HARDCORE NEWS

< 07.18.08 >

There is a lot of new music you can check out. Norma Jean has posted Self Employed Chemist exclusively at altpress. Also, if you pre-order the new Norma Jean, you can get a sweet t-shirt and an autographed poster. On Tuesday, new albums from Austrian Death Machine and War Of Ages will be in stores. Therefore Austrian Death Machine had posted Come With Me If You Want To Live and What It's Like To Be A Singer, and War Of Ages has posted Sleep Of Prisioners. You can also check out In Reply from Confide here, Wrench In The Works' Tonight Is War here, The Parting from I Am Terrified here, Agraceful's A Prophecy In Reverie and Messengers Are Winds Pt. 1 here, and Benea Reach's Unconditional here. Finally, Underoath will be posting their brand new song Desperate Times, Desperate Measures this Monday at midnight. The song features a guest appearance by former Norma Jean drummer Daniel Davison on additional drums.

Outrun The Gunhas recently undergone a drummer change. Losing original drummer Antonio Tillison, they have picked up former For The While drummer Tony Saffell. You can read the details on the change both here and here. They have posted 2 new songs Under The Skin and The Multitude, which can be heard here.

Becoming The Archetypeis currently in the studio working on their third album. The band had this to say about their upcoming project: "For the first time, we feel like we’re actually in a place that fits us, recording with a producer who understands us and have the instruments we need at our disposal. Every song has great vocal patterns, soaring solos and very heavy rhythmic sections. Synth, sitar and clean vocals are being mixed in for spice." Their album should include 11 songs and will be released by the end of the year. Also in the studio is Call To Preserve. Their new album, From Isolation, is set to be released on September 30th. You can follow the band's progress by checking out their blog here.
 
The Phantom Tollboothhas posted several podcasts that feature a lot of different interviews they conducted while at Cornerstone. Some ot the bands include Impending Doom, xDeathstarx, Sleeping Giant and Brian Head Welch. You can get the podcasts at .
 
Haste The Day has parted ways with their guitarist Jason Barnes. You can read the details here. Their new album will be called Dreamer, and will release on October 14th.
 
Before Their Eyes had to drop off the Scream The Prayer Tour due to heath issues. The Dawn Of My Death, which will drop October 28th on Rise Records. Look for a headlining tour from them this Fall. In other Rise Records news, Oceana has parted ways with vocalist Keith. He will be replaced by Brennan Taulbee.
 
Living Sacrifice has posted a blog stating that the new songs Death Machine and The Last Battle will not be on the upcoming album they are working on for 2009. The 2 song EP is available exclusively at and the band's Bandbox. They are currently in the works with releasing the 2 songs on a 7" vinyl.

< 07.11.08 >

The Scream The Prayer Tour is currently going on. Unfortunately, both Soul Embraced and With Blood Comes Cleansing were not able to appear on the tour as originally scheduled. Soul Embraced had some scheduling conflicts because some of the members are in Living Sacrifice, who were recently on the Stronger Than Hell Tour with Demon Hunter. No word on why they will not play the STP Tour now that STH Tour is over. With Blood Comes Cleansing has recently lost two band members, Dean and Dennis, and so therefore were not able to play on the tour.

Fuel Magazine (which is created by Tooth and Nail Records/ Solid State) recently had an ad stating a new Solid State Tour. The ad said the tour would include Norma Jean, Haste The Day, The Showdown, My Children My Bride, and Oh Sleeper. There is no scheduled date for this tour yet.

Brian Head Welch recently spoke on main stage at Cornerstone Festival. You can see the full video here. His new song Flush will debut on RadioU HXC this Friday.

Underoath will be shooting a new video for their song Desperate Times Desperate Measures in L.A. on July 14th. Your first chance to hear the new song just might be the August 12th release of Madden 09, which features the song as part of the game soundtrack. You can also read a slew of blogs the band has been updating like crazy here.

The Devil Wears Prada has just debuted their new video for HTML Rulez D00d, which you can watch here.

It’s been a long time since we’ve heard any word from Zao, but they have announced that they are back in action. So much in fact the new album is already written. They will be headed into the studio in a matter of weeks and with that, the announcement of the return of drummer Jeff Gretz.

Some new music you may wanna check out: The Showdown - Achilles The Backbreaker , Blessed By A Broken Heart - Ride Into The Night , and Mirror Of Dead Faces - Gauntlet Of The Will. Also, Austrian Death Machine will have 2 new tracks up this Tuesday.

Oh Sleeper and Maylene and The Sons Of Disaster have posted some new tour videos which you can see here and here.

Wrench In The Works has announced that their new CD, Lost Art Of Heaping Coal will be released on August 19th. To learn more about the band, watch this video.

Check out a recent interview with Sleeping Giant here.