Thrash legends OVERKILL will be re-releasing their record “Immortalis” and DVD “Live at Wacken Open Air” on October 5th, 2010 via eOne Music. This will be a CD/DVD combo release with three new unreleased live tracks. Those tracks are:  

  Newly signed to eOne Music, sludge metal legends CROWBAR will re-release three influential records, CROWBAR, LIVE +1 and TIME HEALS NOTHING on October 5th, 2010.  

Metal Mind Productions presents Quartz – one of the first bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. Their albums showcased the true essence of late 1970’s/early 1980’s metal, delivering a stunning mixture of brilliant guitar riffs and passionate vocals. The group’s second opus – “Stand Up And Fight” – is to this day considered as their most stellar work, reminding the modern listener how real metal should sound like…  

Serbian Black/Death metal hoard, BANE is set to release their long-awaited full-length debut, Chaos, Darkness, Emptiness, later this year through Abyss Records. recorded at Hellsound Studio in Czech Republic, and will be produced, mixed & mastered by Honza Kapak (who played in Judas Iscariot, Krieg, Nargaroth, etc). Recorded Hellsound Studio in The Czech Republic, Chaos, Darkness, Emptiness was produced, mixed & mastered by Honza Kapak (Judas Iscariot, Krieg, Nargaroth, et al).   

The last time you went shopping for DVDs, you might have noticed an unmistakable empty space where Slayer titles should have been.  The reason is simple – all of Slayer’s DVDs have been out of print.  But rest easy Slayer fanatics, the wait will soon be over.  On August 17, 2010, 2003’s “War at the Warfield” and 2004’s “Still Reigning” will be reissued, and, for the first time ever, 1995’s “Live Intrusion,” having been digitally remastered, will also be available on DVD.   

  http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/08/04/the-devil-wears-prada-mike-hranica-zombie-ep-comic/ AOL’s Comics Alliance just posted an absolutely awesome preview to the band’s upcoming release, “Zombie EP,” and the JL Bourne-written (“Day by Day Armageddon”), limited-edition, full-fledged, 14-page comic book called “ZOMBIE, The EP Comic,” that features the band members as five combat soldiers on a perilous, top-secret mission in a world infected by Zombies. “Zombie EP” will be released on August 24 (Ferret Music).  

On Monday August 2nd on the way to Nevada after a show in Oregon Early Graves were involved in a tragic van accident that took the life of vocalist Makh Daniels. The band has released the following statement after which is a statement from Trevor Phipps of Ironclad Recordings.  

  Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and political activist Serj Tankian has postponed the street date of his new solo album, entitled Imperfect Harmonies, in order to package the recording in the same tree-free paper he has used for his previous releases, including Elect the Dead and Elect the Dead Symphony. The eco-friendly paper was not available to create the packaging for Imperfect Harmonies in time to make the previously announced street date of September 7th.  

This is what the Lordi members look like now! With every new Lordi album comes a brand new look for the band and now with the imminent arrival of the band’s fifth studio album Babez for Breakfast, Lordi has new masks to reveal. This time their costumes as well as the music on the new album have a hint of the golden 80’s.  

Ok metal fans, here’s the deal, if you’re looking for a festival show and refuse to shell out the cash for Ozzfest or Mayhem Fest tickets, get to your nearest club and go do some slam dancing with a few thousand of your closest death metal, metalcore and deathcore friends because that is what the Summer Slaughter tour is all about. We’re talking 10 bands and 6 hours of some of the heaviest metal you’ll find on tour this summer. Since its annual inception in 2007, many of the bands have come back year after year to play on this tour and if the August 1st stop at NYC’s Irving Plaza is any indication, it’s because the fans are absolutely rabid from start to finish.  

Fist – one of the many groups that emerged during the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era back in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Despite the strong support they had from the critics, the band failed to gain the popularity they deserved. And today Metal Mind Productions presents the exclusive re-release of Fist’s debut album from 1980 – “Turn The Hell On” – which brings back a true heavy metal legend.  

U.S. Porn Grind Masters LIVIDITY will embark on a European tour on August 11th in Trier, Germany. Dubbed the Defiling Europe Tour and consisting of festival appearances and on-off gigs, the shows will feature a variety of LIVIDITY’s solid gold obscenities and prurient platinum hits, including cuts from the act’s most dynamic and devastating release to date, To Desecrate and Defile.  Lividity front man and Epitomite Productions chief Von Young offers the update.