The Sword and their U.S. based label, Razor & Tie are pleased to announce that they have entered into a licensing agreement with Napalm Records for the European distribution of The Sword’s new studio album, Apocryphon. Based in Germany, Napalm has been for many years the home to major hard rock and metal acts in Europe. To support its European release, The Sword will commence a three week headline tour of the UK, Europe, and Scandinavia beginning on January 6th.  Napalm recording artist Lonely Kamel will be one of the support acts with another act to be added.   

UK doom hero, My Dying Bride, has released its latest opus, A Map of all our Failures, in North America today via Peaceville Records. Physical copies of the release can be ordered through the Peaceville web-store at: https://www.burningshed.com/store/peaceville/collection/246/ as a standard or special edition CD, double vinyl and multiple bundle packages. It can also be ordered digitally via iTunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/map-all-our-failures-deluxe/id566594450 complete with a bonus track and digital booklet.  

At the recent UDON Entertainment panel at New York Comic Con, UDON it was announced that it has teamed up with Blizzard Entertainment to produce the next epic installment in their ‘Tribute’ series of deluxe art books: WORLD OF WARCRAFT® TRIBUTE! This massive collection will offer hundreds of professional and hobby artists the opportunity to show off their artistic chops and pay homage to their favorite characters, settings, and moments from Blizzard’s popular massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).  

Maryland rockers CLUTCH have announced Earth Rocker as the title of their new studio album.  Earth Rocker is scheduled for a worldwide release in March of 2013 on CLUTCH‘s label Weathermaker Music.  

This January, the Web-Head embraces a new chapter in his life in Superior Spider-Man #1, kicking off the all-new ongoing series from the amazing creative team of writer Dan Slott and artist Ryan Stegman! As part of Marvel NOW!, Superior Spider-Man joins a number of titles that will take the Marvel Universe in an exciting all-new direction, as the industry’s top creators join the top Super Heroes to deliver all-new ongoing series, great for new and lapsed readers alike!  

P.O.D. will join Daughtry and 3 Doors Down as special guests on the forthcoming pairs co-headline U.S. tour. The tour kicks off November 17th in Tunica, MS and will run through the middle of December (tour dates below).  

The nominees for induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013 are:  

That’s the question of the day..would you take a school whipping for the band KISS? Seems that’s exactly what happened to Dogbane guitarist Jerry Cloer. With the recent passing of guitarist David Ellenburg, the band is continuing a project they were in the midsts of before Davids passing, recording the KISS song “Charisma” for the up coming tribute album “Rock & Roll All Nite: A Tribute to Kiss: 1974 – 2013”.  

Canadian rock band Three Days Grace released the highly anticipated follow up to 2009’s Life Starts Now yesterday, Transit of Venus. The guys are gearing up to hit the road to promote the new album at intimate club shows and hit some big festivals. Guitar player Barry Stock took a minute to talk about the new album and tour.  

Multi-platinum and Grammy nominated alternative rock band, Papa Roach have released their new album, The Connection (Eleven Seven Music) today. Produced by rock veteran James Michael (Sixx:A.M., Halestorm) and John Feldmann (Panic at the Disco, The Used, Escape the Fate), the album was recorded at the band’s hometown studio, The Red House in Sacramento, CA.  

Cradle of Filth has posted a brand new track, “Manticore,” from the upcoming album, The Manticore and Other Horrors, for streaming on Soundcloud at: http://soundcloud.com/nuclearblastrecords/cradle-of-filth-manticore. “Manticore” is the second track to surface from the band’s impending 10th studio release, which is due out on October 30th in North America via Nuclear Blast.  

It was a little less than a year ago that the world was rocked by the passing of Flattus Maximus, back to the cosmos from whence he came. And since that day fans of GWAR have wondered how the mighty overlords of GWAR would deal with the void it left within the band. GWAR responded the only way they knew how-by soldiering on-and continued to play as a four-piece. But from the very beginning of that phase, the quest began to find the new Scumdog that was in every way as magnificent as his predecessor. Today the members of GWAR are pleased to inform their legions of followers, and even more so their many enemies, that once again the band is whole, with the proclamation that long-lost cousin of Flattus, Pustulus...