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A couple of crackers this week in our Singles Round Up with new material from Drums of Death, Aussie funk merchants The Bamboos and Editors synth wielding 'Papillon'. Ireland's Ash also return with the first single from their planned year long campaign, releasing a new single each two weeks, getting off to a good start with '1980 - True Love'. The Twang give us some 'Encouraging Signs' (see what I did there?) and Robbie Williams is back! (which should, by all rights, be accompanied by a montage

Prosthetic Records’ has signed Seattle’s Trap Them. The band’s sound combines elements of old school Swedish death metal, punk, and d-beat and takes influence from bands such as Entombed, Black Flag, Nasum and Tragedy. Trap Them has spent time on the road with Napalm Death, Disfear, Skeletonwitch, Victims, Rotten Sound, Toxic Holocaust, and Coliseum, amongst others and has appeared at Maryland Death Fest New England Metal and Hardcore Fest. (In fact, Mark “Barney” Greenway of Napalm Death was

KOCH Records announces the addition of critically-acclaimed heavy trio HIGH ON FIRE to its roster. The band just completed a run of West Coast dates and now will focus on writing the new CD that will be released in Summer 2009.