All-New Marvel NOW! marks a brand new start for Marvel’s First Family – from the award winning creative team of James Robinson and Leonard Kirk! And they’ll take them to places you’ve never seen before in the all-new FANTASTIC FOUR #1 – on sale this February!  

Metal titans ICED EARTH make their triumphant return with the January 21, 2014 release of new studio album ‘PLAGUES OF BABYLON’ on Century Media Records. The band will bring the new album to their North America homeland when their headlining WORLDWIDE PLAGUES TOUR hits our shores April 4 for a six-week run with SABATON and REVAMP in support. See complete tour dates below.  

Over a year since the dominating release of their tenth studio LP, Honor Found In Decay, the unstoppable NEUROSIS has locked down two new performances in their ongoing, sporadic live ceremonies in support of the album.  

A space adventure sure to captivate science-fiction and procedural crime fiction fans, THE FUSE is a new ongoing, hard-bitten sci-fi crime series from ANTONY JOHNSTON (UMBRAL, Wasteland, Daredevil) and JUSTIN GREENWOOD (Wasteland, Resurrection). THE FUSE follows detectives Ristovych and Dietrich of Midway City’s Homicide division, whose jurisdiction is an orbiting power station 22,000 miles up.  

After releasing re-issues for The Secrets of the Black Arts, Vobiscum Satanas, and In the Sign… yesterday in North America, Swedish black metal masters DARK FUNERAL have now announced the street date for their second batch of re-issues: Diabolis Interium, Attera Totus Sanctus, Angelus Exuro Pro Eternus. Due out November 25th in Europe and North America, these new editions have been expanded with previously unseen photos from Lord Ahriman’s personal archive, extensive liner notes by Olivier “Zoltar” Badin (Terrorizer / Iron Fist), bonus material and revamped layouts. See below for each album’s track-listing and details.  

Modern rock favorites THOUSAND FOOT KRUTCH will independently release its first remix CD, Metamorphosiz II The End Remixes Vol. 1 & 2, on Nov. 19 global distribution through Fuel Music Distribution. The full-length album combines two earlier released, digital-only EPs to include 11 songs from the independently released, 5-star acclaimed and No. 1 selling Billboard Hard Rock album, The End Is Where We Begin, by noted remix talent Steve Sidelnyk, Rob Persaud, Robbie Bronnimann, Andy Hunter, Solomon Olds, Rui Da Silva and Joshua Silverberg.  

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.