“Hurt Yourself and The Ones You Love” is the title of the new album by Italy’s notorious purveyors of black/doom metal, FORGOTTEN TOMB. The band’s highly anticipated 8th studio opus is scheduled for release via Agonia Records, on April 17th in Europe and April 21st in North America. The new album is a “mix of melancholy, groove and pure malignancy” – as put by the band’s leader, Ferdinando “Herr Morbid” Marchisio. “We kept the sound very organic and natural, kinda old-fashioned but still very fresh. The new songs are heavy as fuck and they feature our classic trademark plus some new elements. I can’t wait for people to listen to it, ’cause... 

This May, amidst the Earth-shattering events of Secret Wars, evil has a new face. A giant face with no body. Prepare to meet the deadliest hitman on all of Battleworld in M.O.D.O.K. ASSASSIN #1 – a brand new Secret Wars limited series coming this May from writer Christopher Yost (co-writer Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, Amazing X-Men) and artist Amilcar Pinna (All-New Ultimates)!  

This May, legendary comic scribe Garth Ennis returns to Marvel Comics proper, and he’s bringing his frequent collaborator Russ Braun along for the Secret Wars ride! Today, Marvel is pleased to announce WHERE MONSTERS DWELL #1 – a brand new 5-issue limited series launching during Secret Wars!  

This summer Rob Zombie will be embarking on a new nationwide tour. Pre-sale tickets for all of the dates listed below are only available at RZ-31 until February 13 when they will be widely available.  

In what can only be considered “Earth Shattering News” our friendly Neighborhood Wall crawler, Spider-Man will be showing up in an up coming Marvel Universe Movie. Sony Pictures Entertainment and Marvel Studios announced today that Sony is bringing Marvel into the amazing world of Spider-Man. Rumor has it for a while that Sony pictures, owners of the rights to the Spider-Man movie franchise, and Marvel were in talks about Spidey appearing in one or more up-coming Marvel movies, most likely Captain America: Civil War. Talks seemed to break down some months ago, but recently started up again as the Spider-Man franchise has recently been under performing.  

Worcester, Massachusetts-based concert promotions company, MassConcerts, is pleased to announce the fourth and final segment of bands playing the seventeenth annual NEW ENGLAND METAL & HARDCORE FESTIVAL at The Palladium in Worcester, MA on April 17th, 18th, & 19th 2015.  

Southern Arizona stoner rock specialists, POWERED WIG MACHINE, will reintroduce their sophomore album, Supa-Collider, to the public in a deluxe vinyl edition via Battleground Records on February 21st, as the band performs at the awesome Borderland Fuzz Fiesta, an event booked by the members of the band themselves.  

Hailing from the Toronto sector of the Canadian province of Ontario, ABYSS has locked a deal with Olympia, Washington’s 20 Buck Spin for the release of the faction’s first full-length album, Heretical Anatomy.  

SHAWN JAMES & THE SHAPESHIFTERS will perform upcoming album The Gospel According to Shawn James & The Shapeshifters for the first time on February 14 at The Smoke & Barrel Tavern in Fayetteville, AR. Joining them will be Denver, CO’s IN THE WHALE.  

Fresh off announcing their new label home, FULL DEVIL JACKET has wasted no time. The band will release VALLEY OF BONES on March 31, 2015 via eOne Music, their first full length in over a decade. Produced by Justin Rimer (12 Stones), it’s a victorious and impossible to ignore sophomore slab, simultaneously resurrecting and updating the band’s hard rock sound. Longtime fans will recognize plenty of signature elements, but this is the Full Devil Jacket of old on steroids.  

David T. Chastain has gained a reputation over the last 25 years as a powerful, progressive guitarist whose music has been centered around his melodic and technically fluent fret board mastery. Besides David’s virtuoso style the other major attribute to CHASTAIN’s instantly distinct sound is vocalist Leather Leone’s superior and ultimately commanding presence. Divebomb Records is excited to announce it has teamed up once again with CHASTAIN to reissue two more critically acclaimed albums – The 7th Of Never (1987) & The Voice Of The Cult (1988) from their catalog.    

Whitechapel will be back on the road beginning February 28th. The tour will take the Tennessee natives from Memphis through the Midwest on their way to Self Help Fest in San Bernardino, CA. Self Help Fest is scheduled for March 7th at the Nos Event Center and features The Devil Wears Prada, Pierce the Veil, Stick to Your Guns, The Ghost Inside, and more. For tickets and information, visit selfhelpfest.com. The full list of confirmed dates is below, as well as at facebook.com/whitechapelmetal.