War On Women announce European tour

Baltimore's feminist punk heroes War On Women are gearing up for a UK and European tour this August. The headlining tour - which marks the second overseas jaunt for the band - includes 20 dates in various territories and the full routing can be found below. Vocalist Shawna Potter commented, "This will be our second time touring Europe/UK but it's the first time we're going out on our own. We're so stoked to see some friendly faces when we play with our friends Anti-Flag and Against Me! at Punk Rock Holiday, and BoySetsFire at Family First Fest. And to see the German countryside again!" 

War On Women recently released their self-titled debut full-length which tackles issues of institutionalized sexism and patriarchy through an uproarious blend of riot grrrl, thrash and rock with sarcastic dalliances and furious aggression. Featuring 11 tracks, the album was recorded with J. Robbins at the Magpie Cage (Against Me!, Coliseum, Lemuria) and is a natural progression for the band and just as blistering as ever. 

Additionally, War On Women just wrapped a string of U.S. shows with punk stalwarts Refused, Anti-Flag and many others. Along the tour, they made a stop in NYC to play live on the Chris Gethard show, and their performance is not unlike the legendary FEAR performance on SNL (in our opinion). Watch War On Women perform "Say It" on the Chris Gethard show below.

More War On Women info coming soon. Keep up with them on Facebook and Twitter.
 

WAR ON WOMEN - ON TOUR
01.08 (CH) BERN - "No Borders No Nations" FESTIVAL
02.08 (D) LUDWIGSBURG - VILLA BARROCK
04.08 (Slovenia) TOLMIN- PUNK ROCK HOLIDAY
05.08 (D) COLOGNE - SONIC BALLROOM
06.08 (D) SOLINGEN - COW CLUB
08.08 (D) DUSSELDORF - THE TUBE 
09.08 (UK) CAMBRIDGE - THE PORTLAND ARMS
10.08 (UK) LONDON - MONTAGUE ARMS
11.08 (UK) BRISTOL - THE EXCHANGE
12.08 (UK) EXETER - THE CAVERN
13.08 (UK) EDINBURGH - WEE RED BAR
14.08 (UK) NORWICH - THE OWL SANCTUARY
16.8 (B) IEPER - IEPERFEST
17.8 (D) HAMBURG - HAFENKLANG
18.8 (D) HANNOVER - CAFE GLOCKSEE
19.8 (D) BERLIN - KOMA F
20.8 (D) WIESBADEN - KREATIVFABRIK
21.8 (D) KOLN - PALLADIUM w/BOYSETFIRE
22.8 (D) ROSTOCK - M.A.U. CLUB
23.8 (D) BERLIN - RAMONES MUSEUM - SPECIAL ACOUSTIC SHOW
31.10 (USA) GAINESVILLE, FL - FEST

Modern Pain announce 'Peace Delusions' LP, out September 4

"...Modern Pain take more references from hardcore of yesteryear, soaking in everything from SSD to Infest to Warzone and beyond to create their vitriolic punk rock anthems." - Noisey

Modern Pain's forthcoming full-length can be described as "if In Utero was a hardcore punk record," but even that might be underselling the Dallas, Texas band's first full-length. Titled Peace Delusions, this new album resembles a golden artifact unearthed from the '80s American hardcore underground, harnessing the unbridled aggression of groundbreaking acts like SSD, Poison Idea and Infest and filtering it through the caustic, ashy atmospheres and unfettered noise rock of Texan predecessors Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard, as well as Moss Icon's murky, wordy pathos. This unpredictable, nerve-damaging, half-hour-long debut full-length remains at its core a spacey, noisy punk record and will be available on all formats September 4th from Bridge Nine. Also unveiled today was the album's cover art (above) by ZZ Ramirez of the Ukiah Drag, along with the album track listing which can be found below. Song premieres, pre-orders, and more for Peace Delusions will surface soon.

