In less than a week, THE BODY and THOU will embark on their Summer tour to Gilead Fest, supporting not only their own respective new releases, but also their recently released collaborative LP, Released From Love.  

GRAMMY®-nominated and platinum selling rock band Skillet will join multi-platinum artists Godsmack and Seether along with Buckcherry for the fifth Rockstar Energy UPROAR Festival, which kicks off August 15.  

When Slayer, Suicidal Tendencies and Exodus played a handful of dates together this past May, every date was sold out and fans experienced a night of some of the best metal on the planet.  With reviews like “the best show in years that I’ve been blessed to witness,” “a metalhead’s dream come true,” and “…an onslaught of heart-pounding tunes during an evening full of awesome head banging action,”  

The X-Files’ writer Joe Harris takes on The Prince of Darkness – Alice Cooper – in his FIRST ongoing comic series! Alice Cooper #1 features two truly breathtaking covers; a main cover by comic book legend David Mack (Kabuki), as well as an Exclusive Photo incentive featuring Alice Cooper himself! The interior pages of this horrifying series are drawn by Eman Casallos. Make sure to look for Alice Cooper #1 at retailers and digitally this upcoming September!  

Bigfoot> The Thing, The Myth, The Legend.  

Ah, border crossing. Some people do it with ease, NAY! Impunity, and others, who have a legitimate reason, such as business, cannot do it to save their professional lives. One such member of the latter is the sludgy, riffy Black Cobra. This past week has been hell for the band, as they have tried to get into our frigid neighbors in the north, Canada, and have failed. Twice.  

Israeli metal outfit FERIUM has added this fall’s Diabolic Tour of Art 2014, headlined by SONIC SYNDICATE. FERIUM will join MAY THE SILENCE FALL and INMATE on the trek, which runs from October 11 – 25. Dates are as follows, after the jump.  

With the album’s #1 Debut on the BILLBOARD Hard Rock Charts (Top 20 on the overall charts) and the single “Sangre Por Sangre (Blood For Blood)” hitting the Top 20 at rock radio, HELLYEAH has made an impressive showing with their fourth album, BLOOD FOR BLOOD. The release is seeing critical acclaim from all over the world, with notable praise in the UK, Australia, Canada and the USA.  

San Antonio’s favorite blackened death tyrants, HOD, will drop their long-awaited new full-length upon the weak later this Summer. Titled Book Of The Worm, the follow-up to last year’s The Uncreated Demo teaser, which Decibel likened to a “snake eating itself and a bigger snake eating the smaller snake, a kind of infinite and horrifically malign Ouroboros,”  

Following its LP release via Lamb Unlimited earlier in the month, the CD version of Dissent — the highly anticipated new album from THE CUTTHROATS 9, the band formed by Unsane guitarist/vocalist Chris Spencer — is out this week via Reptilian Records. And if you haven’t heard any of this drop yet, prepare for a fast and nasty assault on your senses!  

Throughout the entire month of July, Chicago experi-metallers YAKUZA will reissue their first four albums along with one never-before-heard release through War Crime Recordings.  

Due to the ongoing demand from European fans wanting to experience Beyond All Light, the acclaimed 2013 album from Louisville, Kentucky-based black metal entity ANAGNORISIS the band will reissue a cassette edition of the album via Berlin-based Yehonala Records in the coming weeks.