You can watch Family Force 5’s new video for their song Radiator here.  What do you think of it?

Edit: Click below for details of the Radiator Just Like You contest to go along with this video.

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Its that time again, Facedown is cleaning out and having a big sale on a bunch of their cd’s. This time they have a lot of stuff from Strikefirst on sale too. Go look.

A Plea For Purgings new effort is reportedly called Depravity and will hit stores March 3rd. Recording begins on November 29th. 

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How do you feel about buying the new Copeland album for just $3.99? Sounds like a deal doesn’t it? Well it certainly is. Absolutepunk.net teamed up with Amazon to offer the full album for just $3.99 and you can purchase it here. Keep in mind that this is a digital download only.

About this time last year, I talked quite a bit about Rocky Mount, NC band Crimson Refuge. The songs on their myspace were rough, but showed a heck of a lot of potential. I just recently checked back up with them, and they have gotten a LOT better. Do them a favor and go check out the three new songs on their myspace. If you like what you hear, you can buy their new EP This Is It from Digstation, CDBaby (physical copy), or at a show. They’ve told me that the EP will also be available on iTunes soon. It’s only $5. What’ve you got to lose?

Expect a review of the EP by me soon.

August Burns Red version of Carol Of The Bells is featured in this trailer for the new movie The Spirit.

Check out the experimental music of Rova Zetella here.

Eric from Curbsquirrels/Kevin and the Octaves owns a studio called “Moonlight Studios” in Ohio. He has recorded some of the bands we talk about here like All the Day Holiday and We Became the Sun. If you click on the studio myspace page, you can listen to an unreleased new cut from All the Day Holiday.

Austrian Death Machine will be releasing A Very Brutal Christmas EP next Tuesday, November 25th.  Click below to see the tracklisting and word from the band.  (bandsonfire.com)

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The Devil Wears Prada’s video for their song HTMLl Rulez D00d is up for the Headbangers Ball Best Video of 2008 award but they need your vote to get it.  Cast your vote in support right here.

Click here to listen to the new song Mountain Of Souls (featuring guest vocals by Devin Townsend of Strapping Young Lad) from Becoming The Archetype.  This song appears on their new album Dichotomy which hits shelves November 25th.

We Became The Sun have added 2 new songs to their myspace including Open Wide and In The Basement.

Our Proclamation have signed with Infantry Records and will be releasing their debut album next year.  Check out their music here.

Hello Kelly have posted up their version of Sleigh Ride on their myspace.

Manic Drive just got back from doing the video shoot for their latest single Blue.  You can check out pics of the shoot here and stay tuned for the release of the video.

Check out Norma Jean perform Vipers, Snakes & Actors on Fuel TV’s Daily Habit here.

You can check out the movie site for the film adaptation of Donald Miller’s Blue Like Jazz right here.  Is this a film you would go see?

As time goes by, Dustin Kensrue is posting more songs on his website from his Christmas album called This Good Night Is Everywhere.  New songs posted are Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel, This Good Night Is Everywhere and Fairytale Of New York.  You can buy the songs/album here on AmazonMP3.

Click below to see this past week’s top 20 chart for our IVM Last.fm group.

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Until June has added a couple videos to their youtube page.  There is a promo which features new music from their upcoming album as well as a video showing the guys doing motion capture for their song on the new Guitar Hero World Tour Edition.

According to Tooth & Nail, Secret & Whisper will be posting the acoustic version of their song Anchors to their myspace page today.  This song can only be found on the Japanese import of their album Great White Whale. The band will also be posting a video update from their recent trip to Japan on YouTube very soon.

A Plea For Purging has recruited new guitarist Tyler Wilson to replace Lyle Paschal who left the band a few months ago.

Demon Hunter is going to be having 4 special screenings of their DVD 45 Days on Nov 25th at various points around the country. For more information on places and times check out the blog here.

The Showdown has added a few headlining dates right after the end of their current SolidState tour.

The dates are:

Nov 16 2008 7:00P
The Pivot
66 Blalock Mill Dr.
Cleveland, GA

Nov 17 2008 
Club 180
503 Main St.
Cumberland, KY

Nov 18 2008 
The Hideaway 
Johnson City, TN

Nov 19 2008 7:00P
Corbin Center
Corbin, KY

Twentyfour64 (who appeared on Hearts Bleed Passion Vol. 3) have four new songs up on myspace.

We’ve got a ton of albums available in the webstore, perfect gifts for Christmas. I’d like to point out that if you buy Arkeo’s new album “Of Clive and Malcom”, you’ll get Quick and the Dead “Going Home” or “Consider Your Options” for free. Just make a note in your order which Quick and the Dead album you want. Buy Arkeo here.

We also have brand new albums IN STOCK and ready to ship from xDeathstarx, Hope for the Dying, Call to Preserve, My Epic, War of Ages, Wrench in the Works, Blood and Water, and Curbsquirrels.

Check everything out in the store here. If you’re worried about security and you’d like more information on who runs our store, click here.

Dustin Kensrue’s Christmas album is now available on Amazon’s website for purchase (in digital form).

Esterlyn is doing a sweet contest. If you want to find out what it is and what you’ll win, just click here.

Mendelson (Shane from The Advantage) has posted up a new track on myspace. Give it a listen.

Blood and Water have posted up their new track “The Government Stole My Ipod” to myspace. Give it a listen.

Dustin Kensrue has a couple of new Christmas tracks posted up on his official website here. Take a listen. “The Goodnight Is Still Everywhere” will be available online November 18th.

Well it’s really unfortunate today in Southern California as hundreds of people are losing their homes in these horrid fires. One of the fires that has broken out in Corona/Yorba Linda is about a mile away from my business office. I’ll be watching this for sure. My heart goes out to all those that have lost their homes.

Sleep for Sleepers are going out on tour with Abandon Kansas starting in January. For dates, click here. Sleep for Sleepers also was just interviewed by Effect Radio. Effect Radio reaches across 9 states with a bunch of cities and apparently they’ve been played quite frequently across the network.

Zambooie has launched it’s own band merch sales site called ZAMSTORES.COM. Any band can sell merch and items through ZAM Stores just like with Big Cartel. So any band reading this, now is your opportunity to open your very own merch store.

Curbsquirrels member Eric has a band called Kevin and the Octaves which has just released a 12 song punk rock Christmas album called “Hang Your Stocking Start the Rocking”. It kind of reminds me of some of the songs on Happy Christmas Vol. 2. If you’re into Curbsquirrels and punk rock in general, you’ll love it. Check them out here. If enough of you are interested in this 12 song cd let me know and I’ll sell it in the store.