Scottish melancholic post-metallers, FALLOCH, will unveil their long anticipated new full-length via Candlelight Records next month. Titled This Island, Our Funeral, the follow up to 2011’s Where Distant Spirits Remain was tracked at London’s Orgone Studios by Jaime Gomez Arellanu (Ghost, Cathedral, Ulver), and delivers nearly an hour’s worth of dark, chilling odes of atmospheric beauty.  

Columbia South Carolina-based quartet, DISCOURSE, has hooked up with Troy, New York-based hardcore label, Closed Casket Activities, for the release of their first LP, Sanity Decays.  

THE FADE OUT, VOLUME 1, the first collection of Ed Brubaker’s and Sean Phillips’ most ambitious crime noir series to date, is now a title in Image Comics’ Image Introduces line of first volumes, making its new price $9.99.  

New York industrial/noise/power electronics entity, THEOLOGIAN, has penned several new live actions for the coming months, beginning with a performance at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar this Thursday, January 29th supporting British sound experimentalists and Crucial Blast labelmates, Ramleh.  

Cancer Bats‘ “True Zero” video is online now! The new video from the Canadian act is from their upcoming album, “Searching for Zero,” which is set for release in the US via Metal Blade Records on March 10th.  

The first teaser trailer for this summer’s action-adventure FANTASTIC FOUR has just been released by 20th Century Fox! Directed by Josh Trank and starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, Jamie Bell and Toby Kebbell.  

Warner Bros. Entertainment has cancelled the New York premiere of the latest release Justice League: Throne Of Atlantis. Check out the official press release below…  

Hard rock juggernaut Slipknot has announced details of a massive summer headline tour deemed the “Summer’s Last Stand” tour. The coast-to-coast trek will see the GRAMMY® Award-winning group joined by a stellar line-up of special guests including Lamb Of God, Bullet For My Valentine and Motionless In White. The North American tour is set to kickoff July 24th at West Palm Beach, Florida’s Cruzan Amphitheater and continue through early September where it will eventually wrap-up at Dallas, Texas’ Gexa Energy Pavilion on September 5th (see attached itinerary).  Pre-sales will be available Tuesday, January 27th via www.slipknot1.com with general on-sales beginning Friday, January 30th. For full dates and ticket... 

Faith No More confirm their first North American shows since 2010 with a spring outing kicking off April 15 in Vancouver.  

Tierra Y Libertad, the anxiously awaited third LP from Pomona, California’s XIBALBA, is out this week on Southern Lord Recordings, officially unleashed in Europe today and striking the US tomorrow.  

San Antonio blackened death horde, HOD, is pleased to officially induct bassist, ZVS Gastelum, into their infernal ranks. Gastelum comes by way of Texas black metal legion, Plutonian Shore, as well as Gnostic, and replaced longtime HOD comrade, Robert “Trans AM” Coleman.  

From the mad geniuses who brought you the Ant-Man #1 Shrinking Variant comes the one of a kind HOWARD THE DUCK #1 EVOLUTION OF HOWARD VARIANT! Howard the Duck writer Chip Zdarsky lends his inimitable style to this completely unique cover, showcasing Howard in different stages of life!