The band’s second album, ‘Union City Breath’, was released in October last year. Much like its predecessor, ‘Born To Ruin’, it has been very well received nationwide and throughout mainland Europe by fans and critics alike. Produced and engineered by Peter Miles (The King Blues, The Computers, Sonic Boom Six), the album is a triumph of punk rock energy, alt. country vitality and rabble-rousing honesty.

Not easy to categorise, and all the better for it, Crazy Arm’s sound is an accumulation of decades of influence and inspiration: rooted in hardcore/punk, ‘60s protest folk/country and Springsteen-esque classic rock’n’roll. They combine this with a grass-roots political overview that embraces anti-war, anti-fascist and pro-community activism.

FEBRUARY 2012
29th – White Rabbit, Plymouth (with Austin Lucas + Apologies I Have None + Great Cynics)

MARCH 2012
1st – Croft, Bristol (with Austin Lucas + Apologies I Have None + Great Cynics)
2nd – The Hydrant, Brighton (with Apologies I Have None + Great Cynics)
3rd – Firebug, Leicester (with Apologies I Have None + Great Cynics)
4th – Fighting Cocks, Kingston (with Apologies I Have None + Great Cynics)
5th – Norwich (with Apologies I Have None + Great Cynics)

www.facebook.com/thecrazyarm

Fast-rising Brighton quartet Fighting Fiction release their eponymous self-titled debut album and new single ‘Turning Rebellion into Money’ through Xtra Mile Recordings on 27^th February 2012.

An infectious punk rock record, ‘Fighting Fiction’ is full of politically charged articulate lyrics, powerful driving rhythms and catchy refrains. Featuring the single ‘Rock ‘n’ Roll is Dead and its Corpse is for Sale’ – which received strong support from fan Radio 1’s Mike Davies – all ten tracks pack a powerful punch, hitting you the head as well as the heart. Recorded and produced by friend and highly credited producer Mark Williams, (Oceansize, Million Dead, Yourcodenameis:milo, Biffy Clyro & Enter Shikari) ‘Fighting Fiction’ perfectly captures the band’s honesty, integrity and knack for writing a great pop punk song.

With a DIY approach, their keen touring ethic has seen them play alongside Frank Turner, This Town Needs Guns, The Riot Before, The Xcerts, Laura Marling and Crazy Arm; as well as festival appearances at The Lock Up Stage at Reading and Leeds Festival, The Isle of Man TT, The Isle of Wight and 2000Trees.

With support coming in thick and fast from all corners of the industry the band are set for a fantastic 2012. Ones to watch!

Full UK and Europe tour to be announced soon.

Belgian goremasters ABORTED will be releasing their most lethal record to date, Global Flatline, on January 23rd in Europe and January 24th in North America, and the band is now giving fans a chance to listen to this onslaught of death metal on No Clean Singing.com! The album is streaming in its entirety on NCS for a limited time, so be sure to give it a listen while you can: http://www.nocleansinging.com/2012/01/20/aborteds-global-flatline-the-full-album-stream/

ABORTED recently released a music video for the track “The Origin Of Disease”, which can be viewed HERE. Directed and produced by Phil Berridge (Creative Junky), this piece of audiovisual carnage is not for the faint of heart! If explicit gore is what you need…You will be begging for seconds!

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by the renowned Jacob Hansen (VOLBEAT, PESTILENCE, HATESPHERE) at Hansen Studios in Ribe, Denmark,Global Flatline features several guest vocalists, including Trevor Strnad (THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER), Julien Truchan (BENIGHTED), Jason Netherton (MISERY INDEX), and Keiijo Niinima (ROTTEN SOUND). Read on for the critics’ takes on the latest release from ABORTED:

To pre-order your copy of Global Flatline, please head over to CM Distro now.

ABORTED online:

http://www.goremageddon.be

http://www.facebook.com/abortedofficial

http://www.twitter.com/abortedmetal

http://www.myspace.com/abortedmetal

http://www.youtube.com/abortedbelgium

The Golden Age is coming and there’s nothing you can do.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing, but being able to appreciate something in the very moment it exists is far more important. And knowing when something great’s about to happen? That’s the most exciting time of all.

Your Demise, one of the UK’s hardest-working and most-respected bands are about to enter their own glory days with the release of new album The Golden Age. It’s a fearless summary of modern punk rock all tied up in the band’s unique style, and the year ahead will see YD leaving the basement scene behind and bravely breaking new ground, starting with a stint on prestigious Australian festival tour Soundwave, before headlining across Europe in March and the UK in April, where they will top the bill of the Rock Sound Impericon Exposure Tour.

“The Golden Age is the most accurate depiction ever of who we are as a band and as people,” says vocalist Ed McRae. “If we could have written an album like this from the beginning then we would have. And recording it was very smooth – it all happened very quickly because we’re now better at integrating all our influences.”

And being able to represent those influences – the energy of SoCal skate punk, the brutality of East Coast hardcore and the big-hearted melody of the finest old-school pop-punk – more fluidly than ever is what will catapult Your Demise above and beyond.

The Golden Age (produced and engineered by Matt O’Grady and mixed by John Mitchell) is a record that deals with friendship, love, getting high, getting low, band life and real life honestly and intelligently. It also marks McRae blossoming into a better frontman than he’s ever been before, while guitarists Stu Paice and Daniel Osbourne, bassist Jimmy Sampson and drummer James Tailby prove they’re more than capable of switching style almost at will. You think you know Your Demise? Nu-uh.

If The Golden Age has its roots in Your Demise’s arm-long list of achievements – at time of writing the only continent they’ve not toured is Antarctica; they’ve ripped up massive festivals such as Download and Reading and Leeds; they’re as comfortable recording BBC sessions as they are turning a venue upside down; their last album ‘The Kids We Used To Be’ (Visible Noise) captured the attention of press and TV internationally – then it also provides a clear road-map of the band’s sky-high ambition.

The record features guest appearances from You Me At Six’s Josh Franceschi and letlive.’s Jason Butler, as well as David Wood from Down To Nothing and Terror, Theo Kindynis from Last Witness, Ajay Jones from Brutality Will Prevail, Louis from Breaking Point and Dannika Webber from Evarose, a spread which shows the respect YD command worldwide.

“Those guest spots weren’t written with anyone in mind, we just wanted our friends on the record,” continues Ed. “We love sharing what we’re doing with them. We’re still down with hardcore bands, and they want to be on our record, but then Josh is in a ridiculously big band and he wants to be on our record too. It shows that no matter what you do you still have friends.”

The next 12 months will see YD again taking the fight internationally, with confirmed touring stints in Australia, Europe and North America and a busy summer of festivals off the back of the Rock Sound Impericon Exposure Tour. After that? Who knows. With The Golden Age, the world is theirs.

‘THE GOLDEN AGE’ is released March 26th, 2012 via Visible Noise Records & first single ‘Forget About Me’ is available for download fromhttp://yourdemiseofficial.com/

Check out the video for first Forget About Me here: http://youtu.be/QIapvy0AJag