This October, it all comes crashing down. Today, Marvel is proud to present your first look inside AVENGERS & X-MEN: AXIS #3, the next blockbuster chapter in the premier comics event of the fall. Superstar creators Rick Remender and Leinil Yu present your first look at the apocalyptic conclusion to Act I: The Red Supremacy as teams splinter, hearts are broken, and the fragile alliance of A and X shatters once more!  

The Scumdogs of the Universe are sharpening their axes and stoking the fires of their great war engines in preparation for the fall 2014 GWAR Eternal Tour. Global leaders had hoped the bouts of terror accompanying GWAR’s annual rampages would finally come to an end with the passing of the the groups monstrous captain, Oderus Urungus. But tonight politicians, religious leaders, and citizens around the world are asking, “Why?! Why won’t GWAR just leave the Earth in peace?”  

Horror Pain Gore Death Productions has signed Miami, Florida’s melodic Black/Death Metal desecrators INFERION and will release the band’s new album, This Will Decay, on October 21 on CD and Digital formats.  

Last week In Solitude released a white vinyl edition of their latest, critically acclaimed album “Sister“. As usual the vinyl will be limited so be quick! There’s also “white bundles” available, coming with an exclusive shirt design  

Onslaught vocalist Sy Keeler will sit out the bands upcoming ‘THRASH INVSION TOUR’ of the US / Canada / South America, featuring ‘ONSLAUGHT / ARTILLERY / VX36 due to health issues with his son.  

Multi-media artist NADER SADEK‘s new four-song EP The Malefic: Chapter III will be released as a free CD insert this November and December via Decibel Magazine (#122), Terrorizer Magazine in the UK (#254) and Legacy Magazine in Germany (#94). The Decibel release has a different mix and master from the UK and German versions. The album will also be released digitally in December.  

Underground Death Metal legends ACHERON have released the official music video for the song “Satan’s Hold Dominion,” taken from the band’s newest and highly-acclaimed album, Kult Des Hasses. The video is now playing  

Prosthetic Records is proud to announce the signing of the Denver-based atmospheric metal quartet WAYFARER. Formed in 2012, the band succintly began working on their full-length debut “Children of Iron Age,” a lengthy epic of blackened atmospherics interwoven with entrancing acoustic passages and driving, powerful post-metal soundscapes.  

Vesania, the Polish symphonic black metal act that features current and former members of Behemoth, Dimmu Borgir, Vader, and Decapitated, have been toiling for over a decade.. The band’s fourth full-length album, and first since 2007, is finally scheduled for release on October 28, 2014 via Metal Blade Records. The brand new track, “Innocence,” can be heard now on metalblade.com/vesania, where fans can also pre-order a copy of the album!  

Following the initial release of ENABLER‘s acclaimed second LP, La Fin Absolue Du Monde — which hit the streets in May via an alliance between The Compound and Creator-Destructor — the album will now see an official European release through Century Media, as the band has officially signed with the label.   Issued ENABLER‘s founding guitarist/vocalist Jeffrey Lohrber of the union with Century Media: “I couldn’t be happier for all of this to come together.  

Metallica today announced they would release a ten-year anniversary 2-disc Blu-Ray of their long out of print, groundbreaking movie, METALLICA:  Some Kind of Monster on November 24, 2014.  

So, recently, splits have become one of my new favorite album styles from bands. You have two or more bands who just throw something cool or different, with another of the same or completely off the wall, together, and it becomes a unique monster. The new release from stoner/doom rock stalwarts Truckfighters and Witchrider, The Return of the Fuzzsplit, Vol.1, is a bad little ride down some backroads, pedal to the floor, and beers rodeo cold in the back seat! More after the Jump!