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"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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"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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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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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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The 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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Blasting 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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CANDY return with their new album, It's Inside You. A brazen take on hardcore, metal, and disparate electronics and experimental soundscapes, It's Inside You sees CANDY take another step forward with a compelling, extreme, and one-of-a-kind take on the genre. From the frenzied album opener "eXisTenZ", CANDY's intent is clear; It's Inside You kicks off as violently as possible. Cited as thriving in "this jumble of gothic industrial and digitized metal" by Pitchfork, the single minute, thirty-second track twists and turns as a contorted thesis statement for what will follow. Tracks like "Dehumanize Me" continue this trend, establishing an interplay between ferocious hardcore stomps helmed by guitarist Michael Quick, with pulse-pounding, electronic rhythms set against this monstrous riffing. "Dreams Less Sweet" crashes and bashes onto the record, while vocalist Zachary Quiram mourns the modern condition: "dreams laid dead/stuck grieving/how do you fight the feeling?/are we living in a world just to die?" Elsewhere on the record, tracks like "Love Like Snow" showcase a different side of the band. Electronic, mechanical melodies are set against desperate cries for human connection. It's Inside You flexes more than just muscular Hardcore brutality. "Dancing to the Infinite Beat" and "Hypercore" also see raw emotion laid bare against frenetic, electronic punishment before crescendoing into cathartic, ear-worm choruses. With It's Inside You, CANDY signals the future for what Hardcore, Metal, and Electronics can truly be. "The bi-coastal quartet fleshes out classic elements of hardcore and metal with industrial, shoegaze, and noise. Even their love songs feel extreme." - Pitchfork Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676754915
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Cult UK doom/sludge outfit IRON MONKEY return with 9-13, their first new full-length in almost two decades. After disbanding in 1999 due to the death of their original singer J.P. Morrow, the group has reformed for phase two of their mission. Recorded in their hometown of Nottingham in Spring 2017 A.D. with producer Johnny A. Carter, 9-13 is 9 songs and 48 minutes of total nihilism. Now older, more cynical and more isolationist, IRON MONKEY are back to usurp the scene, then crush its skull. Without question, their most focused, aggressive and direct material to date, 9-13 is an all-out assault of violent hatred and nightmarish negativity. Recommended listening for fans of pain, suffering, and misanthropy. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676737925
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Sweden'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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"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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Philadelphia 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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The sixth installment in Relapse's exhaustive reissue campaign of DEATH's immensely influential catalog is Leprosy, the band's titanic second album. Originally released in 1988 Leprosy was a pioneering album, building upon the thrash sounds of Metallica and Slayer but adding a previously unheard level of raw extremity. These songs are the roots of an entire genre: death metal. While this was only the second record DEATH released, it immediately cemented them as heavy metal icons. Meticulous care has been put into this reissue. The entire album, as well as the bonus material has been painstakingly remastered by Alan Douches (Mastodon, Nile, etc). Includes Digital Download Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676520015
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Japan's G.I.S.M. return with the first ever authorized and licensed reissue of their cult sophomore album, Military Affairs Neurotic (M.A.N.) The album, another landmark release for the legendary band, sees the wild pairing of Randy Uchida's iconic guitar playing colliding with the inimitable vocals of G.I.S.M. mastermind Sakevi Yokoyama once again. This reissue features a remaster by Sakevi himself, and sees a first-time official pressing on CD and cassette. A successor to the band's legendary Detestation LP, M.A.N. harnesses G.I.S.M.'s frantic, aggressive take on hardcore punk, and churns out a Heavy Metal edge. Out of the gate, Uchida's guitar solos and soaring leads on the classic opener "Good As It Is" pave the way for what follows - M.A.N. is unmistakably metal, atmospheric, and uncompromising in its vision. M.A.N. is simply incomparable. The album's production, visual presentation, and the songwriting encapsulates the sound of burning punk spirit and heavy metal grit, and cement G.I.S.M.'s legacy as one of the underground's most idiosyncratic, genre bending, and truly unique bands. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676751716
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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
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DEATH's landmark Spiritual Healing record is nothing short of genre-defining. Originally released in 1990, Spiritual Healing marked a new turn in the DEATH discography, one which ushered in cleaner production, a new level of boundary pushing musicianship and songwriting skills that were previously unimaginable from a metal band. Spiritual Healing sets the standard for riffs, insane time changes and of course mainman Chuck Schuldiner's masterful guitar solos. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676520114
