Alice Cooper’s widely anticipated new album, Welcome 2 My Nightmare, will be released September 13, 2011, by Universal Music Enterprises. Recorded with longtime collaborator Bob Ezrin, who produced the original multi-platinum Welcome To My Nightmare album in 1975, the album picks up right where they left off, with Alice trapped in his own warped mind.  

HATEBREED have confirmed a handful of tour dates on the “SHARE THE WELT TOUR” supporting FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH and ALL THAT REMAINS. Tickets for these dates go on sale this weekend to the general public  

Pop culture history will be made tomorrow as Ultimate Comics Fallout #4 hits shelves and introduces readers to the all-new Ultimate Comics Spider-Man! That’s right, for the first time ever, someone other than Peter Parker will be Spider-Man! But, after the death of Peter Parker, who will rise up to defend the Ultimate Universe?  

Through the intense element of murder mystery, science fiction and fantasy, Dark Horse Comics releases a truly astonishing and quite thrilling four-piece series, The Strange Case of Dr. Hyde. Think you’ve heard the story of good doctor gone brutal mass murderer? Think again.  

Underworld Records has set August 15th as the date on which EXCOMMUNICATED debut album Skeleton Key will be unleashed. Compositionally dynamic, atmospherically insidious, and impossible to forget, this is Louisiana blackened death that lacerates the soul and burns into the brain.  

Gothenburg, Sweden based metallers AGE OF WOE will release its self-titled debut 7″ digitally this autumn via Pivotal Rockordings. Consisting of members of END OF ALL, MASSMORD, THE PROCESS and NO HAWAII,  the band is fueled by the desire to explore new soundscapes in the vast landscapes of punk and metal, leaving the Gothenburg sound in the dust.   

Puddle Of Mudd’s version of The Rolling Stones classic “Gimme Shelter” will be the first single from their forthcoming album re:(disc)overed. The track will be made available on iTunes beginning tomorrow, August 2nd.