Amazing news!  Hot on the heels of last week's Trash Talk announcement, we're ecstatic to say that we have now signed Essex's finest in WE ARE THE OCEAN.

Expect a full length album from the boys in January 2010, but for now, 'look alive' and get involved with the pre-order for their latest release (complete with EXCLUSIVE t-shirt) - the 'Look Alive' EP.  ONLY available from the Hassle Records online store, this will ship 16th November 2009, but you will get the lead track available to download straightaway upon order.  For all details, simply click through to the store.

The band also embark on a UK headline tour on 16th November.  Head on over to their Myspace for dates and ticket info!

DAY FIVE. FINAL DAY. BIG NEWS.

First up, here's your daily audio dose of Trash Talk.  Check out this fan made video for 'Kill The Snakes' and then look below for our first Trash Talk release info.

Right, now you've digested five audio-visual Trash Talk delights, check out what we've got for you.  16th November sees the unleashing of 'Shame', a double CD set combining all of Trash Talk's previous four releases.  You get their two EPs 'Walking Disease' and 'Plagues', their Steve Albini produced self-titled album, and the recent 'East Of Eden' single all in one lovely package. And, as with all our pre-orders, you can also bundle it with an EXCLUSIVE Trash Talk t-shirt.  See below...

So you want it, yeah?  Well how do you get it?  YOU CLICK HERE, AMIGO.

YES YES YES. More Trash Talk goodness for all of 'yall.  Check out the sweet video of 'SCATTERbabylonSHITsssss' below.

Day2 of Trash Talk Week on hasslerecords.com brings you the tracks 'F.Y.R.A' and 'Worthless Nights'.  Brutal.

To celebrate the coming together of Hassle Records and hardcore / thrash crossover mob Trash Talk, we're celebrating the not-very-imaginatively-titled 'TRASH TALK WEEK' with daily video or audio updates for all you Trash Talk newcomers, as well as revealing a very special pre-order later in the week.

For those not yet with the Trash Talk knowledge, check out the video below of the band playing live off the back of a van at the Sound and Fury festival in California earlier this year.

Expect the same brand of fury and sound (see what we did there?) when the band come over to these shores to support our friends in Gallows in the winter.

We've joined forces with our friends at Vagrant to offer you a FREE download compilation album featuring a range of artists across both labels.  All you need to do to get the album is add yourself to our mailing list using the sign up below (if you're already on the list, you've already been emailed with the album!).  You'll be sent a link in the confirmation email and from there you can download the album.

"Simples", as the meerkats would say.

Tracklisting:
Thrice - 'All The World Is Mad'
Spinnerette – 'Rebellious Palpatations'
Tubelord - 'He Awoke On A Bench In Abergavenny'
August Burns Red – 'Meddler'
HORSE The Band - 'Arrive'
Four Year Strong – 'Semi-Charmed Life'
Sparks The Rescue - 'Autumn'
Blakfish - 'Economics'
FACT - 'Reborn'
A Skylit Drive - 'Those Cannons Could Sink A Ship'
Trash Talk – 'Dead End Road'

Check out the colourful and eccentric video for Tubelord's first single from debut album 'Our First American Friends' below.  It's a bit of a corker...

'Propeller' is released 28/09/09 on 7" vinyl, all 500 copies coming with an individual hand-designed sleeve.  See rainboliatric.blogspot.com for more details.

Check below for the latest instalment of the Cancer Bats recording album number three!

Rolo Tomassi have been doing the festival circuit all summer across Europe.  Check out this amazing footage from Lowlands Festival in the Netherlands.