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DEATH, the heavy metal institution founded, realized, and helmed by legendary guitarist Chuck Schuldiner, released its final studio album The Sound of Perseverance (’98) to massive worldwide critical acclaim. The Sound of… is the masterstroke of one of metal’s true pioneers and innovators, and indeed worthy of the worship, adoration, and accolades that announced its original release (’98). Now remastered, repackaged and featuring over an hour of newly unearthed and previously unreleased material(extra tracks and early demos), this is the definitive edition of this timeless classic. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676520411
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DEATH's landmark Spiritual Healing record is nothing short of genre-defining. Originally released in 1990, Spiritual Healing marked a new turn in the DEATH discography, one which ushered in cleaner production, a new level of boundary pushing musicianship and songwriting skills that were previously unimaginable from a metal band. Spiritual Healing sets the standard for riffs, insane time changes and of course mainman Chuck Schuldiner's masterful guitar solos. Double CD housed in super deluxe packaging featuring brand new liner notes from Death players James Murphy and Terry Butler, Chuck’s sister Beth Schuldiner and Michael Poulsen (Volbeat), disc 1 features a completely new remaster of the original album and disc 2 contains 16 previously unreleased rehearsal, outtakes and studio instrumentals. Recorded and mixed at Morrisound Studios, Tampa, Florida. Additional bonus material revitalized and mastered at West West Side Music. All liner notes August 2012. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676719426
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INTEGRITY announces All Death Is Mine : Total Domination, a collection of rarities and unreleased tracks from the last 7 years of INTEGRITY’s DOMination! All Death Is Mine : Total Domination was mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Code Orange) includes covers of Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead, Misfits and more! Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676754618
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Gore Metal Maniacs EXHUMED announce the 25 year anniversary deluxe reissue of their legendary debut album Gore Metal! Fully remastered audio of the original mix by Arthur Rizk (Kreator, Cavalera, Power Trip, and more,) Gore Metal now features expanded artwork, live tracks (digital only), and liner notes! The 25th anniversary edition of Gore Metal is streaming in full now! Frontman Matt Harvey comments: “Like a lingering recurrent infection, this album just keeps rearing its ugly head. Twenty-five years is a long time for a record this raw, nasty, crude and repugnant to hang around, so what better time would there be than now to reissue it on vinyl? The re-master has breathed new life into these dusty old tracks and the record has never sounded better. I hope you necromaniacs are as excited about this as we are, because we have a bunch of plans around this reissue and anniversary in the works. If you've been hoping for a chance to hear some deep cuts and (slaughter) cult classicks... your patience will soon be rewarded.” Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676754816
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DEATH, the heavy metal institution founded, realized, and helmed by legendary guitarist Chuck Schuldiner, released the Individual Thought Patterns album (the follow-up to their watershed Human release) in 1993. Expectations were high following Human, but Schuldiner proved once again that he could rise to any occasion. Individual Thought Patterns further honed the forward-thinking and progressive direction birthed with Human, and included “The Philosopher”; arguably the best song to ever come from the world of extreme metal and to this date the most widely-recognized. Remixed by DEATH mastering engineer Alan Douches (West West Side), remastered, repackaged and featuring tons of newly unearthed and previously unreleased demo and live tracks, this is the ultimate version of Individual Thought Patterns. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676717125
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DEATH, the heavy metal institution founded, realized, and helmed by legendary guitarist Chuck Schuldiner, released its final studio album The Sound of Perseverance (’98) to massive worldwide critical acclaim. The Sound of… is the masterstroke of one of metal’s true pioneers and innovators, and indeed worthy of the worship, adoration, and accolades that announced its original release (’98). Now remastered, repackaged and featuring over an hour of newly unearthed and previously unreleased material (extra tracks and early demos), this is the definitive edition of this timeless classic. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676715428
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Italian grindcore legends CRIPPLE BASTARDS celebrate 30 years of misanthropic extremity with their seventh full-length album La Fine Cresce da Dentro (Meaning “The End Is Growing From Within”). Recorded at the legendary Fredman Studios in Gothenburg, Sweden with producer Fredrik Nordström (At The Gates, Dark Tranquility), La Fine Cresce da Dentro is eighteen tracks of inconceivable speed and brutality surpassing even their previous work. Over three decades in, CRIPPLE BASTARDS are showing no signs of slowing down and continue to destroy unsuspecting eardrums with hate-filled, grind punk chaos! Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676741618
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INTEGRITY announces All Death Is Mine : Total Domination, a collection of rarities and unreleased tracks from the last 7 years of INTEGRITY’s DOMination! All Death Is Mine : Total Domination was mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Code Orange) includes covers of Ozzy Osbourne, Motörhead, Misfits and more! Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676754625
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Pig Destroyer take you on a rampaging journey through an unsettling, psychotic world. Melding an insane musical attack with similarly jarring lyrical prose and an unmatched propensity to incite. Deluxe reissue of PIG DESTROYER's landmark 2001 Relapse debut Prowler In The Yard fully remixed and remastered by guitarist/engineer Scott Hull complete with a recently unearthed never-before-heard bonus track from the Prowler sessions. Label: Relapse Records Barcode: 0781676488513
