Ardent metal heads will find little of interest in this weeks band announcements for the upcoming 2012 “Vans Warped Tour“. The six bands added to the festival this week include:

We Are The Ocean
Ten Second Epic
Justina
The Jukebox Romantics
Cold Forty Three
The Darlings

Bands presently announced for this years edition of the annual summer festival include:

Every Time I Die
Born Of Osiris
Chelsea Grin
Impending Doom
For Today
iwrestledabearonce
Memphis May Fire
The Ghost Inside
After The Burial
Blessthefall
Rise To Remain
Vanna
Motionless In White
You Me At Six
Breathe Carolina
Fireworks
Hostage Calm
I Call Fives
Matt Toka
Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!
Divided By Friday
Transit
Wax
Skip The Foreplay
Ballyhoo!
The Constellations
Tonight Alive
Bangups
I Am The Avalanche
Senses Fail
Echo Movement
Oh No Fiasco
CatchingYourClouds
Captain Capa
Champagne Champage
G-Eazy
We Are The In Crowd
Make Do And Mend
Mayday Parade
Sick Of Sarah
The Green
Twin Atlantic
Mighty Mongo
Polar Bear Club
The Silver Comet
Sleeping With Sirens
Dead Sara
It Boys
Bayside
Vampires Everywhere!
Machine Gun Kelly
I Fight Dragons
Funeral Party
Hyro Da Hero
Lost In Society
Title Fight
T Mills
Living With Lions
Tomorrows Bad Seeds
A Loss For Words
Man Overboard
Stepdad
Super Water Sympathy

The Devastated have debuted their new music video for their song “Devils Messenger” over at Metalinjection.net. The clip was shot with director Dale “Rage” Resteghini” (Hatebreed, All That Remains) and Kevin Boston. In addition to being the new single, the song also serves as the title track to the groups recently-released Century Media debut.

Mental Architects‘s new album “Celebrations” has been slated for an April 02nd release date. The effort will arrive both digitally and physically and was produced by former Isis drummer Aaron Harris.

Harris isn’t the only Isis graduate involved with the album however; as Isis alumni Bryant Clifford Meyer will be contributing keys on a track dubbed “Cave Of Keys“. Joseph Andreoli from Giraffes? Giraffes! will also appear, providing some guitar work on the song, “When Sound Turns Into A Person He Becomes One Of Us“.

Hour Of Penance have premiered their new song “Sedition Through Scorn” via Truecultheavymetal.com. The groups new album “Sedition“, which “Sedition Through Scorn” appears on, will arrive through Prosthetic on March 27th in North America.

Mnemic have launched the fourth installment of their studio webisode series for their new album below. This latest episode focuses on the bass tracking for the album, which is due out later this year via Nuclear Blast.

There’s a good chance you didn’t get to hear the first episode of Every Time I Die‘s new podcast series, “ETID Pudcast“, when it launched. The initial posting of the file was immediately overwhelmed by too much traffic. The band have since rectified that by posting it over at Soundcloud.

Every Time I Die will release their new album “Ex Lives” through Epitaph this coming Tuesday, March 06th.

High On Fire‘s new song “Fertile Green” has hit the web and can be streamed over at Pitchfork.com. The song will appear on the bands forthcoming Kurt Ballou (Converge) produced album “De Vermis Mysteriis“, due out April 03rd via eOne Music.

The Haunted have parted ways with frontman Peter Dolving. The band themselves issued the following statement through their Facebook.

“Peter has decided to leave The Haunted permanently.
We don’t have any more news or info for you regarding this at the moment,
but stay tuned for future updates…

We just wanted to put and end to all the rumors out there.”

Dolving himself offered:

“I am officially quitting The Haunted. After years of working with the band, I am out. I have had it. I will NOT answer questions to why. It’s no one else’s business. Thank you very much. I am looking forward to seeing you people at other shows with other projects.”

Dolving has since shifted his immediate focus to ROSVO, whom you can check a new music video from below. The clip is for their track “Theme Park Family Fun“:

Dates have officially been announced for Mushroomhead and (hed)p.e.‘s “Hed 2 Head 3 Tour“. The trek finds them backed by American Head Charge, Corvus and Tenafly Viper. You can find the itinerary for it below, while American Head Charge‘s Chad Hanks offered:

“We’re stoked to be hitting the road with Mushroomhead and (Hed)p.e. on this tour. We’ve been away for a while and this tour is the perfect way for us to get back in front of many of our hardcore fans and it gives us a chance to make new fans along the way.”

