Available now from Poland’s blastmasters, Selfmadegod Records, is the first new full-length from Boston’s PSYCHO in twenty-two years… behold the blazing barbarianism of Chainsaw Priest.  

Northeastern Ohio’s villainous HOMEWRECKER is about to lay waste to a plethora of US cities on a three-week trek out to Seattle, Washington’s Rain Fest.  

Another great drop this week, in the vein of traditional metal or even New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM), The Cult of the Vestal Claret, by the titular Vestal Claret, is repping the old school styles pretty hard. You have great base to build off, and they have that old rocking metal sound, with a doom and gloom message about that old tyme religion, devil worship. Fuzzy, dirty, and easy to remember. What’s not to love?!  

New Creative Team! This June, fan-favorite X-writers Craig Kyle and Chris Yost join blockbuster artist Ed McGuinness for an all-new arc of Marvel mutant mayhem in AMAZING X-MEN #8! Though Nightcrawler has returned to them, there is no rest for the X-Men.  

Discovery Times Square, in association with Victory Hill Exhibitions and Marvel Entertainment and in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the National Academy of Sciences, announces the world premiere of Marvel’s Avengers S.T.A.T.I.O.N. The highly anticipated new exhibition, based on the global box-office smash film franchise: Marvel’s The Avengers, will premiere on May 23, 2014 at Discovery Times Square in New York City. Tickets are on sale now.  

You can wade through as many WO FAT press quotes about being “Texas-sized” as you want or see how many top-whatever lists the band has made since the Dallas trio began raging in 2003, but none of that is going to be the same as staring down their swampadelic fuzz groove for yourself. If you want to know the monster, shake its hand.  

Boris Records‘ is proud to announce the May 31 release of Wicca from Lima, Peru’s MORBID SLAUGHTER on 7″ vinyl. The release marks the label’s first foray outside of the necropolis of Atlanta.  

Detroit metal squad BATTLECROSS just launched three new live bootlegs! POV Recordings recently shot and edited live videos of “Flesh & Bone,” “Never Coming Back” and “Kaleb” from the band’s show at the Lincoln Theatre in Raleigh, North Carolina. The videos can be seen on the Metal Blade Records, BATTLECROSS, and POV Recordings YouTube channels.  

Anti-Mortem made a surprise visit to the Big Apple this week, supporting Kyng on their current tour. ALso on the bill was Wind-Up recording Artist Crobot.  

Exciting things are happening in metal! where once we had jsut a few types of bands with wide bands, we now have a rainbow filtering through into the ears of the unsuspecting. Amongst these are the epic Battleroar, with a mash-up of thrash, power violin, and powermetal vocals that will have you quaffing in the halls of Heroes in no time! Ice Giants be damned!  

Italy’s FATHER MURPHY is currently en route to the East Coast where they’ll spread their eccentric and diseased hymns across North America on an epic month-long journey, with additional rituals recently added in Washington, DC, San Diego, Salt Lake City and Albany. The trek includes a live appearance on June 19th at WFMU in Jersey City, New Jersey.  

It begins, the murder mystery of the century. Who killed the Watcher? Uatu has been Watching the heroes of The Marvel Universe since the beginning, now he’s dead. His eyes stolen and the killer holds the secrets of the Marvel Universe. The hunt for his killer begins. Original Sin…They all have one!