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Fall In Archaea have announced that they will be going on hiatus for an "[...]undetermined amount of time[...]" on their Facebook page. In addition to the announcement they have confirmed that their last live concerts will take place as a part of the Mosh Or Sink Van Isle Tour 2011:

• Dec 16 - Duncan, BC, Canada.
• Dec 17 - Victoria, BC, Canada.
• Dec 18 - Nanaimo, BC, Canada.
• Dec 20 - Port Alberni, BC, Canada.

Read the full announcement on Facebook.

Fall In Archaea, Beheading Of A King and A Sight For Sewn Eyes will be touring Canada together in late August, early September as part of the 'Shredding Across Canada' tour. Dates can be found below. Beheading Of A King will promote their new EP, Quasar: Preserving Legacy, which was released on July 7th.

Volumes, Structures and Fall In Archaea will be touring Canada together in June, supporting Arsonists Get All The Girls as part of the 'Canadian Rehabilitation' tour. Dates can be found below.

Arsonists Get All The Girls and Volumes are currently touring the US together, alongside The Contortionist among others. We recently conducted a video interview with Volumes and The Contortionist.

Jun 10 – Royal CDN Legion, Victoria
Jun 11 – W2, Vancouver
Jun 12 – Albert Park, Calgary
Jun 14 – Avenue Theater, Edmonton
Jun 15 – Walkers, Saskatoon
Jun 16 – Ellice Theater, Winnipeg
Jun 17 – Crocks, Thunder Bay
Jun 18 – Adler Hall, Sudbury
Jun 20 – Green Bottle, Oshawa
Jun 21 – Absinthe, Hamilton
Jun 22 – Maverick's, Ottawa
Jun 23 – Underworld, Montreal
Jun 24 – Club NV, Brantford
Jun 25 – Annex Wreckroom, Toronto
Jun 26 – SCENEfest, St Catharines

Born of Osiris have announced on their Facebook page that they have been denied entry into Canada and therefore will be unable to perform alongside August Burns Red on all dates (see below) for their tour to promote their recently released album 'The Discovery'.

TesseracT have announced on their website that they will be returning to North America in late March, to tour with Protest the Hero and Maylene and the Sons of Disaster. Protest the Hero and TesseracT both have a new album coming out on March 22nd, and the tour is scheduled to start the day after that. Dates can be found below.

Canada
Mar 23 Stages, Kingston ON
Mar 24 Capital Music Hall, Ottawa ON

Animals As Leaders recently completed a tour with Circa Survive and have announced their touring plans for the coming months. They band are currently playing a few shows on their own, and will embark on a North American tour supporting Underoath and Thursday in January and February. The full list of dates can be found below.

January
20 - Houston, TX - Warehouse Live
21 - Austin, TX - Emo's
22 - Dallas, TX - The Palladium Ballroom
24 - Albuquerque, NM - Sunshine Theater
25 - Tempe, AZ - Marquee Theatre
26 - West Hollywood, CA - House Of Blues

Live footage of Sinthetik performing their song 'Epiphany' has been uploaded to YouTube. Watch it below. The band opened for The Agonist in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on October 8th.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-48iHrjaV0

Periphery have posted a short tour announcement video. Watch it below. The band will be touring North America with Darkest Hour, Veil Of Maya and Revocation in November and December. Tour dates can be found in the video description on YouTube. The video also features the band's new live intro as background music.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdRKAjhpIfk

TesseracT have posted an update featuring all their upcoming tourdates in the UK, North America and India. They will be playing a warmup show for their USA tour in their homecountry on October 1st at The Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes, UK, supported by Monuments, Heart of a Coward and Visions.

MetalSucks have also posted an update about the US tour, in which they state that the band will be releasing an EP titled 'Concealing Fate', rather than a full-length album, on October 12th. The information supposedly comes from a source at Century Media, with whom the band signed recently. However, the news has not been confirmed anywhere else.

Read the update on www.tesseractband.co.uk.
Read the update on MetalSucks.net.

Music blog Mind Equals Blown has published an interview with Structures drummer Andrew McEnaney. In it, he discusses the plans for their debut full-length album, labels, touring, influences and more.

Structures released their debut EP 'All Of The Above' in April this year. The band will be touring their home country of Canada with Architects and The Holly Springs Disaster in August.

Read the interview on mindequalsblown.net.