This past Spring, Modern Pain released a two-song teaser seven-inch, "Peace Delusions" b/w "Kill Your Idols" (which premiered on Noisey), and toured the U.S. in support of it throughout the majority of the month of June. Stay tuned for more news coming soon from Modern Pain and Bridge Nine and check out Modern Pain music and merch in the B9Store.

Peace Delusions track listing:
1. Vivisepulture pt. 1
2. Ego Death
3. Holy Foundations Crumble
4. When the Hymn Fades
5. My Reality Is Slipping Away
6. World Inverted
7. 4202
8. Peace Delusions
9. Leave Me Here
10. Vivisepulture pt. 2

Iron Chic to support Good Riddance east coast dates with Off With Their Heads

Iron Chic have been tapped to open up for Good Riddance on the first leg of the latter's upcoming North American tour. They'll appear on east coast shows alongside Off With Their Heads. (Fire Next Time take Iron Chic's place for the tour's second leg.) Check out the dates Iron Chic will be playing below as they continue to support 2013's The Constant One (and a 2014 split EP with Low Culture on Dead Broke/Dirt Cult).

IRON CHIC dates w/ Good Riddance, Off With Their Heads
09/24 Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Church
09/25 Baltimore, MD - Ottobar
09/26 New York, NY - Marlin Room
09/27 Asbury, NJ - Asbury Lanes
09/28 Cambridge, MA - The Sinclair
09/30 Quebec City, QC - Salle Multi
10/01 Montreal, QC - Corona Theatre
10/02 Ottawa, CA - Ritual
10/03 Toronto, ON - Lee's Palace

Defeater announce new album, 'Abandoned', premiere new single/video

Defeater have announced their new album, Abandoned, coming out on Epitaph on August 28. That's the artwork above, and track listing below. They've also premiered a new song, "Spared in Hell", via a music video. Check that out below. Pre-orders from the label are available here, with an iTunes pre-order for the deluxe version containing two bonus tracks and a digital booklet here.

The band recorded it earlier this year with guitarist and longtime in-house producer Jay Maas. The label says that "Abandoned is the most relentlessly raw and uncompromising chapter so far, powered by a renewed sense of artistic ambition and a plot twist no one expected.

Abandoned was written and recorded in a welcome period of relief in Archambault's life, after he'd finally received a life-changing surgery that repaired severe hip damage he suffered in an injury. Archambault's surgery, he says, allowed him to redouble his connection with his own writing, leaving him clear to truly inhabit what he calls his own Glass family--after the famous J.D. Salinger characters. The new album chronicles the story of a lapsed Catholic priest, whose battles in Europe during the war drag him first toward faith and then his own poisonous faithlessness.

Archambault states:

'One of the threads running through this record is how people sometimes look for the answers to their problems in the darkest places.'"

ABANDONED TRACK LIST:

1. Contrition 
2. Unanswered
3. December 1943
4. Spared In Hell
5. Divination 
6. Borrowed & Blue 
7. Penance 
8. Remorse 
9. Pillar Of Salt 
10. Atonement
11. Vice & Regret

DEFEATER U.S. TOUR DATES w/ Four Year Strong, Expire [9/1-9/23], Superheaven [9/25-10/11], Speak Low If You Speak Love (full band) [9/1-9/12], My Iron Lung [9/14-9/23], Elder Brother (acoustic) [9/25-10/11]

