All Them Witches, the Nashville-based band who have self-dubbed their music as delta-psych and cosmic desert rock, share new song “Open Passageways” (HERE). The track comes from band’s New West Records’ debut, Dying Surfer Meets His Maker (Oct. 30).  

The fate of mutantkind will be decided here! Prepare for a new team of X-Men for a new Marvel Universe. Today, Marvel is pleased to present your new look inside EXTRAORDINARY X-MEN #1! Eisner Award-nominated writer Jeff Lemire (All-New Hawkeye, Sweet Tooth) and chart-topping artist Humberto Ramos usher mutantkind into a new era for the flagship X-Men title of All-New, All-Different Marvel!  

Known as the skilled co-pilot of the infamous Millennium Falcon, the legendary Wookiee warrior Chewbacca is flying solo for his very own limited series! Today, Marvel is pleased to present your first look at CHEWBACCA #1 – from blockbuster creators Gerry Duggan and Phil Noto!  

North Carolina Blackened Thrashers ALL HELL have partnered for the exclusive premiere of “Blood for the Baron” of the band’s upcoming second release, The Red Sect. To experience this exercise in extreme metal, along with an interview with members of ALL HELL, visit THIS LOCATION.  

MONO and THE OCEAN. Two bands from very different cultural origins, Japan and Germany, yet spiritually akin and connected by many similarities: a cinematic approach to music, based on lengthy, escalating compositions, the fact that both bands have existed for more than 15 years and released multiple albums since their inception; that they have toured many times around the globe, visiting off-the-beaten-track territories like Siberia, New Zealand, South East Asia and South America; and finally their shared passion for double albums, such as THE OCEAN’s “Heliocentric” / “Anthropocentric“, and MONO’s “The Last Dawn” / “Rays Of Darkness“.  

Behemoth has launched a brand new video for the title track from “The Satanist” on behemoth.pl. The video, directed by Andrzej Dragan (andrzejdragan.com), is another ambitious and visually striking piece of art from the band that’s known for videos that remain a cut above standard metal music videos.  

In less than two weeks, after a year-and-a-half hiatus, Portland, Maine’s blackened rock’n’roll outfit, ZUD, will return to the stage, headlining day two of the first Shadow Woods Metal Festival on September 26th – the new mid-Atlantic, open-air, camping-based metal fest — in White Hall Maryland, just north of Baltimore. With the likes of Midnight, Occultation, Wormreich, Dreadlords and Sangharsha, and over two-dozen others at the two-day event, Shadow Woods can be expected to be a game changer in festivals held on the East Coast.  

Italian progressive occult metal visionaries, VOID OF SLEEP, will release their sophomore full-length next month via Aural Music. Titled New World Order, the seven track concept album and follow-up to 2013’s acclaimed Tales Between Reality And Madness long player was captured by bassist Riccardo Pasini (Ephel Duath, The Secret) at Studio73 in Ravenna, Italy and mastered by Collin Jordan (Eyehategod, Indian, Wovenhand, Voivod et al.) at The Boiler Room in Chicago, Illinois.  

Following their recent North American expedition supporting Superjoint and King Parrot on the successful It Takes Guts tour 2015, and the following Eastbound N’ Down tour with Down, Detroit’s favorite punk/metal/noise rock eccentrics, CHILD BITE, take to the streets again for a twenty-three date tour supporting KEN mode.  

This October, Earth’s Mightiest Heroes are reforged, retooled and recharged for the All-New, All-Different Marvel Universe! But first, kickoff the all-new Avengers line of titles with AVENGERS #0 – featuring new stories setting the stage for six new ongoing series! Someone is watching, carefully studying the movements of the Avengers and those in their orbit.  

DARK BUDDHA RISING has shared the second audio excerpt, “E X O“, from their upcoming fifth album, Inversum, a two-track exercise in the black arts of psychedelia.  

THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER unleash the crushing new full-length album, “Abysmal“, on the masses this week, by streaming it in its Entirety!