Chicago’s purveyors of “Pure Armafuckinggeddon Soulraping Black Metal” have returned with their most vile and vicious onslaught on USBM to date. Through roster shifts and the strife of surviving a trendfucking scene, the long-running Ezurate are standing stronger than ever.  

Virgin Records will release Saving Abel’s MISS AMERICA on June 8, 2010. The follow-up to the band’s breakthrough debut has reached critical mass via strong support at radio, adds at key video channels, and a world tour that has been underway for three months.  

ISIS has reached an end. It’s hard to try to say it in any delicate way, and it is a truth that is best spoken plainly. This end isn’t something that occurred over night and it hasn’t been brought about by a single cataclysmic fracture in the band.  

  Arriving in your in-boxes is the new self-titled three-way split release from DESOLATEVOID, THE LAST VAN ZANT (featuring members of BIRDS OF PREY), and THE PARISH (featuring a member of WARTORN), courtesy of Crimes Against Humanity Records.  

After months of strategy development, covert intelligence gathering, and nonstop live fire drills, Germany’s LIFELESS has readied its troops and will launch a worldwide invasion on June 8th with Beyond the Threshold of Death through Ibex Moon Records.  

The day has finally come. Are you ready for the pummeling brutality that is Splatter Pattern? The newest release from one of Illinois heaviest, Low Twelve, drops today (May 18th, 2010). Don’t pass up on the album that Brutalism.com touted for its “infectious melodies, brutal snarls, and a marriage between groovecore and grindcore…”  

Metalhit.com (Music Services) has signed a distribution deal with MRI/Megaforce for nationwide distribution through Sony/RED.  

ANEW REVOLUTION are streaming their new record “iMERICA” over at AOL Music, which hits stores tomorrow. Produced by Ben Schigel, a musician, record producer and vocalist from the band SWITCHED who has produced for such bands as STEMM, DROWNING POOL, WALLS OF JERICHO, CHIMAIRA & many more.  

Legendary guitarist Michael Schenker will join forces with drum icon Carmine Appice on the 30th Anniversary Tour – North America. Other band members in the lineup include Gary Barden – vocals; Elliott “Dean” Rubinson – bass (July tourdates): Rev Jones – bass (August tourdates); and Wayne Findlay – guitars and keyboards.  

Legendary metal icon and vocalist extrodinaire Ronnie James Dio has passed away at the age of 67 from Stomach Cancer. Dio, had a long and extensive career as the lead singer of Black Sabbath, Rainbow, Dio (solo) and his last band Heaven And Hell.  

As Steve Rogers takes control of the Marvel Universe and ushers in the Heroic Age, the former Captain America faces deadly threats from his past in Steve Rogers: Super Soldier #1 (of 4)! Beginning in July, Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker and superstar artist Dale Eaglesham team up to bring fans the sequel to the chart-topping Captain America: Reborn.  

One of the foundations of the metal revival of the past ten years, Austin TX’s The Sword have released two flawless slabs of vintage heaviness on Kemado Records, toured the world with Metallica, and were honored to grace the past three editions of Guitar Hero.