Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Captain America #617, from five time Eisner Award-winning writer Ed Brubaker and acclaimed artists Butch Guice, Mike Deodato, and Chris Samnee!  

Cannibal Corpse guitarist Pat O’Brien will fill in for Exodus’ Gary Holt when Holt leaves the Slayer European tour to play with his own band Exodus at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago, Chile on April 4.  

Word on the street is that Batman will get a re-boot after the third film “The Dark Knight Rises”, all to coincide with the pending release of The Justice League movie.   

        LEKAMEN ILLUSIONEN KALLET: The Second Wind Out Now             After four years of silence,Sweden’s Lekamen Illusionen Kallet (LIK) returns with a collection of raw and often hypnotic occult black rock. Masterminded by multi-instrumentalist Stoif (formerly known as Graav) , The Second Wind is now available through Nordvis Produktion.  

After a very successful tour of Europe together and two sold out North American shows (one at NYC’s Madison Square Garden, the other at Montreal’s Bell Centre) in 2010, Metropolis recording artists COMBICHRIST will be joining RAMMSTEIN as direct support on their full North American tour in May.  

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at Venom #2, from the red hot creative team of writer Rick Remender and artist Tony Moore! When Venom descends on the Savage Land to dispatch of a WMD-dealing warlord, he’ll find himself in the sights of much more pointed threat – Kraven the Hunter!  

INCANTATION / ACHERON drummer Kyle Severn will be debuting his gore-filled horror film Afterparty Massacre tonight at Horrorhound Weekend in Indianapolis, IN. Afterparty Massacre was written and filmed by Kyle and Horrormerch.com‘s Kristoff .  

Known for scouring the globe to find some of the world’s finest death, black and thrash metal acts, Abyss Records is pleased to announced the signing of a band who brings the best of all three to the table. Hailing from Homer, Alaska, THOUSAND YEAR WAR stands tall as one of Abyss Record’s newest and most exciting acquisitions.  

Get ready for hell on earth, because for the first time since they tour together on Ozzfest 1999, Rob Zombie and Slayer are teaming up to hit the road, bringing a glorious purgatory to fans in 12 North American cities. The co-headline trek kicks off Wednesday, July 20 at the Sovereign Center in Reading, PA.   

So, we all like free, don’t we? Well, it seems that Boom Studios and the one and only Mr. Clive Barker are making the prelude to the much anticipated Hell Raiser comic book “Prelude To Hellraiser #1” absolutely free! Go to the links below and see how you can get your free PDF copy (yeah, Boom is doing a digital give-away) of the book before the book!  

…and the winner is (drumroll) Wolverine: Old Man Logan! Believe me, DC fans, I am just as surprised as you are. This is LoudMelissa, chiming in on my set up of a classic argument, Marvel vs. DC, with Paul Pope(Batman: Year 100) up against Mark Millar’s “Wolverine: Old Man Logan”.  

This is LoudMelissa, back with Metalmachine.net! How I’ve missed you! I thought it would be fun to get my feet wet again by doing an’ ol’ Marvel Vs. DC. I figured “Batman: Year 100” by Paul Pope Vs. “Wolverine: Old Man Logan” by Mark Millar, since they both take place in the character’s futures.