Oakland metal powerhouse High On Fire is set to release its seventh studio album Luminiferous next Tuesday, June 16th, but for a limited time the full album is available for streaming.

Extreme metal unit Lamb of God has just announced the impending release of their seventh studio album. Coming this July, the disc will be titled VII: Sturm Und Drang, and is available now for pre-order. You can check out two advanced tracks from the album here below.

It is an album that many Lamb of God fans feared might never happen. Singer Randy Blythe was arrested, charged, and imprisoned in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2012 for his part in the death of a 19-year-old fan in 2010. The fan had jumped onstage and either jumped or was pushed back into the crowd, but the crowd failed to catch him and the fan landed headfirst on the concrete floor of the venue. He later died as the result of the injuries he sustained. Blythe spent 38 days in a Czech prison before making bail. He later returned to the country to face trial and was found to be “morally responsible but not criminally negligent” in the incident. The decision was later appealed, but upheld by a Czech high court. For a more in-depth look at the whole incident be sure to check out the riveting documentary film As the Palaces Burn.

Infamous black metal battalion Gorgoroth is preparing to unleash it’s next Hellish vision upon the world on June 12th, 2015. It’s called Instinctus Bestialis and it is the ninth full-length record from the Norwegian legends. It will be the first album to feature new vocalist Atterigner and comes a full six years after Quantos Possunt ad Satanitatem Trahunt, the band’s most recent album of new material.

Check out the song, the album cover, and the track list below.

Swedish metal juggernaut Ghost (known as Ghost B.C. in the U.S. due to legal issues) is ramping up for the release of their third full-length album titled Meliora in August and at midnight on Saturday night they debuted the album’s first single “Cirice” via their website.

For those unfamiliar with the band, Ghost are extremely divisive amongst the metal community. Metalheads either view their weirdo brand of ABBA meets metal as groundbreaking and brilliant or they hate them with a passion. One metalhead went as far as starting an online petition to break the band up (for the record, I’m firmly entrenched in the pro-Ghost camp). The band members dress in anonymous costumes with the majority of members taking on the personas of “nameless ghouls.”

This July, IDW Publishing has decided to take a break from their usual “universe-spanning crossover event” by doing something different — putting out a high quality comic book mini-series that’s unique from anything else on the stands.

Eisner Award-nominated writer Chris Ryall teams up with Eisner Award-nominated artist of Locke & Key, Gabriel Rodriguez, to bring their new creation, Onyx to comic fans everywhere. Debuting this month in select IDW titles is the issue #0 for the series, but if you haven’t seen it yet, we’ve got a treat for you, because you can read it RIGHT HERE!