Obey The Brave is a metal/hardcore group from Canada. The five-piece is fronted by vocalist Alex Erian (ex-Despised Icon) OTB recently signed to Epitaph Records this year, and released their debut album Young Blood on August 28th.
In Hearts Wake is an young melodic hardcore band from Byron Bay, Australia. In 2012 they travelled to America to record their UNFD debut album Divination; the album was recorded at Random Awesome Studios with Josh Schroeder earlier this year.
House Vs. Hurricane have had a busy career as a young Australian band, last year the band went through a lineup change with Dan Dicker leaving the band, in result House Vs. Hurricane recruited friend/vocalist Dan Casey from fellow band Nazarite Vow (also know as Louis Blanc) the band wrote their sophomore album Crooked Teeth late 2011, with the band traveling to New Jersey to record with Machine at The Machine Shop, due out on 13th of July on UNFD (We Are Unified)
Pierce The Veil are back from a long writing phase since their No Guts No Glory tour, and have written and recorded their brand new full length Collide With The Sky, due out on July 17th via Fearless Records.
It’s been 4 years since The Early November decided to go on hiatus back in 2007, now they’re back together with a new label and a brand new album, In Currents marks their first release on Rise Records due out on July 10th.
Periphery are back and this time it’s personal….Yes the Sumerian Records signees Periphery titled their new album Periphery II: This Time It’s Personal, and rightly so, they bring back their progressive metal skills to this new full length produced by both Misha Mansoor & Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood with Taylor Larson at Oceanic Recording, the sophomore release has a lot to live up to from their debut album, it surely delivers on all fronts.
I’ve followed The Word Alive from their formation with ex-vocalist Craig Mabbitt when this was just a side project with their unreleased EP, but once Craig was let go and Tyler Smith was recruited as vocalist this band pushed forward with their signing to Fearless Records, their Empire EP as well as debut full length Deceiver, the band didn’t seem to stop their momentum, The Word Alive traveled to Joey Sturgis to record their next album titled Life Cycles.
Jerry Roush has been causing quite a storm since his departure from Sky Eats Airplane in 2009 and has since been a fill in for Of Mice & Men, while still searching for a new band to call his own, Jerry asked Joshua Travis (The Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza), bassist Travis Sykes and drummer Chad Hasty to join and help create Glass Cloud, their debut album The Royal Thousand due out July 10th via Equal Vision Records.
Sleeping With Sirens have always been the band to play an acoustic set here and there, before or even after shows but finally Sleeping With Sirens has decided to record and write an 5 track acoustic EP titled If You Were A Movie, This Would Be Your Soundtrack to be released on the 26th of June via Rise Records.
Memphis May Fire, the band burning up the charts and releasing amazing music since their debut EP, they are back from the studio with producer Cameron Mizell and have given birth to Challenger their 2nd release on a label and 3rd album in their career to be released on June 26th via Rise Records
After over 2 and half years since 2009’s debut Kingdoms, Broadway is finally back in the spotlight with their sophomore album Gentlemen’s Brawl being released in June 19th, 2012 via Uprising Records.
Motion City Soundtrack is back with a new album titled Go, the album was recorded throughout the months of 2011 and being release by Epitaph Records and joint venture with The Boombox Generation (Motion City Soundtrack own label) on June 12th, 2012
Miss May I are back from the studio and have written and recorded a brand new full length called At Heart, this shows more of their metal roots in their material, recorded at The Machine Shop earlier this year and release on June 12th via Rise Records.
Hailing from Sydney, Australia comes Buried In Verona, one of Australia’s treasures just like Dream On Dreamer, House vs. Hurricane, The Amity Affliction & Parkway Drive just to name a few.
Notorious was produced/recorded by Fredrick Nordström at Studio Fredman in Sweden earlier this year, the band set out a release to their 2010 album Saturday Night Sever.
Architects are back with their new album Daybreaker, recorded at Outhouse Studios in Reading, Berkshire, their 4th release through Century Media Records.
The band first recorded 2 new songs Devil’s Island & Untitled which appeared on a deluxe version of The Here And Now, with Devil’s Island being added to Daybreaker the band saw fit to create the same kind of atmosphere with Devil’s Island and wrote Daybreaker.