Marvel Entertainment is excited to announce a renewed exclusive agreement with legendary comic writer Brian Michael Bendis!  

Denmark thrash metal veterans will return to US in April! The tour will also feature Striker and VX36 and begins on April 9th. The tour will weave its way through the US before wrapping up on April 27 in Salt Lake City, UT. For updates and info, follow Artillery on facebook at facebook.com/ARTILLERY.DK. Artillery comments: “It’s with a great pleasure that Artillery are returning to the United States. This time as a head liner for the United Legions Tour, together With Striker And VX36. We can wait to play songs from Legions together with our old songs as Terror Squad, Khomaniac and the Almighty. Come and join the Legions!” ARTILLERY Tour w/ Striker, VX36 04/09 San Jose, CA Rock Bar Theatre 04/10... 

Image Comics and Todd McFarlane Productions are pleased to announce that the entire 250-issue library of SPAWN, the classic series created by Image Comics co-founder and President Todd McFarlane, is now available in digital format for the first time ever. SPAWN will be available to fans on comiXology.com, iBooks, Google Play, and imagecomics.com.  

Dutch death metal practitioners, APOPHYS (ah/po/fihs) – who feature within their bestial ranks members of God Dethroned, Prostitute Disfigurement, Detonation and Toxocara among others – are readying to release their debut full-length, Prime Incursion, this Spring via Metal Blade Records.  

Netfix has released the first full trailer for the up coming Daredevil series. Here’s a first look.  

Sure, the highly anticipated HOWARD THE DUCK #1 from Chip Zdarsky and Joe Quinones hits comic shops in March, but Marvel is keeping the celebration going all the way into April! Today, Marvel is proud to unveil WHAT THE DUCK?! Month – a series of 20 special variant covers for April featuring that fabulous fowl, Howard The Duck! Now is your chance to see some of the most popular artists in the industry provide their own spin on that magnificent mallard!  

This May, when everything ends, it’s time to go back to the future! Behold Secret Wars’ WARZONE! and prepare for the ride of your life in SECRET WARS 2099 #1 – the newest Secret Wars series from the acclaimed Spider-Man 2099 creative team of Peter David and Will Sliney!  

The Marvel Universe is no more. There is now only Battleworld and Marvel.com is the only place where you will be able to learn about the building blocks of the new Marvel Universe.  

STB Records is proud to present one of the smoothest splits your ears will hear this year. Sweden’s retro-laced Le’ Betre and New York’s king of doom blues, King Buffalo, have come together on a massive, riff-laden, blues blasted journey of a split on the titanic DIY record label, STB Records!  

All Them Witches, the Nashville band Native Magazine said “concoct a potent brew of dark, shrieking Delta blues that crackle with mystical psychedelic energy,” release the latest in an ongoing series of live albums with At The Garage, released independently on Feb. 10.  

Copperhead is a grimy, dusty mining town on a distant planet, not exactly the kind of place where a single mother would choose to settled down—but Clara Bronson is the new sheriff in town, and she has some secrets. And secrets won’t last long in a small town, especially when Clara’s profile is about to get a lot larger as she investigates a grisly massacre in COPPERHEAD, the new Image Comics space western series by Jay Faerber (GRAVEYARD SHIFT, NEAR DEATH) and Scott Godlewski (Dracula: The Company of Monsters).  

My love for splits is amazingly well documented, so it should come as no surprise that I am doing another one! This time its a ridiculously dirty little album out now on Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, the Solanum/Epi-Demic split, Passages to Lunacy! Part punk, part noise,a third Thrash, all crusty and gross, its coming up!