Louisiana road demons, GOATWHORE, will take to the streets again later this week on an epic North American headlining tour. With support from Ringworm, Black Breath, and labelmates, Theories, the lengthy trek will devour three-dozen venues beginning June 5th on their home turf of New Orleans and come to a close on July 12th in Atlanta. The latest run follows the band’s recent Australian and European onstage demolitions. Tickets are on sale now through all local ticket outlets.  

American metal icons, SUPERJOINT, will embark on their first tour in over a decade! Presented by frontman Philip H. Anselmo’s own Housecore Records, The It Takes Guts Summer takeover will commence on July 10th in Oklahoma City and ravage its way through thirteen US cities with additional dates to be confirmed in the coming weeks. Support will be provided by punk metal/noise rock misfits, Child Bite, and Australian grind miscreants, King Parrot, both members of the Housecore Records family.  

Neo-Thrashers HAMMERCULT from Israel have signed a new record deal with German based label SPV/Steamhammer. The first release will be the new album “Built For War”.  

The Dark Knight isn’t seeking tricks or treats when Gotham City’s most lethal villains take to the streets on Halloween night in the newest DC Comics animated film – Batman Unlimited: Monster Mayhem. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and DC Entertainment, the original movie arrives from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment on Blu-rayTM Combo Pack and DVD on August 18, 2015 for a $19.98 SRP, and via Digital HD on August 4.  

Legendary death metal unit, SIX FEET UNDER, dropped the infernal bounty of their Crypt Of The Devil full-length upon North America yesterday via Metal Blade Records. Composed by renowned growl monarch, Chris Barnes with Cannabis Corpse bassist/vocalist Phil “Landphil” Hall, Crypt Of The Devil serves as the band’s eleventh studio offering and dishes up ten diseased slabs of unfettered death metal barbarity ornamented in Barnes’ haunting prose. Surveying the darkest, most abysmal depths of the human condition, the record is alarming in both sound, mind and spirit.  

Los Angeles’ notorious, multi-platinum-selling rock band, Buckcherry, will release their 7th studio album, Rock ‘n’ Roll, on August 21st via F-Bomb Records/Caroline. In anticipation for the upcoming record, the band has premiered a new track/video for their first single, “Bring It On Back,” today at http://vevo.ly/qREEKc.  

GOATSNAKE‘s mighty first LP to see release in fifteen years, Black Age Blues, is available now worldwide through Southern Lord Recordings! In stores now, the crushing album is also streaming in its entirety, as the band continues their European tour in support of their thunderous new works.  

Kaotoxin, in collaboration with The Flaming Arts Agency, is proud to announce that DEHUMAN will tour Europe in July as main support for legendary US Death Metal act VITAL REMAINS. The tour, promoting DEHUMAN‘s recently released and critically acclaimed second full-length, Graveyard of Eden, will start on July 10 and cross seven countries.  

GWAR has just added CLUTCH as a co-headliner to this year’s GWAR B-Q! And as if that weren’t enough to melt your pathetic mind, the B4BQ launch pre-party will now feature the entire lineup of the hard hitting Summer Slaughter Tour, who will join metal heavy weights Fear Factory and the highly awaited return of Coal Chamber!  

Nekrogoblikon, celebrating today’s release of their album Heavy Meta (Mystery Box/Razor & Tie), share a hilarious new video for “We Need A Gimmick”! Video available here: (https://youtu.be/1Q3ub1SUYfg). The clip, fashioned as a lesson from band mascot, John Goblikon, on ways Nekrogoblikon can achieve internet fame features the sextet in various scenarios – from smooth jazz crooners to hip hop impresarios to EDM ravers and finally, as a corpse-painted black metal band.  

Returning with opus number fourteen, The Plague Within, released today in North America, PARADISE LOST has once again refined the chemical equation to their sonic alchemy with the kind of creative invincibility few can afford. Featuring a monochrome miasma of morbidly uplifting anthems and heart-aching melancholia, The Plague Within can be purchased at your local retailer and digital service provider, as well as at O Merch/JSR: http://www.jsrdirect.com/bands/paradiselost  

The Hero Initiative, the first-ever federally chartered not-for-profit corporation dedicated strictly to helping comic book creators in need, unveiled its latest project today, The HELLBOY 100, in collaboration with HELLBOY creator Mike Mignola and Dark Horse Comics. To create the HELLBOY 100, Dark Horse Comics printed 100+ blank covers of the landmark first issue of HELLBOY & THE BPRD: 1952, written by Mignola and John Arcudi and featuring the art of Alex Maleev with colors by Dave Stewart.