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Relapse Records Featured on Earshot's August Metal Post <<<<Baroness photo by Chris Adams |
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ABYSMAL DAWN "Programmed to Consume" $11.99 ABYSMAL DAWN unleash a virulent strain of modern death metal on the Los Angeles-based quartet’s Relapse Records debut Programmed to Consume. The band’s metallic assault thunders with all the hallmarks of death metal’s finest traits; power, speed, precision, and intensity. As tracks such as Grotesque Modern Art, Walk the Path of Fire, and the title track prove, ABYSMAL DAWN are an explosive new force in American death metal. |
AGENDA OF SWINE "Waves of Human Suffering " $11.99 Waves of Human Suffering is exactly what the title implies, a non-stop assault to the senses decrying the horrors humanity ritualistically bestows upon itself. But amidst the controlled chaos created by BENUMB leader Pete Ponitkoff and VULGAR PIGEON alumni Jeff Lenormand and John Gotelli, if you listen beyond the walls of intense riffing, double time percussion and hardcore ethos, you can clearly hear that AGENDA OF SWINE optimistically retains hope for future change. The best Grinding Metal has always been punk as fuck! |
BARONESS "Red Album " $11.99 Savannah, Georgia's BARONESS blow the lid off their cauldron of hall of fame riffs on their first record for Relapse and debut full-length titled Red Album. With a sound built upon a resolute sense of purpose and shaped by hundreds of explosive live shows, BARONESS position themselves at the forefront of heavy music with an epic album that is at once powerful, expressive, confident, and commanding. Red Album sees the band expand its sonic vision; colossal riffs and haunting vocals roll like thunder across epic songs spanning both the intense and the sublime. As the Red Album proves, BARONESS' formidable reputation proceeds them for a reason. |
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COLDWORKER "Rotting Paradise " $11.99 Rotting Paradise, the second full-length from COLDWORKER, sees the quintet (led by founding NASUM player Anders Jakobson) evolving into a finely tuned Swedish death metal machine. Rotting Paradise overwhelms with twelve measured beatings, balancing the brutality of modern death metal, ferocious vocal bellows, and distinctly European flourishes of metallic grandeur. Without question, Rotting Paradise is the quintessential Swedish death metal album for a new century of extremity. |
FUCK THE FACTS "Disgorge Mexico" $11.99 Canada’s FUCK THE FACTS returns with their hyper-charged new full-length ‘Disgorge, Mexico’. More streamlined and direct than its predecessor ‘Stigmata Hi-Five’, ‘Disgorge, Mexico’ is an incendiary, hard-hitting grind affair. The album sees the band fuse its punishing, discordant metal/grind onslaught with more expansive arrangements (Kelowna, Dead End) and epic, Tragedy-esque dirges (Golden Age). Far more than just grind bombast, FUCK THE FACTS has transformed into one of extreme metal’s best new bands. |
GENGHIS TRON "Board Up the House " $11.99 The enigmatic trio known as GENGHIS TRON weave an ocean-sized orchestra from just a few instruments and machines. On GT's vivid palette of sound and texture, giant riffs and frenetic beats make perfect sense next to haunting vocal melodies and moments of subtle beauty. In their hands, machines pulse and polar opposites fit together seamlessly. The bands long-awaited Relapse debut 'Board Up the House' spills over with eleven tracks combining the extremes of modern rock music into a totally unique, completely unforgettable album experience unlike any other. 'Board Up the House' is really the sound of the future colliding with the present with enough force to tattoo itself forever upon the mind. |
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HERO DESTROYED "Hero Destroyed " $7.99 Pittsburgh’s HERO DESTROYED (ex-Commit Suicide) explode onto the worldwide metal scene with their thoroughly impressive debut ep. Arguably the Steel City’s finest modern metal export this side of the 21st Century, the band’s mechanistic, low-end crunch impacts with the subtlety of a wrecking ball. Reminiscent of the debuts of label-mates Burnt By the Sun and Mastodon, Hero Destroyed are the perfect addition to Relapse’s long running history of bands light on pretension and rich with punishingly technical chops. |
KINGDOM OF SORROW "Kingdom of Sorrow " $11.99 Boasting a line up that includes members of such influential metal bands as HATEBREED, DOWN, CROWBAR, and more, the infamous KINGDOM OF SORROW has been unveiled. The brainchild of vocalist/HATEBREED mastermind Jamey Jasta and riff-master Kirk Windstein, K.O.S. tears through an 11 track barrage of some of the most punishing, straight-up metal in years. Tracks such as "Lead Into Demise", "Demon Eyes (Demonized)", "Lead the Ghosts Astray" are as memorable as they are heavy, while the haunting "Screaming At the Sky" shows a new side to these often-copied, yet never duplicated metal luminaries. K.O.S. is the incredible next step in the illustrious careers of two of metal’s most-celebrated heavyweights. |
ORIGIN "Antithesis" $11.99 One of the most intense and technical of the contemporary death metal bands, ORIGIN has returned to stake their claim as the leaders of metal’s new wave of extremity. Antithesis explodes out of the box at breakneck speed, with guitars and bass shredding wildly behind a beastly 3-vocal attack, slowing only for the virtuosic soloing of emerging guitar heroes Paul Ryan and Jeremy Turner. Faster, heavier, and decidedly more advanced than anyone could have ever envisioned the genre becoming, Antithesis is a modern day death metal classic, which proves ORIGIN stand head and shoulders above their peers. |
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To view video click here Baroness "The Birthing" Live |
To view video click here Genghis Tron "Board Up the House " Live |
VARIOUS ARTISTS "This Comp Kills Fascists " $11.99 Conceived and collected by Scott Hull (PIG DESTROYER, AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED) in the tradition of the legendary Cry Now, Cry Later compilations of the 90’s, ‘This Comp Kills Fascists’ brings together the very best of today’s underground grindcore, hardcore, and power violence bands. ‘This Comp Kills Fascists’ features new and exclusive material from INSECT WARFARE, MAGRUDERGRIND, KILL THE CLIENT, and more, as well as the first new material in almost ten years from AGENTS OF SATAN and legendary grinders BRUTAL TRUTH. ‘This Comp…’ is fast, loose, ferociously independent, unpretentious, and fun. |
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