Here’s an all new batch of new albums from Tankcrimes Records, with several new releases and a couple new bands, all relesed during this, the year of our Lord 2014, and compiled for your perusing ease! Bring the Heavy with bands like:
BAT
Primitive Age
Tankcrimes
22 November 2013
Tankcrimes Records is pleased to welcome BAT to their roster of audio decadence. An unholy union of Municipal Waste guitarist Ryan Waste on bass/vocals, former DRI drummer Felix Griffin and Volture guitarist Nick Poulos, the Virginia/Texas punk metal marauders invoke the spirits of Venom, Hellhammer, Motörhead and Discharge with their Primitive Age demo EP. Featuring five tracks of filthy, fuck-all, debauchery, Primitive Age is a primal outpouring of molten metal riffs, confrontational Kill ‘Em All angst and enough vocal venom to level a nation.
Primitive Age Track Listing:
1. BAT
2. Total Wreckage
3. Code Rude
4. Rule of the Beast
5. Primitive Age
BAT was forged in fire when Ryan Waste met Griffin in Austin at a Municipal Waste gig in 2007. Sharing the same musical tastes and metal/punk backgrounds, the two immediately hit it off. Griffin hadn’t performed with DRI since the late eighties and itched to play again. “We eventually spoke of doing a project together,” relays Ryan. “Originally I was going to play all the guitars, bass and vocals and it would be a studio thing. We sat on this idea for years and humored it every time I’d pass through Texas. It seemed too exciting to not make this a real live band so I asked Nick from our current heavy metal band Volture if he wanted on board as a permanent guitarist and it was a done deal. I would have my hands full singing and playing bass as it was.“ BAT, which was the original working title before Volture, seemed to suite the style they were going for so it stuck. “Nick and I cooked up a few raw demo songs, I laid down some basic garage band drums and we sent the tracks to Felix. With Felix living in Austin and Nick and I in Richmond, Virginia, it had to be arranged like that to start. Over this last summer Felix flew in town for a week and we banged out those songs with live drums and wrote a couple more on the fly. With only a few practices under our belts we recorded all the music in one day on reel-to-reel analog tape. It was a challenge to not over analyze and nail down all live takes. It was indeed primitive. We wanted a raw sound to begin with and this turned out to be the ultimate way to achieve it.”
The Primitive Age EP is available as a “Pay-What-You-Want-Including-Free” download TODAY at the official BAT BandCamp page HERE. Tankcrimes is also offering a “Primitive Pack” preorder bundle which includes a double sided T-shirt, embroidered patch, die-cut sticker and cassette tape all for a thrifty $20 plus shipping. Nab your bundle today at THIS LOCATION.
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CANNABIS CORPSE/GHOUL
Splatterhash Split
Tankcrimes
7 January 2014
This January, unearthly splatterthrash and weedian death metal will unite in an unholy matrimony of sonic decay as GHOUL and CANNABIS CORPSE unleash a split 12” fittingly dubbed Splatterhash.
Featuring four tracks of rabid, brutalic insanity, the Splatterhash 12” will be unleashed via Tankcrimes January 7, 2014 on CD and digital download . For their portion of the split, GHOUL returned to Earhammer Studios in Oakland, California where they recorded both Transmission Zero and Splatterthrash.
CANNABIS CORPSE recorded at bassist/vocalist Land Phil’s own Blaze of Torment Studios in Richmond, Virginia. The whole rollicking shebang was mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound and Santa Cruz, California and features cover art by Andrei Bouzikov (Municipal Waste, Skeletonwitch, Toxic Holocaust). The release marks the first CANNABIS CORPSE material to feature Land Phil on vocals and Brent Purgason (Pustulus Maximus of Gwar) on lead guitar.
CANNABIS CORPSE, who recently joined the Season Of Mist roster, is a marijuana-themed death metal assault from Richmond, Virginia. Featuring members of Municipal Waste and Gwar, the red-eyed riffmanglers in CANNABIS CORPSE pride themselves in their exceptional knowledge of good green, face raping riffs and death metal parodies. Future live ceremonials from both bands to be announced in the months to come.
