Avenged Sevenfold have released the first single Nightmare off their upcoming album of the same name. The song clocks in at over 6 minutes and if I didn’t know any better, I’d swear that it was still The Rev behind the drums. You can watch the “lyric video” for the song here.

If you didn’t know, Mike Portnoy of Dream Theater has temporarily taken over drum duties after The Rev’s unexpected death late last year. Portnoy will also tour with the band on the Rockstar Uproar Festival. Tour details are available here.

This will be A7X’s first studio album since their self-titled release in 2007, and their fifth full-length effort to date. The album is scheduled to drop July 27th via Warner Bros. Records. [Read more…]

Swingin’ Utters will be releasing their first new material in 7 years on June 22nd in the form of a 3 song 7-inch titled Brand New Lungs.  Fat Wreck Chords will be putting it out and the track listing is as follows:

1.Brand New Lungs
2.Lepers Thieves and Whores
3.Forward To Fun

The release is a precursor to the band’s new full-length album Here, Under Protest which is slated for release this summer via Fat Wreck Chords (album cover art here).

Swingin’ Utters released their last album, Dead Flowers, Bottles, Bluegrass and Bones, in 2003.

Sydney hardcore legends, Toe to Toe, are proving once again that they are still alive and kicking. The band will drop their fourth album titled, Arturo Gatti, on May 28th through Resist Records. You can stream Coming Up Roses and Survival from the release on their MySpace page.

In 2010, Toe to Toe reissued their whole back catalog through Resist but they’ve been relatively quiet since the 2003 EP, Old Scores, New Glories which was released through Save Our Souls Records.

Ohio’s Attack Attack! have given us another track from their self-titled album, set for release on June 8 through Rise Records. Renob, Nevada can be streamed right now on the band’s MySpace page, in addition to another track, Sexual Man Chocolate, from the upcoming album and some older tracks. The lyrics to Renob, Nevada are posted here.

The band will be on the Vans Warped Tour this summer, in addition to taking on a few shows before then – get all the details at Dying Scene shows.

Texas punks Samuell Caldwell’s Revenge have given us a whole boatload of information about their upcoming activities.

First off, they’re heading into the studio this week to record two new tracks – these will be featured on a split titled The Shady Trail Split with In Bad Taste on June 19th. The release is through the band’s own Dang! Records and will be up to stream for free in a few weeks. The recordings will be the band’s first new material since their full length The Power To Consume Ourselves was released last year. The recording is going down at Dang! Studios, which has also been home to recordings by Lagwagon front man Joey Cape, Jon Snodgrass of Drag The River, and Chuck Ragan from Hot Water Music.

Next, the band has a versus split planned for later this year with The Dropouts (a versus split is when both bands cover the other’s songs) as well as a compilation of covers of 90’s punk songs in the works.

Last, the boys have a big-time video shoot planned for early July – they’ll be releasing the video for a single late in the summer.

The band has a show coming up on May 21 at the Cavern in Dallas – if you can’t make it, quench your thirst for SCR by streaming songs from their MySpace page.

Distorted Magazine sat down with Bad Religion members Jay Bentley (bass) and Brooks Wackerman (drums) at the recent Groezrock festival in Belgium, where they talk about touring, their 30th anniversary, new live album (aptly titled 30 Years Live) and the long-awaited new full-length, which should be released this September. You can read the interview here.

Bad Religion, who have not released an album since 2007’s New Maps of Hell, entered the studio earlier this month ago to begin recording their new album with producer Joe Barresi (Tool, Kyuss, The Melvins, Queens of the Stone Age, Weezer). The still-untitled new album will likely include the new song “Resist-Stance“, which was performed live by the band on its spring 2010 tour.

Tim Barry has just posted a live video of Wait at Milano from his set at Fest 8 this past fall. Check out the video here.

He is continuing to support his latest solo effort, 28th & Stonewall, out now on Suburban Home Records. You can stream the entire thing or pick up a copy right here.

The former Avail vocalist will be opening up for The Gaslight Anthem on their upcoming summer tour and will soon be announcing more solo dates to follow that. You can keep track of his shows the Dying Scene shows page.

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It’s been a big day for North Carolina rockers To Speak Of Wolves is streaming their upcoming full-length Myself < Letting Go here. The album will be available for purchase tomorrow, May 18, on Solid State Records and contains 9 new songs from the band. The song Quercus Alba features Spencer Chamberlain from Underoath.

Earlier today, the band announced the release of their video for Darkness Often Yields The Brightest Light.

Kicking off on July 8, this summer’s first annual Scream It Like You Mean It Tour will bring you face to face with Silverstein, Emery, and Dance Gavin Dance, as well as I Set My Friends On Fire, Sky Eats Airplane, Ivoryline, and Close To Home. The tour will go across the United States with 26 stops until it ends on August 8 – you can get all the details here.

In addition to the scheduled lineup, the tour’s kick off date will feature The Devil Wears Prada, Miss May I, and Your Demise and the August 6 & 7 dates will include August Burns Red, Story of the Year, and more.

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A few weeks ago, we told you that Maine’s Cruel Hand had wrapped up the studio sessions on their latest album, Lock & Key. Today the boys dropped a little more knowledge about the album on us – Lock & Key will feature 10 tracks (full list here) and the cover will look like << that. The artwork was done by Ryan Eyestone, and Cruel Hand vocalist Chris Linkovich said that the band “couldn’t be happier with the way it turned out”.

Lock & Key will be released on July 27 of this year on Bridge 9 Records and is Cruel Hand’s follow-up to Prying Eyes, which they released in 2008. The band is playing some tour dates in Japan and Europe – get all the details at Dying Scene shows.

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