New York City stoner doom trio, BLACKOUT, will bring their quaking riff rituals to Canada later this month on a four-date mini tour through Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. This will mark the band’s first time ever on Canadian soil.  

Ritualistic doom practitioners,DARK BUDDHA RISING, are Neurot Recordings‘ latest signees. Hailing from Finland and with four albums already under their belt (most recently 2013’s Dakhmandal), DARK BUDDHA RISING conjures psychedelic sprawling space jams made up of expansive yet concentrated bellows of decaying distortion and broken-signal analog bleeps, cannoning across antimatter, and presented with staggering finesse.  

Bulgarian Death Metal vets Enthrallment have released a lyric video for the song “Tool of Suicide” off the band’s recently released The Voice of Human Perversity.  

Candlelight Records today confirms June 24th as the North American release date of IX, the new album from CORROSION OF CONFORMITY. Produced by the band and long-time comrade John Custer, the album and lead single “On Your Way” will be available for preorders via iTunes, Amazon, and other popular outlets beginning May 13th.  

Poland’s Selfmadegod Records is proud to announce the upcoming third full-length release from German crust punk brigade, MIND.  

Corey Pierce of GOD FORBID reveals that he is teaming up with THY WILL BE DONE vocalist J.Costa, former ANTHRAX vocalist Dan Nelson, ex-THY WILL BE DONE bassist Eric Tavares and long-time friend Rob McElroy to form LEAD PIPE CRUELTY.  

GraphicAudio® A Movie in Your Mind,® in conjunction with Marvel Entertainment, releases the latest in audio entertainment – The Ultimates: Against All Enemies by Alex Irvine. In this latest full-cast recording, the Ultimates – Captain America, Iron Man and Thor – face threats to humanity too powerful for conventional operatives to handle. The alien shapeshifters called the Chitauri were defeated by the Ultimates in a decisive battle, but suspicious activity leads the Ultimates to believe that not all of the aliens were destroyed in that cataclysmic attack. Frustrated by the government’s seeming unwillingness to protect its own people, Captain America takes matters into his own hands,... 

Boston technical death metal strategists, PILLORY, will release their sophomore full-length, Evolutionary Miscarriage, later this Spring via Unique Leader Records. The follow-up to the pile driving, No Lifeguard At The Gene Pool, released in 2005, Evolutionary Miscarriage finds PILLORY expanding upon their signature intricacies.  

Ever woken up from a great night out and not been entirely sure of the evening’s events? (Of course not! You’re a responsible comics fan!) Well, what if instead of losing your keys or phone, something really amazing happened—and you took it for granted?  

Roadrunner/604 recording group Theory Of A Deadman has unveiled details of their hugely anticipated new album. “SaVages” – which follows 2011’s chart-topping “THE TRUTH IS…” – arrives everywhere on July 8th. “SaVages” is heralded by the fiery new single, “Drown,” a snippet of which can be heard now in a video teaser streaming at www.theoryofadeadman.com. Produced by longtime collaborator Howard Benson (Halestorm, My Chemical Romance), the single arrives at multi-format rock radio outlets across the country on April 22nd, the same day the track goes on sale on iTunes.  

Nothing will ever be the same for Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. following the jaw dropping events of the blockbuster film Marvel’s Captain America: The Winter Soldier, now in theaters! In the series’ latest episode “Turn, Turn, Turn,” airing Tuesday, April 8th at 8|7c on the ABC Network, Coulson and his team come face–to-face with the Clairvoyant and must deal with the greatest threat of all…one that will hit closer to home more than they’ve ever imagined.  

Tucson, Arizona’s GODHUNTER has confirmed an upcoming split release with their cohorts in Oakland, California’s Secrets Of The Sky, to be released in conjunction with their upcoming Western US tour together.