The deviant sect known to their cult fanbase as LORD MANTIS is currently decimating the innards of hometown Chicago-based Electrical Audio and Soma Studios, harnessing the astonishing madness that is to be the group’s third full-length release.  

Image Comics is pleased to announce the return of Image Expo! After the success of last year’s Image Expo, the popular media event returns to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on January 9, 2014. The event is open to all fans, comics retailers, and members of the media.  

Think you’re strong enough to play this game? BUCKCHERRY fulfill the need to be broken in “Wrath,” the third music video from their current studio release ‘Confessions’.  

Chicago’s filthiest trio marches out of the sewers of hell with twelve freshly-severed slabs of death metal sleaze! BONES is back with Sons of Sleaze, the follow up to their 2011 self-titled release. Recorded with famed producer Sanford Parker (Lair of the Minotaur, Nachtmystium), Sons of Sleaze will be out November 8 on Planet Metal.  

“Dragon Ball Z” Season Sets Blasting onto Blu-ray This Winter FUNimation® Entertainment has announced that it is giving the Blu-ray release of the anime phenomenon Dragon Ball Z another go.  

A first new sign of life from Polish Black/Death Metal legends BEHEMOTH comes in form of the song “Blow Your Trumpets Gabriel” off their upcoming new record “The Satanist.” The album was produced by Behemoth, Wojtek and Slawek Wieslawscy and Daniel Bergstrand in Hertz Studio. “The Satanist” was mixed by Matt Hyde (Slayer) and mastered by Ted Jensen (Metallica, AC/DC) at Sterling Sound. The cover art, which will also be revealed on December 4th, is a painting by renowned Russian painter and occultist, Denis Forkas. For the cover, Nergal’s own blood was included in the paint. Additional artwork was handled by Metastazis and Zbigniew Bielak.  

Join Henry Cavill, Amy Adams and Man of Steel Director Zack Snyder with special host Kevin Smith on November 9th at 9:00AM PST/Noon EST for an exclusive fan event on Yahoo! Movies.  

The Marvel Machine keeps chugging along as news hits that Marvel Studios and Netflix are teaming up to produce and showcase 4 Marvel themed TV shows and one Mini Series. On the docket for 2015 will be Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. All will get 13 episode orders and all four series will intertwine into the Defenders Mini series ergo The Avengers movie. Marvel Studios will produce with ABC Studios.  

Tidepoint Pictures will release Sanguivorous (“Kyuketsu”) on November 19th. It is the first Japanese avant-garde, silent vampire movie ever made. The film focuses on a young woman suffering from mysterious physical ailments who’s horrified to discover that she’s descended from generations of vampires. When with her boyfriend, she struggles to control her peculiar appetite. But it’s in her blood…  

The critically adored new SKELETONWITCH offering, Serpents Unleashed, debuted on this week’s Billboard 200 at #62, marking the highest chart position of the band’s career! The record’s first-week sales marked a 68% jump from those of its 2011 predecessor, Forever Abomination.  

Guitarist Kim Thayil of Soundgarden has weighed in as one of the first readers to behold Sub Pop Records cofounder Bruce Pavitt‘s highly anticipated debut book EXPERIENCING NIRVANA: Grunge in Europe, 1989. This eight-day travelogue across Italy, Switzerland, France, and England tracks unknown Seattle bands Nirvana, Tad, and Mudhoney as they venture out of the Pacific Northwest and woo the fickle crowds of underground Europe.  

Gothic-doom metallers PARADISE LOST have released their 25th anniversary compilation, Tragic Illusion 25 (The Rarities), today in North America! To purchase Tragic Illusion 25 (The Rarities), please visit iTunes for a digital copy or CM Distro for a mint green 10″ vinyl (USA exclusive color; limited to 300 copies) with a CD insert.