ANN WILSON has extended her in-progress and acclaimed ANN WILSON OF HEART tour with a second leg of dates running from May 19-July 2.  The iconic vocalist will make tour stops in Chicago, San Diego, Phoenix, Dallas and Atlanta, among other cities.  

The Man Who Loves To Hurt Himself, an intense documentary film on TODAY IS THE DAY‘s iconic founding frontman Steve Austin, is slated to premiere at the International Filmmaker Festival of World Cinema in Nice, France in May.  

Image Comics is pleased to announce that due to overwhelming customer demand, the first issue of Ivan Brandon, Jason Latour, Greg Hinkle, and Matt Wilson’s mind-bending series BLACK CLOUD is being rushed back to print.  

Anathema, who recently announced the release if their eleventh studio album, The Optimist (June 9, Kscope), share new song “Springfield” (https://youtu.be/8y1ROzCUpbU) as the band launches pre-orders for the 11-song collection.  

Today extreme metal giants ARCH ENEMY have released their live DVD/Blu-ray As The Stages Burn!, which features the band’s largest and most impressive stage production to date filmed at Wacken 2016!  

NEUROSIS declares new tour dates for 2017, announcing a new run of North American Summer performances with Converge and Amenra. As the band continues to perform the works from their acclaimed eleventh studio album, Fires Within Fires, the upcoming tour will find NEUROSIS bringing their immersive live experience to the East Coast and Midwestern US, and Southeastern Canada.  

Polish death/black metal masters AZARATH have teamed up with Terrorizer Magazine and Musick Magazine for an advance stream of their forthcoming album “In Extremis”, due out on April 7th via Agonia Records. Listen to the album early at:  

Switzerland’s INSANITY have announced  their upcoming Asia Tour 2017. The band will be touring April 15-23 in South Korea and Japan with support bands like The Geeks, No Shelter, Iris and Dawn Of The Maya. Tour dates are as follows:  

IDW Publishing has been proud to publish award-winning artist Gabriel Rodriguez’s work over the years, and it is with great honor and excitement to announce that he will be launching his first creator-owned series as writer and artist, Sword of Ages, in October.  

Pop culture icon and man of the people, George Takei, has signed a book publishing deal with IDW Publishing. Together, they will produce a graphic novel, developed under Takei’s guidance, re-examining the Japanese American internment camps during WWII through his family’s firsthand experience.  

Coming this summer, two decades after their last encounter, comic book universes collide as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles step foot into the world of Usagi Yojimbo in a special one-shot comic.  

We have a brand new video and single from the forthcoming album, SIX, online now!. Check out the album’s self-titled opening track “Dream Evil” in a clip by longtime partner in visuals Patric Ullaeus / www.revolver.se (In Flames, Lacuna Coil, Dimmu Borgir, Arch Enemy, etc.)