EXIT 111 Festival will debut with a heavyweight line-up that celebrates all forms of rock–from hard to classic, alternative to southern–when it debuts October 11-13 at the Great Stage Park in Manchester, TN.  

Portland doom quartet USNEA announce Summer 2019 headlining tour dates throughout the United States with Chrch. The band continues to tour in support of their 2017 released full-length album Portals Into Futility. The tour commences July 5 in Sacramento, CA and ends July 18 in Denver, CO. A full list of tour dates is available below.  

Legendary Comics enters the ring with creators Tarun Shanker and Kelly Zekas to bring readers Championess, a new graphic novel set for release in Fall 2020. Drawing inspiration from the real-life enigmatic boxer Elizabeth Wilkinson who challenged opponents by posting adverts in London newspapers in the early 1700s  

Epic classic metal goes head-to-head with blazing Scandinavian black metal on Lunar Shadow’s firebrand sophomore effort, The Smokeless Fires. The album will be released June 21 on Cruz Del Sur Music. Album track “Hawk of the Hills” is now streaming.  

Cleveland’s metallic hardcore legends RINGWORM share a new song “Dead To Me” less than two weeks before the release of Death Becomes My Voice. Stream the third single from Death Becomes My Voice  

English rock band Sister Shotgun releases their debut album, Fragments, via Pavement Entertainment. The music is available for streaming and purchasing on iTunes, Spotify, and Amazon. This latest release from Sister Shotgun serves as a follow-up to their 2017 EP, Devour.  

IDW Publishing announces today that Transformers #1, the start of a bold new era of Transformers comic book continuity, has sold out at the distributor level. Due to its broad appeal, the swift sales of Transformers #1 has prompted a new printing of the issue, slated for release on June 5th.  

Legendary American Thrash Metallers Sacred Reich have finished recording their highly anticipated new studio album – a first in 23 years – entitled Awakening. The album is due this summer.  

MISERY INDEX will take to the streets this June on a North American tour as direct support to Nails. The journey will commence on June 8th in Chicago, Illinois and conclude on June 16th in Raleigh, North Carolina. Additional support will be provided by Devourment and Outer Heaven. See all confirmed dates below.  

Dan Watters (Sandman Universe: Lucifer, Limbo) teams with artist Dani (2000AD, Girl with No Name) for an all-new action series full of grindhouse nightmares and high-octane chills in Coffin Bound. The ongoing series will launch from Image Comics this August.  

Marvel’s most iconic heroes meet their match against some of Marvel’s most vicious villains in a fight that can only be known as ACTS OF EVIL! From Ms. Marvel to Venom, epic encounters will ensue as Marvel’s greatest heroes battle against enemies they have never faced before – leading to an outcome that no one will expect!  

As I approached the box office for Dance Gavin Dance’s show in New York, I heard from the customer next to me that the show had completely sold out. Look back a few years ago and Dance Gavin Dance were just introducing clean vocalist Tilian Pearson into the band, and now they’re selling out one of the larger venues in NYC. Ain’t that something. Back when the mallcore/Warped Tour band phase was sweeping America circa 2010/11-ish, Dance Gavin Dance were thrown around in that scene quite frequently. There was always something off about the experimental post-hardcore act, but Dance Gavin Dance stood out, if for any reason being their non-compliance with the trend that was going on. They fit in, yeah, but kinda like...