If you thought you were clever with your weed tea and brownies, do I have a book for you! Oh man.. be prepared for a book about how to solve the munchies.. with the munchies!  

Beginning Thursday, May 19th, Egypt Central will be counting down to the release of their new album, White Rabbit, by premiering sneak peeks into the making of the album on the band’s Facebook page (www.facebook.com/egyptcentral).  

Brazilian female-fronted heavy metal group Shadowside has issued the following update via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/shadowsideband, updating fans on the progress of the band’s forthcoming third studio album Inner Monster Out, which was slated to release digitally next month on SHP Records.  

CKY returns to the road on June 2 for a few east coast dates prior to traveling overseas. The band will appear in Vineland, NJ (6/02 – Hangar 84), Reading, PA (6/03 – Reverb) and Farmingdale, NY (6/04 – Crazy Donkey), and then head to the U.K.  

The ever-eccentric Eric Powell has tapped acclaimed Beasts of Burden writer Evan Dorkin to scribe an upcoming issue of The Goon!  

Chaos Records is proud to announce the debut album from Mexican Death Metal origniators CENOTAPH. For the first time on vinyl we present the debut masterpiece The Gloomy Reflections of Our Hidden Sorrows coupled with two bonus tracks “Repulsive Odor to Decomposition” and “Larvs of Subconscious.”  

Marvel is pleased to announce that both The Mighty Thor #1 and Journey Into Mystery #622 have both sold out at Diamond and will return to comic shops everywhere with The Mighty Thor #1 Second Printing Variant and Journey Into Mystery #622 Second Printing Variant.  

Following up a hugely successful U.S. headlining tour that found the band touring without support and instead performing two separate sets each night, melodic death metal legends AMON AMARTH will return to North America for the second leg of the “An Evening With AMON AMARTH” tour.  

SPEED\KILL/HATE guitarist Dave Linsk [who also plays with the legendary OVERKILL] will be chatting live on the air with MetalheadRadio.com’s DJ Rob tomorrow [May 20th] at 6:30 PST. Head over to www.MetalheadRadio.com tomorrow during DJ Rob’s Metal Asylum show to hear the thrash titan give the scoop on the new SPEED\KILL/HATE album, Out For Blood.  

Dark Descent Records is proud to announce the reissue of Death Strike’s Fuckin’ Death on CD and vinyl. Active from 1984 to 1985, Fuckin’ Death represented one of death metal’s earliest recordings.  

Miami hard rock quartet Black Tide will hit the road later this year as part of the Best Buy Music Gear Stage on the second annual Rockstar Energy Drink UPROAR Festival.  

HENRY ROLLINS GIVES A GLIMPSE INTO KILOWOG’S TRAINING DAYS IN GREEN LANTERN: EMERALD KNIGHTS Singer/Actor/Spoken-Word Artist provides back story for Beloved Drill Sergeant in All-New DC Universe Animated Original Movie Coming June 7 to Blu-Ray™, DVD