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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bigLOVE "Crusaders of Joy"

LP - $16.60 / CD - $8.00
STREET DATE: 5/27/22
CAT #: CRR110
LABEL: Church Road

Shrouded in mystery, abstracted by endearment and drenched in tone, bigLOVE are set to make their presence known to the wider world on May 27 with their debut album, titled Crusaders of Joy, via Church Road Records.

Across the anonymous project’s four song inaugural release, bigLOVE marries atmospheric sludge and themes of eternally unconditional devotion in the name of all that is to be cherished in this waking world of ours. bigLOVE establishes their vision of the genre on highlight tracks Harnessing the Nectar from the Queen Bee and At One With - with both songs wielding Thou-esque lead guitar lines and all the sonic weight of Alice In Chains’ doomier cuts. Vocally, bigLOVE counterbalances the saccharine nature of their melodies with corrosive and hymnal omnipotence.

In an effort to eliminate unnecessary self-scrutiny and create instinctively, bigLOVE recorded Crusaders of Joy as it was being written - with the release's final takes being recorded moments after each part was finalised in the writing. Recorded between 2019 and 2020 before being mastered by UK audio savant Lewis Johns at The Ranch, Crusaders of Joy possesses a preternatural warmth in it’s production that beguiles as well as engulfs. The debut full length is adroitly tied together thematically by Maria Nemm’s (Holy Fawn, Slow Crush, Anthetic) album cover photography, adding another dimension to bigLOVE’s enigma of obscurity and ubiquity.

In the context of the modern age paradox of instantaneous connection and spiritual disconnect, Crusaders of Joy triumphs in it’s harnessing of love as philosophy, as it spiritualizes sludge and doom metal’s sonic weight to transcendental heights. Across the vast ocean of time, love remains at the core of all it is to be human.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Harnessing the Nectar from the Queen Bee
  2. A Grand Declaration of the Gods
  3. At One With
  4. Forever Intimate

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Featuring Justine Jones and Sammy Urwin of Employed to Serve

FOR FANS OF:
Thou, Cathedral, Godflesh