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OFF!'s new 16 song self-titled album is due out on rhis week on May 8th. You can now stream the entire album in its entireity before you buy. Also check out a recent video interview with the band doing laundry.

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Check out a gallery of pics from the Agnostic Front / Sick Of It All show at the Manning Bar in Sydney on Saturday night. For those of you in Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth make sure you get out to the remaining shows of the tour. You won't regret it..

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Singer/songwriter Derek Archambault is no stranger to the spotlight; he has spent the last 4 years on tour with progressive hardcore/punk band Defeater, and has had a solo project called Alcoa going for even longer. After countless years of keeping Alcoa on the backburner, this project will finally have a debut full-length album see the light of day in 2012.

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Melbourne band "Outsiders Code" have released a video for the track "Instilled" off their recent 2012 demo. The band sees a return to vocals for Baina formerly of Her Nightmare (and more recently guitarist in 50 Lions) in a new band with current and former members of Hopeless, Warbrain and Hit List.

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The second round of Fest 11 bands have been announced with this year's Fest taking place in Gainesville, FL from October 26 through 28th. Good Riddance, Negative Approach, From Ashes Rise, The Bomb, and La Dispute will join Australia's own ANCHORS and THE SMITH STREET BAND, who are on the lineups too.

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BLKOUT got to work on the follow-up to 2009’s Total Depravity last year. Collaborating once again with Sydney producer Lachlan Mitchell at Def Wolf Studio, who lent a hand to the No Justice No Peace 7”, experimenting was a natural progression for the band.

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Chuck Ragan, Chris Wollard, Jason Black, George Rebelo and producer Bill Stevenson discuss the recording and writing process of new album "Exister" at The Blasting Room in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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Recent visitors to our shores, Toxic Holocaust team up with Municipal Waste for an upcoming awesome split LP titled "Toxic Waste", a great play on words itself. This thrashing masterpiece of an LP is due out on June 12th through Tankcrimes.

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Having already released a 7 song EP “If only just to hold” through Arrest Records in 2011, Army Of Champions has written an album that is more catchier and masterfully written that would be widely well received as a classic.

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Converge have announced plans to co-release a new split 7″ EP with Napalm Death. Converge will contribute one new original song, “No Light Escapes,” as well as a guest laden cover of Entombed’s “Wolverine Blues”. Napalm Death will also contribute two new original songs, “Will By Mouth” and “No Impediment To Triumph (Bhopal),” exclusive to this release.

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