Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Thor #620, from the acclaimed superstar creative team of Matt Fraction and Pasqual Ferry! The massive battle for the World Tree reaches its boiling point as the dark gods, bent on reducing the earth to a cinder, have finally breached the mortal plane!  

  Written by Jen Van Meter and drawn by Edgar Salazar, the Red Sonja: Break the Skin one-shot is a must-read! In the story hitting comic shops this coming April, it looked like such a simple job: Zepur, a princess of the nomadic Talakma Horsemen, sought Sonja’s sword to defeat an unwelcome suitor and his army.  

After 17 long years, the progressive metal forefathers return to the North American tour trail! ATHEIST are personally delivering the monumental sounds of the critically acclaimed new album “Jupiter” to seven lucky cities.  

  By The Scarlet Avenger So it seems all this excitement about the upcoming Avengers movie is hitting full stride. We have Captain America: The First Avenger front and center followed by Thor this year. Those two movies are the latest in the set up for next years Avengers epic. (The first being Iron Man)  

Four of the heaviest bands of all time, share one stage for the one and only U.S. appearance, Saturday April 23rd 2011 – Empire Polo Club, Indio, CA  

  Portland, Oregon’s Across The Sun recorded their Metal Blade Records debut album, Before The Night Takes Us, with producer Daniel Castleman at Lambesis Studios in San Diego, CA. The album is the culmination of seven years of recording, touring and polishing their sound.  

  We are happy and relieved to inform you, that Nergal left the hematology division of Uniwersyteckie Centrum Kliniczne (UCK) in Gdansk on Monday, January 17th, four weeks after he underwent a bone marrow transplant procedure. Below you can find his comment:  

Indianapolis-based North American metal label Abyss Recordsis pleased to announce it has joined forces with Sweden’s Sound Pollution to distribute all Abyss Records artists and titles throughout Europe.  

Static Age Records has set March 22nd as the release date for THE GUN SHOW‘s debut full-length album Discontentment. Recorded in late 2010 with producer Brian “Bone” Thorburn (Haste The Day), the album features a guest appearance by A Plea For Purging‘s Andy Atkins on the track “Negligence”.   

The Vampires are coming, The Vampires are coming! To the Marvel Universe that is. As Marvel comics gears up for their 2011 event book “Fear Itself” Marvel has issued the first picture of an important character involved in the up coming series.  

   Texas horde HOD will join forces with MARDUK, AURA NOIR, BLACK ANVIL and PANZERFAUST for this summer’s “Seven Bowls Of Wrath” tour, which kicks off in late May.  

Wizard Entertainment has shut down Wizard Magazine effective immediately. News of this has been hitting the internet all day. Most writers and editorial staff have been let go. Sister publication Toy Fair will has also been shut down.