This May, the marquee comics event of the year kicks off in the must-read ORIGINAL SIN #1. Today, Marvel is proud to announce that Original Sin will reach unprecedented levels of marketing and promotion, exceeding the mass media buzz of any other previous event in Marvel’s comic book history.  

IDW Entertainment, the newly launched division of comic book powerhouse IDW Publishing (IDW), and leading independent studio Entertainment One Television (eOne), have entered into a partnership to co-develop, co-fund and co-produce television series based on IDW’s extensive library of over 300 original properties. The announcement was made today by David Ozer, President of IDW Entertainment and John Morayniss, CEO, eOne Television.  

This June, witness another nail in the coffin of the first family, as they are torn further apart in FANTASTIC FOUR #6 – an ORIGINAL SIN tie-in! From Eisner Award-Winning scribe James Robinson and fan-favorite artist Leonard Kirk comes the next blockbuster chapter of the world’s greatest comic magazine that will have you gasping!  

West Palm Beach, Florida punk/hardcore outfit, CENTURIES, is about to undertake a new US tour, taking their live show to new sectors of the country. Still touring on their Southern Lord-released Taedium Vitae debut LP, the band will embark westward out of their home state on a twenty-two date tour on April 9th, the trek running out to and up the West Coast US before cutting back down through the Midwest back to their home turf with a closing show in Orlando on May 1st with Of Feather and Bone  

Pennsylvania-based traditional doom metal band Pale Divine have been added to the fourth annual Doom In June Fest, set to take place June 6 – 7 at The Cheyenne Saloon in Las Vegas, Nev.  

The ninth wonder of the unnatural world, Sweden’s technically intoxicating extreme metal quintet MESHUGGAH, are returning to North America this summer to celebrate their 25th year of musical deviance with festival appearances, Canadian dates, and clubs that will fill to capacity. Opening for them (on all but the two festival dates) will be North Carolina’s Between The Buried And Me.  

Atomic Action! Records confirms the impending release of the newly completed debut LP from Providence, Rhode Island-based sonic butchers, FUCKING INVINCIBLE.  

American horde, ABIGAIL WILLIAMS, is currently crusading through the Eastern half of the country on tour now. Having already killed towns through the Midwest and into upstate New York, the band will storm Brooklyn tonight, continuing to inundate the rest of the East Coast and through the Gulf Coast states through April 12th.  

Get This Right Records is preparing to release a bulldozing split between two heavy-hitters in the contemporary hardcore circuit; a brutal showdown between Pennsylvania’s BENCHPRESS and Puerto Rico’s MARTYR’S TONGUE.  

Old-school Boston grindcore/punk act, PSYCHO, is back with the band’s first new full-length release in over twenty-two years! New England scene veterans Johnny X, Charlie Infection and Mike, return with Chainsaw Priest, the fourth PSYCHO album amidst the band’s extensive discography.  

Who’s gonna save the world from killer groupies and soul-crushing skulls? 9ELECTRIC, of course! The Los Angeles-based hard rock band are gearing up for their upcoming North American tour with POWERMAN 5000 with a lyric video that presents the band in full 8-bit splendor. Help 9ELECTRIC save the world by watching the “Under Attack” lyric video here: http://smarturl.it/9ElectricUnderAttack.  

Dynamite Entertainment is excited to announce that Gail Simone is continuing her critically acclaimed best-selling run! “I have always said that the thing that makes Red Sonja MOST dangerous is not her skill with a sword, or her speed,” states acclaimed writer Gail Simone. “It’s her cunning. Red Sonja is cunning. And she gets what she wants. When I first agreed to write Red Sonja, I wanted to do one great Sonja story and drop the mic (assuming of course that the story didn’t suck and people instead started throwing things at me).