Since 2010, Richmond, Virginia’s BROADSIDE has cultivated a dedicated, underground following. The time has come to take their youthful, energetic anthems worldwide. Their debut album, Old Bones, will see its release on May 19th, 2015 and is available for pre-order now. Watch the new video for the first single “Coffee Talk”, beaming with effervescent, honest, youthful enthusiasm and passion reminiscent of the early music created by forefathers like A Day To Remember, The Descendents, New Found Glory and Taking Back Sunday.  

The Squadron is back! Bigger, better, and more evil than ever! This June, the bad guys come out to play in SQUADRON SINISTER #1 – an all-new Secret Wars series! Writer Marc Guggenheim (Arrow Executive Producer) and artist Carlos Pacheco (Captain America) bring you an epic crime story of superpowered proportions! Hyperion, Nighthawk, Whizzer, Doctor Spectrum and Warrior Woman. Together they make up the deadliest team of villains Battleworld has ever seen. Lording over their domain of Utopolis, they dispense devastating justice to any and all in their path. But will controlling just Utopolis be enough to feed their lust for power?  

April 2015 will see the return of Europe’s HateFest Tour.  

New York City experimental black metal tacticians, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, will release their long-awaited new full-length, Abyssal Gods, today via Italy-based Aural Music’s Code666 imprint. Titled Abyssal Gods, the band’s second long player was captured at Solitude Studios in Pennsylvania and Amy Mills Studios (Couch Slut, Epistasis) in New York , mixed and mastered by Colin Marston (Gorguts, Krallice, Nader Sadek, Atheist, Origin etc.) at Menegroth, The Thousand Caves in New York and boasts the apocalyptic cover craftings of Andrew Tremblay (Deadbots, Downlow’d, Deathface etc.). Focused on urban decay and the imminent extinction of mankind, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT’s Abyssal Gods serves as the follow-up to the band’s... 

Unique Leader Records is pleased to unleash the reissue of Scryers Of The Ibis, the debut full-length from Florida-based theatrical blackened tech metallers, and recent label signees, OVID’S WITHERING, TODAY!  

This June, the strangest super-team of them all emerges from the depths of Monster Metropolis to take Battleworld by storm in MRS. DEADPOOL AND THE HOWLING COMMANDOS #1 – a new Secret Wars series! Blockbuster Deadpool scribe Gerry Duggan and artist Salvador Espin bring you an explosive new adventure as Deadpool’s betrothed and a monstrous legion venture across Battleworld and beyond!  

April 2015 will see the return of the HATEFEST Tour. The unholy billing will be headlined by SIX FEET UNDER and features support from Marduk, Vader, and Hate! Special guests on all weekend dates will be Eisregen and Debauchery.  

The Melvins return to the road with the continuation of their Hold It In tour kicking off June 6 in Tucson at Club Congress.  

After successfully completing an extensive trek with DARK TRANQUILLITY in January, Finnish melodic death metallers INSOMNIUM are excited to announce their return to North America this Summer/Fall for their first ever USA headlining tour! Featuring OMNIUM GATHERUM as direct support, the run kicks off at the Heavy MTL Festival on August 9th, which boasts a lineup of SLIPKNOT, FAITH NO MORE, and more. NIILO SEVÄNEN from INSOMNIUM comments:  

No one can delude Max and Igor Cavalera anymore. The two SEPULTURA founders show with CAVALERA CONSPIRACY what it means to shoot Thrash and Death Metal straight into the world. They of course did this with their latest album, Pandemonium which was released in November of 2014.  

Searching For Zero was produced by Ross Robinson, known for his work with Sepultura, Slipknot, At The Drive In, Glassjaw, Blood Brothers and The Cure to only name a few, marks a new extension of the bands already staple sonic components – the urgency and intensity inherent in Cormier’s vocals, Middleton’s sometimes sludgy, sometimes raging riffage, and the grimy, gritty, heavy-hitting rhythm section of Peters and Schwarzer, are all present; however, the album boasts a more raw and organic tonal signature than any previous Bats collection, with melodic elements not only musically but also vocally, which Cormier largely credits to their producer and their metal idols.  

The filmmakers of the forthcoming Melvins’ documentary, “The Colossus of Destiny – A Melvins Tale”, have launched a Kickstarter campaign featuring artwork donated by Haze XXL, Brian Walsby, Arik Roper, Skinner, and Mackie Osborne.