Is A389 Recordings sicker than sick? Hell fucking yes!!! Check out what they are giving away for free – a superdelic mixtape! Peep what the label has to say about this musical onslaught they have coming your way below. Also, if you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend, RSVP for the A389 Recordings//Scion showcase HERE!

Baltimore’s A389 Recordings have just posted their 2012 label sampler online via a streaming/downloadable digital mixtape. Clocking in at 52 tracks (and well over two hours of music) the digital mixtape showcases
a plethora of new and unreleased music from A389′s impressive and eclectic upcoming release schedule (as well as some classics from the label’s current/back catalog).

Featured artists include: Seven Sisters Of Sleep, Countdown To Oblivion, Ilsa, Ringworm, Homewrecker, Like Rats, Children Of God, The Guilt Of…, Anne, Pulling Teeth, Young And In The Way, Junior Bruce, God’s America, Hatewaves, The Love Below, Empire Of Rats, Shin To Shin, Sick Fix, Kill Life, Enforcers, Pleasant Living, Gravehill, Cynarae, Triac, Thee High Priestess, Nothing, Rot In Hell, Unholy Majesty, Integrity, Gehenna, Low Places, Pharaoh (NJ), Full Of Hell, Vilipend, Ancient Shores, Pale Creation, Chapelle Des Morts, Virgin Witch, Pick Your Side, Eddie Brock, Penetration Panthers, Day Of Mourning, Withdrawal, Trapped Under Ice, In Cold Blood, Mindsnare, Astronomer, Masakari, Wisdom In Chains, Mighty Sphincter, Earthride and Vermapyre.

Today we kick off a new series of mixtapes, curated by record labels for the CVLT Nation readers. Our inaugural mix is curated by Raleigh, NC’s To Live A Lie Records, and gives you a taste of what you can find on their roster. Check out their description below, and stream this amazing mix below…

In an effort to be fair in picking out songs, I decided to use the scientific method to give people precisely what they have liked and wanted rather than letting my own biases take over. I went onto my newly populated Bandcamp page, ran a stats report on the top listened to songs in the last thirty days (April to May) and picked through and removed songs that are the start of albums, since those tend to have artificially increased numbers of listens when someone wants to see what a band on there sounds like. I tried to further do that with second songs, thinking that might be the next person just listening to the whole album in order and then shutting it off if his time didn’t permit. Last, I took that order and flipped it around so the most popular songs are built up to. Here we are with the cream of the crop of my releases, as liked by the general populace, using a sample size of over 11k song plays!

Stream To Live A Lie Records Mixtape for CVLT Nation

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Corpus Christi, Texas is perhaps best known for producing the honey-toned latin pop vocal stylings of Selena Quintanilla (1971-95) for many years now. Taking that into account, the aptly named small label/distro known as Murder/Suicide Incidents are doing what they can to put Corpus on the map for underground punk and metal. With just very few releases so far they’ve offered up a small variety of delicacies which include some death metal, sludge, hardcore, shoegaze and grindcore/power violence. Murder/Sucide Incidents hosts many young and memorable bands like Esclavo (sludgy doom chaos for the cult of Noothgrush), Chuch Of Disgust (brutal shredding death doom for anyone undergoing an Autopsy) and also Skinfather (d-beaten death blast for Swedish streets circa ’91). Nestled among those sit Botfly and Sigil who are perhaps the most unlikely pair out of the bunch, which is why I’ve singled them out for the spotlight. Some of what Murder/Suicide‘s got is on vinyl but most is only available on cassette tape, which I enjoy just as much as wax, if not more sometimes. Let’s face it, you just can’t fix broken a record with a pencil.

BOTFLY
ENEMIES OF THE WORLD
New York style hardcore by way of San Antonio. All the heavy breakdowns and thrashing, in the “no bullshit” east coast tradition was refreshing to hear from a southern band like Botfly. This is a quick cassette EP with an intro, three proper tracks and they even managed to squeeze in their own version of “Birthright” by Samhain. That cover really sold me on this too. Definitely recommended for anyone who’s ever been taken in under Citizen’s Arrest.

SIGIL Review after the jump!
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Now we are going to hear DEPHOSPHORUS & WAKE straight rip it up! These two bands have joined forces to release a brutal split 7″ on 7 Degrees Records that can be ordered HERE! From day one of CVLT Nation, we have had major respect for both of these bands, that is why it is an honor to be streaming the split in full today! DEPHOSPHORUS & WAKE have taken grindcore to new depths of sonic chaos. For the tracklist and more details about the split, peep everything after the jump!

