Earth’s greatest super heroes face foes on all fronts – using a plan initiated from within – in the all-new Justice League: Doom, the next entry in the popular, ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies. Produced by Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation, the all-new, PG-13 rated film arrives February 28, 2012  

With the recent announcement from Marvel of the up coming Avengers vs. X-Men, we here at metalmachine.net decided to size up both teams in the era that this battle would truly be seismic.  

Next week, the road to Avengers VS X-Men begins in Avengers X-Sanction #1 from the blockbuster creative team of Jeph Loeb and Ed McGuinness! And just in time to witness Cable go head to head against Earth’s Mightiest  

Hatebreed’s Frank Novinec sat down with us recently on a NY stop on the the bands current tour, with Five Finger Death Punch and All That Remains. Frank talked all things music, internet and life on the road.  

Image Editor/Exec Says Marvel’s Next Big Thing’s Really Just the Same Old S#!t Writer/Editor/Executive Director of Image Comics Eric Stephenson wasted no time in making his feelings known about Marvel Comics announcement regarding AVENGERS VS  X-MEN; the supposedly momentous 12-issue series that’s due out this coming April. On his personal blog the day after the announcement he scornfully states “Marvel has announced that the next big thing from the House of Ideas is a new version of this” and posts this image: This is, of course, the cover of issue #1 of the 4 issue miniseries with the same name written by Roger Stern, Tom DeFalco, and Jim Shooter with art by Marc Silvestri, Keither Pollard, and... 

Peter Berg (Hancock) produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force.  

Portland, Oregon doom-gazers MEGATON LEVIATHAN, who completed a successful run of tour dates with cerebral black metal behemoths Wolves In The Throne Room this summer, are set to begin work on their as-yet-untitled new full-length. The record, which includes a “smacked-out version of Judas Priest’s ‘Here Comes The Tears,'” according to the band, will be unleashed during the latter half of 2012.  

New Jersey-based experimental progressive rock outfit SO IS THE TONGUE are preparing to release their sophomore LP, A Child Of Divorce, this January via indie imprint Nefarious Industries.  

After nearly four years without a new release, ambidextrous sludge purveyors SAMOTHRACE were in Soundhouse Studios in their hometown of Seattle with producer Brandon Fitzsimmons (ex-Wormwood) to being the recording of their second LP.  

deathcrust ensemble BOMBS OF HADES are the latest addition to the ever-pummeling Pulverised Records roster! Spawned in 2002 as a crustpunk act, BOMBS OF HADES quickly mutated into a gristly old-school Swedish death metal direction, while still retaining a strong d-beat/crust vibe.  

Monster Energy Presents DimeBash 2011 Featuring Many of the Hard Rock World’s Biggest Names As They Join Together to Celebrate the Music of “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and Metal Classics He Loved with all Proceeds Benefiting the Ronnie James Dio Stand Up & Shout Cancer Fund  

Multi-platinum rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers will be 2012 inductees into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which honors legendary artists who have defined rock and roll and have inspired and continue to inspire a generation. To be eligible for nomination, performers must have released their first single or album at least 25 years before the year of nomination. Formed in Hollywood, California in 1983, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are one of the most flamboyant, commercially successful, and musically influential bands of rock’s last quarter century. Singer Anthony Kiedis, bassist Michael Balzary a/k/a Flea, guitarist Hillel Slovak, and drummer Jack Irons were high-school pals who combined their passions...