The live KRISIUN onslaught has begun! The “Devastation on the Nation” tour dates featuring KRISIUN & ORIGIN with AEON, ALTERBEAST, SOREPTION and INGESTED kick off today in Crest Hill, Illinois at Bada Brew. KRISIUN will make the trek across North America in continued support of the recently released album Forged In Fury.  

Boston thrashers REVOCATION have been on a tear, touring across North America and the rest of the world in support of their latest release 2014’s Deathless that was released on Metal Blade Records. Today REVOCATION announces the long anticipated reissue and release of the band’s debut album “Empire of the Obscene“. The album will be released November 13th via Metal Blade Records and can be pre-ordered now at metalblade.com/revocation. Be sure to check out the stream of the title track as well.  

Seattle death grind faction, THEORIES, will return to the stage this Fall on a bout of live takeovers with iconic West Coast hardcore nihilists, The Infamous Gehenna. The band’s latest path of destruction begins October 22nd on their home turf and will raze seventeen cities, the trek drawing to a close on November 7th in Olympia. The tour follows THEORIES‘ successful Summer journey supporting Goatwhore, Black Breath, and Ringworm.  

U.S. Doomsters APOSTLE OF SOLITUDE will embark on a tour of the Southern U.S. this month. The upcoming gigs are as follows, after the jump.  

This December, experience a very special one-shot: an exciting new chapter in the Star Wars saga! Today, Marvel is pleased to announce STAR WARS SPECIAL: C-3P0 #1, launching as part of Journey to Star Wars: The Force Awakens!  

Supporting their acclaimed Black Age Blues LP, released in June, closing a fifteen-year gap between full-length albums, Southern California’s GOATSNAKE has just announce a trio of headlining East Coast performances in mid-October, with shows in Philadelphia, Washington DC and Brooklyn confirmed. This stint of shows will fall in line just two weeks after the band headlines a ten-city West Coast Southern Lord Tour.  

Eclectic Danish troubadour, KRISTIAN HARTING, returns with a new twelve song album, Summer Of Crush, which is set to be released via Exile on Mainstream on worldwide on October 30th, as the LP-opening “Traveller” has been issued to the public early.  

Bangalore-based (India) Stoner/Doom Metal quintet BEVAR SEA will release its sophomore album Invoke the Bizarre worldwide on October 31. Pre-order the album at this location. Album tracks “Where There’s Smoke (There’s a Pyre)” and “Sleeping Pool” are now streaming.  

EYEHATEGOD has been forced to cancel their recently announced September performances. More after the jump.  

For those of you not stuck working this Labor Day, here’s a quick round up of some videos posted by some metal labels, all recent! It’s Like Christmasween in September! Click more to get some metal in your face-balls!  

Some of the most brutal music to date does not belong to death metal, black metal, thrash, grind, or anything near traditional. No, the honor is bestowed upon many of the Black Noise bands coming out, and those that have been around for a minute. Using sounds that seal the listener away, helplessly, into a cocoon of strange sounds, hisses, modulated feedback, and anguished vocal attacks, BN pushes an envelope that can cause supreme anxiety into the listener. One such album, to drop from a sea of writhing sounds, is A Means By Which To Break The Surface Of The Real by Theologian. Here’s a review of this diabolical dance music straight from your parents nightmares!  

Strap in, hold on and Hulk out – it’s time to meet your Totally Awesome Hulk, the one and only Amadeus Cho! That’s right true believer, it’s a all-new Jade Giant for an all-different Marvel Universe and he’s coming to you this December in TOTALLY AWESOME HULK #1!