Misery Signals‘ Stu Ross (guitars), Ryan Morgan (guitars) and Kyle Johnson (bass) have teamed up with Fall Out Boy drummer Andy Hurley and ex-7 Angels 7 Plagues frontman Matt Mixon in a group dubbed Burning Empires.

The band, who describe their sound as “crusty hard-charging punk with nary a melodic or metal shred in site,” actually see Ryan Morgan taking lead on the vocals as opposed to Mixon, and will release a new 7″ through their own FC Records label on November 10th.

Furthermore, the band will enter the studio with Mike Schleibaum of Darkest Hour fame later this month to begin recording a new EP for a release early next year; while a January Australian trek with The Amity Affliction and Break Even is also in the works. For now, you can check out a track from them here.

Bane entered the studio this past June to record six new songs with Jay Maas at Getaway Studios. Currently free agents, the band will enlist an esoteric theme for the cover art of the effort, tying all the various territory versions of the releases together.

The band had the following to say on their plans:

“…Four years have passed since The Note was released, and the members of Bane schedules were looking busier then ever, finding the time to write a new full-length seemed unrealistic. In June 2009, the band booked studio time with Jay Maas at Getaway Studios and decided to go in and record however many new tracks they had at the time.

A week later they emerged with six new songs all of them named after American soap operas, all six coming straight from their hearts.
Freed of any obligations from their long-time label Equal Vision Records, the new material will be released on various labels throughout the world, all of which will have their own signature title and cover art for the release.

Various photographers were contacted in the different locations around the world where the records would be released and a photo shoot at the exact minute on the same day took place, seven photographers took a picture of their city skyline at that minute, on that day.

For some it was 7:58 in the morning, for others 12:58 at night, but they all pulled it off and the photo they took would be the cover and the title of the release for each territory, Tokyo 7:58am, Dublin 11:58pm, Boston 6:58pm, Perth 7:58am and to be released by 6131 Records on December 8th – Los Angeles, 3:58 pm.”

A recent post on Emmure’s official Twitter account, hints that the band will be headlining a tour with Terror, After The Burial, Miss May I and Thick As Blood early next year. No further details were revealed.

Living Sacrifice have begun posting a series of videos documenting the studio sessions for their upcoming new album “The Infinite Order” online, you can view the first installment below. “The Infinite Order” will make its way to stores on January 26th through Solid State.

Fair To Midland have made a demo of their new track “Musical Chairs” available online here.

Slaves On Dope have enlisted The Agonist drummer Simon Makay to handle the studio sessions for their new album, “Over the Influence“. As previously reported, The Agonist frontwoman Alissa White-Gluz will be one of the three special guests appearing on the effort.

For now, a new webisode from the band has been made available online and can be seen below:

Thrice frontman Dustin Kensrue will be teaming up with the frontmen of The Get Up Kids, Saves The Day and Bayside for the “Where’s The Band? Tour” early next year. The trek, which will hit the west coast in early January, will see solo acoustic performances from each individual frontman. Dates run as follows:

January 07th West Hollywood, CA – The Troubadour
January 08th San Diego, CA – House Of Blues
January 09th Anaheim, CA – House Of Blues
January 10th San Francisco, CA – Bottom Of The Hill

Neurosis vocalist/guitarist Scott Kelly is planning an acoustic solo tour of Europe from January 14th through to January 30th. Dates and venues for the run have yet to be announced.