Portland, Oregon’s punk metal behemoths TOXIC HOLOCAUST will hit the road again in 2012 for a two-week stretch of dates alongside English Dogs,  The Casualties and Havok! The tour will commence on February 10 in Baltimore at the Ottobar and pillage its way towards the West Coast, coming to a close February 25 in Santa Ana at the Galaxy Theatre. TOXIC HOLOCAUST Winter 2012 Tour: w/ English Dogs, The Casualties, Havok 2/10/2012 Ottobar – Baltimore, MD 2/11/2012 The Middle East – Boston, MA 2/12/2012 Europa – Brooklyn, NY 2/13/2012 Les Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC 2/14/2012 The Opera House – Toronto, ON 2/15/2012 Peabody’s – Cleveland, OH 2/16/2012 Reggie’s Rock Club... 

The wait is finally over, as Dark Horse and Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products announce the arrival of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Dollhouse and Angel in the Dark Horse digital store! As rave reviews and support for Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 9 and the all-new series Angel and Faith continue, casual and hardcore fans will now be able to experience previous Buffy, Angel, and Dollhouse comics on all-new platforms! Buffy, Angel and Dollhouse are licensed through an agreement with Twentieth Century Fox Consumer Products.  Now, fans are encouraged to head over to Digital.DarkHorse.com to download issues of all three of these titles today, with multiple issues available for purchase! Fans can now download the... 

Crossover thrash masters Denial Fiend are currently on tour with death metal legends Obituary. d Remaining dates are as follows:  

Salem is an extreme metal band from Israel, pioneers of the oriental metal movement and of the Israeli heavy metal scene. Much of their lyrics and music deals with political issues concerning the Jewish people and Israel with their music being a combination of doom/death metal with oriental elements and high-pitched screaming-vocals.  

Following the sonic devastation that was their performance at Fun Fun Fun Fest earlier this month, New Orleans’ hardcore, blues-based, post-amplification, dirge-doers EYEHATEGOD are set to head East this December to further their audio decimation. The band will level Boston, Allentown and Brooklyn beginning December 2.  

From DIY origins to world domination, MURDER IN THE FRONT ROW is a vivid large-format 272-page view inside “the metal scene that banged those heads that did not bang,” and includes over 400 fearless color and black-and-white photos of Metallica, Exodus, Megadeth, Slayer, Possessed, Death Angel, Legacy/Testament, Forbidden, Vio-lence, and many others.  

SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER has announced the following tour dates in support of their new split release with ENFUNERATION, entitled American Death Thrash and out now on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions.  

Here’s some major news for you all. NOMINON just signed a worldwide booking agreement with the Brazilian booking agency BLACKENED MASS MEDIA. We’re all eager to see where this will lead the band when it comes to tours and festival appearances in the not too distant future.  

RAMMSTEIN, the Berlin-based band known for their incendiary live performances, will bring their brand new live production to North America this spring for 21 dates kicking off April 20 in Ft. Lauderdale. Tickets for the tour, presented by Live Nation, will go on sale beginning Friday, Nov. 18 and will be available at Ticketmaster.com and LiveNation.com.  

Arrangements have been finalized for the memorial service for Cory Smoot AKA Flattus Maximus. The service will take place this Friday November 11th at the Bennett Funeral Home Chesterfield Chapel, located at 14301 Ashbrook Parkway in Chesterfield, VA. The private service begins at 4:00 PM.  

Rose Funeral released Gates of Punishment on September 27th and has thus far been heralded as the band’s best effort to date. Fans that have seen Rose Funeral live in the past know that the band puts on an intense show. This tour will be no different with guitarist Ryan Gardner now handling vocal duties. Rose Funeral will be joining the tour on November 15th in Spartanburg, SC.  

As leaders of extreme music and one of the hardest working bands around, the legendary NAPALM DEATH is currently putting the final touches on their 14th studio album (excluding the cover album Leaders Not Followers).