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First ever fully authorized reissue of GISM's landmark debut 'Detestation' prepared in direct cooperation with the group's mastermind Sakevi. Includes an A3 sized poster and Japanese style OBI strip. Relapse Records is proud to announce the first ever fully-authorized reissue of GISM's landmark debut LP, Detestation. Originally released in 1983, Detestation has since remained one of the most innovative, bewildering, extreme, and wildly influential albums in the punk and metal canon. To say Destestation was ahead of its time would be a huge understatement--it incorporated elements from so many genres: hardcore, punk, heavy metal, glam, thrash, industrial, and experimental. It was almost as if listeners didn’t know what to do with the record’s music but gravitated to it nonetheless as they recognized it was something unique and special. Maximum Rocknroll’s Jay Bentley’s 1984 review of Detestation made that sentiment clear, describing the record as "Churning Metal- punk, or perhaps even speed-metal, depending on where you draw the distinction. GISM are undoubtebly a heavy metal band who've been heavily influenced by hardcore, but the music is so intense and the vocals so ominous that even Im in a state of shock. These guys make VENOM sound like the KNACK, especially on side 1." *This product is designed to be a replica of the original LP released in 1983. Any spelling or design errors are consistent with how the record was originally presented* Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676746613
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Boston, MA's crust-hardcore kings Disrupt ground out ferocious music in their short but furious existence, establishing a reputation as one of the world's premier hardcore/grind bands. Their first and only full-length contains the most savage and powerful punk-inspired grindcore ever recorded. Their influential sound can be heard in the stylings of His Hero Is Gone, Brutal Truth, From Ashes Rise, Dropdead and more. Now available again on vinyl. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676530816
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Out of stockPhiladelphia Punks POISON RUIN make their Relapse Records debut with their new album, Harvest! Evoking a rich tapestry of ice-caked forests, peasant revolts, and silent knights, POISON RUIN stab at the pulsing heart of what it means to live under the permanent midnight of contemporary life. With Harvest, the band aligns their sonic palette to their godless, medieval-inflected aesthetic symbolism, creating a record which strikes with an assured sense of blackened harmony. “I’ve always found fantasy tropes to be incredibly evocative,” vocalist Mac Kennedy notes, “that said, even though they are a set of symbols that seem to speak to most people of our generation, they are often either apolitical or co-opted for incredibly backwards politics.” Kennedy reworks fantasy imagery as a series of totems for the downtrodden, stripping it of its escapist tendencies and retooling it as a rich metaphor for the collective struggle over our shared reality: “Instead of knights in shining armor and dragons, it’s a peasant revolt,” Kennedy explains, “I’m all for protest songs, but with this band I’ve found that sometimes your message can reach a greater audience if you imbue it with a certain interactive, almost magical realist element.” The title track invokes images of feudal peasants, tithes, and money-hungry lords, sounding the horn of labor with the rallying cry, “Isn’t this our harvest? Isn’t this our feast to share?” Tales of the undead rising to take revenge upon those who have unknowingly wronged them spin out like pleasantly cathartic folktales (“Resurrection II”), while other tracks address the profound beauty and spirit of those making ends meet in the forsaken ends of POISON RUIN’s hometown of Philadelphia (“Blighted Quarter”). The band stares into the abyss of modern living with a sober and empathetic outlook, portraying our cracked reality as a complex and difficult to parse miasma of competing desires. With Harvest, POISON RUIN have constructed a richly chilling fable out of modern living. Their tale is as lurid as it is seductive, as much a promising fantasy as it is a dreary portrait of reality itself. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676753710
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Out of stock"The Philadelphia punk band couches its revolutionary anthems in winking medieval imagery, flirting with camp as they sharpen the guillotine’s blade." - Pitchfork POISON RUIN reach through the dark once again with the new EP, Confrere! “Confrere”- an ode to the sacred bonds of friendship; a strength which holds true through the endless twisting and straining of space and time. Confrere sees POISON RUIN elevate their sound with more atmosphere and palpable urgency. Following the title track, Confrere continues to hurtle through songs of struggle, death, despair, injustice and revenge. In a dark age where the very foundations of humanity threaten to crumble, POISON RUIN believe that perhaps the only thing left to hang on to is the hand of a friend. Side A : Intro / Confrere / Attrition Side B : Interlude / Execute / Laid Waste / Sanctuary Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676757213