The masked legion known as GHOUL – Cremator, Fermentor, Digestor, and Dissector – are mutants from Creepsylvania specializing in the execution of bone-snapping splatterthrash, grave robbing, flesh devourment and a variety of gory night time rituals. The band will bring their audio indecency to the stage Halloween night opening for the mighty Danzig in San Francisco. Additionally, GHOUL will co-headline the first annual Black Sky gala founded by Skinless’ Sherwood Webber. Denver Black Sky will be held on December 14th, 2014 and features a absurdly sick lineup of: Dying Fetus, Exhumed, Speedwolf, Power Trip, Mammoth Grinder, Call Of The Void, Reproacher, Weekend Nachos, Iron Reagan, Axeslasher, Primitive Man, Vimana, Of Feather And Bone, Native Daughters, Black Sleep Of Kali, Dead Temple and Flight Of Sleipnir.
Splatterhash Split 12? Track Listing:
1. The Inhalation Plague (CANNABIS CORPSE)
2. Shatter Their Bongs (CANNABIS CORPSE)
3. Inner Sanctum (GHOUL)
4. Spill Your Guts (GHOUL)
Both bands’ entire catalogs can be streamed (and purchased) via the official Tankcrimes BandCamp Page HERE.
Hail, crush, kill, repeat…
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EXHUMED/IRON REAGAN
Split 12-Inch
Tankcrimes
7 January 2014
The musical miscreants at Tankcrimes are pleased to announce the release of a split 12” between California’s favorite gore-peddling death metal troupe EXHUMED and Virginia thrashbangers, IRON REAGAN, who feature within their crossover ranks Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste), Land Phil Hall (Municipal Waste/Cannabis Corpse), Ryan Parrish (ex- Darkest Hour), Mark Bronzino (Mammoth Grinder/ANS) and Rob Skotis (Hellbear).
The upcoming vinyl-only split boasts a total of eight banging tracks of highspeed fuckcrush, two of which find EXHUMED delivering face-raping covers of Minor Threat’s “Seeing Red” and Negative Approach’s “Ready To Fight.”
EXHUMED/IRON REAGAN Split 12” Track Listing:
Side A
1. Gravewalker (EXHUMED)
2. Dead To The World (EXHUMED)
3. Seeing Red (EXHUMED) – Minor Threat cover
4. Ready To Fight (EXHUMED) – Negative Approach cover
Side B
5. Life Beater (IRON REAGAN)
6. Gave Up On Giving a Fuck (IRON REAGAN)
7. Mini Lights (IRON REAGAN)
8. Holy Water Makes Me Wet (IRON REAGAN)
The EXHUMED/IRON REAGAN split 12”will be unleashed via Tankcrimes on January 7, 2014. Order your copy TODAY at THIS LOCATION and get a digital download of the album emailed to you on December 16th just in time for to stuff your stocking.
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FINAL CONFLICT
Ashes To Ashes
Tankcrimes
15 April 2014
The mischief makers at Tankcrimes are extremely honored to announce the reissue of Ashes to Ashes, the 1987 debut LP from legendary Los Angeles hardcore punk assassins, FINAL CONFLICT.
Influenced by the British punk severity of bands like Discharge and one of the first groups to fuse hardcore’s simplistic and manic audio fury and heavy metal’s musicianship with any degree of success, the spiky-haired punks in FINAL CONFLICT manifested a sound that would go on to be emulated by hundreds of bands to come, none ever reaching the level of raw power this LP delivered. Originally issued on Pushead’s Pusmort Records in 1987 then later released via Relapse Records in 1994, this monumental release now find’s a new home at Tankcrimes Records.
