They debuted their new line-up to a sold-out audience in New York in May and then devastated the masses in 16 different countries in Europe in 80 days and played two shows opening for AC/DC.  Now, Germany’s legendary metal band ACCEPT will return to tour the U.S. for the first time in 14 years on a co-headlining tour with King’s X in support of their new album, Blood Of The Nations, scheduled for North American release on September 14th.  The tour will kick-off with an appearance at the eleventh annual ProgPower USA festival in Atlanta, Georgia.  

On June 13, 2009, SLIPKNOT headlined the annual Download Festival in the UK, performing in front of 80,000 of their rabid fans. The performance was absolutely electric, in typical Slipknot fashion, especially since it came hot on the heels of one of the strongest years in Slipknot’s illustrious career.  

Avenged Sevenfold has cemented their status as one of the country’s favorite rock bands with their highly personal fifth studio album Nightmare, which bowed at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart and also No.1 on Billboard’s Hard Music, Digital, Internet and Alternative Album Charts. Its No. 1 debut is the band’s highest first-week chart position ever, selling over 162,500 units in its first week thanks to the band’s devoted and rabid fanbase, who consider themselves part of a worldwide A7X family.  

  Boulevard is considered as one of the most important arena rock bands in the history of Canadian music. Their two classic albums – the self-titled “Blvd” and “Into The Street” – brought a fantastic mixture of 80’s pop and rock, similar to what bands such as Toto, Mr. Mister and Glass Tiger had to offer. Sadly, their career ended with the birth of the grunge movement, which pretty much dominated the entire rock scene in the 1990’s…  

  Santa Monica, California, August 2, 2010 – – Black Tide will head out on the road this fall joining Bullet For My Valentine and Escape The Fate on their 31 date tour of North America.  The tour kicks off September 16th in Wichita, KS at The Cotillon and also includes Drive A on the bill.  See below for a complete list of tour dates.  

August 9, 2010 – Guitarists Luke Hoskin and Tim Millar from revered Canadian metal band, Protest The Hero, recently created a guitar tab book for their 2008 chart-topping album Fortress and have now completed another for their 2006 debut album, Kezia. The spiral bound book includes transcriptions for each of the ten songs on Kezia and an introduction – all written exclusively by the band members.  

Producer Keith Olsen certainly has a knack for spotting talent – over the years he has overseen the creation of some truly mammoth rock records – namely Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘No Rest for the Wicked’, Whitesnake’s ‘Slide It In’, and the Scorpions’ ‘Crazy World’. Logan is in some splendid company with Olsen at the helm of the group’s first world wide release, ‘The Great Unknown.’  

Warner Premiere, DC Entertainment, Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Home Video have expanded the realm of superhero storytelling beyond the popular DC Universe Animated Original PG-13 Movies with the introduction of the DC Showcase, a series of animated shorts featuring characters from the celebrated DC Comics vault.  

The Yonkers, NY death metal veterans gave their fans a chance to get up close and personal with the band with a show at the intimate Studio at Webster Hall on July 28th. Call it a preview for their upcoming “Feel the Stench of Death” tour this October, but this performance delivered from start to finish.  

In October, Image Comics publishes the first collected work of fresh new talent Emi Lenox Emi Lenox has taken diary comics to a whole new level with EMITOWN, a breathtaking series of vignettes that document the travails of daily life, from the mundane to the miraculous. Image Comics is proud to present the first EMITOWN collection, which will be available this October.  

FUNimation Entertainment has partnered with Plastyc Inc. to distribute a new series of UPside Visa® reloadable prepaid cards to customers who want to keep a little anime in their wallet.  

In this surrealistic new nightmare from horror director William Malone (“Masters of Horror”) – a sinister twist on the Sleeping Beauty legend – Laura Baxter (Cherilyn Wilson, Chain Letter, Extreme Movie) suffers from a bizarre medical condition that keeps her in an almost constant dream state, causing her to literally sleep her life away.  But it’s in this state where she’s most vulnerable, unaware that a psychotic mass murderer is attempting to take possession of her mind.