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Out of stock"The Philadelphia punk band couches its revolutionary anthems in winking medieval imagery, flirting with camp as they sharpen the guillotine’s blade." - Pitchfork POISON RUIN reach through the dark once again with the new EP, Confrere! “Confrere”- an ode to the sacred bonds of friendship; a strength which holds true through the endless twisting and straining of space and time. Confrere sees POISON RUIN elevate their sound with more atmosphere and palpable urgency. Following the title track, Confrere continues to hurtle through songs of struggle, death, despair, injustice and revenge. In a dark age where the very foundations of humanity threaten to crumble, POISON RUIN believe that perhaps the only thing left to hang on to is the hand of a friend. Side A : Intro / Confrere / Attrition Side B : Interlude / Execute / Laid Waste / Sanctuary Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676757213
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PIG DESTROYER announce the 20 year anniversary, remixed/remastered reissue of Painter of Dead Girls, a collection of early recordings and b-sides! Now available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 10 years, Painter of Dead Girls is a compilation split into two parts, with the first half showcasing songs initially tracked as an equipment burn-in test leading up to the band’s seminal Prowler In The Yard full-length. The secondary half of the material includes songs from their cult splits with Gnob and Benümb, covers of Helmet and The Stooges, the long-lost track 'Delusional Supremacy 2K', and a raw basement live recording of “Rejection Fetish”. The cover art was done by Chris Taylor of Pg. 99 who would later create the art for the band’s iconic Terrifyer album, which also turns 20 later this year. Label: Relapse Records – RR4152 Barcode: 0781676757510
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By 2006, the time HAEMORRHAGE spent honing their evil craft culminated with the release of Apology for Pathology. The only apologies offered in the band's fifth album were in the title; the top-flight production accentuated classic brutality like no release before making Apology for Pathology the quintessential HAEMORRHAGE. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676708215
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Out of stockThe undisputed leaders of The Second Generation of Goregrind, Haemorrhage took the influence of genre founders Carcass and took it to unparalleled levels of sickness. 'Grume,' the Spanish band's second full-length, was a revelation of revulsion when it was released in 1997; a cacophony of twisted riffs, blast beats and gargled vocals that still holds up over a decade after its release. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676708116
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Out of stockBlasting back with a furious vengeance, ferocious grindcore trio Nasum unveil Helvete, their third full length album. A relentless auditory attack, Helvete dispatches twenty-two torrid tracks of Nasum's breakneck grind and crunching hooks. Swedish for hell, Helvete is an incinerating mix of audio devastation, cold calculation and high-speed destruction. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676656929
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Out of stockSweden's unsung sensations play crushing grindcore with blistering blastbeats, ravenously crusty riffs, and just a hint of that Swedish sound. A lightning speed blitzkrieg of sonic violence. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676698424
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Out of stock"Philadelphia death rock/dungeon punk band Poison Ruïn consolidate their two EPs into one ten-song, self-titled album. Brained, fleshed, and recorded by Mac Kennedy, this effort is one of a personal nature. The sonic nature of the album has a human looseness, apparent like a cassette tape warbling from being wound and rewound. At times the songs sound thin and brittle, as though they are breaking apart simply by being played. The lyrics walk the same path and describe a world of cosmic horrors and environmental disaster. With their soft, eerie, medieval-hall introductions, each song transports the listener to a world of runes and swords, but staves off dorkiness with the relevance of a chewy post-punk center. Rife with sweetly stark guitar hooks and drums that flail like a death march, this self-titled LP gives off black metal at first glance. On further inspection, there is a gradation of inspirations ranging from pond-hopping blues guitar solos, heavy-handed punk drumming, gothic ambiance, and progressive song structures." Corey Sustarich/ Post Trash. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676753611
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Extreme sound nihilists PIG DESTROYER deliver savage grindcore that is both intentionally confrontational, and thoroughly pummeling. 38 Counts of Battery is still an intense register of the band's work as ever. Fully remastered and available on LP for the very first time, 38 Counts of Battery features the remastered 'Explosions in Ward 6' album, tracks from the highly sought-after (and sold out) split with Isis, their scalding demo, and much more. Songs A1 to A18 from the Explosions In Ward 6 CD/LP and remastered for this comp. Songs A19 and B20 from the A Split Seven Inch split 7" with Isis on Relapse Records. Song B21 from the ever-forthcoming thrash covers comp on Ellington Records. Songs B22 to B28 from the Orchid / Pig Destroyer split 7" on Amendment Records and remastered for this comp. Songs B29 to B38 from the Pig Destroyer demo. Label: Relapse Records – RR4152 Barcode: 0781676488216