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FEED THEM DEATH: acclaimed avantgarde extreme metal project premieres new track – Minima Moralia, new album – Negative out in May

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Acclaimed avantgarde extreme metal project FEED THEM DEATH conspireswith Brucia Records to release “Negative”, the project’s third full-length album,on May 7th 2021.

Today, Moshpit Nation is hosting the exclusive premiere of the album track “Minima Moralia”. Check it out HERE!

The album’s first single, “Displeasure in Pleasure”, has been premiered at No Clean Singing and is still available at THIS LOCATION!

This highly anticipated new release from FEED THEM DEATH represents the apex of a fierce and tenacious research into the realm of non-conformity, and the culmination of a 3 year long cycle of intense experimentation, deconstruction and remodeling of many extreme metal subgenres into a completely unique and dissonant outlet.

“Negative” is a monumentally ambitious example of unorthodoxy and noncompliance in extreme music, eccentrically fusing the aggressiveness and speed of grindcore with the bleak and menacing heaviness of sludge and doom metal, all set against a backdrop of industrial metal and the tearing frequencies of drone / noise music.

Denouncing the moral decline of our society’s descent into darkness with paradoxical simplicity and clarity, “Negative” borrows from the opus of Theodor Adorno to dismantle the chimera of individuality and critical thinking within the cogwheels of consumerism.

An anathema spelt against the culture industry for standardizing all arts and forms of expression, and acknowledging with lucidity the disingenuousness of all so-called creative achievements – in arts as in underground music – as the mere part of a wider design set to tame individuality.

In perfect symbiosis with the music, the artwork is also raw and yet sophisticated, whimsical but austere, and lavishly minimalist: created by renowned Australian photographer Sophie Gabrielle, the image was photographed a manifold of times, with its negatives sunk in polluted water and then dried allowing microbes to eat away at the negative itself.

Similarly, “Negative” unfolds as a process of negative dialectics, a backdrop of negation set against the stage of the apparent world with the intent to finally make the invisible visible

FFO: Cephalic Carnage, Anaal Nathrakh, Discordance Axis

Album tracklist:

1) Superficialibi
2) Minima Moralia
3) Displeasure in Pleasure
4) Eulogic (Negative Dialektik)
5) Our Cruelty to Reality (Evokism IV)
6) An Objective Tragedy
7) For Our Culpable Dead *
8) The Unattainable Joy *
9) The Underworld Unveiled
10) The Idiotic Yearning for More (Barbarism of Perfection)

*Bonus tracks for the vinyl edition only.

Line-up:

Void: Everything

Credits:

Extra layers of noise in tracks number 4 and 5 by Davide Destro (LaColpa, MacabroDio)

Guest vocals and songwriting in track number 4: Derhead

Recorded, mixed and made sense of by Davide Tavecchia and Void at Twilight Studio

Original artwork by Sophie Gabrielle

Additional artwork (inlays) by Giuseppe Fancellu (Sscvlt)

Band’s pictures by Sarah Beck

Concept, design, artistic producers and supervision by: Feed Them Death and Brucia Records

Biography:

FEED THEM DEATH is a solo project created by Void in 2017, with already 2 EPs and 3 full lengths under its belt, which were all released in under 4 years of activity.

The first EP was self-released in October 2017, containing 5 tracks that would have then been re-recorded and added to seven new songs to be part of the first full length “No Solution / Dissolution” out in November 2018 via GrimmDistribution and Exalted Woe Records.

In April 2020, the second full length “Panopticism: Belong / Be Lost” was released to critical acclaim via I, Voidhanger records.

In November 2020 on the Day of the Dead, Feed Them Death released their second EP “For Our Culpable Dead” on digital, CDs and tapes via Brucia Records.

On the 7th of May 2021, FEED THEM DEATH will release their 3rd full length album “Negative” on CD and vinyl via Brucia Records.

