Static Thought announced today that they will be releasing a new full-length album on Hellcat Records this fall.  What’s really interesting about the release is that it will be the band’s first attempt at a “concept album”.  Here’s what they had to say about it:

The songs are the catechist, musical, and heaviest songs we have made. The story follows along a character named unnamed and it is separated into 3 chapters. Chapter one: “Are We That Strong?”, Chapter two: “Fire isn’t Enough” and Chapter three: “The First Step”.

The band’s last album, The Motive For Movement, was released on Hellcat in 2008.

Also, the band is on tour.  Check out the dates and locations on their Dying Scene Shows page.

Arizona’s Rumspringer are releasing a new full-length titled Empty Towers June 2nd on Traffic Street Records.   Here’s what Traffic Street had to say about the release:

Eleven songs clocking in at around 36 minutes. While I would have been more than happy with another batch of songs that sounded exactly like last year’s 10″ / CDEP, the band took a chance and mixed it up a little bit here and it’s definitely paid off. I can’t stop listening to this!

Rumspringer is currently on tour.  Check out their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

House Boat (featuring Grath and Ace of The Steinways, Mikey Erg, and Zack Off-With-Their-Heads/Dear Landlord/Rivetheads) is releasing a new EP in May.  It’s titled Processing Complaint, it will be released under Traffic Street Records and you can stream the song Tired Pleas from the album over on Traffic Street’s MySpace page.

House Boat released their full-length, The Delaware Octopus, last year on It’s Alive Records.

Time for a new music video from political punk act The Brat Attack.  Spark is off the band’s last album Those Who Sow Sorrow Will Reap Rage which was released on Rebel Time Records in March of 2009.

The Brat Attack is currently working on a new album.

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Nations Afire, consisting of former members of Rise Against, Ignite and Death By Stereo, are streaming 2 brand new songs on their MySpace page.  The songs are titled My Misery and Kerosene and the band has yet to announce on what album they may appear on in the future.  They did, however, state on their facebook page yesterday that they had a lot going on and would be making a few big announcements over the next few days.  The new songs appear to be the first recordings without their original singer Steve Ludwig who mysteriously vanished from the lineup not long ago.

Nations Afire released their debut EP, The Uprising in April 2009.

Sass Dragons are releasing their new album New Kids On The Bong April 6th on Johann’s Face Records.  To get a preview of the album head over to the Johann MySpace page to stream 4 of its tracks.

You can pre-order the album here.

Knights Of The Abyss announced that they are currently in the studio recording a new album for Ferret Music which they plan to release in July or August this summer.

The band’s last album, Shades, was released June 24, 2008, on Ferret.

Cincinnati metal act Corpus Christi is currently in the studio recording their folow-up to their 2009 Victory Records release The Darker Shades Of White.  It’s titled A Feast For Crows and it hit stores on July 6th, 2010.

The band has a handful of shows coming up.  Go to their Dying Scene Shows page for dates and locations.

From out of nowhere Florida’s Nightlights have added 4 new songs to their MySpace player.  2 of the songs are from their 2009 demo, which is free to download, but the other 2 appear to be brand new.  When you play any of the songs in the player it says “Long Way Home” where the album name is supposed to appear so perhaps we can expect a proper release from the fellas soon.

We’ll keep you posted as details are released.

That didn’t take long.  Noise By Numbers are already in the studio recording a new album.  From their blog:

We recorded drums and some guitars for 11 songs. Jeff recorded it at Million Yen studios and it’s sounding great. We’re going to do more tracking, maybe record a few more, get someone to record the vocals and mix it and put out a new record. Not sure on the exact when and where but we’re working on it. I think it’ll be really good…but maybe I’m biased.

Noise By Numbers released their last album, Yeah, Whatever, on Asian Man Records in November, 2009.