09-01 Grog Shop - Cleveland Heights, OH 
09-02 Shelter - Detroit, MI 
09-03 The Bottom Lounge - Chicago, IL 
09-04 Triple Rock Social Club - Minneapolis, MN 
09-05 The Firebird - St. Louis, MO 
09-06 The Waiting Room - Omaha, NE 
09-08 Marquis Theater - Denver, CO 
09-09 The Complex - Salt Lake City, UT 
09-11 The Crocodile - Seattle, WA 
09-12 Hawthorne Theater- Portland, OR 
09-14 The Boardwalk - Orangevale, CA 
09-15 Epicentre - San Diego, CA 
09-16 Chain Reaction - Anaheim, CA 
09-17 Chain Reaction - Anaheim, CA 
09-18 Club Red - Tempe, AZ 
09-19 The Works - Albuquerque, NM 
09-21 Gas Monkey - Dallas, TX 
09-22 Red 7 - Austin, TX 
09-23 Warehouse Live - Houston, TX 
09-25 The Social - Orlando, FL 
09-26 O'Malley's - Margate, FL 
09-27 Local 662 - St. Petersburg, FL 
09-28 The Masquerade - Atlanta, GA 
09-29 Exit/In - Nashville, TN 
09-30 Headliners - Louisville, KY 
10-01 The Altar Bar - Pittsburgh, PA 
10-02 Rock & Roll Hotel - Washington, DC 
10-03 Shakas Live - Virginia Beach, VA 
10-04 Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA 
10-06 Gramercy Theater - New York, NY 
10-07 The Chance Theatre - Poughkeepsie, NY 
10-10 The Waiting Room - Buffalo, NY 
10-11 The Middle East - Cambridge, MA

True Love playing National Edge Day in Boston

True Love will be playing National Edge Day 2015 in Boston, which takes place over the Edge Day weekend later this year, October 16 through the 18. They'll join the likes of Stop and Think, Mindset, Invasion, Waste Management, No Tolerance, and many more. Cambridge venues The Middle East and Hardcore Stadium will host. Day-to-day lineups haven't yet been meted out but you can see the lineup so far (more TBA) in the accompanying flyer, and below.

National Edge Day 2015 /// October 16-18 /// Cambridge, MA @ The Middle East & Hardcore Stadium 
Stop and Think
Mindset
Invasion
Waste Management
No Tolerance
Stick Together
Freedom
Clear
Ancient Heads
CIAC
Disengage
Violence to Fade
Breakaway
Burst of Rage
Iron Edge
Spirit of Youth
TRUE LOVE
Protestor
Take Control
Todd's War
New Vision
Direct Impact
Burning Fight

Bent Life's 'Full Skull' and self-titled EPs digitally reissued today

Bent Life's Full Skull and self-titled digital EPs are available once again as of today. Download and/or stream it at the following places, or at the online platform of your choice:

-iTunes
-Amazon MP3
-Spotify

If you prefer vinyl, we still have some of the last copies available of the Full Skull 7" released by 6131 in 2013, and the import Full Skull 12" compilation, which includes the self-titled and an Antidote cover, released by FITA last year in Europe. Grab 'em at B9Store.com.

Be sure to check out Bent Life's latest release as well: their Cheat Death single.

Expire to support Four Year Strong / Defeater tour

Expire have been tapped to support the first half of Four Year Strong's fall headlining tour, which also features B9 alumni Defeater on the whole thing. While Expire are on the bill, which includes the Midwest and west coast regions, openers on respective legs include Speak Low If You Speak Love (full band) or My Iron Lung. (Superheaven will take Expire's place for the second half of the tour, which visits the southeast and east coast, and Elder Brother [acoustic] get the fourth slot then.) If this is all a little confusing, check out details below.

Expire continue to hit it hard in support of last year's Pretty Low.

