Trustkill Records has signed Italian metal/hardcore act Awaken Demons. The band recently wrapped up recording on their new album, The Mirror, which features guest vocals from Vincent Bennet (The Acacia Strain) and Karl Buechner (Earth Crisis).
They released From Heaven To Hell in 2007 via Seventh Dagger Records. You can check out a pre-production track, “Coming to an End,” on their myspace page.
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Oort Records, a sub-label of Lobster Records, has signed Nottingham of Randolph, NJ.
The pop-punk outfit will hit the studio this summer to record their debut for the label. In the meantime, they have posted several demos on their myspace page.
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Fat Wreck Chords has announced that they will be releasing The Original Cowboy by Against Me!. The record, made predominantly of never-before-heard demos were recorded at Goldentone Studio in Gainesville, FL with Rob McGregor on July 15th, 2003. The session was scheduled prior to Against Me!’s trip to Memphis’ Ardent Studios where As The Eternal Cowboy was recorded.
Tom Gabel explains the decision to go to Ardent:
Having already recorded our first full length album and two previous EPs with Rob at Goldentone, we wanted to do something different for our second full length. We specifically wanted to make an all analog recording with as few overdubs as possible which is what we could do at Ardent. With Rob McGregor coming along to produce, we wanted to make sure he was familiar with the songs, so we made this demo recording.
Recorded and mixed in only a couple of hours, The Original Cowboy was only meant to be a trial run, but, listening to it today, there’s a part of me that feels foolish for ever recording these songs a second time.”
The record is due out July 7, 2009.
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Comeback Kid are back from tour and wanted to check in one last time before signing off. So here it is, enjoy!
They released Broadcasting… in 2007 and Through The Noise last October.
Their other episodes are here: Episode 1, Episode 2 Episode 3, Episode 4, Episode 5.
Alexisonfire has posted a stream of their upcoming single, “Young Cardinals.” The song comes from their highly anticipated new full length, Old Crows / Young Cardinals. The song will be available for the next 24 hours.
Check it out here.
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New Equal Vision signing, f Boston, MA-based Therefore I Am, have announced the release of their debut for the label.
The record is titled The Sound of Human Lives and is due out June 23, 2009. The band recorded at Strangeways Recording studio in Providence, RI with producer and ex-Hot Rod Circuit drummer Michael Poorman (Piebald, Tsunami Bomb, Paulson). Poorman also produced the band’s 2007 EP, Escape.
The band will be on the Warped Tour this summer.
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Recently reunited 90’s Ebullition hardcore act Portraits of Past have replaced Jenny Piccolo for the May 9th Burning Fight Book Release show at the Glass House in Pomona, CA. The show still has Unbroken, Swing Kids and Undertow on the bill.
Portraits of Past have also replaced Jenny Piccolo for their scheduled May 8th show at the Che Cafe in San Diego with Crime Desire also playing this show.
Portraits of Past most recently released the compilation, Discography, and are planning a new album.
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Richmond, VA’s The Riot Before are heading to Europe for the first time to support their album Fists Buried in Pockets, which was released last September via Say-10 Records.
They will be joined on the run by Oslo’s Death Is Not Glamorous who are supporting Soft Clicks.
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Hit The Switch will be releasing their new album Observing Infinities on May 30, 2009. The band had this to say:
Our new record entitled “Observing Infinities” comes out May 30th!!! It will be available exclusively from Interpunk.com until July 1st, then you will be able to get it on iTunes. Also we got a sweet lil West Coast tour in June, and we will be hitting the lower states all the way to Florida in August/September.
They’ve also posted the track listing.
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Washington, DC’s Frodus have added an New York City show at Death By Audio on May 10th, in addition to previously announced shows in Baltimore and Philadelphia. After disbanding, the members of Frodus formed Decahedron, Frantic Mantis, The Cassettes, and Man and Wasp.
The band last released And We Washed Our Weapons In the Sea through Fueld By Ramen in 2001.
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Dave House of The Steal has posted another new song from his forthcoming solo album. The record is titled Intersections and is due out June 1, 2009. It is the follow up to 207’s See That No One Else Escapes. Dave also notes that the album is headed for release on limited coke bottle clear vinyl in the US via Runner Up Records.
He’s posted a song from the record, “Follow Me,” which you can find on his myspace page. The artwork can be seen here.
Dave will be supporting the record with a UK tour alongside Lemuria and A Broken Robot. Those dates can be found here.
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In the latest Metalhammer, Underoath shared some choice words for popular punk/glam metal act Avenged Sevenfold. Guitarist Tim McTague explained:
What’s popular, to a degree, is what pushed me to find something that isn’t popular for Underoath. Chiodos or Escape The Fate who do kind of the same thing – screaming and singing and whatever – do it their way, so we’re like, ‘let’s do it completely the opposite’ because we don’t want to be associated with them.
People might associate us with Avenged Sevenfold because they’re pissed Republicans and ‘so metal’, but they’re a gimmick, they’re a circus. They can’t play and they can’t write a song. What’s worse is the way they look.
If you need to have make-up and crappy names like Synyster Gates to sell records, then you shouldn’t be here. That’s not rock’n’roll to me. Arena rock maybe, but not real rock’n’roll. If you’re basing yourself on how cool you are or how many girls you can trick into thinking your band is cool you can just… take that home.
Underoath released Lost in the Sound of Separation last year.
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The Higher have announced plans to release their next album. The record is titled It’s Only Natural and is due out June 23, 2009. The record was produced by Mike Green (Paramore, The Matches) and is their second for Epitaph Records.
The band has also posted their cover of R&B star Ne-Yo’s song, “The Closer.” You can find that here.
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