Progressive drone project BLACKWOLFGOAT will release the fittingly titled Drone Maintenance full-length late next month via volume powerhouse, Small Stone Recordings. BLACKWOLFGOAT is the solo vessel of guitarist Darryl Shepard (Black Pyramid, The Scimitar, Hackman, Milligram, Roadsaw). Shepard’s previous two outings, 2010’s Dragonwizardsleeve and 2011’s Dronolith, established BLACKWOLFGOAT‘s modus operandi of looped guitar movements, building and layering upon each other to create compositions of dense distortion and delicate lines, as well as purely ambient pieces. Engineering and mixing duties were handled by Glenn Smith (Tired Old Bones Ehnahre, Ichabod et al) at his Amps vs. Ohms studios... 

Two years after leveling the expectations of critics and listeners alike with Atma, Portland doom bringers, YOB, prepare to unleash Clearing The Path To Ascend, an aptly titled album for what will undoubtedly be the crowning achievement for a band whose journey now nears two decades of creating music as commanding as it is cathartic. As is the YOB way, the tracks here don’t simply offer a vacuous glimpse into the already riff-soaked doom genre. These songs demand the tandem attention of mind, body, and soul – etching a mark across a sound that finds YOB as formidable and unequaled as they’ve ever been. True ascension requires a destruction of those barriers that prevent any movement forward. Unsurprisingly,... 

Dutch necromantic death metal act, AntropomorphiA, are ready to unleash their new album ‘Rites Of Perversion‘ upon mankind!  

Southern Lord today dispatches the full details for Poison Everything, the debut full-length from Southern California’s unhinged punk/hardcore outfit, OBLITERATIONS.  

Iconic New York death metal tyrants INTERNAL BLEEDING will release their long-anticipated new full-length, Imperium, to the masses this Fall via Unique Leader Records.  

Eat Lead and Die Music is pleased to announce the impending release of MONSTERWORKS Overhaul on August ??, 2014. The album will be available as a download and 180g gatefold vinyl signed by the band, with lyrics. “Trial of the Sentient” streaming now at this location. Vocalist/Guitarist Jon had this to say about the themes surrounding the album: “This is our follow up to Monsterworks :: Universe from earlier this year. It was hard to go thematically vaster than the Universe, so we took a step back and started looking at mankind and civilization itself. Overhaul is effectively about the change we have to go through as a species in the hope of avoiding annihilation. There are definitely some common... 

The lineup and running order for the massive SOUTHWEST TERROR FEST III: THE WESTERN FRONT aimed to overthrow Tucson, Arizona from October 16th through 19th has been finalized and announced.  

Today, The Onion’s A.V. Club explores the depraved burrow in which Portland’s RABBITS inhabits, letting loose a dirge-strewn new single from their upcoming third LP, Untoward, nearing release on Lamb Unlimited.  

Today at Comic-Con International: San Diego, Ubisoft® debuted a new animated short about the French Revolution and inspired by the upcoming video game Assassin’s Creed Unity created by the unlikely duo of famed musician and master of horror Rob Zombie and artist Tony Moore, co-creator of The Walking Dead.  

ENCHANT, the Bay Area’s long-running prog rock institution, founded in 1989, have completed work on their much-anticipated comeback release after ten years of silence.  

Spinning out of the show-stopping announcement at this year’s Licensing Expo, Rovio Entertainment and Hasbro, Inc. have teamed up to bring together two of the world’s largest and most popular entertainment brands with ANGRY BIRDS TRANSFORMERS! This fall, IDW will bring the mayhem to comics with the brand-new series, ANGRY BIRDS TRANSFORMERS, expanding on the unexpected backgrounds of this explosive crossover! “Comics offer an ideal medium for telling the stories of these improbable but totally convincing mash-up characters from two enormously popular creations,” said Rovio’s Editor-in-Chief, Comics Jukka Heiskanen. “Blending action with humor and adventure with mishap, they will excite and delight fans... 

Just in time for Halloween, IDW Publishing and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products are proud to announce the first in a number of new projects together, with the first ever Edward Scissorhands comic book series. The long overdue all-new adventures begin in October, with New York Times best-selling author Kate Leth (Adventure Time) on writing duties and Drew Rausch (Haunted Mansion) lending his delightfully spooky style to the interior art. Rounding out the creative team will be acclaimed Locke & Key artist Gabriel Rodriguez, who will provide a stunning and suitably creepy cover for the debut issue.