How would you like a free B.C Rich Warlock Guitar autographed by all the men of Slayer? Well now’s your chance! Ultimate-Guitar.com is hosting a contest and you don’t have to do anything stupid to win like make a t-shirt and a home movie that symbolizes why you love Slayer- all you have to do is enter!

Slayer is about to start their US tour! Take a look at all their tour dates, cities and locations by visiting the Dying Scene Shows page.

Bring Me The Horizon has announced that they will be performing in the UK leg of Sonisphere this year. For those of you who don’t know what Sonisphere is, here’s a little metal music education for ya!

Sonisphere is a huge European metal music festival that stretches from the UK to Poland to Germany to Switzerland and so on… The biggest names in metal have performed at these summer events such as Metallica, Skipknot, Anthrax and Lamb Of God. Some 40 to 60 THOUSAND metal-heads travel far and wide to get to these performances so you can imagine it must be some kind of wonderful. This year is said to be the biggest year for Sonisphere with 11 locations around Europe between June 16th and August 8th and headliners like Metallica, Iron Maiden and Rammstein. Alice Cooper, Motley Crue and Papa Roach will also partake in the rocking. Now, I like Bring Me The Horizon… but for some reason when I hear the names of these metal LEGENDS, I don’t think of them as a likely supporting act…. Then again, I’ve never seen them perform live so maybe they’re far better than I give them credit for. Here’s what the Sonisphere press release has to say about them:

“One of Britain’s hardest working bands, Sheffield’s BRING ME THE HORIZON have built up a dedicated army of followers through countless gigs and festival appearances. If there’s one thing that’s certain about BMTH, it’s that they will provoke some kind of reaction. Bringing back the spirit of rebellion, this band are everything an “extreme” band should be – fiercely heavy, abrasively loud, controversial and completely indifferent to what you think of them, and we’re delighted to have them at KNEBWORTH next summer.”

If you’re still yearning for more info, you can visit the Sonisphere website and check out the total line-up, dates and cities.

While everyone else is either cheating on their New Years resolution or recovering from the financial beating that is Christmas, I Am Ghost will be hitting the road for their full US tour, 2010 Tour Odyssey. Accompanied by Modern Day Escape and The Becoming, the boys will begin in Long Beach, California on January 23rd, and for this show only Sugarcult will also be performing… woohoo.  For a full list of tour dates and cities head to the Dying Scene Shows page.

I Am Ghost released their last Epitaph album, Those We Leave Behind, on October 7th, 2008.

Florida skate punkers Protagonist have recently unleashed their newest creation entitled “The Chronicle” on April 10th via Paper + Plastick Records. They’ve got two tracks from the new album, IAMTHEGHOST and Charge, available for your listening pleasure on their MySpace music player. The cover art is displayed to your left, and right here is the track listing.

Protagonist released their last album Reasoning With Time back in 2006.

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March 9th, 2010 marks the day Four Year Strong will be releasing their upcoming album Emeny Of The World on I Surrender Records. You can check out one of the tracks on the album, It Must Really Suck To Be FYS Right Now, by visiting their MySpace page.

Its been only 2 months since the release of their last album Explains It All, so it should be interesting to see what the band has put together in such a short amount of time.

This week’s Prize: 1 copy of The Harvest Of Hope comp (double CD – check out the tracklisting) AND a signed copy of any album of your choosing from the Fail Safe Records catalog.  Also, each week’s winner will be entered into a drawing for the Grand Prize: the entire Fail Safe catalog AND 2 tickets to the Harvest Of Hope Fest to see Anit-Flag, Cobra Skulls, Dead To Me, The Riot Before and a whole bunch of other awesome bands.

To win is easy, just share this post on twitter, facebook, myspace, or anywhere really, and then send us a message on our facebook to tell us where you shared it.   We’ll randomly select one of you sharers as the winner.

The second annual Harvest Of Hope Fest is taking place March 12th through 14th, 2010 in St. Augustine, Florida and our friends at Fail Safe Records are doing their part to raise awareness for the event by giving away a new prize each week until the fest begins right here on Dying Scene.

Very few would argue that the mid 90’s marked the golden era of punk rock.  The year 1994 was especially monumental with releases like Offspring‘s Smash, Green Day‘s Dookie, Rancid‘s Let’s Go and Bad Religion‘s Stranger Than Ficion, all producing singles that would break punk rock into mainstream radio.  1994 was also the year NOFX put out their landmark album Punk In Drublic, Lagwagon released Trashed and Strung Out debuted with Another Day In Paradise.  For the next few years labels like Fat Wreck Chords, Epitaph, Nitro, Hopeless, Lookout!, Fearless and a handful of others would churn out album after album of punk rock classics that would elevate Punk Rock as a genre to a new found status among the among the mainstream music community.

Well, a decade and a half later somebody has finally decided to make a serious go at creating a film that would document the birth, grown, and explosion of the punk scene in the 90’s.  That somebody is 26 year-old Australian Jai Al-Attas and he is oh so close to making this documentary a reality.  He’s got all the interviews with all the right bands, the footage, the editing, and the music to make it a must see for any punk fan.  What he doesn’t have, however, are the rights to the music or the money to pay for the music clearences, which is why he needs our help.

Jai needs about $30,000 more dollars to get this film with the music released and is accepting donations from anybody willing to help this project see the light of day.

Donate to ONE NINE NINE FOUR and help them raise enough funds to finish the film by paying for the music clearances. In return for donating you can receive a range of rewards from pre-ordering limited edition copies of the DVD, exclusive invites to the premiere, Executive Producer credits, signed Gibson Les Paul guitars by Bille Joe from Green Day to getting to spend the day with Tony Hawk!

Please check out all of the details at their pledge site on kickstarter.com here.

Ever tried shoving a bunch of marshmallows in your mouth and saying Chubby Bunny? Well if you haven’t up to this point in your life here is your chance…and you’ll win some stuff for doing it. Check out all details and rules here and start practicing!

Gwen Stacy‘s last album, A Diologue, was released October 20th on Solid State Records.

To make up for a show cancellation, Bruce (guitar/vocals for Victory In Numbers) decided to post a Christmas song for all of you to hear. It’s not exactly Jingle Bells but it’ll put you in that Christmas mood. Check it out on his MySpace page

Bret Detar’s life has been music, and over the past 4 years he’s written over 50 songs that he didn’t have a specific purpose for…that is until now. He’s getting back up on that horse and will start recording a solo album. You can check out all the details in his blog

The Juliana Theory‘s latest album “A Small Noise (Best of)” was released on Tooth & Nail Records in 2006..