Relapse Records is excited to announce the vinyl reissue of DEATH’s legendary, fifth album Individual Thought Patterns! The reissue will be available as a standard single LP and a limited edition deluxe 2xLP boxset. The deluxe version has been packaged into a limited edition (500), one time pressing deluxe vinyl box set containing DEATH’s Individual Thought Patterns remastered on the first LP plus a bonus 2nd LP featuring select tracks from their legendary Live in Germany – April 13th 1993 performance and the studio outtake track “The Exorcist” (both on vinyl for the first time ever).  

South African rock band Seether is bringing their POISON THE PARISH WORLD TOUR back to the U.S., with the first show kicking off November 25 in Charlotte, North Carolina at The Fillmore. Missouri hard rock group Shaman’s Harvest will support Seether on all U.S. dates.  

Swedish melodic Death Metal pioneers AT THE GATES are in the final stages of preparation for their upcoming new album, following up 2014’s acclaimed comeback release, “At War With Reality”.  

Celebrating 50 years in rock (1966-2016) Gene Simmons, multi-hyphenate entrepreneur, co-founder and front man of KISS, America’s number one gold record award-winning group of all time in all categories (RIAA), and one of the most recognized performers in the world, today announced the unprecedented release of GENE SIMMONS: THE VAULT EXPERIENCEin partnership with Rhino Entertainment. GENE SIMMONS: THE VAULT EXPERIENCE commemorates and celebrates Simmons’ notorious five-decade journey as a rock icon, offering fans around the world a limited-edition collectible ‘VAULT’ with contents that offer a unique look into The Demon’s colorful life, including never-before-released songs, photos, stories and collectible... 

Not wasting any time, Lucasfilm has confirmed that JJ Abrams will be returning to a galaxy far, far away to direct and write the untitled Episode IX of the Sequel Trilogy.  

The end of an era is approaching! After 37 issues on Marvel’s blockbuster Star Wars ongoing series, acclaimed writer Jason Aaron is passing the torch to fellow superstar Kieron Gillen. Today, Marvel is proud to present a brief tribute to Jason Aaron and all of the other talented creators who helped make the Star Wars comics a success, including David Aja, Simone Bianchi, Mark Brooks, John Cassaday, Marco Checchetto, Mike Deodato Jr., Terry Dodson, Stuart Immonen, Salvador Larroca, Mike Mayhew, Jorge Molina and Leinil Francis Yu.  

As just announced at ProgPower USA 2017 this past weekend (September 8th), Redemption is confirmed to headline next year’s edition of the festival, with new vocalist Tom Englund (Evergrey)! This new line-up including Englund, Nick van Dyk (guitars and keyboards), Sean Andrews (bass) and Chris Quirarte (drums) has finished recording Redemption‘s seventh full-length album, Long Night’s Journey into Day – the first to be produced with Jacob Hansen (Volbeat, Primal Fear, Amaranthe, Doro, etc.).  

Primitive Man are without a doubt one of the darkest, most punishingly brutal bands working today. Taking a no-filtered, straight to the point approach to noisy doom-inspired metal, Primitive Man are back again with a new offering and a forthcoming release to commemorate it.  

When it comes to metal, who do you go to for straight up blood and guts? Cannibal Corpse, obviously.  

Everyone’s worst fear of a demonic clown comes true this weekend as It and the titular Pennywise are set to take over the box office this weekend.  

I was one of the percentage who was happy for Colin Trevorrow to leave the untitled Episode IX. Since Lucasfilm announced him being tied to the project, I was cautious to say the least. Jurassic World was by no means a bad movie, but it was a Blockbuster in its purest form. While nostalgia played a huge part in bringing that movie to life, at the end of the day it’s just a fine movie. Trevorrow is not a bad director, however, and I’m not here to bash him, but instead help everyone understand he wasn’t the best choice for a trilogy-closing movie of this magnitude. And there’s a lot of other people out there, too, who are very much like that: good directors that aren’t suitable for a mainline Star Wars film.... 

On February 9th, Good Tiger will release their sophomore full-length, We Will All Be Gone, via Blacklight Media/Metal Blade Records. For a preview of the album, the first single, “The Devil Thinks I’m Sinking”, can be heard at: metalblade.com/goodtiger – where the record can be pre-ordered in the following formats: