Petbrick "Liminal"

LP - $16.60
LP UPC: 733102724238
STREET DATE: 10/14/22
CAT#: NR121
LABEL: Neurot

In a world hurtling towards new frontiers of horror on a daily basis, there’s precious little time for pause. For the self-respecting artist, the only reasonable solution is psychic warfare. Such is the terrain of Petbrick on the titanic and transformative Liminal.

Here on their second album the duo of Wayne Adams (BigLad/Johnny Broke)and Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura/CavaleraConspiracy/Soulwax) lays waste to all or any constrictions in its path, Blending a vast sonic landscape with a relentless compunction to break the pain barrier, Liminal is a dizzying exercise in overdrive which can take in industrial abrasions, pulverising rhythmic drive, acid-damaged freakery, cinematic tension and balladic gravitas in disarmingly coherent fashion.
Other heads and personalities also came on board to add richness and intrigue to the onslaught -“I believe we got an amazing team of collaborators - from old school friends like Neurosis’ Steve Von Till and Converge’s Jacob Bannon to new school artists like Paula Rebbeledo from Raktaand New York doom rappers Lord Goat and Truck Jewelz” notes Iggor.

This is an album birthed in difficult times and expressly engaged with raging against the dying of the light. As Iggor puts it “Liminal is an insane mirror of what being isolated feels like -madness through noise experimentations” An alchemical vision fit to both elevate the spirit and destroy everything in its path,‘Liminal’ is the sound of Petbrick blasting their way through the boundaries of a fresh hell.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. Primer
  2. Arboria
  3. Pigeon kick
  4. Raijin
  5. Lysergic Aura (Feat. Lord Goat & Truck Jewelz)
  6. Damballa
  7. Ayan
  8. Grind You Dull (Feat. Jacob Bannon)
  9. Chemical Returns
  10. Distorted Peace (Feat. Paula Rebellato)
  11. Reckoning (Feat. Steve Von Till)

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Petbrick is Wayne Adams (BigLad/Johnny Broke)and Iggor Cavalera (Sepultura / Cavalera Conspiracy/Soulwax)
  • Features guest appearance by Jacob Bannon, Steve Von Till, Paula Rebellato & more

FOR FANS OF:
Converge, Sepultura, Neurosis, Godflesh, Jacob Bannon, Steve Von Till

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Microwaves "Discomfiture Atlas"

LP - $17.25
STREET DATE: 10/14/22
CAT#: 31G127
LABEL: Three One G

Of innumerable bands that traffic in dissonance, the musick of Pittsburgh, PA’s Microwaves shears clean and hot as an oxy-lance through the defenses of even the most cynical noise rock aficionado. In this iteration of the band, which has been in existence now for 20 years, core members John Roman (drums, vocals) and David Kuzy (guitar, vocals) round themselves out with 2006 alum bassist/vocalist Adam MacGregor on one side (“Pyroclast”), and founding bassist/vocalist Steve Moore (Film composer and member of Zombi, Lovelock, Miracle, and more) on the other (“Plasma”). Over the years, Microwaves continues to pick up the loose ends left by Voivod, MX-80, Snakefinger, and some of their own Pittsburgh-area “math-rock” contemporaries, twisting them into a Gordian knot that at once rages and confounds.

Microwaves’ newest LP, Discomfiture Atlas, is being released by Three One G Records on October 14th. This album features guest appearances by Eric Paul (Arab on Radar, Doomsday Student, Psychic Graveyard), Sarah Quintero (Spotlights), Rebecca Burchette (Exosus), and Todd Rittman (Dead Rider).

Who among us doesn’t long for a “do-over” of our wreck of recent history? Maybe it’s that attitude that accounts for the ascendancy of multiverses, parallel dimensions, the “Berenstain/Berenstein” debate, etc., in public imagination. Whatever the reason, contemplating other planes of existence is no longer exclusive to the hard sci-fi wonk set. Apropos of all the above, Microwaves manifests their own twin realities over the two sides of Discomfiture Atlas, its second album on San Diego’s vaunted Three One G records. Though distinct, both sides of the album, “Pyrocast” and “Plasma,” salt the band’s terse alloy of thrash metal, no-wave, brutal prog, noise-rock, and math rock with a hint of pop brevity, if not the melody to match.

Even at a curmudgeonly 20 years of age, (both versions of) Microwaves lean into the new material with the desperate enthusiasm of a 50-something peeling out in a midlife-crisis Corvette. Roman delivers his usual cyborg clatter, careening through odd meters and deconstructing rock drumming according to plans laid out by Beefheart and Devo. MacGregor complements with tortuous lines that invoke eastern melodic ideas at times, though they seethe with distortion and gurgle queasily through analog filtering. His vocal palette has widened to include an unhinged/unschooled falsetto and a Teutonic metal shriek, used to great effect on “Hammerspace” alongside Kuzy’s wavering, town-crier bark. Kuzy executes his trademark spindly atonalities with a draftsman’s precision, alternately ratcheting through all of the first-wave thrash-metal riffs he probably ever wanted to hear. Moore’s performances on side “Plasma” present a tighter and more reeled-in quality, focused on timbre and monolithic repetition over the flash of the past. In an all-time first for Microwaves, the standout “Your Dumb Guts” finds Moore serving up a vocal melody with stunning earworm potential.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. The Last Planet
  2. Regular Magic
  3. Landline
  4. Clinical Horizon
  5. Our Flagship Product
  6. Hammerspace
  7. New Strategies
  8. New Sharp Sticks
  9. Your Dumb Guts
  10. Omega Quandary
  11. Smart Case
  12. Discomfiture System
  13. Technical Gibberish
  14. Stench of Earth

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Features guest appearances by Eric Paul (Arab on Radar, Doomsday Student, Psychic Graveyard), Sarah Quintero (Spotlights), Rebecca Burchette (Exosus), and Todd Rittman (Dead Rider)

FOR FANS OF:
The Locust, Arab On Radar

M.U.T.T. "Bad to the Bone"

LP - $15.30 / CD - $10.70
LP UPC: 196626363954
CD UPC: 196626961594
STREET DATE: 10/14/22
CAT#: QP011
LABEL: Quiet Panic

Crossbred from a mangey mix of Johnny Thunders and early blink demos, M.U.T.T. is the rabid soul of the sun bleached parking lot party. M.U.T.T.’s fleabitten grit is a love letter to band posters on the wall, car stereos shrieking through a window, and the timeless youth of late nights built for laughter. A hound hunting for a true home M.U.T.T. sniffs the riffs and barks just like it bites.

A mangey crossbreed of Johnny Thunders, Crüe, and the Buddha Tapes, M.U.T.T. is a rabid pack of hounds ready to let loose on your parking lot party. The good time flea-bitten grit of M.U.T.T. bares its teeth on ‘BAD TO THE BONE’ a straight-shot ten-track bottle rocket love letter to the howling soul of late nite rock n roll. Ditch the dogcatcher and run with M.U.T.T. as they bite the hand, sniffs the riffs, and lifts their leg on the world. Good boy.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. I Don't Wanna
  2. Born to Raise Hell
  3. Take it Easy
  4. Bad to the Bone
  5. Thee Party Song
  6. High with You
  7. Cruisin'
  8. Whirl
  9. Partners in Crime

MARKETING POINTS:

  • Featuring ex-members of Culture Abuse & Dead to Me,
  • US tour planned for 2023

FOR FANS OF:
Amyl & the Sniffers, Fidlar, Joyce Manor, Blink

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Law Of Power "Born Into War"

CASSETTE - $7.00
STREET DATE: 10/14/22
CAT#: FSR063
LABEL: Flatspot Records

Bursting out of the Los Angeles hardcore scene, Law Of Power make music that gives you a glimpse into the plight of their everyday reality. Formed in 2020, the band came on strong with the release of their self-titled EP and join the Flatspot Records roster this year for their next endeavor, Born Into War. Recorded over just three days with Taylor Young (God’s Hate) and mastered by Nick Townsend at Infrasonic Sound, the EP packs an intense amount of brutality into its six-minute run time. The band draws from the direct approach of their influences like Blood For Blood and Sheer Terror, while providing a fury of guitar riffs and gang vocals. The lyrics center around experiences with drug addiction and the violent cities they grew up in. Having already shared the stage with acts like Xibalba, Bury Your Dead, The Chisel, and Dead Heat, the band are ready to bring their mosh-ready live show to more stages this year. With the release of Born Into War this fall, Law Of Power is touting the pack of real deal, no gimmick hardcore.

TRACK LISTING:

  1. $80 Devil
  2. Family Curse
  3. Born Into War

MARKETING POINTS:

  • NEW EP From LA’s most exciting Punk/Hardcore band
  • Engineered + Mixed by Taylor Young (Gods Hate, Militarie Gun, Section H8)
  • Has shared the stage w/ bands like E-Town Concrete, The Chisel, Section H8, Dead Heat, Rotting Out, and more
  • Features Members of Section H8
  • Appeals to not only just the Hardcore genre but Punk and Metal as well

FOR FANS OF:
Sheer Terror, Blood For Blood, Criminal Instinct

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