Surely fans of Breaking Benjamin, Paramore, Default, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alice in Chains and AFI (and many others) have been counting down to Tuesday, September 29. Why? The bands’ highly anticipated new records are dropping – all on the same day.

It isn’t unusual to have a few albums of the same genre and caliber dropping at once, but Tuesday seems to be an especially exciting and popular day to release music that fans have been feigning for.

So, my question to you is: Who will come out highest on the charts? Paramore, who have support from not only rock lovers but Twilight fans? Breaking Benjamin, who have thousands of loyal BenHeads going through withdrawal? Alice in Chains? Lynyrd Skynyrd? AFI? Default? None of the above?

And do any of these bands have a chance for the #1 spot competing against other big acts like Mariah Carey?

Check out this list of rock releases and let us know what you’ll be picking up and who you think will come out on top this week:
AFI – Crash Love
Alice In Chains – ‘Black Gives Way To Blue‘
Bowling For Soup – ‘Sorry For Partyin‘
Breaking Benjamin – ‘Dear Agony‘
Buckcherry – ‘Live and Loud 2009‘
Default – ‘Comes And Goes‘
Evergreen Terrace – ‘Almost Home‘
Foreigner – ‘Can’t Slow Down‘
Hatebreed – ‘Hatebreed‘
Hydrovibe – ‘Nothing Left to Lose‘
Kill Hannah – ‘Wake Up The Sleepers‘
Lynyrd Skynyrd – ‘God & Guns‘
Paramore – ‘Brand New Eyes‘

Breaking Benjamin released the first version of their music video for single “I Will Not Bow” on Friday. The video includes the shots of the band and clips from the movie “Surrogates,” starring Bruce Willis.

The tracklist for their fourth album, “Dear Agony,” has also been posted on Amazon.com and is available for preorder. The album is scheduled to be released September 29 and the tracklisting is:

1. Fade Away
2. I Will Not Bow
3. Crawl
4. Dear Agony
5. Lights Out
6. What Lies Beneath
7. Without You
8. Give Me A Sign
9. Hopeless
10. Into The Nothing
11. Anthem Of The Angels

Please join me in welcoming a new writer, Katie Goodling!

Hailing from Central PA, Katie is a Mass Comm major with a focus in Journalism. She is a freelance writer for http://www.dailyitem.com/, former writer for Shinbone Magazine, and has interviewed rock staples such as Framing Hanley and Breaking Benjamin.

As an avid music fan and entertainment journalist/PR, she pays close attention to local-area bands and attends at least two concerts a month.

You’ll be hearing from Katie a bunch out here and she’s a great asset to the Anti Rust Records family!

Welcome aboard, Katie!

A couple of weeks ago, I was able to hear the single first-hand (and I can’t give up my secrets on how I did).

It definitely slams.

The new single from Breaking Benjamin is supposed to hit airwaves on August 17th.

For more info: http://www.myspace.com/breakingbenjamin