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We Shot The Moon have posted a brand new track to help launch frontman Jonathan Jones' new solo career. The band have announced plans to release a new record in 2011.

San Francisco's heavy hardcore giants First Blood have confirmed a release date for their forthcoming CD.

California indie pop group Hellogoodbye have made a new track available for streaming.

American progressive deathcore outfit Born of Osiris have posted a video, which chronicles the initial stages of recording for the band’s new studio album.

Seattle four piece, Aiden have cleared up some speculation in a lengthy blog posted on the band’s MySpace page recently. Rumours of the group’s alleged break-up were quashed, with the Goth rock act affirming that new material was well underway. “Aiden is very much alive and NOT broken up. Yes we have been taking some time off. We have been spending our days with family and friends at home in a completely different environment from the world we have grown accustomed to living in over last few years. In fact we are on the cusp of recording our next full length, due out early 2011 on Victory records. Get Ready,” Aiden writes on their MySpace blog.Aiden’s most recent studio album is 2009’s indifferent release, ‘Knives’.

Controversial New Mexico 'crunkcore' act Brokencyde have posted a new track online.

Mark Hoppus updates the progress of the album via Twitter

Australian metal better watch its collective backs as Montreal's masters of brutality, Despised Icon, have marked Australia as the next target on their final world tour before the band ends. In a moment of bittersweet irony, November 2010 will also be the first time that the deathcore six-piece hit these shores, for a run of six shows Australia-wide. Since 2002, Despised Icon have been giving the world a true lesson in musical violence and nowhere is this more evident than in their most recent album, Day Of Mourning. With six releases under their belts and having toured the world with the likes of The Black Dahlia Murder, Behemoth, Hatebreed and Parkway Drive, Despised Icon are now turning their attention to Australia. “It’s hard to believe we started this band almost 10 years ago already. At first, Despised Icon was mostly just an excuse to hang out, write brutal slam riffs and play local shows once in a while,” says the band of their break up. “With your support, we got the opp...

New Jersey based pop punk band True Things have uploaded three new songs onto their myspace page. The songs "Hollowed Out", "1579" and "Highways" are taken from the band's debut album "Alone In My Room", which can be ordered here from Man Overboard's record label, Lost Tape Collective.

Acclaimed Swedish tech-metal stalwarts Meshuggah have received a musical makeover (of sorts). Prominent internet music identity Andy Rehfeldt, responsible for jazzy mash-ups of the likes of Metallica and Lamb of God has turned his artistic gaze to Meshuggah’s highly regarded track ‘Bleed’, giving the song his signature quirky treatment.

Mountain Man has entered the studio with Alex Garcia-Rivera (American Nightmare, Saves The Day, Shelter) to begin tracking their debut full-length, "Grief." Drummer Pat Murphy comments on the on-going session: