Wisdom in Chains has posted some new music from their upcoming re-release via Eulogy Recordings. The record is titled Class War and is due out June 19, 2007.

The three tracks: “The Land of Kings”, “Life isn’t Fair”, and “Cap City” were recorded at Mountainside Studio in Tobyhanna, PA in February of 2007 and are new to the reissue. You can check them out on the band’s myspace page.
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Seminal bay-area pop-punk band American Steel has signed to indie behemoth Fat Wreck Chords. The band had the following to say:

Hey gang, Five years after our last show, we played a house party together again as American Steel. We have also started recording a new studio record for our friends at Fat Wreck Chords. Five years ago, we were tired, listless and frankly not having as much fun as when we first started off. Our attitude has always been to do whatever, whenever, and most importantly to have a good time, so we called it a day. Gladly, this preserved our friendships and love for the music we had created. Basically, we missed playing the songs and still have something to say. It is often a farcical and self absorbed world that many rock groups find themselves in, and while we have always been concerned with expressing our views on ideas like equity and justice, we’ve also tried to not take ourselves or the music industry too seriously. So we’re kinda playing things by ear, but we will be playing shows, doing tours, and putting out a new record, probably in September 2007. As for Communique , a band which some of us have been playing in for last few years, it is basically in a holding pattern for 2007 but is by no means dead. Thanks for all the support and radness over the years and we’ll see y’all soon!

Love,
AmSteel

The band’s last release was 2001’s Jagged Thoughts. They will be playing their next show on June 16th in San Francisco at the Bottom of the Hill with labelmates Dead to Me.
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Bummed that the upcoming Inquisition reunion shows are sold out? Well, do we have a sweet deal for you. Rob and Thomas from the band have graciously offered to place one lucky Punknews reader and a friend on their guestlist for night one on May 18 with support from Ensign and Channel 43. Another winner and a pal will be headed to night two on May 19 with the Draft and New Mexican Disaster Squad.

And your winners are:

(May 18) Canaan from Fairfax, VA who wrote about growing up in Richmond, listening to Inquisition, and wanting to stay connected to his hometown scene: “You see even though I go to school in Fairfax I was born and raised in Powhatan Va. just outside of Richmond. My whole life I grew up in the shadow of the good ole RVA and even at school I try to stay connected to my hometown roots.

(May 19) Mike from Pittsburgh, PA who wrote about touring in 1995 and staying at a kid’s house where he first heard Inquisition: “The next morning I woke up to Colton blasting some music out of his room. IT WAS AMAZING!!! Aggressive, energetic, hard but melodic. I went rushing into his room and asked”what is this? it’s amazing!” he said “it’s a band from Virginia called Inquistion, Im putting out their record and I just got the master today. Your the first person to hear it!” I asked if there was anyway he could make me a copy of it? he said “sure, but only if you play this for every person you know”. We left later that afternoon and I spent the rest of the tour in the back of the van listening to this cassette tape in my walkman over and over and over.”

Congratulations to the winners, thanks to everyone who entered, and a special thanks to Rob Huddleston for putting this contest together and picking the winners.
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Minneapolis metal band With Dead Hands Rising has officially signed with Mediaskare Records. Formed in 2001, the band previously released an album with Life Sentence Records in 2004. The group is currently preparing a new full-length, which should be available late-summer.

In the interim, you can check out some music at their MySpace page.
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