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Poppy, yet deliciously addictive Anberlin will be releasing their fourth record New Surrender on the 30th September.

You can listen to two songs on the band’s MySpace - the totally new song Disappear, and a revamped version of The Feel-Good Drag, an older song from second record Never Take Friendship Personal.

In addition, Anberlin will be hitting the UK this November. They tour Wales and the South of England initially, before coming up to Glasgow’s King Tut’s on the 26th November. The first half of the tour will be accompanied by Elliot Minor, who will thankfully not be playing with Anberlin in Glasgow.

Biffy Clyro’s new single Mountains was released today.

It can be picked up for 79p at 7Digital or . 7Digital’s version is higher quality and not DRM protected.

• See what we thought about the new single
• Watch the video for Mountains
• Hear a clip of Mountains on Biffy Clyro’s MySpace

For all you Emery fans out there the news is out that the band will be releasing an 8-song EP titled While Broken Hearts Prevail. Quoting from IndieVisionMusic:

Returning to the spirit of their debut release The Weak’s End, While Broken Hearts Prevail has the raw intensity and energy that no amount of production or studio time can imitate. While Broken Hearts Prevail is in some way a return to the roots of the band, balancing their blend of heart wrenching chorus’ with chest pounding bridges and awe inspiring honesty.

Backbreaker, the new record from The Showdown, is released today, and can be purchased on iTunes for the usual price of £7.99

Additionally, their previous two records, Temptation Come My Way and A Chorus Of Obliteration, are on special offer at £4.74. So now there’s no excuse not to get Temptation Come My Way. Except “my internet connection isn’t working”. But then you wouldn’t be reading this, would you?

Less than two years after The Showdown brought temptation our way, they’ve returned to break backs with their new record Backbreaker, released tomorrow.

Fans of ‘the old Showdown’ will be pleased, with the band using much less of the melodic Southern Rock sound of Temptation Come My Way. Backbreaker sounds much more like debut effort A Chorus Of Obliteration. Expect more pounding kick drums, harder guitar riffs and a plethora of guitar solos. When listening to the album, you can positively hear influences from Metallica and Pantera oozing out of the songs.

Those who got into The Showdown with Temptation Come My Way may feel slightly alienated, but they could use this as an opportunity to broaden their musical horizons. Older fans of the band will be pleases with the effort.

Backbreaker is released tomorrow. Go check it out on Purevolume.

Unless you’ve been living under a box for the best part of a month, you’ll have heard that there’s a new Biffy Clyro song about. Mountains, as it prefers to be known, is being released on August 25th.

If you haven’t heard this monstrously catchy song with its thundering chorus of I am a mountain, I am the sea, you can check out the video here. Half the song has also been posted on the band’s MySpace page.

Be warned, though. Once you’ve been exposed to this song, you’ll be singing it for weeks.