I’ll admit it, I’m a follower. You can tell me the trend is dead and the era is over but I don’t give a damn, I’m still going to headbang until I have whiplash and mosh until I’m sore.  

Blackie Lawless and W.A.S.P. return with a new Cd “Babylon”. Here is a video for the bands latest single, Babylon’s Burning”  

Swedish heavy metal band ENFORCER have announced their partnership with Earache Records in the UK and Europe for their forthcoming album Diamonds’, out May 24th.  

Metal legends IRON MAIDEN have revealed the title of their new album, THE FINAL FRONTIER and details of their highly anticipated 2010 North American tour, announced Live Nation today.  With 22 dates confirmed, the Live Nation promoted tour will open in Dallas, Texas, on June 9 and finish in Washington D.C. on July 20, making it their most extensive North American tour in many years. (Full confirmed dates below.)  

Adding to an all ready devastatingly brutal roster of bands, Ibex Moon Records has just signed Chicago’s Cardiac Arrest. In addition to appearing alongside newfound labelmates such as Incantation, Acheron, Fatalist and Gravehill at this year’s Central Illinios and Michigan Deathfests, May 25th, 2010 will also see the release of Cardiac Arrest’s third full-length, Haven For The Insane.  

Bay Area forefathers of thrash EXODUS will be releasing their ninth studio album, Exhibit B: The Human Condition, this spring. Guitarist / songwriter Gary Holt checks in about what the band was looking to capture art-wise and why the final version chosen nailed it:  

FUNimation® Entertainment has acquired digital, broadcast, home video and merchandise rights to the fantasy anime series “Baka and Test — Summon the Beasts” (known in Japan as Baka to Test to Shokanju) and the supernatural action anime series “Dance in the Vampire Bund” and the from Media Factory. The agreement gives the American anime leader exclusive rights to the online streaming and simulcast of both series in the U.S.  

Dynamite Entertainment and iVerse Media announced today their agreement to digitally distribute select Dynamite comics. The comics will be available on Apple’s iPhone, iPod touch, and upcoming iPad, as well as Google’s Android Mobile Devices through iVerse Media’s digital distribution technology.  

MISERY INDEX drummer Adam Jarvis is currently featured on the cover of the March 2010 issue of Sick Drummer Magazine. The cover story explores Jarvis’ techniques in the studio recording their brand new album Heirs To Thievery, an exclusive in-studio video, a bit about life on the road, and more.  

A terrifying evil stands ready to consumer reality as we know it and the truth is unearthed in Stephen King’s “N.” #1 (of 4), on-sale now! This new graphic fiction adaptation of the bestselling author’s chilling short story in his recently-released collection, Just After Sunset, reunites the blockbuster creative team of Marc Guggenheim and Alex Maleev  

Dave Witte, drummer of Virginian crossover thrash kings MUNICIPAL WASTE has written his thoughts about METALLICA for SLAM Magazine Austria:  

“Miracle”, the debut single from Ft. Lauderdale hard rock quartet Nonpoint’s forthcoming new album will be available for download on iTunes and online music retail sites on March 30th. The forthcoming album, also titled Miracle, will be released April 27th. via their own 954 Records in partnership with Rocket Science Ventures / RED/ Sony.