Thursday night, October 26th, this year’s New York City Horror Film Festival (NYCHFF) took over the Cinepolis Chelsea in Manhattan. It’s year 15 for the festival, which was started by the late Michael J. Hein. The festival, which ends Sunday night, will feature over 40 feature length and short genre films. The highlight will be the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Chucky himself, Brad Dourif on Saturday. Thursday night kicked off with two film programs, Q&As with directors and actors, and trivia giveaways by the hosts.

Evanescence, the self-titled album from the band, is now available on MP3 format from Amazon this month for only $5.00, as part of their monthly 100 MP3 Albums For $5 Each promotion.

The album, which was released in October 2011 and is the third studio release from Evanescence, contains 12 songs, and the MP3 version comes with the digital booklet. If you’d like a physical copy of Evanescence, there’s also a CD version is available for $9.99 which comes with a FREE MP3 download of the entire album. Also, right now, if you purchase the CD, you’ll also get a $1 Amazon MP3 Credit (see the “Special Offers and Product Promotions” section of the product page).

Browse the main sale page to see all 100 albums on sale for only $5 each in MP3 format through the end of April 2013, as well as several albums on sale for only $2.99 each.

Soundgarden has released a preview of their new single “Live to Rise” from the upcoming The Avengers movie.

Take a listen to 22 seconds of the new song here below.

The song, which is the band’s first new tune in 15 years, will be part of Avengers Assemble, the soundtrack album of music from and inspired by the film, The Avengers. The 14-track album, which also includes songs by Bush, Evanescence, Five Finger Death Punch, Scott Weiland, and BuckCherry, will be released on May 1, 2012.

The MP3 album deal of the day over at Amazon today is Evanescence, the latest release from the band Evanescence, for only $3.99.

If you’d like a physical copy of Evanescence, there’s also a special CD version is available for $11.61.

The album, which was released in October 2011 and is the band’s third studio release, contains 12 songs, and the MP3 version comes with the digital booklet.