Our stream today comes from Smithtown, NY-based Ice Age. The hardcore band includes members of This Is Hell and The Backup Plan. We’ve got a stream of the band’s new full length, Dead Kings.
You can check it out on their Punknews.org Profile
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Since release, we’ve received a ton of feedback and feature requests from the Alien Swarm community. The most requested additions are more variety and greater difficulty.
With that in mind, we’ve added “Onslaught” mode, which introduces an AI Director that dynamically generates swarms of aliens based on several factors, such as the squad’s stress level. Onslaught works with any difficulty setting and ensures no mission plays the same way twice.
Speaking of difficulty, we’ve also added a “Brutal” difficulty level for those of you who told us “Insane” wasn’t insane enough. How brutal is Brutal? Nobody on the Alien Swarm team has managed to complete a mission on it.
If for some crazy reason Brutal is still too easy for you, there’s now a “Hardcore Friendly Fire” toggle. When enabled, friendly fire deals full damage immediately, flamethrowers set teammates on fire much faster, and turrets will hurt you if get caught in their crossfire. Coordinating movement and firing lines becomes an even more integral part of the game. HCFF truly tests your team’s ability to work together as an elite squad.
Finally, to reward the most dedicated players, we’ve added 3 new IAF Promotion Ranks: Platinum Star, Osmium Star, and the coveted Iridium Medallion.
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Angel City Outcasts are premiering the new video for “Doghouse Blues.” The song comes from the band’s self-titled third album released earlier this year via Sailor’s Grave Records.
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Reel Big Fish have announced the dates for the recently promised tour with The Aquabats. Reel Big Fish most recently released the re-recorded Greatest Hits package, A Best of Us for the Rest of Us.
Captain, We’re Sinking! have posted a new track titled “The Ballad of Ichabod Crane.”
Find it on their Bandcamp Profile.
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Bring Me the Horizon have leaked a song from their upcoming Epitaph Records release, There Is A Hell, Believe Me I’ve Seen It. There Is A Heaven, Let’s Keep It A Secret. The album is due out October 5, 2010 and follows Suicide Season which was released in 2008.
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Nothington have announced the dates for a September trip to Europe. The band released Roads, Bridges and Ruins in 2009 and recently replaced their rhythm section with two new members.
Vancouver, BC’s Carpenter are set to hit the road this October in support of their new full length Sea to Sky. The band will head east across Canada from British Columbia through Ontario. There they’ll join up with Paper and Plastick labelmates Cheap Girls for a tour. The pairing will play a trio of dates with Cobra Skulls and another three with Mockingbird Wish Me Luck before hopping the border to play Buffalo with Two Cow Garage. The tour will then be welcomed to New York City by Bomb The Music Industry! and Laura Stevenson and The Cans, with Laura’s band joining them for some East Coast US dates afterwards.
Carpenter will release their new full-length Sea To Sky on September 2st via Goldstock Records in their native Canada and Paper and Plastick in the United States. It follows up 2008’s Law of the Land.
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Sum 41 have posted an “unofficial” video for their song, “Skumfuk.” The video features the new song set to images from the band’s summer tour. The track itself will appear on the band’s next album. The record is titled Screaming Bloody Murder and is due out August 31, 2010 via Island.
The band released Underclass Hero in 2007. They will be supporting the record on an upcoming European tour with The Black Pacific (ex-Pennywise) and Veara.
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Ted Leo and the Pharmacists have posted the star-filled video for “Bottled in Cork.” The video features the band staging an elaborate punk musical and features John Hodgman, Julie Klausner, Titus Andronicus frontman Patrick Stickles, Paul F. Tompkins and more. The video itself is being hosted by Funny Or Die. The song itself comes from The Brutalist Bricks.
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Dreamtigers, featuring former members of Ambitions, Life In Your Way, and Acta non Verba, have posted the video for “Spark.”
Stick To Your Guns have announced a headlining tour to be supported by As Blood Runs Black, Attila, For the Fallen Dreams and Close Your Eyes.
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Hello everybody and welcome to Navel Gazing: your look back at the week in Punknews. I’m Adam White 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:
With that we hand over this Sunday evening to you, the Punknews community. From that glorious, likely bearded rabble we’ve see the creation of everything from message boards and Punknews fantasy sports leagues to even a band or two. So talk amongst yourselves and we’ll see you Monday…
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