Ontario progressive metal-punk act Protest The Hero have announced the dates for their headlining tour with Maylene and the Sons of Disaster and Tesseract. The tour will start March 23 in Ontario and will hit up a few Canadian cities before heading down to the States and then coming back to Canada, ending May 12th. Check the full dates here.

The band recently finished work on their new album “Scurrilous,” which will be released on March 22nd, 2011. “Scurrilous” will be a follow-up to 2008’s “Fortress” which was released on Vagrant.

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OG screamo act Thursday have posted a cover of Bad Religion’s “Generator” to their Purevolume page. Click here to listen to it.

The band recently performed a new track titled “Turnpike Divides,” which was recorded by someone in the crowd. Watch it here. The song is set to appear on the as-of-yet untitled new album for Epitaph Records.  The band last released “Common Existence” in 2009.

Floridians Against Me! have announced a run of Australian tour dates in Early May with Epitaph punk act Off With Their Heads. These Aussie dates are the rescheduled from the canceled Aussie/New Zealand tour in October. Click here to check out the full dates.

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Illinois screamo group The Color Morale will be releasing a new album titled “My Devil In Your Eyes” March 8th on Rise Records.  You can get your first taste for the new release on the band’s facebook page by streaming the new track “Human(s)being.”

The band’s last album, We All Have Demons, was released in September 2009 on Rise Records.

Social Distortion recently took a day off to record some songs for the Daytrotter Sessions. As with almost all of Daytrotter’s recordings, all the songs are up for free download so you should go on and nab yourself some tunes. The songs that were recorded are “Ring Of Fire” “Reach For The Sky” and “Prison Bound” and you can grab ’em right here.

Social Distortion will release their upcoming album “Hard Times & Nursery Rhymes” tomorrow via Epitaph Records.

Alright, all you armchair music critics, it’s time for you to judge a brand new track from Chicago punk act Rise Against.  The first single off the band’s upcoming album, “Endgame” is titled “Help Is On The Way” and you can stream it right here.

“Endgame” will be released on March 15th and will a follow-up to their latest album Appeal To Reason, which came out on Interscope in 2008.

In our evening of panic-ridden news, Panic Records have unveiled their first ever Showcase. The show will take place in Seattle, WA’s Neumo’s as part of the city’s Rain Fest on May 27th, 2011 and it will include Panic Record acts All Teeth, Wait In Vain, Trails, Make Do And Mend, Run With The Hunted and Another Breath.

If you haven’t had enough Panic for one day, you should check out the Panic Records Winter Sampler that features some of the bands from the showcase as well as new songs from some of the labels’ other acts.

After The Fall, not to be confused with the Australian rock group of the same name, are a band that does what they do extremely well.  They mix the best of trash, hardcore and punk throw melodies over the top and the final result is melodic hardcore that is catchy yet still leaves the listener with a bad case of the face melts.  This is none more evident that in their “Eradication” album that was released in October 2010 through Mightier Than Sword records.

Vocalist and guitarist, Mike Moak, let us at DS interrogate him about the band from Albany.  We talked about the bands history, being veterans of the recording process, the rise in popularity of melodic hardcore, the nightmare that is their band name and touring schedules plus a bunch of other cool stuff.  Read the full interview here.

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The Saddest Landscape have uploaded their Panic Records debut “You Will Not Survive” up as a donation based download on their Bandcamp Page. I may be biased because I’m a sucker for this genre, but if you’re at all a fan of the new wave of hardcore bands like Defeater, La Dispute, Pianos Become The Teeth, etc. Then these dudes are right up your alley. If you don’t know what I’m talking about then you might as well check it out anyway. You can get your download right here.

Our friends at BlankTV have posted female-fronted punk act Fiction Reform‘s latest music video for their song “Cancerous Gold”.

Check out the video here.

The song appears on the band’s debut album 2010’s “Revelation In The Palms Of The Weak” on Basement Records.

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