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THE ACACIA STRAIN Launch SE BIKES BMX Give-Away

Massachusetts' metal-lords , THE ACACIA STRAIN, have launched a SE BIKES BMX give-away, in conjunction with the start of The Vans' Warped Tour, which starts next week. The band will appear on all dates of the tour. To enter to win this killer bike, go to Facebook.com/ProstheticRecords now! A winner will be chosen at random in September. The band's newest release, a double CD live set entitled, "The Most Known Unknown," hits the streets this upcoming Tuesday, June 21st and is limited to 5000 copies. The music on the album comes from two shows, one in Worcester, MA and one in Holyoke, MA, which were both documented on 2009's "The Most Known Unknown," DVD. The unique digipack features a pop-out "thumbs up." Order your copy at PROSTHETIC's webstore, NOW!

GOOD FIGHT MUSIC Releases Second Free Music Sampler on Amazon.com Featuring Madball, The Chariot, Funeral For A Friend, S.O.S., and More

GOOD FIGHT MUSIC has just released a second free sampler with Amazon.com! Obtaining the new sampler is easy. Just head over to Amazon and download eight free tracks by your favorite GOOD FIGHT MUSIC artists. But hurry, this is a limited time offer! The download link is embedded above.

Tracklisting:

1. The Chariot "Robert Rios"

2. Madball "Invigorate"

3. The Contortionist "Contact"

4. Conditions "The End of Progression"

5. This or the Apocalypse "The Incoherent"

6. Funeral For A Friend "Front Row Seats...."

7. While She Sleeps "My Conscience, Your Freedom"

8. S.O.S. "Keep Me Outside" (brand new, unreleased track)



The new sampler includes a special, unreleased track from S.O.S., set to release their new EP, I Owe You Nothing on June 21st, 2011. This track will not be available anywhere else until the album is released, so make sure to download the sampler to get your hands on this exclusive track release.



Sampler artists THE CHARIOT (Long Live), MADBALL (Empire), THE CONTORTIONIST (Exoplanet), CONDITIONS (Fluorescent Youth), THIS OR THE APOCALYPSE (Haunt What’s Left), and WHILE SHE SLEEPS (The North Stands For Nothing EP) all released albums through GOOD FIGHT MUSIC in 2010, many of which garnered Billboard charting positions. Each of these bands continues to tour into 2011 in support of these excellent releases, all the while gearing up for secondary releases with the label. FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND released their newest album, Welcome Home Armageddon on GOOD FIGHT MUSIC in March 2011.

GOOD FIGHT MUSIC is also home to several more of today’s greatest up-and-coming rock, metal, and hardcore music groups. CANCER BATS (Bears, Mayors, Scraps and Bones), I AM ABOMINATION (To Our Forefathers), ROSALINE (The Vitality Theory), and SON OF AURELIUS (The Farthest Reaches) each released albums in 2010 as well, and I AM ABOMINATION will be releasing their new EP, Passion Of The Heist on July 19th, 2011. IN FLAMES has also made their classic album catalog available through GOOD FIGHT MUSIC.

Today’s Top Drum Companies Announce DRUMMER OF TOMORROW Contest The Drum Industry is Looking for the Next Big Thing

Several of the biggest names in today’s current drum industry are proud to announce the search for the DRUMMER OF TOMORROW. Beginning June 1st, drummers can film a solo or play-along performance, upload their video to www.DrummerofTomorrow.com, and be entered to win over $50,000 in prizes and drum gear. Prizes include drum sets from Mapex Drums, cymbals from Zildjian, drumheads from Remo, drum sticks from Vic Firth and songbooks from Alfred Music Publishing. In addition, the top winner will win an Artist Endorsement Contract from Mapex Drums, and will appear on the company’s official Artist Roster.

“This is an amazing opportunity to find the next great drummer, organically,” says Joe Hibbs, Product Marketing Manager for Mapex Drums. “It’s the only worldwide drum competition, spanning over a dozen countries.”