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The long awaited 7 inch from California powerviolence/grind act DNF is finally here. The Hurt EP is a collection of 8 bruising songs available for the first time in a physical format. DNF has been flooring crowds playing on bills with the likes of Thou, Nails, Deafheaven and Lake of Blood. Their shows always turn into a maelstrom of limbs as vocalist Kyle stirs the audience into a frenzy with his confrontational stage presence and powerful roar. The intensity of their live performance is now etched into the grooves of vinyl. Each song is a short burst of energy that makes you feel like you just stepped in front of a jet engine. Grind and powerviolence bands have a knack for for choosing incredibly succinct titles (Wormrot’s “Abuse” and Weekend Nachos “Unforgiveable” come to mind). “Hurt” will leave you feeling just that. Each of these songs feels like a physical assault, and it’s almost impossible to sit still while listening to it. While most of the songs are incredibly fast paced, the band brings the sludge for a bit on “Most Few” when the grindcore pace gives way to a doomed-out dirge, back to grind all while keeping the length under two minutes. “Homesick” is another song that brings the doom, and you think this will be the record’s slowest jam, when the blast comes out of left field and destroys your ear drums all over again. Press releases will all mention that the band includes members of Trash Talk and Touche Amore, but DNF is an entitey unto itself. Hurt sounds nothing like either of the other bands that the members are a part of. Don’t sleep on this band, order Hurt here and catch the band live whenever you can. Stream “Homesick” and check out some live photos of DNF after the jump!
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On the one hand, BEATEN TO DEATH is a quite generic name for a Grindcore band. One the other hand, you know what you’ll get, and, more important, this is already the point where the mediocrity comes to a quick end and a whole bunch of motherfucking awesome gnarliness comes in. Because BEATEN TO DEATH from Norway bring lots of innovative and fresh ideas to a genre where almost everything has been said already 20 years ago. And they do it without whimping out or drifting towards some freaked out high-tech Death-Grind kind of thing. Xes and Strokes amazes with other qualities. Full review and video of the song Winston Churchill after the jump!
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Career Suicide is the upcoming full length from grind as fuck outfit Wageslave. Available on vinyl only via mystery label Cult of Melancholia later this year, Wageslave have put two pre-production tracks up on their bandcamp page for your consumption.

Previously having released a self-titled EP back in 2010, the band have been a little quiet of late – but that’s all to change if these two tracks are anything to go by. Full of contempt, spite and pure vitriol, Career Suicide looks to be extremely and intensely relevant to the current state of the world. It’s terrifying in the outright ferocity found within the words spat forth by vocalist Justin Moore, punishing with decrees of venom and hate.

Pulsing with malevolence, Wageslave hammer their diatribe into minds with supreme blasts and technical guitar work. Riffs burrow into the skull, taking root along with the debates raging in the lyrical content, Moore screaming himself into oblivion. Take note, Wageslave will destroy. It is only a matter of time.

Career Suicide LP artwork by THM

The track above, along with “A Tale Of Privatized Healthcare” will see a tape release in mid-April as a split with Organ Grindr.

This week NAPALM DEATH released their new ultra-crushing album Utilitarian, out now via Century Media. Today CVLT Nation has the honor of premiering the intensely epic, skull-shattering video for their song “Analysis Paralysis” shot and edited by the band’s own Mitch Harris. For 3 minutes and 25 seconds, NAPALM DEATH will take your mind into a demented visual collage that goes perfectly with the urgency of this song. I refuse to give too much away – it’s your job to press play and have your mind blown by NAPALM DEATH!

I know the severed heads of state’s days are numbered – one by one, the deaf, dumb and blind are starting to wake up. Music is an arm of revolution, and one band who is punching these fucking bastards in the grill with their ballistic brand of grindcore is Calgary’s WAKE. If you follow CVLT Nation, you know that we champion this band – you can hear the stream of their killer album Leeches HERE. It’s fucking on today: we are sharing with you an exclusive look at their most recent live onslaught in Calgary, and WAKE totally ripped shit! Listening to a band’s record is cool, having a visual for their audio fury gets you even more hyped. Here is another bit of news: stay tuned for an exclusive stream of the WAKE & DEPHOSPHORUS split. In the meantime, peep how WAKE holds the insects of injustice accountable for their lies after the jump!

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Everyone rip!
Satan Tonio’s KRUDS slam some serious powerviolence across the first 4 tracks on this 7″ while the last 2 are handled by RAMPANT DECAY. This split kills. KRUDS not only rip as a band but they use some of the funniest and most perfectly placed samples I’ve heard since Charles Bronson. The music is about what you’d expect from seeing the artwork- fucking brutal!
“I’ve been robbed of most of my money, can I at least get a blowjob?”
I’m all about the power of violence because the wounds inflicted often discharge sludge. Plus, any Mike Tyson quote is a good Mike Tyson quote and there’s more than one…

“Big Gulps, huh?”
RAMPANT DECAY crush these two tracks like cans on their foreheads and laugh at your four winds with some crusty death metal shit you won’t soon forget. This is the kind of music people die fast to.
Get some- PATAC Records & Distro.