ESCAPE THE FATE will embark on a co-headlining US tour this Spring with Pop Evil in support of their current single “One For The Money” off their new album Ungrateful. The tour kicks off at Pop’s in Sauget, IL. With both bands blowing up at radio, the pairing will bring out as many devoted fans, as it will bring new.
In his twenty-five year career in the comic book industry, writer Mark Millar has worked with many of the medium’s top artists, both in his work for DC and Marvel and, most importantly to him, his creator-owned work. Now, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of his independent work, he is giving those artists the spotlight in the hardbound book ART OF MILLARWORLD, coming from Image Comics in April. The book will also be released in a special edition signed and numbered by Millar (limited to 250 copies) at the same time.
BLACK FLAG has announced a spring / summer tour of North America entitled the VICTIMOLOGY TOUR with Brooklyn, NY two- piece atmospheric punk band Cinema Cinema as one of the openers on the grand bulk of dates. The tour kicks off on May 15 in Midland, Texas and includes dates in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Dallas, Philadelphia, New York, Toronto as well as an appearance at the Amnesia Rockfest Music Festival in Montebello, Quebec, Canada on June 20th. This August, Cinema Cinema release their third full length album A Night At The Fights, produced by Martin Bisi (Swans, Dresden Dolls, etc.) and Cinema Cinema.
Flotsam and Jetsam has posted an update, following their European tour with Sepultura. The band comments: “We would like to send out a huge thank you to the many fans and press that came out to support us on our tour with Sepultura. This tour was the largest european tour to date for Flotsam and Jetsam.”
In celebration of their ongoing global conquest with Exhumed and Skeletonwitch, Relapse Records will be reissuing three long out-of-print LPs from Portland, Oregon thrash metal merchants, TOXIC HOLOCAUST. The group’s now classic albums, Evil Never Dies, Hell On Earth, and An Overdose Of Death, will all be available on deluxe vinyl on April 15th, 2014 and can be preordered from Relapse mailorder HERE. A trailer with detailed shots of the vinyl colors can be viewed HERE.
On April 19th PRONG will release an exclusive 7″ single for the “Record Store Day” celebration in the USA with the new track “Turnover” on side A and a Pig Remix of “Revenge Best Served Cold” by Raymond Watts on Side B. The single is limited to 3.000 copies and comes in green marbled vinyl. The worldwide digital release of this single is April 21st!
The first issue of the new Top Cow series TALES OF HONOR by Matt Hawkins with art by Jung-Geun Yoon, which is based upon the bestselling military science-fiction novels by David Weber, has sold out instantly at the distributor level and will be going into a second printing. This issue’s immediate sell-out marks the successful launch of a multi-platform Honorverse initiative that will also incorporate digital games, apps, television episodes, and a feature film spearheaded by Evergreen Studios.