The DRUMMER OF TOMORROW United States contest will be broken out into several elimination rounds, which run from June 1st, 2011 through 2012 at the Musik Messe show in Frankfurt, Germany. For the U.S. competition, entries will be accepted from June 1st through July 31st, 2011 on the U.S. contest site www.DrummerofTomorrow.com. As winners advance through the contest, they will be flown to various locales to perform. Destinations include a studio in Nashville, Tennessee, the 2012 Winter NAMM Show in Anaheim, California, and the 2012 Musikmesse show in Germany.

Entries will be judged by voters on the contest site, www.DrummerofTomorrow.com, as well as a panel of drum industry professionals and artists from the Mapex roster.

“This is the ultimate audition for any drummer out there; playing in front of a worldwide audience,” adds Hibbs.

For more information, please visit www.DrummerofTomorrow.com.

UNEARTH: Band Confirms Drummer For Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Fest

Massachusetts metal merchants UNEARTH today officially welcomes Killswitch Engage drummer Justin Foley to the fold for the band's upcoming slot on this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Fest and their European headlining tour (dubbed the Hell On Earth Tour) to follow. Foley, who also performed on the band's upcoming Darkness In The Light full-length, takes the place of former drummer Derek Kerswill, who parted ways with the band last year due to creative differences.



Comments vocalist Trevor Phipps: "It's great to have Justin on board for Mayhem and Hell On Earth. We really wanted to start this album cycle with Justin behind the kit since he played on and completely slayed the new album. We've been friends for a long time and we recorded an album together, so this just makes sense and it gives us even more to look forward to this summer."



Adds Foley: "I'm really looking forward to playing with some old friends, and spending a summer full of beers and breakdowns!"



Darkness In The Light, which national horror portal Fangoria.com already commended for its "tight riffing, varying from technical pedal-style patternsto twin-harmony Maiden/At The Gates worship, plus all the brutally chugging breakdowns," is UNEARTH's fifth full-length. Scheduled for release in North America on July 5, 2011 via Metal Blade Records, the 11-track long player was recorded at Zing Studios in Westfield, Massachusetts with producer/Killswitch Engage guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and mixed at Audiohammer Studios in Sanford, Florida by Mark Lewis (The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel, Trivium, et al).



Darkness In The Light will be streaming in its entirety exclusively on Alternative Press Magazine's website beginning Monday, June 20, 2011. Stay tuned for a direct link to hear the record two weeks before it hits streets! And don't miss UNEARTH on tour this summer!

The Dwarves 25th Anniversary Tour: A celebration of the most bizarre and misunderstood punk rock band of all time.

The Dwarves are currently touring Europe, but will soon be back in the states to celebrate 25 years of pure punk rock insanity. There remains a great deal of unknown stories and anecdotes regarding the most bizarre and misunderstood band of all time...

For instance, did you know of the stabbings, bannings, arrests, assaults and secret peccadilloes of the last punk band standing?

Did you know that The Dwarves have been members of groups as diverse as KMFDM, Gnarls Barkley, Excel, The Queers and Scream?

Did you know their music has been featured in dozens of television shows from Viva La Bam and Jackass to Spongebob Squarepants or feature films like Hostel and Ghostworld?

And as for the new record, The Dwarves Are Born Again features all your favorite heroes from the Dwarves long and twisted saga. Blag the Ripper, HeWhoCanNotBeNamed, Rex Everything and a cast of thousands return to crush the ears of a desperate public. Teamed with Top Ten producer Eric Valentine (Slash, All American Rejects) they have created a perfect mix of hardcore punk, ear soothing pop, and everything in between. Damaged celebrity cameos mix with twisted phone messages, ear splitting noise with dance friendly grooves, all delivered with the Dwarves trademark humor and intensity.



Click HERE to see all 25 things you don't know about the Dwarves!

ANAL CUNT Frontman SETH PUTNAM Dead At 43

ANAL CUNT's publicist, Kim Kelly of Catharsis PR, has confirmed via Twitter that the band's frontman, Seth Putnam, died earlier today (Saturday, June 11) of a suspected heart attack. He was 43 years old.

