Bay Area thrash metal icon, Exodus, has announced several headlining shows to commence following the band’s March/April run on “Metal Alliance Tour.” A full list of confirmed “Metal Alliance Tour” and Exodus headlining off-dates can be seen below.  

The esteemed DEATH TO ALL Tour, celebrating the life and music of DEATH mastermind Chuck Schuldiner, will be returning in 2013 for an even larger run of dates. After a successful 2012 run, the tour, now referred to as DTA1, will feature the original lineup of DEATH from Human — guitarist Paul Masvidal, bassist Steve Di Giorgio, and drummer Sean Reinert, with special guest vocalist/guitarist Max Phelps of Cynic/Exist. The band will be playing a selection of songs from the first four DEATH albums including the cream of the Human album.  

South Florida’s ABIOTIC recently confirmed their performance at the 15th annual New England Metal & Hardcore Festival. En route to the show, the band will be embarking on the Metalfest Invasion Tour with fellow up-and-comers Dark Sermon. The tour begins April 12th and wraps on April 27th. ABIOTIC will be performing at NEMHF on April 18th, and Dark Sermon will perform on April 21st. The rest of the shows with both bands are listed below.  

Metalmachine.net was front and center at this years Toy Fair 2013 at the Jacob Javitz Convention Center. Through all the toys and games and products for all to see we bumped into one pretty cool one. The company is called SharkSkinzz and, well see for yourself.  

Marvel released a teaser called “Marvel 1st”. No idea what this means. The caption reads.. “Begin with the best super heroes in comics–Marvel does it FIRST!!” Can this be a major reboot of the Marvel Universe after the “Age Of Ultron” event coming from Marvel? Time will tell.  

IDW Publishing and Cartoon Network Enterprises today announced that the two companies have forged a partnership to produce and release comics based on many of the network’s popular and iconic classic characters!  

Here is your first look at Deadpool #6, from the popularly elected creative team of writers Brian Posehn & Duggan and artist Tony Moore! Deadpool has sliced, diced, and mocked almost every former President of the United States, and in this explosive finale – see who makes it out alive (obviously, not the presidents)!  It’s the epic finale of the Dead Presidents and no fan of Deadpool can miss how it ends!  

Amanda Harvey from Metal Machine had the privilege of speaking to Hatebreed’s guitarist Frank Novinec during a phone interview and asked him a couple of questions about their upcoming tour for the newest album, Divinity of Purpose.  

Marvel has sent out a teaser called “Of The Dead” today, and the internet is abuzz with what this might mean. Well, one very hard rumor has it that the death of one of Marvels most popular characters will be meeting his end. That character is none other than Wolverine. The event will be the up coming event series Age Of Ultron. How Wolverine can die will be a mystery as Wolverine can’t die? Or so we think…  

Old School death metal legends MASTER are pleased to announce a 32 date US trek with California death thrashers SACRIFICIAL SLAUGHTER.  

HIM announces their first U.S. headline tour in support of their forthcoming new studio album, Tears On Tape. Dubbed “Tears On Tour,” the May 2013 run will make scheduled stops in both Los Angeles and New York City (tour dates below). Tears On Tape will be released on April 30th on Razor & Tie in North America/Canada.   

A destructive force is devastating planets across the galaxy – with Earth next in its sights – and even Superman may not be capable of halting the terror in SUPERMAN: UNBOUND, the next entry in the ongoing series of DC Universe Animated Original Movies.