04/19 Bloomington, IL – Castle Theatre
04/21 Detroit, MI – St Andrews
04/22 Cincinnati, OH – Bogarts
04/24 Rochester, NY – The Montage Music Hall
04/25 Auburn, ME – Club TX
04/26 Hampton Beach, NH – Wally’s
04/27 Worcester, MA – Palladium
04/28 Hartford, CT – Webster Theatre
04/29 Washington, DC – Fillmore
05/03 Kansas City, MO – Beaumont
05/04 Des Moines IA – People’s Court
05/05 Joliet, IL – Mojo’s
05/06 Omaha, NE – Sokol Auditorium
05/08 Minneapolis, MN – First Ave
05/09 Indianapolis, IN – Egyptian Room
05/10 Flint, MI – Machine Shop
05/11 Columbus, OH – Al Rosa Villa
05/12 Cleveland, OH – Peabody’s
05/13 Poughkeepsie, NY – The Chance
05/16 Allentown, PA – Crocodile Rock
05/17 Pittsburgh, PA – Altar Bar
05/18 Lynchburg, VA – Phase 2
05/23 Beaumont, TX – Antone’s
05/24 Dallas, TX – Tree’s
05/25 Houston, TX – Scout Bar
05/26 San Antonio, TX – Backstage Live
05/30 Sacramento, CA – Ace of Spades

A Misery Signals documentary is in the works and is planned to see a release later this year. The feature will carry the title of “Controller: The Misery Signals Story“. A bit more info on it can be found in the following official blurb:

“This feature documentary, filmed by director Marcus De Leon in 13 countries and coast-to-coast across the U.S. from 2009-2011, tells the story of five young men who gave up the normal things in life to live their dream… and become one of the greatest hardcore bands of all time. The film will be made available to festivals worldwide for Fall, 2012. Theatrical, broadcast and DVD distribution to follow.”

Meanwhile, a trailer for it can be be seen below:

Sumerian Records have launched a new video series which finds the members of T.R.A.M. discussing their origins. You can watch the first installment below. In case you missed it, T.R.A.M. boast a lineup of Tosin Abasi and Javier Reyes of Animals As Leaders alongside Adrian Terrazas (The Mars Volta) and Eric Moore (Suicidal Tendencies).

Their debut EP “Lingua Franca” arrived in stores yesterday, February 28th.

Baroness frontman/guitarist John Baizley was recently interviewed by Invisibleoranges.com and saw fit to discuss the bands forthcoming new album. The group have wrapped the recording of the outing with producer John Congleton (Modest Mouse, Black Mountain) once again behind the boards. Plans are currently being made for a summer release via Relapse.

An excerpt from the interview centered on the new opus can be found below:

“Can you describe the new album? Does it have a title yet?

It does have a title (which I won’t yet divulge), and it is finished and in production now. The new record at the very least is the beginning of a bridge towards something more unique and honest for Baroness. I’ve been more concerned with the composition and craft of songwriting this year than I ever have in the past. Historically, and with some regrettable hindsight, I see our old records merely as interesting pieces of music cobbled together with a significant amount of serendipity at play. We’ve gotten lucky at times, not so much at others.

We are a process-driven band, and we have been refining our process, while expanding our palette, throughout the past year. We wanted to present a challenging record, both for the band and its audience. I think we’ve been successful in that regard. We have developed our sense of melody, composition, and song-craft. At the end of the recording session, I felt like a child who had just figured out a challenging puzzle: proud of the fact that it had been achieved and excited at the prospect of delving into a new one. That’s what I always strive for; not so much an endpoint, rather a series of challenges in stages.

This record, I am sure, will challenge our fans in much the same way as it has challenged us. We have broadened the spectrum of our capabilities and textures, and we have taken some turns throughout the record which I believe are considerable risks. The act of risk taking whilst writing music is the reward in itself, and we are excited to get out on tour and see the way it comes alive onstage.”

Straight Line Stitch made their live debut with their new lineup at Ground Zero in Spartanburg, SC this past Friday, February 24th. The groups roster now runs as follows:

Vocals – Alexis Brown
Bass – Jason White
Drums – Ian Shuirr
Guitar – Kris Hawkins
Guitar – Nathan Palmer

A photo of the new lineup has been posted over at the bands Facebook. Meanwhile, members of the group also played an intimate acoustic meet and greet over the weekend. You can watch some of that below. Live footage from the bands aforementioned first show with the new lineup has also hit the net and can be viewed over at Youtube.

Suffokate have been added to the “Impericon Progression Tour” overseas. The trek will feature Heaven Shall Burn, Unearth and Neaera. Suffokate will apparently replace Rise To Remain on the bill. Dates for the trek can be found below:

03/20 Paris, FRA – Petit Brain
03/21 Cologne, GER – Live Music Hall
03/22 Hamburg, GER – Markthalle
03/23 Dresden, GER – Alter Schlachthof
03/24 Pratteln, SWI – Z7
03/25 Wuerzburg, GER – Posthalle
03/26 Hannover, GER – Musikcentrum
03/27 Posen, POL – Blue Note
03/28 Stuttgart, GER – LKA Longhorn
03/29 Milano, ITA – RNR Arena
03/30 Graz, AUT – Orpheum
03/31 Munich, GER – Theaterfabrik

The Human Abstract have released a performance video for their track “Complex Terms (For Simpler Times)” below. According to the band, the footage for the clip came from the Stuttgart, Germany stop of their 2011 “Never Say the N-Word Tour“: