World Peace " It Is Written"

LP - $15.30 / CD - $7.00
STREET DATE: 7/7/23
CAT#: TG062
LABEL: Twelve Gauge

"It Is Written" finds World Peace continuing to refine their unique brand of unyielding low end mayhem. Since turning heads with their debut "Come and See", this Bay Area 4 piece has only gotten faster and heavier, refusing to grant the listener a moment's breath over these 20 new tracks. As brutally chaotic as it is rigorously disciplined, "It Is Written" showcases a group at the top of their game.

TRACK LISTING:

1. It Is Written
2. Penance Unending
3. Heiromon
4. With Arms Outstretched
5. Vows Of The Grand Schema
6. Katharsis
7. Dawn At Mount Athos
8. Vulgar Genuflection
9. Icon Corner
10. Alms And The Fabled Scarcity
11. Extracanonical
12. Hope Crusade
13. Upon Her Head (A Crown Of Twelve Stars)
14. Gnostic Reform
15. Veneration Of
16. All Encompassing Principle
17. Gnashing Of Teeth, Hissing Of Tongues
18. In Delirious Communion...
19. ...Shall Thee Many Be Made Righteous
20. Faith Alone

MARKETING POINTS:

• Debut LP, Come and See, sold out within a week with a 500 12" pressing
• Band will be touring extensively in support of the LP.
• World Peace features members of Fentanyl, Ultras, and Spy.

FOR FANS OF:
Water Torture, Vaccine

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awakebutstillinbed / For Your Health “Hyms For The Scorned”

12"EP - $15.30 / CASSETTE - $7.50
STREET DATE: 2/17/23
CAT#: TGR060
LABEL: Twelve Gauge Records

Hymns For The Scorned is an incredible split of two bands with differing but highly complimentary sounds. This is each band's newest material (at the time of release) and some of the best they've released.

Available for the first time on vinyl across a number of different variants with an etched B-side.

TRACK LISTING:

1. awakebutstillinbed - Fear
2. awakebutstillinbed - Ride
3. for your health - Disarmament
4. for your health - A Word Of Warning For The Phyrr Of Heart

MARKETING POINTS:

• Both bands on tour this year
• For Your Health's In Spite Of first pressing sold in a matter of months
• This split was released digitally and well received and this is the first time its being released on vinyl.
• For Your Health side produced by Chris Teti (TWIABP, Fiddlehead) at Silver Bullet Studios
• awakebutstillinbed's third release and the first since their 2020 EP 'stay who you are'
• Mastered by Jack Shirley (Loma Prieta, Comadre, Deafheaven)

FOR FANS OF:
Armor For Sleep, Pianos Become The Teeth, mewithoutYou, The Hotelier, Adventures, Home Is Where

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Thin "Dusk"

LP - $15.30 / CASSETTE - $7.00
STREET DATE: 2/10/23
CAT#: TG058
LABEL: Twelve Gauge

Thin’s sophomore release, dusk, showcases fourteen relentless tracks of screamo laced mathgrind. The album’s cathartic bursts of manic blasts, uncomfortable grooves, and brooding riffs compliment lyrics about the tangled nature of trauma and nostalgia.

Dusk was tracked and mixed by Colin Marston at Menegroth "The Thousand Caves" in Queens, NY and mastered by Scot Moriarty (NJ, US).

Included with the vinyl copies is a 24"x24" folded poster of the album art alongside the 12" lyric sheet.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Bastard
2. Den
3. Twenty-Three Cats
4. Fond When I Think About It
5. Foliage
6. Liminal
7. Pinellas
8. Casual Racism
9. 40th St South
10. Botulism
11. Diamond St
12. The Strip
13. Rear View
14. Mangrove

MARKETING POINTS:

• 2022 touring included two-week run with labelmates THE WIND IN THE TREES and East Coast dates with HEAVY HEAVY LOW LOW
• Album tracked and mixed by Colin Marston at Menegroth at the The Thousand Caves in Queens, NY (Kyodot, Origin, Liturgy)

FOR FANS OF:
Ed Gein, Maruta, and Discordance Axis

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Chepang / Racetraitor “Split”

7"EP - $7.00
STREET DATE: 1/27/23
CAT#: TG061
LABEL: Twelve Gauge

This split brings together two powerhouses -- Nepalese immigrindcore outfit CHEPANG and the legendary anti-racist political hardcore band RACETRAITOR. This split features tracks that were recorded years ago that have never seen the light of day. Four tracks, two from each band, pressed on a two-sided 7" with a folder jacket with lyrics.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Chepang - Chala Ko Rung
2. Chepang - Gairkanuni
3. Racetraitor - Zoropsidae
4. Racetraitor - The Externals

MARKETING POINTS:

• Limited vinyl pressing bringing two pioneers of their own sound and message.
• Racetraitor is a hardcore band from the 90s that reunited in the last 5 or so years releasing a few split ahead of a rumored last LP record. The band is well known for their anti-racist and political message and has released records on Uprising, Trustkill, Organized Crime and Good Fight Music.
• Chepang songs were recorded and mixed by COLIN MARSTON at MENEGROTH THE THOUSAND CAVES .
• Chepang track features additional vocals on Chala ko Rung by VISHAL RAI (JUGAA, NECK DEEP IN FILTH)
• Racetraitor drums, guitars, and bass recorded at Electrical Audio and Studio with Greg Studios and vocals recorded at Found Soundation Recording Studios by Jesse Cannon. Mixed by Greg Norman.

