• SAVES THE DAY – “Living Without Love” (song w/ lengthy explanation)
• THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER – “Malenchanments” of the Necrosphere (song)
• FRANK TURNER – England Keep My Bones (album stream)
• FLOGGING MOLLY – Speed of Darkness (album stream)
• THE VACCINES – What Did You Expect? (album stream)
• AUGUST BURNS RED – “Internal Cannon” (song stream)

Youth-crew/old-school hardcore from Perth, Australia. 7″ released on Suppression Records.

JAWBONE – Loss of Innocence EP (Blood and Ink): Indiana Christian hardcore band JAWBONE play up their 90s metallic hardcore influences with alarming tenacity and heaviness on this five song EP. Immediate comparisons go right to TURMOIL, INDECISION/MOST PRECIOUS BLOOD, and BURIED ALIVE. Standout elements come from the cleanly shouted lead vocals and the stiff as a steel wall recording quality, which blasts another layer of fortitude onto the music. Although the band rarely sails into breakdown territory, they go for whole hog on the brilliant “Faithless”. Stellar debut release.

DEEP SLEEP – Turn Me Off (Grave Mistake): Baltimore melodic hardcore/punk band DEEP SLEEP go for an extended, extended play on the 10 song release, Turn Me Off. Calling it a full-length is a bit a stretch however, the whole thing is done in less than 14 minutes. Keeping in stride with the band’s handful of prior EPs, DEEP SLEEP continue to fine-tune their blend of “DESCENDENTS-style punk rock plus bonus nastiness and grime”. It’s a good thing the release includes a lyric sheet since the spitted-out vocals move along at the speed of light (at least there are backing ooohs, ahhhs, and whoaahs to grab onto). DEEP SLEEP’s musical architecture draws a deep nostalgic connection to early California hardcore/punk and that element only seems to strength with each subsequent release. If Flipside was still around, DEEP SLEEP would definitely have been adopted as cross-coast favorites.

From the inbox:

Atlanta, GA’s THE WILD and Pittsburgh, PA’s RUN FOREVER, are gearing up for some heavy U.S. touring in support of the bands’ upcoming Split 7″ on Solidarity Recordings. Due out on June 21st, the four song release will be limited to 500 on black and color vinyl. More details and pre-order info coming soon. Both bands should have copies of the 7″ on tour beginning in mid-June as well.

On a related note, our friends at Punknews.org have just launched an exclusive stream for the split release. To listen to all the songs, go here.

While The Wild and Run, Forever are touring separately, the two will meet up for a week of shows beginning on June 4th at Crucial Fun Fest in Lexington, KY. Also noteworthy for The Wild is a week of shows with Andrew Jackson Jihad, as well as appearances at Plan-It-X Fest and the Asian Man Records 15th Anniversary Festival in San Francisco on June 17th.

Speaking of Asian Man, on July 12th, the label will release A Collection from The Wild, which is a CD re-release of various out-of-print singles, EPs, live songs and split releases. The band will have copies available for sale on the upcoming tour. Also check out Set Ourselves Free, The Wild’s 2010 full-length, which is available as a donation-based download from Quote Unquote Records.

As for Run, Forever, the Pennsylvania trio has been touring steadily in support of its recent full-length, The Devil, And Death, And Me. Originally self-released by the outfit in July of 2010 and officially re-issued by Solidarity at the end of last year, the California label recently pressed a 12″ vinyl version of this terrific album, which you can grab here or from the band at shows.

Victory Records has released their annual free Memorial Day sampler. You can grab it from the label’s Facebook page.

From the label: “The compilation kicks off with an exclusive listen to new song “Unravel” from Cleveland’s sickest natives RINGWORM, followed by the title track “Firefight” off of BLACKGUARD’s newest release. Other notable tracks on the sampler include “Versus” by WITHIN THE RUINS off of last year’s widely received release Invade and “Demons with Ryu” from the incomparable mosh core masters EMMURE off of their latest album Speaker of the Dead. The sampler also comes with bonus footage which includes a first look at the full “Rise Up And Revolt” music video by death metal legends JUNGLE ROT, who are gearing up for the release of Kill On Command June 21, 2011.”

Check out the complete Memorial Day Metal Sampler track listing below:

• 1. Ringworm – “Unravel”
• 2. Blackguard – “Firefight”
• 3. OTEP – “Fists Fall”
• 4. Destrophy – “Closer”
• 5. Sister Sin – “24/7”
• 6. Ill Nino – “Bleed Like You”
• 7. Dr. Acula – “Party 2.0”
• 8. Emmure – “Demons with Ryu”
• 9. Within the Ruins – “Versus”
• 10. Wretched – “My Carrion”
• 11. Pathology – “Legacy of the Ancients”
• 12. Carnifex – “Names Mean Nothing”
• 13. Throwback MOSH – “Blood for Blood- Down to the Bar”

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From the inbox:

Former SKYCAMEFALLING vocalist Christopher Tzompanakis has joined Long Island, NY’s DIVIDER. The band has a split 12″ with Idaho’s BONE DANCE & FRANCE’S PLEBIAN GRANDSTAND due out this July on Mayfly Records in the US & Throatruiner in Europe. The track “Gaia” from the split 12″ is up for streaming at the group’s Bandcamp page.

- Bone Dance and the what what?

Oslo melodic hardcore/punk band DEATH IS NOT GLAMOROUS have a new song titled “Invincible Summer” streaming on the group’s Bandcamp page. The tune is from their upcoming 7 song release Spring Forward, out on Cobra Records.