What makes the Golden age of comics fascinating? Was it the more simpler time and old fashioned middle town America that was highlighted within the panels? Perhaps it was the politics of the time ranging from World War 2 and the war effort, or the whole “red scare” and its paranoid ideals seeping into American ideals.  

  Chris Barnes is a Heavy Metal vocalist who spent 26 years innovating the Rock movement. From 1988 to 1993, Barnes spent time with his band Cannibal Corpse from Buffalo New York, by which he branched off in 1993 with his current band Six Feet Under stemming from Tampa Florida.  

Currently out and shredding hearts and airwaves, the new release from Royal Thunder, Crooked Doors, is a slab of sad, heavy rock that that tells you exactly what the heart feels in its dark times. WIth copy in computer, Metal Machine brings you the review of Crooked Doors!  

West Coast crust collective, TEMPLE OF DAGON, will unleash their Revelations Of The Spirit EP this June via Black Voodoo Records.  

New Jersey tech-death monsters COGNITIVE will kick-off a string of dates leading up to next month’s ‘Brutal Grooves and Grinding Moves’ U.S. tour.  

Ohio-based hardcore/metal outfit ENABLER will be releasing a limited edition 7″/digital single titled, By Demons Denied. Available on June 2nd, the single will contain an extended version of “By Demons Denied” that will be appear on their upcoming Century Media debut full-length, Fail to Feel Safe, along with two exclusive b-sides, “The Flame” and “Some Things Are Worth Living For”. Artwork for the single was done by Christopher Smith and can be seen above.  

This May, witness the strangest Battleworld has to offer as untold tales of this new, patchwork planet unfold in SECRET WARS JOURNAL #1! Jam packed with two explosive stories each issue, experience the Secret Wars from a completely new side as rising star creators bring you high octane adventure!  

There’s a new killer in town, and he’s taking the Secret Wars by storm. Evil has a new face. A giant face with no body. Prepare to meet the deadliest hitman on Battleworld in M.O.D.O.K. ASSASSIN #1 – a brand new Secret Wars limited series coming this May! Writer Christopher Yost (co-writer Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, Amazing X-Men) and artist Amilcar Pinna (All-New Ultimates) take you inside Battleworld’s wildest domain! Enter Killville, the only place on all of Battleworld where murder is always the correct answer.  

Today’s newest puzzle piece in the ever expanding tapestry of metal is Gizzards & Hearts by out-there noise collective, One Ton Project.  

I guess all the news coming out about the global box office numbers being obliterated by Avengers: Age Of Ultron has turned the tide over at Twentieth Century Fox in regards of their strategy for The Fantastic Four re-boot movie. Word is that director Josh Trank wanted some silly idea of creating a horror/SciFi movie, and telling parents not to bring their children to this film.  

The stones are calling to one another, and the most powerful artifact in the Marvel Universe will be re-assembled in INFINITY GAUNTLET #1! From blockbuster creators Gerry Duggan (Deadpool, Nova) and Dustin Weaver (Edge of Spider-Verse) comes an explosive cosmic tale of life, death, family and the things we do for survival. Welcome to New Xandar to the south of Battleworld.  

Candlelight Records today confirms June 16th as the North American release date for A Dracula, the second full-length album from Las Vegas-based doom metal band, DEMON LUNG. Produced by Billy Anderson (Neurosis, High On Fire, Eyehategod etc.), the album will be available for preorder via Amazon, iTunes and physical retailers beginning May 26th, and is available for preorder now via Candlelight’s official web store and BandCamp. In mid-December, DEMON LUNG began their second pilgrimage to Oregon to work with Anderson. At the journey’s conclusion, eight dark hymns became A Dracula‘s storyline. Using Juan López Moctezuma’s 1977 horror film, Alucarda, as the album’s muse, the audio is packaged...