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Breaking the trend of bands spreading good news and releasing presents for fans on Christmas, Former Thieves have announced that they have broken up. The band's final release was their 2011 album "The Language That We Speak", which was released through No Sleep Records.

Man Overboard vocalist and guitarist Zac Eisenstein has posted a new Christmas song online. The song "Holiday Cheer" is available as a free download from Man Overboard's webstore.

Circa Survive have released two Christmas songs onto their Soundcloud page. The band covered the Christmas songs "I'll Be Home For Christmas" and "Jingle Bell Rock" and have posted them online as a present to fans.

Frank Turner has released a new song as a free download as a Christmas present to fans. The song "Four Simple Words" will feature on Turner's new album, which will be released in the first half of 2013 through Epitaph Records.

Children Of Bodom drummer Jaska Raatikainen has announced that the band has finished writing their new album, and will be entering the studio shortly to the record the effort.

Circle Takes The Square have released their new album "Decompositions: Volume 1" as a name your price download on their Bandcamp page.

Young Statues have released a new holiday song titled "Snow Bunny" online. The song appears on the "Arbor Christmas: Volume 13 by Arbor Christmas Collections" compilation, which also features the likes of Into It. Over It. By Surprise, and Heartwell.

Southern California based hardcore band Soul Search have posted another new song from their forthcoming 7" release online. The song "Slow Burn" is taken from the band's new 7" "Nothing But A Nightmare", which will be released on February 19 through Back To Back Records.

Following on from last week’s release of both the user voted results from the Killyourstereo.com 2012 Album of the Year poll and the staff picks, we’ve compiled a small cross-section of what some of the bands have dug this year. Here’s what some of the local and international musicians have considered worthy in 2012. (Click heading to see 'Top 10 Lists').

Boston hardcore outfit The Hope Conspiracy are working on new material according to a recent twitter post.

US pop punk outfit Transit have completed recording their new studio album. A direct follow-up to 2011’s ‘Listen and Forgive’ the Boston based group told fans of the new full-length’s completion recently.