With guitarist Hellfiend (aka Matt Harvey) committed to destroying the European countryside with EXHUMED, Los Angeles-based death metal horde GRAVEHILL have turned to CARDIAC ARREST ax-wielder Tom Knizner to fill-in for the band’s performance at this year’s San Diego Metal  Swap Meet. An official statement from the band reads as follows:  

Yesterday afternoon, the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards committee announced the nominations for books published in 2010, and Image Comics is pleased to be the publisher behind twelve of the Eisner nominations.  

Requiem U.S. prog/power metal act STILLLIFE is proud to announce the self-release of their debut album Requiem. As if standing defiant against a metal scene often dominated by the death and black metal genres, The Northern Michigan band have emerged as one of the state’s best melodic metal acts.  

  On May 10, 2011, ohGr, the mechanized juggernaut spawned by Skinny Puppy’s Ogre and Mark Walk, will release its new album unDeveloped for Metropolis Records.  

The gathering shall commence…..after the success of the band last and critically acclaimed opus, 2008’s “Communion”, the time has come for “The Great Mass”! The album is a result of intense soul searching and discovery at home in Greece as well as in Athens, Prague and Sweden.  

Marvel is pleased to present your first look at X-Men: Prelude To Schism #1, from Eisner Award-winning writer Paul Jenkins and acclaimed artist Robert De La Torre! The countdown to the biggest X-Men event yet, X-Men Schism, starts right here!  

MAJESTIC DOWNFALL are set to release their upcoming new album via   Chaos Records in the Americas !!!  

Atlantic recording group Shinedown has announced details of their forthcoming live, multi-disc CD/DVD collection.  “SOMEWHERE IN THE STRATOSPHERE” will arrive in stores and at all DSPs on May 3rd.  

Metal Mind Productions is proud to announce a new record deal signed with a young but very promising Polish band J.D. Overdrive. Their debut album entitled “Sex, Whiskey & Southern Blood” will be released in Europe on 6th June and in USA on 12th July (via MVD).  

BioWare™, a division of leading video game publisher Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) and FUNimation® Entertainment, the leading distributor of Japanese animation in North America, announced today an agreement to create an anime feature film adapted from one of the video game industry’s most revered franchises, Mass Effect™.  

Columbia, SC rockers Crossfade have signed with Eleven Seven Music.  Home to some of today’s most influential rock groups such as Motley Crue, Papa Roach, Drowning Pool, Buckcherry and more, Crossfade are scheduled to release their latest effort, We All Bleed in June 2011.  

Critically acclaimed atmospheric rock band Anathema are set to release the highly anticipated We’re Here Because We’re Here on June 7th on The End Records.  The album’s release coincides with the band’s first ever North American tour. Dates in support of Blackfield kick off on May 18th in Washington, DC.