Greetings, DC Nation! This week we are beyond excited to preview art from a project that is coming to your local comic shop very soon. This is one of those great books that make us all stand around the editor’s office going “wow.” Can you guess what it is? Check this space next week for the full rundown. Trust me — you’re gonna want to see more of this.
Want to see Ivan Reis draw a Superman/Flash race? Mike Allred take on the Teen Titans? Two Wonder Woman covers? Well, you’re in luck, as we have all that and more. Specifically, we’ve got a first look at Ivan Reis’ amazing ACTION COMICS #892 DC 75th variant, Mike Allred’s TEEN TITANS #86, Gary Frank on SUPERMAN: SECRET ORIGIN #6, Frazer Irving’s BATMAN AND ROBIN #14 variant and Don Kramer and Alex Garner’s cover and variant to WONDER WOMAN #602. Click and enjoy!
Avenged Sevenfold has cemented their status as one of the country’s favorite rock bands with their highly personal fifth studio album Nightmare, which bowed at No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart and also No.1 on Billboard’s Hard Music, Digital, Internet and Alternative Album Charts. Its No. 1 debut is the band’s highest first-week chart position ever, selling over 162,500 units in its first week thanks to the band’s devoted and rabid fanbase, who consider themselves part of a worldwide A7X family.
Boulevard is considered as one of the most important arena rock bands in the history of Canadian music. Their two classic albums – the self-titled “Blvd” and “Into The Street” – brought a fantastic mixture of 80’s pop and rock, similar to what bands such as Toto, Mr. Mister and Glass Tiger had to offer. Sadly, their career ended with the birth of the grunge movement, which pretty much dominated the entire rock scene in the 1990’s…
Santa Monica, California, August 2, 2010 – – Black Tide will head out on the road this fall joining Bullet For My Valentine and Escape The Fate on their 31 date tour of North America. The tour kicks off September 16th in Wichita, KS at The Cotillon and also includes Drive A on the bill. See below for a complete list of tour dates.
August 9, 2010 – Guitarists Luke Hoskin and Tim Millar from revered Canadian metal band, Protest The Hero, recently created a guitar tab book for their 2008 chart-topping album Fortress and have now completed another for their 2006 debut album, Kezia. The spiral bound book includes transcriptions for each of the ten songs on Kezia and an introduction – all written exclusively by the band members.
Producer Keith Olsen certainly has a knack for spotting talent – over the years he has overseen the creation of some truly mammoth rock records – namely Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘No Rest for the Wicked’, Whitesnake’s ‘Slide It In’, and the Scorpions’ ‘Crazy World’. Logan is in some splendid company with Olsen at the helm of the group’s first world wide release, ‘The Great Unknown.’
Metal Mind Productions presents Quartz – one of the first bands of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal era. Their albums showcased the true essence of late 1970’s/early 1980’s metal, delivering a stunning mixture of brilliant guitar riffs and passionate vocals. The group’s second opus – “Stand Up And Fight” – is to this day considered as their most stellar work, reminding the modern listener how real metal should sound like…
Serbian Black/Death metal hoard, BANE is set to release their long-awaited full-length debut, Chaos, Darkness, Emptiness, later this year through Abyss Records. recorded at Hellsound Studio in Czech Republic, and will be produced, mixed & mastered by Honza Kapak (who played in Judas Iscariot, Krieg, Nargaroth, etc). Recorded Hellsound Studio in The Czech Republic, Chaos, Darkness, Emptiness was produced, mixed & mastered by Honza Kapak (Judas Iscariot, Krieg, Nargaroth, et al).
The last time you went shopping for DVDs, you might have noticed an unmistakable empty space where Slayer titles should have been. The reason is simple – all of Slayer’s DVDs have been out of print. But rest easy Slayer fanatics, the wait will soon be over. On August 17, 2010, 2003’s “War at the Warfield” and 2004’s “Still Reigning” will be reissued, and, for the first time ever, 1995’s “Live Intrusion,” having been digitally remastered, will also be available on DVD.
http://www.comicsalliance.com/2010/08/04/the-devil-wears-prada-mike-hranica-zombie-ep-comic/ AOL’s Comics Alliance just posted an absolutely awesome preview to the band’s upcoming release, “Zombie EP,” and the JL Bourne-written (“Day by Day Armageddon”), limited-edition, full-fledged, 14-page comic book called “ZOMBIE, The EP Comic,” that features the band members as five combat soldiers on a perilous, top-secret mission in a world infected by Zombies. “Zombie EP” will be released on August 24 (Ferret Music).