Discography:

“Negative” (LP) – Brucia Records (2021)
“For Our Culpable Dead” (EP) – Brucia Records (2020)
“Panopticism: Belong / Be Lost” (LP) – I,Voidhanger Records (2020)
“No Solution / Dissolution” (LP) – GrimmDistribution / Exalted Woe (2018)
“No Solution / Dissolution” (EP) – Self released (2017)

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DAYS N DAZE/ANDREW PALEY split 7 inch comes this Friday!

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DAYS N DAZE and ANDREW PALEY release split 7″ on March 5

Folk-punk band Days N Daze and singer-songwriter Andrew Paley have teamed up for a split release on Flail Records (USA) and SBÄM Records (Europe).

Andrew Paley’s original is a new wave and 80’s pop influenced track with a driving bass reminiscent of Paley’s band The Static Age. Days N Daze had in turn recorded the track for a covers compilation in their own sound guise. After positive fan feedback, this split 7″ was now created, interpreting punk rock in different ways, but still spiritually united in their DIY spirit.

The 7″ is available in different colors in the stores of Flail Records and SBÄM Records. Both labels had previously put out releases from Days N Daze.

Andrew Paley – Caroline: https://youtu.be/gaTQR5QF6gI
Days N Daze – Caroline: https://youtu.be/YYqpUAlpc1Q

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Graduation Speech (mem. of Aspiga) released new music video!

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In November of 2019, Kevin Day released his second solo EP under the moniker Graduation Speech. The project has been a vehicle to explore more acoustic and indie-rock soundscapes as opposed to the punk leanings of his band Aspiga. Maintenance Required expanded on the ideas found on Quiet and Calm by introducing layers of instrumentation and stepping further out of earlier comfort zones. “Small Apartment” might be the best example of this exploration. The chorus pulses with pounding toms and glinting accents, but each verse creates open space for acoustic chords and harmonic notes to breathe and bend into infinity. Now the song has an accompanying music video filmed by Brian Mietz and you can view it now at The Key (XPN). Maintenance Required is available both physically and digitally from Black Numbers. You can expect a new EP from Graduation Speech this April on Jetsam-Flotsam. 

Bio: 

Most solo projects seem to fall into one of two categories. First, there are those that resemble a simpler, stripped down version of the artist’s primary band—think John K. Samson, whose solo albums could be mistaken for Weakerthans records despite lacking the tell-tale guitar leads. Conversely, there are those projects that allow the artist to express a separate side of their musical identity than they can with their primary band—like Stephen Brodsky, who’s quirky solo songs contain mere shades of Cave In and Mutoid Man.

Graduation Speech, the solo endeavor of Kevin Day (who leads pop-punk grumblers Aspiga), some how fits both categories. On the project’s second EP Maintenance Required, Day takes his band’s songwriting approach and extends it in a more dynamic, more tender direction.

On 2017’s Quiet and Calm, Graduation Speech’s debut took the form of a quiet project that showcased Day’s saccharine vocals over simple, shuffling chords. But the first few beats of “Your Heart. My Lungs” suggests Maintenance Required will be more than another acoustic endeavor. Indeed, distorted electric guitar winds between Day’s scratching acoustic chords on this opening track and throughout the record, and light percussion punctuates each almost every measure. Drums thump on “Ourselves,” a song whose momentum bridges the gap between both of Day’s projects; likewise, both “Love and Patience” and “Shedding Myself” features a full drum set alongside a steady bass, a flickering electric guitar, even chiming piano, bringing these beautiful song to life.

Day succeeds at expanding Graduation Speech’s sound by adding, but also by taking away. The chorus on “Small Apartment” pulses with pounding toms and glinting accents, but each verse creates open space for acoustic chords and harmonic notes to breathe and bend into infinity. “Straighten me out when I lean into you / Straighten me out in the frames of your eyes,” Day sings, his acoustic snapping against the throbbing beat, a meandering piano melting into the sizzling guitar lead.

Maintenance Required shows a solo musician doing what he has never done before and what he can’t really do with his other band. More importantly, though, Graduation Speech manages to do what most solo projects cannot—that is, appeal to Aspiga’s fans while letting Day explore a more sentimental side of his songwriting.

Graduation Speech: IG | Bandcamp