The complete Milwaukee Metal Fest lineup for Sunday, June 7 is in! Please welcome NAPALM DEATH, PRIMITIVE MAN and FACE YOURSELF. They bands join MINISTRY, JOHN BUSH PERFORMING HIS ANTHRAX ERA, ALL SHALL PERISH (Celebrating 20 years of ‘The Price of Existence’), INTEGRITY, UADA, DEADGUY, WAKING THE CADAVER and many more!  

Following a fateful encounter with the Invincible Woman, a dark alternate version of Sue, Marvel’s First Family will return home more inspired than ever to build a better tomorrow!  

Founding Poison drummer Rikki Rockett announces his plans to do a tribute performance of Poison’s Look What the Cat Dragged In with the Rockett Mafia. This year marks the album’s 40th anniversary, which features the hits “Talk Dirty to Me,” “I Want Action,” “Cry Tough,” and the album’s namesake “Look What the Cat Dragged in.”  

American heavy metal icons CORROSION OF CONFORMITY will return to stages this Spring on a North American headlining tour with support provided by Whores and Crobot!  

Fueled by driving riffs, pounding rhythms, and a vocal delivery that balances menace with undeniable charisma, “Yeah You” is confrontational in the best way possible. It’s a song that doesn’t hide in metaphor—it locks eyes with the listener and calls them out. Loud. Direct. Unfiltered.  

Between the Buried and Me, who released their highly anticipated new album The Blue Nowhere in September 2025 via InsideOutMusic, are celebrating the new year and their impending 2026 European tour with the release of a stunning live recording of album highlight ‘God Terror’, recorded in Denver during the bands North American dates. Filmed and edited by Randy Edwards, with audio mixed and mastered by longtime collaborator Jamie King, you can watch the video below…  

EXHUMED hit the blood-soaked road with their new album, Red Asphalt, out February 20, 2026! The masters of Gore Metal rev up and prepare one of 2026’s most frenetic, unhinged slabs of sonic obliteration.  

One of the world’s biggest hard rock bands, multi-platinum powerhouse Five Finger Death Punch announces the first leg of their 2026-2027 World tour. Produced by Live Nation, the massive 48-city tour kicks off on Monday, July 20th at Freedom Mortgage Pavilion in Camden, NJ, and wraps up in Bristow, VA at Jiffy Lube Live on Friday, October 23rd.  

For the last two years, Charlotte, North Carolina’s lauded metal monsters WRETCHED worked on the songs that would populate their long-awaited fifth full-length, Decay. Released October 17th on Metal Blade Records, the result is a conceptual masterpiece that blends haunting melodies with progressive complexity.  

Black Veil Brides are ushering in the new year with the release of their powerful new single and music video, “Certainty.” 

Fan-favorite cartoonist Tom Parkinson-Morgan is back with a new chapter of the popular Kill 6 BillionDemons in Volume 5: Breaker of Infinities out in paperback this Spring from Image Comics. In the fifth chapter of this series—adapted for print from the successful webcomic Kill 6 Billion Demons—sorority sister Allison Ruth has seen it all. Ripped away from her comfortable and mundane life to Throne—the multiversal metropolis at the center of all worlds—she has been unwittingly swept up in an ancient feud between tyrannical god-kings and become the host of a power she can neither understand nor control. She has broken into the grand palace of the Blood Flower, plunged the depths of the vault of the grand dragon... 

Rock fans, brace yourselves: multi-platinum acts CREED and Limp Bizkit will headline the 3rd Annual Summer of ’99 and Beyond Festival on Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19 at the Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre in Tinley Park, IL.