Prisoner "Putrid | Obsolete"

LP - $17.25
LP UPC: 765464057099
STREET DATE: 3/15/24
CAT#: VIS010
LABEL: Persistent Vision

In the six years since Richmond VA quintet Prisoner released their first LP, "Beyond The Infinite", the entire world fell apart. Already somewhat apocalypse-curious, the band decided to ride the current wave of doom as far as it would take them, adding synth player Adam Lake in order to bring a greater emphasis on noise, samples, and electronic sound textures. The result is their new full-length, "Putrid | Obsolete", which layers the nightmarish crust/hardcore and blackened metal of their earlier material in a thick coating of harsh industrial noise and gloom.

Floating amid a polluted sea of atonal samples and ominous synth soundwaves, crunching guitars lay down brutal 100mph riffs over a powerful rhythm section crunch, even as multiple demonic voices unleash anguished roars. With apologies to TS Eliot, this is the real way the world ends: amid an unrelenting wave of industrial metal/punk brutality.

"Putrid | Obsolete" was produced, recorded and mixed by Ricky Olson at the Ward (Enforced, .GIF From God) and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Flesh Dirge
2. Pool Of Disgust
3. The Horde
4. Shroud
5. Leaden Tomb
6. Pathogenesis
7. Entity
8. Nanodeath

MARKETING POINTS:

• Produced by Ricky Olson (Enforced, .GIF From God) and mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege (From Ashes Rise, No Man)
• PR Campaign by Curran Reynolds at The Chain PR
• Decibel Magazine premiered first single "Leaden Tomb"
• Prisoner will be doing select US tours in March, June, and September 2024

FOR FANS OF:
Neurosis, Nails, Candy, Godflesh

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Gouge Away "Deep Sage"

LP - $17.25 / CD - $8.00 / Cassette - $8.00
LP UPC: 791689665672
INDIE LP UPC: 791689665962
CD UPC: 791689665689
CASSETTE UPC: 791689665696
STREET DATE: 3/15/24
CAT#: DW249
LABEL: Deathwish Inc.

Deep Sage, Gouge Away's third studio album, started coming together in 2019 during sound checks and in small pockets of downtime between tours. In early 2020, they demoed with Brok Mende in an unassuming storage unit in Orlando. They pulled influence not only from the nostalgia of the bands they grew up listening to but also developed the sense of urgency, noise, and introspective lyrics they felt most represented them. Those demos helped shape the songs into the finished record that Deep Sage would become.

Then everything came to a halt in 2020 when a full year of plans were canceled in an instant. With the rug pulled out from under them, their backs against the wall, and no way to change the situation they were in, the members of Gouge Away had no choice but to go on a hiatus. They moved to different parts of the country and focused on their personal lives, accepting that those songs were never going to see the light of day.

But the songs lived as files waiting to be rediscovered and every once in a while, they'd get the urge to listen to them again. On New Year's Eve just before 2022, they decided to reconnect and finish writing the album with Portland, OR becoming their new writing location. While everyone was in town for a writing session, Militarie Gun had a show down the street at Mano Oculta and invited Gouge Away to play a couple of songs during their set as a surprise. It was the first show the band had played in three years and the live debut of "Maybe Blue". Energized by the reaction, the band finished writing. They had an overabundance of material, slashing songs from the final tracklist left and right. They not only elaborated on the urgent and abrasive qualities they were known for but broadened their melodic traits too.

Deep Sage was recorded with Jack Shirley at Atomic Garden East in March 2023 completely analog and almost entirely live. The band recorded together in a live room while Christina was in an isolation booth. Her vocals projected from a monitor so the band could hear her. The goal of recording live was to sound like five friends playing in a room together, just like where they started in Florida. Unpolished and far from being over-produced, this is what the heart of Gouge Away has always been.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Stuck in a Dream
2. Maybe Blue
3. Idealized
4. Deep Sage
5. A Welcome Change
6. Overwatering
7. No Release
8. The Sharpening
9. Spaced Out
10. Newtau
11. Dallas

MARKETING POINTS:

• First new music since 2020
• Produced by Jack Shirley (Deafheaven, Oathbreaker)

FOR FANS OF:
Drug Church, Fiddlehead, Angel Du$t

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Greed Worm "Ritual Onslaught"

LP - $13.35
STREET DATE: 3/15/24
CAT#: PRO-093
LABEL: Protagonist Music

At the violent intersection of tech noir and old-school metalcore is where we find Greed Worm, a Chicago-based quintet in the business of serving dank, mean-spirited riffs for the disenfranchised since 2021. With "Ritual Onslaught" they've fused outright ignorant doses of musical dissonance and noise with lyrics condemning the artificial constructs that create and perpetuate human suffering. This approach conjures an almost mechanized brutality across the album that sees fit to reflect, and in turn, destroy, our collective societal malaise. Featuring Mike Lundin from Sarin, Karly Soto from Snuffed, and Nick Ayala from Break the Cycle, this is Greed Worm's most anticipated and mature release yet.

TRACK LISTING:

1. Pirate Signal
2. Chaos Theory
3. Hand Over Your Flesh
4. Ritual Onslaught
5. Machine Learning ft.Nick Ayala
6. Crypto Fascist Arcology
7. Holographic Prison ft. Karly Soto
8. Broadcast Diaspora
9. Reap & Devour ft. Mike Lundin
10. Survive The City

MARKETING POINTS:

• Features members of Crowning, Snuffed, Shrivel Up, Modern Nun
• Recorded and Mastered by Pete Grossman (Frail Body, Mouth For War, Gates to Hell, Inclination) at Bricktop Studios

FOR FANS OF:
Disembodied, Slipknot, Cult Leader, Pig Destroyer, Nails

Shock Withdrawal "The Dismal Advance"

LP - $17.25 / CD - $7.50 / Cassette - $7.50
STREET DATE: 3/15/24
CAT#: BPR-99
LABEL: Brutal Panda

Death metal newcomers, SHOCK WITHDRAWAL, make extreme music for extreme times. Comprising a trio of diehards from the heavy music scene (Maruta, Mos Generator, Nitesoil, etc.)

TRACK LISTING:

1. Constant Fear of Annihilation
2. Sullen
3. Autonomian
4. Built to Suffer
5. The Dismal Advance
6. Oblivion Seeker
7. Unfit For This World
8. Resentment
9. Nightmare Conduit
10. The Luxury of Accepting Failure
11. Pain Absorption Threshold
12. Misery Calibration
13. No Closure

MARKETING POINTS:

• Mixed and mastered by Arthur Rizk (Power Trip, Cavalera Conspiracy, Code Orange)
• Artwork by renowned gore photo collagist Adam Medford (Cadaver, Fester Decay, Lymphatic Phlegm)

FOR FANS OF:
Pig Destroyer, Gorguts, Rotten Sound, Discordance Axis, Cattle Decapitation, Soilent Green

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