International extreme power metal superstars DragonForce have announced new live dates in the USA, Canada, UK and Europe starting the fall of 2019/beginning of 2020. After a festival run this summer, DragonForce will kick off their North American tour on October 1st in support of their biggest release yet! Expect big announcements and new DragonForce music very soon!
Italian Gothic Metal icons LACUNA COIL are excited to announce their new album Black Anima out on October 11th, 2019, worldwide via Century Media Records. “Black Anima is all of us. It’s you and it’s me. It’s everything we hide and fiercely expose to a world that’s halfway asleep. It is the fogged mirror we are peering into searching for the truth.
IDW Publishing brings the lifelong rivalry between Daniel LaRusso and Johnny Lawrence out of the dojo and into comic book stores with an all-new Cobra Kai: The Karate Kid Saga Continues miniseries, slated for release in Fall 2019. In collaboration with Overbrook Entertainment and Sony Pictures Television, IDW will develop new stories set within the continuity of the YouTube Premium original series, based on iconic characters from the cultural touchstone Karate Kid film series.
California’s greatest export and renowned feminist supporters Steel Panther recently took a break from working with NASA scientists on a multiple orgasm inducing guitar pedal to record their fifth studio album. The band is excited to announce that their new album Heavy Metal Rules is finished and scheduled for release on September 27th.
In honor of the 25th anniversary of the Darkstalkers series, get ready to unleash your inner monster with the hardcover, graphic novel release of DARKSTALKERS: RISE OF THE NIGHT WARRIORS! Morrigan, Demitri, Felicia, Donovan, Victor, Talbain, and more of your favorite Darkstalkers battle it out for control of the night in this electrifying and titillating hardcover graphic novel collection from UDON Entertainment.
When you have hours upon hours in a dorm room to just listen to music, you often find a lot of bands as they’re introduced to the greater metal world. Namely, Torche’s Harmonicraft was a something special. The band’s third LP combined sludge metal and some catchy hooks to do something unique and different. Now, 2019 brings their fifth, Admission, and with it we see an aging band, coming forward once more with longevity in mind.
I’m not terribly well-versed in industrial metal, but I get the basics of it. Bands like Ministry, Fear Factory, and especially the early Nine Inch Nails and Marilyn Manson albums are what I’ve been versed in over the years, so there’s some understanding there. Typically I’m not excited by the genre, and I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t putting this review off. Industrial is just a hit-or-miss thing, and there’s nothing I can really do about that because I love riffs and blast beats. Damned if I do, though, I will admit: 3Teeth are an enigma in this philosophy of mine. You might’ve heard about them, and they’re surely picking up steam in the past few months, and...
The Witcher is about to be one of Netflix’s flagship series. With critically acclaimed video games made in the past decade, as well as best selling books all over the world, the series is set to be adapted into a full series. If you’re already missing Game of Thrones, then you only have to wait a few months to fill that void.
Neurot Recordings is the gift that keeps on giving. Chrch have been at the grind for the past couple of years, but with each subsequent release have they come to the forefront of modern doom metal. Light Will Consume, the band’s second debut album, is a certified sludge-laden doom triumph that is just as massive in scale as it is with sheer grime and despair. If you’re on the west coast, then boy do I have some news for you.
Upping the ante on an annual SDCC tradition, IDW Publishing will host TWO industry legends – Stan Sakai (creator of the critically acclaimed Usagi Yojimbo) and Walter Simonson (legendary writer/artist of The Mighty Thor, Manhunter, and Ragnarök) for one very special dinner to which YOU are invited!
