3 Inches Of Blood recently recorded a cover of Rush‘s “Anthem” at their January 30th live stop at the Bluebird Nightclub in Bloomington, Indiana. You can check out fan-filmed footage of that below:

The Acacia Strain and Middle Class Rut are among this weeks additions to the upcoming “Vans Warped Tour“. The latest participants revealed for the annual festival tour include:

The Acacia Strain
Middle Class Rut
Peelanderz
Relient K
River City Extension
Stephen Jerzak
There For Tomorrow

Artists already announced for the tour include:

Abandon All Ships
Big D And The Kids Table
Blacklist Royals
Dance Gavin Dance
The Dance Party
The Dangerous Summer
Enter Shikari
Every Avenue
Family Force Five
Foxy Shazam
Go Radio
Grieves & Budo
Hellogoodbye
I Set My Friends On Fire
Lionize
Lucero
MC Lars
Miss May I
Of Mice & Men
Set Your Goals
Unwritten Law
The Wonder Years
The Word Alive
We Came As Romans
Winds Of Plague
Woe, Is Me
Yelawolf

Folly will reunite for the following series of shows in March/April:

03/26 Hoboken, NJ – Maxwell’s (feat. Communication Redlight, Eyeswan)
04/01 South Hackensack, NJ – The School Of Rock (feat. Trees Above Mandalay, The Sun The Moon The Stars, The Future Of The Party)
04/02 South Hackensack, NJ – The School Of Rock (feat. The Fire Still Burns, Communication Redlight, Black Kites)
04/08 Stanhope, NJ – The Stanhope House (feat. Jaguar Shark, Control, Man Vs. Wild)
04/09 Stanhope, NJ – The Stanhope House (feat. Communication Redlight, Young American Artists, Goliath)

Born Of Osiris are streaming their new track “Follow The Signs” over at their Facebook. The song was released as a digital single yesterday, February 01st, and will appear on the bands forthcoming album “The Discovery“, which is set for a March 22nd release date through Sumerian.

Times Of Grace (Killswitch Engage, etc.) made their live debut last night, February 01st, at the Quarter in Baltimore, MD. Fan-filmed footage from the show can be found below. The group are currently out on the road as part of their first-ever tour.

Orbs (Between The Buried And Me, Fear Before, etc.) have lined up the following run of shows with Wild Orchid Children:

03/15 Wichita, KS – Oz Cafe
03/16 Tulsa, OK – The Marquee
03/18 Houston, TX – The Studio (feat. Enter Shikari)
03/20 San Antonio, TX – Korova
03/22 Mesa, AZ – The Underground
03/23 Anaheim, CA – Chain Reaction
03/27 Seattle, WA – El Corazon
03/28 Spokane, WA – The A Club Ballroom
03/30 Boise, ID – The Venue
03/31 Salt Lake City, UT – Club Vegas
04/01 Greeley, CO – The Atlas Theater
04/02 Boulder, CO – Club 156

A new posting on the Facebook for the “Metalliance Tour” has revealed that more dates are currently pending for the tour. As previously reported, the trek features Helmet (performing their 1992 offering “Meantime“), Saint Vitus, Crowbar, Kylesa, Red Fang and more.

Cavalera Conspiracy are offering a special LP/CD/DVD bundle through Roadrunnerrecords.com for their new album, “Blunt Force Trauma“. Those who purchase the special bundle through the labels site will receive a limited edition vinyl LP copy of “Blunt Force Trauma” which also features a bonus cover of Black Flag‘s “Six Pack“.

The LP has been limited to a pressing of 500 copies and will be featured in the bundle alongside the CD/DVD Special Edition of the album. “Blunt Force Trauma” is scheduled for a March 29th release date via Roadrunner.

Coliseum will be teaming up with Superchunk for a split 7″ to be released for this years ‘Record Store Day’, April 16th. The split will see both bands tackle tracks from the Misfits with Coliseum set to contribute a cover of “Bullet” and Superchunk to offer their take of “Horror Business“.

The Warriors‘ new track “The War Unseen” has been released for purchase through various digital retailers as a digital single. You can check out a clip of it over at Amazon. The song will also appear on the bands new album. “See How You Are“, which will arrive in stores on February 15th through Victory.

Dirge Within have posted a new video update detailing their ongoing writing process for their new album and more. You can find it below:

Thursday have debuted their new track “Magnets Caught In A Metal Heart” online over at Spin.com. It comes from the bands new album, “No Devolución“, which will see an April 12th release date through Epitaph and run as follows:

01 – “Fast To The End”
02 – “No Answers”
03 – “A Darker Forest”
04 – “Sparks Against The Sun”
05 – “Open Quotes”
06 – “Past And Future Ruins”
07 – “Magnets Caught In A Metal Heart”
08 – “Empty Glass”
09 – “A Gun In The First Act”
10 – “Millimeter”
11 – “Turnpike Divides”
12 – “Stay True“

Chelsea Grinhave backed out of their planned April European dates with Asking Alexandria and Of Mice & Men. A recent tweet from the band reads as follows:

“Unfortunately, beyond our control we won’t be coming to Europe in April with AA anymore. We will announce new Europe dates in summer : (“

In other news, the band have been hard at work on their new album with producer Zeuss (Shadows Fall, Hatebreed) as of late and have posted some initial studio footage from the sessions below. A release early this summer through Artery Recordings is currently expected for the outing.

Tesseract will be releasing a digital single for their song “Nascent” through iTunes on February 08th. In addition to the title track, the effort will also sport an instrumental of “Nascent” as well. In the meantime, the album version of “Nascent” will premiere a few days prior on February 04th-06th on Full Metal Jackie‘s radio program.

“Nascent” comes from the bands new album “One“, which is set to arrive in stores on March 22nd through Century Media.

Both Nader Sadek and Elitist have signed with Season Of Mist. Nader Sadek‘s latest “In The Flesh” is scheduled for a May 17th North American release through the label; while Elitist‘s newest offering is expected to arrive in stores in June through Season Of Mist imprint, Underground Activists.