This Is Hell have announced January dates in support of their debut EP, This Is Hell.

The itinerary includes with Alove For Enemies and Stray From The Path.

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Days Like These are headed for a run on the East Coast to wrap up 2005. Joining them will be Bottom Line and Strike Fire Fall.

The band recently released Iventure, the follow up to their 2004 release Charity Burns Green, on Lobster.

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As the band wraps up the recording of theiir Warner debut, Taking Back Sunday have titled the album Louder Now. The band has fourteen songs recorded and plan to put ten or eleven on the album which is tentatively set for release in April of next year. The upcoming record will be the followup to 2004's Where You Want to Be which was followed by a public split with former home Victory Records.

The band explained that:

We wanted to make a much more rock-oriented record. We did that not in changing our songwriting but maybe in the recording and the tones of the instruments. We also got a really unique character out of each song."

The band has also launched a new charity initiative. They will release a run of Taking Back Sunday holiday greeting cards designed by James Rheem Davis, and signed by each member of the band. The cards available in batches of five or ten and all proceeds will go to Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation., American Cancer Society., and Give Kids The World Village.. The cards can be purchased directly from the band's online store.

The Lashes, who signed to Columbia just under a year ago, have set a February 21st, 2006 release date for their upcoming full length. Get It. The record was originally scheduled for release in the summer, and was then pushed back to October.

The full length follows the band's 2004 debut EP, The Stupid Stupid which was released via Lookout.

The band has also launched a media player featuring samples of tracks from the album. The first single, "Sometimes the Sun" is available online via iTunes and can also be streamed: (Windows Media (56), Windows Media (100), Real, Quicktime, Flash)

Samples of the album and the track listing can be found by clicking Read More.

The second leg of Avenged Sevenfold's Cities of Evil headlining tour is beginning to take shape. The band will complete the currentl leg tomorrow in Las Vegas but will resume touring early in the new year. The group is promising to hit some of the cities that it didn't visit in the fall edition of the tour.

To date, CKY has been confirmed as support for the tour, but more dates and support acts are expected shortly. Avenged Sevenfold continues to support their major label debut, City Of Evil

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Dates have been announced for the upcoming 2006 edition of the Taste of Chaos. The bill boasts a diverse lineup this year, with participants including headliners Thrice, Deftones, Story of the Year, Atreyu, Thursday, As I Lay Dying, Dredg, Silverstein and Funeral For A Friend. Supporting acts include Pelican, The Receiving End of Sirens, The Confession, Millionaire, Adair, Street Drum Corps, Greeley Estates and The Smashup.

An e-card for the tour was recently launched and it includes audio from bands on the tour. You can find that here. Beginning tomorrow, presale tickets will also be available directly through this site.

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The Queers has released an update on their plans for the next year.

The band recently completed a trip to Australia and have some time booked soon to begin work on their next full length. For the next album, the pop-punk act is planning to enlist the help of Lisa Marr, JJ Rassler and Ben Weasel who will also contribute in some way to the record which will be recorded in Chicago.

Other release plans include a live album this year which they are planning to release via their own Doheny Records. Besides that, the band has joined numerous defectors from the troubled Lookout Records camp with plans to re-release much of their older material via Asian Man Records. That label was responsible for a full slate of Screeching Weasel releases throughout 2005.

As with those releases, the Queers editions will be remastered and remixed and the band hopes to issue Vinyl releases via Doheny as well. A tribute album is also in the works, with contributions from The New Bomb Turks, Teengenerate, Screeching Weasel, Parasites, Le Volume Etait Au Maximum and the Femurs. Hopes are that the Hard-Ons, Dwarves and others will round out the track listing

Lagwagon has released the first video from their recent Fat Wreck Chords full length, Resolve.

The video is a memorial to drummer and close friend Derrick Plourde who ended his life earlier this year and was a founding member of both Lagwagon and Bad Astronaut.

You can check out the video here: "Heartbreaking Music" in Windows Media and Quicktime formats.

The band is gearing up for a January trip to Europe to be followed by more dates in North America through 2006.

Thrice has posted two holiday-themed songs on their myspace page. The first song is "Carol of the Bells" which is a well-known Christmas song. The second is a cover of John Lennon's "Happy Christmas (War is Over)" which coincidentally was also performed by Bert McCrackin and Street Drum Corps on the recent Taste of Christmas compilation.

The band is currently touring Canada in support of Vheissu. They plan to follow the holidays with a tour schedule beginning in January. First, the band is headed to Europe with Coheed and Cambria in January and February. Following that, the band will join Pelican, Deftones, Atreyu and others for the Taste of Chaos 2006 tour.

Planet Smashers have released the second video from their recent full length, Unstoppable.

You can check out the video here: "Raise Your Glass v1.5."

The Canadian ska band is currently supporting their fellow Quebecers in Simple Plan on a Canadian tour which will run through the middle of December.

Reunited hardcore/metal act Will Haven has announced the dates for a March visit to the UK. The band split in 2003 after releasing a handful of records on Revelation Records , most recently, 2001's Carpe Diem.

The band expects their upcoming EP to be released on Music for Nations in the UK and a to-be-determined US label soon.

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The upcoming posthumous DVD from Denali does not have a hard release date, but Lovitt is hoping to issue the DVD at the end of January or early February.

The disc, which follows the band's split in 2004 is titled Pinnacle and will include 85 minutes of content including: a 44 minute concert, videos for "Hold your Breath" and "Relief," alternate angles for "The Instinct" and "Normal Days," over 150 pictures of the band members, two home movies and a hidden easter egg.

Haram¹s upcoming S/T full-length CD/LP should be out around March and the band will be doing a 5-week tour starting at the end of February to support the record. Haram features members of Majority Rule, Pg. 99, City of Caterpillar, and Malady.

The Grey's full-length, Asleep at the Wheel, will also be released at the same time as the Haram full-length. Sonic Deadline Records in Canada released a limited run of the EP in silk-screened digipaks.

Bats & Mice has come full circle with their line-up and Jonathan Fuller has re-joined the band. Luke moved out to Oakland, CA, in 2004 and joined Totimoshi and with Engine Down coming to an end, it worked out that Jonathan could once again work with Ben and David. They have been working on new material and hope to record a full-length at some point next year. No word on when the first show with this line-up will be (this version of the Bats & Mice never played live) but hopefully they will be ready by late spring. The band previously released Bats and Mice in 2001.

New York's Cipher has announced the addition of bassist Dan Bianco to the lineup. The band continues to search for a new guitarist and information on that position can be found on their myspace page.

The band has plans to tour in early 2006 and continues to write the follow up to their Uprising debut, Children of God's Fire.