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More Bands Confirmed for Slam Dunk Festival

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Slam Dunk Festival 2013 is now looking even more epic than before as 13 more bands have been added to the line-up for the festival.

Kids in Glass Houses, Cancer Bats, and Heights are just some of the bands newly confirmed for the festival, and you can check out the full list of bands confirmed for the festival in the poster above.

2013 marks the fourth year that there has been a Slam Dunk South (Hatfield) as well as the now incredibly well established Slam Dunk North (Leeds), and this year even marks the start of a new leg of the tour as a Wolverhampton date is also now included. 2013 is shaping up to potentially be the best Slam Dunk Festival yet.

Cancer Bats Announce UK Headline Tour

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Cancer Bats will tour the UK in March, complete with support from Welsh hardcore band Brutality Will Prevail and Reading prog-metal band Empress.

Full details of the tour can be found in the poster above and also in written form below:

MARCH 2013

8 Plymouth White Rabbit
9 Cardiff Great Hall 2
10 Birmingham Library
11 Newcastle Academy 2
12 Glasgow King Tuts
13 Manchester Academy 3
14 Leeds Cockpit
15 London Koko
16 Southampton The Cube
17 Milton Keynes Craufurd Arms
18 Norwich Waterfront
19 Nottingham Rescue Rooms
20 Reading Sub 89
21 Bristol The Fleece
22 Brighton The Haunt

Cancer Bats – Sabotage Video

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Official video for Cancer Bats’ cover of the Beastie Boys hit ‘Sabotage‘. Cancer Bats can here be seen taking to the streets in an attempt to track down the Beastie Boys.

Hassle Records Summer 2010 Sampler

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Providing a taste of what the label has to offer; Hassle Records is currently giving away a Summer Sampler featuring nine tracks from its artists. If you weren’t already convinced of the brilliance of this UK label then this ought to be the thing to do it, with a number of artists featured here including Alkaline Trio, We Are The Ocean, Cancer Bats, and Rolo Tomassi.

With the instrumental rock of 65daysofstatic, the mellow indie pop of fun., and the full on hardcore attack of Trash Talk there is therefore plenty to sink your teeth into here, with the label offering up some of its artists’ best material, completely for free.

Cancer Bats’ fantastic cover of the Beastie Boys hits ‘Sabotage’ is featured here, as too is We Are The Ocean’s superb sing along anthem ‘Look Alive’ from the ‘Cutting Our Teeth’ album, and the incredibly upbeat pop punk fun of Fireworks’ ‘Detroit’ is included here also. Hassle Records has got some supremely talented artists on its roster right now, and as you listen to this Summer Sampler this is something that quickly becomes glaringly obvious.

There’s a great deal of variety here and it’s therefore probable that you won’t enjoy all nine tracks equally, with so much variety here however the sampler should have something to offer for everyone, and as it’s available as a free download you can’t really go far wrong in giving these nine tracks a try.

This sampler provides fantastic evidence of what a great job Hassle Records is doing as a record label right now, putting out quality music of all different genres, and backing it up with a passionate team of music lovers that help give the record label the reputation it deserves.

Give this Summer Sampler a try and it surely won’t leave you disappointed.

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The following is the full list of tracks featured on the sampler:

65daysofstatic – Crash Tactics
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
Cancer Bats – Sabotage
FACT – Slip of the Lip
Fireworks – Detroit
fun. – At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
Rolo Tomassi – Party Wounds
Trash Talk – Explode
We Are The Ocean – Look Alive

Free Hassle Records Summer 2010 Sampler

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Having celebrated Slam Dunk Festival in style with five Hassle Records artists performing there, Hassle Records is now giving away a free sampler featuring nine tracks by artists on the label. Alkaline Trio, Rolo Tomassi, Trash Talk, We Are The Ocean, Fireworks, FACT, 65daysofstatic, Cancer Bats and fun. can all be found on the sampler, and if you’d like to download a copy of the sampler then you can do so here.

The following is the full list of tracks featured on the sampler:

65daysofstatic – Crash Tactics
Alkaline Trio – This Addiction
Cancer Bats – Sabotage
FACT – Slip of the Lip
Fireworks – Detroit
fun. – At Least I’m Not As Sad (As I Used To Be)
Rolo Tomassi – Party Wounds
Trash Talk – Explode
We Are The Ocean – Look Alive

Cancer Bats and Bring Me The Horizon September 2010 Tour Dates

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Having not long finished a tour of the UK, Canadian hardcore punk band Cancer Bats already has plans to return as they have nine tour dates arranged for September with Bring Me The Horizon.

The band is actually back again in June to play Download, this will be Cancer Bats’ next proper tour of the UK however and is all set to begin in Oxford on September 21st.

Bring Me The Horizon will be hitting the Warped Tour between June and August, they’ll be back for September however and the shows involving these two bands will no doubt be absolutely packed full of energy.

Cancer Bats released third studio album ‘Bears, Mayors, Scraps & Bones‘ earlier this year, Bring Me The Horizon meanwhile will release its own third studio release later on this year in August.

Although there’s no London date scheduled for the shows involving both Bring Me The Horizon and Cancer Bats (with additional support from Tek-One), Bring Me The Horizon will be playing at London’s Relentless Garage on October 1st.

The following are the Bring Me The Horizon/Cancer Bats tour dates currently scheduled for September:

9/21 – OXFORD Academy 2
9/22 – NORWICH Waterfront
9/23 – BIRMINGHAM Academy 2
9/24 – GLASGOW Garage
9/25 – LEEDS Cockpit
9/27 – MANCHESTER Club Academy
9/28 – COLCHESTER Arts Centre
9/29 – BRIGHTON Concorde 2
9/30 – EXETER Lemon Grove