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Halo Effect - Second record to be released early next year

Otep - God Slayer album set for Sept 15 release. Features not just the Billie Eilish cover but also Eminem, Slipknot, Lil Peep, and Olivia Rodrigo covers as well. https://blabbermouth.net/news/otep-covers-slipknot-eminem-lil-peep-and-olivia-rodrigo-on-new-album-the-god-slayer 

Code Orange - Take Shape (feat. Billy Corgan) https://youtu.be/X-C5ug_-u-8  This doesn’t feel like the same band that we found on the Forever album… but I am totally still here for it.

SKYND - 'Robert Hansen' https://youtu.be/JeDDz1VTF4g Still dont know what to make of this group… sufficiently creepy though.

LORD OF THE LOST - Destruction Manual https://youtu.be/IhKXpb37gXU Dead End https://youtu.be/PIaf69AZY4Q 

YUNGBLUD - Lowlife https://youtu.be/Edd0LwxOy7s 

Aesthetic Perfection - Summer Goth https://youtu.be/iXNACU9rK9c viewer requested… 

Aphex Twin - Blackbox Life Recorder 21f https://youtu.be/e_Ue_P7vcRE Still going strong… even if it isn’t in the direction he seemed to be going in the 90s and 00s.

In This Moment - THE PURGE https://youtu.be/soVg7yjNG5s new record GODMODE Oct 27.

Celestial Annihilator - Eternal Flames of Doom https://youtu.be/8a3wp3pWWko 

Kaosis - Breaking the Fallen https://youtu.be/2hmzX9FM9bs Featuring Anders Colsefni and Jeffrey Nothing. Generic nu-metal, with sub-par mixing… 

Polyphia - Sept 5 in Asheville, NC running through Nov 3 in San Antonio, TX with a stop at the Blue Ridge Rock Fest at the beginning. Support from Domi, JD Beck, and Midwxst. https://www.stubhub.com/polyphia-tickets/category/1514998/ 

Metallica - The guys have started a new podcast. The Metallica Report is a weekly show that is recorded at the band’s headquarters in Northern California. To be hosted by Steffan Chirazi and Renee Richardson, both of whom have been close to the band’s camp for some time. It is set to be a news show about all things Metallica.

Comeback kid “Wake the Dead” - Wake the Dead is the second studio album by Canadian hardcore punk band Comeback Kid. The album was released on February 22, 2005. Bill Stevenson recorded it over 13 days at the Blasting Room in Ft. Collins, Colorado. The album's main hit, the title track "Wake The Dead", was featured on the soundtrack of the video game Burnout Revenge, and Burnout Legends. The album peaked at number 16 on Top Heatseekers and number 27 on Top Independent Albums. It was the final album with Scott Wade on vocals, with Andrew Neufeld taking over on the later releases.

MK1 - Banished trailer https://youtu.be/M39CVZt6uu0 Keepers of Time https://youtu.be/72okJYRJWDI Kombat Pack Reveal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT-3vhCl6N4 Umgadi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sLJ-xyjMQo 

Red Dead Redemption - https://youtu.be/t5Nwgd_T1-4 porting the game to PS4 (???) and Switch. Minor “remastering” involved. $50 for it, which for the Switch is cool, but come on guys…

Tekken 8 - Official Azucena Gameplay Reveal Trailer https://youtu.be/PARBN7o7gnE 

Street Fighter 6 - TMNT collaboration set for August 8 as announced at EVO. Also A.K.I. DLC is set for later this fall. TMNT are basically just skins for the player created character in the story mode of the game. https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-are-coming-to-street-fighter-6 

Killer Instinct - 10th anniversary update. Iron Galaxy is returning to the franchise to update it for the Series consoles. 

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/killer-instinct-getting-10th-anniversary-update-with-xbox-series-xors-support 

Winds of Winter - All it took was a writer’s strike in Hollywood to get George RR Martin to get back to work on possibly the most hotly anticipated book in all of fantasy. In this same blog post Martin claims to be editing some Wild Cards books as well!!
https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/2023/07/22/actors-join-the-strike/ 

Captain America - Capwolf!! This halloween will see a special mini-arc (4 issues) from writer Stephanie Phillips and Artist Carlos Magno featuring Nick Fury and his Howling Commandos. Issue one on sale 10/11. Release once a month.

https://comicbook.com/comics/news/marvel-comics-captain-america-werewolf-capwolf-howling-commandos-october-halloween-2023/ 

Assassin’s Creed - New comic book series announced by Massive Publishing. The series will explore different time periods and settings from the Assassin's Creed universe, with each issue focusing on a different team of creators. Massive Publishing also plans to release more new Assassin's Creed content in 2023 and 2024, but no further details have been announced yet. To be released this October.

A Game of Thrones is the first novel in A Song of Ice and Fire, a series of fantasy novels by American author George R. R. Martin. It was first published on August 1, 1996. The novel won the 1997 Locus Award and was nominated for both the 1997 Nebula Award and the 1997 World Fantasy Award. The novella Blood of the Dragon, comprising the Daenerys Targaryen chapters from the novel, won the 1997 Hugo Award for Best Novella. In January 2011, the novel became a New York Times Bestseller and reached No. 1 on the list in July 2011

Gen V - https://youtu.be/mmkLMXN_lpI Sept 29

Invincible - https://youtu.be/ED1SJ1TA2Do Nov 3

Archer - https://youtu.be/I3ueuk2NUFk Season 14 FINAL SEASON Aug 30

Peach Creek - Ed, Edd, and Eddy sequel series? https://youtu.be/9edcb2WIsIQ fan made but still… how great is this?

Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon - https://youtu.be/iTOaFootkSk 

Mortal Kombat: Deathright - Fanmade movie gets a trailer https://youtu.be/WsyzxZkZuvU 

Legend of the White Dragon - SDCC trailer https://youtu.be/gk2hqhdvRpY Jason David Frank’s last movie.

Kill Room - https://youtu.be/T9b1Y3G8P8A Huge cast… Uma Thurman, Samuel L Jackson, Joe Manganielo, Maya Hawke

Five Nights at Freddy’s - https://youtu.be/QbTKQcKhTAY final trailer

Paul Reubens - passed away at 70 after battle with cancer.

TMNT: Mutant Mayhem - Splinter isn’t GAY!! The poster calling Scumbag “Himself” was marketing making a mistake, NOT Seth Rogen and company making ANOTHER unnecessary change. Bad enough they race-swapped one lead, and killed the Splinter/Shredder connection.

https://cosmicbook.news/splinter-not-gay-in-teenage-mutant-ninja-turtles-mutant-mayhem 

~ALSO~

Sequel movie, AND TV show already in development.

https://www.cinelinx.com/movie-news/tv/next-tmnt-animated-series-is-set-in-the-same-universe-as-mutant-mayhem-exclusive/ 

DC Animated - Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths and Watchmen animated movies announced at SDCC.

https://cosmicbook.news/justice-league-crisis-on-infinite-earths-and-watchmen-animated-movies-announced-at-comic-con 

Wonder Woman - Gal Gadot IS returning after all? Gadot told ComicBook.com that she is working with Gunn and Sfaran on a third solo movie.

https://cosmicbook.news/gal-gadot-understands-james-gunn-is-developing-wonder-woman-3 

Disney Marvel - The VFX artists employed by the company are now trying to unionize. 

Talk to Me - the A24 horror movie has begun development on the sequel. 

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/talk-to-me-sequel-a24-1235690709/ 

Zombie Town - RL Stine’s book is getting a live action movie, and it just secured a PG-13 rating. 

https://comicbook.com/horror/news/zombie-town-movie-r-l-stine-rating-finished-completed-release-status-update/ 

Pee-wee's Big Holiday is a 2016 American adventure comedy film directed by John Lee and written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust. The film stars Reubens as Pee-wee Herman and Joe Manganiello as himself. The film was released on March 18, 2016, on Netflix. It is a stand-alone sequel to Big Top Pee-wee (1988), the third and final film in the Pee-wee Herman film series, and Reubens's final film role before his death seven years later

Lando - movie still in the works… apparently. Unless you believe the rumors that it will be a Disney+ series.. In which case then there is a new rumor about Donald and Stephen Glover writing it.

Fantastic Four - Vanessa Kirby rumored to have signed on as Sue just before the strike. Antonio Banderas rumored for Galactus

Deadpool 3 - Emma Corrin said to be playing Cassandra Nova, Professor X’s twin sister. Nova created by Grant Morrison in 2011. Movie release: May 3 2024

Nova - Jared Padalecki rumored for the lead role.

Disney Remakes - Tangled and The Princess & The Frog said to be the next in the works for live-action remakes.

Mandalorian Season 4 - Canceled according to rumor. Instead we will be concluding the Mando story in a movie helmed by Filoni.

Deathstroke - Joe Manganiello could be returning to the role.

Wonder Woman - Certain industry “insiders” are claiming that the Gal Gadot situation is fluff, and that the actress is only being given a graceful out once a new actor is cast for the role.

The Batman 2 - Two-face rumored to make an appearance

Silent Hill 2 remake - Trying for a September 2023 release date

Eternals 2 - Actually happening? Chloe Jao NOT directing though.

Captain America: New World Order - To introduce the…