Recently released this year is a slab of pure stoner rock fury, Red Wizard by Red Wizard. As far as 3 song albums go, this is monstrous! Its short, heavy, and has a really sweet payoff at the end. Click to read after the jump!  

Multi-media artist NADER SADEK has released a teaser video of in-studio performances for the song “Entropy Eternal” from new EP The Malefic: Chapter III. The video features performance clips of Travis Ryan (CATTLE DECAPITATION), Martin Rygiel (ex-DECAPITATED), Flo Mounier (CRYPTOPSY), Andreas Kisser (SEPULTURA), and Rune Eriksen (AURA NOIR, ex-MAYHEM).  

Marvel is teasing yet another Avengers team/book coming soon…”Uncanny Avengers”. With Avengers: Age Of Ultron coming in 2015 to movie theaters everywhere, look for Marvel to saturate comic shops everywhere with all things Avengers.  

West Virginia instrumental stoner rock legends, KARMA TO BURN, will bring their bong-ripping riffery and glassy-eyed grooves to the stage next month on a mammoth live expedition.  

Polish extreme black metal force INFERNAL WAR is currently undertaking mastering duties after finishing the recording of the new album. Band’s highly anticipated thrid studio opus will be entiled “Axiom” and is expected to drop in early 2015 via Agonia Records.  

Kaotoxin Records has announced a crowdfunding campaign in support of PUTRID OFFAL‘s Suffering limited edition (100 copies) Kollektor Series CD. The release is an autographed “vinyl replica” CD with exclusive sticker (and no future repress).  

Although there aren’t many southern rockers in a big city like New York City, Nashville Pussy managed to unite the country rock scene this past Thursday night (12/18) at The Gramercy Theatre. Also accompanying them were rockers Hail Action, Against The Grain and Valient Thorr.  

Dynamite Entertainment proudly announces the March 2015 debut of Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro #1, the first chapter of a four-part miniseries that will see two of the comic book industry’s Western heroines cross paths for the first time. Written by Shannon Eric Denton and featuring interior artwork by Rey Villegas, Lady Rawhide / Lady Zorro #1 features cover artwork by acclaimed artist and Lady Rawhide co-creator, Mike Mayhew.  

American extreme metal giants Whitechapel are finally coming back to Europe! The Knoxville, TN outfit will join the Progression Tour and the Impercion Festivals in spring of 2015. Good friendly violent fun guaranteed!  

Launched on November 24 and successfully finalized within days, the crowdfunding campaign for THE LUMBERJACK FEEDBACK and WE ALL DIE (laughing)‘s Ausstellung limited-edition split EP was a fantastic success!  

Israeli Thrashers SHREDHEAD are set to release Death is Righteous January 12, 2015 on Mighty Music.  

Following a triumphant trek across the UK alongside Kreator, Arch Enemy and Shining (NOR), MARTY FRIEDMAN is excited to present his brand new music video for “Undertow,” taken from his internationally acclaimed solo album “Inferno.” The video features an unsullied look at Japanese culture, says FRIEDMAN (who currently resides in Tokyo):