Four Year Strong, DEFEATER, EXPIRE, Speak Low If You Speak Love (full band):
Sept 1 - Cleveland, OH @ Grog Shop
Sept 2 - Detroit, MI @ The Shelter
Sept 3 - Chicago, IL @ The Bottom Lounge
Sept 4 - Minneapolis, MN @ Triple Rock Social Club
Sept 5 - St. Louis, MO @ Firebird*
Sept 6 - Omaha, NE @ The Waiting Room
Sept 8 - Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
Sept 9 - Salt Lake City, UT @ The Complex
Sept 11 - Seattle, WA @ The Crocodile
Sept 12 - Portland, OR @ Hawthorne Theatre
*no Expire
Four Year Strong, DEFEATER, EXPIRE, My Iron Lung:
Sept 14 - Orangevale, CA @ The Boardwalk
Sept 15 - San Diego, CA @ The Epicentre
Sept 16 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
Sept 17 - Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
Sept 18 - Tempe, AZ @ Club Red
Sept 19 - Albuquerque, NM @ The Works
Sept 21 - Dallas, TX @ Gas Monkey Bar & Grill
Sept 22 - Austin, TX @ Red 7
Sept 23 - Houston, TX @ Warehouse Live Studio
Four Year Strong, DEFEATER, Superheaven, Elder Brother (acoustic):
Sept 25 - Orlando, FL @ The Social
Sept 26 - Margate, FL @ O'Malley's
Sept 27 - St. Petersburg, FL @ Local 662
Sept 28 - Atlanta, GA @ Masquerade - Hell
Sept 29 - Nashville, TN @ Exit / In
Sept 30 - Louisville, KY @ Headliner's Music Hall
Oct 1 - Pittsburgh, PA @ Altar Bar
Oct 2 - Washington, DC @ Rock and Roll Hotel
Oct 3 - Virginia Beach, VA @ Shakas Live
Oct 4- Philadelphia, PA @ Union Transfer
Oct 6 - New York, NY @ Gramercy Theatre
Oct 7 - Poughkeepsie, NY @ The Chance
Oct 8 - Montreal, QC @ Theatre Rialto
Oct 9 - Toronto, ON @ The Opera House
Oct 10 - Buffalo, NY @ The Waiting Room
Oct 11 - Boston, MA @ The Middle East Downstairs

Throwback Thursdays: No Warning, New Found Glory, Polar Bear Club, Have Heart, more

This week's Throwback Thursdays are now up at B9Store.com! 

B9R030 - No Warning - Ill Blood - 2nd pressing - blood & piss w/ screen print/300
B9R186 - New Found Glory - Mania EP - blue/500
B9R123 - Polar Bear Club - Chasing Hamburg - 1st pressing - pink/400
B9R075 - Have Heart - The Things We Carry - 7th pressing - purple/1,000
B9R076 - Triple Threat - Into the Darkness - 1st pressing - clear/300
B9R141 - Lemuria - Pebble - 1st pressing - clear/700
B9R151 - DYS - More Than Fashion: Live from the Gallery East Reunion - 1st pressing - white/300
B9R126 - Strike Anywhere - Iron Front - 2nd pressing - clear green/1,000

Check out Hierophant's Southeast Asia Tour video

Hierophant just posted up this cool little video documenting some fun times from their recent tour of Southeast Asia, set to the song "Inferno", which is from their latest crusher of an album, Peste. Check it out!

Throwback Thursdays: Have Heart, Defeater, Crime in Stereo, Ruiner, International Superheroes of Hardcore, Polar Bear Club, Gallows

This week's Throwback Thursdays are up! Grab 'em at B9Store.com! If you missed it last week, we're doing 8 different record variants now, with some available at a special discount.

B9R096 - Have Heart - Songs to Scream at the Sun - 2nd pressing - green/1000
B9R107 - Defeater - Travels - 1st pressing - brown/900
B9R131 - Crime in Stereo - I Was Trying to Describe You to Someone - 1st pressing - red + black marble/400
B9R125 - Ruiner - Hell Is Empty - 1st pressing - clear/500
B9R091 - International Superheroes of Hardcore - Takin' It Ova! - 1st pressing - red and black spatter/2000
B9R110 - Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear - 1st pressing - aqua blue/2000
B9R127 - Polar Bear Club - The Redder, The Better EP - 1st pressing - white/400
B9R175 - Gallows - S/T - 1st pressing - white w/ black spatter (Hot Topic exclusive)/500

Expire, Cruel Hand, Champion among Amazon digital music specials for second half of June

We've got a couple cool digital music specials going on at Amazon for the second half of June. Check 'em out:

$6.99 RECENT HITS [until 6/22]
Expire - Pretty Low

$5 ALBUMS [until 6/29]
Cruel Hand - Lock & Key

$3.99 ALBUMS [until 6/29]
Panic - Dying for It EP

$0.69 SONGS [until 6/22]
Betrayed - "A Light in the Darkness"
Champion - "The Truth"

H2O, Candy Hearts on Warped Tour 2015 Compilation CD out today

H2O and Candy Hearts appear on this year's Warped Tour 2015 Compilation CD, which is out today! It can be picked up exclusively through Best Buy. Check out the video below and visit its official website for more info.

