It’s almost your last chance to register in advance for CMJ 2010. Don’t miss 1,200+ bands, over 70 panels, dozens of films, and one amazing week in New York City.  

  DARKEST HOUR will heading over to Europe this winter and they couldn’t be more excited to get back across the pond. “Put on your winter jacket and get ready for endless nights of good times, because were headed back to Europe.  

  HATEBREED have announced a fist full of east coast headlining shows this winter as STILLBORN FEST. “We’re excited to continue with our Holiday tradition of doing Stillborn Fest. It’s going to be great to play for all of our diehards in the North East.”  

Long Island death metal veterans Suffocation played to a hometown crowd on October 16th at the Gramercy Theatre and totally pummeled every person in the venue. Bringing along The Faceless and several others, this was a night of headbanging delight.  

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at the extra-sized Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes #1 (of 4), a comic book companion to upcoming animated television series “The Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes!” premiering Wednesday, October 20 at 8:30 p.m., ET/PT on Disney XD.  

Now that DREDG–Gavin Hayes (vocals, guitars), Drew Roulette (bass, keyboards, samples), Mark Engles (guitars) and Dino Campanella (drums, keyboards)—has finished work on their fifth album, the band will hit the concert trail with Circa Survive, Codeseven and Animals As Leaders from October 19 in Carrboro, NC through November 28 in New York City.  Once those dates conclude, the band will perform a handful of headlining shows.  

KnuckleBonz Unveils a Ronnie James Dio Limited Edition Collectible! A Portion of all Proceeds at KnuckleBonz.com will be Donated to the ‘Stand Up and Shout’ Cancer Fund Created in Honor of Ronnie James Dio  

Britain’s veteran extreme metal band, Cradle Of Filth, is now streaming a new video blog on the mini-site for the band’s forthcoming album, Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa, at:  

Torture Division’s Evighetens Dårar Now Available  Evighetens Dårar, the latest offering from Swedish death metal masters TORTURE DIVISION is now available through Abyss Records. The Digi-CD compiles material from the trio’s Evighetens Dårar I (2009), Evighetens Dårar II (2010), and Evighetens Dårar III (2010) demos and was mixed/mastered by Dan Swano at Unisound Studios. In preparation for the release, TORTURE DIVISION has posted several tracks from the album, including “Traumatic Inhuman Severance,” “Total Death Punishment” and “Overtorture (Bound To Be Dead)” on their myspace page.  

SNAIL GAMES today announced that its browser-based MMO Heroes of Gaia has exceeded 10 million plays on Kongregate.com, making the free-to-play title Kongregate’s most-played MMO to date, as well as the most-played overall game of 2010 on the popular Flash game portal.  Heroes of Gaia reached this milestone in less than 11 months, averaging more than 1 million plays per month.  

The official full CMJ schedule is available online now.  

DEAD NEON is the primitive nuclear doom metal project of Las Vegas poet Jarret Keene. Inspired by a morbid tour of the Nevada Test Site with only GOATLORD’s Distorted Birth and LEONARD COHEN’s The Future loaded on a half broken iPod,