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Sydney hardcore band Endless Heights have posted their debut EP "Prologue" as a free download on their bandcamp page. Recorded in early 2010 with Sam Saljooghi (Ghost Town, Word Up, Against), mastered by Nada Recordings (My Chemical Romance, Senses Fail, Brand New) and artwork done by Joel Birch of The Amity Affliction, the EP can be streamed and downloaded in it's entirety for free here.

Mathcore act The Chariot have debuted their new music video online recently. The video for song Evolve comes off last year’s third studio album, Wars and Rumors of Wars.

Christian metallers Norma Jean are giving fans a further taste of their new album. The group have made new song ‘Deathbed Atheist’ available for download when you pre-order their upcoming release ‘Meridional’.

Popular Oakland deathcore outfit All Shall Perish have posted a video online, which introduces new drummer Adam Pierce to the fold.

Innovative Atlanta rock quartet Mastodon have announced plans to release an EP, which covers the band’s recent contribution to new film ‘Jonah Hex’.

Horror rock band the Murderdolls have made a new song available online. Entitled My Dark Place Alone the new track will feature on upcoming second studio album ‘Women and Children Last’.

For Against Me! frontman Tom Gabel, sometimes you have to get the hell out just to find your way back in. The past 12 years have seen Gabel rise from acoustic folk-punk gunslinger in the dives of Gainesville, Florida to releasing Against Me!’s four searing, blood-smeared slices of scrappy punk. The last of which, 2007’s New Wave, was the major label debut, one that Spin magazine anointed as their Album Of The Year. And while Gainesville was home, Gabel felt the walls closing in when touring for New Wave came to an end. So he split. With his wife, he left behind the “didja-hear-about-so-and-so” insular Gainesville world for the sleepy beach town of St. Augustine, wandering the streets and driving dusty back roads: searching, pining, hoping for inspiration.He found it in spades. The result is White Crosses, as powerful and as bold a rock record as one can imagine. The band – Gabel, guitarist James Bowman, bassist Andrew Seward and new drummer George Rebelo – roar like fighter jets scr...

Sydney Blackened grind band Beyond Terror Beyond grace will be heading to Europe for the first time this July/August with Cattle Decapitation (US) and Gorod (FRA), plus Incantation (US) on select dates. This will also include an appearance on Obscene Extreme Festival alongside Misery Index and DRI.

Instinct Over Influence is the follow up release to the 2007 debut The Emptiness by Melbourne’s Samsara. 2009 saw frontman Baina leave the band to concentrate on 50 Lions and Drummer Tim Shearman for The Red Shore. Nick Vine from Face Eater replaced Baina bringing a heavier and more dimensional vocal styling to the band. Mat Woodhouse (also from Face Eater) stepped in on drums and sounds the perfect match for the increase of intensity of the riffs on this second album. With this injection of new blood into what would arguably be one of Australia’s richest hardcore pedigrees (Within Blood, Shotpointblank, Mindsnare), Samsara has delivered an album that is even more aggressive and on the attack than it’s predecessor.

Boston hardcore band The Rival Mob have uploaded two new songs onto their myspace page. The songs "Hardcore For Hardcore" and "Minefield" are taken from the band's new 7" titled "Hardcore For Hardcore".

New Jersey hardcore band The Mongoloids have posted a new song onto their myspace page. The song "New Beginings" is taken from the band's new 7", also titled "New Beginings".

The tireless and tour-hungry hardcore loyalists in LA's Terror, spearheaded by the endless enthusiasm of frontman Scott Vogel, have returned with a vicious new chapter to their storied career. The much anticipated new album, Keepers of The Faith, is a worldwide call to the community and an attempt to hear back from the faithful on the front lines.