Available on vinyl and 2CD, the original Ashes To Ashes tapes were found, baked, restored and transferred by Ulysses Noriega at The Laundry Room Recording Studio in Los Angeles, California and remastered by Jack Control at Enormous Door Studios in Austin, Texas. The 2CD version includes the 1985 Demo on the bonus disk while the vinyl edition includes 12” x 12″ 24-page book with lyrics, photos, flyers, commentary and more plus a foldout poster. The first pressing comes on in three color schemes: splatter (mailorder exclusive), red and black wax.
Ashes To Ashes Track Listing:
1. Apocalypse Now!
2. One Answer
3. Private War
4. Crucifixion
5. Abolish Police
6. Shattered Mirror
7. Burial Service
8. What Kind of Future
9. Constant Fear
10. Political Glory
11. Central America
12. Outcasts
13. Self-Righteous Pigs
14. The Last Sunrise
In related news, FINAL CONFLICT will bring their sonic chaos to Trankcrimes’ Brainsqueeze Fest next month (past date, as of the writing of this article). Additionally, the band will raze the Maryland Deathfest, The Punk Rock Bowling And Music Fest, and a special show on June 14th with 1984 featuring Sothira and Jimmy from iconic hardcore punks Crucifix.
FINAL CONFLICT:
4/18/2014 Tankcrimes Brainsqueeze – Oakland, CA
5/23/2014 Maryland Death Fest – Baltimore, MD
5/24/2014 Punk Rock Bowling – Las Vegas, NV
6/14/2014 Observatory, Santa Ana, CA w/ 1984 (Sothira and Jimmy from Crucifix performing Dehuminazation in full for 30-year anniversary)
Ashes To Ashes will be released via Tankcrimes Records on April 15, 2014. Preorder you copy TODAY at THIS LOCATION.
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FUCKED UP
Year Of The Dragon
TANKCRIMES
15 April 2014
Long running Canadian hardcore punk perpetrators FUCKED UP, will discharge the sixth installment of the “Zodiac Series” with Year Of The Dragon this Spring.
Melding all the prime tenets of rock, punk, metal and psychedia into a comprehensive and imposing opus of unyielding enormity, FUCKED UP are sonically and conceptually devouring in ways few bands can emulate. Following the releases of 2006’s Year Of The Dog, 2008’s Year Of The Pig, 2009’s Year Of The Rat, 2010’s Year Of The Ox and 2012’s Year Of The Tiger, Year Of The Dragon boasts three tracks, cover art by Andrei Bouzikov (Municipal Waste, Toxic Holocaust, Skeletonwitch) and will come available on 12”, CD and digitally. Side A features the title track, a seventeen-and-a-half-minute epic anthem centered on dreams, expectations, compromise and hypocrisy. Side B is rounded out by two classic Canadian punk covers from Cardboard Brains and The Ugly.
Relays the band, “The two B sides are faithful versions of two ‘forgotten’ historic Toronto punk tunes. So much of Toronto’s early punk scene had a strong following and a great reputation, but some things never really made it out in to the world at the time. CBC [Canadian Broadcasting Corporation] were commemorating the anniversary of The Last Pogo — a huge, well-known, punk show in the late ‘70s that was held at the Horseshoe Tavern; populated by almost every band of the day, and was capped off by a near riot [it was later immortalized on vinyl] — and we helped ring in the occasion by giving two of the bands on the record a little reanimation care of FUCKED UP. The Ugly are still active to this day, and the Cardboard Brains are a collector favorite.”
Year Of The Dragon Track Listing:
1. Year Of The Dragon
2. I Wanna Be A Yank (Cardboard Brains)
3. Disorder (The Ugly)
FUCKED UP’s last album, David Comes To Life (Matador Records) debuted at #83 on the Billboard 200. Called “a convincing demonstration of what can happen when a band works without limitations,” by Pitchfork, the offering reaped the critical adoration of fans and media globally and was Spin Magazine’s #1 Record Of The Year (2011).
Year Of The Dragon will be released via Tankcrimes on April 15th, 2014. The first wax pressing includes a six-minute edit of “Year Of The Dragon” included on a separate seven-inch flexi disc.
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GHOUL
Intermediate Level Hard-Core
Tankcrimes
20 August 2013
Featuring five tracks of gristly hardcore/punk worship, Intermediate Level Hard-Core delivers GHOULed out versions of tunes from GWAR, Fearless Iranians From Hell, Willful Neglect, N.O.T.A, and Dayglo Abortions. The digital version is a measly three bucks. Don’t be a cheap ass. Order yours now at THIS LOCATION. The vinyl 12” comes in solid red and is currently available HERE. Finally, you can download “Americanized” for FREE HERE.
The CD version of Intermediate Level Hard-Core will be released on August 20, 2013. (I.E. OUT NOW!)
Intermediate Level Hard-Core EP Track Listing:
1. Americanized (GWAR cover featuring Oderus Urungus)
2. Blow Up the Embassy (Fearless Iranians From Hell cover)
3. E.M.S.&D. (Willful Neglect cover)
4. Propaganda Control (N.O.T.A cover)
5. Proud to be Creepsylvanian (Dayglo Abortions cover originally released as “Proud to Be Canadian”)
The masked legion known as GHOUL — Cremator, Fermentor, Digestor, and Dissector – are mutants from Creepsylvania specializing in the execution of bone-snapping splatterthrash, grave robbing and flesh devourment. Stay tuned for further GHOULectable news in the coming weeks.
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GHOUL
Hang Ten
Tankcrimes
19 April 2014
In recognition of that holiest of holy days, Record Store Day, the masked mutants in GHOUL are releasing Hang Ten, a limited edition six-song (mostly) instrumental 10” EP. Featuring guest vocals from Tony Foresta (Municipal Waste, Iron Reagan) as Henchman #1 and the inimitable R.A. MacLean (ex-Deadbolt) as Kreeg, alongside Digestor, Cremator, Fermentor, Dissector and The Moron Cavern-Shackled Choir, Hang Ten was recorded by Salvador Raya at Earhammer Studios in Oakland (birthing home of Splatterhash, Splatterthrash and Transmission Zero), mastered by Dan Randall at Mammoth Sound Mastering and sports cover art by Sean Aaberg of Pork Magazine.
Surely an anomaly in GHOUL’s catalog, the EP features songs written exclusively in their unique brand of surf metal the quartet has previously only dabbled in. Hang Ten picks up right where Transmission Zero left off, relaying the tale of a Creepsylvania in tatters, and the terrible power struggle that ensues between two vicious motorcycle gangs. Noted Cambridge University musical anthropologist Dr. Mantle Bannister PhD had this to say about this odd assortment of tenebrous tunes: “Why, it’s quite remarkable. I’ve never heard the like. Is it surf? Not quite. Is it metal? Maybe. Is it jazz? No, that’s a stupid question, unfit for a real life noted musical anthropologist such as myself. It’s from Creepsylvania, you say? Ghastly country. Absolutely crawling with gypsies. Say, old chap, who let you in to my office?”
Hang Ten 10? Track Listing:
1. The Midnight Ride of the Cannibals MC
2. Kreeg
3. Sidehackers
4. Hang Ten
5. Blood on the Street
6. It Was a Very Good Year
Hang Ten will be released on April 19, 2014 (OUT NOW, DEADBEATS!) via Tankcrimes Records.
In related news, GHOUL will headline the first night of this year’s edition of Brainsqueeze Fest. Set to take place April 18th and 19th at the Oakland Metro and April 20th at Eli’s Mile High Club, which will include BBQ and an Andrei Bouzikov art show, the mammoth event features more than a dozen acts including Municipal Waste, Final Conflict, Negative Approach. Fucked Up and Cannabis Corpse as well as a gaggle of new Tankcrimes releases to be revealed in the coming weeks! Get your riot gear ready. For more info, point your browser HERE.
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