All-new cG & TRADITIONAL ANime SHORTS add NEW CHAPTERS to renowned video game franchise; seven NEW STORIES AVAILABLE ON blu-ray & dvd FROM warner home video on FEB. 9, 2010 Go deeper into the Halo universe than ever before with Halo Legends, an all-new, CG and traditional anime PG-13 experience that presents enthralling new stories from one of the world’s most popular video game franchises. Produced by 343 Industries, a part of Microsoft Game Studios, the exciting tales-beyond-the-games will be distributed February 9, 2010 by Warner Home Video as a Special Edition 2-disc version on DVD and Blu-Ray™ for $29.98 (SRP) and $34.99 (SRP), respectively, as well as single disc DVD for $19.98 (SRP) due date for... 

SIEGE is coming! It’s all been leading up to this universe shattering four issue limited series from the superstar team of Brian Michael Bendis and Olivier Coipel! Following the events of DARK REIGN: THE LIST, Norman Osborn sets his sights on Asgard and nothing will stop him from completing his mission. But what does he want? How do Loki and Thor figure in? And just how does this relate to the inner strife between the Cabal? Marvel’s greatest heroes unite against the deadliest threat they’ve ever faced, but even they have no idea what’s coming next. The most jaw dropping comic book event of the decade begins in December with SIEGE: THE CABAL and continues in January’s SIEGE #1! Watch... 

HATEBREED SETS OUT ON SECOND LEG OF “DECIMATION OF THE NATION TOUR” BAND CONFIRMS TWO U.S. IN-STORES (New York, NY) — HATEBREED is celebrating their new self-titled album with a second North American run aptly named the “Decimation of the Nation 2” tour. The official kick off is November 6th in Cleveland’s House of Blues. The tour spreads across the continent, hitting venues in 41 cities, including parts of Canada. Cannibal Corpse and Unearth will handle the outing’s supporting responsibilities. The tour supports HATEBREED’s latest release, a self-titled album that hit stores on September 29th. The first single from the new effort, “In Ashes They Shall Reap,” is currently... 

CAULDRON SETS OFF ON THE “WASTE THE WORLD” TOUR THIS FRIDAY Toronto traditional metal trio, CAULDRON are anticipating this Friday’s kickoff of the Waste The World tour with headliners, MUNICIPAL WASTE alongside GOATWHORE (11/6-11/16), OFF WITH THEIR HEADS (11/18-12/2), BRUTAL TRUTH (12/4-12/11) and PHOBIA. Here are the dates:  

The Flood will be hitting the road this winter on the heavily anticipated SAW VI tour with Mushroomhead. Both bands were featured on the SAW VI soundtrack, which is in-stores now! The Flood just wrapped up recording their debut album with Sylvia Massy (Smashing Pumpkins, Tool) at her Radiostar Studios in Weed, California. The album will be released via independent label Deify, sometime in 2010.  

Irish thrashers GAMA BOMB have released their brand new album, TALES FROM THE GRAVE IN SPACE, worldwide as a free download. TALES FROM THE GRAVE IN SPACE is absolutely free, including artwork, and will remain a free download forever. Fans and non-fans alike are encouraged to download the album and even pass it on to everyone you know.  

JIM LEE UNITES WITH IMAGE FOUNDERS FOR THE CROSSOVER EVENT OF THE CENTURY, IMAGE UNITED! Image Founder and WILDC.A.Ts creator Jim Lee provides all-new cover for November’s IMAGE UNITED #1! 4 November 2009 (Berkeley, CA) – Since IMAGE UNITED’s announcement, fans have clamored for the one missing Image Comics founder, Jim Lee, to take part in the crossover event. Earlier today, Image and Newsarama revealed Lee will definitely take part with an all-new cover featuring the entire pantheon of Image superheroes at the hands of the resurrected Al Simmons.  

More than two decades after its television premiere, the popular Ruby-Spears Superman animated series returns to TV screens via Warner Home Video as a two-disc DVD collection of cartoons. The DVD is available today, November 3. Debuting in 1988, the Ruby-Spears Superman series brought back some familiar foes and new unfriendly faces for battles against the Man of Steel. In addition to the thrills of Superman’s weekly adventures, each episode included a mini-segment called Superman Family Album that told the “real” story of what it was like to grow up as the most powerful boy in Smallville.  

— 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...