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Virginia sludge metallers Cough have announced that they will be touring Australia throughout October, including headlining the Doomsday Festival alongside Clagg, The Looking Glass, Space Bong and Summonus in various

Brisbane duo DUNE RATS are preparing to drop their much-awaited second EP ‘Social Atoms’ this month and celebrating with a national tour.

Veara have announced they will heading into The Wade Studio in Ocala, Florida, on October 1 to record the follow-up to 2010's "What We Left Behind". The album will be the band's third, and is set to be produced by Jeremy 

  You Me At Six have dropped the clip for their latest single "Loverboy". The track opens their upcoming album "Sinner Never Sleep" which will be out October 3rd. You can find more information about the album here. Vocalist, Josh Franceschi tweeted about the release saying, "Hey everyone, check out our BRAND NEW video for Loverboy" earlier today. You can watch the video here.

 Deceiver are set to release their self-titled debut on Friday the 14th October through Dogfight Records. Formed from ex-members of The War, Strength Through Purity, Sink Or Swim, Crime Scene and Before The Throne, the essentially Queensland band released a demo six months ago, which has seen them gaining attention from all quarters of the Australian hardcore scene. Their self-titled debut is ten tracks of heavy hardcore that combines breakdowns that will have moshpits moving with fast, melodic guitar melodies that will infect anyone that listens with their catchiness. Add to this guest vocals from Vincent Bennet (The Acacia Strain) and Bruce Lepaige (ex-100 Demons) and the result is a record that will aurally assault its listeners. Vocalist Mitch Love, said of the record, “We wanted to write stuff that the kid who loves to move can move to, and the dude who wants to stand and the back with his mates can bob his head to. We wanted to make the heavy bits heavy and the chorus parts...

 On The Pulse Festival returns in 2011 bigger and better bringing to life a fresh line-up of up and coming talent that will whet the appetite of Brisbane’s music fanatics, featuring the likes of 14 of the country’s most promising punk, rock and pop artists performing across two stages at the Fortitude Valley PCYC and The Hive on Saturday October 22. The lineup so far is made up of; Tonight Alive Rufio (USA) The Never Ever Awaken I Am Nine Sons Of Dan The Monster Goes Rawrr Adventureland Amberain Rawr Vanity Starlight Theatre Pandora’s Hero with more to be announced. It is an All Ages and Drug & Alcohol Free event. Tickets are $25 and on sale now through Oztix or phone 1300 762 545 or from Rockinghorse Records, Kill The Music & Sunflower Music For more information head here.

Brisbanes Milestones have just posted a brand new track to the bands official facebook page. The track 'Lessons Learnt' is taken from the bands forthcoming debut album titled 'In Time, Clarity You Will Find' which still has no official release date as of yet. The tracklisting can be seen below. 1. Wasted(Youth). 2. An Arrow With Need For A Target. 3. Absent 4. Rohan Chant, Can't Defend Pop Punk. 5. Lesson's Learnt. 6. Tearing At The Seams. 7. Bury Me. 8. The Lost Boy(s). 9. Weighed Down. 10. My Apology (Acoustic) Click here to listen to 'Lessons Learnt'.

Gallows have premiered their new track, titled "True Colours" on their official site. This track is the first with their new frontman, ex- guitarist/vocalist of Alexisonfire, Wade Macneil. You can listen to and download the track from the bands official site.

Sydney's Tonight Alive are set to release their debut album, "What Are You So Scared Of?" on October 14th and to celebrate the release they will be hitting the road with Rufio (USA) on an Australia wide tour. Right from word-go, it was clear Tonight Alive were going somewhere. A year on, courted by labels and management secured, with two stellar EPs (All Shapes & Disguises and Consider This) under their belts, a demo of Tonight Alives new material landed on producer-extraordinaire Mark Trombinos (Blink 182, Jimmy Eat World, The Starting Line) desk. "Mark created the albums we all grew up listening to the albums that launched the careers of all these great bands". . Recorded at LA's infamous NRG Studios over two months, Trombino's personal interest in the project played out in other fortuitous ways. Nothing was left to editing or over Pro-Tooling, notes Whakaio. Jenna sang every line until it was right. I played every guitar part. The drum sound is natural and not heavily sampled. ...

North Carolina melodic hard rock band Alesana have announced their new concept album 'A Place Where The Sun Is Silent' due out October 14th on Epitaph Records.

Party delinquents SOSUEME DJS are hitting CAN'T SAY this Friday on their 'This Is How We Do It' national tour