Detroit’s Hellmouth have begun work on their second full-length album. The band has posted a few pictures of their recording process with some possible song titles. The band released their first album, Destroy Everything. Worship Nothing. earlier this year.

The band has also announced that Underground Communique Records will be releasing a split 7″ between the band and Explode and Make Up in January 2010. Each band debut a new original and a cover song, with Hellmouth tackling Agent Orange‘s classic “Bloodstains” and EAMU bringing their rendition of Hüsker Dü‘s “Crystal”.
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According to a report from their Facebook Profile, Long Island, NY-based hardcore outfit Capital is gearing up to record their third full length. They had this to say:

Capital will be recording our 3rd full length ourselves inside Duncan’s house starting Thanksgiving night. Feel free to offer any gear you have for us to borrow for a week or so. Guitars, amps, cabinets, fuzz boxes, microphones. We have everything we need to make this happen, but it’s always nice to have other cool stuff to get different sounds since we’ve turned into Soundgarden and have about 18 new songs.

They released their last studio album, Homefront, in 2007. This year they issued Blind Faith [7 inch].
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Dan Marsala, lead singer of Story Of The Year has unveiled his new pop-punk project, the Fuck Off and Dies. The band looks to be inspired by bands like the Misfits, Bad Religion and NOFX.

Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Rise Against continue their long-running partnership with animals right advocacy group, PETA. In the latest campaign, the band is speaking out against product animal testing and had this to say about their participation:

With alternatives to animal testing out there, it’s truly sickening that animals in laboratories are still poisoned or have chemicals rubbed in their eyes in outdated, ineffective tests for yet another shampoo or cleaning product.

While the band is vegan/vegetarian, this campaign appears to be strictly about cosmetics testing. They also produced a full-size ad.
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Slayer, Megadeth and Testament will be hitting the road for the American Carnage.

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Gallows have been forced to cancel their supporting run on the AFI tour. The band explained:

We’re sorry to announce that we have had to cancel our remaining dates on the AFI tour due to illness. We’re sorry to disappoint anyone who bought tickets to see us but make sure you go to the show as AFI are an amazing band and we’re so lucky to have spent the last few weeks touring with them.

Filling in on some of the dates will be Dave Hause from the Loved Ones and Jonny Craig from Emarosa.
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Dillinger Escape Plan have set an official title and release date for their upcoming album, Option Paralysis. Due out March 23, 2010, the album will be the first on the band’s own Party Smasher imprint and distributed through Season of Mist.

the arrangement was first announced in May and represents the completion of the band’s ten-year relationship with Relapse Records. You can catch the band on a December 2009 tour with Thursday and Fake Problems.
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Brand New will be returning to Australia in March to support their fourth full length album, Daisy. This will be their first Australian tour since early 2008. The dates will all go on sale on Thursday November 19th:

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Hotfoot Records has signed Springfield, IL-based hardcore outfit, Renae. The band was formed in 2005 and is compared to Mewithoutyou and At The Drive-In to Poison the Well and The Chariot.

Their EP …And Hell Follows will be released on Hotfoot Records in December of 2009. Check out some music on their MySpace page.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White Justin and I’ll be your guide through some of the most popular, notable, and otherwise attention getting stories of the past seven days. Each and every Punknews story is built from tips contributed by you fine folks, and here’s what got the community talking this week…

This past week ended with some news from Asian Man Records, mostly on the bummer side of the scale. The Matt Skiba solo album we’ve been waiting for was delayed and Ben Weasel decided to take his ball and go home, severing all ties with the label. No word as to why. We heard about Bomb The Music Industry!‘s upcoming “Bring Your Own Band Tour” which sounds… interesting. The young’ns in O Pioneers!!! are rolling out on tour with Against Me! and Roll The Tanks in California this winter.

There was quite a bit of old guard/late 90’s nostalgia going on this week. We heard that Pennywise was gearing up for a new album and tour while the Mad Caddies are building a “Best Of” album via fan votes. Mine is for “The Bell Tower” about 12 times. ALL is heading out on tour with Off With Their Heads and Shot Baker, which has some of our editors singing Mass Nerder back to front in anticipation. When they run out of politics, animal rights and Fat Mike jokes, Propagandhi shows their true colors and wax poetic about hockey. Hold off on the “Where Are They Now…” VH1, Wizo is back! New album and tour in the works.

The lovable chaps in Fucked Up unveiled their plans for splits with NOFX and The King Khan and BBQ Show and a remake of “Do They Know It’s Christmas.” That last one can’t end well.

We heard some concerns about underground music venues in Los Angeles and our commenters had their own experiences to talk about surrounding that as well.

This week we spoke with Shawn Stern of BYO Records, Matt Hawks of Hit the Switch, and John Darnielle of The Mountain Goats.

As always we brought you new streaming music from some great up and coming bands, including new material from Snacktruck, Dead To Me‘s new LP African Elephants, an EP from The A-Gang, and a new EP from Sleepless Nights.

So what’s coming up this week? Look for new releases from Defeater, MxPx, The Blood Brothers, A Wilhelm Scream, and many others. Rise Against / Thursday / Poison the Well (UK), Baroness with Earthless, Iron Age, Off With Their Heads and Municipal Waste, Cub Country (ex-Jets to Brazil), After the Fall / Such Gold, Story of the Year / The Devil Wears Prada / All That Remains / Haste The Day, The Ataris, Big D and the Kids Table / Ill Scarlet, Underoath / August Burns Red / Emery, and more.

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