Commented Kelly: "Yes, it's true. Seth Putnam, one of the most infamous musicians that extreme metal has ever seen, the grindcore GG Allin, has passed away due to a heart attack.

"I handled all the promotion for ANAL CUNT's last album, 'Fuckin' A', and Seth was always happy to oblige any request I sent his way. The band had been working on a new album before his passing, so chances are his musical career's epitaph has yet to be inscribed.

"I want to remind everyone that no matter how outrageous and controversial his musical career has been, Seth was still a human being with friends and family that loved him. I'm hoping that the Internet will remember that. This is a very sad and trying time for those that knew him, and the last thing they need to see is an outpouring of message board hate. The man lived and died by his own rules; if anything, respect him for that."

Putnam was known for his brutal screaming and lyrics that either shock, offend, or invoke morbid humor. Throughout his career, Putnam was involved in many side projects, including providing backing vocals on PANTERA's "The Great Southern Trendkill" album.

Putnam was born on May 15, 1968, in or around Boston, Massachusetts to father Edward R. Putnam and mother Barbara Ann Donohue. Both he and his parents are divorced.

In the mid-1980s, Putnam played bass in the thrash metal band EXECUTIONER.

On October 12, 2004, Putnam was hospitalized after ingesting two months' worth of Ambien sleeping pills. It was reported that he spent the previous day contemplating suicide, although exact circumstances surrounding the drug overdose are vague.

Putnam's reaction to the irony of his having been in a coma after previously writing the song "You're In A Coma" was published in the Boston Phoenix. "Actually, it turned out it was just as gay as the song I wrote nine years ago — being in a coma was just as fuckin' stupid as I wrote it was," he was quoted as saying

PROSTHETIC RECORDS Launches Digital Sampler

PROSTHETIC RECORDS has launched a new downloadable sampler, exclusively at their Facebook page. The free sampler features new songs by The Greenery, Scale The Summit, Book of Black Earth, Clinging To The Trees of a Forest Fire, Last Chance To Reason and Black September in addition to tracks from some of Prosthetic's best-known heavy-hitters. Go download it now!

1. Holy Grail - Call of Valhalla

2. Scale The Summit - Whales

3. Animals As Leaders - CAFO

4. Last Chance To Reason - Upload Complete

5. The Acacia Strain - The Hills Have Eyes

6. The Greenery - Crimewave

7. Trap Them - The Facts

8. Book of Black Earth - Cross Contaminated

9. Neuraxis - Asylum

10. Black September - The Forbidden Gates Beyond

11. Withered - Extinguished With The Weary

12. Clinging To The Trees of a Forest Fire - Lower Than Life, High As The Sky

13. Dragged Into Sunlight - Boiled Angel

14. The Funeral Pyre - Seeking Flesh and Bone

15. Skeletonwitch - Submit To The Suffering

16. Mercenary - The Follower

17. Antagonist - Sasha Grey

PROSTHETIC RECORDS To Host Summer Warehouse Sale GRILL 'EM ALL Burger Truck, Members of SKELETONWITCH and HOLY GRAIL To Appear

Los Angeles' PROSTHETIC RECORDS will host its first ever warehouse/parking lot sale on Friday, June 17th between noon and 3pm. There will be a huge blowout sale on items from ALL THAT REMAINS, LAMB OF GOD, TESTAMENT and more, as well as brand new releases from THE ACACIA STRAIN and ANIMALS AS LEADERS. Members of SKELETONWITCH, who are recording their new album in town, and HOLY GRAIL will be in attendance. Winners of "The Great Foodtruck Race," the famed GRILL 'EM ALL burger-truck will be on site serving their signature killer burgers. MONSTER ENERGY will be providing beverages. The first 50 people who RSVP on their Facebook page will get a free GOJIRA poster.

PROSTHETIC RECORDS is located at 8713 Aviation Blvd. in Inglewood, CA, approximately two miles from LAX.