Throwback Thursdays: Defeater, H2O, Have Heart, Polar Bear Club, more

Throwback Thursdays are now up! You may noticed we've doubled up this week. From here on out we'll be offering eight records, three at regular price and the rest at specially discounted prices. Grab 'em at B9Store.com.

B9R107 - Defeater - Travels - 3rd pressing - gray/red swirl/909
B9R092 - H2O - Nothing to Prove - 1st pressing - yellow/1,200
B9R075 - Have Heart - The Things We Carry - 9th pressing - yellow/1,000
B9R110 - Polar Bear Club - Sometimes Things Just Disappear - 1st pressing - dark red/400
B9R198 - New Found Glory - Kill It Live - 1st pressing - clear (Hot Topic exclusive)/800
B9R182 - Alcoa - Bone & Marrow - 1st pressing - clear w/ gray smoke/700
B9R193 - Alpha & Omega - No Rest, No Peace - 1st pressing - dark green w/ black spatter/700
B9R121 - Soul Control - Cycles - 1st pressing - blue/800

War On Women rejoin Propgandhi and RVIVR for some shows

War On Women will have a family reunion of sorts when they rejoin Propagandhi and fellow support act RVIVR for a weekend of shows later this month surrounding Amnesia Rockfest. Check out the dates below. The band continues to support their new self-titled album, which has received love from The New York Times, Alternative Press, Revolver, and Bitch Magazine among others.

WAR ON WOMEN w/ Propagandhi, RVIVR
June 18 Montebello, QC @ Rockfest
June 19 Clifton Park, NY @ Upstate Concert Hall
June 20 Portland, ME @ The Asylum

Terror and Bane to headline The Life & Death Tour 2015, Forced Order added

Terror and Bane have been unveiled as the headliners for the previously announced The Life & Death Tour 2015, which has also added Forced Order as an opener. They'll join Turnstile, B9ers Backtrack, and Heavy Chains on the bill. Check out the dates below:

THE LIFE & DEATH TOUR 2015: Terror / Bane / Turnstile / BACKTRACK / Forced Order / Heavy Chains
8/6 Rochester, NY @ The Harmony House
8/7 Worcester, MA @ The Palladium
8/8 Howell, NJ @ Gamechanger World
8/9 Baltimore, MD @ Soundstage
8/10 Greensboro, NC @ Greene St
8/11 Tampa, FL @ The Orpheum
8/12 Jacksonville, FL @ Underbelly
8/13 Atlanta, GA @ The Drunken Unicorn
8/14 Houston, TX @ Walter's
8/15 Dallas, TX @ Sons of Herman Hall
8/16 San Antonio, TX @ The Korova
8/17 Phoenix, AZ @ Club Red
8/18 San Diego, CA @ Epicenter
8/19 Anaheim, CA @ Chain Reaction
8/20 Los Angeles, CA @ Jewel's Catch One
8/21 Oakland, CA @ Oakland Metro
8/22 Reno, NV @ Jub Jub's
8/23 Salt Lake City, UT @ Club Sound
8/24 Denver, CO @ Marquis Theater
8/25 Merriam, KS @ Aftershock Bar and Grill
8/26 Chicago, IL @ Bottom Lounge
8/27 Cincinnati, OH @ Legends
8/28 Detroit, MI @ Magestic Cafe
8/29 Toronto, ON @ The Rockpile
8/30 Montreal, QC @ Les Foufounes Electriques
8/31 Amityville, NY @ Revolution