— Jersey thrash lords OVERKILL have signed a deal with E1 Music for North America. The new record will be available on CD and Vinyl, entitled “Ironbound” is set for release on February 9, 2009. This celebrates the bands 25 year anniversary. A US tour is also in the works. Lead vocalist and founding member Bobby “Blitz” Ellsworth had this to say: “Good to be with a label that understands what OVERKILL are about and what metal is about in 2010; exciting!” E1 Music’s VP of Metal, Scott Givens had this to say about the hefty addition: “The entire label and especially myself are extremely excited to be working with the legendary OVERKILL. The band has influenced most of today’s... 

Maynard James Keenan’s multi-faceted collective, Puscifer, kicked off their first tour at the end of last week featuring a pair of shows in San Diego over the Halloween weekend. Describing the evening as a “genre-blurring cabaret” and “an X-rated episode of Hee-Haw,” Spin’s Scott McDonald went on to describe the conceptual show that’s part video mockumentary, stand-up comedy and music performances.  

Tickets for All Three Concerts On Sale Saturday, October 31st at 10AM * * * East Rutherford, NJ – October 30, 2009 – Following their groundbreaking performance and tour announcement at the site of New Jersey’s New Meadowlands Stadium last week, Bon Jovi has just added a third date on Saturday, May 29, 2010 to their series of inaugural concerts at the soon-to-be-opened venue. The newly added concert, along with the previously announced New Meadowlands Stadium shows on May 26th & 27th, are part of Bon Jovi’s “The Circle 2010-2011 World Tour, promoted by AEG Live. The tour launches February 19th in Seattle, WA, and will feature 135 shows in 30 countries throughout... 

Traditional metal heroes, WHITE WIZZARD will be playing a FREE SHOW on Wednesday, November 4th (9pm sharp) in Hollywood, CA at Dragonfly. If you’d like to see the band that The Village Voice called “lead players” in the new wave of traditional heavy metal for FREE, all you must do is send an email containing your full first and last names to detkluiber@yahoo.com and you will be put onto a special guest list. In gratitude for this generous gift of free, live metal, the band asks that you return the generosity and show up to Dragonfly with one or more of the approved donation items from the SOVA Community Food & Resource Program. For a full list of approved items go to http://www.jfsla.org/sova/DonateProducts.php. WHITE... 

Los Angeles, CA – Monday, November 2, 2009 — It is with great regret that Slayer announces the postponement of its “Canadian Carnage” tour with Megadeth, which was due to begin on November 8. In addition, the band announces the postponement of its appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” which had been set for this Wednesday, November 4. More information will be released shortly regarding the rescheduling of the Canadian dates, as well as the ‘Kimmel’ appearance. Slayer’s Tom Araya is currently under the care of a specialist for a back injury, thought to be related to his on-stage activity, and the physician has ordered an immediate surgical procedure to take place in... 

November 2009 (Berkeley, CA) – For the past year, SPAWN: ENDGAME has riveted readers with its game-changing story line featuring the death of Al Simmons and Todd McFarlane’s return to illustrating his seminal creation. In November’s SPAWN #196, ENDGAME concludes with a bang as McFarlane shares art duties with fellow Image Comics founder Rob Liefeld. “I was looking for good artistic help, and remembered inking over Rob on his New Mutant covers back in the Marvel days, and most recently a little bit of IMAGE UNITED,” McFarlane said. “I thought it would be a fun experiment to see what Capullo layouts, Liefeld pencils and my inks looked like together on a handful of pages.” In the conclusion... 

Death Is A Business And Business Is Good For A Crack Team Of Mercenaries; Staying Alive Becomes Even More Dangerous When A New Young Recruit Joins The Team San Francisco, CA, October 29, 2009– VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media), one of the entertainment industry’s most innovative and comprehensive publishing, animation and licensing companies, will premiere the exciting new manga series JORMUNGAND to readers across North America next month. The new action adventure by Keitaro Takahashi will be published by VIZ Media’s Signature imprint and will release on November 10th. JORMUNGAND is rated ‘M’ for Mature Readers and will carry an MSRP of $12.99 U.S. / $16.99 CAN. Jonah is a child soldier, born amidst the chaotic... 

I love revivals. The idea of taking a long forgotten character or concept and reinventing them for a new audience is intriguing. After all if something was successful before why can’t it be now? While wandering around the Big Apple Comic Con, I stopped by a display of action figures from the sixties. Gary Schaffer and Eric C. Hayes ran the display and had finished production on a graphic novel for the toys known as “The Outer Space Men.” Intrigued by the art and the idea I purchased a copy of the book and found myself pleasantly surprised by what I read. Eric and Gary, along with Rudolf Montemeyer, and Marc Borstel had taken these bendable toys from the sixties and built a story around them.  

Cameron Stewart is an Eisner nominated and Shuster Award-winning Canadian comic book artist who has worked on numerous titles, including HUMAN TARGET, HELLBOY: WEIRD TALES, B.P.R.D., BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER, THE OTHER SIDE, THE APOCALIPSTIX and UNCANNY X-MEN: FIRST CLASS.  

Tim Bradstreet has been working professionally as an illustrator almost immediately upon his graduation in 1985. Primarily self-taught, Bradstreet began his career providing illustrations for role-playing games like TWILIGHT 2000, SHADOWRUN and VAMPIRE: THE MASQUERADE.  

DAVID BOWIE HOSTS SEASON TWO OF THE GROUNDBREAKING HORROR ANTHOLOGY SERIES – AVAILABLE ON DVD FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME THE HUNGER: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON Produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, All 22 Uncut Tales of Lust and Temptation, Plus David Bowie’s “Making Of” Featurette, Debut in One Terrifying 4-DVD Set from E1 Entertainment IN STORES OCTOBER 13 Port Washington, NY (September 14, 2009) – Just in time for Halloween, E1 Entertainment releases the chilling horror anthology series THE HUNGER: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON as a 4-DVD set. Hosted by legendary music and film icon David Bowie and produced by Tony and Ridley Scott, THE HUNGER: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON features an ensemble cast of familiar... 

Iron Man 2 maybe the most anticipated movie of 2010, but it’s got some heavy competition from Sylvester Stallone and a dream cast coming in the form of The Expendibles. Set to be released in August 2010, here are five reasons why The Expendables is going to kick major ass next summer.