In a recent Epitaph blog, Escape The Fate has announced the re-release of their most recent album, This War Is Ours, which came out in fall 2008 on Epitaph Records. This re-release lives up to its “deluxe” title, jam-packed with goodies to entertain you.

This War Is Ours 2 Disc Deluxe Edition will include the aforementioned “fan coveted breakout album”, as well as two new tracks (entitled Bad Blood and Behind The Mask), an unreleased remix of This War Is Mine (performed by Clown of Slipknot), and an acoustic version of Harder Than You Know. As if that wasn’t enough, you also get a DVD featuring a video for This War Is Ours (Guillotine pt II, fan favorite videos for Something, 10 Miles Wide, The Flood, and… a European tour documentary and behind the music feature.

The deluxe edition of This War Is Ours hits stores on April 27, but you can find pre-order details here. To watch a trailer promoting the re-release, as well as some cool live footage, click here.

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Michigan melodic punk rockers The Swellers were recently featured on last.fm/Discover and in celebration, have recorded a four song acoustic in-studio in NYC.

The songs they played were 2009, Feet First, Do You Feel Better Yet?, and Sleeper.

Click here to watch!

The Swellers are still on tour. Check out dates and locations on their Dying Scene Shows page.

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Southern California peeps…Brian Fallon of The Gaslight Anthem is going to be playing a solo acoustic show this Friday, March 19th at the Troubador in Hollywood.

Tickets are going quickly. Make sure you visit the Troubador website for more information.

Hardcore punkers Agnostic Front have added more tour dates to their 25th anniversary tour. The last time we wrote about the band, we had mentioned that the band was getting together for a couple of one-off anniversary shows, all with the original lineup. Now it is being reported that the band will extend that tour to a couple more shows during May.

Click here to check out the dates and to see if they’ll be rolling through your town.

Agnostic Front classics United Blood and Victim in Pain were recently re-released on Bridge Nine Records.

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The Disappeared have just released their third EP, entitled Nothing.Someone.Something and are streaming 4 of its songs on their MySpace page.  The  7-inch EP will be the last EP they release before their debut full length is released in the Fall of 2010. The new release comes with a digital download code which features a bonus track and is available via the I Hate Punk Rock Records website.

If you’re unfamiliar with The Disappeared they are featured in this month’s issue of Alternative Press in the article “100 Bands to Know in 2010” and also played this past years Fest in Gainesville, FL.

Australia’s biggest hardcore-metal group Parkway Drive are returning to the US to record their third full length studio album.

The upcoming album is the long-awaited follow-up to 2007’s hard-hitting breakout album Horizons and will be recorded in Los Angeles with celebrated producer Joe Barresi (Queens of the Stone Age, Bad Religion)

Parkway Drive frontman Winston McCall says of the album,

“Writing with a concept in mind has given us more direction. Every song on this album was created with a definite purpose, as opposed to just writing a riff and building on that.”

He also mentions that this album will be the heaviest material they’ve ever written, yet the catchiest at the same time.

The album is expected to be released sometime during the summer via Epitaph Records. Check back here at Dying Scene as more information becomes available.

The Alesana guys have posted the new music video for the song The Thespian, off their new album The Emptiness out now on Fearless Records.

The guys tell RevolverMag.com in an exclusive,

“The video follows the story of our record very closely, albeit with some modern artistic license applied. Our story, The Emptiness, follows a sketch artist in a small town in England at the turn of the 20th Century. He wakes one morning to find his lover, Annabel, has been slaughtered in the bed next to him. The story follows the Artist as he struggles with madness, love, murder, and forgiveness…Although The ‘Thespian’ is the sixth of 11 chapters on the record, the music video actually spans much more of the story than just the one chapter. We could have just focused on the one piece of the puzzle, but it felt better to get the whole story out there in the video.”

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San Diego metal outfit As I Lay Dying have released the artwork and track listing for their upcoming album The Powerless Rise, due out this spring on Metal Blade Records.

The band has once again enlisted the aide of Jack Bannon, who also worked with the band on their previous 3 Metal Blade releases: An Ocean Between Us, Shadows Are Security and Frail Words Collapse.

Click here to check out both the full-size album artwork and the track listings.

Click the bands Dying Scene shows page for more information on when they’ll be rolling through your town.

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Second To Last are streaming their entire EP Mark Approved on their bandcamp page.  The EP is being released by Anchor Eighty Four and is definitely worth checking out for fans of… umm… aggressive pop-punk(?).  Just give it a listen.

The album was released today and can be purchased digitally here and physically (CD & t-shirts) here.  Man, I’m informative.

Lagwagon frontman Joey Cape has released the 3rd song from his new solo release, Doesn’t Play Well With Others.   The song is titled It’s Always Sunny and it can be bought in his online store (no video to preview the song this time around).  Here’s what Joey had to say about the song:

Hi there, the new song is called “It’s Always Sunny” and no it’s not about the show by the same name. Ha ha.  Believe me, I considered writing about that show…I like it. No, the title was just from a line my daughter sang over a melody and guitar riff I was working on. The song was in response to the lack of sun in the Bay Area of California, where we live and the issue of moving somewhere more affordable with better weather. But of course, there is an inevitable sacrifice; less culture, less sophisticated and well, less stuff to do. The idea grew into more of analogy for running away from problems although admittedly the lyrics are not all that deep.”

Each month, Joey will be releasing one song from the new recording until all 12 have been delivered at which point the CD/LP will be unleashed.  The first two tracks can still be purchased on Joey’s website.