The Cool Tour 2010 Download Pack Released

The COOL TOUR download pack has been released. The package is full of merchandise and goodies, listed below. You can get it at the COOL TOUR Facebook page.

The download pack includes:

As I Lay Dying merch coupon for $3 off a purchase over $30 at asilaydyingstore.com
Underoath merch coupon for 15% off a purchase over $20 at underoathmerch.com
Cancer Bats MP3 "Sabotage"
Invisible Children Video
Atticus Coupon for 25% off anything in the Atticus Black Webstore
Alt Press Coupon for a 1 year digital subscription for only $5
The Acacia Strain: "Dr. Doom (live)," taken from their recently released 2DVD "The Most Known Unknown."

War Of Ages MP3 "Collapse"
Ding! Coupon for 20% off anything at dinglife.com
Facedown Records coupon for 10% off merch and music at facedownrecords.com
Blessthefall MP3 "To Hell And Back"
Fearless coupon for 10% off http://fearless.merchnow.com/
Free Fearless Records Summer 2010 sampler
2010 Cool Tour New Artist Sampler (provided by Metal Blade Records & Good Fight Records).

Here's the Cool Tour 2010 sampler tracklisting:

1. The Absence - "Enemy Unbound"
2. Aeon - "Kill Them All"
3. Allegaeon - "The God Particle"
4. Barn Burner - "Holy Smokes"
5. Bison b.c. - "Two-Day Booze"
6. Brain Drill - "Monumental Failure"
7. Charred Walls Of The Damned - "Ghost Town"
8. Dawn of Ashes - "Seething the Flesh in the River of Phlegethon"
9. Fatal Embrace - "Wake the Dead"
10. Fleshwrought - "Mental Illness"
11. Istapp - "Vinterrket"
12. Kings Of Asgaard - "Vamods Tale"
13. Lightning Swords Of Death - "Nihilistic Stench"
14. The Ocean - "Swallowed By The Earth"
15. Return To Earth - "Back Of My Hand"
16. Skyforger - "In The Underworld"
17. System Divide - "Vagaries of Perception"
18. Valkyrja - "Oceans to Dust"
19. Woe Of Tyrants - "Creatures of the Mire"
20. Cancer Bats - "Dead Wrong"
21. Son of Aurelius - "Mercy For Today"
22. I Am Abomination - "Since 1776"
23. This Or The Apocalypse - "Charmer"
24. Rosaline - "London Lost Its Fog"

UPDATE: There is some confusion about this whole thing and a redirect not working, but you can download the sampler directly from Amazon.com (U.S. only). More...

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Fearless Records Offering Free MP3 Sampler

Fearless Records is currently giving away a free MP3 sampler pack including previously-unreleased material from The Word Alive and Amely. The sampler also includes tracks from Every Avenue, Artist Vs Poet, Breathe Carolina and Blessthefall, amongst many others.

The free sampler is available through the Fearless Records facebook page.

Fearless Records Summer Sampler 2010 Tracklisting:
1. Every Avenue – Tell Me I’m A Wreck
2. The Word Alive – Epiphany
3. Amely – Sing To You
4. Breathe Carolina – I.D.G.A.F.
5. blessthefall – To Hell And Back
6. Artist Vs Poet – Adorable
7. Go Radio – Goodnight Moon
8. Alesana – The Thespian
9. The Maine – Into Your Arms
10. A Skylit Drive – Those Cannons Could Sink A Ship
11. For All Those Sleeping – I’m Not Dead Yet
12. Mayday Parade – Kids In Love
13. Let’s Get It – Duck Duck Grey Goose
14. Sparks The Rescue – Hello Mexico
15. Eye Alaska – American Landslide
16. Motionless In White – Ghost in The Mirror

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The Acacia Strain Posts New Studio Video Blog

Western Massachusetts' THE ACACIA STRAIN, has posted the latest installment of their on-going in-studio video blog series. After the fall out of last week's video, front man Vincent Bennett shows his devotion to perfection by working on some new vocal patterns he's never experimented with before. THE ACACIA STRAIN entered Planet Z Studios in Hadley, MA with producer Zeuss to record the follow up to 2008's, "Continent" last month. The album will be released later in 2010 by Prosthetic Records. Check out the video below:

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Tales From The Pit: Hugging It Out In The Pit

We've been talking to bands and fans everywhere to get their favorite mosh pit stories. This week Phoenix, Arizona post-hardcore/metalcore band blessthefall's lead singer Beau Bokan shares a "heart-warming" pit story:

"So we're on tour with Silverstein, playing a show in Denver, Co and it's a packed house. Kids are getting rowdy. I could tell there were a couple obvious 'tough guys' in the crowd who were getting a little too excited. So I was keeping an eye on them. Before you know it, two dudes were in each other's faces and one of the guys throws a punch totally knocking the other one down. I made the band stop playing immediately. I told both of the dudes that if they were going to fight they could go outside and finish fighting otherwise they would have to hug each other if they wanted to stay in the show. So they hugged it out and the show went on. It felt awesome to make 2 strangers who were at each other's throats ACTUALLY hug it out just to stay in the show and see them have a good time."

blessthefall recently announced that they will headline The Bangover Tour this March/April with support from Miss May I, Greeley Estates and Before Their Eyes. The U.S. and Canadian run follows up their slot on The Atticus Tour late last year.

Check back every Tuesday for more tales from the mosh pit.

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blessthefall Announces Spring Headlining Tour

Phoenix, Arizona post-hardcore/metalcore band blessthefall has announced that they will headline The Bangover Tour this March/April. The U.S. and Canadian run follows up their slot on The Atticus Tour Oct/Nov 2009, and features support from Miss May I, Greeley Estates and Before Their Eyes. The dates come in support of their new album, "Witness," which stormed into the Billboard Top 200 at #56 and the Independent Chart at #6 in October 2009.

Full tour dates are as below:

03/24 - Pocatello, ID @ The Icon
03/26 - Edmonton, AB @ The Avenue
03/27 - Regina, SK @ The Exchange
03/29 - Winnipeg, MB @ WECC
03/30 - Thunder Bay, ON @ The Roxy
04/01 - Toronto, ON @ Mod Club
04/02 - Ottawa, ON @ Mavericks
04/03 - Montreal, QC @ Underworld
04/05 - Syracuse, NY @ Lost Horizon
04/06 - Dayton, OH @ The Attic Club
04/07 - Louisville, KY @ Uncle Pleasants
04/08 - Memphis, TN @ New Daisy Theatre
04/09 - Little Rock, AR @ The Village
04/10 - Metaire, LA @ High Ground
04/11 - Houston, TX @ Meridian
04/12 - San Antonio, TX @ White Rabbit
04/14 - Las Vegas, NV @ Area 702 Skatepark

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