FOR FANS OF:
Napalm Death, Pig Destroyer, Day of Suffering

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Livid "Compiled Hatred"

LP - $14.00 / CASSETTE - $6.50
STREET DATE: 11/18/22
CAT#: TG059
LABEL: Twelve Gauge

This is the latest LP release from Kenosha, WI 2-piece powerviolence outfit LIVID following up their debut "Life Is Pain, Life Is Shit" and a split with Mutilatred. The LP was mixed by Andy Nelson and mastered by Brad Boatright. Clocking in at just under 16 minutes, Compiled Hatred continues to bring to life the band's harsh, fast and loud sound that bridges hardcore, powerviolence and grind.

TRACK LISTING:

1. True Colors
2. Life Time
3. Contradiction
4. Harsh Reality
5. Say Your Goodbyes
6. Nobody's There
7. Shut Up
8. Choke
9. Ripped Apart
10. Beaten Dog

MARKETING POINTS:

• Active touring back recently completed tours with Kidnapped, World Peace, Scalp, and Twin Tombs
• Album recorded/mixed by Andy Nelson (Weekend Nachos) and mastered by Brad Boatright (Audiosiege)
• Band will support LP with an upcoming unannounced tour

FOR FANS OF: Magrudergrind, Hatred Surge, Pig Destroyer

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The Wind In The Trees “Architects Of Light”

LP - $14.00
STREET DATE: 8/26/22
CAT#: TG054
LABEL: Twelve Gauge

With “Architects of Light”, The Wind In the Trees continues their legacy of glitchy, chaotic grindcore with renewed fury. After their 2019 debut “A gift of bricks from the sky”, “Architects of Light” is the Baltimore, Maryland three-piece’s awaited follow up. Throughout its fourteen tracks, this record sees The Wind In the Trees truly embrace how heavy they can sound, combining brutal fast-paced grind with moments of sludgy metalcore. As the title promises, this record builds steadily, brick by brick, to a towering culmination that is as fracturing as it is enlightening.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Devoid of Entropy
2. Excision of the Last Tellurians
3. Parasitic Dawn
4. Orion
5. Dying in Light Years
6. Thy Flesh Consumed
7. Sowing the Seeds of War
8. Serpent Bearer
9. Singularity
10. Dimensions Coalesce
11. Absolute Magnitude
12. Prophecies of Torment Fulfilled
13. Prismatic Nebula
14. Hell Above

MARKETING POINTS:

• Engineered and mixed by Kevin Bernsten at Developing Nations (Skeletonwitch, Misery Index)

FOR FANS OF:
Ion Dissonance, Robinson, Sawtooth Grin

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Lowlife "Endless Punishment"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 5/27/22
CAT#: TG057
LABEL: Twelve Gauge

Lowlife, Northern California hardcore mainstays of the 90s and 2000s, are ready to unleash Endless Punishment! After years in the Oakland Brand Hardcore vault, this long awaited LP is available now on vinyl from Twelve Gauge Records for the first time since it was recorded in 2003 at the legendary Plant Studios in Sausalito, CA. Remastered in 2021 by Dan Randall of Mammoth Sound Mastering in Portland, Maine, Endless Punishment is an auditory assault of hardcore fury, full of the signature grizzly vocals, crushing riffs, and pounding double bass Lowlife is known for, and has everything any fan of brutal, metallic hardcore could ask for.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Left With Nothing
2. Forgotten Pride
3. My Will
4. Entrenched
5. Endless Punishment
6. Ruckus
7. World On Fire
8. Wrath of a Nation
9. Our Way (Bulldoze)

MARKETING POINTS:

• First time pressing and release of an almost 20 year old record
• Limited to just 200 records

FOR FANS OF:
Bulldoze, 100 Demons, Earth Crisis

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Thin & The Wind In The Trees "Split"

7"EP - $6.50
STREET DATE: 4/15/22
CAT #: TG053
LABEL: Twelve Gauge

This split EP brings together Thin and The Wind In The Trees two grind-adjacent sounds of their own that compliment one another to deliver 9 minutes of loud, frenzied chaos.

Thin is a 3-piece mathgrind band from New York City. The trio have developed a reputation for quick, cathartic, off-kilter compositions, with similarly chaotic and aggressive live performances. Listening to Thin is the sonic equivalent of rolling around in broken glass, and liking it. For fans of Ed Gein, Maruta, and Discordance Axis.

The Wind In The Trees is a 3-piece grind band from Baltimore made up of guitarist Dave Gill (ex-The Heads are Zeros, No Note), drummer Wade Civitarese and vocalist Brandon Winter (ex-Whenskiesaregray, Leveless). The band, which eschews a bass player in favor of a wall of amps and an octave pedal, delivers a chaotic and punishing performance that belies their minimalist lineup. For Fans of Ion Dissonance, Robinson, Sawtooth Grin.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Thin - I Don't Go on Walks Anymore
2. Thin - Feeding Your Best Friend His Last Meal
3. Thin - Swear to Dog
4. Thin - He Was a Friend of Mine
5. The Wind In The Trees - Eons from Mortality
6. The Wind In The Trees - Thoughts Entombed by Gravity

MARKETING POINTS:

• Thin's second release on Twelve Gauge, following up their debut LP, Dawn.
• The Wind In The Trees features ex-members of Whenskiesaregray, Leveless, The Heads are Zeros, No Note
• On tour this summer

FOR FANS OF:
Ed Gein, Maruta, Discordance Axis

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