Primitive Race, the industrial super group founded by album producer Chris Kniker (Lords of Acid, RevCo) and including players Graham Crabb (Pop Will Eat Itself), Erie Loch (Luxt, Dream In Red), Tommy Victor (Prong, Danzig) and Dave “Rave” Ogilvie (Skinny Puppy, Jackalope), share a video for the song “Addict Now” (https://youtu.be/LIcT2ymZtPA).
As previously announced, progressive Metal legends FATES WARNING will be releasing 3 CD/DVD expanded edition of their critically acclaimed 1997 release “A Pleasant Shade of Gray” October 2nd on Metal Blade Records. “A Pleasant Shade of Gray” is a single song that is divided into twelve tracks. The album is notable for its darker mood and mixture of progressive rock and metal with hints of industrial, classical, and psychedelia. Pre-orders for the album have been launched, along with a live cut from the DVD.
Yes, you heard correctly dear reader! The fight of the century is upon you, and the Merc With a Mouth is set to go toe-to-toe against the Titan With a Temper in September’s DEADPOOL VS. THANOS #1! Writer Tim Seeley and artist Elmo Bondoc, along with cover artist Tradd Moore bring you a high-octane thrill ride starring two unlikely adversaries!
Writer/Director Adam McKay (Anchorman, Talladega Nights, You’re Welcome America) and Funny Or Die have joined forces with Archie Comics, one of the most popular comics ever produced, to bring Archie, Betty, Veronica, Jughead and the Riverdale gang to Broadway in an all-new musical. McKay is slated to bring his singular brand of comedy to the musical, writing the book for the show, with a creative team and timing for a New York run to be announced at a later date.
Greensboro, North Carolina-based IRATA has completed their latest recording, the band’s second full-length, dubbing it Sweet Loris. The album is currently being pressed to vinyl and will see release through Kylesa-founded record label, Retro Futurist, in early October. Additionally, the band will support Kylesa alongside Inter Arma and Indian Handcrafts on an Eastern US tour in conjunction with the album’s release.
Finnish funeral doom duo, TYRANNY — featuring within its ranks current and former members of Corpsessed and Wormphlegm among others — will unleash their first new studio offering in a decade this Fall via Dark Descent Records. Titled Aeons In Tectonic Interment, the record offers up five diseased psalms of slow, tortured, epically bowel-rupturing grimness.
Last night, at the Wacken Open Air (W:O:A) music festival in northern Germany, Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) and Savatage wowed 80,000-plus attendees with a never-before-attempted music festival performance. Following a 40-minute Savatage set and a 40-minute TSO set, TSO and Savatage band members, across two of the festival’s main stages, performed a perfectly coordinated set of fan-favorites.
Revocation continue their series of lyric videos with fellow guitarist and director/animator Nick Hipa. The latest, “The Blackest Reaches“, is live now at metalblade.com/revocation. The previously released lyric videos, “Scorched Earth Policy,” “Madness Opus” and “Labyrinth of Eyes” can also be seen in the playlist embedded on that page.
The Doctor takes Romana for a holiday in Paris—a city which, like a fine wine, has a bouquet all its own. Especially if you visit during one of the vintage years. But the TARDIS takes them to 1979, a table-wine year, a year whose vintage is soured by cracks—not in their wine glasses, but in the very fabric of time itself.
