration Plague tour, I was able to spend some time with guitarist Scott Hedrick. We talked all things Skeletonwitch from their touring adventures to album recording and the importance of the fans of Heavy Metal.  

    “Nightmare,” the new single from Southern California’s Avenged Sevenfold, is the No. 1 Most Added track at Active Rock Radio in the United States this week.  It is also the No. 1 Rock Song on iTunes in the United States selling over 23,666 units in its first day.  Additionally, across the pond in the United Kingdom, “Nightmare” is the No. 1 Rock Song on iTunes.  

In August, Nick Spencer — the writer behind the critically acclaimed titles EXISTENCE, FORGETLESS and SHUDDERTOWN — will school readers in sci-fi, mystery, and teen angst with MORNING GLORIES, an all new series published by Image Comics.  

Legendary doom band PENTAGRAM have just announced the Southern US tour dates with Relapse recording artist BLACK TUSK. This tour will kick-off in Raleigh, NC and finish at the Maryland Deathfest.  A listing of confirmed tour dates and cities can be found below.  

Boston video game metal masters POWERGLOVE have signed a North American deal with E1 Music. The band will be releasing a new full-length album this fall. “We are all extremely proud to announce E1 as our new label. And really, what better label for us than one who is home to both In Flames and the Sesame Street catalogue?” says POWERGLOVE.  

  Chicago’s purveyors of “Pure Armafuckinggeddon Soulraping Black Metal” have returned with their most vile and vicious onslaught on USBM to date. Through roster shifts and the strife of surviving a trendfucking scene, the long-running Ezurate are standing stronger than ever.  

Virgin Records will release Saving Abel’s MISS AMERICA on June 8, 2010. The follow-up to the band’s breakthrough debut has reached critical mass via strong support at radio, adds at key video channels, and a world tour that has been underway for three months.  

ISIS has reached an end. It’s hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn’t something that occurred over night and it hasn’t been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band.  

  Arriving in your in-boxes is the new self-titled three-way split release from DESOLATEVOID, THE LAST VAN ZANT (featuring members of BIRDS OF PREY), and THE PARISH (featuring a member of WARTORN), courtesy of Crimes Against Humanity Records.  

After months of strategy development, covert intelligence gathering, and nonstop live fire drills, Germany’s LIFELESS has readied its troops and will launch a worldwide invasion on June 8th with Beyond the Threshold of Death through Ibex Moon Records.  

The day has finally come. Are you ready for the pummeling brutality that is Splatter Pattern? The newest release from one of Illinois heaviest, Low Twelve, drops today (May 18th, 2010). Don’t pass up on the album that Brutalism.com touted for its “infectious melodies, brutal snarls, and a marriage between groovecore and grindcore…”