German thrash metal legends EXUMER have been confirmed to appear at the Ragnarökkr Metal Apocalypse Festival in Chicago, IL! The fest is scheduled to take place from May 3-4, 2013, and also includes Onslaught, Eldritch, Oz, Omen, and many more. Information and tickets can be found at ragnarokkrmetal.com and facebook.com/RagnarokkrMetal. This appearance will be part of EXUMER’s first full U.S. tour in the band’s 27 year long history, which is scheduled to take place April/May 2013. Dates and details will be announced as they are confirmed.  

Sumthing Else Music Works, the premier label dedicated to licensing and distributing video game soundtracks, and Cartoon Network Enterprises, the global licensing and merchandising arm of the television network, today announced a partnership to release the Ben 10 Omniverse Original Soundtrack from the video game based on the hit animated television series from Cartoon Network. The first release in a multiple-title licensing agreement, Ben 10 Omniverse Original Soundtrack is available today at retail outlets including Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Best Buy and Walmart, and for digital download at Amazon MP3, iTunes® and other digital music sites.  

Royal Thunder, who are currently on tour with Corrosion of Conformity and ASG, will join Monster Magnet for a pair of mid-December dates: Dec. 14 at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in Brooklyn and Dec. 16 at The Trocadero in Philadelphia.  

British Hard Rock legends UFO will be kicking off their North American West Coast tour this Thursday November 15th in Chicago, IL. The band is touring in support of their latest album Seven Deadly which was released earlier this year via Steamhammer/SPV. A complete list of dates can be found below.  

Today VISION OF DISORDER confirms that all the proceeds from their upcoming headlining concert in Brooklyn later this month will be donated to the Red Cross, in the wake of Hurricane Sandy.  

Whitechapel have announced that they will be embarking on a North American co-headlining tour with Emmure! The Brothers of Brutality Tour, presented by Revolver Magazine and Rockstar Energy Drink, will be one of the first tours of 2013. Dates, cities, and support acts will be announced shortly.  

Those of us who love comics can say in all honesty that the coming of the age of technology can go almost without touching our beloved past time. There has only been seen a growing in quality and a speedier production because of the times. However, from a a new stemmed idea comes a concept that could be the first step in a beautiful merger of technology and graphic novels, and it goes by the name of Anomaly.  

To celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Image Comics, many titles published in 2012 have featured special variant covers by G-MAN creator Chris Giarrusso. INVINCIBLE #98 is the latest addition to a list that includes BLOODSTRIKE #32, CBLDF LIBERTY ANNUAL “Spawn” cover, CHEW #29, CYBER FORCE #1, ELEPHANTMEN #44, MORNING GLORIES #23, SAVAGE DRAGON #183, THE WALKING DEAD #103, WITCHBLADE #161, and YOUNGBLOOD #71.  

This February, Cyclops is back in full force in Uncanny X-Men #1, kicking off the all-new ongoing series from the blockbuster creative team of writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Chris Bachalo! As part of Marvel NOW!, Uncanny X-Men joins a number of titles that will take the Marvel Universe in an exciting all-new direction, as the industry’s top creators join the top Super Heroes to deliver all-new ongoing series, great for new and lapsed readers alike!  

Capitalizing on the Zombie phenom of the past 2 years, Now comes the trailer for the movie from what some people have called this centuries grandaddy of all zombie fests…World War Z. World War Z stars Brad Pitt and an all star cast as the earth survives an all out contamination of zombie-ism. Watch below…  

Extreme metal’s most prolific artist Rogga Johansson (Paganizer, Ribspreader, Revolting, Demiurg, Bone Gnawer, etc) has resurrected HUMANITY DELETE, the project he formed in 2003, and has completed debut album Never Ending Nightmares, which is targeted for a December 4th release on Dead Beat Media.  

Many people have a countdown until December 21, 2012.  The time has come for a new countdown: January 12, 2013.  Modern metal juggernauts MUTINY WITHIN have announced the official release date of their long awaited sophomore album, Synchronicity, for January 12, 2013.