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Speaking In Italics now streaming new single ‘Chasing Our Tails’

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Speaking In Italics

Speaking In Italics will be touring with Press To Meco and Fizzy Blood next month, and ahead of this tour they have now made their new single ‘Chasing Our Tails‘ available for streaming.

The band have already produced two four track EP’s to date and ‘Chasing Our Tails‘ provides further promise for the future with a very impressive slice of rock music from the Leicester based four-piece.

You can listen to ‘Chasing Our Tails‘ below:

No Bragging Rights sign to Pure Noise Records

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No Bragging Rights

Californian melodic hardcore band No Bragging Rights have officially signed to Pure Noise Records and will be entering the studio next month with Will Putney (The Amity Affliction, Like Moths to Flames, Texas In July) to record their follow up to 2012s ‘Cycles‘.

No Bragging Rights vocalist Mike Perez had the following to say about signing with Pure Noise Records:

It’s crazy to think we were Jake’s first release with Pure Noise. It was literally just us and Jake. Watching Jake build the label to what it is today is something we all have had a pleasure watching. We are very excited and very proud to be coming back home to the Pure Noise family.

Lapland touring the UK in May 2014

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Having just released their self-titled début album, Lapland will be coming to the UK later this year as they take in a number of venues throughout the country.

With their début labelled the ‘Album of the year, so far’ by The Guardian, 2014 looks set to be a big year for Lapland, and it’ll be interesting to see how things develop for them heading forward.

The following is a full list of Lapland’s May 2014 UK tour plans:

21st May – Oslo, London (opening for St Paul and the Broken Bones)
23rd May – Dot To Dot, Manchester
24th May – Dot To Dot, Bristol
25th May – Dot To Dot, Nottingham
27th May – The Islington, London

Mad Catz announces new range of Xbox One licensed headsets

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Mad Catz has today announced a new range of licensed audio headsets for Xbox One to be released under the Tritton gaming audio brand, expected to start shipping in summer 2014.

With their Xbox 360 range having proven to be incredibly popular, Mad Catz will now be hoping that their new range of headsets for Microsoft’s latest console will be equally as successful when they start shipping this summer.

Darren Richardson, the President and Chief Executive Officer of Mad Catz, had the following to say about the new Tritton range of headsets for the Xbox One:

We’re excited to announce our upcoming range of headsets for the Xbox One platform. Over 45% of our sales are derived from gaming headsets, and we believe the addition of Xbox One headsets will make a significant contribution to our return to growth and profitability in fiscal 2015.

Final artists confirmed for Fury Fest 2014

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Fury Fest 2014

Fury Fest is all set to take place at Liverpool’s East Village Arts Club on May 10th, and the final acts have now been confirmed for the festival with the news that Drug Church, Headroom, Malevolence, Desolated, Shields, Arcane Addiction, Doomed From Day One, and Buckle Tongue will all be joining this year’s lineup.

The freshly announced artists will now join the likes of the already confirmed I Am The Avalanche, Gnarwolves, Major League, Turnover, Moose Blood, Nai Harvest, Roam, Astroid Boys, Carcer City, and Above The Underground.

Having been confined to one room in 2013, Fury Fest is branching out in 2014 at its new location of East Village Arts Club on Seel Street, and will now be spread out over two rooms with the biggest line up for the festival so far.

The Exploited release official live video for ‘Beat The Bastards’

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The Exploited

The Exploited are set to release special editions of ‘Beat The Bastards‘, ‘Fuck The System‘, and ‘The Massacre‘ on March 18th 2014 via Nuclear Blast, with special bonus content to be included on each re-issue.

‘Beat The Bastards‘ will feature a bonus DVD of live content, and in the lead up to the release of the special editions an official live video of the title track, taken from the live DVD, has been released for streaming.

You can take a look at the official live video for ‘Beat The Bastards‘ below:

The Bastard Sons stream ‘Roads’ EP in full

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The Bastard Sons

York-based heavy rock’n’roll quintet The Bastard Sons release their new EP ‘Roads‘ today via Kaiju Records, and the release has now been made available for streaming in its entirety via the band’s SoundCloud page.

The EP was recorded in summer 2013 at Edge Recording Studios, Cheshire, and mastered by Ray Staff at Air Studios who has previously worked on albums by the likes of Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, and Muse.

The Bastard Sons’ frontman JJ Jackson had the following to say about the new EP:

Roads is basically in two parts. The opener ‘O Brothel Where Art Thou?’ is really a stand alone track, and the rest of the EP flows more like a concept album with a story. ‘Raise The Horse’ sets the scene and we start on a boat (the horse) going to war.The world jumps in and out of different time scales taking us to ‘Sobre La Muerte’ which is basically The Horseman of The Apocalypse, Death, in the spotlight of a psychiatrist explaining how he doesn’t want to do it anymore. ‘Seasons End’ is the men on the boat preparing to go to battle and talking about friends lost and experiences of previous wars. We then cut to Death’s story again in ‘IV’ which is basically Death deciding he needs to be part of the horsemen to keep the balance and that’s what he was made to do. That then leads us on to ‘Winter’ which is the men from the boat going to war!

‘Roads‘ is now available to purchase from The Bastard Sons’ Bandcamp page, and you can listen to the EP in its entirety below:

South Park: The Stick of Truth goes straight to the top of the UK Chart

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South Park The Stick of Truth

In its first week of release, South Park: The Stick of Truth has gone straight in at the top for the UK all-format video game chart.

With the vast majority of sales coming on Xbox 360/PS3 for the title, this shows that there is still a very active interest in the UK in last gen titles, and demonstrates that it’s still possible for a video game to sell extremely well even when it’s not released on Xbox One/PS4.

Thief was previously at the top of the charts but has now dropped to second, whilst Plants Vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare has climbed a place as it moves up to third.

Brighton alt-rock trio In Dynamics release official video for ‘The House’

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In Dynamics

Brighton’s In Dynamics have today released a new video for their latest single ‘The House‘, taken from their new ‘Questions‘ EP which is officially released today.

The band will perform at Our Black Heart in London tomorrow for the EP’s official launch show, with further UK tour dates to be announced at a later date.

The new video from In Dynamics has been exclusively revealed via Ourzone TV and can be seen below: